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Context: As a side effect of the electrochemical processes used by neurons for signaling, brain tissue generates electric fields when it is active. When large numbers of neurons show synchronized activity, the electric fields that they generate can be large enough to detect outside the skull, using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG). EEG recordings, along with recordings made from electrodes implanted inside the brains of animals such as rats, show that the brain of a living animal is constantly active, even during sleep. Each part of the brain shows a mixture of rhythmic and nonrhythmic activity, which may vary according to behavioral state. In mammals, the cerebral cortex tends to show large slow delta waves during sleep, faster alpha waves when the animal is awake but inattentive, and chaotic-looking irregular activity when the animal is actively engaged in a task. During an epileptic seizure, the brain's inhibitory control mechanisms fail to function and electrical activity rises to pathological levels, producing EEG traces that show large wave and spike patterns not seen in a healthy brain. Relating these population-level patterns to the computational functions of individual neurons is a major focus of current research in neurophysiology.
Question: An EEG of the brain stands for what?
Answer: electroencephalography
Question: MEG of the brain is an abbreviation of what?
Answer: magnetoencephalography
Question: What type of test is used to tell that a brain is active even during sleep?
Answer: EEG
Question: What type of brain waves are seen in mammals during sleep?
Answer: large slow delta waves
Question: What type of brain waves are sen when a creature is awake, but inattentive?
Answer: faster alpha waves |
Context: The reason for this is that a quantum disjunction, unlike the case for classical disjunction, can be true even when both of the disjuncts are false and this is, in turn, attributable to the fact that it is frequently the case, in quantum mechanics, that a pair of alternatives are semantically determinate, while each of its members are necessarily indeterminate. This latter property can be illustrated by a simple example. Suppose we are dealing with particles (such as electrons) of semi-integral spin (angular momentum) for which there are only two possible values: positive or negative. Then, a principle of indetermination establishes that the spin, relative to two different directions (e.g., x and y) results in a pair of incompatible quantities. Suppose that the state ɸ of a certain electron verifies the proposition "the spin of the electron in the x direction is positive." By the principle of indeterminacy, the value of the spin in the direction y will be completely indeterminate for ɸ. Hence, ɸ can verify neither the proposition "the spin in the direction of y is positive" nor the proposition "the spin in the direction of y is negative." Nevertheless, the disjunction of the propositions "the spin in the direction of y is positive or the spin in the direction of y is negative" must be true for ɸ. In the case of distribution, it is therefore possible to have a situation in which , while .
Question: What is the difference of quantum disjunction from classic?
Answer: can be true even when both of the disjuncts are false
Question: What is frequently the case in quantum mechanics when a pair of alternatives are semantically determinate?
Answer: each of its members are necessarily indeterminate
Question: How can quantum disjuction be illustrated?
Answer: illustrated by a simple example |
Context: In its April 2010 report, Progressive ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Schwarzenegger one of 11 "worst governors" in the United States because of various ethics issues throughout Schwarzenegger's term as governor.
Question: What group awarded Schwarzenegger the title of one of the 11 "worst governors" in a 2010 report?
Answer: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington |
Context: On February 17, 2010, AF1 announced it would use the "Arena Football League" name. The league announced plans for the upcoming season and details of its contract with NFL Network to broadcast AFL games in 2010. AF1 teams were given the option of restoring historical names to their teams. In addition to the historical teams, the league added two new expansion franchises, the Dallas Vigilantes and the Jacksonville Sharks.
Question: On what date did AF1 announce that it would be called the Arena Football League?
Answer: February 17, 2010
Question: What television network was contracted to show Arena Football League games in 2010?
Answer: NFL Network
Question: How many expansion teams were announced in 2010?
Answer: two
Question: Along with the Dallas Vigilantes, what expansion team was announced in 2010?
Answer: Jacksonville Sharks |
Context: On 25 May 2011 the Swiss government announced that it plans to end its use of nuclear energy in the next 2 or 3 decades. "The government has voted for a phaseout because we want to ensure a secure and autonomous supply of energy", Energy Minister Doris Leuthard said that day at a press conference in Bern. "Fukushima showed that the risk of nuclear power is too high, which in turn has also increased the costs of this energy form." The first reactor would reportedly be taken offline in 2019 and the last one in 2034. Parliament will discuss the plan in June 2011, and there could be a referendum as well.
Question: In 2011, what time frame did the Swiss government give for ending its use of nuclear energy?
Answer: 2 or 3 decades
Question: What reason did the Swiss government give for ending its use of nuclear energy?
Answer: to ensure a secure and autonomous supply of energy
Question: When is Switzerland's first nuclear reactor scheduled to be taken offline?
Answer: 2019
Question: When is Switzerland's last nuclear reactor scheduled to be taken offline?
Answer: 2034
Question: Who is the Doris Leuthard?
Answer: Energy Minister |
Context: In the past, small batches of amorphous metals with high surface area configurations (ribbons, wires, films, etc.) have been produced through the implementation of extremely rapid rates of cooling. This was initially termed "splat cooling" by doctoral student W. Klement at Caltech, who showed that cooling rates on the order of millions of degrees per second is sufficient to impede the formation of crystals, and the metallic atoms become "locked into" a glassy state. Amorphous metal wires have been produced by sputtering molten metal onto a spinning metal disk. More recently a number of alloys have been produced in layers with thickness exceeding 1 millimeter. These are known as bulk metallic glasses (BMG). Liquidmetal Technologies sell a number of zirconium-based BMGs. Batches of amorphous steel have also been produced that demonstrate mechanical properties far exceeding those found in conventional steel alloys.
Question: Who coined the term "splat cooling"?
Answer: W. Klement
Question: What are thick alloys made in layers called?
Answer: bulk metallic glasses
Question: What does Liquidmetal Technologies use for their alloys?
Answer: zirconium
Question: What type of metal makes better alloys than traditional steel?
Answer: amorphous steel
Question: At what university was Klement a student?
Answer: Caltech
Question: Who coined the term alloys?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are thick alloys made in crystals called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Liquidmetal Technologies use for their cooling?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of metal makes better alloys than Caltech?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what university did Klement produce BMGs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A local pioneer of folk song collection in the first half of the 19th century was Shakespearean scholar James Orchard Halliwell, but it was not until the second folk revival in the 20th century that the full range of song from the county, including industrial folk song, began to gain attention. The county produced one of the major figures of the revival in Ewan MacColl, but also a local champion in Harry Boardman, who from 1965 onwards probably did more than anyone to popularise and record the folk song of the county. Perhaps the most influential folk artists to emerge from the region in the late 20th century were Liverpool folk group The Spinners, and from Manchester folk troubadour Roy Harper and musician, comedian and broadcaster Mike Harding. The region is home to numerous folk clubs, many of them catering to Irish and Scottish folk music. Regular folk festivals include the Fylde Folk Festival at Fleetwood.
Question: Who was a local pioneer of folk song collection?
Answer: James Orchard Halliwell
Question: Who did the most to popularize folk songs of the county?
Answer: Harry Boardman
Question: Who were the most influential fold artists from the region in the 20th century?
Answer: The Spinners
Question: Who do the many folk clubs today cater to?
Answer: Irish and Scottish folk music
Question: What is one of the regular folk festivals called?
Answer: Fylde Folk Festival
Question: In what year was James Orchard Halliwell born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did The Spinners release their first folk music album?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the first Fylde Folke Festival at Fleetwood held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city was Harry Boardman from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was James Orchard Halliwell from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Pubs within a chain will usually have items in common, such as fittings, promotions, ambience and range of food and drink on offer. A pub chain will position itself in the marketplace for a target audience. One company may run several pub chains aimed at different segments of the market. Pubs for use in a chain are bought and sold in large units, often from regional breweries which are then closed down. Newly acquired pubs are often renamed by the new owners, and many people resent the loss of traditional names, especially if their favourite regional beer disappears at the same time.
Question: When a pub is bought by a new owner, what often happens to them?
Answer: renamed
Question: What often happens to regional breweries after they sell their pubs?
Answer: closed down |
Context: Burma is bordered in the northwest by the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh and the Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh states of India. Its north and northeast border is with the Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan province for a Sino-Burman border total of 2,185 km (1,358 mi). It is bounded by Laos and Thailand to the southeast. Burma has 1,930 km (1,200 mi) of contiguous coastline along the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea to the southwest and the south, which forms one quarter of its total perimeter.
Question: What countries surround the border that is opposite the southwest border of Burma?
Answer: Burma is bordered in the northwest by the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh and the Mizoram
Question: What sea is an integral part of the Burma landscape ?
Answer: Andaman Sea to the southwest and the south, which forms one quarter of its total perimeter.
Question: How many miles of uninterrupted coastline does Burma encompass?
Answer: 1,200 mi
Question: What is the name of the bay along the southwest coast of Burma ?
Answer: Bay of Bengal
Question: What region lays along the north border of Burma and is famed for the presence of monks ?
Answer: the Tibet Autonomous Region |
Context: After the Civil War began, Governor Zebulon Baird Vance ordered the construction of breastworks around the city as protection from Union troops. During General Sherman's Carolinas Campaign, Raleigh was captured by Union cavalry under the command of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick on April 13, 1865. As the Confederate cavalry retreated west, the Union soldiers followed, leading to the nearby Battle of Morrisville. The city was spared significant destruction during the War, but due to the economic problems of the post-war period and Reconstruction, with a state economy based on agriculture, it grew little over the next several decades.
Question: Who was the governor during the Civil War?
Answer: Zebulon Baird Vance
Question: What did the governor order constructed?
Answer: breastworks
Question: What was Raleigh captured by in the Civil War?
Answer: Union cavalry
Question: Who led the cavalry in the capture?
Answer: Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Question: Why did the city not grow during the Civil War?
Answer: a state economy based on agriculture,
Question: Who was the governor during World War II?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the city boom in growth during the Civil War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who died in the capture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Hugh Judson Kilpatrick die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was built to protect the city from Confederates?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The traditional picture of an orderly series of scripts, each one invented suddenly and then completely displacing the previous one, has been conclusively demonstrated to be fiction by the archaeological finds and scholarly research of the later 20th and early 21st centuries. Gradual evolution and the coexistence of two or more scripts was more often the case. As early as the Shang dynasty, oracle-bone script coexisted as a simplified form alongside the normal script of bamboo books (preserved in typical bronze inscriptions), as well as the extra-elaborate pictorial forms (often clan emblems) found on many bronzes.
Question: What existed as early as the Shang dynasty?
Answer: oracle-bone script
Question: What did the oracle-bone script coexist alongside?
Answer: bamboo books
Question: What were preserved in typical bronze inscriptions?
Answer: bamboo books |
Context: In Whitehead's view, then, concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world. They are useful abstractions, but are not the world's basic building blocks. What is ordinarily conceived of as a single person, for instance, is philosophically described as a continuum of overlapping events. After all, people change all the time, if only because they have aged by another second and had some further experience. These occasions of experience are logically distinct, but are progressively connected in what Whitehead calls a "society" of events. By assuming that enduring objects are the most real and fundamental things in the universe, materialists have mistaken the abstract for the concrete (what Whitehead calls the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness").
Question: Concepts such as quality, matter, and form fail to account for what?
Answer: change
Question: What concepts overlook the experiential nature of basic elements?
Answer: quality", "matter", and "form"
Question: What are the concepts quality, matter, and form considered?
Answer: "classical" concepts
Question: Instead of being a single person, what does Whitehead view a person as?
Answer: continuum of overlapping events
Question: What does Whitehead call experiences that are progressively connected?
Answer: society
Question: What basic concepts did Whitehead believe were questionable?
Answer: "quality", "matter", and "form"
Question: Why did he believe those concepts were inaccurate?
Answer: These "classical" concepts fail to adequately account for change, and overlook the active and experiential nature of the most basic elements of the world.
Question: How did Whitehead classify what is usually seen as an individual person?
Answer: a continuum of overlapping events
Question: How did Whitehead refer to the combination of a person's separate experiences?
Answer: a "society" of events
Question: How did Whitehead define the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness"?
Answer: By assuming that enduring objects are the most real and fundamental things in the universe, materialists have mistaken the abstract for the concrete
Question: What basic concepts did Whitehead believe were not questionable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did he believe those concepts were accurate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Whitehead refer to the combination of a person's not separate experiences?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Whitehead classify what is usually seen as a nonindividual person?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Whitehead define the "fallacy of well placed concreteness"?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On the recovery side of the flight deck, the adaptation to the aircraft loadout is mirrored. Non-VTOL or conventional aircraft cannot decelerate on their own, and almost all carriers using them must have arrested-recovery systems (-BAR, e.g. CATOBAR or STOBAR) to recover their aircraft. Aircraft that are landing extend a tailhook that catches on arrestor wires stretched across the deck to bring themselves to a stop in a short distance. Post-WWII Royal Navy research on safer CATOBAR recovery eventually led to universal adoption of a landing area angled off axis to allow aircraft who missed the arresting wires to "bolt" and safely return to flight for another landing attempt rather than crashing into aircraft on the forward deck.
Question: Why do almost all carriers using conventional aircraft have arrested-recovery systems?
Answer: conventional aircraft cannot decelerate on their own
Question: What is the purpose of an arrested-recovery system?
Answer: to recover their aircraft
Question: What do aircraft do when landing in order to stop on a short distance?
Answer: extend a tailhook that catches on arrestor wires stretched across the deck
Question: What does a landing area angles off access allow an aircraft to do if if misses the arresting wires?
Answer: bolt
Question: What can a "bolt" prevent an aircraft from doing?
Answer: crashing into aircraft on the forward deck
Question: Why do almost all carriers using nonconventional aircraft have arrested-recovery systems?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not the purpose of an arrested-recovery system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do aircraft do when landing in order to stop on a long distance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a landing area angles off access allow an aircraft to do if it catches the arresting wires?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can a "bolt" allow an aircraft to do?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Physically, database servers are dedicated computers that hold the actual databases and run only the DBMS and related software. Database servers are usually multiprocessor computers, with generous memory and RAID disk arrays used for stable storage. RAID is used for recovery of data if any of the disks fail. Hardware database accelerators, connected to one or more servers via a high-speed channel, are also used in large volume transaction processing environments. DBMSs are found at the heart of most database applications. DBMSs may be built around a custom multitasking kernel with built-in networking support, but modern DBMSs typically rely on a standard operating system to provide these functions. from databases before the inception of Structured Query Language (SQL). The data recovered was disparate, redundant and disorderly, since there was no proper method to fetch it and arrange it in a concrete structure.[citation needed]
Question: What is used to recover data if disks suffer a failure?
Answer: RAID
Question: How can large quantities of data be accessed?
Answer: Hardware database accelerators
Question: What do most database applications contain?
Answer: DBMSs
Question: What is required for a modern DBMS to function?
Answer: standard operating system
Question: What is used to destroy data if disks suffer a failure?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How can no quantities of data be accessed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do most database applications not integrate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is required for a broken DBMS to function?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are non-dedicated computers that hold databases called?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The geologic record of the Proterozoic (2,500 to 541 million years ago) is more complete than that for the preceding Archean. In contrast to the deep-water deposits of the Archean, the Proterozoic features many strata that were laid down in extensive shallow epicontinental seas; furthermore, many of these rocks are less metamorphosed than Archean-age ones, and plenty are unaltered. Study of these rocks show that the eon featured massive, rapid continental accretion (unique to the Proterozoic), supercontinent cycles, and wholly modern orogenic activity. Roughly 750 million years ago, the earliest-known supercontinent Rodinia, began to break apart. The continents later recombined to form Pannotia, 600–540 Ma.
Question: During what time period did the Proterozoic era occur?
Answer: 2,500 to 541 million years ago
Question: What era came before the Proterozoic era?
Answer: Archean
Question: In what type of sea did typical Proterozoic geology come to be?
Answer: shallow epicontinental seas
Question: What type of continental behavior was unique to the Proterozoic?
Answer: rapid continental accretion
Question: What is the name for the large super continent that broke apart 750 million years ago?
Answer: Rodinia
Question: What period has a more complete geological record than the Proterozoic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: what was layed down in deep seas during the Proterozoic period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was made in shallow seas during the Archean period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of continental behavior was a unique to the Archean period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What broke apart 750 million years ago and was called Pannotia?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the past, the Malays used to call the Portuguese Serani from the Arabic Nasrani, but the term now refers to the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia.
Question: What term did the Malays use for the Portuguese Serani?
Answer: Nasrani
Question: What does the term refer to now?
Answer: the modern Kristang creoles of Malaysia
Question: Which term used to refer to Kristang creoles of Malaysia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which term refers to the Kristang creoles of Nasrani?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the Malays call Kristang creoles in the past?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: From where does the term Kristang Serani derive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: To whom does the term Serani now refer?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Besides slaves, there were a number of free people of color in the state. Most were descended from free African Americans who had migrated along with neighbors from Virginia during the 18th century. The majority were the descendants of unions in the working classes between white women, indentured servants or free, and African men, indentured, slave or free. After the Revolution, Quakers and Mennonites worked to persuade slaveholders to free their slaves. Some were inspired by their efforts and the language of the Revolution to arrange for manumission of their slaves. The number of free people of color rose markedly in the first couple of decades after the Revolution.
Question: Some of the free people of color migrated from what state during the 18th century?
Answer: Virginia
Question: After the revolution Quakers and mennonited encouraged slaveholders to do what?
Answer: free their slaves
Question: What happened to the number of free colored people for the first few decades after the war?
Answer: rose |
Context: Extending the Gregorian calendar backwards to dates preceding its official introduction produces a proleptic calendar, which should be used with some caution. For ordinary purposes, the dates of events occurring prior to 15 October 1582 are generally shown as they appeared in the Julian calendar, with the year starting on 1 January, and no conversion to their Gregorian equivalents. For example, the Battle of Agincourt is universally considered to have been fought on 25 October 1415 which is Saint Crispin's Day.
Question: Attempting to use Gregorian dates for earlier events on the Julian calendar should be used with what action?
Answer: caution
Question: When are events usually shown as they appeared on the Julian calendar?
Answer: prior to 15 October 1582
Question: When was the Battle of Agincourt?
Answer: 25 October 1415
Question: What other date is 25 October known for, that keeps the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October,1415?
Answer: Saint Crispin's Day
Question: In the Julian calendar when is the start of the new year?
Answer: 1 January
Question: What can you extend backwards to create an accurate calendar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What events are shown as they appeared on the Julian calendar with the year starting as it did when they occurred?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the disputed date for St. Crispin's Day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What started in January Julian calendar?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: St. John's is served by St. John's International Airport (YYT), located 10 minutes northwest of the downtown core. In 2011, roughly 1,400,000 passengers travelled through the airport making it the second busiest airport in Atlantic Canada in passenger volume. Regular destinations include Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, as well as destinations throughout the province. International locations include Dublin, London, New York City, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Glasgow and Varadero. Scheduled service providers include Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz, Air Saint-Pierre, Air Transat, United Airlines, Porter Airlines, Provincial Airlines, Sunwing Airlines and Westjet.
Question: How far is St. John's International Airport from the downtown core?
Answer: 10 minutes
Question: About how many passengers travelled through St. John's International Airport in 2011?
Answer: 1,400,000
Question: What is the airport code for St. John's International Airport?
Answer: YYT
Question: What airport is approximately 10 minutes northwest of the downtown core?
Answer: St. John's International
Question: What airport is located downtown?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the 2nd busiest airport in Canada?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the late 20th century a new concept was added to those included in the compass of both structure and function, the consideration of sustainability, hence sustainable architecture. To satisfy the contemporary ethos a building should be constructed in a manner which is environmentally friendly in terms of the production of its materials, its impact upon the natural and built environment of its surrounding area and the demands that it makes upon non-sustainable power sources for heating, cooling, water and waste management and lighting.
Question: When was the conecept, Sustainable architecture used?
Answer: late 20th century
Question: What novel concept was introduced at the end of the 20th century?
Answer: sustainability
Question: To what should a building be friendly?
Answer: environment
Question: What sort of power sources should a building not overuse if the building is to be considered environmentally friendly?
Answer: non-sustainable power sources
Question: When was the conecept, unsustainable architecture used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What novel concept was introduced at the end of the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: To what should a building be not friendly?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sort of power sources should a building always overuse if the building is to be considered environmentally friendly?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Anthropologists maintain that hunter/gatherers don't have permanent leaders; instead, the person taking the initiative at any one time depends on the task being performed. In addition to social and economic equality in hunter-gatherer societies, there is often, though not always, sexual parity as well. Hunter-gatherers are often grouped together based on kinship and band (or tribe) membership. Postmarital residence among hunter-gatherers tends to be matrilocal, at least initially. Young mothers can enjoy childcare support from their own mothers, who continue living nearby in the same camp. The systems of kinship and descent among human hunter-gatherers were relatively flexible, although there is evidence that early human kinship in general tended to be matrilineal.
Question: What permanent group representative do hunter-gatherers not have?
Answer: permanent leaders
Question: Initiative within the group depends upon what factor?
Answer: task being performed
Question: What group arrangement is usual in family authority?
Answer: matrilocal
Question: What is the kinship and decent system among hunter-gatherers?
Answer: matrilineal
Question: Which group has permanent leaders?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who maintains that hunter/gatherers have permanent leaders?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is there often sexual disparity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Young mothers get no child support from whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which systems were relatively inflexible?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Bern is built on very uneven ground. There is an elevation difference of several metres between the inner city districts on the Aare (Matte, Marzili) and the higher ones (Kirchenfeld, Länggasse).
Question: What type of ground was Bern built on?
Answer: uneven ground.
Question: What is the elevation difference between the inner cities and the other cities?
Answer: several metres
Question: Which city is higher, Matte or Langgasse?
Answer: Länggasse |
Context: Malaria kills more residents; 9% of the population have reported infection, It causes three times as many deaths as AIDS. In 2008, fewer than half of children younger than five slept under antimalaria nets or had access to antimalarial drugs.
Question: What kills more residents than AIDS?
Answer: Malaria
Question: What percentage of the population has Malaria?
Answer: 9%
Question: How many more deaths does malaria cause vs. AIDS?
Answer: three times as many
Question: How many children under five slept under antimalaria nets in 2008?
Answer: fewer than half
Question: What type of drugs did many young children not have access to in 2008?
Answer: antimalarial |
Context: In addition to and independent of the division into suras, there are various ways of dividing the Quran into parts of approximately equal length for convenience in reading. The 30 juz' (plural ajzāʼ) can be used to read through the entire Quran in a month. Some of these parts are known by names—which are the first few words by which the juzʼ starts. A juz' is sometimes further divided into two ḥizb (plural aḥzāb), and each hizb subdivided into four rubʻ al-ahzab. The Quran is also divided into seven approximately equal parts, manzil (plural manāzil), for it to be recited in a week.
Question: What division of the Quran is used for a month-long reading?
Answer: juz'
Question: How many ajzā cover the entire Quran?
Answer: 30
Question: How many ahzab are in a juz'?
Answer: two
Question: What is the term for a subdivision of a hizb?
Answer: rubʻ al-ahzab
Question: What division is used for a week-long recital of the Quran?
Answer: manzil
Question: What division of the Quran is unused for a month-long reading?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many ajzā cover the partial Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many ahzab aren't in a juz'?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the term for a subdivision of a hizb?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What division is unused for a week-long recital of the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people. In the 2014–15 season, the average Premier League match attendance exceeded 36,000, second highest of any professional football league behind the Bundesliga's 43,500. Most stadium occupancies are near capacity. The Premier League rank second in the UEFA coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the past five seasons.
Question: Is the Premier League the most watched football league in the world?
Answer: The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world,
Question: How many territories is the Premier League broadcast to?
Answer: broadcast in 212 territories
Question: What is the potential television audience of the Premier League?
Answer: a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people
Question: What is the average game attendance for the league?
Answer: the average Premier League match attendance exceeded 36,000
Question: What is the Premier League's UEFA co-efficients of leagues rank?
Answer: The Premier League rank second in the UEFA coefficients of leagues
Question: To how many homes is the Premier League broadcast to?
Answer: 643 million
Question: What average attendance number was exceeded by the Premier League in the 2014-15 season?
Answer: 36,000
Question: Which league has the highest average attendance in professional football?
Answer: Bundesliga
Question: To how many territories is the Premier League broadcast to?
Answer: 212
Question: What is the potential television audience of the Premier League?
Answer: 4.7 billion
Question: Which league is the least watched in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which league is the most watched football league in the United States?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Premier League broadcasts in 643 territories to how many million homes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Premier League is broadcast in 212 million homes and how many territories?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the potential TV audience of the UEFA league?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Portuguese language is the official national language and the primary language taught in schools. English and Spanish are also part of the official curriculum. The city has six international schools: American School of Brasília, Brasília International School (BIS), Escola das Nações, Swiss International School (SIS), Lycée français François-Mitterrand (LfFM) and Maple Bear Canadian School. August 2016 will see the opening of a new international school - The British School of Brasilia. Brasília has two universities, three university centers, and many private colleges.
Question: What is Brazil's official language?
Answer: Portuguese
Question: What languages besides Portuguese are taught in Brasilia's schools?
Answer: English and Spanish
Question: How many international schools are in Brasilia?
Answer: six
Question: When will a new international school open in Brasilia?
Answer: August 2016
Question: What nationality will the new international school in Brasilia be?
Answer: British
Question: Where is English the primary language taught in Brasilia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many private colleges are in Brasilia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year will the official curriculum start?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What school will the official curriculum be taught in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Maple Bear Canadian School's official language?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In many societies, however, a particular dialect, often the sociolect of the elite class, comes to be identified as the "standard" or "proper" version of a language by those seeking to make a social distinction, and is contrasted with other varieties. As a result of this, in some contexts the term "dialect" refers specifically to varieties with low social status. In this secondary sense of "dialect", language varieties are often called dialects rather than languages:
Question: With what social class it the standard dialect commonly associated?
Answer: the elite class
Question: What social status is the term "dialect" sometimes associated with?
Answer: low
Question: What is another term for language varieties?
Answer: dialects
Question: In certain context, which term refers to varieties with high social status?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The term proper refers to varieties with what type of social status?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another term for secondary sense?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The term variety refers to varieties with what type of social status?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which term refers to varieties with high social status?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried. Most were built from mercantile hulls or, in the case of merchant aircraft carriers, were bulk cargo ships with a flight deck added on top. Light aircraft carriers were carriers that were fast enough to operate with the fleet but of smaller size with reduced aircraft capacity. Soviet aircraft carriers now in use by Russia are actually called heavy aviation cruisers, these ships while sized in the range of large fleet carriers were designed to deploy alone or with escorts and provide both strong defensive weaponry and heavy offensive missiles equivalent to a guided missile cruiser in addition to supporting fighters and helicopters.
Question: What type of carrier is the largest?
Answer: fleet carrier
Question: What capability does a fleet carrier offer?
Answer: offensive
Question: What purpose were excort carriers developed for?
Answer: to provide defense for convoys of ships
Question: What were most escort carriers built from?
Answer: mercantile hulls
Question: What are the soviet aircraft carriers used by Russia actually called?
Answer: heavy aviation cruisers
Question: What type of carrier is the smallest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What capability does a fleet carrier not offer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What purpose were export carriers developed for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were few escort carriers built from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the soviet aircraft carriers used by Germany actually called?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the last two weeks of February 1951, Operation Roundup was followed by Operation Killer, carried out by the revitalized Eighth Army. It was a full-scale, battlefront-length attack staged for maximum exploitation of firepower to kill as many KPA and PVA troops as possible. Operation Killer concluded with I Corps re-occupying the territory south of the Han River, and IX Corps capturing Hoengseong. On 7 March 1951, the Eighth Army attacked with Operation Ripper, expelling the PVA and the KPA from Seoul on 14 March 1951. This was the city's fourth conquest in a years' time, leaving it a ruin; the 1.5 million pre-war population was down to 200,000, and people were suffering from severe food shortages.
Question: What Operation was initiated after the successful Operation Roundup?
Answer: Operation Killer
Question: What the the goal of the operation that followed Operation Roundup?
Answer: to kill as many KPA and PVA troops as possible
Question: What signified the end of Operation Killer?
Answer: capturing Hoengseong
Question: How many times was Seoul captured in a year?
Answer: This was the city's fourth conquest
Question: Other than the drastic decrease in population, what other issue did the people in Seoul face?
Answer: severe food shortages |
Context: Due to the lack of success lately on the international level, in recent years, Armenia has rebuilt 16 Soviet-era sports schools and furnished them with new equipment for a total cost of $1.9 million. The rebuilding of the regional schools was financed by the Armenian government. $9.3 million has been invested in the resort town of Tsaghkadzor to improve the winter sports infrastructure because of dismal performances at recent winter sports events. In 2005, a cycling center was opened in Yerevan with the aim of helping produce world class Armenian cyclists. The government has also promised a cash reward of $700,000 to Armenians who win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Question: Who provided the funds to rebuild the Armenian sports schools?
Answer: the Armenian government
Question: What year did Yerevan create a cyclying center?
Answer: 2005
Question: What prize do Armenians receive from the government if they win a gold medal?
Answer: $700,000
Question: How much money was spent to revamp Tsaghkadzor for winter sports?
Answer: $9.3 million
Question: How much did Armenia spend to fix up their sports schools?
Answer: $1.9 million |
Context: After 1517, when the new invention of printing made these texts widely available, the Dutch humanist Erasmus, who had studied Greek at the Venetian printing house of Aldus Manutius, began a philological analysis of the Gospels in the spirit of Valla, comparing the Greek originals with their Latin translations with a view to correcting errors and discrepancies in the latter. Erasmus, along with the French humanist Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, began issuing new translations, laying the groundwork for the Protestant Reformation. Henceforth Renaissance humanism, particularly in the German North, became concerned with religion, while Italian and French humanism concentrated increasingly on scholarship and philology addressed to a narrow audience of specialists, studiously avoiding topics that might offend despotic rulers or which might be seen as corrosive of faith. After the Reformation, critical examination of the Bible did not resume until the advent of the so-called Higher criticism of the 19th-century German Tübingen school.
Question: When are these texts first able to reach a large amount of people?
Answer: Erasmus
Question: Erasmus can be said to have lit the match that sparked a radical change in thinking in his era along with who?
Answer: Lefèvre d'Étaples
Question: What text still remained without the type of thorough review that others texts had received by the 18th century?
Answer: the Bible
Question: When are these texts first able to reach no amount of people?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What text no longer remains without the type of thorough review that others texts had received by the 12th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Renaissance humanism against the law?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What focused on dismissing scholarship and philology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What 18th century German school has no criticisms?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Islam is the most widely practised religion in Southeast Asia, numbering approximately 240 million adherents which translate to about 40% of the entire population, with majorities in Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia and in Southern Philippines with Indonesia as the largest and most populated Muslim country around the world. Countries in Southeast Asia practice many different religions. Buddhism is predominant in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam and Singapore. Ancestor worship and Confucianism are also widely practised in Vietnam and Singapore. Christianity is predominant in the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, East Malaysia and East Timor. The Philippines has the largest Roman Catholic population in Asia. East Timor is also predominantly Roman Catholic due to a history of Portuguese rule.
Question: Which religion is widely practiced in Southeast Asia?
Answer: Islam
Question: What percentage of the population in Southeast Asia practice Islam?
Answer: 40%
Question: Among the Southeast Asian countries, which country has the most populous Muslims among them?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Roman Catholic population is predominant in which Asian country?
Answer: Philippines
Question: East Timor is predominantly catholic due to which European rule's history?
Answer: Portuguese
Question: What is the least practiced religion in Southeast Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion has 2.4 million adherents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: WWhat Southeast Asian country has the smallest muslim population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion is no longer predominant in East Timor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is an older standard, adopted starting with British railways in 1847. Using telescopes instead of atomic clocks, GMT was calibrated to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in the UK. Universal Time (UT) is the modern term for the international telescope-based system, adopted to replace "Greenwich Mean Time" in 1928 by the International Astronomical Union. Observations at the Greenwich Observatory itself ceased in 1954, though the location is still used as the basis for the coordinate system. Because the rotational period of Earth is not perfectly constant, the duration of a second would vary if calibrated to a telescope-based standard like GMT or UT—in which a second was defined as a fraction of a day or year. The terms "GMT" and "Greenwich Mean Time" are sometimes used informally to refer to UT or UTC.
Question: Which standard of time started with British Railways?
Answer: Greenwich Mean Time
Question: When was GMT adopted by British Railways?
Answer: 1847
Question: GMT used what instead of atomic clocks?
Answer: telescopes
Question: When did observations at the Greenwich Observatory cease?
Answer: 1954
Question: The terms GMT and Greenwich Mean Time are also used informally to refer to what?
Answer: UT or UTC
Question: In what year did British railways go into business?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the British railway stop using in 1954?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Greenwich Mean Time replace in 1847?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How constant is an atomic clock?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens when an atomic clock is not constant?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which standard of time started with the International Astronomical Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was GMT adopted by the International Astronomical Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The International Astronomical Union used what instead of atomic clocks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did observations at the Greenwich Observatory begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The term calibrated is also used informally to refer to what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: An endpoint of a pipe is addressable with a tuple (device_address, endpoint_number) as specified in a TOKEN packet that the host sends when it wants to start a data transfer session. If the direction of the data transfer is from the host to the endpoint, an OUT packet (a specialization of a TOKEN packet) having the desired device address and endpoint number is sent by the host. If the direction of the data transfer is from the device to the host, the host sends an IN packet instead. If the destination endpoint is a uni-directional endpoint whose manufacturer's designated direction does not match the TOKEN packet (e.g. the manufacturer's designated direction is IN while the TOKEN packet is an OUT packet), the TOKEN packet is ignored. Otherwise, it is accepted and the data transaction can start. A bi-directional endpoint, on the other hand, accepts both IN and OUT packets.
Question: If the direction of the data transfer is from the device to the host, what does the host send?
Answer: the host sends an IN packet
Question: What does a bi-directional endpoint accept?
Answer: both IN and OUT packets
Question: What is sent if the direction of the data transfer is from host to endpoint?
Answer: an OUT packet |
Context: Disadvantages of electric traction include high capital costs that may be uneconomic on lightly trafficked routes; a relative lack of flexibility since electric trains need electrified tracks or onboard supercapacitors and charging infrastructure at stations; and a vulnerability to power interruptions. Different regions may use different supply voltages and frequencies, complicating through service. The limited clearances available under catenaries may preclude efficient double-stack container service. The lethal voltages on contact wires and third rails are a safety hazard to track workers, passengers and trespassers. Overhead wires are safer than third rails, but they are often considered unsightly.
Question: What issue can complicate electric railway service?
Answer: different supply voltages and frequencies,
Question: What is a safety hazard to track workers?
Answer: voltages on contact wires
Question: What is a safer alternative to third rails?
Answer: Overhead wires
Question: Why overhead wires are not being widely used?
Answer: considered unsightly.
Question: Advantages of electric traction include?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: All regions use the same supply voltages and?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Lethal voltages on contact wires and third rails are non a safety hazard for whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Third rails are considered safer than overhead wires, but are considered what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2014, Turkey was ordered by the European Court of Human Rights to pay well over $100m in compensation to Cyprus for the invasion; Ankara announced that it would ignore the judgment. In 2014, a group of Cypriot refugees and a European parliamentarian, later joined by the Cypriot government, filed a complaint to the International Court of Justice, accusing Turkey of violating the Geneva Conventions by directly or indirectly transferring its civilian population into occupied territory. Over the preceding ten years, civilian transfer by Turkey had "reached new heights", in the words of one US ambassador.[f] Other violations of the Geneva and the Hague Conventions—both ratified by Turkey—amount to what archaeologist Sophocles Hadjisavvas called "the organized destruction of Greek and Christian heritage in the north". These violations include looting of cultural treasures, deliberate destruction of churches, neglect of works of art, and altering the names of important historical sites, which was condemned by the International Council on Monuments and Sites. Hadjisavvas has asserted that these actions are motivated by a Turkish policy of erasing the Greek presence in Northern Cyprus within a framework of ethnic cleansing, as well as by greed and profit-seeking on the part of the individuals involved.
Question: How much was Turkey ordered to pay in compensation to Cyprus?
Answer: over $100m
Question: Who was accused of violating the Geneva Conventions?
Answer: Turkey
Question: What year was Turkey ordered to pay fines to Cyprus?
Answer: 2014
Question: Why was Turkey accused of violating the Geneva Conventions?
Answer: directly or indirectly transferring its civilian population into occupied territory |
Context: Located in Cordon, St.Brendan´s school, before named St.Catherine´s is a non-profit civil association, which has a solid institutional culture with a clear vision of the future. It is knowned for being one of the best schools in the country, joining students from the wealthiest parts of Montevideo, such us, Punta Carretas, Pocitos, Malvin and Carrasco. St. Brendan’s School is a bilingual, non-denominational school that promotes a pedagogical constructivist approach focused on the child as a whole. In this approach, understanding is built from the connections children make between their own prior knowledge and the learning experiences, thus developing critical thinking skills. It is also the only school in the country implementing the three International Baccalaureate Programmes. These are:
Question: Where is St. Brendan's school located?
Answer: Cordon
Question: What was St. Brendan's school previously named?
Answer: St.Catherine´s
Question: What is the only school in the country implementing three international Baccalaureate Programmes?
Answer: St.Brendan´s school |
Context: Regional social norms are generally antagonistic to hunting, while a few sects, such as the Bishnoi, lay special emphasis on the conservation of particular species, such as the antelope. India's Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 bans the killing of all wild animals. However, the Chief Wildlife Warden may, if satisfied that any wild animal from a specified list has become dangerous to human life, or is so disabled or diseased as to be beyond recovery, permit any person to hunt such an animal. In this case, the body of any wild animal killed or wounded becomes government property.
Question: What norms are generally antagonistic to hunting?
Answer: Regional social
Question: What sect lays special emphasis on conservation of particular species?
Answer: Bishnoi
Question: What bans the killing of all wild animals in India?
Answer: Wildlife Protection Act of 1972
Question: Who may permit a person to hunt animals in India despite it being banned?
Answer: the Chief Wildlife Warden
Question: Whose property does the body of any wild animal killed or wounded become?
Answer: government
Question: Who lay special emphasis on conservation of particular species?
Answer: Bishnoi
Question: What bans the killing of all wild animals?
Answer: India's Wildlife Protection Act
Question: What year was this protection act put into place?
Answer: 1972
Question: Who can permit a person to hunt wild animals?
Answer: Chief Wildlife Warden
Question: What happens to the body of the wild animal killed?
Answer: becomes government property
Question: What group of people was first discovered in 1972?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have the Bishnoi banned the killing of since 1972?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What act was drafted to ban the killing of only antelope?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What becomes the property of the Bishnoi if its killed or wounded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the antelope population first start to decline?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: One of the foundation's goals is to lower poverty by increasing the number of college graduates in the United States, and the organization has funded "Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery" grants to think tanks and advocacy organizations to produce white papers on ideas for changing the current system of federal financial aid for college students, with a goal of increasing graduation rates. One of the ways the foundation has sought to increase the number of college graduates is to get them through college faster, but that idea has received some pushback from organizations of universities and colleges.
Question: What is 1 foundation goal
Answer: One of the foundation's goals is to lower poverty by increasing the number of college graduates in the United States
Question: One way to increase college graduation by the foundation is
Answer: One of the ways the foundation has sought to increase the number of college graduates is to get them through college faster
Question: how did they work on college financing
Answer: Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery" grants to think tanks and advocacy organizations
Question: What has the United States tried to do to increase the number of college graduates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the goal of think tanks to lower poverty in the United States?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups will produce grants for changing the financial aid system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the foundation fund to change the poverty rate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the foundation want to lower by changing financial aid?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The polarization of an antenna refers to the orientation of the electric field (E-plane) of the radio wave with respect to the Earth's surface and is determined by the physical structure of the antenna and by its orientation; note that this designation is totally distinct from the antenna's directionality. Thus, a simple straight wire antenna will have one polarization when mounted vertically, and a different polarization when mounted horizontally. As a transverse wave, the magnetic field of a radio wave is at right angles to that of the electric field, but by convention, talk of an antenna's "polarization" is understood to refer to the direction of the electric field.
Question: What is another name for electric-field?
Answer: E-plane
Question: How many polarizations will a antenna have when mounted vertically?
Answer: one
Question: Whats understood in reference of direction of an E-plane?
Answer: polarization
Question: When is a magnetic fields right angles to a electrical field?
Answer: transverse wave |
Context: This is a consequence of Lorentz reciprocity. For an antenna element not connected to anything (open circuited) one can write . But for an element which is short circuited, a current is generated across that short but no voltage is allowed, so the corresponding . This is the case, for instance, with the so-called parasitic elements of a Yagi-Uda antenna where the solid rod can be viewed as a dipole antenna shorted across its feedpoint. Parasitic elements are unpowered elements that absorb and reradiate RF energy according to the induced current calculated using such a system of equations.
Question: a antenna element not connected to anything is circuited how?
Answer: open circuited
Question: When is the element not allowed voltage?
Answer: short circuited
Question: What element absorbs and reradiate RF-energy?
Answer: Parasitic
Question: What antenna can the solid rod be viewed as a dipole antenna?
Answer: Yagi-Uda
Question: Where can this solid rod be viewed?
Answer: feedpoint |
Context: A literature compendium for a large variety of audio coding systems was published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), February 1988. While there were some papers from before that time, this collection documented an entire variety of finished, working audio coders, nearly all of them using perceptual (i.e. masking) techniques and some kind of frequency analysis and back-end noiseless coding. Several of these papers remarked on the difficulty of obtaining good, clean digital audio for research purposes. Most, if not all, of the authors in the JSAC edition were also active in the MPEG-1 Audio committee.
Question: What was published in the IEEE Journal in 1988?
Answer: literature compendium
Question: What did the literature compendium document?
Answer: finished, working audio coders
Question: Where were most of the authors in the JSAC edition?
Answer: MPEG-1 Audio committee
Question: What was published in the MPEG-1 in 1988?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the digital audio document?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were most of the papers in the JSAC edition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the collection of coding document?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did these coders remark on?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The writer Sherrel W. Stewart's assertion that "most" African Americans have significant Native American heritage, is not supported by genetic researchers who have done extensive population mapping studies. The TV series on African-American ancestry, hosted by the scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., had genetics scholars who discussed in detail the variety of ancestries among African Americans. They noted there is popular belief in a high rate of Native American admixture that is not supported by the data that has been collected. (Reference is coming)
Question: Who said many African Americans have NAtive American heritage?
Answer: Sherrel W. Stewart
Question: Who disproved Sherrel's hypothesis?
Answer: genetic researchers who have done extensive population mapping studies
Question: Who hosts a TV series on the genetic history of African Americans?
Answer: Henry Louis Gates
Question: What writer asserted that very few African Americans have significant Native American heritage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who do genetic researchers claim have significant Native American heritage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who hosted a TV series on Asian American ancestry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What popular belief is supported by the data that has been collected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do genetic researches believe most African Americans have?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Chopin's tombstone, featuring the muse of music, Euterpe, weeping over a broken lyre, was designed and sculpted by Clésinger. The expenses of the funeral and monument, amounting to 5,000 francs, were covered by Jane Stirling, who also paid for the return of the composer's sister Ludwika to Warsaw. Ludwika took Chopin's heart in an urn, preserved in alcohol, back to Poland in 1850.[n 9] She also took a collection of two hundred letters from Sand to Chopin; after 1851 these were returned to Sand, who seems to have destroyed them.
Question: Who sculpted Chopin's tombstone?
Answer: Clésinger
Question: What is the name of the muse carved on Chopin's tombstone?
Answer: Euterpe
Question: How much did Chopin's funeral cost?
Answer: 5,000 francs
Question: Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Jane Stirling
Question: Chopin's sister Ludwika took his heart back to Warsaw preserved in what?
Answer: alcohol
Question: Who designed Chopin's tombstone?
Answer: Clésinger.
Question: How much did Chopin's funeral and monument cost?
Answer: 5,000 francs
Question: Who paid for Chopin's funeral?
Answer: Jane Stirling
Question: Who took Chopin's heart to Poland?
Answer: sister
Question: Who ended up with the 200 letters from Sand to Chopin?
Answer: Sand |
Context: As a result, in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. Led by engineers Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi, the research pushed forward laser and optical disc technology. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the task force produced the Red Book CD-DA standard. First published in 1980, the standard was formally adopted by the IEC as an international standard in 1987, with various amendments becoming part of the standard in 1996.
Question: In what year did Sony and Philips band together to design a new digital audio disc?
Answer: 1979
Question: What year was the Red Book CD-DA standard released?
Answer: 1980
Question: When did the IEC isntigate the Red Book CD-DA as an international standard?
Answer: 1987
Question: Who headed the 1979 Sony and Philips digital audio disc task force?
Answer: Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi
Question: Which company did Kees Schouhamer Immink work for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the team create five years after joining?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does IEC stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the amendments in 1996?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did CD-DA stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the start of the civil war, various new telecommunications companies began to spring up in the country and competed to provide missing infrastructure. Somalia now offers some of the most technologically advanced and competitively priced telecommunications and internet services in the world. Funded by Somali entrepreneurs and backed by expertise from China, Korea and Europe, these nascent telecommunications firms offer affordable mobile phone and internet services that are not available in many other parts of the continent. Customers can conduct money transfers (such as through the popular Dahabshiil) and other banking activities via mobile phones, as well as easily gain wireless Internet access.
Question: Who funded the new telecommunications firms in Somalia?
Answer: Somali entrepreneurs
Question: China, Korea, and Europe lent what to the creation of the new firms.
Answer: expertise
Question: What do the new telecommunications firms in Somalia offer that is not available in many other parts of the continent?
Answer: affordable mobile phone and internet services
Question: Money transfers and wireless internet are two things that customers can now accomplish via what?
Answer: mobile phones
Question: When the civil war began, many telecomunications companies were created to provide missing what?
Answer: infrastructure
Question: What did Chinese entrepreneurs create?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Before the civil war, what jobs were being created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Besides Somalia, what country has the best telecommunications?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are the Somalian telecommunication companies so expensive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can customers do with their phones besides money transfers and banking activities?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The findings and insights of speech perception and articulation research complicate the traditional and somewhat intuitive idea of interchangeable allophones being perceived as the same phoneme. First, interchanged allophones of the same phoneme can result in unrecognizable words. Second, actual speech, even at a word level, is highly co-articulated, so it is problematic to expect to be able to splice words into simple segments without affecting speech perception.
Question: How do speech perception and articulation findings and insights affect previous and more traditional ideas?
Answer: complicate
Question: How does interchanging allophones of the same pheneme render words?
Answer: unrecognizable
Question: What does splicing words affect?
Answer: speech perception
Question: How do speech perception and articulation findings and insights affect previous and more traditional spliced words?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does interchanging phenomes of the same allophone render words?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does splicing phenomes affect?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can result in recognizable words?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What complicates the traditional ideas of phonemes being perceived as the same allophones?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Decoding, on the other hand, is carefully defined in the standard. Most decoders are "bitstream compliant", which means that the decompressed output that they produce from a given MP3 file will be the same, within a specified degree of rounding tolerance, as the output specified mathematically in the ISO/IEC high standard document (ISO/IEC 11172-3). Therefore, comparison of decoders is usually based on how computationally efficient they are (i.e., how much memory or CPU time they use in the decoding process).
Question: What is carefully defined in the standard?
Answer: Decoding
Question: What are most decoders?
Answer: bitstream compliant
Question: The ISO/IEC high standard document states that the decompressed output produced from a given MP3 file will be the same within what standards?
Answer: specified degree of rounding tolerance
Question: Decoders are usually compared by examining which factor?
Answer: computationally efficient
Question: The efficiency of decoders is examined by seeing how much memory and what other process they use in the decoding process?
Answer: CPU time |
Context: India's cotton-processing sector gradually declined during British expansion in India and the establishment of colonial rule during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This was largely due to aggressive colonialist mercantile policies of the British East India Company, which made cotton processing and manufacturing workshops in India uncompetitive. Indian markets were increasingly forced to supply only raw cotton and, by British-imposed law, to purchase manufactured textiles from Britain.[citation needed]
Question: How did British rule effect Indian cotton processing?
Answer: declined
Question: During what centuries did British rule effect Indian cotton production?
Answer: late 18th and early 19th
Question: What British business's policies damaged the Indian cotton industry?
Answer: British East India Company
Question: What cotton products did British law mandate that India was allowed to sell?
Answer: raw cotton
Question: If instead of producing fabrics, where was India forced to purchase cotton products?
Answer: Britain
Question: How did East India rule effect Indian cotton processing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what centuries did East India rule effect Indian cotton production?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What British business's policies damaged the British cotton industry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cotton products did Indian law mandate that India was allowed to sell?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the British East India Company forced to purchase cotton products?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The printed circuit board industry defines heavy copper as layers exceeding three ounces of copper, or approximately 0.0042 inches (4.2 mils, 105 μm) thick. PCB designers and fabricators often use heavy copper when design and manufacturing circuit boards in order to increase current-carrying capacity as well as resistance to thermal strains. Heavy copper plated vias transfer heat to external heat sinks. IPC 2152 is a standard for determining current-carrying capacity of printed circuit board traces.
Question: What's the minimum amount of copper a layer in a PCB can have to be considered "heavy copper"?
Answer: three ounces
Question: About how thick would a PCB layer be if it contained three oz. of copper?
Answer: 0.0042 inches
Question: What will a circuit board with heavy copper carry very well?
Answer: current
Question: What would a PCB designer use heavy copper to make their circuit board resist?
Answer: thermal strains
Question: Where does the heat go when it leaves heavy copper-plated vias?
Answer: external heat sinks
Question: The printed circuit board industry defines light copper as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: PCB designers and fabricators often use light copper when?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the standard for determining current-carrying capacity of printed circuit board trees?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: IAC 2152 is the standard for what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In "Freedom in the World 2011", Freedom House rated Cyprus as "free". In January 2011, the Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the question of Human Rights in Cyprus noted that the ongoing division of Cyprus continues to affect human rights throughout the island "... including freedom of movement, human rights pertaining to the question of missing persons, discrimination, the right to life, freedom of religion, and economic, social and cultural rights." The constant focus on the division of the island can sometimes mask other human rights issues.[citation needed]
Question: Why does the United Nations question the Human rights status of Cyprus?
Answer: ongoing division of Cyprus continues to affect human rights throughout the island
Question: What is the rating for Cyprus in the "Freedom in the World 2011" report?
Answer: free
Question: What is one of the reasons for the human rights issues on Cyprus?
Answer: division of the island |
Context: A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging (collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals), in contrast to agricultural societies, which rely mainly on domesticated species.
Question: What kind of human lives by collecting wild flora and fauna?
Answer: hunter-gatherer
Question: What type of society relies on domestication for producing food?
Answer: agricultural
Question: What type of plants and animals do agricultural groups harvest?
Answer: domesticated species
Question: A hunter-gatherer is an animal who obtains food by what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Collecting wild plants and pursuing wild flowers defines what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which societies rely mainly on undomesticated species?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by bargaining is known as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Foraging is a technique used by humans living in which society?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Opponents argue that actual energy savings are inconclusive, that DST increases health risks such as heart attack, that DST can disrupt morning activities, and that the act of changing clocks twice a year is economically and socially disruptive and cancels out any benefit. Farmers have tended to oppose DST.
Question: What major health risk do people who oppose DST say it increases?
Answer: heart attack
Question: What profession is more likely to want to repeal DST: farmers or shopkeepers?
Answer: Farmers
Question: What adjective would those against DST use to describe the energy savings touted by supporters?
Answer: inconclusive
Question: What time of day do opponents of daylight savings believe is disrupted the most by the time shift?
Answer: morning |
Context: Public schools are part of the Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) district. AAPS has one of the country's leading music programs. In September 2008, 16,539 students had been enrolled in the Ann Arbor Public Schools. There were 21 elementary schools, five middle schools (Forsythe, Slauson, Tappan, Scarlett, and Clague) three traditional high schools (Pioneer, Huron, and Skyline), and three alternative high schools (Community High, Stone School, and Roberto Clemente) in the district. The district also operates a K-8 open school program, Ann Arbor Open School, out of the former Mack School. This program is open to all families who live within the district. Ann Arbor Public Schools also operates a preschool and family center, with programs for at-risk infants and children before kindergarten. The district has a preschool center with both free and tuition-based programs for preschoolers in the district.
Question: Ann Arbor has one of the leading programs in what subject?
Answer: music
Question: What program is open to the residents of Ann arbor?
Answer: Ann Arbor Open School
Question: In 2008, how many were enrolled in public schools?
Answer: 16,539
Question: What year did Ann Arbor public schools have 12 elementary schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was 16,935 students enrolled in the Ann Arbor Public Schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What high school operates in the former Mack School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Is Forsythe a traditional or alternative high school?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of high school is Forsythe?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Popes called for crusades to take place elsewhere besides the Holy Land: in Spain, southern France, and along the Baltic. The Spanish crusades became fused with the Reconquista of Spain from the Muslims. Although the Templars and Hospitallers took part in the Spanish crusades, similar Spanish military religious orders were founded, most of which had become part of the two main orders of Calatrava and Santiago by the beginning of the 12th century. Northern Europe also remained outside Christian influence until the 11th century or later, and became a crusading venue as part of the Northern Crusades of the 12th to 14th centuries. These crusades also spawned a military order, the Order of the Sword Brothers. Another order, the Teutonic Knights, although originally founded in the crusader states, focused much of its activity in the Baltic after 1225, and in 1309 moved its headquarters to Marienburg in Prussia.
Question: Along with the Baltic and Spain, in what area were crusades called?
Answer: southern France
Question: Where was the Teutonic Order headquartered in 1309?
Answer: Marienburg
Question: What military order was founded as a result of the Northern Crusades?
Answer: the Order of the Sword Brothers
Question: In what century did the Northern Crusades begin?
Answer: 12th
Question: What century saw the end of the Northern Crusades?
Answer: 14th |
Context: A Federal Trade Commission report issued in 1958 attempted to quantify the effect of antibiotic development on American public health. The report found that over the period 1946-1955, there was a 42% drop in the incidence of diseases for which antibiotics were effective and only a 20% drop in those for which antibiotics were not effective. The report concluded that "it appears that the use of antibiotics, early diagnosis, and other factors have limited the epidemic spread and thus the number of these diseases which have occurred". The study further examined mortality rates for eight common diseases for which antibiotics offered effective therapy (syphilis, tuberculosis, dysentery, scarlet fever, whooping cough, meningococcal infections, and pneumonia), and found a 56% decline over the same period. Notable among these was a 75% decline in deaths due to tuberculosis.
Question: What disease had the biggest decline of deaths?
Answer: tuberculosis
Question: What period was the report issued in 1958 cover?
Answer: 1946-1955
Question: Who issued the report in 1958?
Answer: Federal Trade Commission
Question: What were eight diseases examined for?
Answer: mortality rates
Question: What was responsible for the decline in spreading diseases?
Answer: use of antibiotics, early diagnosis, and other factors
Question: How much did the mortality rate of common bacterial infections decline between 1946-1955?
Answer: 56%
Question: How much did the mortality rate of tuberculosis drop between 1946-1955?
Answer: 75%
Question: Who issued a report describing the effects of antibiotic developments?
Answer: Federal Trade Commission
Question: In what year was the FTC's report issued?
Answer: 1958
Question: What disease had the biggest decline of diagnosis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period did the report issued in 1964 cover?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who issued the report in 1964?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were nine diseases examined for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was responsible for the decline in spreading commissions?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Unorganized Borough has no government of its own, but the U.S. Census Bureau in cooperation with the state divided the Unorganized Borough into 11 census areas solely for the purposes of statistical analysis and presentation. A recording district is a mechanism for administration of the public record in Alaska. The state is divided into 34 recording districts which are centrally administered under a State Recorder. All recording districts use the same acceptance criteria, fee schedule, etc., for accepting documents into the public record.
Question: Into how many recording districts is Alaska divided?
Answer: 34
Question: What is the function of an Alaskan recording district?
Answer: a mechanism for administration of the public record in Alaska
Question: Which documents do recording districts universally use between areas?
Answer: acceptance criteria, fee schedule, etc.
Question: Into how many recording districts isn't Alaska divided?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the function of an Alaskan recording district?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the function of an Alaskan singing district?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which documents do recording districts universally never use between areas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which songs do recording districts universally use between areas?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In May 1970, the Revolutionary Intellectuals Seminar was held to bring intellectuals in line with the revolution, while that year's Legislative Review and Amendment united secular and religious law codes, introducing sharia into the legal system. Ruling by decree, the RCC maintained the monarchy's ban on political parties, in May 1970 banned trade unions, and in 1972 outlawed workers' strikes and suspended newspapers. In September 1971, Gaddafi resigned, claiming to be dissatisfied with the pace of reform, but returned to his position within a month. In February 1973, he resigned again, once more returning the following month.
Question: What was the RCC's view of political parties?
Answer: Ruling by decree, the RCC maintained the monarchy's ban on political parties,
Question: What did Gaddafi do in 1971?
Answer: In September 1971, Gaddafi resigned, claiming to be dissatisfied with the pace of reform, but returned to his position within a month.
Question: What did Gaddafi do in 1973?
Answer: In February 1973, he resigned again, once more returning the following month.
Question: What was the impact of incorporating the sharia into the legal system?
Answer: united secular and religious law codes
Question: In what year did the Revolutionary Intellectuals Seminar occur?
Answer: 1970
Question: What did the RCC outlaw in 1970?
Answer: trade unions
Question: What publications were shut down 1972?
Answer: newspapers
Question: In what month and year did Gaddafi first resign?
Answer: September 1971
Question: In what year did Gaddafi's second resignation occur?
Answer: 1973 |
Context: Palawan Island, between Borneo and Mindoro, the fifth largest and western-most Philippine Island, was invaded on 28 February with landings of the Eighth Army at Puerto Princesa. The Japanese put up little direct defense of Palawan, but cleaning up pockets of Japanese resistance lasted until late April, as the Japanese used their common tactic of withdrawing into the mountain jungles, dispersed as small units. Throughout the Philippines, U.S. forces were aided by Filipino guerrillas to find and dispatch the holdouts.
Question: What island was between Borneo and Mindoro?
Answer: Palawan
Question: What island was invaded by the Eighth Army on February 28?
Answer: Palawan
Question: Where did the Eighth Army land?
Answer: Puerto Princesa
Question: Who aided U.S. forces in finding Japanese holdouts in the Philippines?
Answer: Filipino guerrillas
Question: What is the western-most Philippine island?
Answer: Palawan |
Context: In the 20th century, Greek composers have had a significant impact on the development of avant garde and modern classical music, with figures such as Iannis Xenakis, Nikos Skalkottas, and Dimitri Mitropoulos achieving international prominence. At the same time, composers and musicians such as Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Eleni Karaindrou, Vangelis and Demis Roussos garnered an international following for their music, which include famous film scores such as Zorba the Greek, Serpico, Never on Sunday, America America, Eternity and a Day, Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner, among others. Greek American composers known for their film scores include Yanni and Basil Poledouris. Notable Greek opera singers and classical musicians of the 20th and 21st century include Maria Callas, Nana Mouskouri, Mario Frangoulis, Leonidas Kavakos, Dimitris Sgouros and others.
Question: Who is one 20th century Greek composers that has had an impact on modern classical music?
Answer: Iannis Xenakis
Question: What is one of the famous movies Greek composers has scored?
Answer: Zorba the Greek
Question: Who is one of the Greek composers known for their film scores?
Answer: Yanni
Question: Who is one of the notable Greek opera singers in the 20th century?
Answer: Maria Callas |
Context: On July 16, 1945, with numerous other Manhattan Project personnel, von Neumann was an eyewitness to the first atomic bomb blast, code named Trinity, conducted as a test of the implosion method device, at the bombing range near Alamogordo Army Airfield, 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. Based on his observation alone, von Neumann estimated the test had resulted in a blast equivalent to 5 kilotons of TNT (21 TJ) but Enrico Fermi produced a more accurate estimate of 10 kilotons by dropping scraps of torn-up paper as the shock wave passed his location and watching how far they scattered. The actual power of the explosion had been between 20 and 22 kilotons. It was in von Neumann's 1944 papers that the expression "kilotons" appeared for the first time. After the war, Robert Oppenheimer remarked that the physicists involved in the Manhattan project had "known sin". Von Neumann's response was that "sometimes someone confesses a sin in order to take credit for it."
Question: On what day was the first atomic blast?
Answer: July 16, 1945
Question: Where did the first atomic blast test take place?
Answer: Alamogordo Army Airfield,
Question: What was the power of the first atomic blast?
Answer: between 20 and 22 kilotons |
Context: The discovery of infrared radiation is ascribed to William Herschel, the astronomer, in the early 19th century. Herschel published his results in 1800 before the Royal Society of London. Herschel used a prism to refract light from the sun and detected the infrared, beyond the red part of the spectrum, through an increase in the temperature recorded on a thermometer. He was surprised at the result and called them "Calorific Rays". The term 'Infrared' did not appear until late in the 19th century.
Question: Who discovered infrared radiation?
Answer: William Herschel
Question: In what year did Herschel publish his work on infrared radiation?
Answer: 1800
Question: To whom did Herschel present his work on infrared radiation?
Answer: the Royal Society of London
Question: What device did Herschel use to discover the infrared?
Answer: a prism
Question: What did Herschel call the infrared spectrum?
Answer: Calorific Rays
Question: Who discovered spectrum radiation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the term Calorific Rays start to be used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Herschel use to detect light from the sun?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Herschel refract from Calorific Rays?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What society did Herschel present his work on the red spectrum?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are many styles of mandolin, but four are common, the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the carved-top mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin. The round-back has a deep bottom, constructed of strips of wood, glued together into a bowl. The carved-top or arch-top mandolin has a much shallower, arched back, and an arched top—both carved out of wood. The flat-backed mandolin uses thin sheets of wood for the body, braced on the inside for strength in a similar manner to a guitar. Each style of instrument has its own sound quality and is associated with particular forms of music. Neapolitan mandolins feature prominently in European classical music and traditional music. Carved-top instruments are common in American folk music and bluegrass music. Flat-backed instruments are commonly used in Irish, British and Brazilian folk music. Some modern Brazilian instruments feature an extra fifth course tuned a fifth lower than the standard fourth course.
Question: What are the four common styles of mandolins?
Answer: the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the carved-top mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin.
Question: What is the round-back mandolin made of?
Answer: strips of wood, glued together into a bowl
Question: Which style of mandolin has a shallower, arched back, and arched top?
Answer: round-back
Question: Which form of music do Neapolitan mandolins feature?
Answer: European classical music and traditional music.
Question: Which mandolin is commin in American Folk music and blue grass music?
Answer: Carved-top instruments
Question: What type of mandolin has a deep bottom and an arched top?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of mandolin has an arched back and is braced on the side?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of American music are the Neapolitan mandolins featured in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of European music are the Carved-top instruments featured in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the four uncommon styles of mandolins?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the round-front mandolin made of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which style of mandolin has a deeper, arched back, and arched top?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which form of music do Neapolitan mandolins not feature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which mandolin is uncommon in American Folk music and blue grass music?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: "Near East" remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles, but a variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates: "the Nearer East," reverting to the classical and then more scholarly distinction of "nearer" and "farther." They undoubtedly saw a need to separate the Biblical lands from the terrain of the Ottoman Empire. The Christians saw the country as the land of the Old and New Testaments, where Christianity had developed. The scholars in the field of studies that eventually became Biblical archaeology attempted to define it on the basis of archaeology.
Question: What remained popular in diplomatic, trade and journalistic circles?
Answer: "Near East"
Question: What variation soon developed among the scholars and the men of the cloth and their associates?
Answer: "the Nearer East,"
Question: There was a need to separate what from the terrain of the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: the Biblical lands
Question: What did the Christians see the country as?
Answer: the land of the Old and New Testaments
Question: How did the scholars attempt their definition?
Answer: on the basis of archaeology |
Context: Contrary to popular belief, if placed properly and prepared-for, drums could be effectively used and heard on even the earliest jazz and military band recordings. The loudest instruments such as the drums and trumpets were positioned the farthest away from the collecting horn. Lillian Hardin Armstrong, a member of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, which recorded at Gennett Records in 1923, remembered that at first Oliver and his young second trumpet, Louis Armstrong, stood next to each other and Oliver's horn could not be heard. "They put Louis about fifteen feet over in the corner, looking all sad." For fading instrumental parts in and out while recording, some performers were placed on a moveable platform, which could draw the performer(s) nearer or further away as required.[citation needed]
Question: What tool was used to improve sound quality in early recordings for special effects?
Answer: moveable platform
Question: Where were loud instruments best placed for good sound quality?
Answer: farthest away from the collecting horn
Question: How far away has a trumpeter been known to stand?
Answer: fifteen feet
Question: Were drums heard on early jazz recordings?
Answer: drums could be effectively used
Question: What was the item called that recorded the sounds?
Answer: collecting horn |
Context: Niels Bohr introduced the first quantized model of the atom in 1913, in an attempt to overcome a major shortcoming of Rutherford's classical model. In classical electrodynamics, a charge moving in a circle should radiate electromagnetic radiation. If that charge were to be an electron orbiting a nucleus, the radiation would cause it to lose energy and spiral down into the nucleus. Bohr solved this paradox with explicit reference to Planck's work: an electron in a Bohr atom could only have certain defined energies En
Question: Who introduced the first quantized model of the atom?
Answer: Niels Bohr
Question: When was the first quantized model of the atom introduced?
Answer: 1913
Question: Why was the first quantized model of the atom introduced?
Answer: to overcome a major shortcoming of Rutherford's classical model
Question: In classical electrodynamics, a charge moving in a circle should do what?
Answer: radiate electromagnetic radiation
Question: Who modeled the atom in 1913, challenging Rutherford's model?
Answer: Niels Bohr
Question: What was predicted to happen to a nucleus-orbiting electron under Rutherford's model?
Answer: the radiation would cause it to lose energy and spiral down into the nucleus
Question: What statement did Bohr make about the electron of an atom, citing Planck's work?
Answer: an electron in a Bohr atom could only have certain defined energies
Question: Who introduced the last quantized model of the atom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the last quantized model of the molecule introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was the first quantized model of the atom destroyed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who modeled the molecule in 1918, challenging Rutherford's model?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What statement did Bohr make about the nucleus of an atom?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Monopole antennas consist of a single radiating element such as a metal rod, often mounted over a conducting surface, a ground plane. One side of the feedline from the receiver or transmitter is connected to the rod, and the other side to the ground plane, which may be the Earth. The most common form is the quarter-wave monopole which is one-quarter of a wavelength long and has a gain of 5.12 dBi when mounted over a ground plane. Monopoles have an omnidirectional radiation pattern, so they are used for broad coverage of an area, and have vertical polarization. The ground waves used for broadcasting at low frequencies must be vertically polarized, so large vertical monopole antennas are used for broadcasting in the MF, LF, and VLF bands. Small monopoles are used as nondirectional antennas on portable radios in the HF, VHF, and UHF bands.
Question: Monopole antennas consist of what element?
Answer: metal rod
Question: What the most common form?
Answer: quarter-wave monopole
Question: What are small monopoles used as?
Answer: nondirectional antennas
Question: What has vertical polarization?
Answer: Monopoles |
Context: The northern section of the Divide, where the mountains give way rapidly to prairie, is part of the Rocky Mountain Front. The front is most pronounced in the Lewis Range, located primarily in Glacier National Park. Due to the configuration of mountain ranges in Glacier National Park, the Northern Divide (which begins in Alaska's Seward Peninsula) crosses this region and turns east in Montana at Triple Divide Peak. It causes the Waterton River, Belly, and Saint Mary rivers to flow north into Alberta, Canada. There they join the Saskatchewan River, which ultimately empties into Hudson Bay.
Question: Which direction do the rivers flow near the Triple Divide Peak?
Answer: north
Question: Where does the Saskatchewan River empty into?
Answer: Hudson Bay. |
Context: Finally, an introduced species may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces. In Belgium, Prunus spinosa from Eastern Europe leafs much sooner than its West European counterparts, disrupting the feeding habits of the Thecla betulae butterfly (which feeds on the leaves). Introducing new species often leaves endemic and other local species unable to compete with the exotic species and unable to survive. The exotic organisms may be predators, parasites, or may simply outcompete indigenous species for nutrients, water and light.
Question: What may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it replaces?
Answer: an introduced species
Question: Where does the Prunus spinosa leaf much sooner?
Answer: In Belgium
Question: What animal can its feeding habits disturbed by the Prunus spinosa?
Answer: leaves endemic and other local species unable to compete with the exotic species and unable to survive
Question: What species struggle to with the introduction of new species?
Answer: endemic and other local species
Question: What types of new species can be introduced?
Answer: The exotic organisms may be predators, parasites
Question: What may unintentionally injure a species that depends on the species it feeds on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does the Prunus spinosa leaf without sunlight?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What disrupts the feeding habits of exotic organisms?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does introducing new spinosas often do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of new nutrients can be introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Unlike many religions, Buddhism has no single central text that is universally referred to by all traditions. However, some scholars have referred to the Vinaya Pitaka and the first four Nikayas of the Sutta Pitaka as the common core of all Buddhist traditions.[page needed] This could be considered misleading, as Mahāyāna considers these merely a preliminary, and not a core, teaching. The Tibetan Buddhists have not even translated most of the āgamas (though theoretically they recognize them) and they play no part in the religious life of either clergy or laity in China and Japan. Other scholars say there is no universally accepted common core. The size and complexity of the Buddhist canons have been seen by some (including Buddhist social reformer Babasaheb Ambedkar) as presenting barriers to the wider understanding of Buddhist philosophy.
Question: Unlike most religions, Buddhism has no single central what?
Answer: text
Question: Tibetan Buddhists have not even translated most of the what?
Answer: āgamas
Question: Some scholars say there is no universally accepted common what?
Answer: core
Question: What has been seen by some as a hinderance to understanding Buddhist philosophy?
Answer: size and complexity of the Buddhist canons |
Context: The BBC Television department headed by Jana Bennett was absorbed into a new, much larger group; BBC Vision, in late 2006. The new group was part of larger restructuring within the BBC with the onset of new media outlets and technology.
Question: Who was the leader of BBC Television in 2006?
Answer: Jana Bennett
Question: What did BBC Television get absorbed into?
Answer: BBC Vision
Question: What caused the move of BBC Television into the BBC VIsion unit?
Answer: the onset of new media outlets and technology
Question: BBC Vision was absorbed into what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was Jana Bennett the leader of BBC Vision?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused the moved of BBC Vision into the BBC Television unit?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency approves drugs for use, though the evaluation is done by the European Medicines Agency, an agency of the European Union based in London. Normally an approval in the UK and other European countries comes later than one in the USA. Then it is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), for England and Wales, who decides if and how the National Health Service (NHS) will allow (in the sense of paying for) their use. The British National Formulary is the core guide for pharmacists and clinicians.
Question: Who is the core guide?
Answer: The British National Formulary
Question: Who is responsible for approving drugs in the United Kingdom?
Answer: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Question: After an approval in the United States, when does an approval occur in the United Kingdom and other countries?
Answer: comes later
Question: Who decides how NHS will allow drugs?
Answer: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
Question: Who does the evaluations for drugs in the United Kingdom?
Answer: European Medicines Agency
Question: What UK firm approves pharmaceutical drugs?
Answer: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
Question: What UK organization evaluates drugs?
Answer: European Medicines Agency
Question: What firm in England and Wales decides if the NHS allows drugs?
Answer: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Question: What is the name of the core guide for pharmacists and clinicians?
Answer: British National Formulary
Question: Who is the core clinician?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is responsible for approving drugs in the NHS?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After an approval in the UK, when does an approval occur in the NHS and other countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who decides how the USA will allow drugs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does the evaluations for drugs in the United States?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: They can also be armed with non-lethal (more accurately known as "less than lethal" or "less-lethal") weaponry, particularly for riot control. Non-lethal weapons include batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons. Police officers often carry handcuffs to restrain suspects. The use of firearms or deadly force is typically a last resort only to be used when necessary to save human life, although some jurisdictions (such as Brazil) allow its use against fleeing felons and escaped convicts. A "shoot-to-kill" policy was recently introduced in South Africa, which allows police to use deadly force against any person who poses a significant threat to them or civilians. With the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, president Jacob Zuma states that South Africa needs to handle crime differently from other countries.
Question: What should non-lethal weapons properly be called?
Answer: "less than lethal" or "less-lethal"
Question: What are common less-lethal weapons?
Answer: batons, tear gas, riot control agents, rubber bullets, riot shields, water cannons and electroshock weapons
Question: What is supposed to be the last resort for police?
Answer: The use of firearms or deadly force
Question: What is South Africa's "shoot-to-kill" policy?
Answer: allows police to use deadly force against any person who poses a significant threat to them or civilians
Question: Where can police shoot fleeing convicts?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What should lethal weapons properly be called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are uncommon less-lethal weapons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is supposed to be the first resort for police?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is North Africa's "shoot-to-kill" policy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can't police shoot fleeing convicts?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The second largest higher-education institution is the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), which includes among many other relevant centers the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav), where varied high-level scientific and technological research is done. Other major higher-education institutions in the city include the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (3 campuses), the Universidad Panamericana (UP), the Universidad La Salle, the Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM), the Universidad Anáhuac, Simon Bolivar University (USB), the Alliant International University, the Universidad Iberoamericana, El Colegio de México (Colmex), Escuela Libre de Derecho and the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, (CIDE). In addition, the prestigious University of California maintains a campus known as "Casa de California" in the city. The Universidad Tecnológica de México is also in Mexico City.
Question: What is the second biggest education center in Mexico City?
Answer: National Polytechnic Institute
Question: What American University has a big campus in Mexico City?
Answer: University of California
Question: What does the University of California call its campus in Mexico City?
Answer: Casa de California
Question: Where is the Universidad Tecnologica located?
Answer: Mexico City |
Context: The Swazi economy is very closely linked to the economy of South Africa, from which it receives over 90% of its imports and to which it sends about 70% of its exports. Swaziland's other key trading partners are the United States and the EU, from whom the country has received trade preferences for apparel exports (under the African Growth and Opportunity Act – AGOA – to the US) and for sugar (to the EU). Under these agreements, both apparel and sugar exports did well, with rapid growth and a strong inflow of foreign direct investment. Textile exports grew by over 200% between 2000 and 2005 and sugar exports increasing by more than 50% over the same period.
Question: Which nations economy is Swaziland most linked with?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What quantity of imports does Swaziland get from South Africa?
Answer: over 90%
Question: What percentage of exported goods from Swaziland end up in South Africa?
Answer: 70%
Question: What happened to Swazi exports of textiles from 2000 to 2005?
Answer: exports grew by over 200%
Question: Between 2000 and 2005 what percentage did Swazi sugar exports increase by?
Answer: more than 50%
Question: Where does South africa recieve 90% of its imorts from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who sends Swaziland 70% of their exports?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What act gives the US and EU trade preference with Swaziland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what period did Swazi sugar imports increase 200%?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Up to the 1990s, the Federal District was the most populous federal entity in Mexico, but since then its population has remained stable at around 8.7 million. The growth of the city has extended beyond the limits of the Federal District to 59 municipalities of the state of Mexico and 1 in the state of Hidalgo. With a population of approximately 19.8 million inhabitants (2008), it is one of the most populous conurbations in the world. Nonetheless, the annual rate of growth of the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City is much lower than that of other large urban agglomerations in Mexico, a phenomenon most likely attributable to the environmental policy of decentralization. The net migration rate of the Federal District from 1995 to 2000 was negative.
Question: How many people live in the Federal District?
Answer: 8.7 million
Question: What is the overall population of Mexico City in 2008?
Answer: 19.8 million
Question: What was the migration rate of Mexico City from 95-2000?
Answer: negative
Question: Compared to other cities in Mexico, Mexico City's growth is?
Answer: much lower |
Context: So that the maximum number of colors can be accurately reproduced on your computer screen, each color has been given a code number, or sRGB, which tells your computer the intensity of the red, green and blue components of that color. The intensity of each component is measured on a scale of zero to 255, which means the complete list includes 16,777,216 distinct colors and shades. The sRGB number of pure red, for example, is 255, 00, 00, which means the red component is at its maximum intensity, and there is no green or blue. The sRGB number for crimson is 220, 20, 60, which means that the red is slightly less intense and therefore darker, there is some green, which leans it toward orange; and there is a larger amount of blue,which makes it slightly blue-violet.
Question: Over what numerical scale is color measured on a computer screen?
Answer: zero to 255,
Question: What is the total number of possible sRGB colors?
Answer: 16,777,216
Question: What is the number used to indicate pure red in sRGB?
Answer: 255, 00, 00
Question: Crimson is identified by what sRGB number?
Answer: 220, 20, 60
Question: What is an sRBG?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is measure on a scale from 0 to 525?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are there 16,777,126 of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color has an sRGB number of 250, 05, 00?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color has an sRBG number of 220, 20, 60?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The term "retro-metal" has been applied to such bands as Texas based The Sword, California's High on Fire, Sweden's Witchcraft and Australia's Wolfmother. Wolfmother's self-titled 2005 debut album combined elements of the sounds of Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. Fellow Australians Airbourne's début album Runnin' Wild (2007) followed in the hard riffing tradition of AC/DC. England's The Darkness' Permission to Land (2003), described as an "eerily realistic simulation of '80s metal and '70s glam", topped the UK charts, going quintuple platinum. The follow-up, One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back (2005), reached number 11, before the band broke up in 2006. Los Angeles band Steel Panther managed to gain a following by sending up 80s glam metal. A more serious attempt to revive glam metal was made by bands of the sleaze metal movement in Sweden, including Vains of Jenna, Hardcore Superstar and Crashdïet.
Question: When did the band The Darkness break up?
Answer: 2006
Question: The Sword, High on Fire, Witchcraft and Wolfmother are all examples of what hard rock sub-genre?
Answer: retro-metal
Question: What is the title of Airbourne's debut lp?
Answer: Runnin' Wild
Question: Glam metal band Steel Panther is from what city?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: What are some Swedish sleaze metal revivalist bands?
Answer: Vains of Jenna, Hardcore Superstar and Crashdïet
Question: What type of hard rock music is based in Texas and California?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which band that debut in 2005 sang songs written by Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What album did AC/DC produce in 2007 that displayed their hard riffing tradition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What album from 2003 was described as a simulation of 70s metal and 80s glam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country was a serious attempt to revive punk rock attempted?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The city council of the city of Bern decided against having twinned cities except for a temporary (during the UEFA Euro 2008) cooperation with the Austrian city Salzburg
Question: What did the city decide again?
Answer: having twinned cities
Question: When did they have a temporary twinned city?
Answer: during the UEFA Euro 2008
Question: What was the twinning city with Bern in 2008?
Answer: Salzburg
Question: What country is Salzburg in?
Answer: Austrian |
Context: Polemics about humanism have sometimes assumed paradoxical twists and turns. Early 20th century critics such as Ezra Pound, T. E. Hulme, and T. S. Eliot considered humanism to be sentimental "slop" (Hulme)[citation needed] or "an old bitch gone in the teeth" (Pound) and wanted to go back to a more manly, authoritarian society such as (they believed) existed in the Middle Ages. Postmodern critics who are self-described anti-humanists, such as Jean-François Lyotard and Michel Foucault, have asserted that humanism posits an overarching and excessively abstract notion of humanity or universal human nature, which can then be used as a pretext for imperialism and domination of those deemed somehow less than human. "Humanism fabricates the human as much as it fabricates the nonhuman animal", suggests Timothy Laurie, turning the human into what he calls "a placeholder for a range of attributes that have been considered most virtuous among humans (e.g. rationality, altruism), rather than most commonplace (e.g. hunger, anger)". Nevertheless, philosopher Kate Soper notes that by faulting humanism for falling short of its own benevolent ideals, anti-humanism thus frequently "secretes a humanist rhetoric".
Question: Who was one early naysayer of Humanism?
Answer: Ezra Pound
Question: What was the main reason they disagreed with the beliefs?
Answer: sentimental
Question: Who stated Humanism creates of people placeholder?
Answer: Timothy Laurie
Question: Who stated that this argument was in fact support of Humanism?
Answer: Kate Soper
Question: Who was the last naysayer of Humanism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the main reason they agreed with the beliefs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was against Humanism the most?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who had no interest in discussing Humanism?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The uses of copper in art were not limited to currency: it was used by Renaissance sculptors, in photographic technology known as the daguerreotype, and the Statue of Liberty. Copper plating and copper sheathing for ships' hulls was widespread; the ships of Christopher Columbus were among the earliest to have this feature. The Norddeutsche Affinerie in Hamburg was the first modern electroplating plant starting its production in 1876. The German scientist Gottfried Osann invented powder metallurgy in 1830 while determining the metal's atomic mass; around then it was discovered that the amount and type of alloying element (e.g., tin) to copper would affect bell tones. Flash smelting was developed by Outokumpu in Finland and first applied at Harjavalta in 1949; the energy-efficient process accounts for 50% of the world's primary copper production.
Question: Who used copper to produce art?
Answer: Renaissance sculptors
Question: What is the photographic technology that uses copper called?
Answer: daguerreotype
Question: What famous NY city landmark is made from copper?
Answer: Statue of Liberty
Question: What famous explorers ships was one of the first to have it's hulls made of copper?
Answer: Christopher Columbus
Question: When did The Norddeutsche Affinerie electroplating plant first begin production?
Answer: 1830
Question: Who used copper to produce garbage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the magical technology that uses copper called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What famous Arizona city landmark is made from copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What unknown explorers ships was one of the first to have it's hulls made of copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did The Norddeutsche Affinerie nuclear plant first begin production?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Greenhouses convert solar light to heat, enabling year-round production and the growth (in enclosed environments) of specialty crops and other plants not naturally suited to the local climate. Primitive greenhouses were first used during Roman times to produce cucumbers year-round for the Roman emperor Tiberius. The first modern greenhouses were built in Europe in the 16th century to keep exotic plants brought back from explorations abroad. Greenhouses remain an important part of horticulture today, and plastic transparent materials have also been used to similar effect in polytunnels and row covers.
Question: When were the first greenhouses used?
Answer: Roman times
Question: In what century were the first modern greenhouses constructed?
Answer: the 16th
Question: What do greenhouses do with solar energy?
Answer: convert solar light to heat
Question: What is one purpose of a greenhouse?
Answer: enabling year-round production and the growth (in enclosed environments) of specialty crops
Question: What was one of the first uses of a greenhouse?
Answer: produce cucumbers year-round for the Roman emperor Tiberius
Question: Where were the first modern greenhouses built?
Answer: Europe |
Context: On 27 April 1944 Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Plan for Plymouth to rebuild the bomb-damaged city was published; it called for demolition of the few remaining pre-War buildings in the city centre to make way for their replacement with wide, parallel, modern boulevards aligned east–west linked by a north–south avenue (Armada Way) linking the railway station with the vista of Plymouth Hoe. A peripheral road system connecting the historic Barbican on the east and Union Street to the west determines the principal form of the city centre, even following pedestrianisation of the shopping centre in the late 1980s, and continues to inform the present 'Vision for Plymouth' developed by a team led by Barcelona-based architect David MacKay in 2003 which calls for revivification of the city centre with mixed-use and residential. In suburban areas, post-War prefabs had already begun to appear by 1946, and over 1,000 permanent council houses were built each year from 1951–57 according to the Modernist zoned low-density garden city model advocated by Abercrombie. By 1964 over 20,000 new homes had been built, more than 13,500 of them permanent council homes and 853 built by the Admiralty. Plymouth is home to 28 parks with an average size of 45,638 square metres (491,240 sq ft). Its largest park is Central Park, with other sizeable green spaces including Victoria Park, Freedom Fields Park, Alexandra Park, Devonport Park and the Hoe.
Question: On what date was the publication of the Plan for Plymouth?
Answer: 27 April 1944
Question: Who wrote the Plan for Plymouth?
Answer: Sir Patrick Abercrombie
Question: What street was intended to connect Plymouth Hoe to the railroad station?
Answer: Armada Way
Question: Who headed the team that created the 'Vision for Plymouth'?
Answer: David MacKay
Question: How many parks exist in Plymouth?
Answer: 28 |
Context: Active solar techniques use photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, solar thermal collectors, pumps, and fans to convert sunlight into useful outputs. Passive solar techniques include selecting materials with favorable thermal properties, designing spaces that naturally circulate air, and referencing the position of a building to the Sun. Active solar technologies increase the supply of energy and are considered supply side technologies, while passive solar technologies reduce the need for alternate resources and are generally considered demand side technologies.
Question: Are supply side solar technologies generally active or passive?
Answer: Active
Question: Are demand side solar technologies generally active or passive?
Answer: Passive
Question: What is an active solar technique used to generate energy?
Answer: designing spaces that naturally circulate air
Question: What does an active solar technique do?
Answer: increase the supply of energy
Question: What does a passive solar technique do?
Answer: reduce the need for alternate resources |
Context: Snyder and Strömberg found "that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. ... Congressmen who are less covered by the local press work less for their constituencies: they are less likely to stand witness before congressional hearings ... . Federal spending is lower in areas where there is less press coverage of the local members of congress." Schulhofer-Wohl and Garrido found that the year after the Cincinnati Post closed in 2007, "fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the Kentucky suburbs most reliant on the Post, incumbents became more likely to win reelection, and voter turnout and campaign spending fell.
Question: Who discovered the correlation that congressman who have less local press coverage work less for the people who elected them?
Answer: Snyder and Strömberg
Question: What newspaper stopped publishing in 2007?
Answer: Cincinnati Post
Question: Who was most likely to get reelected after the Post shut down?
Answer: incumbents
Question: Campaign spending and what fell after the Post stopped publishing?
Answer: voter turnout |
Context: Traditional sports include Swiss wrestling or "Schwingen". It is an old tradition from the rural central cantons and considered the national sport by some. Hornussen is another indigenous Swiss sport, which is like a cross between baseball and golf. Steinstossen is the Swiss variant of stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone. Practiced only among the alpine population since prehistoric times, it is recorded to have taken place in Basel in the 13th century. It is also central to the Unspunnenfest, first held in 1805, with its symbol the 83.5 kg stone named Unspunnenstein.
Question: Which popular Swiss sport is a cross between baseball and golf?
Answer: Hornussen
Question: Which old, traditional sport is considered to be the national sport by some Swiss?
Answer: Swiss wrestling or "Schwingen"
Question: What is thrown in the Swiss competition Steinstossen?
Answer: a heavy stone
Question: Which Swiss population is the only one to have practiced Steinstossen since prehistoric times?
Answer: alpine
Question: What was the name of the 83.5 kg stone that symbolized the Unspunnenfest, first held in 1805?
Answer: Unspunnenstein |
Context: Cyprus was placed under British administration based on Cyprus Convention in 1878 and formally annexed by Britain in 1914. Even though Turkish Cypriots made up only 18% of the population, the partition of Cyprus and creation of a Turkish state in the north became a policy of Turkish Cypriot leaders and Turkey in the 1950s. Turkish leaders for a period advocated the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as Cyprus was considered an "extension of Anatolia" by them; while since the 19th century, the majority Greek Cypriot population and its Orthodox church had been pursuing union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. Following nationalist violence in the 1950s, Cyprus was granted independence in 1960. In 1963, the 11-year intercommunal violence between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots started, which displaced more than 25,000 Turkish Cypriots and brought the end of Turkish Cypriot representation in the republic. On 15 July 1974, a coup d'état was staged by Greek Cypriot nationalists and elements of the Greek military junta in an attempt at enosis, the incorporation of Cyprus into Greece. This action precipitated the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which led to the capture of the present-day territory of Northern Cyprus the following month, after a ceasefire collapsed, and the displacement of over 150,000 Greek Cypriots and 50,000 Turkish Cypriots. A separate Turkish Cypriot state in the north was established in 1983. These events and the resulting political situation are matters of a continuing dispute.
Question: When was Cyprus placed under British administration?
Answer: 1878
Question: What year was Cyprus annexed by Britain?
Answer: 1914
Question: What year was Cyprus granted independence?
Answer: 1960
Question: What year did the intercommunal violence between Greek and Cypriots occur?
Answer: 1963
Question: How many Turkish Cypriots were displaced due to the 11 year violence in 1963?
Answer: 25,000 |
Context: The people of Somerset are mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for AD 845, in the inflected form "Sumursætum", and the county is recorded in the entry for 1015 using the same name. The archaic name Somersetshire was mentioned in the Chronicle's entry for 878. Although "Somersetshire" was in common use as an alternative name for the county, it went out of fashion in the late 19th century, and is no longer used possibly due to the adoption of "Somerset" as the county's official name after the establishment of the county council in 1889. As with other counties not ending in "shire," the suffix was superfluous, as there was no need to differentiate between the county and a town within it.
Question: What are the people of somerset mentioned in
Answer: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for AD 845
Question: What archaic name was mentioned in 878
Answer: The archaic name Somersetshire was mentioned in the Chronicle's entry for 878
Question: When did the county stop using Somersetshire
Answer: it went out of fashion in the late 19th century
Question: What was superfluous
Answer: As with other counties not ending in "shire," the suffix was superfluous, as there was no need to differentiate between the county and a town
Question: People first settled in Somerset in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the last year the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did people stop using the term "Sumursaetum" for this county?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did people first start referring to it as Somersetshire?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By the early 1970s, softer songs by artists like The Carpenters, Anne Murray, John Denver, Barry Manilow, and even Streisand, began to be played more often on "Top 40" radio and others were added to the mix on many AC stations. Also, some of these stations even played softer songs by Elvis Presley, Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, and other rock-based artists.
Question: Along with Linda Ronstadt, Elton John, Rod Stewart and Elvis Presley, what rock musician sometimes had songs featured on adult contemporary radio?
Answer: Billy Joel
Question: During what period were artists like Anne Murray and Barbra Streisand featured on Top 40 radio?
Answer: the early 1970s |
Context: Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all phenomena, including mental phenomena and consciousness, are identical with material interactions.
Question: What is materialism?
Answer: a form of philosophical monism
Question: In nature, this is an essential substance?
Answer: matter
Question: What is not a fundamental substance in nature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Mental phenomena and what else are not identical with material interactions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the definition of philosophical monism?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the U.S., the music was being developed to create a more sophisticated sound,[citation needed] moving beyond just drum loops and short samples. In Chicago, Marshall Jefferson had formed the house group Ten City Byron Burke, Byron Stingily & Herb Lawson(from "intensity"). New York–based performers such as Mateo & Matos and Blaze had slickly produced disco house tracks. In Detroit a proto-techno music sound began to emerge with the recordings of Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson.
Question: what group did Marshall Jefferson form?
Answer: Ten City Byron Burke, Byron Stingily & Herb Lawson(from "intensity")
Question: what sound emerged in Detroit with the recordings of juan atkins and derrick may?
Answer: proto-techno music sound
Question: where were mateo & matos based?
Answer: New York
Question: where was marshall jefferson based?
Answer: Chicago
Question: what sound did US house music move beyond in the late 80s?
Answer: drum loops and short samples
Question: What group did Devin Saunderson form?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sound emerged in Detroit with the recordings of Juan May and Derrick Atkins?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were Mateo & Saunderson based?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Marshall Saunderson based?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sound did US house music move beyond in the late 70s?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In diffuse-porous woods, as has been stated, the vessels or pores are even-sized, so that the water conducting capability is scattered throughout the ring instead of collected in the earlywood. The effect of rate of growth is, therefore, not the same as in the ring-porous woods, approaching more nearly the conditions in the conifers. In general it may be stated that such woods of medium growth afford stronger material than when very rapidly or very slowly grown. In many uses of wood, total strength is not the main consideration. If ease of working is prized, wood should be chosen with regard to its uniformity of texture and straightness of grain, which will in most cases occur when there is little contrast between the latewood of one season's growth and the earlywood of the next.
Question: What kind of wood has all similarly sized vessels?
Answer: diffuse-porous
Question: What rate of growth in a tree will make the wood from it stronger than trees that grow very slowly or very quickly?
Answer: medium
Question: The capability of diffuse-porous woods to carry what substance is spread out in the growth ring?
Answer: water
Question: What division of trees are diffuse-porous woods more similar in growth rate to than ring-porous woods?
Answer: conifers
Question: Does uniformity of the texture and grain of wood usually result from much or little contrast between earlywood and latewood?
Answer: little |
Context: In April 1979, young students protested against Bokassa's decree that all school attendees would need to buy uniforms from a company owned by one of his wives. The government violently suppressed the protests, killing 100 children and teenagers. Bokassa himself may have been personally involved in some of the killings. In September 1979, France overthrew Bokassa and "restored" Dacko to power (subsequently restoring the name of the country to the Central African Republic). Dacko, in turn, was again overthrown in a coup by General André Kolingba on 1 September 1981.
Question: What caused a violent uprising?
Answer: young students protested against Bokassa's decree
Question: How many were killed in the April 1979 protests?
Answer: 100 children and teenagers
Question: Who overthrew Bokassa after this incident?
Answer: France
Question: Who did France restore into power?
Answer: Dacko
Question: Who eventually overthrew Dacko?
Answer: General André Kolingba
Question: Who did General Andre protest against in April 1979?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were French students supposed to buy on Dacko's decree?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many childred and teens died due to France overthrowing Bokassa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Dacko overthrown by Bokassa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was restored to power by Bokassa in September 1979?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After recovering surprisingly fast from the sack of Rome, the Romans immediately resumed their expansion within Italy. The First Samnite War from 343 BC to 341 BC was relatively short: the Romans beat the Samnites in two battles, but were forced to withdraw before they could pursue the conflict further due to the revolt of several of their Latin allies in the Latin War. Rome beat the Latins in the Battle of Vesuvius and again in the Battle of Trifanum, after which the Latin cities were obliged to submit to Roman rule.
Question: What country did the Romans continue to expand to after Rome was sacked?
Answer: Italy
Question: How many battles were conducted by Rome before they were forced to flee in The First Samnite War?
Answer: two battles
Question: What caused the Romans early withdrawl in The First Samnite War?
Answer: revolt of several of their Latin allies
Question: When did The First Samnite War end?
Answer: 341 BC
Question: Who did Rome claim victory against in The Battle of Vesuvius?
Answer: Latins |
Context: In Australia, nonprofit organisations include trade unions, charitable entities, co-operatives, universities and hospitals, mutual societies, grass-root and support groups, political parties, religious groups, incorporated associations, not-for-profit companies, trusts and more. Furthermore, they operate across a multitude of domains and industries, from health, employment, disability and other human services to local sporting clubs, credit unions and research institutes. A nonprofit organisation in Australia can choose from a number of legal forms depending on the needs and activities of the organisation: co-operative, company limited by guarantee, unincorporated association, incorporated association (by the Associations Incorporation Act 1985) or incorporated association or council (by the Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976). From an academic perspective, social enterprise is for the most part considered a sub-set of the nonprofit sector as typically they too are concerned with a purpose relating to a public good, however these are not bound to adhere to a nonprofit legal structure and many incorporate and operate as for-profit entities.
Question: What is the biggest concern of non-profits in Australia?
Answer: a purpose relating to a public good
Question: When was the Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act adopted?
Answer: 1976
Question: When was the Associations Incorporation Act adopted?
Answer: 1985
Question: What does the Associations Incorporation Act cover?
Answer: incorporated association
Question: Who covers incorporated associations or councils?
Answer: Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act
Question: What are the Commonwealth Aboriginal Councils most concerned with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are health services not bound to since 1976?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Commonwealth Aboriginal Council formed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can the employment industry in Australia choose from depending on their needs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are religious groups considered by the Aboriginal Council?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Von Neumann is credited with the equilibrium strategy of mutual assured destruction, providing the deliberately humorous acronym, MAD. (Other humorous acronyms coined by von Neumann include his computer, the Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer—or MANIAC). He also "moved heaven and earth" to bring MAD about. His goal was to quickly develop ICBMs and the compact hydrogen bombs that they could deliver to the USSR, and he knew the Soviets were doing similar work because the CIA interviewed German rocket scientists who were allowed to return to Germany, and von Neumann had planted a dozen technical people in the CIA. The Russians believed that bombers would soon be vulnerable, and they shared von Neumann's view that an H-bomb in an ICBM was the ne plus ultra of weapons, and they believed that whoever had superiority in these weapons would take over the world, without necessarily using them. He was afraid of a "missile gap" and took several more steps to achieve his goal of keeping up with the Soviets:
Question: What was MAD?
Answer: mutual assured destruction
Question: What was the goal of MAD?
Answer: quickly develop ICBMs and the compact hydrogen bombs that they could deliver to the USSR
Question: What were Russians opinions of future weaponry?
Answer: Russians believed that bombers would soon be vulnerable, and they shared von Neumann's view that an H-bomb in an ICBM was the ne plus ultra of weapons
Question: What was the concern of a missile gap?
Answer: keeping up with the Soviets |
Context: Typical jungle animals, particularly tigers and leopards, occur sparsely in Myanmar. In upper Myanmar, there are rhinoceros, wild buffalo, wild boars, deer, antelope, and elephants, which are also tamed or bred in captivity for use as work animals, particularly in the lumber industry. Smaller mammals are also numerous, ranging from gibbons and monkeys to flying foxes and tapirs. The abundance of birds is notable with over 800 species, including parrots, peafowl, pheasants, crows, herons, and paddybirds. Among reptile species there are crocodiles, geckos, cobras, Burmese pythons, and turtles. Hundreds of species of freshwater fish are wide-ranging, plentiful and are very important food sources. For a list of protected areas, see List of protected areas of Myanmar.
Question: What industry is supported by animal labor in Burma ?
Answer: the lumber industry
Question: What animals where domesticated in Burma for industry use ?
Answer: elephants, which are also tamed or bred in captivity for use as work animals
Question: What is note worthy about the bird population of Burma ?
Answer: The abundance of birds is notable with over 800 species
Question: What is an important protein source in the Burmese diet?
Answer: Hundreds of species of freshwater fish
Question: Are large jungle cats part of the animal population of Burma ?
Answer: Typical jungle animals, particularly tigers and leopards, occur sparsely in Myanmar |
Context: John grew up to be around 5 ft 5 in (1.68 m) tall, relatively short, with a "powerful, barrel-chested body" and dark red hair; he looked to contemporaries like an inhabitant of Poitou. John enjoyed reading and, unusually for the period, built up a travelling library of books. He enjoyed gambling, in particular at backgammon, and was an enthusiastic hunter, even by medieval standards. He liked music, although not songs. John would become a "connoisseur of jewels", building up a large collection, and became famous for his opulent clothes and also, according to French chroniclers, for his fondness for bad wine. As John grew up, he became known for sometimes being "genial, witty, generous and hospitable"; at other moments, he could be jealous, over-sensitive and prone to fits of rage, "biting and gnawing his fingers" in anger.[nb 3]
Question: How tall was John?
Answer: 5 ft 5 in
Question: What did John build up?
Answer: travelling library of books
Question: Who became a connoisseur of jewels?
Answer: John
Question: What did John do in fits of rage?
Answer: biting and gnawing his fingers |
Context: The third-generation iPod had a weak bass response, as shown in audio tests. The combination of the undersized DC-blocking capacitors and the typical low-impedance of most consumer headphones form a high-pass filter, which attenuates the low-frequency bass output. Similar capacitors were used in the fourth-generation iPods. The problem is reduced when using high-impedance headphones and is completely masked when driving high-impedance (line level) loads, such as an external headphone amplifier. The first-generation iPod Shuffle uses a dual-transistor output stage, rather than a single capacitor-coupled output, and does not exhibit reduced bass response for any load.
Question: What audio deficiency was found in the 3rd gen iPods?
Answer: weak bass response
Question: What kind of headphones could partially mitigate the bass response issues of the 3rd gen iPods?
Answer: high-impedance
Question: What is an example of a device that could entirely mitigate the bass response issues of the 3rd gen iPods?
Answer: external headphone amplifier
Question: What part of audio output was substandard on 3rd generation iPods?
Answer: bass
Question: What component was to blame for the weak bass of the 3rd generation iPod?
Answer: undersized DC-blocking capacitors |
Context: With the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, the Reconstruction Era began. The United States abolished slavery without compensation to slaveholders or reparations to freedmen. A Republican Party coalition of black freedmen, northern carpetbaggers and local scalawags controlled state government for three years. The white conservative Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1870, in part by Ku Klux Klan violence and terrorism at the polls, to suppress black voting. Republicans were elected to the governorship until 1876, when the Red Shirts, a paramilitary organization that arose in 1874 and was allied with the Democratic Party, helped suppress black voting. More than 150 black Americans were murdered in electoral violence in 1876.
Question: What year was the confederacy defeated?
Answer: 1865
Question: What Era began following the defeat of the confederacy?
Answer: Reconstruction Era
Question: The US abolished slavery without giving what to slave owners?
Answer: compensation
Question: When did white Democrats regain control of the state legislature?
Answer: 1870
Question: What did the KKK target with violence and terrorism at the polls?
Answer: black voting |
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