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Context: Winston Churchill, on forming his government in 1940, created the office of Minister of Defence to exercise ministerial control over the Chiefs of Staff Committee and to co-ordinate defence matters. The post was held by the Prime Minister of the day until Clement Attlee's government introduced the Ministry of Defence Act of 1946. The new ministry was headed by a Minister of Defence who possessed a seat in the Cabinet. The three existing service Ministers—the Secretary of State for War, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Air—remained in direct operational control of their respective services, but ceased to attend Cabinet.
Question: Who created the office of Minister of Defence?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: When was the Ministry of Defence Act introduced?
Answer: 1946
Question: When did Winstron Churchill form his government?
Answer: 1940
Question: The new ministry, according to the Act of 1946, was headed by a Minister of Defence who possessed what?
Answer: a seat in the Cabinet
Question: Who stopped attending Cabinet with the passage of the Ministry of Defence Act of 1946?
Answer: the Secretary of State for War, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for Air
Question: Who created the Chiefs of Staff Committee?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the Secretary of State for War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did someone hold the position of Secretary of State for War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Secretary of State Act introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Winston Churchill possess while Minister of Defence?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The formalist definition is that the history of "literature" foregrounds poetic effects; it is the "literariness" or "poeticity" of literature that distinguishes it from ordinary speech or other kinds of writing (e.g., journalism). Jim Meyer considers this a useful characteristic in explaining the use of the term to mean published material in a particular field (e.g., "scientific literature"), as such writing must use language according to particular standards. The problem with the formalist definition is that in order to say that literature deviates from ordinary uses of language, those uses must first be identified; this is difficult because "ordinary language" is an unstable category, differing according to social categories and across history.
Question: A definition of literature that incorporates style and the poetic nature of prose is what?
Answer: formalist
Question: What is one example of writing that the formalist definition distinguishes literature from?
Answer: journalism
Question: What element of the formalist definition makes it difficult to apply?
Answer: "ordinary language"
Question: What part of ordinary language makes it difficult to apply the formalist definition?
Answer: an unstable category, differing according to social categories and across history
Question: The formalist definition when applied to industry writing allows it to be called literature when it does what?
Answer: must use language according to particular standards
Question: What does the normalist definition of "literature" say distinguishes it from ordinary speech?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The term referring to unpublished material in a particular field includes what type of literature as one example?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Tim Meyer says scientific literature, for example, must use what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Ordinary language is an unstable category that is the same according to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the problem Jim Meyer states with the formalist definition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the formalistic definition of literature state?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one type of writing not included in the formalistic definition of literature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the difficulty with "ordinary language" according to cultural categories?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of unpublished material in a certain field?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the formalist definition of history?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Jim Meyer considers what term to be useful in explaining scientific literature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is "ordinary language" considered according to social history and differing categories?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Victorian era in particular became notorious for the conditions under which children were employed. Children as young as four were employed in production factories and mines working long hours in dangerous, often fatal, working conditions. In coal mines, children would crawl through tunnels too narrow and low for adults. Children also worked as errand boys, crossing sweepers, shoe blacks, or selling matches, flowers and other cheap goods. Some children undertook work as apprentices to respectable trades, such as building or as domestic servants (there were over 120,000 domestic servants in London in the mid-18th century). Working hours were long: builders worked 64 hours a week in summer and 52 in winter, while domestic servants worked 80 hour weeks.
Question: On average how many weekly hours did a domestic servant put in?
Answer: 80
Question: Mid-18th century London had how many domestic servants?
Answer: over 120,000
Question: What was the youngest age of a child working in a factory?
Answer: four
Question: How many hours did builders work in the winter?
Answer: 52
Question: Were children able to take on apprenticeships?
Answer: Some children undertook work as apprentices to respectable trades |
Context: In 1892 Captain Davis of the HMS Royalist reported on trading activities and traders on each of the islands visited. Captain Davis identified the following traders in the Ellice Group: Edmund Duffy (Nanumea); Jack Buckland (Niutao); Harry Nitz (Vaitupu); John (also known as Jack) O'Brien (Funafuti); Alfred Restieaux and Emile Fenisot (Nukufetau); and Martin Kleis (Nui). During this time, the greatest number of palagi traders lived on the atolls, acting as agents for the trading companies. Some islands would have competing traders while dryer islands might only have a single trader.
Question: What sea captain reported on the Tuvalu trading in 1892?
Answer: Captain Davis
Question: What was the name of Davis's ship?
Answer: HMS Royalist
Question: What did palagi traders act as for the trading companies?
Answer: agents
Question: How many traders did some islands have?
Answer: competing
Question: What type of islands in the Tuvalu group have few traders?
Answer: dryer |
Context: The climate in the state depends mainly in the elevation of the terrain. According to Köppen climate classification the state has five major climate zones. The Sierra Madre Occidental dominates the western part of the state; there are two main climates in this area: Subtropical Highland (Cfb) and Humid Subtropical (Cwa). There are some microclimates in the state due to the varying topology mostly found in the western side of the state. The two best known microclimates are: Tropical savanna climate (Aw) in deep canyons located in the extreme southern part of the state; Continental Mediterranean climate (Dsb) in the extremely high elevations of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Satellite image to the right shows the vegetation is much greener in the west because of the cooler temperatures and larger amounts of precipitation as compared to the rest of the state.
Question: Climate in the state depends mainly on what?
Answer: elevation of the terrain
Question: Which mountain range dominates the western part of the state?
Answer: The Sierra Madre Occidental
Question: Vegetation is much greener in which side of the state, east or west?
Answer: west
Question: Which side of the state has more precipitation?
Answer: west
Question: Which part of the state has the most desert; north, south, east, or west?
Answer: southern |
Context: In addition to city government, numerous commissions and state authorities—including the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), and the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)—play a role in the life of Bostonians. As the capital of Massachusetts, Boston plays a major role in state politics.
Question: What is the capital of Massachusetts?
Answer: Boston
Question: As the state capital, Boston plays a large role in what?
Answer: state politics
Question: What is the MWRA?
Answer: Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
Question: What is the name of the massachusetts port authority?
Answer: Massport |
Context: Further conventions were adopted at the regional level under the aegis of the Organization of American States (OAS or OEA), the African Union, and in 2003, at the universal level under that of the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
Question: What is OAS?
Answer: Organization of American States
Question: Additional conventions were adopted at the regional level by OAS and who?
Answer: the African Union
Question: What organization joined at the universal level?
Answer: the United Nations Convention against Corruption
Question: When did the United Nations Convention against Corruption join?
Answer: 2003 |
Context: The Xeer legal system is assumed to have developed exclusively in the Horn of Africa since approximately the 7th century. There is no evidence that it developed elsewhere or was greatly influenced by any foreign legal system. The fact that Somali legal terminology is practically devoid of loan words from foreign languages suggests that Xeer is truly indigenous.
Question: In what century did the Xeer system begin?
Answer: 7th
Question: In what region did the Xeer system develop?
Answer: the Horn of Africa
Question: What fact about Somali legal terms implies that Xeer developed locally?
Answer: devoid of loan words |
Context: In 1939, the Bureau began compiling a custodial detention list with the names of those who would be taken into custody in the event of war with Axis nations. The majority of the names on the list belonged to Issei community leaders, as the FBI investigation built on an existing Naval Intelligence index that had focused on Japanese Americans in Hawaii and the West Coast, but many German and Italian nationals also found their way onto the secret list. Robert Shivers, head of the Honolulu office, obtained permission from Hoover to start detaining those on the list on December 7, 1941, while bombs were still falling over Pearl Harbor. Mass arrests and searches of homes (in most cases conducted without warrants) began a few hours after the attack, and over the next several weeks more than 5,500 Issei men were taken into FBI custody. On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. FBI Director Hoover opposed the subsequent mass removal and confinement of Japanese Americans authorized under Executive Order 9066, but Roosevelt prevailed. The vast majority went along with the subsequent exclusion orders, but in a handful of cases where Japanese Americans refused to obey the new military regulations, FBI agents handled their arrests. The Bureau continued surveillance on Japanese Americans throughout the war, conducting background checks on applicants for resettlement outside camp, and entering the camps (usually without the permission of War Relocation Authority officials) and grooming informants in order to monitor dissidents and "troublemakers." After the war, the FBI was assigned to protect returning Japanese Americans from attacks by hostile white communities.
Question: When did the Bureau begin compiling a custodial detention list?
Answer: 1939
Question: When would the people on the custodial detention list be arrested?
Answer: in the event of war with Axis
Question: Who were the majority of names on the custodial detention list?
Answer: Issei community leaders
Question: When was Pearl Harbor bombed?
Answer: December 7, 1941
Question: What group did the FBI continue surveillance on?
Answer: Japanese Americans
Question: When did the Bureau stop compiling a custodial detention list?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Hoover stop Robert Shivers from detaining those on the list?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Issei men were released from FBI custody?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What executive order blocked removing Japanese Americans from the West Coast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which FBI director supported Executive Order 9066?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Characteristic birds of the forest are wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris), ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus), mourning dove (Zenaida macroura), common raven (Corvus corax), wood duck (Aix sponsa), great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), barred owl (Strix varia), screech owl (Megascops asio), red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), and northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), as well as a great variety of "songbirds" (Passeriformes), like the warblers in particular.
Question: What is one typical bird found in the range?
Answer: wild turkey
Question: What is the scientific name for warblers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of songbird is rarely found in the forests?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of duck is rarely found in the forests?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the scientific name of the wild raven?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 2 March 1979, the GPC announced the separation of government and revolution, the latter being represented by new Revolutionary Committees, who operated in tandem with the People's Committees in schools, universities, unions, the police force and the military. Dominated by revolutionary zealots, the Revolutionary Committees were led by Mohammad Maghgoub and a Central Coordinating Office, and met with Gaddafi annually. Publishing a weekly magazine The Green March (al-Zahf al-Akhdar), in October 1980 they took control of the press. Responsible for perpetuating revolutionary fervour, they performed ideological surveillance, later adopting a significant security role, making arrests and putting people on trial according to the "law of the revolution" (qanun al-thawra). With no legal code or safeguards, the administration of revolutionary justice was largely arbitrary and resulted in widespread abuses and the suppression of civil liberties: the "Green Terror."
Question: On what date did the GPC separate the revolution from the government?
Answer: 2 March 1979,
Question: Who was the leader of the Revolutionary Committees?
Answer: Mohammad Maghgoub
Question: What was the English name of the magazine published by the Revolutionary Committees?
Answer: The Green March
Question: How often was al-Zahf al-Akhdar published?
Answer: weekly
Question: What bodies represented the revolution after the separation of government and revolution?
Answer: Revolutionary Committees |
Context: London has a diverse range of peoples and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken within Greater London. The Office for National Statistics estimated its mid-2014 population to be 8,538,689, the largest of any municipality in the European Union, and accounting for 12.5 percent of the UK population. London's urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants according to the 2011 census. The city's metropolitan area is one of the most populous in Europe with 13,879,757 inhabitants,[note 4] while the Greater London Authority states the population of the city-region (covering a large part of the south east) as 22.7 million. London was the world's most populous city from around 1831 to 1925.
Question: From the 2011 census, London is second in population in the EU to which city?
Answer: Paris
Question: During what time did London have the world's largest population, city-wise?
Answer: around 1831 to 1925
Question: Approximately how many languages are spoken in the Greater London area?
Answer: more than 300
Question: As of mid-2014, London's population forms what percentage of the entire United Kingdom population?
Answer: 12.5
Question: What is the population of metropolitan London?
Answer: 13,879,757 |
Context: The Historic center of Mexico City (Centro Histórico) and the "floating gardens" of Xochimilco in the southern borough have been declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Famous landmarks in the Historic Center include the Plaza de la Constitución (Zócalo), the main central square with its epoch-contrasting Spanish-era Metropolitan Cathedral and National Palace, ancient Aztec temple ruins Templo Mayor ("Major Temple") and modern structures, all within a few steps of one another. (The Templo Mayor was discovered in 1978 while workers were digging to place underground electric cables).
Question: Who designated the floating gardens as a World Heritage site?
Answer: UNESCO
Question: The Historic Center and the floating gardens are both examples of what?
Answer: World Heritage Sites
Question: When was the Templo Mayor found?
Answer: 1978
Question: How was Templo Mayor discovered?
Answer: workers were digging to place underground electric cables |
Context: Fears decreased when Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita Khruschev emerged as the Soviet Union's new leader. Soon, life in Soviet Armenia began to see rapid improvement. The church, which suffered greatly under Stalin, was revived when Catholicos Vazgen I assumed the duties of his office in 1955. In 1967, a memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide was built at the Tsitsernakaberd hill above the Hrazdan gorge in Yerevan. This occurred after mass demonstrations took place on the tragic event's fiftieth anniversary in 1965.
Question: Who succeeded Stalin?
Answer: Nikita Khruschev
Question: When did Stalin pass away?
Answer: 1953
Question: When did Vazgen acquire his position?
Answer: 1955
Question: Where is the memorial for the Armenian Genocide?
Answer: Yerevan
Question: When was the Armenian Genocide Memorial constructed?
Answer: 1967 |
Context: In Tasmania in 2009 the old college system and TAFE Tasmania have started a 3-year restructure to become the Tasmanian Polytechnic www.polytechnic.tas.edu.au, Tasmanian Skills Institute www.skillsinstitute.tas.edu.au and Tasmanian Academy www.academy.tas.edu.au
Question: TAFE Tasmania started a three-year restructuring in what year?
Answer: 2009 |
Context: Each island has its own high-chief, or ulu-aliki, and several sub-chiefs (alikis). The community council is the Falekaupule (the traditional assembly of elders) or te sina o fenua (literally: "grey-hairs of the land"). In the past, another caste, the priests (tofuga), were also amongst the decision-makers. The ulu-aliki and aliki exercise informal authority at the local level. Ulu-aliki are always chosen based on ancestry. Under the Falekaupule Act (1997), the powers and functions of the Falekaupule are now shared with the pule o kaupule (elected village presidents; one on each atoll).
Question: What is the Tuvalu high chief on each island called?
Answer: ulu-aliki
Question: What is the name of the sub-chiefs in Tuvalu?
Answer: alikis
Question: What is the Tuvaluan traditional assembly of elders?
Answer: Falekaupule
Question: What was the caste of priests in the past on Tuvalu?
Answer: tofuga
Question: With what group do the falekaupule share power on Tuvalu?
Answer: pule o kaupule |
Context: Adolescents' thinking is less bound to concrete events than that of children: they can contemplate possibilities outside the realm of what currently exists. One manifestation of the adolescent's increased facility with thinking about possibilities is the improvement of skill in deductive reasoning, which leads to the development of hypothetical thinking. This provides the ability to plan ahead, see the future consequences of an action and to provide alternative explanations of events. It also makes adolescents more skilled debaters, as they can reason against a friend's or parent's assumptions. Adolescents also develop a more sophisticated understanding of probability.
Question: Are adolescents or children more bound to concrete events?
Answer: children
Question: Deductive reasoning leads to the development of what type of thinking?
Answer: hypothetical
Question: What type of thinking provides the ability to plan ahead and makes adolescents more skilled debaters?
Answer: hypothetical
Question: Adolescents develop a more sophisticated understanding of what mathematical concept thanks to their increased hypothetical thinking abilties?
Answer: probability |
Context: More than 12,000 miles (19,000 km) of roads make up the state's major highway skeleton, including state-operated highways, ten turnpikes or major toll roads, and the longest drivable stretch of Route 66 in the nation. In 2008, Interstate 44 in Oklahoma City was Oklahoma's busiest highway, with a daily traffic volume of 123,300 cars. In 2010, the state had the nation's third highest number of bridges classified as structurally deficient, with nearly 5,212 bridges in disrepair, including 235 National Highway System Bridges.
Question: How many miles of highways are in Oklahoma?
Answer: More than 12,000
Question: Oklahoma has the longest drivable stretch of what famous highway?
Answer: Route 66
Question: What is the busiest highway in Oklahoma?
Answer: Interstate 44
Question: How many bridges in Oklahoma were found to be deficient in 2010?
Answer: 5,212
Question: How many national highway bridges in Oklahoma were found to be deficient in 2010?
Answer: 235 |
Context: The city provides for yachting and water sports, with a number of marinas. From 1977 to 2001 the Whitbread Around the World Yacht Race, which is now known as the Volvo Ocean Race was based in Southampton's Ocean Village marina.
Question: What feature does Southampton have plenty of that provides for water sports and yachting?
Answer: marinas
Question: What race named after a car company used to be hosted in Southampton?
Answer: the Volvo Ocean Race
Question: What was the former name of the Volvo Ocean Race?
Answer: the Whitbread Around the World Yacht Race
Question: Which marina in Southampton hosted the yacht race from 1977 too 2001?
Answer: Ocean Village marina |
Context: In contrast, IHD is becoming a more common cause of death in the developing world. For example, in India, IHD had become the leading cause of death by 2004, accounting for 1.46 million deaths (14% of total deaths) and deaths due to IHD were expected to double during 1985–2015. Globally, disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost to ischemic heart disease are predicted to account for 5.5% of total DALYs in 2030, making it the second-most-important cause of disability (after unipolar depressive disorder), as well as the leading cause of death by this date.
Question: What percentage of deaths does unipolar depressive disorder cause?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people died from IHD from 1985-2015?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the worldwide leading cause of death?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of deaths will IHD be responsible for in 2030?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did IHD begin to be a bigger problem in the developing word?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Numerous men from Detroit volunteered to fight for the Union during the American Civil War, including the 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment (part of the legendary Iron Brigade), which fought with distinction and suffered 82% casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. When the First Volunteer Infantry Regiment arrived to fortify Washington, DC, President Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying "Thank God for Michigan!" George Armstrong Custer led the Michigan Brigade during the Civil War and called them the "Wolverines".
Question: What year was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: 1863
Question: Who led the Wolverine Brigade?
Answer: George Armstrong Custer
Question: What Brigade was the 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment a part of?
Answer: Iron Brigade
Question: How many casualties did the 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment have in Gettysburg?
Answer: 82% |
Context: After graduating from high school, West received a scholarship to attend Chicago's American Academy of Art in 1997 and began taking painting classes, but shortly after transferred to Chicago State University to study English. He soon realized that his busy class schedule was detrimental to his musical work, and at 20 he dropped out of college to pursue his musical dreams. This action greatly displeased his mother, who was also a professor at the university. She later commented, "It was drummed into my head that college is the ticket to a good life... but some career goals don't require college. For Kanye to make an album called College Dropout it was more about having the guts to embrace who you are, rather than following the path society has carved out for you."
Question: Where did Kanye receive a scholarship to attend?
Answer: American Academy of Art
Question: How old was Kanye when he dropped out of college?
Answer: 20
Question: What school did Kanye West go to in 1997?
Answer: Chicago's American Academy of Art
Question: What subject was Kanye West's focus at Chicago State University?
Answer: English
Question: At what age did Kanye West leave school to follow his musical passion?
Answer: 20
Question: What was the name of the CD that Kanye recorded based on his failed college experience?
Answer: College Dropout |
Context: The beginning of the 20th century brought the start of a revolution in physics. The long-held theories of Newton were shown not to be correct in all circumstances. Beginning in 1900, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and others developed quantum theories to explain various anomalous experimental results, by introducing discrete energy levels. Not only did quantum mechanics show that the laws of motion did not hold on small scales, but even more disturbingly, the theory of general relativity, proposed by Einstein in 1915, showed that the fixed background of spacetime, on which both Newtonian mechanics and special relativity depended, could not exist. In 1925, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger formulated quantum mechanics, which explained the preceding quantum theories. The observation by Edwin Hubble in 1929 that the speed at which galaxies recede positively correlates with their distance, led to the understanding that the universe is expanding, and the formulation of the Big Bang theory by Georges Lemaître.
Question: What science subject explains anomalous results?
Answer: quantum theories
Question: What year did Einstein discover the theory of general relativity?
Answer: 1915
Question: Quantum theories became which subject in 1925?
Answer: quantum mechanics
Question: Which scientist noticed the relationship between the speed and distance of galaxies?
Answer: Edwin Hubble
Question: Edwin Hubble's discovery about galaxies allowed for which theory by Georges Lemaitre?
Answer: the Big Bang theory |
Context: According to Taraborrelli, the defining moment of Madonna's childhood was the tragic and untimely death of her beloved mother. Psychiatrist Keith Ablow suggests her mother's death would have had an immeasurable impact on the young Madonna at a time when her personality was still forming. According to Ablow, the younger a child is at the time of a serious loss, the more profound the influence and the longer lasting the impact. He concludes that "some people never reconcile themselves to such a loss at an early age, Madonna is not different than them." Conversely, author Lucy O'Brien feels the impact of the rape she suffered is, in fact, the motivating factor behind everything Madonna has done, more important even than the death of her mother: "It's not so much grief at her mother's death that drives her, as the sense of abandonment that left her unprotected. She encountered her own worst possible scenario, becoming a victim of male violence, and thereafter turned that full-tilt into her work, reversing the equation at every opportunity."
Question: According to who was the defining moment of Madonna's childhood with her mother's death?
Answer: Taraborrelli,
Question: Which psychiatrist said that when a parent dies when the child is young, it leaves a lasting impact?
Answer: Keith Ablow
Question: Who believes that the rape Madonna experienced is the driving force in life?
Answer: Lucy O'Brien |
Context: Up to 1990, English, German and Afrikaans were official languages. Long before Namibia's independence from South Africa, SWAPO was of the opinion that the country should become officially monolingual, choosing this approach in contrast to that of its neighbour South Africa (which granted all 11 of its major languages official status), which was seen by them as "a deliberate policy of ethnolinguistic fragmentation." Consequently, SWAPO instituted English as the sole official language of Namibia though only about 3% of the population speaks it as a home language. Its implementation is focused on the civil service, education and the broadcasting system. Some other languages have received semi-official recognition by being allowed as medium of instruction in primary schools. It is expected of private schools to follow the same policy as state schools, and "English language" is a compulsory subject. As in other postcolonial African societies, the push for monolingual instruction and policy has resulted in a high rate of school drop-outs and of individuals whose academic competence in any language is low.
Question: German, English, and Afrikaans were the official languages until when in Namibia?
Answer: 1990
Question: SWAPO thought Namibia should have what type of official language?
Answer: monolingual
Question: What is the primary language of Namibia, as SWAPO instituted?
Answer: English
Question: How many Namibian's speak English?
Answer: 3%
Question: There was a high rate of what due to monolingual instruction?
Answer: school drop-outs
Question: What is one of the 11 official languages of South Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of people speak Afrikaans in Namibia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of people speak German in Namibia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The push for monolingual instruction has been a success in what African country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people in Namibia can speak English at all?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: West's breakthrough came a year later on October 23, 2002, when, while driving home from a California recording studio after working late, he fell asleep at the wheel and was involved in a near-fatal car crash. The crash left him with a shattered jaw, which had to be wired shut in reconstructive surgery. The accident inspired West; two weeks after being admitted to the hospital, he recorded a song at the Record Plant Studios with his jaw still wired shut. The composition, "Through The Wire", expressed West's experience after the accident, and helped lay the foundation for his debut album, as according to West "all the better artists have expressed what they were going through". West added that "the album was my medicine", as working on the record distracted him from the pain. "Through The Wire" was first available on West's Get Well Soon... mixtape, released December 2002. At the same time, West announced that he was working on an album called The College Dropout, whose overall theme was to "make your own decisions. Don't let society tell you, 'This is what you have to do.'"
Question: What track did Kanye compose and perform while injured from his accident?
Answer: Through The Wire
Question: What was the name of Kanye's 2002 mixtape that he wrote while in the hospital?
Answer: Get Well Soon...
Question: After dropping his mixtape, Kanye revealed the name of his debut album to be what?
Answer: The College Dropout
Question: What was the date of Kanye's car wreck?
Answer: October 23, 2002
Question: What song did Kanye record about his experience with what happened after the wreck?
Answer: "Through The Wire"
Question: What was the name of the mixtape Kanye released in December of 2002?
Answer: Get Well Soon |
Context: A section of East 58th Street 40°45′40.3″N 73°57′56.9″W / 40.761194°N 73.965806°W / 40.761194; -73.965806 between Lexington and Second Avenues is known as Designers' Way and features a number of high end interior design and decoration establishments, including
Question: What is the section of East 58th Street between Lexington and Second Avenues known as?
Answer: Designers' Way
Question: Which section of Eat 58th Street features high end interior design and decoration establishments?
Answer: Designers' Way
Question: Designers' Way occurs on East 58th Street between Lexington and which other Avenue?
Answer: Second |
Context: After disenfranchisement of blacks, the GOP in Tennessee was historically a sectional party supported by whites only in the eastern part of the state. In the 20th century, except for two nationwide Republican landslides of the 1920s (in 1920, when Tennessee narrowly supported Warren G. Harding over Ohio Governor James Cox, and in 1928, when it more decisively voted for Herbert Hoover over New York Governor Al Smith, a Catholic), the state was part of the Democratic Solid South until the 1950s. In that postwar decade, it twice voted for Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, former Allied Commander of the Armed Forces during World War II. Since then, more of the state's voters have shifted to supporting Republicans, and Democratic presidential candidates have carried Tennessee only four times.
Question: Which Republican presidential candidate did Tennessee support in 1920?
Answer: Warren G. Harding
Question: What religion was the Democratic presidential candidate that Tennessee voted against in 1928?
Answer: Catholic
Question: How many times has Tennessee supported Democratic presidential candidates in the general elections since the 1950s?
Answer: four
Question: Which Republican won the Presidency while carrying Tennessee in 1928?
Answer: Herbert Hoover |
Context: On March 30, 2015, it was announced that West is a co-owner, with various other music artists, in the music streaming service Tidal. The service specialises in lossless audio and high definition music videos. Jay Z acquired the parent company of Tidal, Aspiro, in the first quarter of 2015. Including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, sixteen artist stakeholders (such as Rihanna, Beyoncé, Madonna, Chris Martin, Nicki Minaj and more) co-own Tidal, with the majority owning a 3% equity stake. The idea of having an all artist owned streaming service was created by those involved to adapt to the increased demand for streaming within the current music industry, and to rival other streaming services such as Spotify, which have been criticised for their low payout of royalties. "The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value", stated Jay-Z on the release of Tidal.
Question: What platform was Kanye named a co-owner of in 2015?
Answer: Tidal
Question: What longtime friend of Kanye acquired Tidal in 2015?
Answer: Jay-Z
Question: What criticisms of other streaming platforms does Tidal stand to challenge?
Answer: low payout of royalties
Question: What music streaming service is Kanye West a co-owner of?
Answer: Tidal
Question: What is Tidal's specialization?
Answer: lossless audio and high definition music videos
Question: Which famous rapper bought Aspiro?
Answer: Jay Z
Question: What music service is a huge competitor for Tidal?
Answer: Spotify |
Context: Speaker Martin concluded that Eisenhower worked too much through subordinates in dealing with Congress, with results, "often the reverse of what he has desired" because Members of Congress, "resent having some young fellow who was picked up by the White House without ever having been elected to office himself coming around and telling them 'The Chief wants this'. The administration never made use of many Republicans of consequence whose services in one form or another would have been available for the asking."
Question: What did Martin think Eisenhower did too much of in his relations with Congress?
Answer: worked too much through subordinates
Question: As a result of Eisenhower's actions toward Congress, what did Martin think Congress often gave him?
Answer: reverse of what he has desired
Question: Who did Martin think Eisenhower should have made better use of?
Answer: Republicans of consequence |
Context: In 1841, Léon Escudier wrote of a recital given by Chopin that year, "One may say that Chopin is the creator of a school of piano and a school of composition. In truth, nothing equals the lightness, the sweetness with which the composer preludes on the piano; moreover nothing may be compared to his works full of originality, distinction and grace." Chopin refused to conform to a standard method of playing and believed that there was no set technique for playing well. His style was based extensively on his use of very independent finger technique. In his Projet de méthode he wrote: "Everything is a matter of knowing good fingering ... we need no less to use the rest of the hand, the wrist, the forearm and the upper arm." He further stated: "One needs only to study a certain position of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful quality of sound, to know how to play short notes and long notes, and [to attain] unlimited dexterity." The consequences of this approach to technique in Chopin's music include the frequent use of the entire range of the keyboard, passages in double octaves and other chord groupings, swiftly repeated notes, the use of grace notes, and the use of contrasting rhythms (four against three, for example) between the hands.
Question: What was Chopin's style based upon?
Answer: independent finger technique
Question: Who wrote about a Chopin 1841 recital?
Answer: Léon Escudier
Question: What writing of Chopin talks about everything about piano playing has to do with proper fingering?
Answer: his Projet de méthode |
Context: Canadian defence policy today is based on the Canada First Defence Strategy, introduced in 2008. Based on that strategy, the Canadian military is oriented and being equipped to carry out six core missions within Canada, in North America and globally. Specifically, the Canadian Armed Forces are tasked with having the capacity to:
Question: What is Canada's defense policy based on?
Answer: Canada First Defence Strategy
Question: When was the Canada First Defence Strategy introduced?
Answer: 2008
Question: How many missions are carried out internally in Canada?
Answer: six core missions
Question: What other location does the Canada First Defence Strategy Cover?
Answer: North America
Question: When was the First Canada Defence Strategy introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is based on the First Canada Defence Strategy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many global missions are Canadians equipped to carry out?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A team led by Enrico Fermi in 1934 observed that bombarding uranium with neutrons produces the emission of beta rays (electrons or positrons from the elements produced; see beta particle). The fission products were at first mistaken for new elements of atomic numbers 93 and 94, which the Dean of the Faculty of Rome, Orso Mario Corbino, christened ausonium and hesperium, respectively. The experiments leading to the discovery of uranium's ability to fission (break apart) into lighter elements and release binding energy were conducted by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Hahn's laboratory in Berlin. Lise Meitner and her nephew, the physicist Otto Robert Frisch, published the physical explanation in February 1939 and named the process "nuclear fission". Soon after, Fermi hypothesized that the fission of uranium might release enough neutrons to sustain a fission reaction. Confirmation of this hypothesis came in 1939, and later work found that on average about 2.5 neutrons are released by each fission of the rare uranium isotope uranium-235. Further work found that the far more common uranium-238 isotope can be transmuted into plutonium, which, like uranium-235, is also fissile by thermal neutrons. These discoveries led numerous countries to begin working on the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
Question: When was it observed that bombarding uranium with neutrons results in beta ray emission?
Answer: 1934
Question: Who led the team that discovered that bombarding uranium with neutrons created beta ray emissions?
Answer: Enrico Fermi
Question: What was the name given by Corbino to the incorrectly designated atomic number 94?
Answer: hesperium
Question: What was the job title of Orso Mario Corbino?
Answer: Dean of the Faculty of Rome
Question: Who was the aunt of Otto Robert Frisch?
Answer: Lise Meitner
Question: When was it observed that bombarding uranium with neutrons results in gamma ray emission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who led the team that discovered that bombarding uranium with neutrons created gamma ray emissions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name given by Corbino to the incorrectly designated atomic number 194?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasn't the job title of Orso Mario Corbino?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the uncle of Otto Robert Frisch?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Poultry (/ˌpoʊltriː/) are domesticated birds kept by humans for the eggs they produce, their meat, their feathers, or sometimes as pets. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl), especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails and turkeys) and the family Anatidae, in order Anseriformes, commonly known as "waterfowl" and including domestic ducks and domestic geese. Poultry also includes other birds that are killed for their meat, such as the young of pigeons (known as squabs) but does not include similar wild birds hunted for sport or food and known as game. The word "poultry" comes from the French/Norman word poule, itself derived from the Latin word pullus, which means small animal.
Question: What is the significance of poultry in the lives of humans?
Answer: kept by humans for the eggs they produce, their meat, their feathers, or sometimes as pets.
Question: Are all domesticated and wild birds classified as poultry ?
Answer: but does not include similar wild birds hunted for sport or food and known as game.
Question: What types of birds are most commonly considered poultry?
Answer: chickens, quails and turkeys
Question: Was the Latin word for poultry also used to decribe other small animals as opposed to any poulty?
Answer: from the Latin word pullus, which means small animal.
Question: Are any other birds considered common in the world of poultry?
Answer: domestic ducks and domestic geese.
Question: What are domesticated birds kept by humans for the meat they produce?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the definition of the French word "pullus?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the French term for "fowl?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Norman term for "waterfowl?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Latin word for pigeons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the significance of poultry in the lives of aliens?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of birds are rarely considered poultry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What word means to eat small animals in Latin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What birds are no longer considered as poultry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language was the word "poultry" banned from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Raleigh receives an average of 6.0 inches (15.2 cm) of snow in winter. Freezing rain and sleet also occur most winters, and occasionally the area experiences a major damaging ice storm. On January 24–25, 2000, Raleigh received its greatest snowfall from a single storm – 20.3 inches (52 cm) – the Winter Storm of January 2000. Storms of this magnitude are generally the result of cold air damming that affects the city due to its proximity to the Appalachian Mountains. Winter storms have caused traffic problems in the past as well.
Question: How much snow does Raleigh get?
Answer: 6.0 inches
Question: When was the greatest snowfall?
Answer: January 24–25, 2000
Question: How much snow did Raleigh get on January 24, 2000?
Answer: 20.3 inches
Question: What caused the Winter Storm of 2000?
Answer: cold air damming
Question: What mountains are the city near?
Answer: Appalachian Mountains.
Question: How much snow did Raleigh get in January 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much snow fell on January 18 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mountains are not in Raleigh?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused the Summer Storm of 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At the start of a classic valley glacier is a bowl-shaped cirque, which has escarped walls on three sides but is open on the side that descends into the valley. Cirques are where ice begins to accumulate in a glacier. Two glacial cirques may form back to back and erode their backwalls until only a narrow ridge, called an arête is left. This structure may result in a mountain pass. If multiple cirques encircle a single mountain, they create pointed pyramidal peaks; particularly steep examples are called horns.
Question: On which side is a cirque opened?
Answer: the side that descends into the valley
Question: Where does ice start accululating in a glacier?
Answer: Cirques
Question: What is a narrow ridge formed by two cirques eroding back to back called?
Answer: arête
Question: What are extremely steep cirques called?
Answer: horns
Question: How many sides are closed in a typical cirque?
Answer: three sides
Question: What is on the side that ascends out of a valley?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do cirques gorm in mountains?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are shallow cirques called?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Russia feared losing Russian America without compensation in some future conflict, especially to the British. While Alaska attracted little interest at the time, the population of nearby British Columbia started to increase rapidly a few years after hostilities ended. Therefore, the Russian emperor, Alexander II, decided to sell Alaska. In 1859 the Russians offered to sell the territory to the United States, hoping that its presence in the region would offset the plans of Russia's greatest regional rival, the United Kingdom.
Question: What did the Russians fear losing without compensation?
Answer: British Columbia
Question: What province became more popular and saw a increase in population after the war?
Answer: British Columbia
Question: Who made the call to sell Alaska?
Answer: Alexander II
Question: Who did the Russians offer to sell Alaska to?
Answer: the United States
Question: Who is Russia's largest regional rival?
Answer: the United Kingdom |
Context: The establishment of the Santa Hermandad in 1480, and of the Real Audiencia del Reino de Galicia in 1500—a tribunal and executive body directed by the Governor-Captain General as a direct representative of the King—implied initially the submission of the Kingdom to the Crown, after a century of unrest and fiscal insubordination. As a result, from 1480 to 1520 the Kingdom of Galicia contributed more than 10% of the total earnings of the Crown of Castille, including the Americas, well over its economic relevance. Like the rest of Spain, the 16th century was marked by population growth up to 1580, when the simultaneous wars with the Netherlands, France and England hampered Galicia's Atlantic commerce, which consisted mostly in the exportation of sardines, wood, and some cattle and wine.
Question: Which government body was formed in 1480?
Answer: Santa Hermandad
Question: Which body was formed in 1500?
Answer: Real Audiencia del Reino de Galicia
Question: What percentage of Castille's total earnings was Galicia responsible for?
Answer: 10%
Question: Which other countries was Spain at war with during the 16 century?
Answer: Netherlands, France and England
Question: In spite of these wars, which exports did Galicia's Atlantic trade consist of?
Answer: sardines, wood, and some cattle and wine |
Context: Outstanding debts were also agreed and the company permitted to export 250 tons of saltpetre. Again in 1673, Banks successfully negotiated another contract for 700 tons of saltpetre at £37,000 between the king and the company. So urgent was the need to supply the armed forces in the United Kingdom, America and elsewhere that the authorities sometimes turned a blind eye on the untaxed sales. One governor of the company was even reported as saying in 1864 that he would rather have the saltpetre made than the tax on salt.
Question: Due to agreed debt what 250 tons product was first permitted to be exported by the company after the seven years' war?
Answer: saltpetre
Question: in what year did Banks negotiate between the king and the East india company for 700 tons of saltpetre?
Answer: 1673
Question: Saltpetre was used for what people, specifically the need for this product had people overlooking untaxed sales?
Answer: armed forces
Question: One of the governor of the company said that he would rather have saltpetre then____ in its raw form?
Answer: salt
Question: how much did 700 tons of saltpetre go for in the contract negotiated by Banks in 1673
Answer: £37,000
Question: What year did Banks negotiate between the princess and the North India company for 600 tons of salt?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What 800 tons product was first permitted to be exported by the company after the seven years' war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What people were forbidden from using saltpetre?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did 700 tons of saltpetre go for in the contract negotiated by Banks in 1573?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Labour improved its performance in 1987, gaining 20 seats and so reducing the Conservative majority from 143 to 102. They were now firmly re-established as the second political party in Britain as the Alliance had once again failed to make a breakthrough with seats. A merger of the SDP and Liberals formed the Liberal Democrats. Following the 1987 election, the National Executive Committee resumed disciplinary action against members of Militant, who remained in the party, leading to further expulsions of their activists and the two MPs who supported the group.
Question: How many more seats did LAbour get in 1987?
Answer: 20
Question: What was the merger of SDP and the Liberals called?
Answer: Liberal Democrats
Question: Who did the NEC expel
Answer: activists and the two MPs who supported the group.
Question: When did Labour worsen its performance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What party lost 20 seats in 1987?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much was the Labour majority reduced by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the National Executive Committee do before 1987?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many activists did the Conservative Party expel?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Until the period following World War I the Near East and the Middle East coexisted, but they were not always seen as distinct. Bertram Lenox Simpson, a colonial officer killed eventually in China, uses the terms together in his 1910 book, The Conflict of Color, as "the Near and Middle East." The total super-region consisted of "India, Afghanistan, Persia, Arabistan, Asia Minor, and last, but not least, Egypt." Simpson (under his pen-name, Weale) explains that this entire region "is politically one region – in spite of the divisions into which it is academically divided." His own term revives "the Nearer East" as opposed to "the Far East."
Question: The Near East and the Middle East coexisted until what period?
Answer: the period following World War I
Question: Who was the colonial officer killed in China?
Answer: Bertram Lenox Simpson
Question: Who wrote the 1910 book 'The Conflict of Color'?
Answer: Bertram Lenox Simpson
Question: What was Simpson's pen-name?
Answer: Weale |
Context: Child labour accounts for 22% of the workforce in Asia, 32% in Africa, 17% in Latin America, 1% in the US, Canada, Europe and other wealthy nations. The proportion of child labourers varies greatly among countries and even regions inside those countries. Africa has the highest percentage of children aged 5–17 employed as child labour, and a total of over 65 million. Asia, with its larger population, has the largest number of children employed as child labour at about 114 million. Latin America and Caribbean region have lower overall population density, but at 14 million child labourers has high incidence rates too.
Question: What country has the highest percentage of child labour?
Answer: Africa
Question: In Asia how many millions of children are employed?
Answer: 114
Question: Right now what percentage of children are employed in the US?
Answer: 1%
Question: Caribean and where else is there a low population of child workers?
Answer: Latin America |
Context: One means by which this is done is with a special signal called an interrupt, which can periodically cause the computer to stop executing instructions where it was and do something else instead. By remembering where it was executing prior to the interrupt, the computer can return to that task later. If several programs are running "at the same time". then the interrupt generator might be causing several hundred interrupts per second, causing a program switch each time. Since modern computers typically execute instructions several orders of magnitude faster than human perception, it may appear that many programs are running at the same time even though only one is ever executing in any given instant. This method of multitasking is sometimes termed "time-sharing" since each program is allocated a "slice" of time in turn.
Question: A method of multitasking that takes a "slice" of time in turn is called what?
Answer: "time-sharing"
Question: A signal that stops a compute executing instructions is called what?
Answer: an interrupt, |
Context: BBC Japan was a general entertainment channel, which operated between December 2004 and April 2006. It ceased operations after its Japanese distributor folded.
Question: When did BBC Japan begin broadcasting?
Answer: December 2004
Question: When did BBC Japan shut down?
Answer: April 2006
Question: What was the genre of BBC Japan?
Answer: general entertainment
Question: What was BBC Japanese considered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What folded after a Japanese distributor ceased?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ran from April 2004 until December 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census, reflecting not only changing social ideas about ethnicity, but the wide variety of immigrants who had come to reside in the United States due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s. With a changing society, more citizens have begun to press for acknowledging multiracial ancestry. The Census Bureau changed its data collection by allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity. Some ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.
Question: The Census Bureau had gone from two categories to how many by the 1990s?
Answer: more than a dozen
Question: Why were there more immigrants in the US?
Answer: due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s
Question: How had the Census Bureau changed its collection of data?
Answer: allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity
Question: What is one of the many outcomes of the Census data?
Answer: federal assistance
Question: By 2002, what percent of African Americans had multiracial ancestries?
Answer: over 75%
Question: How many different ethnic categories were listed on the modern census?
Answer: By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census,
Question: Can people self identify as more than one ethnicity on the US census currently?
Answer: The Census Bureau changed its data collection by allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity
Question: About how many African American have multiracial ancestries
Answer: According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.
Question: Do some ethnic groups have concerns about census changes?
Answer: Some ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as
Question: How is some federal assistance allocated to certain groups?
Answer: federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data
Question: Twelve or more categories for race and ethnicity were in the Census by when?
Answer: 1990
Question: When did laws allow for more immigrants?
Answer: in the 1960s
Question: How many African Americans identify as multiracial on the Census of 2002?
Answer: over 75%
Question: What type of federal assistance depends on Census data?
Answer: assistance to historically underserved groups
Question: How many ethnic/racial categories were on the census in 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who had come to reside in the United States due to new immigration laws in the 1940s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the United States end the new immigration laws?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of white americans had multiracial ancestries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of federal assistance does not depend on census data?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A text is self-referential when it speaks about itself and makes reference to itself. According to Stefan Wild, the Quran demonstrates this metatextuality by explaining, classifying, interpreting and justifying the words to be transmitted. Self-referentiality is evident in those passages where the Quran refers to itself as revelation (tanzil), remembrance (dhikr), news (naba'), criterion (furqan) in a self-designating manner (explicitly asserting its Divinity, "And this is a blessed Remembrance that We have sent down; so are you now denying it?"), or in the frequent appearance of the "Say" tags, when Muhammad is commanded to speak (e.g., "Say: 'God's guidance is the true guidance' ", "Say: 'Would you then dispute with us concerning God?' "). According to Wild the Quran is highly self-referential. The feature is more evident in early Meccan suras.
Question: What metatextual character does Stefan Wild focus on in his discussion of the Quran?
Answer: Self-referentiality
Question: What quality does the Quran claim in the different ways in which it refers to itself?
Answer: Divinity
Question: Which term that the Quran uses for itself means "news"?
Answer: naba'
Question: The Quran is more self-referential in which of its suras?
Answer: early Meccan suras
Question: What metatextual character doesn't Stefan Wild focus on in his discussion of the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What quality doesn't the Quran claim in the different ways in which it refers to itself?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What quality does the Quran claim in the same ways in which it refers to itself?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which term that the Quran uses for itself doesn't mean "news"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Quran is less self-referential in which of its suras?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By the early and mid-20th century, the city was in decline as factories became old and obsolete, and businesses moved out of the region for cheaper labor elsewhere. Boston responded by initiating various urban renewal projects under the direction of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), which was established in 1957. In 1958, BRA initiated a project to improve the historic West End neighborhood. Extensive demolition was met with vociferous public opposition.
Question: During what century did businesses move out of Boston to find cheaper labor?
Answer: 20th century
Question: Projects to renew the city were put into place by what?
Answer: the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA)
Question: How did the people of Boston react to the demolition of the West End?
Answer: with vociferous public opposition. |
Context: In almost all federations the central government enjoys the powers of foreign policy and national defense as exclusive federal powers. Were this not the case a federation would not be a single sovereign state, per the UN definition. Notably, the states of Germany retain the right to act on their own behalf at an international level, a condition originally granted in exchange for the Kingdom of Bavaria's agreement to join the German Empire in 1871. Beyond this the precise division of power varies from one nation to another. The constitutions of Germany and the United States provide that all powers not specifically granted to the federal government are retained by the states. The Constitution of some countries like Canada and India, on the other hand, state that powers not explicitly granted to the provincial governments are retained by the federal government. Much like the US system, the Australian Constitution allocates to the Federal government (the Commonwealth of Australia) the power to make laws about certain specified matters which were considered too difficult for the States to manage, so that the States retain all other areas of responsibility. Under the division of powers of the European Union in the Lisbon Treaty, powers which are not either exclusively of European competence or shared between EU and state as concurrent powers are retained by the constituent states.
Question: In nearly all federalism countries, central powers enjoy what?
Answer: the powers of foreign policy and national defense as exclusive federal powers
Question: Per the UN definition, what is federalism?
Answer: federation would not be a single sovereign state
Question: What is the German Empire?
Answer: Germany retain the right to act on their own behalf at an international level,
Question: What is the libson treaty?
Answer: powers which are not either exclusively of European competence or shared between EU and state as concurrent powers are retained by the constituent states.
Question: In nearly all federalism countries, decentralized powers enjoy what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In nearly no federalism countries, central powers enjoy what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Per the US definition, what is federalism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the German Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the Libson treaty?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Sun has been openly antagonistic towards other European nations, particularly the French and Germans. During the 1980s and 1990s, the nationalities were routinely described in copy and headlines as "frogs", "krauts" or "hun". As the paper is opposed to the EU it has referred to foreign leaders who it deemed hostile to the UK in unflattering terms. Former President Jacques Chirac of France, for instance, was branded "le Worm". An unflattering picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel, taken from the rear, bore the headline "I'm Big in the Bumdestag" (17 April 2006).
Question: Which two nations has The Sun been very antagonistic towards?
Answer: French and Germans
Question: What names were used by The Sun to characterize the French and Germans?
Answer: "frogs", "krauts" or "hun"
Question: What is the paper's stance on the EU?
Answer: opposed
Question: How was French president Jacques Chirac described by The Sun?
Answer: le Worm
Question: Which German chancellor was criticized by The Sun?
Answer: Angela Merkel |
Context: It is also possible to use multiple active elements and combine them together with transmission lines to produce a similar system where the phases add up to reinforce the output. The antenna array and very similar reflective array antenna consist of multiple elements, often half-wave dipoles, spaced out on a plane and wired together with transmission lines with specific phase lengths to produce a single in-phase signal at the output. The log-periodic antenna is a more complex design that uses multiple in-line elements similar in appearance to the Yagi-Uda but using transmission lines between the elements to produce the output.
Question: What can be paired with transmission lines to create phases that would support output?
Answer: active elements
Question: What is the most common element used to create a single in phase signal?
Answer: half-wave dipoles
Question: What must be precise in order to create this signal at output?
Answer: phase lengths
Question: What is a more complicated occurrence of the single in-phase producing antenna?
Answer: log-periodic |
Context: Melbourne is often referred to as Australia's garden city, and the state of Victoria was once known as the garden state. There is an abundance of parks and gardens in Melbourne, many close to the CBD with a variety of common and rare plant species amid landscaped vistas, pedestrian pathways and tree-lined avenues. Melbourne's parks are often considered the best public parks in all of Australia's major cities. There are also many parks in the surrounding suburbs of Melbourne, such as in the municipalities of Stonnington, Boroondara and Port Phillip, south east of the central business district. The extensive area covered by urban Melbourne is formally divided into hundreds of suburbs (for addressing and postal purposes), and administered as local government areas 31 of which are located within the metropolitan area.
Question: Which city is often referred to as Australia's garden city?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Which Australian state was once known as the garden state?
Answer: Victoria
Question: Why is urban Melbourne divided into hundreds of suburbs?
Answer: addressing and postal purposes |
Context: Southampton is a major UK port which has good transport links with the rest of the country. The M27 motorway, linking places along the south coast of England, runs just to the north of the city. The M3 motorway links the city to London and also, via a link to the A34 (part of the European route E05) at Winchester, with the Midlands and North. The M271 motorway is a spur of the M27, linking it with the Western Docks and city centre.
Question: Which motorway located north of Southampton links up England's south coast?
Answer: M27
Question: Which motorway connects Southampton to London?
Answer: M3
Question: What city is located on the A34 where the M3 connects to the North and Midlands?
Answer: Winchester
Question: What spur of the M27 connects it to Southampton's city centre and Western Docks?
Answer: M271
Question: Are Southampton's transport routes around the UK good or bad?
Answer: good |
Context: As in Brazil, the mandolin has played an important role in the Music of Venezuela. It has enjoyed a privileged position as the main melodic instrument in several different regions of the country. Specifically, the eastern states of Sucre, Nueva Esparta, Anzoategui and Monagas have made the mandolin the main instrument in their versions of Joropo as well as Puntos, Jotas, Polos, Fulias, Merengues and Malagueñas. Also, in the west of the country the sound of the mandolin is intrinsically associated with the regional genres of the Venezuelan Andes: Bambucos, Pasillos, Pasodobles, and Waltzes. In the western city of Maracaibo the Mandolin has been played in Decimas, Danzas and Contradanzas Zulianas; in the capital, Caracas, the Merengue Rucaneao, Pasodobles and Waltzes have also been played with mandolin for almost a century. Today, Venezuelan mandolists include an important group of virtuoso players and ensembles such as Alberto Valderrama, Jesus Rengel, Ricardo Sandoval, Saul Vera, and Cristobal Soto.
Question: What place in Brazil do mandolins play an important role?
Answer: Venezuela
Question: What is the sound of mandolin associated with in the west country?
Answer: regional genres of the Venezuelan Andes
Question: Who are the famous Venezuelen mandolinist?
Answer: Alberto Valderrama, Jesus Rengel, Ricardo Sandoval, Saul Vera, and Cristobal Soto.
Question: What place in Brazil do mandolins play an unimportant role?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the sound of mandolin not associated with in the west country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who are the not famous Venezuelen mandolinist?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some breeds of dogs are prone to certain genetic ailments such as elbow and hip dysplasia, blindness, deafness, pulmonic stenosis, cleft palate, and trick knees. Two serious medical conditions particularly affecting dogs are pyometra, affecting unspayed females of all types and ages, and bloat, which affects the larger breeds or deep-chested dogs. Both of these are acute conditions, and can kill rapidly. Dogs are also susceptible to parasites such as fleas, ticks, and mites, as well as hookworms, tapeworms, roundworms, and heartworms.
Question: What are some dogs prone to?
Answer: genetic ailments
Question: What are all dogs susceptible to?
Answer: parasites
Question: Pyometra usually affects what type of female dog?
Answer: unspayed
Question: Who does pyometra affect?
Answer: unspayed females
Question: What are fleas, ticks and mites called?
Answer: parasites |
Context: After the English Civil War the Royal Citadel was built in 1666 on the east end of Plymouth Hoe, to defend the port from naval attacks, suppress Plymothian Parliamentary leanings and to train the armed forces. Guided tours are available in the summer months. Further west is Smeaton's Tower, which was built in 1759 as a lighthouse on rocks 14 miles (23 km) off shore, but dismantled and the top two thirds rebuilt on the Hoe in 1877. It is open to the public and has views over the Plymouth Sound and the city from the lantern room. Plymouth has 20 war memorials of which nine are on The Hoe including: Plymouth Naval Memorial, to remember those killed in World Wars I and II, and the Armada Memorial, to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Question: In what year was the Royal Citadel constructed?
Answer: 1666
Question: In the wake of what conflict was the Royal Citadel built?
Answer: English Civil War
Question: When was Smeaton's Tower first constructed?
Answer: 1759
Question: In kilometers, how far off the coast was Smeaton's Tower originally built?
Answer: 23
Question: What memorial commemorates the naval victory over the Spanish Armada?
Answer: Armada Memorial |
Context: An earthquake emergency relief team of 184 people (consisting of 12 people from the State Seismological Bureau, 150 from the Beijing Military Area Command, and 22 from the Armed Police General Hospital) left Beijing from Nanyuan Airport late May 12 in two military transport planes to travel to Wenchuan County.
Question: How many people were in the earthquake emergency relief team?
Answer: 184
Question: How many of the relief team were from the State Seismological Bureau?
Answer: 12
Question: How many of the team were from the military?
Answer: 150
Question: How many of the team were from the police?
Answer: 22
Question: What kind of team left Beijing to go to Wenchuan?
Answer: earthquake emergency relief
Question: How many people comprised the relief team?
Answer: 184
Question: How many soldiers were from the Beijing Military?
Answer: 150
Question: Where did 22 of the relief team come from?
Answer: Armed Police General Hospital
Question: How did the relief team travel to Wenchuan county?
Answer: in two military transport planes |
Context: Interestingly, research has revealed that asking individuals to repeatedly imagine actions that they have never performed or events that they have never experienced could result in false memories. For instance, Goff and Roediger (1998) asked participants to imagine that they performed an act (e.g., break a toothpick) and then later asked them whether they had done such a thing. Findings revealed that those participants who repeatedly imagined performing such an act were more likely to think that they had actually performed that act during the first session of the experiment. Similarly, Garry and her colleagues (1996) asked college students to report how certain they were that they experienced a number of events as children (e.g., broke a window with their hand) and then two weeks later asked them to imagine four of those events. The researchers found that one-fourth of the students asked to imagine the four events reported that they had actually experienced such events as children. That is, when asked to imagine the events they were more confident that they experienced the events.
Question: What can cause a person to have fake memories?
Answer: repeatedly imagine actions that they have never performed or events that they have never experienced
Question: Who performed a study that showed the similarirty of imaginging doing something and then later remembering actually doing that task?
Answer: Goff and Roediger
Question: What did a similar study done by Garry find?
Answer: researchers found that one-fourth of the students asked to imagine the four events reported that they had actually experienced such events as children
Question: What did Goff and Roediger ask people to do in 1996?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can cause a person to have fake senses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did a similar study done by Gary Goff find?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens when people are not asked to imagine events?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who asked students how uncertain they were that they experienced events?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Economic and political migrations made an impact across the empire. For example, the Russian and Austria-Habsburg annexation of the Crimean and Balkan regions respectively saw large influxes of Muslim refugees – 200,000 Crimean Tartars fleeing to Dobruja. Between 1783 and 1913, approximately 5–7 million refugees flooded into the Ottoman Empire, at least 3.8 million of whom were from Russia. Some migrations left indelible marks such as political tension between parts of the empire (e.g. Turkey and Bulgaria) whereas centrifugal effects were noticed in other territories, simpler demographics emerging from diverse populations. Economies were also impacted with the loss of artisans, merchants, manufacturers and agriculturists. Since the 19th century, a large proportion of Muslim peoples from the Balkans emigrated to present-day Turkey. These people are called Muhacir. By the time the Ottoman Empire came to an end in 1922, half of the urban population of Turkey was descended from Muslim refugees from Russia.
Question: The annexation of what two regions resulted in large groups of Muslim refugees coming into the empire?
Answer: the Crimean and Balkan regions
Question: Muslims representing 200,000 of what group fled to Dobruja?
Answer: Crimean Tartars
Question: How many refugees fled Russia to the Ottoman Empire from 1783 to 1913?
Answer: 3.8 million
Question: What are the people from the Balkans who emigrated to Turkey called?
Answer: Muhacir
Question: In what year did the Ottoman Empire end?
Answer: 1922 |
Context: In addition to Virginia and Confederate government offices and hospitals, a railroad hub, and one of the South's largest slave markets, Richmond had the largest factory in the Confederacy, the Tredegar Iron Works, which turned out artillery and other munitions, including the 723 tons of armor plating that covered the CSS Virginia, the world's first ironclad used in war, as well as much of the Confederates' heavy ordnance machinery. The Confederate Congress shared quarters with the Virginia General Assembly in the Virginia State Capitol, with the Confederacy's executive mansion, the "White House of the Confederacy", located two blocks away. The Seven Days Battles followed in late June and early July 1862, during which Union General McClellan threatened to take Richmond but ultimately failed.
Question: What was the name of the biggest factory in the Confederate States of America?
Answer: Tredegar Iron Works
Question: What was the name of the first ironclad warship that saw combat?
Answer: CSS Virginia
Question: What is another name for the Confederacy's executive mansion?
Answer: White House of the Confederacy
Question: How far away from the Confederate executive mansion was the Virginia State Capitol?
Answer: two blocks
Question: Who commanded the Union armies during the Seven Days Battles?
Answer: McClellan |
Context: For Descartes, matter has only the property of extension, so its only activity aside from locomotion is to exclude other bodies: this is the mechanical philosophy. Descartes makes an absolute distinction between mind, which he defines as unextended, thinking substance, and matter, which he defines as unthinking, extended substance. They are independent things. In contrast, Aristotle defines matter and the formal/forming principle as complementary principles that together compose one independent thing (substance). In short, Aristotle defines matter (roughly speaking) as what things are actually made of (with a potential independent existence), but Descartes elevates matter to an actual independent thing in itself.
Question: What philosophy did Aristotle describe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Aristotle define as distinct from matter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Aristotle elevate matter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What activity does locomotion have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Descartes use matter and the formal/forming principle?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: New Zealand has an annual quota of 75 Tuvaluans granted work permits under the Pacific Access Category, as announced in 2001. The applicants register for the Pacific Access Category (PAC) ballots; the primary criteria is that the principal applicant must have a job offer from a New Zealand employer. Tuvaluans also have access to seasonal employment in the horticulture and viticulture industries in New Zealand under the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Work Policy introduced in 2007 allowing for employment of up to 5,000 workers from Tuvalu and other Pacific islands. Tuvaluans can participate in the Australian Pacific Seasonal Worker Program, which allows Pacific Islanders to obtain seasonal employment in the Australian agriculture industry, in particular cotton and cane operations; fishing industry, in particular aquaculture; and with accommodation providers in the tourism industry.
Question: What is New Zealand's annual quota of Tuvaluan granted work permits?
Answer: 75
Question: What must a Tuvaluan have to be considered for a work permit in New Zealand?
Answer: job offer
Question: How many Pacific islander seasonal workers are permitted?
Answer: 5,000
Question: What is the program that allows season employees work permits?
Answer: Australian Pacific Seasonal Worker Program
Question: What program was introduced in 2007 for season workers in New Zealand?
Answer: Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Work Policy |
Context: Industrialized societies generally follow a clock-based schedule for daily activities that do not change throughout the course of the year. The time of day that individuals begin and end work or school, and the coordination of mass transit, for example, usually remain constant year-round. In contrast, an agrarian society's daily routines for work and personal conduct are more likely governed by the length of daylight hours and by solar time, which change seasonally because of the Earth's axial tilt. North and south of the tropics daylight lasts longer in summer and shorter in winter, the effect becoming greater as one moves away from the tropics.
Question: What kind of societies usually follow a regular daily schedule year-round?
Answer: Industrialized
Question: What kind of societies rely on solar time and daylight that changes with the seasons?
Answer: agrarian
Question: In what part of the world is daytime shorter in winter and longer in summer?
Answer: North and south of the tropics
Question: What is the tilt of the Earth that causes solar time to change called?
Answer: axial tilt |
Context: Mandolin has also been used in blues music, most notably by Ry Cooder, who performed outstanding covers on his very first recordings, Yank Rachell, Johnny "Man" Young, Carl Martin, and Gerry Hundt. Howard Armstrong, who is famous for blues violin, got his start with his father's mandolin and played in string bands similar to the other Tennessee string bands he came into contact with, with band makeup including "mandolins and fiddles and guitars and banjos. And once in a while they would ease a little ukulele in there and a bass fiddle." Other blues players from the era's string bands include Willie Black (Whistler And His Jug Band), Dink Brister, Jim Hill, Charles Johnson, Coley Jones (Dallas String Band), Bobby Leecan (Need More Band), Alfred Martin, Charlie McCoy (1909-1950), Al Miller, Matthew Prater, and Herb Quinn.
Question: Who got his start with his father's mandolin?
Answer: Howard Armstrong,
Question: Who is the most popular blue music mandolinist?
Answer: Ry Cooder
Question: What other instrument did the Tennessee string bands use?
Answer: ukulele in there and a bass fiddle
Question: Who played in the Whistler and His Jug Band?
Answer: Willie Black
Question: Who is the most popular red music mandolinist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other instrument did the Kentucky string bands use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who played in the Singer and His Jug Band?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: But Hanover is not only one of the most important Exhibition Cities in the world, it is also one of the German capitals for marksmen. The Schützenfest Hannover is the largest Marksmen's Fun Fair in the world and takes place once a year (late June to early July) (2014 - July 4th to the 13th). It consists of more than 260 rides and inns, five large beer tents and a big entertainment programme. The highlight of this fun fair is the 12 kilometres (7 mi) long Parade of the Marksmen with more than 12.000 participants from all over the world, among them around 5.000 marksmen, 128 bands and more than 70 wagons, carriages and big festival vehicles. It is the longest procession in Europe. Around 2 million people visit this fun fair every year. The landmark of this Fun Fair is the biggest transportable Ferris Wheel in the world (60 m or 197 ft high). The origins of this fun fair is located in the year 1529.
Question: What is Hanover a German capital for?
Answer: marksmen
Question: What is the name of the largest Marksmen's Fun Fair in the world?
Answer: Schützenfest Hannover
Question: How many rides and inns does the fair have?
Answer: more than 260
Question: How many participants are int he Parade of the Marksmen?
Answer: 12.000
Question: What year can the festival be traced back to?
Answer: 1529
Question: What is the most important exhibition city in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the smallest marksman's fun fair in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many of your tents make up the highlight of the marksman's fair
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people watch the parade of the marksman?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can you find the biggest fixed Ferris wheel in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The High Middle Ages was the formative period in the history of the modern Western state. Kings in France, England, and Spain consolidated their power, and set up lasting governing institutions. New kingdoms such as Hungary and Poland, after their conversion to Christianity, became Central European powers. The Magyars settled Hungary around 900 under King Árpád (d. c. 907) after a series of invasions in the 9th century. The papacy, long attached to an ideology of independence from secular kings, first asserted its claim to temporal authority over the entire Christian world; the Papal Monarchy reached its apogee in the early 13th century under the pontificate of Innocent III (pope 1198–1216). Northern Crusades and the advance of Christian kingdoms and military orders into previously pagan regions in the Baltic and Finnic north-east brought the forced assimilation of numerous native peoples into European culture.
Question: Along with Poland, what Central European kingdom was formed during the High Middle Ages?
Answer: Hungary
Question: Who was king when the Magyars settled in Hungary?
Answer: Árpád
Question: When did the papacy of Innocent III begin?
Answer: 1198
Question: Along with France and Spain, the kings of what country consolidated power in the High Middle Ages?
Answer: England
Question: In approximately what year did the Magyars settle in Hungary?
Answer: 900 |
Context: In the resulting Battle of Pusan Perimeter (August–September 1950), the U.S. Army withstood KPA attacks meant to capture the city at the Naktong Bulge, P'ohang-dong, and Taegu. The United States Air Force (USAF) interrupted KPA logistics with 40 daily ground support sorties that destroyed 32 bridges, halting most daytime road and rail traffic. KPA forces were forced to hide in tunnels by day and move only at night. To deny matériel to the KPA, the USAF destroyed logistics depots, petroleum refineries, and harbors, while the U.S. Navy air forces attacked transport hubs. Consequently, the over-extended KPA could not be supplied throughout the south. On 27 August, 67th Fighter Squadron aircraft mistakenly attacked facilities in Chinese territory and the Soviet Union called the UN Security Council's attention to China's complaint about the incident. The US proposed that a commission of India and Sweden determine what the US should pay in compensation but the Soviets vetoed the US proposal.
Question: Which army was trying to capture Teague and the Naktong Bulge?
Answer: KPA
Question: What did the US Air Force's daytime attacks cause the KPA to do?
Answer: to hide in tunnels by day and move only at night
Question: Why did the Soviet Union complain about the action of the US to the UN Security Council?
Answer: aircraft mistakenly attacked facilities in Chinese territory
Question: Along with India, what other nation was to determine the how much the US would have to compensate China?
Answer: Sweden
Question: Why did India and Sweden never determine how much the US would compensate China?
Answer: the Soviets vetoed the US proposal |
Context: During John's early years, Henry attempted to resolve the question of his succession. Henry the Young King had been crowned King of England in 1170, but was not given any formal powers by his father; he was also promised Normandy and Anjou as part of his future inheritance. Richard was to be appointed the Count of Poitou with control of Aquitaine, whilst Geoffrey was to become the Duke of Brittany. At this time it seemed unlikely that John would ever inherit substantial lands, and he was jokingly nicknamed "Lackland" by his father.
Question: When was Henry crowned King of England?
Answer: 1170
Question: What was Henry promised as part of his future inheritance?
Answer: Normandy and Anjou
Question: Who became the Duke of Brittany?
Answer: Geoffrey
Question: What was John's nickname?
Answer: Lackland |
Context: French political scientist Maurice Duverger drew a distinction between cadre parties and mass parties. Cadre parties were political elites that were concerned with contesting elections and restricted the influence of outsiders, who were only required to assist in election campaigns. Mass parties tried to recruit new members who were a source of party income and were often expected to spread party ideology as well as assist in elections.Socialist parties are examples of mass parties, while the British Conservative Party and the German Christian Democratic Union are examples of hybrid parties. In the United States, where both major parties were cadre parties, the introduction of primaries and other reforms has transformed them so that power is held by activists who compete over influence and nomination of candidates.
Question: Who drew a difference between cadre parties and mass parties?
Answer: Maurice Duverger
Question: What are cadre parties?
Answer: political elites that were concerned with contesting elections and restricted the influence of outsiders
Question: What are mass parties?
Answer: Mass parties tried to recruit new members who were a source of party income and were often expected to spread party ideology
Question: What is an example of a mass party?
Answer: Socialist parties
Question: What type of parties are the two major parties in the United States?
Answer: cadre parties
Question: What German political scientist drew a distinction between party ideology and elections?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the focus of recruitment by cadre parties?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did cadre parties expect new members to spread?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did cadre parties expect new members to give assistance for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the two major parties in France?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A report released in January 2011 by the Diário de Notícias and published in Portugal by Gradiva, had demonstrated that in the period between the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and 2010, the democratic Portuguese Republic governments encouraged over-expenditure and investment bubbles through unclear Public–private partnerships and funding of numerous ineffective and unnecessary external consultancy and advisory of committees and firms. This allowed considerable slippage in state-managed public works and inflated top management and head officer bonuses and wages. Persistent and lasting recruitment policies boosted the number of redundant public servants. Risky credit, public debt creation, and European structural and cohesion funds were mismanaged across almost four decades.
Question: Between 1974 and 2010, how did the Portuguese government encourage over-expenditure and investment bubbles?
Answer: unclear Public–private partnerships and funding of numerous ineffective and unnecessary external consultancy and advisory of committees and firms
Question: By whom was a report published in 2011 that demonstrated the Portuguese government encouraged over-expenditure and investment bubbles?
Answer: Diário de Notícias |
Context: The earliest good evidence for oligochaetes occurs in the Tertiary period, which began 65 million years ago, and it has been suggested that these animals evolved around the same time as flowering plants in the early Cretaceous, from 130 to 90 million years ago. A trace fossil consisting of a convoluted burrow partly filled with small fecal pellets may be evidence that earthworms were present in the early Triassic period from 251 to 245 million years ago. Body fossils going back to the mid Ordovician, from 472 to 461 million years ago, have been tentatively classified as oligochaetes, but these identifications are uncertain and some have been disputed.
Question: When did the Tertiary period begin?
Answer: 65 million years ago
Question: What era did oligochaetes evolve in?
Answer: early Cretaceous
Question: What type of annelid fossils have been found from the mid Ordovician period?
Answer: oligochaetes
Question: When were the earliest annelid fossils found?
Answer: 472 to 461 million years ago
Question: When did the Tertiary period stop existing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What era did oligochaetes devolve in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of annelid fossils have been lost during the mid Ordovician period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the only annelid fossils found?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tuition at KU is 13 percent below the national average, according to the College Board, and the University remains a best buy in the region.[citation needed]
Question: Who provides statistics on educational costs?
Answer: the College Board
Question: What is a phrase that expresses the value of the education offered at KU with respect to its cost?
Answer: best buy
Question: Who provides statistics on educational grades?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who provides no statistics on educational costs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who provides money for educational costs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a phrase that expresses the value of the education offered at KU with respect to its grades?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a phrase that doesn't expresses the value of the education offered at KU with respect to its cost?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Catalan verbal system is basically common to all Western Romance, except that most dialects have replaced the synthetic indicative perfect with a periphrastic form of anar ("to go") + infinitive.
Question: What system is common to Western Romance?
Answer: Catalan verbal system
Question: What have many dialects replaced?
Answer: synthetic indicative perfect
Question: What is the Catalan verbal system common to?
Answer: all Western Romance |
Context: A state's consent may be invalidated if there was an erroneous understanding of a fact or situation at the time of conclusion, which formed the "essential basis" of the state's consent. Consent will not be invalidated if the misunderstanding was due to the state's own conduct, or if the truth should have been evident.
Question: What on behalf of a state cannot invalidate that state's consent to a treaty?
Answer: own conduct
Question: Consent to a treaty will not be invalidated if what should have been evident?
Answer: the truth
Question: What may be invalidated if there was an erroneous understanding of a fact or situation at the time of conclusion of a treaty?
Answer: A state's consent
Question: An erroneous understanding of a fact or situation may only invalidate a state's consent to a treaty if what is also true about the erroneous understanding?
Answer: formed the "essential basis" of the state's consent
Question: What, if it formed the "essential basis" of a state's consent to a treaty, may invalidate that consent?
Answer: an erroneous understanding of a fact or situation |
Context: On October 9, 2006 at 6:00 a.m., the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule. Most CBC-owned stations previously signed off the air during the early morning hours (typically from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.). Instead of the infomercials aired by most private stations, or a simulcast of CBC News Network in the style of BBC One's nightly simulcast of BBC News Channel, the CBC uses the time to air repeats, including local news, primetime series, movies and other programming from the CBC library. Its French counterpart, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, still signs off every night.
Question: Was CBC one of the first or last stations to adopt a 24 hour schedule?
Answer: last
Question: When did stations previously sign off the air?
Answer: early morning hours (typically from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.)
Question: What did private stations air when programming was not ticketed?
Answer: infomercials
Question: What does CBC use unallotted airtime for?
Answer: local news, primetime series, movies and other programming from the CBC library
Question: Which French station has refused to adopt a 24 hour schedule?
Answer: Ici Radio-Canada Télé
Question: When did the CBC begin to air programming on their network?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What time period did the FCC once require broadcasters to sign off the air?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Polls show that viewers prefer when 24 hour stations air what type of content?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What popular news network was CBC News Network inspired by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which French news station is CBC News greatest competitor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: New York is a global hub of international business and commerce. In 2012, New York City topped the first Global Economic Power Index, published by The Atlantic (to be differentiated from a namesake list published by the Martin Prosperity Institute), with cities ranked according to criteria reflecting their presence on similar lists as published by other entities. The city is a major center for banking and finance, retailing, world trade, transportation, tourism, real estate, new media as well as traditional media, advertising, legal services, accountancy, insurance, theater, fashion, and the arts in the United States; while Silicon Alley, metonymous for New York's broad-spectrum high technology sphere, continues to expand. The Port of New York and New Jersey is also a major economic engine, handling record cargo volume in the first half of 2014.
Question: What is the common name for New York's high technology sector?
Answer: Silicon Alley
Question: Who created the Global Economic Power Index that ranked New York first?
Answer: The Atlantic
Question: In what year did the Port of New York and New Jersey deal with unprecedented cargo volume?
Answer: 2014
Question: In what year was New York ranked first on the Global Economic Power Index?
Answer: 2012 |
Context: In a 1986 interview, Rocky Jones, the former club DJ who ran the D.J. International record label, doesn't mention Importes Etc., Frankie Knuckles, or the Warehouse by name, but agrees that "house" was a regional catch-all term for dance music, and that it was once synonymous with older disco music.
Question: who ran the D.J. International record label?
Answer: Rocky Jones
Question: House is a regional catch-all term for what kind of music?
Answer: dance music,
Question: what was 'house music' once synonymous with?
Answer: older disco music
Question: Who ran the Jones International record label?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For what kind of music was Jones a regional catch-all term?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was "Jones music" once synonymous with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ran the Rocky International record label?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was a regional catch-all term for rap music?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Western philosophy regarded emotion in varying ways. In stoic theories it was seen as a hindrance to reason and therefore a hindrance to virtue. Aristotle believed that emotions were an essential component of virtue. In the Aristotelian view all emotions (called passions) corresponded to appetites or capacities. During the Middle Ages, the Aristotelian view was adopted and further developed by scholasticism and Thomas Aquinas in particular. There are also theories of emotions in the works of philosophers such as René Descartes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Baruch Spinoza and David Hume. In the 19th century emotions were considered adaptive and were studied more frequently from an empiricist psychiatric perspective.
Question: What school of thought saw emotion as an impediment to virtue?
Answer: stoic
Question: What thinker believed that emotions were necessary for virtue?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: What did the Aristotelians call emotions?
Answer: passions
Question: Who was a notable scholastic thinker?
Answer: Thomas Aquinas
Question: Along with Descartes, Machiavelli and Hume, what notable philosopher developed a theory of emotions?
Answer: Baruch Spinoza
Question: What school of thought saw emotion as not an impediment to virtue?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What thinker believed that emotions weren't necessary for virtue?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Aristotelians not call emotions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wasn't a notable scholastic thinker?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The University of Bath and Bath Spa University are higher education establishments in the north-east of the county. The University of Bath gained its Royal Charter in 1966, although its origins go back to the Bristol Trade School (founded 1856) and Bath School of Pharmacy (founded 1907). It has a purpose-built campus at Claverton on the outskirts of Bath, and has 15,000 students. Bath Spa University, which is based at Newton St Loe, achieved university status in 2005, and has origins including the Bath Academy of Art (founded 1898), Bath Teacher Training College, and the Bath College of Higher Education. It has several campuses and 5,500 students.
Question: What University are in Bath
Answer: The University of Bath and Bath Spa University are higher education establishments in the north-east of the county
Question: When did the university of Bath gain royal charter
Answer: The University of Bath gained its Royal Charter in 1966, although its origins go back to the Bristol Trade School
Question: Bath school of pharmacy founded in
Answer: Bath School of Pharmacy (founded 1907
Question: When did Bath Spa Gain University status
Answer: achieved university status in 2005
Question: In what year did the Bristol Trade School become part of the University of Bath?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many students attend the Bath Teacher Training School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Bath Teacher Training College established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Bath School of Pharmacy become part of the University of Bath?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Bath College of Higher Education established?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Russian (ру́сский язы́к, russkiy yazyk, pronounced [ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk] ( listen)) is an East Slavic language and an official language in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognised territories. It is an unofficial but widely-spoken language in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, and to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the Soviet Union and former participants of the Eastern Bloc. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of the three living members of the East Slavic languages. Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards.
Question: What language sub-family is Russian in?
Answer: East Slavic
Question: Where is Russian an official language?
Answer: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and many minor or unrecognised territories
Question: Where is Russian popular but not an official language?
Answer: Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia
Question: How many living East Slavic languages are there?
Answer: three
Question: When was the earliest writing in Old East Slavonic?
Answer: 10th century
Question: What kind of language is Ukranian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what countries is Ukrainian officially spoken?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Ukrainian also widely spoken, but not officially?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What family does Ukrainian belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Ukrainian first officially written?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since the introduction of league football, most club sides play a number of friendlies before the start of each season (called pre-season friendlies). Friendly football matches are considered to be non-competitive and are only used to "warm up" players for a new season/competitive match. There is generally nothing competitive at stake and some rules may be changed or experimented with (such as unlimited substitutions, which allow teams to play younger, less experienced, players, and no cards). Although most friendlies are simply one-off matches arranged by the clubs themselves, in which a certain amount is paid by the challenger club to the incumbent club, some teams do compete in short tournaments, such as the Emirates Cup, Teresa Herrera Trophy and the Amsterdam Tournament. Although these events may involve sponsorship deals and the awarding of a trophy and may even be broadcast on television, there is little prestige attached to them.
Question: When do football clubs still play friendlies?
Answer: before the start of each season
Question: What type of football matches are non-competitive?
Answer: friendlies
Question: What do some friendlies change the rules to make unlimited?
Answer: substitutions
Question: What are some examples of friendly short football tournaments?
Answer: the Emirates Cup, Teresa Herrera Trophy and the Amsterdam Tournament
Question: What do friendly short football tournaments have little of?
Answer: prestige
Question: It when went to football clubs not play Friendly's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of football matches are considered to be competitive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What allows teams to play older more experienced players?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are rarely one-off matches?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of games have trophies and prestige attached to them?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Greek mythology, Cerberus is a three-headed watchdog who guards the gates of Hades. In Norse mythology, a bloody, four-eyed dog called Garmr guards Helheim. In Persian mythology, two four-eyed dogs guard the Chinvat Bridge. In Philippine mythology, Kimat who is the pet of Tadaklan, god of thunder, is responsible for lightning. In Welsh mythology, Annwn is guarded by Cŵn Annwn.
Question: What is the name of the dog with three heads in Greek mythology?
Answer: Cerberus
Question: What did Cerberus guard?
Answer: the gates of Hades.
Question: What is the name of the dog with four eyes in Norse mythology?
Answer: Garmr
Question: What is the name of the dog in Philippine mythology who is responsible for lightning?
Answer: Kimat
Question: Kimat is the dog of Tadaklan, who is the god of what?
Answer: thunder
Question: In what mythology do two canines watch over the Chinvat Bridge?
Answer: Persian
Question: Who is the three headed watchdog guarding Hades?
Answer: Cerberus
Question: Who is the dog that guards Helheim?
Answer: Garmr
Question: Who is Tadaklan?
Answer: god of thunder
Question: Who is Tadaklan's pet that is responsible for lightning?
Answer: Kimat |
Context: In addition to school sixth forms at St Anne's and King Edward's there are two sixth form colleges: Itchen College and Richard Taunton Sixth Form College. A number of Southampton pupils will travel outside the city, for example to Barton Peveril College. Southampton City College is a further education college serving the city. The college offers a range of vocational courses for school leavers, as well as ESOL programmes and Access courses for adult learners.
Question: How many standalone sixth form colleges are there in Southampton?
Answer: two
Question: What college of further education offers vocational courses and ESOL programs?
Answer: Southampton City College
Question: What courses does Southampton City College offer to adult students?
Answer: Access courses
Question: What college with the initials BPC is outside of the city but still popular with students from Southampton?
Answer: Barton Peveril College
Question: What's the sixth form college named after a person?
Answer: Richard Taunton Sixth Form College |
Context: Cuisine aroused a cultural pride in the accumulated richness of a long and varied past. The gentleman gourmet, such as Yuan Mei, applied aesthetic standards to the art of cooking, eating, and appreciation of tea at a time when New World crops and products entered everyday life. The Suiyuan Shidan written by him, detailed the culinary esthetics and theory, along with a wide range of recipes from the ruling period of Qianlong during Qing Dynasty. The Manchu Han Imperial Feast originated at the court. Although this banquet was probably never common, it reflected an appreciation by Han Chinese for Manchu culinary customs. Nevertheless, culinary traditionalists such as Yuan Mei lambasted the opulent culinary rituals of the Manchu Han Imperial Feast, saying that it is cause in part by "...the vulgar habits of bad chefs" and that "Display this trite are useful only for welcoming new relations through one’s gates or when the boss comes to visit." (皆惡廚陋習。只可用之於新親上門，上司入境)
Question: Who wrote the Suiyuan Shidan?
Answer: Yuan Mei
Question: What was the Suiyaun Shidan about?
Answer: recipes
Question: What was the Manchu Han Imperial Feast?
Answer: appreciation by Han Chinese for Manchu culinary customs |
Context: Since the launch of the "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge", more than a dozen research teams, mainly at universities in the U.S., Europe, India, China and South Africa, have received grants to develop innovative on-site and off-site waste treatment solutions for the urban poor. The grants were in the order of 400,000 USD for their first phase, followed by typically 1-3 million USD for their second phase; many of them investigated resource recovery or processing technologies for excreta or fecal sludge.
Question: What countries have received grants
Answer: universities in the U.S., Europe, India, China and South Africa, have received grants to develop innovative on-site and off-site waste treatment solutions
Question: How much were the grants for
Answer: The grants were in the order of 400,000 USD for their first phase, followed by typically 1-3 million USD for their second phase
Question: What did many investigate
Answer: many of them investigated resource recovery or processing technologies for excreta or fecal sludge.
Question: What did the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge investigate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What off-site treatment solutions received grants?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After receiving 1-3 million for the first phase how much were the grants for the second phase?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many teams received grants to help universities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Since the launch of investigating resource recovery what did the grants develop?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: An intellectual revitalization of Europe started with the birth of medieval universities in the 12th century. The contact with the Islamic world in Spain and Sicily, and during the Reconquista and the Crusades, allowed Europeans access to scientific Greek and Arabic texts, including the works of Aristotle, Ptolemy, Jābir ibn Hayyān, al-Khwarizmi, Alhazen, Avicenna, and Averroes. European scholars had access to the translation programs of Raymond of Toledo, who sponsored the 12th century Toledo School of Translators from Arabic to Latin. Later translators like Michael Scotus would learn Arabic in order to study these texts directly. The European universities aided materially in the translation and propagation of these texts and started a new infrastructure which was needed for scientific communities. In fact, European university put many works about the natural world and the study of nature at the center of its curriculum, with the result that the "medieval university laid far greater emphasis on science than does its modern counterpart and descendent."
Question: When were medieval universities created?
Answer: the 12th century
Question: Who sponsored the Toledo School of Translators?
Answer: Raymond of Toledo
Question: At the Toledo School of Translators, what language was Arabic text translated into?
Answer: Latin
Question: Which translator learned Arabic to be able to study the Arabic texts directly?
Answer: Michael Scotus |
Context: The Royal College of Chemistry was established by private subscription in 1845 as there was a growing awareness that practical aspects of the experimental sciences were not well taught and that in the United Kingdom the teaching of chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany. As a result of a movement earlier in the decade, many politicians donated funds to establish the college, including Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel. It was also supported by Prince Albert, who persuaded August Wilhelm von Hofmann to be the first professor.
Question: When was the Royal College of Chemistry established?
Answer: 1845
Question: Which politicians donated funds to establish the Royal College of Chemistry?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone and Robert Peel
Question: Who was the first professor of the Royal College of Chemistry?
Answer: August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Question: Why was the Royal College of Chemistry founded?
Answer: in the United Kingdom the teaching of chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany
Question: Who supported the Royal College of Chemistry?
Answer: Prince Albert
Question: When was the Royal College of Chemistry established?
Answer: 1845
Question: What was not well taught that led to the founding of the Royal College of Chemistry?
Answer: practical aspects of the experimental sciences
Question: Which country was ahead of the United Kingdom in the teaching of chemistry?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which Prince supported the establishment of the college?
Answer: Prince Albert
Question: Who was the first professor of the college?
Answer: August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Question: What college was established by private donations in 1845?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What subject was Germany behind the UK in teaching?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who appealed for public funding of the college?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who requested to be the first professor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Numerous plays are put on every year at Eton College; there is one main theatre, called the Farrer (seating 400) and 2 Studio theatres, called the Caccia Studio and Empty Space (seating 90 and 80 respectively). There are about 8 or 9 house productions each year, around 3 or 4 "independent" plays (not confined solely to one house, produced, directed and funded by Etonians) and three school plays, one specifically for boys in the first two years, and two open to all years. The School Plays have such good reputations that they are normally fully booked every night. Productions also take place in varying locations around the School, varying from the sports fields to more historic buildings such as Upper School and College Chapel.
Question: How many people can sit in the audience at Eton's main theatre?
Answer: 400
Question: What is the name of Eton's largest theatre?
Answer: Farrer
Question: How many house productions does Eton run each year?
Answer: about 8 or 9
Question: What are "independent" theatre productions at Eton?
Answer: not confined solely to one house, produced, directed and funded by Etonians
Question: Do the plays sport high attendance rates?
Answer: fully booked every night
Question: How many people can sit in College Chapel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people can sit in Upper School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Studio theatre was built first?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many plays are held in Caccia Studio each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many plays are held in Empty Space each year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Earth receives 174,000 terawatts (TW) of incoming solar radiation (insolation) at the upper atmosphere. Approximately 30% is reflected back to space while the rest is absorbed by clouds, oceans and land masses. The spectrum of solar light at the Earth's surface is mostly spread across the visible and near-infrared ranges with a small part in the near-ultraviolet. Most people around the world live in areas with insolation levels of 150 to 300 watts per square meter or 3.5 to 7.0 kWh/m2 per day.
Question: How many terawatts of solar radiation does the Earth receive?
Answer: 174,000
Question: What percentage of solar radiation is reflected back by the atmosphere?
Answer: 30%
Question: The areas that people live in typically receive what range of kWh/m2 per day?
Answer: 3.5 to 7.0
Question: How many terrawatts of radiation does the earth receive?
Answer: 174,000
Question: How much of the solar radiation is reflected back into space?
Answer: Approximately 30%
Question: What are the insolation levels of most populated areas?
Answer: 150 to 300 watts per square meter or 3.5 to 7.0 kWh/m2 per day
Question: Where is the solar radiation not reflected back to space absorbed?
Answer: clouds, oceans and land masses |
Context: The City of Charleston Fire Department consists over 300 full-time firefighters. These firefighters operate out of 19 companies located throughout the city: 16 engine companies, two tower companies, and one ladder company. Training, Fire Marshall, Operations, and Administration are the divisions of the department. The department operates on a 24/48 schedule and had a Class 1 ISO rating until late 2008, when ISO officially lowered it to Class 3. Russell (Rusty) Thomas served as Fire Chief until June 2008, and was succeeded by Chief Thomas Carr in November 2008.
Question: How many companies are there in the City of Charleston Fire Department?
Answer: 19
Question: How many full time firefighters do Charleston have?
Answer: 300
Question: Who was the Fire Chief until June 2008?
Answer: Russell (Rusty) Thomas
Question: Who became the Fire Chief in November 2008?
Answer: Chief Thomas Carr
Question: How many tower companies does the fire department have?
Answer: two
Question: How many companies aren't there in the City of Charleston Fire Department?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many part time firefighters do Charleston have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the Fire Chief until June 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who became the Fire Chief in November 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many tower companies doesn't the fire department have?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Part of the Russian resistance was credited[by whom?] to the deployment of newly invented blockade mines. Perhaps the most influential contributor to the development of naval mining was a Swede resident in Russia, the inventor and civil engineer Immanuel Nobel (the father of Alfred Nobel). Immanuel Nobel helped the Russian war effort by applying his knowledge of industrial explosives, such as nitroglycerin and gunpowder. One account dates modern naval mining from the Crimean War: "Torpedo mines, if I may use this name given by Fulton to self-acting mines underwater, were among the novelties attempted by the Russians in their defences about Cronstadt and Sevastopol", as one American officer put it in 1860.
Question: What greatly benefited the Russian resistance?
Answer: newly invented blockade mines
Question: Who contributed the most to developing naval mining?
Answer: Immanuel Nobel
Question: Immanuel Noble had expensive knowledge in what field?
Answer: industrial explosives
Question: Who named the torpedo mines?
Answer: Fulton
Question: What was Immanuel Nobel son's name?
Answer: Alfred Nobel |
Context: When military conflicts broke out between the Ottoman Empire and other states, Greeks usually took arms against the Empire, with few exceptions. Prior to the Greek revolution, there had been a number of wars which saw Greeks fight against the Ottomans, such as the Greek participation in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Epirus peasants' revolts of 1600–1601, the Morean War of 1684–1699, and the Russian-instigated Orlov Revolt in 1770, which aimed at breaking up the Ottoman Empire in favor of Russian interests.[page needed] These uprisings were put down by the Ottomans with great bloodshed.
Question: The Battle of of Lepanto took place in what year?
Answer: 1571
Question: The Morean War took place during which years?
Answer: 1684–1699
Question: The Orlov Revolt took place in what year?
Answer: 1770
Question: The Orlov Revolt was for which nation's supposed benefit?
Answer: Russian
Question: During battles of the 1600 and 1700's, the Greeks usually fought against who?
Answer: Ottoman Empire |
Context: The patron saint of Palermo is Santa Rosalia, who is widely revered. On 14 July, people in Palermo celebrate the annual Festino, the most important religious event of the year. The Festino is a procession which goes through the main street of Palermo to commemorate the miracle attributed to Santa Rosalia who, it is believed, freed the city from the Black Death in 1624. Her remains were discovered in a cave on Monte Pellegrino, and her remains were carried around the city three times, banishing the plague. There is a sanctuary marking the spot where her remains were found which can be reached via a scenic bus ride from the city.
Question: Who is the popular patron saint of Palermo?
Answer: Santa Rosalia
Question: When is Palermo's most important religious event of the year held?
Answer: 14 July
Question: Who is said to have ended the Black Death in 1624?
Answer: Santa Rosalia
Question: What is The Festino?
Answer: procession which goes through the main street of Palermo to commemorate the miracle attributed to Santa Rosalia
Question: Who is the patron saint of Italy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ended the Black Death in the 16th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is Palermo's most important secular celebration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who banished the plague from the city before dying themselves?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The metal's distinctive natural green patina has long been coveted by architects and designers. The final patina is a particularly durable layer that is highly resistant to atmospheric corrosion, thereby protecting the underlying metal against further weathering. It can be a mixture of carbonate and sulfate compounds in various amounts, depending upon environmental conditions such as sulfur-containing acid rain. Architectural copper and its alloys can also be 'finished' to embark a particular look, feel, and/or color. Finishes include mechanical surface treatments, chemical coloring, and coatings.
Question: What pigment color is natural to copper?
Answer: green
Question: What property does the final patina on cooper have?
Answer: highly resistant to atmospheric corrosion
Question: What mixture of compounds is the final patina?
Answer: carbonate and sulfate
Question: What conditions effect the mixture of carbonate and sulfate in copper?
Answer: environmental
Question: What can be done to copper to give it a certain look?
Answer: finished
Question: What pigment color is fake copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What property does the final patina on copper avoid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What separation of compounds is the final patina?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What conditions have no influence on the mixture of carbonate and sulfate in copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can be done to sugar to give it a certain look?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government named the Western nations, led by the United States, as the biggest threat to its national security. Basing this judgment on China's century of humiliation beginning in the early 19th century, American support for the Nationalists during the Chinese Civil War, and the ideological struggles between revolutionaries and reactionaries, the Chinese leadership believed that China would become a critical battleground in the United States' crusade against Communism. As a countermeasure and to elevate China's standing among the worldwide Communist movements, the Chinese leadership adopted a foreign policy that actively promoted Communist revolutions throughout territories on China's periphery.
Question: What country did China see as a threat to the People's Republic of China?
Answer: Western nations
Question: Where was it believed that that fight against Communism would take place?
Answer: China
Question: To show their strength in the international Communist movement, what did China do?
Answer: promoted Communist revolutions
Question: Who did America support during the Chinese Civil War?
Answer: the Nationalists |
Context: There are several other important art museums in Montevideo. The National Museum of Visual Arts in Parque Rodó has Uruguay's largest collection of paintings. The Juan Manuel Blanes Museum was founded in 1930, the 100th anniversary of the first Constitution of Uruguay, significant with regard to the fact that Juan Manuel Blanes painted Uruguayan patriotic themes. In back of the museum is a beautiful Japanese Garden with a pond where there are over a hundred carp. The Museo de Historia del Arte, located in the Palacio Municipal, features replicas of ancient monuments and exhibits a varied collection of artifacts from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, Rome and Native American cultures including local finds of the pre-Columbian period. The Museo Municipal Precolombino y Colonial, in the Ciudad Vieja, has preserved collections of the archaeological finds from excavations carried out by Uruguayan archaeologist Antonio Taddei. These antiquaries are exhibits of pre-Columbian art of Latin America, painting and sculpture from the 17th and 18th century mostly from Mexico, Peru and Brazil. The Museo de Arte Contempo has small but impressive exhibits of modern Uruguayan painting and sculpture.
Question: Where is the National Museum of Visual Arts located?
Answer: Parque Rodó
Question: What does the National Museum of Visual Arts have the largest collection of in Uruguay?
Answer: paintings
Question: When was the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum founded?
Answer: 1930
Question: Who painted Uruguayan patriotic themes?
Answer: Juan Manuel Blanes
Question: Where is the Museo de Historia del Arte located?
Answer: the Palacio Municipal |
Context: A pater familias was the senior priest of his household. He offered daily cult to his lares and penates, and to his di parentes/divi parentes at his domestic shrines and in the fires of the household hearth. His wife (mater familias) was responsible for the household's cult to Vesta. In rural estates, bailiffs seem to have been responsible for at least some of the household shrines (lararia) and their deities. Household cults had state counterparts. In Vergil's Aeneid, Aeneas brought the Trojan cult of the lares and penates from Troy, along with the Palladium which was later installed in the temple of Vesta.
Question: Who was the senior priest of the household in Rome?
Answer: pater familias
Question: Which individual in the household was responsible for the Vesta cult?
Answer: wife
Question: Which ancient hero brought the lares cult to Rome?
Answer: Aeneas
Question: From what city did Aeneas bring the lares cult?
Answer: Troy
Question: What was put in the temple of Vesta?
Answer: Palladium |
Context: As aircraft started to be used against ground targets on the battlefield, the AA guns could not be traversed quickly enough at close targets and, being relatively few, were not always in the right place (and were often unpopular with other troops), so changed positions frequently. Soon the forces were adding various machine-gun based weapons mounted on poles. These short-range weapons proved more deadly, and the "Red Baron" is believed to have been shot down by an anti-aircraft Vickers machine gun. When the war ended, it was clear that the increasing capabilities of aircraft would require better means of acquiring targets and aiming at them. Nevertheless, a pattern had been set: anti-aircraft weapons would be based around heavy weapons attacking high-altitude targets and lighter weapons for use when they came to lower altitudes.
Question: What was many times unpopular with other troops?
Answer: AA guns
Question: What was mounted on poles by forces?
Answer: machine-gun based weapons
Question: What type of weapon is thought to have shot down the Red Baron?
Answer: anti-aircraft Vickers machine gun
Question: What made acquiring targets and aiming more required?
Answer: increasing capabilities of aircraft
Question: Heavy weapons shot at high-altitude targets and what shot at low-altitude targets?
Answer: lighter weapons |
Context: John Knox (1505–1572), a Scot who had spent time studying under Calvin in Geneva, returned to Scotland and urged his countrymen to reform the Church in line with Calvinist doctrines. After a period of religious convulsion and political conflict culminating in a victory for the Protestant party at the Siege of Leith the authority of the Church of Rome was abolished in favour of Reformation by the legislation of the Scottish Reformation Parliament in 1560. The Church was eventually organised by Andrew Melville along Presbyterian lines to become the national Church of Scotland. King James VI and I moved the Church of Scotland towards an episcopal form of government, and in 1637, James' successor, Charles I and William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, attempted to force the Church of Scotland to use the Book of Common Prayer. What resulted was an armed insurrection, with many Scots signing the Solemn League and Covenant. The Covenanters would serve as the government of Scotland for nearly a decade, and would also send military support to the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. Following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Charles II, despite the initial support that he received from the Covenanters, reinstated an episcopal form of government on the church.
Question: What year did John Knox past away?
Answer: 1572
Question: What did John Knox do when he returned to Scotland after studying under Calvin?
Answer: to reform the Church in line with Calvinist doctrines
Question: The church of Scotland was organized by this person, whats his name?
Answer: Andrew Melville
Question: In what year was the Government of church reinstated?
Answer: 1660
Question: John Knox was born in 1637 and died when?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: John Knox died in 1505 and was born in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Calvin spent time studying under who in Geneva?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the successor of Charles I and William Laud?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Scotland?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1956, the British and French prime ministers, Sir Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet, discussed the possibility of France joining the Commonwealth. The proposal was never accepted and the following year France signed the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Economic Community, the precursor to the European Union. In November 1956, Britain and France invaded Egypt in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to capture the Suez Canal. Lord Mountbatten claimed the Queen was opposed to the invasion, though Eden denied it. Eden resigned two months later.
Question: When did the prime ministers of Britain and France discuss the idea of France joining the Commonwealth?
Answer: 1956
Question: What did France sign instead of joining the Commonwealth?
Answer: Treaty of Rome
Question: What did the Treaty of Rome establish?
Answer: European Economic Community
Question: To what was the European Economic Community the precurser?
Answer: European Union
Question: When did Britain and France invade Egypt?
Answer: November 1956
Question: In what year did Sir Anthony Eden become the British prime minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Guy Mollet become the French prime minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Suez Canal dig completed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first country Britain invaded during Queen Elizabeth's rule?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Queen Elizabeth get crowned?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Seattle remained the corporate headquarters of Boeing until 2001, when the company separated its headquarters from its major production facilities; the headquarters were moved to Chicago. The Seattle area is still home to Boeing's Renton narrow-body plant (where the 707, 720, 727, and 757 were assembled, and the 737 is assembled today) and Everett wide-body plant (assembly plant for the 747, 767, 777, and 787). The company's credit union for employees, BECU, remains based in the Seattle area, though it is now open to all residents of Washington.
Question: When did Boeing move its headquarters to Chicago?
Answer: 2001
Question: What did Boeing separate from its headquarters facilities?
Answer: production facilities
Question: Besides the Renton plant, where else are airplanes made for Boeing?
Answer: Everett
Question: To whom is the Boeing credit union open?
Answer: all residents
Question: Before 2001, where was Boeing headquartered?
Answer: Seattle |
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