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Context: Initial reactions to the novel were varied. The New Yorker declared it "skilled, unpretentious, and totally ingenious", and The Atlantic Monthly's reviewer rated it as "pleasant, undemanding reading", but found the narrative voice—"a six-year-old girl with the prose style of a well-educated adult"—to be implausible. Time magazine's 1960 review of the book states that it "teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life" and calls Scout Finch "the most appealing child since Carson McCullers' Frankie got left behind at the wedding". The Chicago Sunday Tribune noted the even-handed approach to the narration of the novel's events, writing: "This is in no way a sociological novel. It underlines no cause ... To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel of strong contemporary national significance."
Question: What newspaper wrote that the novel has strong contemporary national significance?
Answer: The Chicago Sunday Tribune |
Context: Losing the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 was a watershed. Japan, a country long regarded by the Chinese as little more than an upstart nation of pirates, annihilated the Qing government's modernized Beiyang Fleet, then deemed to be the strongest naval force in Asia. The Japanese victory occurred a mere three decades after the Meiji Restoration set a feudal Japan on course to emulate the Western nations in their economic and technological achievements. Finally, in December 1894, the Qing government took concrete steps to reform military institutions and to re-train selected units in westernized drills, tactics and weaponry. These units were collectively called the New Army. The most successful of these was the Beiyang Army under the overall supervision and control of a former Huai Army commander, General Yuan Shikai, who used his position to build networks of loyal officers and eventually become President of the Republic of China.
Question: Who beat the Chinese in the First Sino-Japanese War?
Answer: Japan
Question: Which fleet did the Japanese destroy?
Answer: Beiyang Fleet
Question: When did the Qing decide to modernize their military?
Answer: 1894
Question: What was the new modern army called?
Answer: the New Army
Question: Who became the President of the Republic of China?
Answer: General Yuan Shikai |
Context: Bird migration routes have been studied by a variety of techniques including the oldest, marking. Swans have been marked with a nick on the beak since about 1560 in England. Scientific ringing was pioneered by Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen in 1899. Other techniques include radar and satellite tracking.
Question: What is the oldest way to study migration?
Answer: marking
Question: How have swans been marked?
Answer: a nick on the beak
Question: Since when have swans been marked?
Answer: 1560
Question: Who was scientific ringing pioneered by?
Answer: Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen
Question: What are other forms of studying migration?
Answer: radar and satellite tracking |
Context: Tito's notable grandchildren include Aleksandra Broz, a prominent theatre director in Croatia; Svetlana Broz, a cardiologist and writer in Bosnia-Herzegovina; and Josip "Joška" Broz, Edvard Broz and Natali Klasevski, an artisan of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Question: Which of Tito's grandchildren is a theatre director?
Answer: Aleksandra Broz
Question: Which of Tito's grandchildren is a cardiologist and writer?
Answer: Svetlana Broz
Question: Where does Svetlana Broz live?
Answer: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Question: Where does Leksandra Broz live?
Answer: Croatia
Question: Where does Edvard Broz live?
Answer: Bosnia-Herzegovina |
Context: Under the 1995–2004 National Hockey League collective bargaining agreement, teams were limited to nine preseason games. From 1975 to 1991, NHL teams sometimes played exhibition games against teams from the Soviet Union in the Super Series, and in 1978, played against World Hockey Association teams also in preseason training. Like the NFL, the NHL sometimes schedules exhibition games for cities without their own NHL teams, often at a club's minor league affiliate (e.g. Carolina Hurricanes games at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, home of their AHL affiliate; Los Angeles Kings games at Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California, home of their ECHL affiliate; Montreal Canadiens games at Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, which has no pro hockey but used to have an NHL team until 1995; Washington Capitals at 1st Mariner Arena in the Baltimore Hockey Classic; various Western Canada teams at Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon, a potential NHL expansion venue). Since the 2000s, some preseason games have been played in Europe against European teams, as part of the NHL Challenge and NHL Premiere series. In addition to the standard preseason, there also exist prospect tournaments such as the Vancouver Canucks' YoungStars tournament and the Detroit Red Wings' training camp, in which NHL teams' younger prospects face off against each other under their parent club's banner.
Question: When did the NFL limit teams to 9 preseason games?
Answer: 1995–2004
Question: What country's teams did US teams sometimes play exhibition games against in the 1980s?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: In what year did the NHL play against World Hockey Association teams?
Answer: 1978
Question: Where is Time Warner Cable Arena?
Answer: Charlotte
Question: What hockey arena is in Ontario, California?
Answer: Citizens Business Bank Arena
Question: What agreement limits teams to nine postseason games?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what years did AHL teams plate exhibition games against the Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did NHL teams play against in postseason training?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the AHL sometimes schedule exhibition games
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Canadian city got of protein in 1995?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A commutated DC motor has a set of rotating windings wound on an armature mounted on a rotating shaft. The shaft also carries the commutator, a long-lasting rotary electrical switch that periodically reverses the flow of current in the rotor windings as the shaft rotates. Thus, every brushed DC motor has AC flowing through its rotating windings. Current flows through one or more pairs of brushes that bear on the commutator; the brushes connect an external source of electric power to the rotating armature.
Question: What does the communicator do?
Answer: reverses the flow of current in the rotor windings
Question: What type of current is featured in brushed DC motors?
Answer: AC
Question: Where do brushes get their power?
Answer: external
Question: What is the main feature of the shaft in a commutated DC motor?
Answer: rotating
Question: What does the excommunicator do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of current is featured in brushed RC motors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do brushes not get their power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not the main feature of the shaft in a commutated DC motor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is a court under the auspices of the United Nations for the prosecution of offenses committed in Rwanda during the genocide which occurred there during April 1994, commencing on 6 April. The ICTR was created on 8 November 1994 by the Security Council of the United Nations in order to judge those people responsible for the acts of genocide and other serious violations of the international law performed in the territory of Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.
Question: What court was established under the aegis of the United Nations to prosecute genocidal crimes in Rwanda?
Answer: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
Question: The prosecutorial efforts of the ICTR focused on genocidal acts that took place during which time period?
Answer: April 1994
Question: the ICTR was created in November 1995 by which branch of the UN?
Answer: the Security Council of the United Nations
Question: The ICTR was established for the purpose of convicting those responsible for acts of genocide and what other charges?
Answer: serious violations of the international law
Question: The charges of genocide brought up by the ICTR were against what group of people?
Answer: Rwandan citizens
Question: What court was established to prosecute genocidal crimes in the United Nations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During which time period did the prosecuratorial efforts of Rwanda focus on genocidal acts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which branch of the UN created Rwanda in November 1995?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other charges besides genocide was the ITCR convicted of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group of people were the charges of genocide brought up against in April 1994?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Brass instruments in the Renaissance were traditionally played by professionals who were members of Guilds and they included the slide trumpet, the wooden cornet, the valveless trumpet and the sackbut. Stringed instruments included the viol, the harp-like lyre, the hurdy-gurdy, the cittern and the lute. Keyboard instruments with strings included the harpsichord and the virginal. Percussion instruments include the triangle, the Jew's harp, the tambourine, the bells, the rumble-pot, and various kinds of drums. Woodwind instruments included the double reed shawm, the reed pipe, the bagpipe, the transverse flute and the recorder.
Question: Brass instruments were traditionally played by profession guild members during what era?
Answer: the Renaissance
Question: Stringed instruments during the Renaissance included the viol, the lyre, the cittern, the lute and what other instrument?
Answer: the hurdy-gurdy
Question: The virginal is what type of instrument?
Answer: Keyboard instruments with strings
Question: The tambourine, bells and rumble-pot are all what type of instrument?
Answer: Percussion
Question: The reed pipe and recorder are what type of instrument?
Answer: Woodwind |
Context: According to CIA World Factbook, the people of Republic of the Congo are largely a mix of Catholics (33.1%), Awakening Lutherans (22.3%) and other Protestants (19.9%). Followers of Islam make up 1.6%, and this is primarily due to an influx of foreign workers into the urban centers.
Question: What is the most commonly practiced religion in the Congo?
Answer: Catholics
Question: What percentage of Congolese citizens identify as Awakening Lutherans?
Answer: 22.3%
Question: What portion of the Congolese population is Protestant?
Answer: 19.9%
Question: What is the percentage of Muslims living in the Congo?
Answer: 1.6%
Question: Who form the majority of Islamic residents of the Congo?
Answer: foreign workers
Question: What religion is notable due to an influx of foreign workers in the rural areas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Congolese are atheist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the most popular religion in South Africa, according to the CIA World Factbook?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion is not found in the Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the percentage of Protestants in South Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The ratio of Muslims to Christians fluctuated throughout the period of Ottoman domination. In 1777–78, 47,000 Muslims constituted a majority over the island's 37,000 Christians. By 1872, the population of the island had risen to 144,000, comprising 44,000 Muslims and 100,000 Christians. The Muslim population included numerous crypto-Christians, including the Linobambaki, a crypto-Catholic community that arose due to religious persecution of the Catholic community by the Ottoman authorities; this community would assimilate into the Turkish Cypriot community during British rule.
Question: How many Muslims made up the island's population in 1777-78?
Answer: 47,000
Question: How many Christians made up the island's population in 1777-78?
Answer: 37,000
Question: What was the population of the island in 1872?
Answer: 144,000
Question: In 1872 the island contained how many Muslims?
Answer: 44,000
Question: In 1872 the island contained how many Christians?
Answer: 100,000 |
Context: The Dutch language has been known under a variety of names. In Middle Dutch, which was a collection of dialects, dietsc was used in Flanders and Brabant, while diets or duutsc was in use in the Northern Netherlands. It derived from the Old Germanic word theudisk, one of the first names ever used for the non-Romance languages of Western Europe, meaning (pertaining to the language) of the people, that is, the native Germanic language. The term was used as opposed to Latin, the non-native language of writing and the Catholic Church. In the first text in which it is found, dating from 784, it refers to the Germanic dialects of Britain. In the Oaths of Strasbourg (842) it appeared as teudisca to refer to the Germanic (Rhenish Franconian) portion of the oath.
Question: What Old Germanic term was used to describe the non-Romance languages that developed in Europe?
Answer: theudisk
Question: What language was used for writing and by the Catholic Church instead of the language "of the people"?
Answer: Latin
Question: The word "theudisk" was first found in a text from what year?
Answer: 784
Question: What year were the Oaths of Strasbourg written?
Answer: 842
Question: What word was used in the Oaths of Strasbourg for the oath's Germanic section?
Answer: teudisca |
Context: By the start of the 20th century, Germany and the United States challenged Britain's economic lead. Subsequent military and economic tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily upon its empire. The conflict placed enormous strain on the military, financial and manpower resources of Britain. Although the British Empire achieved its largest territorial extent immediately after World War I, Britain was no longer the world's pre-eminent industrial or military power. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in South-East Asia were occupied by Imperial Japan. Despite the final victory of Britain and its allies, the damage to British prestige helped to accelerate the decline of the empire. India, Britain's most valuable and populous possession, achieved independence as part of a larger decolonisation movement in which Britain granted independence to most territories of the Empire. The transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997 marked for many the end of the British Empire. Fourteen overseas territories remain under British sovereignty. After independence, many former British colonies joined the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. The United Kingdom is now one of 16 Commonwealth nations, a grouping known informally as the Commonwealth realms, that share one monarch—Queen Elizabeth II.
Question: Which countries challenged Britain's economic lead by the start of the 20th century?
Answer: Germany and the United States
Question: Which country was Britain's most valuable and populous possession?
Answer: India
Question: When did Britain transfer Hong Kong to China?
Answer: overseas territories remain under British sovereignty
Question: How many overseas territories remain under British sovereignty?
Answer: Fourteen
Question: Who is the Commonwealth's monarch?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth II |
Context: By 1962, their Columbia Record Productions unit was operating four plants around the United States located in Los Angeles; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Pitman, New Jersey, which manufactured records for not only Columbia's own labels, but also for independent record labels.
Question: What 4 areas of the country did Columbia Records have manufacturers in?
Answer: Los Angeles; Terre Haute, Indiana; Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Pitman, New Jersey
Question: Chinese Record Productions was operating four plants by what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which company was operating five plants around the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The four plants were located in California, Iowa, Connecticut, and where?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By 1972, Columbia Record Productions was operating how many plants?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The cantons have a permanent constitutional status and, in comparison with the situation in other countries, a high degree of independence. Under the Federal Constitution, all 26 cantons are equal in status. Each canton has its own constitution, and its own parliament, government and courts. However, there are considerable differences between the individual cantons, most particularly in terms of population and geographical area. Their populations vary between 15,000 (Appenzell Innerrhoden) and 1,253,500 (Zürich), and their area between 37 km2 (14 sq mi) (Basel-Stadt) and 7,105 km2 (2,743 sq mi) (Graubünden). The Cantons comprise a total of 2,485 municipalities. Within Switzerland there are two enclaves: Büsingen belongs to Germany, Campione d'Italia belongs to Italy.
Question: According to the Federal Constitution, how many cantons are equal in status?
Answer: all 26
Question: What are the two major differences between cantons?
Answer: population and geographical area
Question: What is the population of the largest canton?
Answer: 1,253,500 (Zürich)
Question: What is the population of the smallest canton?
Answer: 15,000 (Appenzell Innerrhoden)
Question: How large is the smallest canton?
Answer: 37 km2 (14 sq mi) (Basel-Stadt) |
Context: According to the Somali Economic Forum, the number of internet users in Somalia rose from only 200 in the year 2000 to 106,000 users in 2011, with the percentage continuing to rise. The number of mobile subscribers is similarly expected to rise from 512,682 in 2008 to around 6.1 million by 2015.
Question: What was the numbe rof Somali internet users in the year 2000?
Answer: 200
Question: What was the number of internet users in the year 2011?
Answer: 106,000
Question: Goes the number of internet users in Somalia continue to rise or fall?
Answer: rise
Question: What was the number of mobile subscribers in Somalia in 2008?
Answer: 512,682
Question: What is the estimated number of mobile subscribers in Somalia in 2015?
Answer: 6.1 million
Question: In what year did Somalia first reach 50,000 internet users?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is responsible for the rise in internet users?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Somalia first get the internet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is the number of mobile subscribers rising faster than the number of internet connected users?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many mobile users were there in 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Regular script has been attributed to Zhong Yao, of the Eastern Han to Cao Wei period (c. 151–230 AD), who has been called the "father of regular script". However, some scholars postulate that one person alone could not have developed a new script which was universally adopted, but could only have been a contributor to its gradual formation. The earliest surviving pieces written in regular script are copies of Yao's works, including at least one copied by Wang Xizhi. This new script, which is the dominant modern Chinese script, developed out of a neatly written form of early semi-cursive, with addition of the pause (頓/顿 dùn) technique to end horizontal strokes, plus heavy tails on strokes which are written to the downward-right diagonal. Thus, early regular script emerged from a neat, formal form of semi-cursive, which had itself emerged from neo-clerical (a simplified, convenient form of clerical script). It then matured further in the Eastern Jin dynasty in the hands of the "Sage of Calligraphy", Wang Xizhi, and his son Wang Xianzhi. It was not, however, in widespread use at that time, and most writers continued using neo-clerical, or a somewhat semi-cursive form of it, for daily writing, while the conservative bafen clerical script remained in use on some stelae, alongside some semi-cursive, but primarily neo-clerical.
Question: What had been linked to Zhong Yao?
Answer: Regular script
Question: What was Zhong Yao known for?
Answer: father of regular script
Question: Who was the son of Wang Zishi?
Answer: Wang Xianzhi |
Context: With the defeat of the First Army, Prince Frederick Charles ordered a massed artillery attack against Canrobert's position at St. Privat to prevent the Guards attack from failing too. At 19:00 the 3rd Division of Fransecky's II Corps of the Second Army advanced across Ravine while the XII Corps cleared out the nearby town of Roncourt and with the survivors of the 1st Guards Infantry Division launched a fresh attack against the ruins of St. Privat. At 20:00, the arrival of the Prussian 4th Infantry Division of the II Corps and with the Prussian right flank on Mance Ravine, the line stabilised. By then, the Prussians of the 1st Guards Infantry Division and the XII and II Corps captured St. Privat forcing the decimated French forces to withdraw. With the Prussians exhausted from the fighting, the French were now able to mount a counter-attack. General Bourbaki, however, refused to commit the reserves of the French Old Guard to the battle because, by that time, he considered the overall situation a 'defeat'. By 22:00, firing largely died down across the battlefield for the night. The next morning, the French Army of the Rhine, rather than resume the battle with an attack of its own against the battle-weary German armies, retreated to Metz where they were besieged and forced to surrender two months later.
Question: Which prince ordered an artillery attack against Canrobert?
Answer: Prince Frederick Charles
Question: Which army's defeat compelled Prince Charles to attack?
Answer: defeat of the First Army,
Question: As the Second Army pushed into Ravine, the XII Corps cleared out which adjacent town?
Answer: Roncourt
Question: The surving soldiers of the 1st Guards Infantry Division launched a new attack against what?
Answer: ruins of St. Privat
Question: Which army was forced to retreat to Metz and surrender two months later?
Answer: French Army of the Rhine |
Context: In 1906, the franchise recorded a Major League record 116 wins (tied by the 2001 Seattle Mariners) and posted a modern-era record winning percentage of .763, which still stands today. They appeared in their first World Series the same year, falling to their crosstown rivals, the Chicago White Sox, four games to two. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first Major League team to play in three consecutive Fall Classics, and the first to win it twice. The team has appeared in seven World Series following their 1908 title, most recently in 1945. The Cubs have not won the World Series in 107 years, the longest championship drought of any major North American professional sports team, and are often referred to as the "Lovable Losers" because of this distinction. They are also known as "The North Siders" because Wrigley Field, their home park since 1916, is located in Chicago's North Side Lake View community at 1060 West Addison Street. The Cubs have a major rivalry with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Question: What year did the cubs record a Major League record of 116 wins?
Answer: 1906
Question: What is the winning percentage the Cubs posted that still stands today?
Answer: .763
Question: Who was the first team to play in three consecutive Fall Classics?
Answer: The Cubs
Question: How many world series have the Cubs appeared in?
Answer: seven |
Context: The Government of Guam maintains the island's main health care facility, Guam Memorial Hospital, in Tamuning. U.S. board certified doctors and dentists practice in all specialties. In addition, the U.S. Naval Hospital in Agana Heights serves active-duty members and dependents of the military community. There is one subscriber-based air ambulance located on the island, CareJet, which provides emergency patient transportation across Guam and surrounding islands. A private hospital, the Guam Regional Medical City opened its doors in early 2016.
Question: Who runs Guam's main health care facility?
Answer: The Government of Guam
Question: What is the name of the main health care facility in Guam?
Answer: Guam Memorial Hospital
Question: Which privately owned medical facility opened in 2016?
Answer: Guam Regional Medical City
Question: When did Guam Memorial Hospital open its doors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what city is Guam Regional Medical City?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did CareJet go into business in Guam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what city is CareJet headquartered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of doctors work at the Guam Regional Medical City?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Alps are a source of minerals that have been mined for thousands of years. In the 8th to 6th centuries BC during the Hallstatt culture, Celtic tribes mined copper; later the Romans mined gold for coins in the Bad Gastein area. Erzberg in Styria furnishes high-quality iron ore for the steel industry. Crystals are found throughout much of the Alpine region such as cinnabar, amethyst, and quartz. The cinnabar deposits in Slovenia are a notable source of cinnabar pigments.
Question: What have been mined in the Alps for thousands of years?
Answer: minerals
Question: What did Celtic tribes mine from the Alps?
Answer: copper
Question: What did the Romans mine in the Bad Gastein area?
Answer: gold
Question: What does Erzberd in Styria furnish?
Answer: high-quality iron ore
Question: The cinnabar deposits are found in what area?
Answer: Slovenia |
Context: This was also a period of alternatives to nightclubs, the warehouse party, acid house, rave and outdoor festival scenes of the late 1980s and early 1990s were havens for the latest trends in electronic dance music, especially house and its ever-more hypnotic, synthetic offspring techno and trance, in clubs like the infamous Warsaw Ballroom better known as Warsaw and The Mix where DJs like david padilla (who was the resident DJ for both) and radio. The new sound fed back into mainstream clubs across the country. The scene in SoBe, along with a bustling secondhand market for electronic instruments and turntables, had a strong democratizing effect, offering amateur, "bedroom" DJs the opportunity to become proficient and popular as both music players and producers, regardless of the whims of the professional music and club industries. Some of these notable DJs are John Benetiz (better known as JellyBean Benetiz), Danny Tenaglia, and David Padilla.
Question: Who was the Warsaw Ballroom's house DJ?
Answer: david padilla
Question: By what other name is John Benetiz known?
Answer: JellyBean Benetiz
Question: In what area of Miami is there a notable secondhand turntable market?
Answer: SoBe
Question: Who was the Warsaw Ballroom's house JD?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wasn't the Warsaw Ballroom's house DJ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By what other name is John Benetiz unknown?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what area of Miami isn't there a notable secondhand turntable market?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what area of Miami is there an unnotable secondhand turntable market?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: It is remarkable that the inner heartwood of old trees remains as sound as it usually does, since in many cases it is hundreds, and in a few instances thousands, of years old. Every broken limb or root, or deep wound from fire, insects, or falling timber, may afford an entrance for decay, which, once started, may penetrate to all parts of the trunk. The larvae of many insects bore into the trees and their tunnels remain indefinitely as sources of weakness. Whatever advantages, however, that sapwood may have in this connection are due solely to its relative age and position.
Question: What do broken limbs and deep wounds open a door for in a tree?
Answer: decay
Question: Decay can spread to all of what part of a tree?
Answer: the trunk
Question: What growth stage of insects bore holes into trees?
Answer: larvae
Question: What part of a tree often stays impressively sound even when hundreds or thousands of years old?
Answer: inner heartwood
Question: What evidence do some insect larvae leave in a tree forever?
Answer: tunnels |
Context: After the Holocaust, which had been perpetrated by the Nazi Germany and its allies prior to and during World War II, Lemkin successfully campaigned for the universal acceptance of international laws defining and forbidding genocides. In 1946, the first session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that "affirmed" that genocide was a crime under international law, but did not provide a legal definition of the crime. In 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) which defined the crime of genocide for the first time.
Question: In which war-era country was the Holocaust immortalized?
Answer: Nazi Germany
Question: Following World War II, whose bid was successful in establishing the worldwide acceptance and the nascent legal definition of genocide?
Answer: Lemkin
Question: Which group convened officially for the first time in 1946?
Answer: United Nations General Assembly
Question: While recognizing genocide, what did the UN General Assembly fail to do in its resolution?
Answer: provide a legal definition of the crime
Question: In 1948, what general assembly resolution established genocide as a prosecutable act?
Answer: the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Question: Whose bid was not successful in establishing the worldwide acceptance and the nascent legal definition of genocide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the UN General Assembly do in its resolution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What general assembly resolution never established genocide as a prosecutable act?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which war-era country was the Holocaust mortalized?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which group convened officially for the first time in 1948?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Following World War II, whose bid was successful in the crime of genocide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: While recognizing genocide, what did Nazi Germany fail to do in its resolution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1948, what general assembly resolution established universal acceptance as a prosecutable act?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which war-era country was the CPPCG immortalized?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which group eonvene officially for the first time in 1948?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: General Secretary and President Hu Jintao announced that the disaster response would be rapid. Just 90 minutes after the earthquake, Premier Wen Jiabao, who has an academic background in geomechanics, flew to the earthquake area to oversee the rescue work. Soon afterward, the Ministry of Health said that it had sent ten emergency medical teams to Wenchuan County. On the same day, the Chengdu Military Region Command dispatched 50,000 troops and armed police to help with disaster relief work in Wenchuan County. However, due to the rough terrain and close proximity of the quake's epicenter, the soldiers found it very difficult to get help to the rural regions of the province.
Question: Who flew to the earthquake area 90 minutes after it hit?
Answer: Premier Wen Jiabao
Question: What was Premier Wen Jiabao's background in?
Answer: geomechanics
Question: What did Jiabao oversee in the region?
Answer: the rescue work
Question: How many troops were dispatched by the Chengdu military?
Answer: 50,000
Question: How soon after the earthquake was Premier Wen Jiabao on his way to the area?
Answer: 90 minutes after
Question: How many medical teams were sent to Wenchuan county?
Answer: ten
Question: How many troops were sent to the area for relief work?
Answer: 50,000
Question: Besides the rough terrain, why was it difficult to get to the area?
Answer: proximity of the quake's epicenter |
Context: On the night of 10 August in Washington, American Colonels Dean Rusk and Charles H. Bonesteel III were tasked with dividing the Korean Peninsula into Soviet and U.S. occupation zones and proposed the 38th parallel. This was incorporated into America's General Order No. 1 which responded to the Japanese surrender on 15 August. Explaining the choice of the 38th parallel, Rusk observed, "even though it was further north than could be realistically reached by U.S. forces, in the event of Soviet disagreement...we felt it important to include the capital of Korea in the area of responsibility of American troops". He noted that he was "faced with the scarcity of US forces immediately available, and time and space factors, which would make it difficult to reach very far north, before Soviet troops could enter the area". As Rusk's comments indicate, the Americans doubted whether the Soviet government would agree to this. Stalin, however, maintained his wartime policy of co-operation, and on 16 August the Red Army halted at the 38th parallel for three weeks to await the arrival of U.S. forces in the south.
Question: What job were Colonels Dean Rusk and Charles H. Bonesteel III given?
Answer: dividing the Korean Peninsula
Question: What two areas was Korea divided into?
Answer: Soviet and U.S. occupation zones
Question: What order was the division of Korea included in?
Answer: General Order No. 1
Question: Who had to agree to the US's decision to divide Korea at the 38th parallel?
Answer: Stalin
Question: What was a factor in deciding where to divide the occupation zones?
Answer: the capital of Korea |
Context: Though considerably easier than in machine language, writing long programs in assembly language is often difficult and is also error prone. Therefore, most practical programs are written in more abstract high-level programming languages that are able to express the needs of the programmer more conveniently (and thereby help reduce programmer error). High level languages are usually "compiled" into machine language (or sometimes into assembly language and then into machine language) using another computer program called a compiler. High level languages are less related to the workings of the target computer than assembly language, and more related to the language and structure of the problem(s) to be solved by the final program. It is therefore often possible to use different compilers to translate the same high level language program into the machine language of many different types of computer. This is part of the means by which software like video games may be made available for different computer architectures such as personal computers and various video game consoles.
Question: Assembly language that is translated into machine language is done by what type of computer?
Answer: a compiler |
Context: On October 22, 2007, Apple reported quarterly revenue of US$6.22 billion, of which 30.69% came from Apple notebook sales, 19.22% from desktop sales and 26% from iPod sales. Apple's 2007 year revenue increased to US$24.01 billion with US$3.5 billion in profits. Apple ended the fiscal year 2007 with US$15.4 billion in cash and no debt.
Question: What was Apple's revenue for Q3 2007?
Answer: $6.22 billion
Question: Desktop computers made up how much of Apple's revenue in the third quarter of 2007?
Answer: 19.22%
Question: How much money did Apple make in 2007?
Answer: $3.5 billion
Question: What was the value of Apple's cash assets at the end of 2007?
Answer: $15.4 billion
Question: With the help of strong iPod sales, how much profit did they turn in 2007?
Answer: $3.5 billion |
Context: The British Prime Minister, the Duke of Newcastle, was optimistic that the new series of alliances could prevent war from breaking out in Europe. However, a large French force was assembled at Toulon, and the French opened the campaign against the British by an attack on Minorca in the Mediterranean. A British attempt at relief was foiled at the Battle of Minorca, and the island was captured on 28 June (for which Admiral Byng was court-martialed and executed). War between Britain and France had been formally declared on 18 May nearly two years after fighting had broken out in the Ohio Country.
Question: What was the reason that the British Prime Minister thought that ware in Europe could be prevented?
Answer: the new series of alliances could prevent war from breaking out in Europe
Question: What country initiated conflict?
Answer: the French opened the campaign against the British by an attack on Minorca
Question: What was the result for Admiral Byng?
Answer: Admiral Byng was court-martialed and executed
Question: When was war declared between Britain and France?
Answer: War between Britain and France had been formally declared on 18 May
Question: How did the timing of the declaration of war compare to the conflicts in North America between Britain and France?
Answer: nearly two years after fighting had broken out in the Ohio Country. |
Context: In the high villages people live in homes built according to medieval designs that withstand cold winters. The kitchen is separated from the living area (called the stube, the area of the home heated by a stove), and second-floor bedrooms benefit from rising heat. The typical Swiss chalet originated in the Bernese Oberland. Chalets often face south or downhill, and are built of solid wood, with a steeply gabled roof to allow accumulated snow to slide off easily. Stairs leading to upper levels are sometimes built on the outside, and balconies are sometimes enclosed.
Question: What do people in high villages build their homes according to?
Answer: medieval designs that withstand cold winters
Question: What is the area of the home heated by a stove called?
Answer: the stube
Question: The typic Swiss chalet originated from where?
Answer: the Bernese Oberland
Question: Which direction do Chalets often face?
Answer: south or downhill
Question: What are Chalets built of?
Answer: solid wood |
Context: A wrestler may voluntarily submit by verbally informing the referee (usually used in moves such as the Mexican Surfboard, where all four limbs are incapacitated, making tapping impossible). Also, since Ken Shamrock (a legitimate UFC competitor in its early days) popularized it in 1997, a wrestler can indicate a voluntary submission by "tapping out", that is, tapping a free hand against the mat or against an opponent. Occasionally, a wrestler will reach for a rope (see rope breaks below), only to put their hand back on the mat so they can crawl towards the rope some more; this is not a submission, and the referee decides what their intent is.
Question: How can a wrestler willingly submit?
Answer: verbally informing the referee
Question: What is the move called where all limbs are incapicitated?
Answer: Mexican Surfboard
Question: What can a wrestler do to show a willing submission?
Answer: tapping out |
Context: The Continental Army was created on 14 June 1775 by the Continental Congress as a unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. The army was initially led by men who had served in the British Army or colonial militias and who brought much of British military heritage with them. As the Revolutionary War progressed, French aid, resources, and military thinking influenced the new army. A number of European soldiers came on their own to help, such as Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who taught the army Prussian tactics and organizational skills.
Question: When was the Continental Army created?
Answer: 14 June 1775
Question: Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
Answer: George Washington
Question: From what country did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben come from?
Answer: Europe
Question: What did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben teach the Continental Army?
Answer: Prussian tactics and organizational skills
Question: How was the Continental Army created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the commander of the Continental Army appointed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What European did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben teach Prussian tactics?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Russians evacuated Wallachia and Moldavia in late July 1854. With the evacuation of the Danubian Principalities, the immediate cause of war was withdrawn and the war might have ended at this time.:192 However, war fever among the public in both the UK and France had been whipped up by the press in both countries to the degree that politicians found it untenable to propose ending the war at this point. Indeed, the coalition government of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen fell on 30 January 1855 on a no-confidence vote as Parliament voted to appoint a committee to investigate mismanagement of the war.:311
Question: In what year did the Russians leave Wallachia and Moldavia?
Answer: 1854
Question: War fever from what two countries caused the war to continue on?
Answer: UK and France
Question: Who voted to have a committee investigate the mismanagement during the war?
Answer: Parliament |
Context: In India, the legislation subjects are divided into 3 lists -Union List, State List and Concurrent List . In the normal legislation process, the subjects in Union list can only be legislated upon by central legislative body called Parliament of India, for subjects in state list only respective state legislature can legislate. While for Concurrent subjects, both center and state can make laws. But to implement international treaties, Parliament can legislate on any subject overriding the general division of subject lists.
Question: Into what 3 lists are legislation subjects divided in India?
Answer: Union List, State List and Concurrent List
Question: What type of legislative subjects can both the central legislative body and state legislatures make laws?
Answer: Concurrent subjects
Question: What is the central legislative body in India?
Answer: Parliament of India
Question: In order to implement international treaties, for what subjects can the Parliament of India legislate to override the general division of subject lists?
Answer: any subject
Question: What subjects can only be legislated by the central legislative body in India?
Answer: the subjects in Union list |
Context: While highly effective, the requirement for injection limited the use of norepinephrine[clarification needed] and orally active derivatives were sought. A structurally similar compound, ephedrine, was identified by Japanese chemists in the Ma Huang plant and marketed by Eli Lilly as an oral treatment for asthma. Following the work of Henry Dale and George Barger at Burroughs-Wellcome, academic chemist Gordon Alles synthesized amphetamine and tested it in asthma patients in 1929. The drug proved to have only modest anti-asthma effects, but produced sensations of exhilaration and palpitations. Amphetamine was developed by Smith, Kline and French as a nasal decongestant under the trade name Benzedrine Inhaler. Amphetamine was eventually developed for the treatment of narcolepsy, post-encepheletic parkinsonism, and mood elevation in depression and other psychiatric indications. It received approval as a New and Nonofficial Remedy from the American Medical Association for these uses in 1937 and remained in common use for depression until the development of tricyclic antidepressants in the 1960s.
Question: Who developed Amphetamine?
Answer: Smith, Kline and French
Question: What are common side effects of Amphetamine?
Answer: sensations of exhilaration and palpitations
Question: When were tricyclic antidepressants developed?
Answer: 1960s
Question: What were some uses for Amphetamine?
Answer: narcolepsy, post-encepheletic parkinsonism, and mood elevation in depression and other psychiatric indications
Question: Who synthesized Amphetamine for asthma?
Answer: Gordon Alles
Question: Ephedrine was used as an oral medicine for what illness?
Answer: asthma
Question: In what year was amphetamine first tested on asthma patients?
Answer: 1929
Question: What was the trade name of amphetamine as a nasal decongestant?
Answer: Benzedrine Inhaler
Question: In what year did the American Medical Association approve amphetamine for medical use?
Answer: 1937
Question: In what decade were tricyclic antidepressants created?
Answer: 1960s
Question: Who developed tricyclics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are common side effects of tricyclics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the American Medical Association developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were some uses for the American Medical Association?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who synthesized the American Medical Association for asthma?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The primary site of infection in the lungs, known as the "Ghon focus", is generally located in either the upper part of the lower lobe, or the lower part of the upper lobe. Tuberculosis of the lungs may also occur via infection from the blood stream. This is known as a Simon focus and is typically found in the top of the lung. This hematogenous transmission can also spread infection to more distant sites, such as peripheral lymph nodes, the kidneys, the brain, and the bones. All parts of the body can be affected by the disease, though for unknown reasons it rarely affects the heart, skeletal muscles, pancreas, or thyroid.
Question: What two-word phrase is used for the main part of the lungs infected by TB?
Answer: Ghon focus
Question: If the lungs are infected by TB via bloodstream, what's the type of focus?
Answer: Simon focus
Question: In what general area of the lungs is SImon focus usually located?
Answer: the top
Question: What is the term that describes a blood-borne infection, like TB when it travels through the blood to the kidneys or brain?
Answer: hematogenous
Question: Four areas of the body are usually safe from TB infection, including skeletal muscles, heart, and thyroid; what's the fourth?
Answer: pancreas
Question: What is the section of lung not affected by TB called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for Ghon focus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is type of transmission is found in the lungs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are the peripheral lymph nodes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What disease often affects the heart, skeletal muscles, pancreas, or thyroid?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The majority of British Jews live in London, with significant Jewish communities in Stamford Hill, Stanmore, Golders Green, Finchley, Hampstead, Hendon and Edgware in North London. Bevis Marks Synagogue in the City of London is affiliated to London's historic Sephardic Jewish community. It is the only synagogue in Europe which has held regular services continuously for over 300 years. Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue has the largest membership of any single Orthodox synagogue in the whole of Europe, overtaking Ilford synagogue (also in London) in 1998. The community set up the London Jewish Forum in 2006 in response to the growing significance of devolved London Government.
Question: Which Jewish synagogue boasts the largest membership in Europe?
Answer: Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue
Question: The Sephardic Jewish community in London is affiliated with which Synagogue?
Answer: Bevis Marks Synagogue
Question: For how long has the Bevis Marks Synagogue in London been conducting religious services continuously?
Answer: over 300 years
Question: London's Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue passed London's Ilford Synagogue in terms of membership in what year?
Answer: 1998
Question: When was the London Jewish Forum established?
Answer: 2006 |
Context: With 120,000 students in London, the federal University of London is the largest contact teaching university in the UK. It includes four large multi-faculty universities – King's College London, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway and UCL – and a number of smaller and more specialised institutions including Birkbeck, the Courtauld Institute of Art, Goldsmiths, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Institute of Education, the London Business School, the London School of Economics, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Royal Academy of Music, the Central School of Speech and Drama, the Royal Veterinary College and the School of Oriental and African Studies. Members of the University of London have their own admissions procedures, and some award their own degrees.
Question: What school within the University of London would a student seeking a degree in the veterinary medicine likely attend?
Answer: the Royal Veterinary College
Question: What major university is comprised of four multi-faculty universities and several schools specialized schools?
Answer: University of London
Question: From what school in London would a student receive an MBA?
Answer: the London Business School
Question: What is the average student population at the University of London?
Answer: 120,000 |
Context: The division between the two is often not clear and is often politicized in disagreements within a government over a treaty, since a non-self-executing treaty cannot be acted on without the proper change in domestic law. If a treaty requires implementing legislation, a state may be in default of its obligations by the failure of its legislature to pass the necessary domestic laws.
Question: What type of treaty cannot be acted on without the proper change in domestic law?
Answer: a non-self-executing treaty
Question: A state party may be in default of its obligations under a non-self-executing treaty if its legislature fails to do what?
Answer: pass the necessary domestic laws
Question: What institution of a party to a treaty must act to fulfill the party's obligations under a non-self-executing treaty?
Answer: its legislature
Question: The often unclear division between a self-executing treaty and a non-self-executing treaty can lead to a treaty being what if disagreements exist within a party?
Answer: politicized
Question: A treaty may be politicized due to disagreements within a party because the division between a self-executing treaty and a non-self-executing treaty can often be described as what?
Answer: not clear |
Context: OU Medicine, an academic medical institution located on the campus of The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, is home to OU Medical Center. OU Medicine operates Oklahoma's only level-one trauma center at the OU Medical Center and the state's only level-one trauma center for children at Children's Hospital at OU Medicine, both of which are located in the Oklahoma Health Center district. Other medical facilities operated by OU Medicine include OU Physicians and OU Children's Physicians, the OU College of Medicine, the Oklahoma Cancer Center and OU Medical Center Edmond, the latter being located in the northern suburb of Edmond.
Question: Where is the Children's hospital located?
Answer: Oklahoma Health Center district |
Context: Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has criticized PS3's high development costs and inferior attach rate and return to that of Xbox 360 and Wii. He believes these factors are pushing developers away from working on the console. In an interview with The Times Kotick stated "I'm getting concerned about Sony; the PlayStation 3 is losing a bit of momentum and they don't make it easy for me to support the platform." He continued, "It's expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better. Games generate a better return on invested capital (ROIC) on the Xbox than on the PlayStation." Kotick also claimed that Activision Blizzard may stop supporting the system if the situation is not addressed. "[Sony has] to cut the [PS3's retail] price, because if they don't, the attach rates are likely to slow. If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony." Kotick received heavy criticism for the statement, notably from developer Bioware who questioned the wisdom of the threatened move, and referred to the statement as "silly."
Question: What group does Bobby Kotick think is being discouraged from working on the PS3?
Answer: developers
Question: What does "ROIC" stand for?
Answer: return on invested capital
Question: What company is Kotick the CEO of?
Answer: Activision Blizzard
Question: What newspaper reported Kotick's concerns and his threat to stop supporting the PlayStation platform?
Answer: The Times
Question: What game development company completely disagreed with Kotick's statements in The Times interview?
Answer: Bioware
Question: What group does Bobby Kotick think is being encouraged from working on the PS3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does "RIOC" stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company is Kotick the CFO of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What newspaper reported Kotick's concerns and his threat to keep supporting the PlayStation platform?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What game development company completely agreed with Kotick's statements in The Times interview?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The school's sports teams, wearing crimson and royal blue, are called the Kansas Jayhawks. They participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big 12 Conference. KU has won thirteen National Championships: five in men's basketball (two Helms Foundation championships and three NCAA championships), three in men's indoor track and field, three in men's outdoor track and field, one in men's cross country and one in women's outdoor track and field. The home course for KU Cross Country is Rim Rock Farm. Their most recent championship came on June 8, 2013 when the KU women's track and field team won the NCAA outdoor in Eugene, Oregon becoming the first University of Kansas women's team to win a national title.
Question: What colors are worn by KU's athletic teams?
Answer: crimson and royal blue
Question: What is the name of KU athletic teams?
Answer: Kansas Jayhawks
Question: How many times has the male basketball team from Kansas won a national title?
Answer: five
Question: How many natioanl female outdoor track and field championships have been won by the University of Kansas?
Answer: one
Question: Where does KU's cross country team run?
Answer: Rim Rock Farm
Question: What colors are worn by KU's non-athletic teams?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the name of KU athletic teams?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times has the male baseball team from Kansas won a national title?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many international female outdoor track and field championships have been won by the University of Kansas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does KU's cross country team swim?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Several Americans, especially Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, played a major role in bringing Enlightenment ideas to the New World and in influencing British and French thinkers. Franklin was influential for his political activism and for his advances in physics. The cultural exchange during the Age of Enlightenment ran in both directions across the Atlantic. Thinkers such as Paine, Locke, and Rousseau all take Native American cultural practices as examples of natural freedom. The Americans closely followed English and Scottish political ideas, as well as some French thinkers such as Montesquieu. As deists, they were influenced by ideas of John Toland (1670–1722) and Matthew Tindal (1656–1733). During the Enlightenment there was a great emphasis upon liberty, democracy, republicanism and religious tolerance. Attempts to reconcile science and religion resulted in a widespread rejection of prophecy, miracle and revealed religion in preference for Deism – especially by Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason and by Thomas Jefferson in his short Jefferson Bible – from which all supernatural aspects were removed.
Question: Which American Enlightenment sympathiser was known for his political activism and advances in physics?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: Did the cultural exchange during the Age of Enlightenment travel exclusively to America or did information travel in both directions, back across the Atlantic to Europe?
Answer: both directions
Question: As diests, Americans were influenced by the ideas of which two Enlightenment followers?
Answer: John Toland (1670–1722) and Matthew Tindal (1656–1733)
Question: Attempts to reconcile which two fields resulted in a widespread rejection of prophecy?
Answer: science and religion
Question: All supernatural aspects were removed from which Thomas Paine work?
Answer: The Age of Reason |
Context: Improvisation stands at the centre of Chopin's creative processes. However, this does not imply impulsive rambling: Nicholas Temperley writes that "improvisation is designed for an audience, and its starting-point is that audience's expectations, which include the current conventions of musical form." The works for piano and orchestra, including the two concertos, are held by Temperley to be "merely vehicles for brilliant piano playing ... formally longwinded and extremely conservative". After the piano concertos (which are both early, dating from 1830), Chopin made no attempts at large-scale multi-movement forms, save for his late sonatas for piano and for cello; "instead he achieved near-perfection in pieces of simple general design but subtle and complex cell-structure." Rosen suggests that an important aspect of Chopin's individuality is his flexible handling of the four-bar phrase as a structural unit.
Question: What is central to Chopin's process?
Answer: Improvisation
Question: Rosen suggests that a central part of Chopin's uniqueness is how he handles what?
Answer: the four-bar phrase
Question: What is central to Chopin's creativeness?
Answer: Improvisation
Question: Who wrote that "improvisation is designed for an audience"?
Answer: Nicholas Temperley
Question: What did Rosen suggest was important about chopin's personality?
Answer: his flexible handling of the four-bar phrase as a structural unit. |
Context: But although it meets the definition of outer space, the atmospheric density within the first few hundred kilometers above the Kármán line is still sufficient to produce significant drag on satellites. Most artificial satellites operate in this region called low Earth orbit and must fire their engines every few days to maintain orbit.[citation needed] The drag here is low enough that it could theoretically be overcome by radiation pressure on solar sails, a proposed propulsion system for interplanetary travel.[citation needed] Planets are too massive for their trajectories to be significantly affected by these forces, although their atmospheres are eroded by the solar winds.
Question: Where do most satellites operate?
Answer: low Earth orbit
Question: What system could possibly be used for interplanetary travel?
Answer: solar sails
Question: why do satellites need to fire engines every few day to keep orbit?
Answer: atmospheric density
Question: above what line location in outer space to satellites orbit?
Answer: Kármán line
Question: How often does Earth's orbit position change?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are satellites eroded by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are satellites too large for their engines to be affected by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long is the Karman line?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have satellite engines been suggested to be used for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In May 2013, the club launched a new crest to improve the reproducibility of the design in print and broadcast media, particularly on a small scale. Critics[who?] suggested that it was external pressure from sports manufacturers Nike, Inc. that evoked the redesign as the number of colours has been reduced and the radial effect have been removed, making the kit more cost efficient to reproduce.[citation needed] The redesign was poorly received by supporters, with a poll on an Everton fan site registering a 91% negative response to the crest. A protest petition reached over 22,000 signatures before the club offered an apology and announced a new crest would be created for the 2014–15 season with an emphasis on fan consultation. Shortly afterwards, the Head of Marketing left the club.
Question: When did Everton FC launch their new crest?
Answer: 2013
Question: What company did critics suggest pressured Everton FC to change their crest?
Answer: Nike
Question: How was the Everton FC's crest redesign received by fans?
Answer: poorly
Question: What percentage of fans had a negative reaction to Everton FC's crest redesign in 2013?
Answer: 91
Question: How many people signed a petition in protest of Everton FC's crest redesign in 2013?
Answer: over 22,000
Question: What was the approval rating of the original Everton crest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what month did the 2014-15 season begin for Everton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of people had a positive response to the new crest, as opposed to those who were negative or indifferent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many votes were there in total on the Everton fan site about the new crest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What executive issued the apology for Everton?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The great angiosperm radiation, when a great diversity of angiosperms appears in the fossil record, occurred in the mid-Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago). However, a study in 2007 estimated that the division of the five most recent (the genus Ceratophyllum, the family Chloranthaceae, the eudicots, the magnoliids, and the monocots) of the eight main groups occurred around 140 million years ago. By the late Cretaceous, angiosperms appear to have dominated environments formerly occupied by ferns and cycadophytes, but large canopy-forming trees replaced conifers as the dominant trees only close to the end of the Cretaceous 66 million years ago or even later, at the beginning of the Tertiary. The radiation of herbaceous angiosperms occurred much later. Yet, many fossil plants recognizable as belonging to modern families (including beech, oak, maple, and magnolia) had already appeared by the late Cretaceous.
Question: When does a great diversity of angiosperms appear in the fossil record?
Answer: approximately 100 million years ago
Question: What is the appearance of a large amount of angiosperms in the fossil record known as?
Answer: great angiosperm radiation,
Question: When did the division of the eight main groups of angiosperms occur?
Answer: 40 million years ago
Question: What were the angiosperms up to by the late Cretaceous?
Answer: dominated environments
Question: Beech and maple had already appeared by what period?
Answer: Cretaceous
Question: When does a diversity of magnoliids appear in the fossil record?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the appearance of ferns in the fossil record called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By the end of the Tertiary, what did angiosperms dominate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did eudicots replace conifers as dominant trees?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When had eight main groups of Chloranthaceae recognizable as belonging to modern families appear?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Portugal spearheaded European exploration of the world and the Age of Discovery. Prince Henry the Navigator, son of King João I, became the main sponsor and patron of this endeavour. During this period, Portugal explored the Atlantic Ocean, discovering several Atlantic archipelagos like the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde, explored the African coast, colonized selected areas of Africa, discovered an eastern route to India via the Cape of Good Hope, discovered Brazil, explored the Indian Ocean, established trading routes throughout most of southern Asia, and sent the first direct European maritime trade and diplomatic missions to China and Japan.
Question: What European age did Portugal spearhead?
Answer: the Age of Discovery
Question: Who was the Father of Prince Henry the Navigator?
Answer: King João I
Question: Which three Atlantic archipelagos did Portugal discover?
Answer: Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde
Question: By which path did Portugal discover a route to India?
Answer: Cape of Good Hope
Question: What South American country did Portugal discover?
Answer: Brazil |
Context: On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the "Apollinare". During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares ("Apollonian Games") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius. In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.
Question: Where was Apollo's first temple at Rome established?
Answer: Flaminian fields
Question: When was the Second Punic war?
Answer: 212 BCE
Question: What is another name for the Ludi Apollinares?
Answer: Apollonian Games |
Context: Apart from the passing of noble titles or ranks, inheritance practices did not involve primogeniture; each son received an equal share of the family property. Unlike the practice in later dynasties, the father usually sent his adult married sons away with their portions of the family fortune. Daughters received a portion of the family fortune through their marriage dowries, though this was usually much less than the shares of sons. A different distribution of the remainder could be specified in a will, but it is unclear how common this was.
Question: Which family member commonly sent an adult married offspring away with their portion of the families fortune?
Answer: the father
Question: What type of document could be produced to distribute some of an inheritance?
Answer: a will
Question: How did daughters get their portion of the family fortune?
Answer: marriage dowries
Question: Was is guaranteed that a first born son would receive all of the family's fortune?
Answer: inheritance practices did not involve primogeniture
Question: What type of title could be passed down?
Answer: noble |
Context: At the time of Australia's federation on 1 January 1901, Melbourne became the seat of government of the federation. The first federal parliament was convened on 9 May 1901 in the Royal Exhibition Building, subsequently moving to the Victorian Parliament House where it was located until 1927, when it was moved to Canberra. The Governor-General of Australia resided at Government House in Melbourne until 1930 and many major national institutions remained in Melbourne well into the twentieth century.
Question: On what date was the first federal parliament convened?
Answer: 9 May 1901
Question: Where was the first federal parliament convened in 1901?
Answer: Royal Exhibition Building
Question: The Governor-General of Australia resided at the Government House in Melbourne until what year?
Answer: 1930
Question: Where was the federal parliament moved after 1927?
Answer: Canberra |
Context: The Japanese responded to the Allied attacks by launching an offensive of their own into India in the middle of March, across the mountainous and densely forested frontier. This attack, codenamed Operation U-Go, was advocated by Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi, the recently promoted commander of the Japanese Fifteenth Army; Imperial General Headquarters permitted it to proceed, despite misgivings at several intervening headquarters. Although several units of the British Fourteenth Army had to fight their way out of encirclement, by early April they had concentrated around Imphal in Manipur state. A Japanese division which had advanced to Kohima in Nagaland cut the main road to Imphal, but failed to capture the whole of the defences at Kohima. During April, the Japanese attacks against Imphal failed, while fresh Allied formations drove the Japanese from the positions they had captured at Kohima.
Question: What month did the Japanese launch an offensive into India?
Answer: March
Question: Who commanded the Japanese Fifteenth Army in Operation U-Go?
Answer: Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi
Question: Where had the Japanese advanced to?
Answer: Kohima in Nagaland
Question: What did the Japanese cut?
Answer: main road to Imphal
Question: What had the Japanese failed to capture?
Answer: defences at Kohima |
Context: In the CFL, if the game is tied at the end of regulation play, then each team is given an equal number of chances to break the tie. A coin toss is held to determine which team will take possession first; the first team scrimmages the ball at the opponent's 35-yard line and advances through a series of downs until it scores or loses possession. If the team scores a touchdown, starting with the 2010 season, it is required to attempt a 2-point conversion. The other team then scrimmages the ball at the same 35-yard line and has the same opportunity to score. After the teams have completed their possessions, if one team is ahead, then it is declared the winner; otherwise, the two teams each get another chance to score, scrimmaging from the other 35-yard line. After this second round, if there is still no winner, during the regular season the game ends as a tie. In a playoff or championship game, the teams continue to attempt to score from alternating 35-yard lines, until one team is leading after both have had an equal number of possessions.
Question: What determines which team gets possession first when extending a game to break a tie?
Answer: coin toss
Question: At which yard line on their opponent's side does a team take possession of the ball according to the CFL's tie-breaking rules?
Answer: 35
Question: In which year did the CFL begin requiring teams to attempt 2-point conversions after scoring in a tie-breaking situation?
Answer: 2010
Question: Which round of tie-breaking is the last possible round in a regular season CFL game?
Answer: second
Question: Which CFL games require tie-breaking rounds continue until a winner results?
Answer: playoff or championship
Question: After teams have completed their 2 point conversions, who is declared the winner?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: If a game is tied at the end of a touchdown, what determines who takes possession?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After the coin toss if there is no winner during regular season what happens?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a team required to do after having a possession in the 2010 season?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the 2010 season if a game is tied what can each team do?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hundreds of ancient standing stone monuments like dolmens, menhirs and megalithics Tumulus were erected during the prehistoric period in Galicia, amongst the best-known are the dolmens of Dombate, Corveira, Axeitos of Pedra da Arca, menhirs like the "Lapa de Gargñáns". From the Iron Age, Galicia has a rich heritage based mainly on a great number of Hill forts, few of them excavated like Baroña, Sta. Tegra, San Cibrao de Lás and Formigueiros among others. With the introduction of Ancient Roman architecture there was a development of basilicas, castra, city walls, cities, villas, Roman temples, Roman roads, and the Roman bridge of Ponte Vella. It was the Romans who founded some of the first cities in Galicia like Lugo and Ourense. Perhaps the best-known examples are the Roman Walls of Lugo and the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña.
Question: Which civilization was it that founded some of the first Galician cities?
Answer: Romans
Question: Name two of these cities.
Answer: Lugo and Ourense |
Context: The "Safe Harbor" agreement is a voluntary agreement between the private landowner and FWS. The landowner agrees to alter the property to benefit or even attract a listed or proposed species in exchange for assurances that the FWS will permit future "takes" above a pre-determined level. The policy relies on the "enhancement of survival" provision of Section §1539(a)(1)(A). A landowner can have either a "Safe Harbor" agreement or an Incidental Take Permit, or both. The policy was developed by the Clinton Administration in 1999.
Question: What two groups are bound by a "Safe Harbor" agreement?
Answer: the private landowner and FWS
Question: In exchange for altering the property to a more beneficial state, what does the landowner gain from the Safe Harbor agreement?
Answer: assurances that the FWS will permit future "takes" above a pre-determined level
Question: Which presidential administration developed Safe Harbor policy?
Answer: the Clinton Administration
Question: Are Safe Harbor agreements and ITPs mutually exclusive?
Answer: A landowner can have either a "Safe Harbor" agreement or an Incidental Take Permit, or both.
Question: What provision is the ITP under?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did FWS create the Safe Harbor agreement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What form of agreement can a landowner no longer have if they acquire an ITP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What provision relies on the Safe Harbor agreement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What administration developed Section §1539(a)(1)(A)?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Roman religion was thus practical and contractual, based on the principle of do ut des, "I give that you might give." Religion depended on knowledge and the correct practice of prayer, ritual, and sacrifice, not on faith or dogma, although Latin literature preserves learned speculation on the nature of the divine and its relation to human affairs. Even the most skeptical among Rome's intellectual elite such as Cicero, who was an augur, saw religion as a source of social order. For ordinary Romans, religion was a part of daily life. Each home had a household shrine at which prayers and libations to the family's domestic deities were offered. Neighborhood shrines and sacred places such as springs and groves dotted the city. The Roman calendar was structured around religious observances. Women, slaves, and children all participated in a range of religious activities. Some public rituals could be conducted only by women, and women formed what is perhaps Rome's most famous priesthood, the state-supported Vestals, who tended Rome's sacred hearth for centuries, until disbanded under Christian domination.
Question: What characteristics were not inherent in Roman religious practice?
Answer: faith or dogma
Question: What was brought forth by religion in Rome?
Answer: social order
Question: What religious feature did each Roman home have?
Answer: household shrine
Question: What type of celebrations made up the Roman calendar?
Answer: religious observances
Question: What religious group was in charge of Rome's sacred flame?
Answer: Vestals |
Context: The study of the Quran and the Hadith thrived in such a scholarly atmosphere. Philosophy, Fiqh and theology (kalaam) were further developed, most noticeably by Avicenna and his opponents. Al-Razi and Al-Farabi had provided methodology and knowledge in medicine and philosophy. Avicenna had access to the great libraries of Balkh, Khwarezm, Gorgan, Rey, Isfahan and Hamadan. Various texts (such as the 'Ahd with Bahmanyar) show that he debated philosophical points with the greatest scholars of the time. Aruzi Samarqandi describes how before Avicenna left Khwarezm he had met Al-Biruni (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Iraqi (a renowned mathematician), Abu Sahl Masihi (a respected philosopher) and Abu al-Khayr Khammar (a great physician).
Question: What was one subject that Avicenna further developed?
Answer: theology
Question: Who is another philosopher during this Islamic Golden Age?
Answer: Al-Farabi
Question: What is the name of one library that Avicenna had access to?
Answer: Hamadan
Question: Who was the famous astronomer that Avicenna met before he left Khwarezm?
Answer: Al-Biruni
Question: What text was proof that Avicenna debated philosophy with some of the greatest scholars of the time?
Answer: the 'Ahd with Bahmanyar
Question: Where did the study of all religious texts thrive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What studies were suppresed by Avicenna's opponents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: who provided methodology and knowledge in theology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What library did Avicenna found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the famous astronomer that Avicenna met after leaving Khwarezm?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was one subject that Avicenna never developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is another philosopher during this Islamic Silver Age?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of one library that Avicenna didn't have access to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the famous astrologer that Avicenna met before he left Khwarezm?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What text was proof that Avicenna debated philosophy with some of the unknown scholars of the time?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Federal Palace (Bundeshaus), built from 1857 to 1902, which houses the national parliament, government and part of the federal administration, can also be visited.
Question: Where is the national parliment housed?
Answer: The Federal Palace
Question: What is the Federal Palace called?
Answer: Bundeshaus |
Context: As mentioned, lifestyle- and obesity-related diseases are becoming increasingly prevalent all around the world. There is little doubt that the increasingly widespread application of some modern food processing technologies has contributed to this development. The food processing industry is a major part of modern economy, and as such it is influential in political decisions (e.g., nutritional recommendations, agricultural subsidising). In any known profit-driven economy, health considerations are hardly a priority; effective production of cheap foods with a long shelf-life is more the trend. In general, whole, fresh foods have a relatively short shelf-life and are less profitable to produce and sell than are more processed foods. Thus, the consumer is left with the choice between more expensive, but nutritionally superior, whole, fresh foods, and cheap, usually nutritionally inferior, processed foods. Because processed foods are often cheaper, more convenient (in both purchasing, storage, and preparation), and more available, the consumption of nutritionally inferior foods has been increasing throughout the world along with many nutrition-related health complications.
Question: What is undoubtedly a cause of the increase in obesity related diseases that are becoming prevalent?
Answer: widespread application of some modern food processing technologies
Question: Aside from agricultural subsidizing, what else does the food processing industry influence in terms of political decisions?
Answer: nutritional recommendations
Question: What is perceived as the general priority of the food processing industry in this sort of economy?
Answer: effective production of cheap foods with a long shelf-life
Question: The more expensive fresh foods have what nutritional value in relation to processed food?
Answer: superior
Question: Other than being cheaper, what is another main draw of processed foods?
Answer: more convenient |
Context: The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century, replacing the phonograph cylinder record–with which it had co-existed from the late 1880s through to the 1920s–by the late 1920s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed. By the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. From the 1990s to the 2010s, records continued to be manufactured and sold on a much smaller scale, and were especially used by disc jockeys (DJ)s, released by artists in some genres, and listened to by a niche market of audiophiles. The phonograph record has made a niche resurgence in the early 21st century – 9.2 million records were sold in the U.S. in 2014, a 260% increase since 2009. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014.
Question: What was the primary use of a phonographic disc record?
Answer: music reproduction
Question: Which year did vinyl records leave the main steam media market?
Answer: 1991
Question: From the 1990s to 2010s who was the primary consumer of vinyl records?
Answer: disc jockeys (DJ)s
Question: Approximately how many phonograph records were sold in 2014?
Answer: 9.2 million
Question: What is the niche market of phonograph record fans known as?
Answer: audiophiles |
Context: In 1821, Alexis Bouvard published astronomical tables of the orbit of Neptune's neighbour Uranus. Subsequent observations revealed substantial deviations from the tables, leading Bouvard to hypothesise that an unknown body was perturbing the orbit through gravitational interaction. In 1843, John Couch Adams began work on the orbit of Uranus using the data he had. Via Cambridge Observatory director James Challis, he requested extra data from Sir George Airy, the Astronomer Royal, who supplied it in February 1844. Adams continued to work in 1845–46 and produced several different estimates of a new planet.
Question: What year did Alexis Bouvard publish relevant astronomical tables?
Answer: 1821
Question: What did Alexis Bouvard study?
Answer: the orbit of Neptune's neighbour Uranus
Question: When did John Couch Adams begin working on the orbit of Uranus?
Answer: 1843
Question: Who gave John Couch Adams extra data?
Answer: Sir George Airy
Question: What did the extra data John Couch Adams received produce?
Answer: several different estimates of a new planet
Question: What did Alexis Bouvard publish in the 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who published astronomical tables of Neptunes orbit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who gave Sir George Airy extra data?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Sir George Airy produce with the extra data?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 1831?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Alexis Bouvard teach?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did John Couch Adams begin working on the orbit of Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who took away John Couch Adams' data?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in February 1855?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: 1853: There were four main events. 1. In the north the Turks captured the border fort of Saint Nicholas in a surprise night attack (27/28 October). They then pushed about 20000 troops across the Cholok River border. Being outnumbered the Russians abandoned Poti and Redut Kale and drew back to Marani. Both sides remained immobile for the next seven months. 2. In the center the Turks moved north from Ardahan to within cannon-shot of Akhaltsike and awaited reinforcements (13 November). The Russians routed them. The claimed losses were 4000 Turks and 400 Russians. 3. In the south about 30000 Turks slowly moved east to the main Russian concentration at Gyumri or Alexandropol (November). They crossed the border and set up artillery south of town. Prince Orbeliani tried to drive them off and found himself trapped. The Turks failed to press their advantage, the remaining Russians rescued Orbeliani and the Turks retired west. Orbeliani lost about 1000 men out of 5000. The Russians now decided to advance, the Turks took up a strong position on the Kars road and attacked. They were defeated in the battle of Başgedikler, losing 6000 men, half their artillery and all their supply train. The Russians lost 1300, including Prince Orbeliani. This was Prince Ellico Orbeliani whose wife was later kidnaped by Shamyl at Tsinandali. 4. At sea the Turks sent a fleet east which was destroyed by Admiral Nakhimov at Sinope.
Question: Who captured the border front of Saint Nicholas during a night attack?
Answer: the Turks
Question: How many troops did the Turks have when crossing the Cholok River?
Answer: 20000 troops
Question: After giving up their position at Poti and Redut Kale, where did the Russians retreat to?
Answer: Marani
Question: How many troops did the Turks send to Gyumri?
Answer: 30000
Question: What were the Turks waiting for when positioned near Akhaltsike?
Answer: reinforcements |
Context: One way of proving that a given disease is "infectious", is to satisfy Koch's postulates (first proposed by Robert Koch), which demands that the infectious agent be identified only in patients and not in healthy controls, and that patients who contract the agent also develop the disease. These postulates were first used in the discovery that Mycobacteria species cause tuberculosis. Koch's postulates can not be applied ethically for many human diseases because they require experimental infection of a healthy individual with a pathogen produced as a pure culture. Often, even clearly infectious diseases do not meet the infectious criteria. For example, Treponema pallidum, the causative spirochete of syphilis, cannot be cultured in vitro - however the organism can be cultured in rabbit testes. It is less clear that a pure culture comes from an animal source serving as host than it is when derived from microbes derived from plate culture. Epidemiology is another important tool used to study disease in a population. For infectious diseases it helps to determine if a disease outbreak is sporadic (occasional occurrence), endemic (regular cases often occurring in a region), epidemic (an unusually high number of cases in a region), or pandemic (a global epidemic).
Question: What is one way of proving that a given disease is infectious?
Answer: satisfy Koch's postulates
Question: What must an infectious agent only be identified in to satisfy the first of Koch's postulates?
Answer: patients and not in healthy controls
Question: What is Koch's second postulate?
Answer: patients who contract the agent also develop the disease
Question: Why can't Koch's postulates be applied ethically for many human diseases?
Answer: because they require experimental infection of a healthy individual
Question: What is the causative spirochete of syphilis?
Answer: Treponema pallidum
Question: What is one way of proving that a given disease is safe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must an infectious agent not be identified in to satisfy the first of Koch's postulates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Koch's worst postulate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why can Koch's postulates be applied ethically for many reptile diseases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is no longer the causative spirochete of syphilis?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Congregational and Presbyterian churches which profess a traditionally Calvinist or Reformed theology there are differing views regarding present-day continuation or cessation of the gifts (charismata) of the Spirit. Generally, however, Reformed charismatics distance themselves from renewal movements with tendencies which could be perceived as overemotional, such as Word of Faith, Toronto Blessing, Brownsville Revival and Lakeland Revival. Prominent Reformed charismatic denominations are the Sovereign Grace Churches and the Every Nation Churches in the USA, in Great Britain there is the Newfrontiers churches and movement, which leading figure is Terry Virgo.
Question: Who heads the Newfrontiers movement?
Answer: Terry Virgo
Question: Where is Every Nations Churches located?
Answer: USA
Question: What tendencies do reformed charismatics avoid?
Answer: overemotional
Question: What is a name for gifts of the Spirit?
Answer: charismata
Question: Name the renewal movements which could be considered overemotional.
Answer: Word of Faith, Toronto Blessing, Brownsville Revival and Lakeland Revival |
Context: In 1943, Karachay Autonomous Oblast was dissolved by Joseph Stalin, when the Karachays were exiled to Central Asia for their alleged collaboration with the Germans and territory was incorporated into the Georgian SSR.
Question: Which oblast was broken up in 1943?
Answer: Karachay Autonomous Oblast
Question: Where were the Karachays sent after their oblast was broken up?
Answer: Central Asia
Question: Which SSR received the land of the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: the Georgian SSR
Question: Who broke up the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: Who eliminated the Karachay Autonomous Oblast?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: When was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast ended?
Answer: 1943
Question: To where were the Karachays exiled?
Answer: Central Asia
Question: Why were the Karachays exiled?
Answer: alleged collaboration with the Germans
Question: What republic was the territory of the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred to?
Answer: Georgian SSR
Question: Which oblast was kept together in 1943?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the Karachays not sent after their oblast was broken up?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which SSR rejected the land of the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who didn't break up the Karachays' oblast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast not ended?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Austrian engineer Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit as part of a radio set while working in England around 1936. Around 1943 the USA began to use the technology on a large scale to make proximity fuses for use in World War II. After the war, in 1948, the USA released the invention for commercial use. Printed circuits did not become commonplace in consumer electronics until the mid-1950s, after the Auto-Sembly process was developed by the United States Army. At around the same time in Britain work along similar lines was carried out by Geoffrey Dummer, then at the RRDE.
Question: What was Paul Eisler making when he came up with the printed circuit?
Answer: a radio set
Question: What event prompted the United States to adopt the printed circuit to make proximity fuses?
Answer: World War II
Question: When was the printed circuit released for commercial use in the U.S.?
Answer: 1948
Question: Who was working on the same type of large-scale application of printed circuits as the U.S. in Britain in the mid-1950s?
Answer: Geoffrey Dummer
Question: What process was created by the U.S. Army that led to innovation in consumer electronics?
Answer: Auto-Sembly
Question: The German engineer Paul Eisler invented what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit in Germany in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: England began using the technology on a large scale in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1958, the USA released the invention for what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Auto-Sembly process was developed by England in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Longjing tea (also called dragon well tea), originating in Hangzhou, is one of the most prestigious, if not the most prestigious Chinese tea. Hangzhou is also renowned for its silk umbrellas and hand fans. Zhejiang cuisine (itself subdivided into many traditions, including Hangzhou cuisine) is one of the eight great traditions of Chinese cuisine.
Question: What is Longjing tea also called?
Answer: dragon well tea
Question: Where does Longjing tea originate from?
Answer: Hangzhou
Question: What type of umbrellas is Hangzhou known for?
Answer: silk
Question: What type of fans is Hangzhou known for?
Answer: hand
Question: Zhejiang cuisine is one of how many great traditions of Chinese cuisine?
Answer: eight
Question: What is Shortjing tea also called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Longjing tea banned from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of clothes is Hangzhou known for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of shoes is Hangzhou known for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Zhejiang cuisine is one of how many great traditions of Japenese cuisine?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Victoria married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their nine children married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration.
Question: Who did Victoria marry?
Answer: Prince Albert
Question: What is her nickname that she was given because her children married into royal families across the continent?
Answer: the grandmother of Europe
Question: What year did Prince Albert die?
Answer: 1861
Question: How many children did she have?
Answer: nine
Question: In the later half of her reign, what happened to her popularity?
Answer: her popularity recovered
Question: How many children did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have?
Answer: nine
Question: What was the year of Alberts death?
Answer: 1861
Question: Queen Victorias Golden and Diamond jubilees were a time of public what?
Answer: celebration
Question: What was the name the first cousing that Victoria married?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Question: What was the nickname given to Queen Victoria because all of her children married into noble families?
Answer: first cousin
Question: What was the name of the first cousin that Queen Victoria was married to?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Question: Whatyear did Victoria marry Prince Albert?
Answer: 1840
Question: How many children did Victoria and Albert have?
Answer: nine
Question: What year did Prince Albert die?
Answer: 1861
Question: Due to Victorias mourning over Alberts death, what political party gained strength?
Answer: republicanism
Question: When did Queen Victoria get married?
Answer: 1840
Question: What was the name of Victoria's husband?
Answer: Prince Albert
Question: What was Queen Victoria's nickname?
Answer: the grandmother of Europe
Question: When did republicanism gain strength during Queen Victoria's reign?
Answer: After Albert's death in 1861
Question: How many children did Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have?
Answer: nine
Question: Who did Victoria marry?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Question: When were Victoria and Prince Albert married?
Answer: 1840
Question: How many children did Victoria and Prince Albert have?
Answer: nine
Question: What was Victoria's unofficial title?
Answer: the grandmother of Europe
Question: When did Prince Albert die?
Answer: 1861
Question: Who did Victoria divorce?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is her nickname that she was given because her siblings married into royal families across the continent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year didn't Prince Albert die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many children didn't she have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the earlier half of her reign, what happened to her popularity?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Guinea-Bissau has several secondary schools (general as well as technical) and a number of universities, to which an institutionally autonomous Faculty of Law as well as a Faculty of Medicine have been added.
Question: What type of secondary schools does Guinea-Bissau have?
Answer: general as well as technical
Question: What institutions have added a Faculty of Law?
Answer: universities
Question: What institutions have added a Faculty of Medicine?
Answer: universities
Question: What two words are used to describe the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine?
Answer: institutionally autonomous |
Context: During the Later Middle Ages, theologians such as John Duns Scotus (d. 1308)[AH] and William of Ockham (d. c. 1348), led a reaction against scholasticism, objecting to the application of reason to faith. Their efforts undermined the prevailing Platonic idea of "universals". Ockham's insistence that reason operates independently of faith allowed science to be separated from theology and philosophy. Legal studies were marked by the steady advance of Roman law into areas of jurisprudence previously governed by customary law. The lone exception to this trend was in England, where the common law remained pre-eminent. Other countries codified their laws; legal codes were promulgated in Castile, Poland, and Lithuania.
Question: What school of thought was Duns Scotus opposed to?
Answer: scholasticism
Question: Before Roman law, what were areas of jurisprudence traditionally decided by?
Answer: customary law
Question: What country did not see the increasing influence of Roman law?
Answer: England
Question: Along with Castile and Poland, what country developed a law code in the Later Middle Ages?
Answer: Lithuania
Question: What Platonic idea lost influence as a result of the work of Ockham and Duns Scotus?
Answer: universals |
Context: Some people consider glass to be a liquid due to its lack of a first-order phase transition where certain thermodynamic variables such as volume, entropy and enthalpy are discontinuous through the glass transition range. The glass transition may be described as analogous to a second-order phase transition where the intensive thermodynamic variables such as the thermal expansivity and heat capacity are discontinuous. Nonetheless, the equilibrium theory of phase transformations does not entirely hold for glass, and hence the glass transition cannot be classed as one of the classical equilibrium phase transformations in solids.
Question: What does glass not have, leading some to think it is a liquid?
Answer: first-order phase transition
Question: What theory isn't completely valid for glass?
Answer: equilibrium theory of phase transformations
Question: Transition in glass is comparable to what?
Answer: a second-order phase transition
Question: What does glass not have, leading some to think it is a classic equilibrium?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What theory isn't completely valid for thermodynamic variables?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Transition in heat is comparable to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What variables are intensive through the glass transition range?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do some consider to be a transformation?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hyderabad's lakes and the sloping terrain of its low-lying hills provide habitat for an assortment of flora and fauna. The forest region in and around the city encompasses areas of ecological and biological importance, which are preserved in the form of national parks, zoos, mini-zoos and a wildlife sanctuary. Nehru Zoological Park, the city's one large zoo, is the first in India to have a lion and tiger safari park. Hyderabad has three national parks (Mrugavani National Park, Mahavir Harina Vanasthali National Park and Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park), and the Manjira Wildlife Sanctuary is about 50 km (31 mi) from the city. Hyderabad's other environmental reserves are: Kotla Vijayabhaskara Reddy Botanical Gardens, Shamirpet Lake, Hussain Sagar, Fox Sagar Lake, Mir Alam Tank and Patancheru Lake, which is home to regional birds and attracts seasonal migratory birds from different parts of the world. Organisations engaged in environmental and wildlife preservation include the Telangana Forest Department, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the Animal Welfare Board of India, the Blue Cross of Hyderabad and the University of Hyderabad.
Question: What is the name of the largest zoo in Hyderabad?
Answer: Nehru Zoological Park
Question: Hyderabad's largest zoo is known as India's first to have what two kinds of animals in a safari park setting?
Answer: lion and tiger
Question: How many national parks does Hyderabad have?
Answer: three
Question: Two of the national parks in Hyderabad are Mrugavani National Park, Mahavir Harina Vanasthali National Park, what is the third?
Answer: Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National Park
Question: Which environmental preserve in Hyderabad is known to be a home for migratory birds?
Answer: Patancheru Lake |
Context: There are two major sports centers in Nanjing, Wutaishan Sports Center and Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. Both of these two are comprehensive sports centers, including stadium, gymnasium, natatorium, tennis court, etc. Wutaishan Sports Center was established in 1952 and it was one of the oldest and most advanced stadiums in early time of People's Republic of China.
Question: Which sports center started in 1952?
Answer: Wutaishan Sports Center
Question: How many major sports centers are located in Nanjing?
Answer: two
Question: What type of sports centers are Wutaishan Sports Center and Nanjing Olympic Sports Center considered to be?
Answer: comprehensive sports centers
Question: What is special about Wutaishan Sports Center, from a historical perspective?
Answer: it was one of the oldest and most advanced stadiums in early time of People's Republic of China.
Question: Both Wutaishan Sports Center and Nanjing Olympic Sports Center contain a stadium, gymnasium, natatorium, and what other facility?
Answer: tennis court |
Context: Melbourne is also prone to isolated convective showers forming when a cold pool crosses the state, especially if there is considerable daytime heating. These showers are often heavy and can contain hail and squalls and significant drops in temperature, but they pass through very quickly at times with a rapid clearing trend to sunny and relatively calm weather and the temperature rising back to what it was before the shower. This often occurs in the space of minutes and can be repeated many times in a day, giving Melbourne a reputation for having "four seasons in one day", a phrase that is part of local popular culture and familiar to many visitors to the city. The lowest temperature on record is −2.8 °C (27.0 °F), on 21 July 1869. The highest temperature recorded in Melbourne city was 46.4 °C (115.5 °F), on 7 February 2009. While snow is occasionally seen at higher elevations in the outskirts of the city, it has not been recorded in the Central Business District since 1986.
Question: What weather phrase has become part of local popular culture in Melbourne and concerns the city's rapid change in weather?
Answer: four seasons in one day
Question: What is the lowest temperature on Melbourne's record?
Answer: −2.8 °C (27.0 °F)
Question: On what date did the lowest temperature in Melbourne's records occur?
Answer: 21 July 1869
Question: What is Melbourne's highest temperature recorded?
Answer: 46.4 °C (115.5 °F)
Question: On what date was Melbourne's highest temperature recorded?
Answer: 7 February 2009 |
Context: From European settlement in 1888, child convicts were occasionally sent to Australia where they were made to work. Child labour was not as excessive in Australia as in Britain. With a low population, agricultural productivity was higher and families did not face starvation as in established industrialised countries. Australia also did not have significant industry until the later part of the 20th century when child labour laws, and compulsory schooling had developed under the influence of Britain. From the 1870s Child labour was restricted by compulsorry schooling.
Question: In 1888 what country were child convicts sent to the most?
Answer: Australia
Question: What restricted the 1870s Child labour in Australia?
Answer: compulsorry schooling
Question: Was child labour rampagnt in Australia?
Answer: Child labour was not as excessive in Australia
Question: When did industrailization take off in Australia?
Answer: 20th century |
Context: Many assembled PCBs are static sensitive, and therefore must be placed in antistatic bags during transport. When handling these boards, the user must be grounded (earthed). Improper handling techniques might transmit an accumulated static charge through the board, damaging or destroying components. Even bare boards are sometimes static sensitive. Traces have become so fine that it's quite possible to blow an etch off the board (or change its characteristics) with a static charge. This is especially true on non-traditional PCBs such as MCMs and microwave PCBs.
Question: What special protection are most PCBs shipped in?
Answer: antistatic bags
Question: What's another term for "grounded" in the context of PCBs?
Answer: earthed
Question: What force can easily change or even completely destroy an etch on a PCB?
Answer: static charge
Question: What class of PCBs are even more susceptible to static than standard ones?
Answer: non-traditional
Question: Non-traditional PCBs include microwave PCBs and what other type of board?
Answer: MCMs
Question: Many assembled PABs are sensitive to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Proper handling techniques might transmit what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must be placed in static bags during transport?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: An accumulated static charge though the user happens when what is done?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The city generally has a climate with warm days followed by cool nights and mornings. Unpredictable weather is expected, given that temperatures can drop to 1 °C (34 °F) or less during the winter. During a 2013 cold front, the winter temperatures of Kathmandu dropped to −4 °C (25 °F), and the lowest temperature was recorded on January 10, 2013, at −9.2 °C (15.4 °F). Rainfall is mostly monsoon-based (about 65% of the total concentrated during the monsoon months of June to August), and decreases substantially (100 to 200 cm (39 to 79 in)) from eastern Nepal to western Nepal. Rainfall has been recorded at about 1,400 millimetres (55.1 in) for the Kathmandu valley, and averages 1,407 millimetres (55.4 in) for the city of Kathmandu. On average humidity is 75%. The chart below is based on data from the Nepal Bureau of Standards & Meteorology, "Weather Meteorology" for 2005. The chart provides minimum and maximum temperatures during each month. The annual amount of precipitation was 1,124 millimetres (44.3 in) for 2005, as per monthly data included in the table above. The decade of 2000-2010 saw highly variable and unprecedented precipitation anomalies in Kathmandu. This was mostly due to the annual variation of the southwest monsoon.[citation needed] For example, 2003 was the wettest year ever in Kathmandu, totalling over 2,900 mm (114 in) of precipitation due to an exceptionally strong monsoon season. In contrast, 2001 recorded only 356 mm (14 in) of precipitation due to an extraordinarily weak monsoon season.
Question: What sort of temperature is typical on a Kathmandu morning?
Answer: cool
Question: About what percentage of Kathmandu's annual rainfall falls during the monsoon months?
Answer: 65
Question: On what date in 2013 was it 15.4 degrees Fahrenheit in Kathmandu?
Answer: January 10
Question: In what months does the monsoon occur in Nepal?
Answer: June to August
Question: In what year did the most rain in recorded history fall on Kathmandu?
Answer: 2003 |
Context: Michel Djotodia took over as president and in May 2013 Central African Republic's Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye requested a UN peacekeeping force from the UN Security Council and on 31 May former President Bozizé was indicted for crimes against humanity and incitement of genocide. The security situation did not improve during June–August 2013 and there were reports of over 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) as well as human rights abuses and renewed fighting between Séléka and Bozizé supporters.
Question: Who became president in 2013?
Answer: Michel Djotodia
Question: What was Bozize indicted for?
Answer: crimes against humanity
Question: What mass murder did Bozize commit?
Answer: genocide
Question: How many people were displaced in the unrests?
Answer: 200,000
Question: What faction was fighting against the remaining Bozize loyalists?
Answer: Séléka
Question: How many peackeeping forces were displaced in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2013 what groups committed crimes against humanity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did President Bozize request a UN peacekeeping force?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the indictments against Michel Djotokia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what time did human rights abuses not improve?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Judging relationships based on shared characters requires care, since plants may resemble one another through convergent evolution in which characters have arisen independently. Some euphorbias have leafless, rounded bodies adapted to water conservation similar to those of globular cacti, but characters such as the structure of their flowers make it clear that the two groups are not closely related. The cladistic method takes a systematic approach to characters, distinguishing between those that carry no information about shared evolutionary history – such as those evolved separately in different groups (homoplasies) or those left over from ancestors (plesiomorphies) – and derived characters, which have been passed down from innovations in a shared ancestor (apomorphies). Only derived characters, such as the spine-producing areoles of cacti, provide evidence for descent from a common ancestor. The results of cladistic analyses are expressed as cladograms: tree-like diagrams showing the pattern of evolutionary branching and descent.
Question: Why might two plants be similar but not actually be in the same group?
Answer: convergent evolution
Question: How can two different plants acquire the same traits?
Answer: arisen independently
Question: What traits show a shared ancestry?
Answer: derived characters
Question: How are common ancestries represented for plant families?
Answer: tree-like diagrams |
Context: The Romantic Movement of the early 19th century reshaped science by opening up new pursuits unexpected in the classical approaches of the Enlightenment. Major breakthroughs came in biology, especially in Darwin's theory of evolution, as well as physics (electromagnetism), mathematics (non-Euclidean geometry, group theory) and chemistry (organic chemistry). The decline of Romanticism occurred because a new movement, Positivism, began to take hold of the ideals of the intellectuals after 1840 and lasted until about 1880.
Question: Which movement took place during the 19th century?
Answer: The Romantic Movement
Question: What theory did Darwin introduce?
Answer: theory of evolution
Question: Which physics subject was affected by The Romantic Movement?
Answer: electromagnetism
Question: What caused Romanticism to end?
Answer: Positivism
Question: What year did Positivism end?
Answer: 1880 |
Context: In 1927, the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party) under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek again established Nanjing as the capital of the Republic of China, and this became internationally recognized once KMT forces took Beijing in 1928. The following decade is known as the Nanking decade.
Question: When was Nanjing re-established as the capital of the Republic of China?
Answer: 1927
Question: What party established Nanjing as the capital of the Republic of China?
Answer: the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party)
Question: Who was the leader of the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party)?
Answer: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
Question: What are the 1930's known as, in China?
Answer: the Nanking decade
Question: When did the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party) defeat and take over Beijing?
Answer: 1928 |
Context: Today Saint Helena has its own currency, the Saint Helena pound, which is at parity with the pound sterling. The government of Saint Helena produces its own coinage and banknotes. The Bank of Saint Helena was established on Saint Helena and Ascension Island in 2004. It has branches in Jamestown on Saint Helena, and Georgetown, Ascension Island and it took over the business of the St. Helena government savings bank and Ascension Island Savings Bank.
Question: What is the Saint Helena currency?
Answer: the Saint Helena pound
Question: The government of Saint Helena produces it's own what?
Answer: coinage and banknotes
Question: What year was the Bank of Saint Helena established?
Answer: 2004
Question: The Saint Helena pound is at parity with what other currency?
Answer: pound sterling |
Context: The first part of the campaign went well, with John outmanoeuvring the forces under the command of Prince Louis and retaking the county of Anjou by the end of June. John besieged the castle of Roche-au-Moine, a key stronghold, forcing Louis to give battle against John's larger army. The local Angevin nobles refused to advance with the king; left at something of a disadvantage, John retreated back to La Rochelle. Shortly afterwards, Philip won the hard-fought battle of Bouvines in the north against Otto and John's other allies, bringing an end to John's hopes of retaking Normandy. A peace agreement was signed in which John returned Anjou to Philip and paid the French king compensation; the truce was intended to last for six years. John arrived back in England in October.
Question: John besieged what castle?
Answer: Roche-au-Moine
Question: Who refused to advance with the king?
Answer: The local Angevin nobles
Question: Who won the battle of Bouvines?
Answer: Philip
Question: How long was the truce intended to last for?
Answer: six years |
Context: Arsenal fans often refer to themselves as "Gooners", the name derived from the team's nickname, "The Gunners". The fanbase is large and generally loyal, and virtually all home matches sell out; in 2007–08 Arsenal had the second-highest average League attendance for an English club (60,070, which was 99.5% of available capacity), and, as of 2015, the third-highest all-time average attendance. Arsenal have the seventh highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Schalke. The club's location, adjoining wealthy areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury, mixed areas such as Islington, Holloway, Highbury, and the adjacent London Borough of Camden, and largely working-class areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, has meant that Arsenal's supporters have come from a variety of social classes.
Question: What is the common nickname of Arsenal supporters?
Answer: Gooners
Question: From what name does Gooners come?
Answer: The Gunners
Question: From what groups do the supporters of Arsenal come?
Answer: variety of social classes
Question: Where did the attendance at Arsenal games rank in relation to other English clubs?
Answer: second-highest average
Question: What aspect of the fan base is one of the reasons for large game attendance?
Answer: location
Question: In what year did Arsenal fans start calling themselves, "Gooners"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which English club had the highest average league attendance for 2007-08?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which team had the highest attendance in 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do fans of Real Madrid call themselves?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people on average attend a Schalke home game?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In September 1940 the first Alsatian resistance movement led by Marcel Weinum called La main noire (The black hand) was created. It was composed by a group of 25 young men aged from 14 to 18 years old who led several attacks against the German occupation. The actions culminated with the attack of the Gauleiter Robert Wagner, the highest commander of Alsace directly under the order of Hitler. In March 1942, Marcel Weinum was prosecuted by the Gestapo and sentenced to be beheaded at the age of 18 in April 1942 in Stuttgart, Germany. His last words will be: "If I have to die, I shall die but with a pure heart". From 1943 the city was bombarded by Allied aircraft. While the First World War had not notably damaged the city, Anglo-American bombing caused extensive destruction in raids of which at least one was allegedly carried out by mistake. In August 1944, several buildings in the Old Town were damaged by bombs, particularly the Palais Rohan, the Old Customs House (Ancienne Douane) and the Cathedral. On 23 November 1944, the city was officially liberated by the 2nd French Armoured Division under General Leclerc. He achieved the oath that he made with his soldiers, after the decisive Capture of Kufra. With the Oath of Kuffra, they swore to keep up the fight until the French flag flew over the Cathedral of Strasbourg.
Question: Who led the first Alsatian resistance movement?
Answer: Marcel Weinum
Question: Who was the highest commander that is under Hitler?
Answer: Gauleiter Robert Wagner
Question: How was Marcel Weinum executed?
Answer: beheaded
Question: What was the city attacked by in 1943?
Answer: Allied aircraft
Question: On what date was the city liberated?
Answer: 23 November 1944
Question: In what month and year was Gauleiter Robert Wagner assigned to Strasbourg?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what month and year was Marcel Weinum captured?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which nationality accidentally bombed Strasbourg?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who led the 1st French Armoured Division?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did the decisive Capture of Kufra occur?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Despite efforts to revive Hebrew as the national language of the Jewish people, knowledge of the language is not commonly possessed by Jews worldwide and English has emerged as the lingua franca of the Jewish diaspora. Although many Jews once had sufficient knowledge of Hebrew to study the classic literature, and Jewish languages like Yiddish and Ladino were commonly used as recently as the early 20th century, most Jews lack such knowledge today and English has by and large superseded most Jewish vernaculars. The three most commonly spoken languages among Jews today are Hebrew, English, and Russian. Some Romance languages, particularly French and Spanish, are also widely used. Yiddish has been spoken by more Jews in history than any other language, but it is far less used today following the Holocaust and the adoption of Modern Hebrew by the Zionist movement and the State of Israel. In some places, the mother language of the Jewish community differs from that of the general population or the dominant group. For example, in Quebec, the Ashkenazic majority has adopted English, while the Sephardic minority uses French as its primary language. Similarly, South African Jews adopted English rather than Afrikaans. Due to both Czarist and Soviet policies, Russian has superseded Yiddish as the language of Russian Jews, but these policies have also affected neighboring communities. Today, Russian is the first language for many Jewish communities in a number of Post-Soviet states, such as Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as for Ashkenazic Jews in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Tajikistan. Although communities in North Africa today are small and dwindling, Jews there had shifted from a multilingual group to a monolingual one (or nearly so), speaking French in Algeria, Morocco, and the city of Tunis, while most North Africans continue to use Arabic as their mother tongue.[citation needed]
Question: What language is spoken by more Jews in history than any other language?
Answer: Yiddish
Question: North Africans continue to use what language as their mother tongue?
Answer: North Africans
Question: What are the three most commonly spoken languages among Jews today?
Answer: Hebrew, English, and Russian
Question: South African Jews adopted which language?
Answer: English
Question: Which language has by and far superseded most Jewish vernaculars?
Answer: English
Question: When was Hebrew last commonly used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language has surpassed English as a Jewish vernacular?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the three least commonly spoken languages among Jews?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language have Ashkenazi Jews adopted outside of Quebec?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group has shifted from a monolingual group to a multilingual one?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: It suffered damage during the turbulent 1640s, when it was attacked by Puritan iconoclasts, but was again protected by its close ties to the state during the Commonwealth period. Oliver Cromwell was given an elaborate funeral there in 1658, only to be disinterred in January 1661 and posthumously hanged from a gibbet at Tyburn.
Question: When did the abbey suffer damage?
Answer: 1640s
Question: Who attacked the abbey?
Answer: Puritan iconoclasts
Question: What protected the abbey?
Answer: ties to the state during the Commonwealth
Question: Who had a fancy funeral at the abbey in 1658?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell
Question: When was Oliver Cromwell disinterred?
Answer: January 1661
Question: When didn't the abbey suffer damage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who defended the abbey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What attacked the abbey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who had a fancy funeral at the abbey in 1685?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Oliver Cromwell murdered?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime minister is the presiding member and chairman of the cabinet. In a minority of systems, notably in semi-presidential systems of government, a prime minister is the official who is appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives of the head of state.
Question: What branch of government does the prime minister lead?
Answer: executive
Question: What group is the prime minister usually in charge of?
Answer: cabinet
Question: In some political models like semi-presidential systems, what does the prime minister manage?
Answer: civil service
Question: Who is the senior minister of the judicial branch?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group oversees the Prime Minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who selects the Prime Minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what type of system is the prime minister the head of state?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The abacus was initially used for arithmetic tasks. The Roman abacus was used in Babylonia as early as 2400 BC. Since then, many other forms of reckoning boards or tables have been invented. In a medieval European counting house, a checkered cloth would be placed on a table, and markers moved around on it according to certain rules, as an aid to calculating sums of money.
Question: What was the abacus first used for?
Answer: arithmetic tasks
Question: When was the Roman abacus first used?
Answer: 2400 BC
Question: Where was the Roman abacus first used?
Answer: Babylonia
Question: In medieval Europe was was placed on a table to help count money?
Answer: a checkered cloth
Question: A checkered cloth on a table was used in medieval Europe to help count what?
Answer: sums of money |
Context: In 1941, Zuse followed his earlier machine up with the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The Z3 was built with 2000 relays, implementing a 22 bit word length that operated at a clock frequency of about 5–10 Hz. Program code was supplied on punched film while data could be stored in 64 words of memory or supplied from the keyboard. It was quite similar to modern machines in some respects, pioneering numerous advances such as floating point numbers. Replacement of the hard-to-implement decimal system (used in Charles Babbage's earlier design) by the simpler binary system meant that Zuse's machines were easier to build and potentially more reliable, given the technologies available at that time. The Z3 was Turing complete.
Question: When did Konrad Zuse create the Z3 computer?
Answer: 1941
Question: What was the first automatic, digital, programmable computer created by Konrad Zuse?
Answer: the Z3
Question: How many relays did the Z3 contain?
Answer: 2000
Question: What did the Z3 operate for a clock frequency?
Answer: about 5–10 Hz
Question: How many words of memory could be stored with the Z3?
Answer: 64 |
Context: British Somaliland became independent on 26 June 1960 as the State of Somaliland, and the Trust Territory of Somalia (the former Italian Somaliland) followed suit five days later. On 1 July 1960, the two territories united to form the Somali Republic, albeit within boundaries drawn up by Italy and Britain. A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa Mohamud and Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal other members of the trusteeship and protectorate governments, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as the President of the Somali Republic and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister (later to become President from 1967 to 1969). On 20 July 1961 and through a popular referendum, the people of Somalia ratified a new constitution, which was first drafted in 1960. In 1967, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal became Prime Minister, a position to which he was appointed by Shermarke. Egal would later become the President of the autonomous Somaliland region in northwestern Somalia.
Question: On what date did British Somaliland gain independence?
Answer: 26 June 1960
Question: What was British Somaliland known as upon achieving independence?
Answer: the State of Somaliland
Question: What state formed the Somali Republic with British Somaliland?
Answer: the Trust Territory of Somalia
Question: On what date did the former British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland unite?
Answer: 1 July 1960
Question: Who was the first President of the Somali Republic?
Answer: Aden Abdullah Osman Daar |
Context: In September 1941, through the "Action Lauterbacher" plan, a ghettoisation of the remaining Hanoverian Jewish families began. Even before the Wannsee Conference, on 15 December 1941, the first Jews from Hanover were deported to Riga. A total of 2,400 people were deported, and very few survived. During the war seven concentration camps were constructed in Hanover, in which many Jews were confined. Of the approximately 4,800 Jews who had lived in Hannover in 1938, fewer than 100 were still in the city when troops of the United States Army arrived on 10 April 1945 to occupy Hanover at the end of the war.[citation needed] Today, a memorial at the Opera Square is a reminder of the persecution of the Jews in Hanover. After the war a large group of Orthodox Jewish survivors of the nearby Bergen-Belsen concentration camp settled in Hanover.
Question: What plan was implemented in September 1941?
Answer: Action Lauterbacher
Question: Which portion of the population underwent ghettoisation?
Answer: Hanoverian Jewish families
Question: What occured on the 15th of December 1941?
Answer: Wannsee Conference
Question: How many Jews approximately lived in Hanover in 1938?
Answer: 4,800
Question: How many concentration camps were constructed in Hanover?
Answer: seven
Question: What act ended the ghettos in 1941?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After what conference were the Jews deported to Riga
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What portion of the population was moved to better housing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many concentration camps were constructed in Hanover before the war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Russian army arrive to occupy Hanover?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Located in Southern Europe, Greece consists of a mountainous, peninsular mainland jutting out into the sea at the southern end of the Balkans, ending at the Peloponnese peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth) and strategically located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Due to its highly indented coastline and numerous islands, Greece has the 11th longest coastline in the world with 13,676 km (8,498 mi); its land boundary is 1,160 km (721 mi). The country lies approximately between latitudes 34° and 42° N, and longitudes 19° and 30° E, with the extreme points being:
Question: Greece is where geographically?
Answer: Southern Europe
Question: Where does Greece's coastline place in world rankings?
Answer: 11th longest
Question: How long is Greece's coastline?
Answer: 8,498 mi |
Context: From 1990 to 2005, Manuel Fraga, former minister and ambassador in the Franco dictature, presided over the Galician autonomous government, the Xunta de Galicia. Fraga was associated with the Partido Popular ('People's Party', Spain's main national conservative party) since its founding. In 2002, when the oil tanker Prestige sank and covered the Galician coast in oil, Fraga was accused by the grassroots movement Nunca Mais ("Never again") of having been unwilling to react. In the 2005 Galician elections, the 'People's Party' lost its absolute majority, though remaining (barely) the largest party in the parliament, with 43% of the total votes. As a result, power passed to a coalition of the Partido dos Socialistas de Galicia (PSdeG) ('Galician Socialists' Party'), a federal sister-party of Spain's main social-democratic party, the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, 'Spanish Socialist Workers Party') and the nationalist Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG). As the senior partner in the new coalition, the PSdeG nominated its leader, Emilio Perez Touriño, to serve as Galicia's new president, with Anxo Quintana, the leader of BNG, as its vice president.
Question: Which former minister under Franco's rule headed the autonomous government from 1990 to 2005?
Answer: Manuel Fraga
Question: Which political party did he belong to?
Answer: Partido Popular
Question: The sinking of which oil tanker precipitated the downfall of that party's rule?
Answer: Prestige
Question: Power then passed a political coalition headed by who?
Answer: Anxo Quintana |
Context: Chemical communications in animals rely on a variety of aspects including taste and smell. Chemoreception is the physiological response of a sense organ (i.e. taste or smell) to a chemical stimulus where the chemicals act as signals to regulate the state or activity of a cell. A semiochemical is a message-carrying chemical that is meant to attract, repel, and convey information. Types of semiochemicals include pheromones and kairomones. One example is the butterfly Phengaris arion which uses chemical signals as a form of mimicry to aid in predation.
Question: Animal taste and smell rely on what kind of communication?
Answer: Chemical
Question: What is the physiological response of a sense organ called?
Answer: Chemoreception
Question: Chemical stimuli are signals that regulate the activity of what?
Answer: a cell
Question: What is a message-carrying chemical called?
Answer: semiochemical
Question: Kairomones are a type of what?
Answer: semiochemicals |
Context: The relative reactivity of zinc and its ability to attract oxidation to itself makes it an efficient sacrificial anode in cathodic protection (CP). For example, cathodic protection of a buried pipeline can be achieved by connecting anodes made from zinc to the pipe. Zinc acts as the anode (negative terminus) by slowly corroding away as it passes electric current to the steel pipeline.[note 2] Zinc is also used to cathodically protect metals that are exposed to sea water from corrosion. A zinc disc attached to a ship's iron rudder will slowly corrode, whereas the rudder stays unattacked. Other similar uses include a plug of zinc attached to a propeller or the metal protective guard for the keel of the ship.
Question: What makes zinc an efficient sacrificial anode?
Answer: relative reactivity of zinc and its ability to attract oxidation
Question: Connecting anodes made from zinc to buried pipe creates what?
Answer: cathodic protection
Question: What does attaching a zinc disc to a ships iron rudder do?
Answer: protect metals that are exposed to sea water from corrosion
Question: Why does zinc protect metals exposed to sea water from corroding?
Answer: will slowly corrode, whereas the rudder stays unattacked
Question: What makes zinc an inefficient sacrificial anode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does attaching a zinc sphere to a ship's iron rudder not help with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is zinc not able to ever corrode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why does zinc harm metals exposed to sea water?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Windows in all types of buildings were large and regularly placed on a grid; this was partly to minimize window tax, which was in force throughout the period in the United Kingdom. Some windows were subsequently bricked-in. Their height increasingly varied between the floors, and they increasingly began below waist-height in the main rooms, making a small balcony desirable. Before this the internal plan and function of the rooms can generally not be deduced from the outside. To open these large windows the sash window, already developed by the 1670s, became very widespread. Corridor plans became universal inside larger houses.
Question: What tax was in force throughout the United Kingdom during this time?
Answer: window tax
Question: When was the sash window developed?
Answer: the 1670s
Question: What plans became universal inside larger houses?
Answer: Corridor plans
Question: What cannot be generally deduced from the outside?
Answer: the internal plan and function of the rooms
Question: What aspect of windows generally varied between floors?
Answer: Their height
Question: What tax was maximized by building large and regularly spaced windows
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What increasingly began above waist height in the main rooms?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Before this. What could generally be deduced from the outside
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What plans were not universal inside large houses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of window was required before 1670?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Armenian literature dates back to 400 AD, when Mesrop Mashtots first invented the Armenian alphabet. This period of time is often viewed as the Golden Age of Armenian literature. Early Armenian literature was written by the "father of Armenian history", Moses of Chorene, who authored The History of Armenia. The book covers the time-frame from the formation of the Armenian people to the fifth century AD. The nineteenth century beheld a great literary movement that was to give rise to modern Armenian literature. This period of time, during which Armenian culture flourished, is known as the Revival period (Zartonki sherchan). The Revivalist authors of Constantinople and Tiflis, almost identical to the Romanticists of Europe, were interested in encouraging Armenian nationalism. Most of them adopted the newly created Eastern or Western variants of the Armenian language depending on the targeted audience, and preferred them over classical Armenian (grabar). This period ended after the Hamidian massacres, when Armenians experienced turbulent times. As Armenian history of the 1920s and of the Genocide came to be more openly discussed, writers like Paruyr Sevak, Gevork Emin, Silva Kaputikyan and Hovhannes Shiraz began a new era of literature.
Question: Who came up with the Armenian alphabet?
Answer: Mesrop Mashtots
Question: When did Armenian writing begin?
Answer: 400 AD
Question: Who was the 'father of Armenian history'?
Answer: Moses of Chorene
Question: Who wrote 'The History of Armenia'?
Answer: Moses of Chorene
Question: Which European movement were the Revivalist authors similar to?
Answer: Romanticists
Question: When did Gevork Emin invent the Armenian alphabet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did European writing begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other name was given to Paruyr Sevak?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What work was written by Silva Kaputikyan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Zartonki Sherchan interested in openly discussing?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many Fortune 500 corporations are headquartered in New York City, as are a large number of foreign corporations. One out of ten private sector jobs in the city is with a foreign company. New York City has been ranked first among cities across the globe in attracting capital, business, and tourists. This ability to attract foreign investment helped New York City top the FDi Magazine American Cities of the Future ranking for 2013.
Question: What fraction of New Yorkers in the private sector are employed by foreign companies?
Answer: One out of ten
Question: What publication ranked New York first in the 2013 American Cities of the Future rankings?
Answer: FDi Magazine |
Context: Before creation of Warsaw Pact, fearing Germany rearmed, Czechoslovak leadership sought to create security pact with East Germany and Poland. These states protested strongly against re-militarization of West Germany. The Warsaw Pact was primarily put in place as a consequence of the rearming of West Germany inside NATO. Soviet leaders, as many European countries in both western and eastern side, feared Germany being once again a military power as a direct threat and German militarism remained a fresh memory among Soviets and Eastern Europeans. As Soviet Union had already bilateral treaties with all of its eastern satellites, the Pact has been long considered 'superfluous', and because of the rushed way in which it was conceived, NATO officials labeled it as a 'cardboard castle'. Previously, in March 1954, the USSR, fearing the restoration of German Militarism in West Germany, requested admission to NATO.
Question: The formation of the Warsaw Pact was driven by fears of which country rearming itself?
Answer: West Germany
Question: Which country sought NATO admission in response to the fear of German rearmament?
Answer: the USSR
Question: Which leadership had no fear of Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What states protested for the re-militarization of West Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who feared Poland becoming once again a military power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What officials said the Pact was a "superfluous castle"?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Greece is a democratic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy, a high quality of life and a very high standard of living. A founding member of the United Nations, Greece was the tenth member to join the European Communities (precursor to the European Union) and has been part of the Eurozone since 2001. It is also a member of numerous other international institutions, including the Council of Europe, NATO,[a] OECD, OIF, OSCE and the WTO. Greece, which is one of the world's largest shipping powers, middle powers and top tourist destinations, has the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor.
Question: Greece is one of the members who founded what organization?
Answer: United Nations
Question: Which political philosophy does Greece follow?
Answer: democratic
Question: When did Greece join the Eurozone?
Answer: 2001
Question: Greece has the biggest economic power where?
Answer: Balkans |
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