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Context: The capital, Brazzaville, is located on the Congo River, in the south of the country, immediately across from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Question: What is the capital of the Congo?
Answer: Brazzaville
Question: On what river can Brazzaville be found?
Answer: Congo River
Question: What lies directly across the Congo River from Brazzaville?
Answer: Kinshasa
Question: What country does Kinshasa serve as capital of?
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Question: Where is Kinshasa located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is located in the north of the Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is located in the south of the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city is not located on the Congo River?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city is located far away from Brazzaville?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The armed forces have three branches: Navy, Army and Air Force. They serve primarily as a self-defense force whose mission is to protect the territorial integrity of the country and provide humanitarian assistance and security at home and abroad. As of 2008, the three branches numbered 39,200 active personnel including 7,500 women. Portuguese military expenditure in 2009 was $5.2 billion, representing 2.1 percent of GDP. Military conscription was abolished in 2004. The minimum age for voluntary recruitment is 18 years.
Question: How many branches make up the Portuguese armed forces?
Answer: three
Question: What are the branches of the Portuguese armed forces?
Answer: Navy, Army and Air Force
Question: What is the primary purpose of the Portuguese armed forces?
Answer: primarily as a self-defense force whose mission is to protect the territorial integrity of the country and provide humanitarian assistance and security
Question: How many women were in the Portuguese armed forces in 2008?
Answer: 7,500
Question: How much money was spent on the Portuguese armed forced in 2009?
Answer: $5.2 billion, representing 2.1 percent of GDP |
Context: Early writings on the subject tended to judge states by the realist criterion, as expressed by the historian A. J. P. Taylor when he noted that "The test of a great power is the test of strength for war." Later writers have expanded this test, attempting to define power in terms of overall military, economic, and political capacity. Kenneth Waltz, the founder of the neorealist theory of international relations, uses a set of five criteria to determine great power: population and territory; resource endowment; economic capability; political stability and competence; and military strength. These expanded criteria can be divided into three heads: power capabilities, spatial aspects, and status.
Question: Who wrote, "The test of a great power is the test of strength for war."?
Answer: A. J. P. Taylor
Question: Whos was the founder of the neorealist theory of international relations?
Answer: Kenneth Waltz
Question: What 5 criteria did neorealist use to determine great powers?
Answer: population and territory; resource endowment; economic capability; political stability and competence; and military strength
Question: What 3 areas can summarize the great power determination?
Answer: power capabilities, spatial aspects, and status
Question: What did the historian Kenneth Waltz note about great power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With what terms did later writers define neorealist theory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term was used in early times to judge a state's political capacity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What three groups can political capacity be divided into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the founder of the neorealist theory on the test of strength for war?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Pfizer, once the city's second largest employer, operated a large pharmaceutical research facility on the northeast side of Ann Arbor. On 22 January 2007, Pfizer announced it would close operations in Ann Arbor by the end of 2008. The facility was previously operated by Warner-Lambert and, before that, Parke-Davis. In December 2008, the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the purchase of the facilities, and the university anticipates hiring 2,000 researchers and staff during the next 10 years. The city is the home of other research and engineering centers, including those of Lotus Engineering, General Dynamics and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Other research centers sited in the city are the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory and the Toyota Technical Center. The city is also home to National Sanitation Foundation International (NSF International), the nonprofit non-governmental organization that develops generally accepted standards for a variety of public health related industries and subject areas.
Question: Who is the city's 2nd largest employer?
Answer: Pfizer
Question: Which non-profit non-governmental organization is located in Ann Arbor?
Answer: National Sanitation Foundation International
Question: How many researchers does the University of Michigan expect to hire?
Answer: 2,000
Question: What pharmaceutical company was Ann Arbor's largest employer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company announced it would close operations by the end of 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What month in 2007 did the University of Michigan Board of Regents approve the purchase of the facilities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who automobile manufactures has a Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Just as Lee explores Jem's development in coming to grips with a racist and unjust society, Scout realizes what being female means, and several female characters influence her development. Scout's primary identification with her father and older brother allows her to describe the variety and depth of female characters in the novel both as one of them and as an outsider. Scout's primary female models are Calpurnia and her neighbor Miss Maudie, both of whom are strong willed, independent, and protective. Mayella Ewell also has an influence; Scout watches her destroy an innocent man in order to hide her desire for him. The female characters who comment the most on Scout's lack of willingness to adhere to a more feminine role are also those who promote the most racist and classist points of view. For example, Mrs. Dubose chastises Scout for not wearing a dress and camisole, and indicates she is ruining the family name by not doing so, in addition to insulting Atticus' intentions to defend Tom Robinson. By balancing the masculine influences of Atticus and Jem with the feminine influences of Calpurnia and Miss Maudie, one scholar writes, "Lee gradually demonstrates that Scout is becoming a feminist in the South, for with the use of first-person narration, she indicates that Scout/ Jean Louise still maintains the ambivalence about being a Southern lady she possessed as a child."
Question: Who are the main female role models for Scout during the story?
Answer: Calpurnia and Miss Maudie
Question: Who are Scout's two primary female models?
Answer: Calpurnia and Miss Maudie
Question: Who chastis Scout for the way she dresse and accuses her of ruining her family name?
Answer: Mrs. Dubose
Question: Tomboy Scout grows up tto become what?
Answer: feminist |
Context: In March 2013, Governor Rick Snyder declared a financial emergency in the city, stating that the city has a $327 million budget deficit and faces more than $14 billion in long-term debt. It has been making ends meet on a month-to-month basis with the help of bond money held in a state escrow account and has instituted mandatory unpaid days off for many city workers. Those troubles, along with underfunded city services, such as police and fire departments, and ineffective turnaround plans from Bing and the City Council led the state of Michigan to appoint an emergency manager for Detroit on March 14, 2013. On June 14, 2013 Detroit defaulted on $2.5 billion of debt by withholding $39.7 million in interest payments, while Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr met with bondholders and other creditors in an attempt to restructure the city's $18.5 billion debt and avoid bankruptcy. On July 18, 2013, the City of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection. It was declared bankrupt by U.S. judge Stephen Rhodes on December 3, with its $18.5 billion debt he said in accepting the city's contention that it is broke and that negotiations with its thousands of creditors were infeasible.
Question: Who was Michigan's governor in 2013?
Answer: Rick Snyder
Question: What judge declared Detroit bankrupt?
Answer: Stephen Rhodes
Question: What type of bankruptcy did Detroit file?
Answer: Chapter 9
Question: When did Detroit file for bankruptcy?
Answer: July 18, 2013
Question: How much did Detroit owe when it was declared bankrupt?
Answer: $18.5 billion |
Context: In the State Department, Kerry quickly earned a reputation "for being aloof, keeping to himself, and not bothering to read staff memos." Career State Department officials have complained that power has become too centralized under Kerry's leadership, which slows department operations when Kerry is on one of his frequent overseas trips. Others in State describe Kerry as having "a kind of diplomatic attention deficit disorder" as he shifts from topic to topic instead of focusing on long-term strategy. When asked whether he was traveling too much, he responded, "Hell no. I'm not slowing down." Despite Kerry's early achievements, morale at State is lower than under Hillary Clinton according to department employees. However, after Kerry's first six months in the State Department, a Gallup poll found he had high approval ratings among Americans as Secretary of State. After a year, another poll showed Kerry's favorability continued to rise. Less than two years into Kerry's term, the Foreign Policy Magazine's 2014 Ivory Tower survey of international relations scholars asked, "Who was the most effective U.S. Secretary of State in the past 50 years?"; John Kerry and Lawrence Eagleburger tied for 11th place out of the 15 confirmed Secretaries of State in that period.
Question: Who complained about how Kerry ran the State Dept?
Answer: Career State Department officials
Question: What was the complaint about how Kerry ran the State Dept?
Answer: power has become too centralized under Kerry's leadership, which slows department operations when Kerry is on one of his frequent overseas trips
Question: How had some State employees described Kerry?
Answer: having "a kind of diplomatic attention deficit disorder"
Question: Who published the Ivory Tower Survey?
Answer: Foreign Policy Magazine
Question: What was Kerry's ranking in the Ivory Tower Survey for effectiveness as SoS?
Answer: tied for 11th place out of the 15 |
Context: Public expenditure health was at 8.9% of the GDP in 2004, whereas private expenditure was at 1.3%. As of 2012, the HIV/AIDS prevalence was at 2.8% among 15- to 49-year-olds. Health expenditure was at US$30 per capita in 2004. A large proportion of the population is undernourished, with malnutrition being a problem in Congo-Brazzaville. There were 20 physicians per 100,000 persons in the early 2000s (decade).
Question: How much of the gross domestic product was spent on public health in 2004?
Answer: 8.9%
Question: What was the overall incidence of HIV or AIDS throughout the 15 to 49 year old population?
Answer: 2.8%
Question: How much was spent per capita on health in 2004 as measured in US dollars?
Answer: $30
Question: For every 100,000 people, how many phyisicians were there in the Congo in the early '00s?
Answer: 20
Question: What percentage of the GDP was public expenditure health after 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in people over 49?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much was spent on health per capita after 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is happening to only a small portion of the population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many physicians per 100,000 people were there in the late 2000s?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In cities other than Rome, the name cardinal began to be applied to certain church men as a mark of honour. The earliest example of this occurs in a letter sent by Pope Zacharias in 747 to Pippin III (the Short), ruler of the Franks, in which Zacharias applied the title to the priests of Paris to distinguish them from country clergy. This meaning of the word spread rapidly, and from the 9th century various episcopal cities had a special class among the clergy known as cardinals. The use of the title was reserved for the cardinals of Rome in 1567 by Pius V.
Question: What term was given to certain church men of honor?
Answer: cardinal
Question: When is the earliest date of using the term cardinal as honorable church men used?
Answer: 747
Question: When was the title of cardinal reserved for the cardinals of Rome by Pius V?
Answer: 1567
Question: In regards to the word "cardinal" being used in cities other than Rome, who sent a letter to Pippin III?
Answer: Pope Zacharias
Question: In what year was the letter sent?
Answer: 747
Question: Which pope declared that cardinals would be from Rome?
Answer: Pius V.
Question: In what year did the pope make the declaration?
Answer: 1567
Question: What term was applied to certain political leaders as a mark of honor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pippin III call priests of Paris to distinguish them from county clergy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What century did the term cardinal spread quickly throughout various Muslim cities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Pope Zacharias reserve the title for the cardinals of Rome?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who had a special class among clergy known as priests in the 9th century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Directly underneath the State Apartments is a suite of slightly less grand rooms known as the semi-state apartments. Opening from the Marble Hall, these rooms are used for less formal entertaining, such as luncheon parties and private audiences. Some of the rooms are named and decorated for particular visitors, such as the 1844 Room, decorated in that year for the State visit of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, and, on the other side of the Bow Room, the 1855 Room, in honour of the visit of Emperor Napoleon III of France. At the centre of this suite is the Bow Room, through which thousands of guests pass annually to the Queen's Garden Parties in the Gardens. The Queen and Prince Philip use a smaller suite of rooms in the north wing.
Question: Which rooms are used for less formal entertaining such as luncheons or private audiences?
Answer: the semi-state apartments
Question: Which room is named for visit of Tsar Nicolas I of Russia?
Answer: 1844 Room
Question: The 1855 Room is name for which European emperor?
Answer: Emperor Napoleon III of France
Question: Guests attending the Queen's Garden Parties will mostly likely see which room?
Answer: Bow Room
Question: Where are the suites located that the Queen and Prince Phillip use?
Answer: the north wing
Question: What is the name of the slightly less luxurious staterooms located underneath the State Apartments?
Answer: semi-state apartments
Question: What type of entertaining are the semi-state apartments used for?
Answer: less formal entertaining
Question: Who is the 1844 Room named after?
Answer: Tsar Nicholas I of Russia
Question: Who is the 1855 Room named after?
Answer: Emperor Napoleon III of France
Question: Where are the Queen and Prince Phillip's apartments located?
Answer: the north wing
Question: Which rooms are used for more formal entertaining such as luncheons or public audiences?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which room does not allow visits by Tsar Nicolas I of Russia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which European chef is The 1845 Room named after?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are the suites located that the King and Prince Phillip use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the 1744 Room named after?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to the Quran, God communicated with man and made his will known through signs and revelations. Prophets, or 'Messengers of God', received revelations and delivered them to humanity. The message has been identical and for all humankind. "Nothing is said to you that was not said to the messengers before you, that your lord has at his Command forgiveness as well as a most Grievous Penalty." The revelation does not come directly from God to the prophets. Angels acting as God's messengers deliver the divine revelation to them. This comes out in Quran 42:51, in which it is stated: "It is not for any mortal that God should speak to them, except by revelation, or from behind a veil, or by sending a messenger to reveal by his permission whatsoever He will."
Question: In what form does the Quran say God sends his messages to people?
Answer: signs and revelations
Question: Who intermediates between God and prophets?
Answer: Angels
Question: Which part of the Quran describes God's use of intermediaries between himself and his prophets?
Answer: 42:51
Question: How does the Quran describe the similarity of messages God has delivered throughout human history?
Answer: identical
Question: Which humans are the messengers of God?
Answer: Prophets
Question: In what form doesn't the Quran say God sends his messages to people?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who intermediates between Jesus and prophets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which part of the Quran describes Mohammed's use of intermediaries between himself and his prophets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does the Quran describe the differences of messages God has delivered throughout human history?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which nonhumans are the messengers of God?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although there is evidence of scattered Brythonic settlements in the area, the first major settlement was founded by the Romans after the invasion of 43 AD. This lasted only until around 61, when the Iceni tribe led by Queen Boudica stormed it, burning it to the ground. The next, heavily planned, incarnation of Londinium prospered, and it superseded Colchester as the capital of the Roman province of Britannia in 100. At its height in the 2nd century, Roman London had a population of around 60,000.
Question: Who was the leader of the Iceni tribe?
Answer: Queen Boudica
Question: What was Roman London's population in the 2nd century?
Answer: around 60,000
Question: The Romans invaded what is now London and established its first major settlement in what year?
Answer: 43 AD
Question: What was the capital of Britannia before Londinium?
Answer: Colchester
Question: Who invaded and destroyed the first major settlement of Roman London in 61 AD?
Answer: the Iceni tribe |
Context: Other Fortune 500 companies, while not headquartered in the area, do have a major presence. These include SunTrust Bank (based in Atlanta), Capital One Financial Corporation (officially based in McLean, Virginia, but founded in Richmond with its operations center and most employees in the Richmond area), and the medical and pharmaceutical giant McKesson (based in San Francisco). Capital One and Altria company's Philip Morris USA are two of the largest private Richmond-area employers. DuPont maintains a production facility in South Richmond known as the Spruance Plant. UPS Freight, the less-than-truckload division of UPS and formerly known as Overnite Transportation, has its corporate headquarters in Richmond.
Question: Where is SunTrust Bank headquartered?
Answer: Atlanta
Question: What city is the headquarters of McKesson located in?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: Who owns Philip Morris USA?
Answer: Altria
Question: What DuPont factory is located in the Richmond area?
Answer: Spruance Plant
Question: What was the former name of UPS Freight?
Answer: Overnite Transportation |
Context: Established in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, Hyderabad remained under the rule of the Qutb Shahi dynasty for nearly a century before the Mughals captured the region. In 1724, Mughal viceroy Asif Jah I declared his sovereignty and created his own dynasty, known as the Nizams of Hyderabad. The Nizam's dominions became a princely state during the British Raj, and remained so for 150 years, with the city serving as its capital. The Nizami influence can still be seen in the culture of the Hyderabadi Muslims. The city continued as the capital of Hyderabad State after it was brought into the Indian Union in 1948, and became the capital of Andhra Pradesh after the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. Since 1956, Rashtrapati Nilayam in the city has been the winter office of the President of India. In 2014, the newly formed state of Telangana split from Andhra Pradesh and the city became joint capital of the two states, a transitional arrangement scheduled to end by 2025.
Question: In what year was Hyderabad established?
Answer: Established in 1591
Question: Who is the person that established Hyderabad?
Answer: Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
Question: What dynasty controlled Hyderabad until the early 18th century?
Answer: the Qutb Shahi dynasty
Question: Which Mughal viceroy created a dynasty in early 18th century Hyderabad?
Answer: Mughal viceroy Asif Jah I declared his sovereignty and created his own dynasty
Question: Which dynasty did Asif Jah I create?
Answer: Nizams of Hyderabad |
Context: While forming an integral part of the Christian calendar, particularly in Catholic regions, many Carnival traditions resemble those antedating Christianity. Italian Carnival is sometimes thought to be derived from the ancient Roman festivals of Saturnalia and Bacchanalia. The Saturnalia, in turn, may be based on the Greek Dionysia and Oriental festivals. For the start of the Roman Saturnalia, on December 17 authorities chose an enemy of the Roman people to represent the Lord of Misrule in each community. These men and women were forced to indulge in food and physical pleasures throughout the week, horribly murdered on December 25th: "destroying the forces of darkness".
Question: Many Carnival traditions form an integral part of whose calendar?
Answer: Christian
Question: What two ancient Roman festivals is Carnival thought to stem from?
Answer: Saturnalia and Bacchanalia
Question: The Saturnalia is potentially based on what Greek festival?
Answer: Dionysia
Question: On which month and day did Saturnalia start?
Answer: December 17
Question: What happened to the men and women chosen to represent the Lord of Misrule?
Answer: horribly murdered |
Context: The State Council declared a three-day period of national mourning for the quake victims starting from May 19, 2008; the PRC's National Flag and Regional Flags of Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions flown at half mast. It was the first time that a national mourning period had been declared for something other than the death of a state leader, and many have called it the biggest display of mourning since the death of Mao Zedong. At 14:28 CST on May 19, 2008, a week after the earthquake, the Chinese public held a moment of silence. People stood silent for three minutes while air defense, police and fire sirens, and the horns of vehicles, vessels and trains sounded. Cars and trucks on Beijing's roads also came to a halt. People spontaneously burst into cheering "Zhongguo jiayou!" (Let's go, China!) and "Sichuan jiayou" (Let's go, Sichuan!) afterwards.
Question: Who declared the mourning period?
Answer: The State Council
Question: What did the State Council declare a period of?
Answer: national mourning
Question: This was the biggest display of mourning since the death of who?
Answer: Mao Zedong
Question: When did the Chinese hold a moment of silence?
Answer: May 19, 2008
Question: What came to a halt during the moment of silence?
Answer: Cars and trucks
Question: How long was the national mourning for the quake victims to last?
Answer: three-day period |
Context: The 1989 film Back to the Future Part II depicts the Chicago Cubs defeating a baseball team from Miami in the 2015 World Series, ending the longest championship drought in all four of the major North American professional sports leagues. In 2015, the Miami Marlins failed to make the playoffs and were able to make it to the 2015 National League Wild Card round and move on to the 2015 National League Championship Series by October 21, 2015, the date where protagonist Marty McFly traveled to the future in the film. However, it was on October 21 that the Cubs were swept by the New York Mets in the NLCS.
Question: What film depicts the Chicago Cubs defeating a baseball team from Miami in the 2015 World Series?
Answer: Back to the Future Part II
Question: What team failed to make it to the playoffs in 2015?
Answer: Miami Marlins
Question: What day were the Cubs swept by the New York Mets in the NLCS?
Answer: October 21 |
Context: Melbourne universities have campuses all over Australia and some internationally. Swinburne University has campuses in Malaysia, while Monash has a research centre based in Prato, Italy. The University of Melbourne, the second oldest university in Australia, was ranked first among Australian universities in the 2010 THES international rankings. The 2012–2013 Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the University of Melbourne as the 28th (30th by QS ranking) best university in the world. Monash University was ranked as the 99th (60th by QS ranking) best university in the world. Both universities are members of the Group of Eight, a coalition of leading Australian tertiary institutions offering comprehensive and leading education.
Question: Which Melbourne based university has campuses in Malaysia?
Answer: Swinburne University
Question: Which Melbourne based college has a research centre in Prato, Italy?
Answer: Monash
Question: Which university is the second oldest in Australia?
Answer: The University of Melbourne
Question: What is the Group of Eight?
Answer: a coalition of leading Australian tertiary institutions offering comprehensive and leading education |
Context: The university hosts a variety of student journals, magazines, and newspapers. Established in 1872, The Yale Record is the world's oldest humor magazine. Newspapers include the Yale Daily News, which was first published in 1878, and the weekly Yale Herald, which was first published in 1986. Dwight Hall, an independent, non-profit community service organization, oversees more than 2,000 Yale undergraduates working on more than 70 community service initiatives in New Haven. The Yale College Council runs several agencies that oversee campus wide activities and student services. The Yale Dramatic Association and Bulldog Productions cater to the theater and film communities, respectively. In addition, the Yale Drama Coalition serves to coordinate between and provide resources for the various Sudler Fund sponsored theater productions which run each weekend. WYBC Yale Radio is the campus's radio station, owned and operated by students. While students used to broadcast on AM & FM frequencies, they now have an Internet-only stream.
Question: What is the name of the world's oldest humor magazine?
Answer: The Yale Record
Question: What year was The Yale Record first published?
Answer: 1872
Question: In what year was the Yale Daily News established?
Answer: 1878
Question: When was the Yale Herald established?
Answer: 1986
Question: What is the name of the campus radio station?
Answer: WYBC Yale Radio
Question: What is the name of the world's newest humor magazine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was The Yale Record last published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Yale Daily News closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Yale Herald closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the campus tv station?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1910, over 2 million children in the same age group were employed in the United States. This included children who rolled cigarettes, engaged in factory work, worked as bobbin doffers in textile mills, worked in coal mines and were employed in canneries. Lewis Hine's photographs of child labourers in the 1910s powerfully evoked the plight of working children in the American south. Hines took these photographs between 1908 and 1917 as the staff photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.
Question: Where was photographer Lewis Hine employed?
Answer: National Child Labor Committee
Question: What year were over 2 million children employed in the US?
Answer: 1910
Question: What did children roll in a factory?
Answer: cigarettes
Question: What did child do in textile mills in the US?
Answer: bobbin doffers |
Context: The Alaska Constitution was written so as to discourage dedicating state funds for a particular purpose. The Permanent Fund has become the rare exception to this, mostly due to the political climate of distrust existing during the time of its creation. From its initial principal of $734,000, the fund has grown to $50 billion as a result of oil royalties and capital investment programs. Most if not all the principal is invested conservatively outside Alaska. This has led to frequent calls by Alaskan politicians for the Fund to make investments within Alaska, though such a stance has never gained momentum.
Question: Was Alaska's Constitution written to encourage or discourage state funds being used for a particular purpose?
Answer: discourage
Question: Why is the Permanent Fund an exception to the premise of the Alaskan Constitution?
Answer: political climate of distrust existing during the time of its creation
Question: Where is the principal of the Permanent Fund invested?
Answer: outside Alaska
Question: How much was the initial principal of the Permanent Fund?
Answer: $734,000
Question: How high has the principal of the Permanent Fund grown?
Answer: $50 billion
Question: Was Alaska's Constitution written to encourage or discourage state funds being used for an unparticular purpose?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is the Permanent Fund not an exception to the premise of the Alaskan Constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the principal of the Permanent Fund not invested?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much was the final principal of the Permanent Fund?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How high has the principal of the Permanent Fund shrank?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Historically within the party, differentiation was made between the "soft left" and the "hard left", with the former embracing more moderately social democratic views while the hard left subscribed to a strongly socialist, even Marxist, ideology. Members on the hard left were often disparaged as the "loony left," particularly in the popular media. The term "hard left" was sometimes used in the 1980s to describe Trotskyist groups such as the Militant tendency, Socialist Organiser and Socialist Action. In more recent times, Members of Parliament in the Socialist Campaign Group and the Labour Representation Committee are seen as constituting a hard left in contrast to a soft left represented by organisations such as Compass and the magazine Tribune.
Question: Who was referred to as the loony right?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was never used to refer to Trotskyist groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What magazine is part of the hard left?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was never described as the loony left?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Atypical symptoms are more frequently reported by women, the elderly, and those with diabetes when compared to their male and younger counterparts. Women also report more numerous symptoms compared with men (2.6 on average vs. 1.8 symptoms in men). The most common symptoms of MI in women include dyspnea, weakness, and fatigue. Fatigue, sleep disturbances, and dyspnea have been reported as frequently occurring symptoms that may manifest as long as one month before the actual clinically manifested ischemic event. In women, chest pain may be less predictive of coronary ischemia than in men. Women may also experience back or jaw pain during an episode.
Question: How many symptoms do people with diabetes typically report?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the most common symptoms for men?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long after the ischemic event do symptoms manifest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is more predictive of coronary ischemia for women?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the Middle Ages, the Eritrea region was known as Medri Bahri ("sea-land"). The name Eritrea is derived from the ancient Greek name for Red Sea (Ἐρυθρὰ Θάλασσα Erythra Thalassa, based on the adjective ἐρυθρός erythros "red"). It was first formally adopted in 1890, with the formation of Italian Eritrea (Colonia Eritrea). The territory became the Eritrea Governorate within Italian East Africa in 1936. Eritrea was annexed by Ethiopia in 1953 (nominally within a federation until 1962) and an Eritrean Liberation Front formed in 1960. Eritrea gained independence following the 1993 referendum, and the name of the new state was defined as State of Eritrea in the 1997 constitution.[citation needed]
Question: What was the Eritrean region known as during the Middle Ages?
Answer: Medri Bahri
Question: When was Eritrea annexed by Ethiopia?
Answer: 1953
Question: When did the Eritrean Liberation Front form?
Answer: 1960
Question: When did Eritrea gain independence?
Answer: following the 1993 referendum
Question: What was the Roman name for the Red Sea?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Eritrean Liberation Front cease operations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Ethiopia founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Italian Eritrea founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Ethiopia known as during the Middle Ages?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The collateralized debt obligation in particular enabled financial institutions to obtain investor funds to finance subprime and other lending, extending or increasing the housing bubble and generating large fees. This essentially places cash payments from multiple mortgages or other debt obligations into a single pool from which specific securities draw in a specific sequence of priority. Those securities first in line received investment-grade ratings from rating agencies. Securities with lower priority had lower credit ratings but theoretically a higher rate of return on the amount invested.
Question: What is the name of the securities that enabled financial institutions to obtain investor funds to finance subprime?
Answer: collateralized debt obligation
Question: What was the outcome of collateralized debt obligations?
Answer: extending or increasing the housing bubble
Question: What type ratings did securities first in line receive from rating agencies?
Answer: investment-grade ratings
Question: What type pool do collateralized debt obligations place their payments from mortgages into?
Answer: single pool
Question: What securities had lower credit ratings but potentially a higher rate of return?
Answer: Securities with lower priority |
Context: The first non-Native American inhabitant of what would eventually become New York City was Dominican trader Juan Rodriguez (transliterated to Dutch as Jan Rodrigues). Born in Santo Domingo of Portuguese and African descent, he arrived in Manhattan during the winter of 1613–1614, trapping for pelts and trading with the local population as a representative of the Dutch. Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street, is named Juan Rodriguez Way in his honor.
Question: Where was Juan Rodriguez born?
Answer: Santo Domingo
Question: What did the Dutch call Juan Rodriguez?
Answer: Jan Rodrigues
Question: What was Juan Rodriguez's occupation?
Answer: trader
Question: What is the street that is named after Juan Rodriguez?
Answer: Juan Rodriguez Way
Question: During what season did Juan Rodriguez first come to New York?
Answer: winter
Question: Who was the first non-Indian person to live in what is now NYC?
Answer: Juan Rodriguez
Question: Which street in NYC today is now named after Juan Rodriguez?
Answer: Broadway, from 159th Street to 218th Street |
Context: The Pitchfork online music publication ranked My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as the world's best album of the decade "so far"—between 2010 and 2014—on August 19, 2014, while Yeezus was ranked in the eighth position of a list of 100 albums. During the same week, the song "Runaway" (featuring Pusha T) was ranked in the third position in the publication's list of the 200 "best tracks" released since 2010.
Question: Which one of Kanye's albums won The Pitchfork's Album of the Decade (so far) award?
Answer: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Question: What place did Yeezus secure on the list of 100 albums?
Answer: eighth
Question: What online music publication ranked Kanye's album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" as the world's best album so far?
Answer: The Pitchfork
Question: What album was ranked 8 on a list of 100 albums?
Answer: Yeezus
Question: What song was ranked third in a list of 200 "best tracks" since 2010?
Answer: "Runaway" |
Context: Spielberg then revisited his Close Encounters project and, with financial backing from Columbia Pictures, released Close Encounters: The Special Edition in 1980. For this, Spielberg fixed some of the flaws he thought impeded the original 1977 version of the film and also, at the behest of Columbia, and as a condition of Spielberg revising the film, shot additional footage showing the audience the interior of the mothership seen at the end of the film (a decision Spielberg would later regret as he felt the interior of the mothership should have remained a mystery). Nevertheless, the re-release was a moderate success, while the 2001 DVD release of the film restored the original ending.
Question: When did Spielberg re-release Close Encounters?
Answer: 1980
Question: What new footage did Columbia require for a Close Encounters revisit?
Answer: the interior of the mothership
Question: What was the Close Encounters revisit called?
Answer: Close Encounters: The Special Edition
Question: Which studio funded Close Encounters?
Answer: Columbia Pictures
Question: When did a Close Encounters DVD come out?
Answer: 2001
Question: What was one of the flaws Spielberg saw in the original Close Encounters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Did the special edition or DVD release make more money?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which studio released the 1977 version of Close Encounters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What studio released the 2001 DVD version of Close Encounters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Spielberg say he regretted showing the motherships interior in the 1980 version of Close Encounters?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Spanish was the language spoken by the first permanent European settlers in North America. Spanish arrived in the territory of the modern United States with Ponce de León in 1513. In 1565, the Spaniards, by way of Juan Ponce de León, founded St. Augustine, Florida, and as of the early 1800s, it became the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. The oldest city in all of the U.S. territory, as of 1898, is San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, where Juan Ponce De León was its first governor
Question: When did the Spanish arrive to America?
Answer: Spanish arrived in the territory of the modern United States with Ponce de León in 1513.
Question: Did Europeans speak Spanish in America?
Answer: Spanish was the language spoken by the first permanent European settlers in North America.
Question: Where is the oldest settlement in America?
Answer: St. Augustine, Florida
Question: What is the oldest city of the United States territory?
Answer: The oldest city in all of the U.S. territory, as of 1898, is San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico
Question: How was St. Augustine founded?
Answer: the Spaniards, by way of Juan Ponce de León, founded St. Augustine, Florida
Question: What was the first language spoken by the permanent European settlers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Spanish settler arrived in the US first?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Ponce de Leon settle in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which city did Juan Ponce de Leon found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's the capital of Puerto Rico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Spanish arrive to Puerto Rico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the oldest settlement in Puerto Rico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the oldest city of Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Juan Ponce De Leion the first president?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Spaniards found Puerto Rico?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are two basic forms of data packet, DATA0 and DATA1. A data packet must always be preceded by an address token, and is usually followed by a handshake token from the receiver back to the transmitter. The two packet types provide the 1-bit sequence number required by Stop-and-wait ARQ. If a USB host does not receive a response (such as an ACK) for data it has transmitted, it does not know if the data was received or not; the data might have been lost in transit, or it might have been received but the handshake response was lost.
Question: There are two basic forms of data packet, what are they?
Answer: DATA0 and DATA1
Question: A data packet must always be preceded by what?
Answer: an address token
Question: What is a data packet usually followed by?
Answer: a handshake token from the receiver back to the transmitter |
Context: As god of colonization, Apollo gave oracular guidance on colonies, especially during the height of colonization, 750–550 BCE. According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy. However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars. In this interpretation, Apollo's title of Lykegenes can simply be read as "born in Lycia", which effectively severs the god's supposed link with wolves (possibly a folk etymology).
Question: Who was god of colonization?
Answer: Apollo
Question: When was the height of colonization?
Answer: 750–550 BCE
Question: What does Lykegenes mean?
Answer: born in Lycia |
Context: The first game in Arena Football League history was played on June 19, 1987, between the Gladiators and Commandos at Pittsburgh Civic Arena in front of 12,117 fans. The game was deliberately not televised so that it could be analyzed and any follies and failures would not be subject to national public scrutiny. Following the inaugural game, tweaks and adjustments were made, and the first season continued. The Dynamite and Bruisers played in the first-ever televised AFL game the next night, on June 20, 1987, at the Rosemont Horizon in suburban Chicago on ESPN with Bob Rathbun and Lee Corso calling the play. The broadcast showed a short clip of the Commandos-Gladiators game. Each team played six games, two against each other team. The top two teams, Denver and Pittsburgh, then competed in the first-ever AFL championship game, ArenaBowl I.
Question: On what date was the inaugural game of the AFL played?
Answer: June 19, 1987
Question: Along with the Commandos, who played in the first Arena Football League game?
Answer: Gladiators
Question: How many spectators watched the first Arena Football League game?
Answer: 12,117
Question: On what date was the first AFL game that aired on television?
Answer: June 20, 1987
Question: At what venue did the first televised Arena Football League game occur?
Answer: the Rosemont Horizon |
Context: The religion's failure to report abuse allegations to authorities has also been criticized. The Watch Tower Society's policy is that elders inform authorities when required by law to do so, but otherwise leave that action up to the victim and his or her family. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that of 1006 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse identified by the Jehovah's Witnesses within their organization since 1950, "not one was reported by the church to secular authorities." William Bowen, a former Jehovah's Witness elder who established the Silentlambs organization to assist sex abuse victims within the religion, has claimed Witness leaders discourage followers from reporting incidents of sexual misconduct to authorities, and other critics claim the organization is reluctant to alert authorities in order to protect its "crime-free" reputation. In court cases in the United Kingdom and the United States the Watch Tower Society has been found to have been negligent in its failure to protect children from known sex offenders within the congregation and the Society has settled other child abuse lawsuits out of court, reportedly paying as much as $780,000 to one plaintiff without admitting wrongdoing.
Question: What has the Jehovah's Witnesses failure to report to authorities been criticized?
Answer: abuse allegations
Question: Of the 1006 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse identified by Jehovah's Witnesses within their organization since 1950, how many were reported to secular authorities?
Answer: not one
Question: Why are the Jehovah's Witnesses reluctant to alert authorities to abuse?
Answer: to protect its "crime-free" reputation
Question: What have courts in both the UK and the US found the Watch Tower Society to have been for failing to protect children from sexual predators within the congregation?
Answer: negligent
Question: How much has the Society reportedly paid to settle lawsuits without admitting any wrongdoing?
Answer: as much as $780,000 to one plaintiff
Question: How many child sexual abuse cases have been reported to authorities in the US by The Watch Tower Society since 1950?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much has The Watch Tower Society paid to victims of child sexual abuse in Australia since 1950?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did William Bowen leave the Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many alleged sexual abuse cases have there been in the United States since 1950 involving members of the Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much does the Watch Tower Society pay to lawyers each year to represent them against child sexual abuse cases?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Perhaps the first electric motors were simple electrostatic devices created by the Scottish monk Andrew Gordon in the 1740s. The theoretical principle behind production of mechanical force by the interactions of an electric current and a magnetic field, Ampère's force law, was discovered later by André-Marie Ampère in 1820. The conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy by electromagnetic means was demonstrated by the British scientist Michael Faraday in 1821. A free-hanging wire was dipped into a pool of mercury, on which a permanent magnet (PM) was placed. When a current was passed through the wire, the wire rotated around the magnet, showing that the current gave rise to a close circular magnetic field around the wire. This motor is often demonstrated in physics experiments, brine substituting for toxic mercury. Though Barlow's wheel was an early refinement to this Faraday demonstration, these and similar homopolar motors were to remain unsuited to practical application until late in the century.
Question: Who created the first electrostatic device?
Answer: Andrew Gordon
Question: Who discovered the principles of magnetic and electric interactions?
Answer: André-Marie Ampère
Question: In what year did Faraday convert electrical energy into mechanical energy?
Answer: 1821
Question: What toxic substance originally served the function of brine in primitive motors?
Answer: mercury
Question: Who created the last electrostatic device?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who discovered the principles of magnetic and electric non-interactions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Faraday convert non-electrical energy into mechanical energy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What toxic substance originally didn't serve the function of brine in primitive motors?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The period preceding, and contemporary with, the Protestant Reformation saw the translation of the Bible into local European languages—a development that contributed to Western Christianity's split into Roman Catholicism and Protestantism due to disparities between Catholic and Protestant versions of crucial words and passages (although the Protestant movement was largely based on other things, such as a perceived need for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate corruption). Lasting effects on the religions, cultures and languages of their respective countries have been exerted by such Bible translations as Martin Luther's into German, Jakub Wujek's into Polish, and the King James Bible's translators' into English. Debate and religious schism over different translations of religious texts remain to this day, as demonstrated by, for example, the King James Only movement.
Question: During the Protestant Reformation, what local languages was the bible translated into?
Answer: European
Question: Disparities between versions of crucial words and passages in versions of the bible contributed to what split?
Answer: Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
Question: Biblical translations have caused lasting effects on what?
Answer: religions, cultures and languages of their respective countries
Question: Who translated the Bible to German?
Answer: Martin Luther
Question: What does the fact of the King James Only movement demonstrate?
Answer: religious schism over different translations of religious texts remain to this day
Question: What local languages was the bible translated into during the Contestant Reformation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What union did similarities between versions of crucial words and passages in versions of the bible contribute to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have biblical translations had no lasting effects on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who banned the Bible in German?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the fact of the King James Only movement ignore?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 25 and 26 April, May and Taylor appeared on the eleventh series of American Idol at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, performing a Queen medley with the six finalists on the first show, and the following day performed "Somebody to Love" with the 'Queen Extravaganza' band. Queen were scheduled to headline Sonisphere at Knebworth on 7 July 2012 with Adam Lambert before the festival was cancelled. Queen's final concert with Freddie Mercury was in Knebworth in 1986. Brian May commented, "It's a worthy challenge for us, and I'm sure Adam would meet with Freddie's approval." Queen expressed disappointment at the cancellation and released a statement to the effect that they were looking to find another venue. It was later announced that Queen + Adam Lambert would play two shows at the Hammersmith Apollo, London on 11 and 12 July 2012. Both shows sold out within 24 hours of tickets going on open sale. A third London date was scheduled for 14 July. On 30 June, Queen + Lambert performed in Kiev, Ukraine at a joint concert with Elton John for the Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation. Queen also performed with Lambert on 3 July 2012 at Moscow's Olympic Stadium, and on 7 July 2012 at the Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland.
Question: Which Queen members were appearing on American Idol in the late 2000s?
Answer: May and Taylor
Question: Where was Queen's final concert with Freddie Mercury held in 1986?
Answer: Knebworth
Question: Queen and Adam Lambert played two shows where in July 2012?
Answer: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Question: Elena Pinchuk has what kind of a foundation?
Answer: ANTIAIDS Foundation
Question: Where did Queen perform with Adam Lambert on 3 July 2012?
Answer: Moscow's Olympic Stadium |
Context: New York grew in importance as a trading port while under British rule in the early 1700s. It also became a center of slavery, with 42% of households holding slaves by 1730, more than any other city other than Charleston, South Carolina. Most slaveholders held a few or several domestic slaves, but others hired them out to work at labor. Slavery became integrally tied to New York's economy through the labor of slaves throughout the port, and the banks and shipping tied to the South. Discovery of the African Burying Ground in the 1990s, during construction of a new federal courthouse near Foley Square, revealed that tens of thousands of Africans had been buried in the area in the colonial years.
Question: In 1730, what percentage of New York households were slave-holding?
Answer: 42%
Question: In 1730, what American city had the highest percentage of slaveholders?
Answer: Charleston, South Carolina
Question: Near what square was the African Burial Ground unearthed?
Answer: Foley Square
Question: What was being built that resulted in the discovery of the African Burial Ground?
Answer: courthouse
Question: Which city in North America held the most slaves in the 1700s?
Answer: Charleston, South Carolina
Question: When was as African burial ground discovered after the building of new courthouse?
Answer: 1990s |
Context: The Alma-Ata Protocol also addressed other issues, including UN membership. Notably, Russia was authorized to assume the Soviet Union's UN membership, including its permanent seat on the Security Council. The Soviet Ambassador to the UN delivered a letter signed by Russian President Yeltsin to the UN Secretary-General dated December 24, 1991, informing him that by virtue of the Alma-Ata Protocol, Russia was the successor state to the USSR. After being circulated among the other UN member states, with no objection raised, the statement was declared accepted on the last day of the year, December 31, 1991.
Question: Which country took over the Soviet Union's UN membership?
Answer: Russia
Question: What made Russia the successor state to the USSR?
Answer: Alma-Ata Protocol
Question: Who wrote the letter to the UN secretary general informing them that Russia would be replacing the USSR?
Answer: Yeltsin
Question: What was the date on the Yeltsin letter?
Answer: December 24, 1991
Question: When did the UN accept the statement?
Answer: December 31, 1991 |
Context: Norfolk Island was originally a colony acquired by settlement but was never within the British Settlements Act. It was accepted as a territory of Australia, separate from any state, by the Norfolk Island Act 1913 (Cth), passed under the territories power (Constitution section 122) and made effective in 1914. In 1976 the High Court of Australia held unanimously that Norfolk Island is a part of the Commonwealth. Again, in 2007 the High Court of Australia affirmed the validity of legislation that made Australian citizenship a necessary qualification for voting for, and standing for election to, the Legislative Assembly of Norfolk Island.
Question: Norfolk Island was originally a what?
Answer: colony acquired by settlement
Question: Norfolk Island became a territory of what country?
Answer: Australia
Question: Under what Act was Norfolk Island accepted as a territory of Australia?
Answer: the Norfolk Island Act 1913 (Cth)
Question: Who decided in 1976 that Norfolk Island is a part of the Commonwealth?
Answer: High Court of Australia
Question: What was a necessary qualification for voting in Norfolk Island?
Answer: Australian citizenship
Question: What was Norfolk Island against being?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country did Norfolk Island became a city of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Act was Norfolk Island rejected as a territory of Australia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who decided in 1974 that Norfolk Island is a part of the Commonwealth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was an unnecessary qualification for voting in Norfolk Island?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Within the diasporan Armenian community, there is an unofficial classification of the different kinds of Armenians. For example, Armenians who originate from Iran are referred to as Parskahay (Պարսկահայ), while Armenians from Lebanon are usually referred to as Lipananahay (Լիբանանահայ). Armenians of the Diaspora are the primary speakers of the Western dialect of the Armenian language. This dialect has considerable differences with Eastern Armenian, but speakers of either of the two variations can usually understand each other. Eastern Armenian in the diaspora is primarily spoken in Iran and European countries such as Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia (where they form a majority in the Samtskhe-Javakheti province). In diverse communities (such as in Canada and the U.S.) where many different kinds of Armenians live together, there is a tendency for the different groups to cluster together.
Question: What are Parskahay?
Answer: Armenians who originate from Iran
Question: What are Lipananahay?
Answer: Armenians from Lebanon
Question: What dialect do most Diaspora Armenians speak?
Answer: Western
Question: How similar is Western Armenian to Eastern Armenian dialect?
Answer: considerable differences with Eastern Armenian, but speakers of either of the two variations can usually understand each other
Question: What type of Armenian is spoken by Armenians in Iran and Russia?
Answer: Eastern
Question: What can speakers of the variations of Parskahay do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what province do Canadians have a majority?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do groups of Russians do when they live in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are Russians from Iran classified?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are Russians from Lebanon referred to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph had revealed that, in 2010, 37 applicants from Eton were accepted by Oxford whilst state schools had difficulty obtaining entry even for pupils with the country's most impressive exam results. According to The Economist, Oxford and Cambridge admit more Etonians each year than applicants from the whole country who qualify for free school meals. In April 2011 the Labour MP David Lammy described as unfair and 'indefensible' the fact that Oxford University had organised nine 'outreach events' at Eton in 2010, although he admitted that it had, in fact, held fewer such events for Eton than for another independent school, Wellington College.
Question: How many outreach events were held at Eton by Oxford University in 2010?
Answer: nine
Question: Which independent school had more hosted outreach events than Eton?
Answer: Wellington College
Question: Who described outreach events at Eton as "unfair and indefensible?"
Answer: Labour MP David Lammy
Question: In 2010, how many applicants from Eton were accepted to Oxford?
Answer: 37
Question: How many Eton "outreach events" were held at Wellington College in 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did David Lammy become a Labour MP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did The Economist print an article about how Oxford accepted more students from Eton than all the UK's students who qualify for free school meals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what month in 2010 did The Daily Telegraph publish a report about Oxford's acceptance standards?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A global drop in sea level at the end of the Devonian reversed early in the Carboniferous; this created the widespread epicontinental seas and carbonate deposition of the Mississippian. There was also a drop in south polar temperatures; southern Gondwana was glaciated throughout the period, though it is uncertain if the ice sheets were a holdover from the Devonian or not. These conditions apparently had little effect in the deep tropics, where lush coal swamps flourished within 30 degrees of the northernmost glaciers. A mid-Carboniferous drop in sea-level precipitated a major marine extinction, one that hit crinoids and ammonites especially hard. This sea-level drop and the associated unconformity in North America separate the Mississippian Period from the Pennsylvanian period.
Question: What occurred to the level of the sea when the Devonian period was finished?
Answer: A global drop
Question: During which period were epicontinental seas created?
Answer: Carboniferous
Question: What was on the land at 30 degrees latitude north in the carboniferous period?
Answer: lush coal swamps
Question: What was the result in the decline in sea level in the middle of the Carboniferous period?
Answer: a major marine extinction
Question: The Pennsylvania period is separated by the drop in Carboniferous era sea levels from what other period?
Answer: Mississippian Period
Question: What dropped world wide at the begining of the Devonian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How widespread was the drop in sea llevel in the Carboniferous?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What temperatures dropped during the Devonian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What region was deeply impacted by the conditions of the Carboniferous?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What could be found just north of the glacerers
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Robert Fisk, seven times British International Journalist of the Year, resigned as foreign correspondent in 1988 over what he saw as "political censorship" of his article on the shooting-down of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988. He wrote in detail about his reasons for resigning from the paper due to meddling with his stories, and the paper's pro-Israel stance.
Question: Which major journalist resigned as foreign correspondent of the Times in 1988?
Answer: Robert Fisk
Question: The foreign correspondent who resigned from The Times in 1988 won how many major journalism awards?
Answer: seven
Question: The foreign correspondent for The Times who resigned in 1988, resigned for what reason?
Answer: political censorship
Question: What stance did The Times take that cause a famous foreign correspondent to resign in 1988?
Answer: pro-Israel stance
Question: What airplane was shot down in July 1988 that a famous foreign correspondent from The Times wrote an article about that later lead to his resignation?
Answer: Iran Air Flight 655 |
Context: The American Idol Songwriter contest was also held this season. From ten of the most popular submissions, each of the final two contestants chose a song to perform, although neither of their selections was used as the "coronation song". The winning song, "The Time of My Life", was recorded by David Cook and released on May 22, 2008.
Question: What was the name of the first song released by David Cook after winning American Idol?
Answer: The Time of My Life
Question: How was the winning single chose on season seven of American Idol?
Answer: The American Idol Songwriter contest
Question: What year did David Cook release the single, "The Time of My Life"?
Answer: 2008
Question: What was the coronation song?
Answer: The Time of My Life
Question: When did Cook release his version of The Time of My Life?
Answer: May 22, 2008 |
Context: Aristotle of Stagira, the most important disciple of Plato, shared with his teacher the title of the greatest philosopher of antiquity. But while Plato had sought to elucidate and explain things from the supra-sensual standpoint of the forms, his pupil preferred to start from the facts given us by experience. Except from these three most significant Greek philosophers other known schools of Greek philosophy from other founders during ancient times were Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism and Neoplatonism.
Question: Which disciple of Plato was considered the most important?
Answer: Aristotle of Stagira
Question: Plato's philosophy attempted to explain life from what standpoint?
Answer: the supra-sensual
Question: Aristotle's philosophy was based from what standpoint?
Answer: experience
Question: What is the name of two schools of philosophy?
Answer: Skepticism and Neoplatonism |
Context: In 1422 King Władysław II Jagiełło by the Privilege of Czerwińsk (Polish: "przywilej czerwiński") established the inviolability of nobles' property (their estates could not be confiscated except upon a court verdict) and ceded some jurisdiction over fiscal policy to the Royal Council (later, the Senat of Poland), including the right to mint coinage.
Question: Who establishd the inviolability of nobles property?
Answer: King Władysław II Jagiełło
Question: When did the established right for inviolability of nobles property?
Answer: 1422
Question: What happened to the right to mint coinage?
Answer: ceded |
Context: Schwarzenegger then went against the advice of fellow Republican strategists and appointed a Democrat, Susan Kennedy, as his Chief of Staff. Schwarzenegger gradually moved towards a more politically moderate position, determined to build a winning legacy with only a short time to go until the next gubernatorial election.
Question: Who did Schwarzenegger choose as Chief of Staff?
Answer: Susan Kennedy |
Context: Some of Canada's most esteemed colleges and polytechnic institutions also partake in collaborative institute-industry projects, leading to technology commercialization, made possible through the scope of Polytechnics Canada; a national alliance of eleven leading research-intensive colleges and institutes of technology.
Question: What is Canada's national alliance of 11 research-focused schools called?
Answer: Polytechnics Canada
Question: What kind of projects does Polytechnics Canada sponsor that can lead to technology commercialization?
Answer: collaborative institute-industry projects |
Context: The main local and regional bus station of Utrecht is located adjacent to Utrecht Centraal railway station, at the East and West entrances. Due to large scale renovation and construction works at the railway station, the station's bus stops are changing frequently. As a general rule, westbound buses depart from the bus station on the west entrance, other buses from the east side station. Local buses in Utrecht are operated by Qbuzz – its services include a high-frequency service to the Uithof university district. The local bus fleet is one of Europe's cleanest, using only buses compliant with the Euro-VI standard as well as electric buses for inner city transport. Regional buses from the city are operated by Arriva and Connexxion.
Question: Where is the bus station located
Answer: The main local and regional bus station of Utrecht is located adjacent to Utrecht Centraal railway station, at the East and West entrances
Question: renovations are causing what changes
Answer: large scale renovation and construction works at the railway station, the station's bus stops are changing frequently
Question: what is qbuzz
Answer: Local buses in Utrecht are operated by Qbuzz – its services include a high-frequency service to the Uithof university district
Question: What is one of Europes cleanest
Answer: The local bus fleet is one of Europe's cleanest, using only buses compliant with the Euro-VI standard as well as electric buses for inner city transport
Question: What is located across from Utrecht Central railway station?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has renvation on the bus station caused?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who uses electric buses for all local bus routes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of bus does Arriva use for inner city transport?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are three ways an existing treaty can be amended. First, formal amendment requires State parties to the treaty to go through the ratification process all over again. The re-negotiation of treaty provisions can be long and protracted, and often some parties to the original treaty will not become parties to the amended treaty. When determining the legal obligations of states, one party to the original treaty and one a party to the amended treaty, the states will only be bound by the terms they both agreed upon. Treaties can also be amended informally by the treaty executive council when the changes are only procedural, technical change in customary international law can also amend a treaty, where state behavior evinces a new interpretation of the legal obligations under the treaty. Minor corrections to a treaty may be adopted by a procès-verbal; but a procès-verbal is generally reserved for changes to rectify obvious errors in the text adopted, i.e. where the text adopted does not correctly reflect the intention of the parties adopting it.
Question: How many ways are there to amend an existing treaty?
Answer: three
Question: What must state parties to a treaty repeat to adopt a formal amendment to the treaty?
Answer: the ratification process
Question: What amendment process is generally reserved for changes that rectify obvious errors in the text?
Answer: a procès-verbal
Question: Parties to an original treaty and an amended treaty are bound to what terms?
Answer: the terms they both agreed upon
Question: In addition to the often long and protracted nature of treaty renegotiation, what negative outcome might result from the process?
Answer: some parties to the original treaty will not become parties to the amended treaty |
Context: A gastropub concentrates on quality food. The name is a portmanteau of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben took over The Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London. The concept of a restaurant in a pub reinvigorated both pub culture and British dining, though has occasionally attracted criticism for potentially removing the character of traditional pubs.
Question: What two words is 'gastropub' a portanteau of?
Answer: pub and gastronomy
Question: In what year was the term gastropub invented?
Answer: 1991
Question: Along with David Eyre, who took over the Eagle pub?
Answer: Mike Belben
Question: In what city is the Eagle pub located?
Answer: London
Question: In what area of London is the Eagle pub located?
Answer: Clerkenwell |
Context: During its development, MCA, which co-owned the technology, referred to it as the Optical Videodisc System, "Reflective Optical Videodisc" or "Laser Optical Videodisc", depending on the document; changing the name once in 1969 to Disco-Vision and then again in 1978 to DiscoVision (without the hyphen), which became the official spelling. Technical documents and brochures produced by MCA Disco-Vision during the early and mid-'70s also used the term "Disco-Vision Records" to refer to the pressed discs. MCA owned the rights to the largest catalog of films in the world during this time, and they manufactured and distributed the DiscoVision releases of those films under the "MCA DiscoVision" software and manufacturing label; consumer sale of those titles began on December 15, 1978, with the aforementioned Jaws.
Question: Which three names did MCA use for LaserDisc technology during its development?
Answer: Optical Videodisc System, "Reflective Optical Videodisc" or "Laser Optical Videodisc"
Question: To what did MCA change the name to in 1969?
Answer: Disco-Vision
Question: When did MCA remove the hyphen from the name Disco-Vision?
Answer: 1978
Question: Which company owned the rights to the world's largest collection of films during the 1970s?
Answer: MCA
Question: Consumer sales of MCA films began in 1978 with what movie?
Answer: Jaws |
Context: The roots of Greek success in the Ottoman Empire can be traced to the Greek tradition of education and commerce. It was the wealth of the extensive merchant class that provided the material basis for the intellectual revival that was the prominent feature of Greek life in the half century and more leading to the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Not coincidentally, on the eve of 1821, the three most important centres of Greek learning were situated in Chios, Smyrna and Aivali, all three major centres of Greek commerce. Greek success was also favoured by Greek domination of the Christian Orthodox church.
Question: What did the Greeks offer to the Ottoman Empire that was a superb benefit ?
Answer: the Greek tradition of education and commerce
Question: Who held much of the wealth in the Greek society ?
Answer: the wealth of the extensive merchant class
Question: What three cities were imperative for the scholarly and economic exchanges ?
Answer: the three most important centres of Greek learning were situated in Chios, Smyrna and Aivali, all three major centres of Greek commerce
Question: What other area fields were overshadowed by Greek influence ?
Answer: Greek domination of the Christian Orthodox church.
Question: What did the Greeks offer to the Ottoman Empire that wasn't a superb benefit ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who held none of the wealth in the Greek society?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What three cities were not imperative for the scholarly and economic exchanges
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other area fields were not overshadowed by Greek influence?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Traditional Eritrean attire is quite varied among the ethnic groups of Eritrea. In the larger cities, most people dress in Western casual dress such as jeans and shirts. In offices, both men and women often dress in suits. Traditional clothing for Christian Tigrinya-speaking highlanders consists of bright white gowns called zurias for the women, and long white shirts accompanied by white pants for the men. In Muslim communities in the Eritrean lowland, the women traditionally dress in brightly colored clothes. Only Rashaida women maintain a tradition of covering half of their faces, though they do not cover their hair.
Question: How do most people dress in the larger cities of Eritrea?
Answer: Western casual
Question: How do both men and women often dress in offices in Eritrea?
Answer: suits
Question: What are zurias, the traditional clothes still worn by Christian highlander women in Eritrea?
Answer: bright white gowns
Question: How do women in the Muslim communities of the Eritrean lowland dress?
Answer: in brightly colored clothes
Question: Who are the only women who follow the tradition of covering half of their faces, though not their hair?
Answer: Rashaida women
Question: What do Muslims in the highlands wear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do Christians in the Eritrean lowland wear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What women in Eritrea cover their hair?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What men in Eritrea cover their hair?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do Rashaida women generally wear?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 27 BC, Lusitania gained the status of Roman province. Later, a northern province of Lusitania was formed, known as Gallaecia, with capital in Bracara Augusta, today's Braga. There are still many ruins of castros (hill forts) all over modern Portugal and remains of Castro culture. Numerous Roman sites are scattered around present-day Portugal, some urban remains are quite large, like Conímbriga and Mirobriga. The former, beyond being one of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal, is also classified as a National Monument. Conímbriga lies 16 km from Coimbra which by its turn was the ancient Aeminium). The site also has a museum that displays objects found by archaeologists during their excavations.
Question: In what year did Lusitania become a Roman province?
Answer: 27 BC
Question: What was the Northern province of Lusitania known as?
Answer: Gallaecia
Question: What are castros?
Answer: hill forts
Question: What are two large Roman sites that still exist today in Portugal?
Answer: Conímbriga and Mirobriga
Question: How far apart are Conimbriga and Coimbra?
Answer: 16 km |
Context: While considered "alternative" today, most alternative systems have existed since ancient times. After the public school system was widely developed beginning in the 19th century, some parents found reasons to be discontented with the new system. Alternative education developed in part as a reaction to perceived limitations and failings of traditional education. A broad range of educational approaches emerged, including alternative schools, self learning, homeschooling and unschooling. Example alternative schools include Montessori schools, Waldorf schools (or Steiner schools), Friends schools, Sands School, Summerhill School, The Peepal Grove School, Sudbury Valley School, Krishnamurti schools, and open classroom schools. Charter schools are another example of alternative education, which have in the recent years grown in numbers in the US and gained greater importance in its public education system.
Question: What is another term used for Special Education Services?
Answer: alternative
Question: When were public schools become more and more developed?
Answer: 19th century
Question: What are some examples of alternative schools?
Answer: Montessori schools, Waldorf schools (or Steiner schools), Friends schools
Question: What is not another term used for Special Education Services?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What aren't some examples of alternative schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A charter school is not considered what type of school?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What hasn't gained importance in public education?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Sultan Quli, a governor of Golkonda, revolted against the Bahmani Sultanate and established the Qutb Shahi dynasty in 1518; he rebuilt the mud-fort of Golconda and named the city "Muhammad nagar". The fifth sultan, Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, established Hyderabad on the banks of the Musi River in 1591, to avoid the water shortages experienced at Golkonda. During his rule, he had the Charminar and Mecca Masjid built in the city. On 21 September 1687, the Golkonda Sultanate came under the rule of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb after a year-long siege of the Golkonda fort. The annexed area was renamed Deccan Suba (Deccan province) and the capital was moved from Golkonda to Aurangabad, about 550 km (342 mi) northwest of Hyderabad.
Question: What position did Sultan Quli hold?
Answer: governor of Golkonda
Question: Whom did Sultan Quli rebel against?
Answer: the Bahmani Sultanate
Question: In what year did the establishment of the Qutb dynasty occur?
Answer: 1518
Question: When was Hyderabad founded?
Answer: 1591
Question: In the late 17th century the capital of Deccan Suba was moved, to where?
Answer: Aurangabad |
Context: Charles Shields, who has written the only book-length biography of Harper Lee to date, offers the reason for the novel's enduring popularity and impact is that "its lessons of human dignity and respect for others remain fundamental and universal". Atticus' lesson to Scout that "you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it" exemplifies his compassion. She ponders the comment when listening to Mayella Ewell's testimony. When Mayella reacts with confusion to Atticus' question if she has any friends, Scout offers that she must be lonelier than Boo Radley. Having walked Boo home after he saves their lives, Scout stands on the Radley porch and considers the events of the previous three years from Boo's perspective. One writer remarks, "... [w]hile the novel concerns tragedy and injustice, heartache and loss, it also carries with it a strong sense [of] courage, compassion, and an awareness of history to be better human beings."
Question: Who has written the only biography of Harper Lee?
Answer: Charles Shields
Question: Who wrote the only book length- biography of Harper Lee?
Answer: Charles Shields
Question: According to Shields, which of the books lessons are fundamental and universal?
Answer: human dignity and respect for others
Question: Who does Scout think could be lonelier than Boo Radley?
Answer: Mayella Ewell |
Context: Hans Bielenstein writes that as far back as the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE), the Han Chinese government "maintained the fiction" that the foreign officials administering the various "Dependent States" and oasis city-states of the Western Regions (composed of the Tarim Basin and oasis of Turpan) were true Han representatives due to the Han government's conferral of Chinese seals and seal cords to them.
Question: What was the western regions composed of?
Answer: the Tarim Basin and oasis of Turpan
Question: Who believed that they were the true Han Western representatives?
Answer: foreign officials |
Context: The capital of Danish Estonia (Danish: Hertugdømmet Estland) was Reval (Tallinn), founded at the place of Lyndanisse after the invasion of 1219. The Danes built the fortress of Castrum Danorum at Toompea Hill. Estonians still call their capital "Tallinn", which according to legend derives from Taani linna (meaning Danish town or castle). Reval was granted Lübeck city rights (1248) and joined the Hanseatic League. Even today, Danish influence can be seen in heraldic symbols. The Danish cross is on the city of Tallinn's coat of arms, and Estonia's coat of arms displays three lions similar to those found on the Danish coat of arms.
Question: What was the capital of Danish Estonia?
Answer: Reval
Question: What event preceded the founding of the capital?
Answer: the invasion of 1219
Question: What structure was built at Toompea Hill?
Answer: the fortress of Castrum Danorum
Question: What year was Reval granted with Lübeck city rights?
Answer: 1248 |
Context: The logical format of an audio CD (officially Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) is described in a document produced in 1980 by the format's joint creators, Sony and Philips. The document is known colloquially as the Red Book CD-DA after the colour of its cover. The format is a two-channel 16-bit PCM encoding at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate per channel. Four-channel sound was to be an allowable option within the Red Book format, but has never been implemented. Monaural audio has no existing standard on a Red Book CD; thus, mono source material is usually presented as two identical channels in a standard Red Book stereo track (i.e., mirrored mono); an MP3 CD, however, can have audio file formats with mono sound.
Question: Where does the Red Book get it's name from?
Answer: the colour of its cover
Question: What is the formal name for a CD?
Answer: Compact Disc Digital Audio
Question: Do CDs have a two or four channel format?
Answer: two-channel
Question: What format has never been implemented on CDs?
Answer: Four-channel sound
Question: What was the sampling rate for the four-channel sound?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was four-channel sound implemented?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Red Book format for monaural audio?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the official name of the Red Book?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the PCM for an MP3 mono sound chanel?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By 1836, the Duchess's brother, Leopold, who had been King of the Belgians since 1831, hoped to marry his niece to his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Leopold, Victoria's mother, and Albert's father (Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) were siblings. Leopold arranged for Victoria's mother to invite her Coburg relatives to visit her in May 1836, with the purpose of introducing Victoria to Albert. William IV, however, disapproved of any match with the Coburgs, and instead favoured the suit of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, second son of the Prince of Orange. Victoria was aware of the various matrimonial plans and critically appraised a parade of eligible princes. According to her diary, she enjoyed Albert's company from the beginning. After the visit she wrote, "[Albert] is extremely handsome; his hair is about the same colour as mine; his eyes are large and blue, and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth; but the charm of his countenance is his expression, which is most delightful." Alexander, on the other hand, was "very plain".
Question: The Dutchesses brother Leopold was the King of what country?
Answer: the Belgians
Question: What year did Leopold become King of the Belgians?
Answer: 1831
Question: Who was the nephew of leopold?
Answer: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Question: Who was Alberts father?
Answer: Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Question: How did Victoria describe the physical appearance of Alexander?
Answer: very plain
Question: Who disapproved of the proposed marriage between Victoria and Albert?
Answer: William IV
Question: Who was the man William IV wanted Victoria to wed instead?
Answer: Prince Alexander of the Netherlands
Question: Prince Alexander was the second son of whom?
Answer: Prince of Orange
Question: What did Victoria think of her suiter, the Prince Alexander of Orange?
Answer: very plain
Question: How did Victoria feel about Albert?
Answer: enjoyed Albert's company from the beginning
Question: Who wanted to see Victoria and Albert marry?
Answer: the Duchess's brother, Leopold
Question: Who opposed Victoria marrying Albert, or any Coburg?
Answer: William IV
Question: Who did William IV feel was a suitable husband for Victoria?
Answer: Prince Alexander of the Netherlands
Question: The Dutchesses brother Leopold was the Queen of what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Leopold become King of the Belgiums?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the neice of leopold?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wasn't Alberts father?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Victoria describe the mental appearance of Alexander?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Brigham Young University is a part of the Church Educational System of LDS Church. It is organized under a Board of Trustees, with the President of the Church (currently Thomas S. Monson) as chairman. This board consists of the same people as the Church Board of Education, a pattern that has been in place since 1939. Prior to 1939, BYU had a separate board of trustees that was subordinate to the Church Board of Education. The President of BYU, currently Kevin J Worthen, reports to the Board, through the Commissioner of Education.
Question: Which system is BYU part of?
Answer: Church Educational System of LDS Church
Question: Who acts as chairman of BYU?
Answer: President of the Church (currently Thomas S. Monson)
Question: What board do the members of the BYU Board of Trustees also belong to?
Answer: Church Board of Education
Question: When did BYU have a separate board of trustees?
Answer: Prior to 1939
Question: How does the President of BYU report to the Board?
Answer: through the Commissioner of Education
Question: What is part of the LSD Church?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is currently the chairman of the church?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Brigham Young have a separate one of after 1939?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What position does Keven J Monson hold?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There were also opponents to the support of any established church even at the state level. In 1773, Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, wrote against a state sanctioned religion, saying: "Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him?" He also observed that when "church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued." Thomas Jefferson's influential Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was enacted in 1786, five years before the Bill of Rights.
Question: What did an established church, even at the state level, have?
Answer: opponents
Question: What was Issac Backus' profession?
Answer: Baptist minister
Question: What region did Isaac Backus come from?
Answer: New England
Question: When did Isaac Backus write against a state sanctioned religion?
Answer: 1773
Question: When was Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom enacted?
Answer: 1786
Question: What didn't an established church, even at the state level, have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Issac Backus' born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city did Isaac Backus come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Isaac Backus write supporting a state sanctioned religion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom rejected?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Before scrimmage, an official places the ball at the spot it was at the stop of clock, but no nearer than 24 yards from the sideline or 1 yard from the goal line. The line parallel to the goal line passing through the ball (line from sideline to sideline for the length of the ball) is referred to as the line of scrimmage. This line is similar to "no-man's land"; players must stay on their respective sides of this line until the play has begun again. For a scrimmage to be valid the team in possession of the football must have seven players, excluding the quarterback, within one yard of the line of scrimmage. The defending team must stay a yard or more back from the line of scrimmage.
Question: What minimum distance from the sideline does the official place the ball before play starts?
Answer: 24 yards
Question: What is the term for the line across the field where the ball is positioned before a play?
Answer: line of scrimmage
Question: How many players must the team with possession place near the line of scrimmage?
Answer: seven
Question: How close to the line of scrimmage can defensive players approach before a play is run?
Answer: one yard
Question: What is the minimum distance from the defending team does the official place the ball before play?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many yards must the possessing team place near the line of scrimmage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How close to the length of the ball can defensive players be before a play?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where must an official stay until a play has begun again?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What makes a goal line valid?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The British, for their part, lacked both a unified command and a clear strategy for winning. With the use of the Royal Navy, the British were able to capture coastal cities, but control of the countryside eluded them. A British sortie from Canada in 1777 ended with the disastrous surrender of a British army at Saratoga. With the coming in 1777 of General von Steuben, the training and discipline along Prussian lines began, and the Continental Army began to evolve into a modern force. France and Spain then entered the war against Great Britain as Allies of the US, ending its naval advantage and escalating the conflict into a world war. The Netherlands later joined France, and the British were outnumbered on land and sea in a world war, as they had no major allies apart from Indian tribes.
Question: What battle ended a British invasion from Canada in the Revolutionary War?
Answer: Saratoga
Question: When was the battle of Saratoga fought?
Answer: 1777
Question: What Prussian expatriate helped train the Continental army?
Answer: General von Steuben
Question: What two European countries entered the Revolutionary War against Britain?
Answer: France and Spain
Question: What advantage did Britain lose when the European countries entered the war?
Answer: its naval advantage
Question: What battle ended a British invasion from the US in the Revolutionary War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the battle of Sorotoga fought?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Prussian expatriate helped not train the Continental army?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two African countries entered the Revolutionary War against Britain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What advantage did Britain win when the European countries entered the war?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Independent service is a special service mode found on most elevators. It is activated by a key switch either inside the elevator itself or on a centralized control panel in the lobby. When an elevator is placed on independent service, it will no longer respond to hall calls. (In a bank of elevators, traffic is rerouted to the other elevators, while in a single elevator, the hall buttons are disabled). The elevator will remain parked on a floor with its doors open until a floor is selected and the door close button is held until the elevator starts to travel. Independent service is useful when transporting large goods or moving groups of people between certain floors.
Question: How is the special sercice mode enabled?
Answer: by a key switch either inside the elevator itself or on a centralized control panel in the lobby
Question: What is the impact on an elevator set to independant service mode?
Answer: it will no longer respond to hall calls
Question: At what times is Independant service best utilized?
Answer: when transporting large goods or moving groups of people between certain floors
Question: During independant service mode how is a single cab in a hall kept from being used?
Answer: the hall buttons are disabled |
Context: Societies tend to come and go, of course, depending on the special enthusiasms of the masters and boys in the school at the time, but some have been in existence many years. Those in existence at present include: Aeronautical, African, Alexander Cozens (Art), Amnesty, Archeological, Architectural, Astronomy, Banks (conservation), Caledonian, Cheese, Classical, Comedy, Cosmopolitan, Debating, Design, Entrepreneurship, Geographical, Henry Fielding, Hispanic, History, Keynes (economics), Law, Literary, Mathematical, Medical, Middle Eastern, Model United Nations, Modern Languages, Oriental, Orwell (left-wing), Simeon (Christian), Parry (music), Photographic, Political, Praed (poetry), Rock (music), Rous (equestrian), Salisbury (diplomatic), Savile (Rare Books and Manuscripts), Shelley, Scientific, Sports, Tech Club, Theatre, Wellington (military), Wine and Wotton’s (philosophy).
Question: Which Eton society is dedicated to philosophy?
Answer: Wine and Wotton’s
Question: Which Eton society is centered around horses?
Answer: Rous
Question: What is the name of the Eton club for musical interests?
Answer: Rock
Question: What is the interest of the Savile club at Eton?
Answer: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Question: What was one of the first society's created at Eton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the latest society started at Eton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What in one of the societies that dates to the 1400s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one of the societies started in the 15th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the modern-day largest society?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Dog behavior is the internally coordinated responses (actions or inactions) of the domestic dog (individuals or groups) to internal and/or external stimuli. As the oldest domesticated species, with estimates ranging from 9,000–30,000 years BCE, the minds of dogs inevitably have been shaped by millennia of contact with humans. As a result of this physical and social evolution, dogs, more than any other species, have acquired the ability to understand and communicate with humans and they are uniquely attuned to our behaviors. Behavioral scientists have uncovered a surprising set of social-cognitive abilities in the otherwise humble domestic dog. These abilities are not possessed by the dog's closest canine relatives nor by other highly intelligent mammals such as great apes. Rather, these skills parallel some of the social-cognitive skills of human children.
Question: Dogs are estimated to be domesticated as far back as what date range of years on the calendar?
Answer: 9,000–30,000 years BCE
Question: Dog minds have been shaped by thousands of years of contact with what species?
Answer: humans.
Question: What do some dog skills parallel in human beings?
Answer: social-cognitive skills of human children
Question: Dogs are very well attuned to what other species' behaviors?
Answer: humans.
Question: Dogs can understand and communicate with what other species?
Answer: humans.
Question: What is a dog's responses to stimuli known as?
Answer: Dog behavior
Question: More than any other species, dogs are able to do what with people?
Answer: understand and communicate
Question: Dogs have some social skills that parallel what?
Answer: human children |
Context: Stock trader and financial risk engineer Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the 2007 book The Black Swan, spent years warning against the breakdown of the banking system in particular and the economy in general owing to their use of bad risk models and reliance on forecasting, and their reliance on bad models, and framed the problem as part of "robustness and fragility". He also took action against the establishment view by making a big financial bet on banking stocks and making a fortune from the crisis ("They didn't listen, so I took their money"). According to David Brooks from the New York Times, "Taleb not only has an explanation for what’s happening, he saw it coming."
Question: Who wrote the 2007 book The Black Swan?
Answer: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Question: What journalist from the New York Times stated his believe in Nassim Nicholas Taleb?
Answer: David Brooks
Question: What did Nassim Nicholas Taleb warn about for years prior to the financial crisis of 2007?
Answer: the breakdown of the banking system
Question: What did Nassim Nicholas Taleb make a fortune on by making a big financial bet?
Answer: banking stocks |
Context: The Philippines is a unitary state with some powers devolved to Local Government Units (LGUs) under the terms of the Local Government Code. There is also one autonomous region, the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. Over the years various modifications have been proposed to the Constitution of the Philippines, including possible transition to a federal system as part of a shift to a parliamentary system. In 2004, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo established the Consultative Commission which suggested such a Charter Change but no action was taken by the Philippine Congress to amend the 1987 Constitution.
Question: What type of state is the Philippines?
Answer: unitary state
Question: What types of powers does the Philippines have?
Answer: some powers devolved to Local Government Units (LGUs) under the terms of the Local Government Code
Question: What type of modifications been added to the Philippines Constitution?
Answer: possible transition to a federal system as part of a shift to a parliamentary system.
Question: What did President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo establish?
Answer: the Consultative Commission
Question: What type of state isn't the Philippines?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of powers does the Philippines give up?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of modifications have been removed from the Philippines Constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of songs have been added to the Philippines Constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo desolve?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Suez crisis and the choice of Eden's successor led in 1957 to the first major personal criticism of the Queen. In a magazine, which he owned and edited, Lord Altrincham accused her of being "out of touch". Altrincham was denounced by public figures and slapped by a member of the public appalled by his comments. Six years later, in 1963, Macmillan resigned and advised the Queen to appoint the Earl of Home as prime minister, advice that she followed. The Queen again came under criticism for appointing the prime minister on the advice of a small number of ministers or a single minister. In 1965, the Conservatives adopted a formal mechanism for electing a leader, thus relieving her of involvement.
Question: Aside from her choice of Eden's successor, what crisis caused Elizabeth to be criticized?
Answer: Suez crisis
Question: What did Lord Altrincham accuse Elizabeth of being?
Answer: out of touch
Question: When did Macmillan resign?
Answer: 1963
Question: Who did Elizabeth appoint as Prime Minister after the resignation of Macmillan?
Answer: Earl of Home
Question: When was a formal mechanism for electing the Minister adopted?
Answer: 1965
Question: In what year did Lord Altrincham begin to own a newspaper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was one of the prominent people who criticized Elizabeth for appointing the Earl of Home as prime minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Lord Altrincham die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many ministers did Elizabeth consult before naming Eden as the prime minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Earl of Home receive his title?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since 1718, transportation to the American colonies had been a penalty for various criminal offences in Britain, with approximately one thousand convicts transported per year across the Atlantic. Forced to find an alternative location after the loss of the 13 Colonies in 1783, the British government turned to the newly discovered lands of Australia. The western coast of Australia had been discovered for Europeans by the Dutch explorer Willem Jansz in 1606 and was later named New Holland by the Dutch East India Company, but there was no attempt to colonise it. In 1770 James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific Ocean, claimed the continent for Britain, and named it New South Wales. In 1778, Joseph Banks, Cook's botanist on the voyage, presented evidence to the government on the suitability of Botany Bay for the establishment of a penal settlement, and in 1787 the first shipment of convicts set sail, arriving in 1788. Britain continued to transport convicts to New South Wales until 1840. The Australian colonies became profitable exporters of wool and gold, mainly because of gold rushes in the colony of Victoria, making its capital Melbourne the richest city in the world and the largest city after London in the British Empire.
Question: How many convicts per year had Britain been sending to the American colonies?
Answer: one thousand
Question: Where did Britain switch to sending their convicts after the loss of the American colonies?
Answer: Australia
Question: Who discovered Australia in 1606?
Answer: Willem Jansz
Question: What had the Dutch East India Company initially named Australia?
Answer: New Holland
Question: When did the first shipment of British convicts leave for Australia?
Answer: 1787 |
Context: In central portions of the U.S., tornadoes are more common than anywhere else on Earth and touch down most commonly in the spring and summer. Deadly and destructive hurricanes occur almost every year along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. The Appalachian region and the Midwest experience the worst floods, though virtually no area in the U.S. is immune to flooding. The Southwest has the worst droughts; one is thought to have lasted over 500 years and to have hurt Ancestral Pueblo peoples. The West is affected by large wildfires each year.
Question: Where are tornadoes most common on Earth?
Answer: central portions of the U.S.
Question: During which seasons are tornados most common?
Answer: spring and summer
Question: Which regions experience the worst flooding in the US?
Answer: Appalachian region and the Midwest
Question: Which region experiences the worst droughts in the US?
Answer: Southwest
Question: What type of disasters affects the western US every year?
Answer: wildfires
Question: Where tornadoes least common on earth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are most common in the summer and fall?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Destructive hurricanes occur along the West Coast and where else?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Northwest and what other region experienced the worst flooding in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What disaster affects the Southwest every year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Phonetically in some languages, such as Navajo, aspiration of stops tends to be realised as voiceless velar airflow; aspiration of affricates is realised as an extended length of the frication.
Question: Aspiration of stops is seen as voiceless velar airflow in some languages, such as what?
Answer: Navajo
Question: In Navajo, the aspiration of affricates can be seen as what?
Answer: an extended length of the frication
Question: What is realized as an extended length of the airflow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what language does the unaspiration of stops tend to be realized as voiceless velar airflow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is realized as voiced velar airflow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what language does voiceless velar airflow not exist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Aspiration of airflow is realized as what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire. Parts of this kingdom persisted until the 18th century, while a few others were under some rule by the Portuguese Empire since the 16th century. In the 19th century, it was colonized as Portuguese Guinea. Upon independence, declared in 1973 and recognised in 1974, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's name to prevent confusion with Guinea (formerly French Guinea). Guinea-Bissau has a history of political instability since independence, and no elected president has successfully served a full five-year term.
Question: What kingdom was Guinea-Bissau once part of?
Answer: Gabu
Question: What empire was Guinea-Bissau once part of?
Answer: Mali Empire
Question: What year was Guinea-Bissau declared independent?
Answer: 1973
Question: What country did Guinea-Bissau seek to differentiate itself from?
Answer: Guinea (formerly French Guinea)
Question: Guinea-Bissau has a history of what since independence?
Answer: political instability |
Context: In 1568, Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña was the first European to sail through the archipelago, sighting the island of Nui during his expedition in search of Terra Australis. In 1819 the island of Funafuti was named Ellice's Island; the name Ellice was applied to all nine islands after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay. The islands came under Britain's sphere of influence in the late 19th century, when each of the Ellice Islands was declared a British Protectorate by Captain Gibson of HMS Curacoa between 9 and 16 October 1892. The Ellice Islands were administered as British protectorate by a Resident Commissioner from 1892 to 1916 as part of the British Western Pacific Territories (BWPT), and then as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony from 1916 to 1974.
Question: In what year was Tuvalu discovered by a European?
Answer: 1568
Question: Who was the discoverer of Tuvalu?
Answer: Álvaro de Mendaña
Question: What land mass was de Mendana actually seeking?
Answer: Terra Australis
Question: What was Tuvalu named in 1819?
Answer: Ellice Islands
Question: By what means did the British govern Tuvalu?
Answer: British protectorate |
Context: In 1355 in Buda King Casimir III the Great issued the first country-wide privilege for the nobility, in exchange for their agreement that in the lack of Casimir's male heirs, the throne would pass to his nephew, Louis I of Hungary. He decreed that the nobility would no longer be subject to 'extraordinary' taxes, or use their own funds for military expeditions abroad. He also promised that during travels of the royal court, the king and the court would pay for all expenses, instead of using facilities of local nobility.
Question: When did buda king casimir issue the heir to his nephew?
Answer: 1355
Question: who issied the first country wide privilege for the nobility?
Answer: Buda King Casimir III the Great
Question: WHo is the nephew of buda king casimer III the great?
Answer: Louis I of Hungary
Question: What was promised by Buda King Casimer?
Answer: the nobility would no longer be subject to 'extraordinary' taxes
Question: WHo would pay for expenses during travels or the royal courts?
Answer: the king and the court |
Context: The 5th Dalai Lama is known for unifying the Tibetan heartland under the control of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, after defeating the rival Kagyu and Jonang sects and the secular ruler, the Tsangpa prince, in a prolonged civil war. His efforts were successful in part because of aid from Güshi Khan, the Oirat leader of the Khoshut Khanate. With Güshi Khan as a largely uninvolved overlord, the 5th Dalai Lama and his intimates established a civil administration which is referred to by historians as the Lhasa state. This Tibetan regime or government is also referred to as the Ganden Phodrang.
Question: Who is known for unifying the Tibetan heartland?
Answer: 5th Dalai Lama
Question: Who helped the 5th Dalai Lama?
Answer: Güshi Khan
Question: What did the 5th Dalai Lama and his intimates establish?
Answer: Lhasa state
Question: What is the Tibetan goverment referred to as?
Answer: Ganden Phodrang
Question: Who is known for unifying the Tibetan heartland under the control of Kagyu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the Gelug prince defeated after?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Gushi Oirat the leader of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What civil administration did Gushi Khan establish?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A substantial number of artists and other figures have been influenced by, or complimented, West's work, including hip hop artists RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, Chuck D of Public Enemy, and DJ Premier of Gang Starr. Both Drake and Casey Veggies have acknowledged being influenced directly by West. Non-rap artists such as English singer-songwriters Adele and Lily Allen, New Zealand artist Lorde, rock band Arctic Monkeys, pop singer Halsey, Sergio Pizzorno of English rock band Kasabian and American indie rock group MGMT have cited West as an influence. Experimental and electronic artists such as James Blake Daniel Lopatin, and Tim Hecker have also cited West's work as an inspiration. Experimental rock pioneer and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, in a review of West's album Yeezus, wrote that "the guy really, really, really is talented. He's really trying to raise the bar. No one's near doing what he’s doing, it’s not even on the same planet." Musicians such as Paul McCartney and Prince have also commended West's work. Famed Tesla Motors CEO and inventor Elon Musk complimented West in a piece for Time Magazine's 100 most influential people list, writing that:
Question: A number of artists have cited Kanye as being what to them?
Answer: influential
Question: Who complimented West in Time Magazine?
Answer: inventor Elon Musk |
Context: Three daily newspapers serve Melbourne: the Herald Sun (tabloid), The Age (formerly broadsheet, now compact) and The Australian (national broadsheet). Six free-to-air television stations service Greater Melbourne and Geelong: ABC Victoria, (ABV), SBS Victoria (SBS), Seven Melbourne (HSV), Nine Melbourne (GTV), Ten Melbourne (ATV), C31 Melbourne (MGV) – community television. Each station (excluding C31) broadcasts a primary channel and several multichannels. C31 is only broadcast from the transmitters at Mount Dandenong and South Yarra. Hybrid digital/print media companies such as Broadsheet and ThreeThousand are based in and primarily serve Melbourne.
Question: How many daily newspapers serve Melbourne?
Answer: Three
Question: How many free-to-air television stations service Greater Melbourne and Geelong?
Answer: Six
Question: From where is C31 broadcast?
Answer: transmitters at Mount Dandenong and South Yarra
Question: What type of companies are Broadsheet and ThreeThousand?
Answer: Hybrid digital/print media |
Context: In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic, "the world's first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and more accessible to the average person. Andreesen's browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s. The introduction of Mosaic in 1993 – one of the first graphical web browsers – led to an explosion in web use. Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became the world's most popular browser, accounting for 90% of all web use at its peak (see usage share of web browsers).
Question: Who released Mosaic?
Answer: Marc Andreessen
Question: When was Mosaic released?
Answer: 1993
Question: When Andreessen left the company he worked for, what new company did he start?
Answer: Netscape
Question: What browser did Andreessen release in 1994?
Answer: Netscape Navigator
Question: What did the World Wide Web help release in the 1990's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the release of Mosaic in 1994 by NCSA lead to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company was started by Mosaic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the NCSA Navigator released by Mosaic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of web use did Mosaic have at its peak in 1993?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Oklahoma City is an integral point on the United States Interstate Network, with three major interstate highways – Interstate 35, Interstate 40, and Interstate 44 – bisecting the city. Interstate 240 connects Interstate 40 and Interstate 44 in south Oklahoma City, while Interstate 235 spurs from Interstate 44 in north-central Oklahoma City into downtown.
Question: How many major highways cross through Oklahoma City?
Answer: 3 |
Context: Beginning in 2004 former Technikons have either been merged with traditional Universities to form Comprehensive Universities or have become Universities of Technology, however the Universities of Technology have not to date acquired all of the traditional rights and privileges of a University (such as the ability to confer a wide range of degrees).
Question: When did Technikons start being integrated with traditional South African universities?
Answer: 2004 |
Context: On 14 June 1940, the German army marched into Paris, which had been declared an "open city". On 16–17 July 1942, following German orders, the French police and gendarmes arrested 12,884 Jews, including 4,115 children, and confined them during five days at the Vel d'Hiv (Vélodrome d'Hiver), from which they were transported by train to the extermination camp at Auschwitz. None of the children came back. On 25 August 1944, the city was liberated by the French 2nd Armoured Division and the 4th Infantry Division of the United States Army. General Charles de Gaulle led a huge and emotional crowd down the Champs Élysées towards Notre Dame de Paris, and made a rousing speech from the Hôtel de Ville.
Question: On what date did the German army declare Paris as an open city?
Answer: 14 June 1940
Question: How many Jews were arrested following German orders?
Answer: 12,884
Question: Where were the Jews confined prior to being transported to Auschwitz?
Answer: Vel d'Hiv
Question: How many children came back from Auschwitz?
Answer: None
Question: On what date was the city liberated?
Answer: 25 August 1944 |
Context: Saint Helena is divided into eight districts, each with a community centre. The districts also serve as statistical subdivisions. The island is a single electoral area and elects twelve representatives to the Legislative Council of fifteen.
Question: How many districts is the island of Saint Helena divided into?
Answer: eight
Question: What do the districts also serve as?
Answer: statistical subdivisions |
Context: The year 1759 saw several Prussian defeats. At the Battle of Kay, or Paltzig, the Russian Count Saltykov with 47,000 Russians defeated 26,000 Prussians commanded by General Carl Heinrich von Wedel. Though the Hanoverians defeated an army of 60,000 French at Minden, Austrian general Daun forced the surrender of an entire Prussian corps of 13,000 in the Battle of Maxen. Frederick himself lost half his army in the Battle of Kunersdorf (now Kunowice Poland), the worst defeat in his military career and one that drove him to the brink of abdication and thoughts of suicide. The disaster resulted partly from his misjudgment of the Russians, who had already demonstrated their strength at Zorndorf and at Gross-Jägersdorf (now Motornoye, Russia), and partly from good cooperation between the Russian and Austrian forces.
Question: How did the Prussian army perform in 1759/
Answer: 1759 saw several Prussian defeats
Question: How would one characterize the encounter with the Russian army in 1757?
Answer: 47,000 Russians defeated 26,000 Prussians
Question: What happened at Minden in 1757?
Answer: the Hanoverians defeated an army of 60,000 French
Question: What was the result of the Battle of Maxen?
Answer: Austrian general Daun forced the surrender of an entire Prussian corps of 13,000
Question: What happened to Frederick's army at the Battle at Kunersdorf?
Answer: Frederick himself lost half his army |
Context: Meleager and the infantry supported the candidacy of Alexander's half-brother, Philip Arrhidaeus, while Perdiccas, the leading cavalry commander, supported waiting until the birth of Alexander's unborn child by Roxana. After the infantry stormed the palace of Babylon, a compromise was arranged – Arrhidaeus (as Philip III) should become king, and should rule jointly with Roxana's child, assuming that it was a boy (as it was, becoming Alexander IV). Perdiccas himself would become regent (epimeletes) of the empire, and Meleager his lieutenant. Soon, however, Perdiccas had Meleager and the other infantry leaders murdered, and assumed full control. The generals who had supported Perdiccas were rewarded in the partition of Babylon by becoming satraps of the various parts of the empire, but Perdiccas' position was shaky, because, as Arrian writes, "everyone was suspicious of him, and he of them".
Question: Who was Philip Arrhidaues' half brother?
Answer: Alexander
Question: Who was the leading calvary commander?
Answer: Perdiccas
Question: Who order the death of Meleager?
Answer: Perdiccas
Question: What city was partitioned to the generals who supported Perdiccas?
Answer: Babylon
Question: Who documented that Perdiccas' was under suspicion?
Answer: Arrian |
Context: The most popular term in English-speaking Canada used for a drinking establishment was "tavern", until the 1970s when the term "bar" became widespread as in the United States. In the 1800s the term used was "public house" as in England but "pub culture" did not spread to Canada. A fake "English looking" pub trend started in the 1990s, built into existing storefronts, like regular bars. Most universities in Canada have campus pubs which are central to student life, as it would be bad form just to serve alcohol to students without providing some type of basic food. Often these pubs are run by the student's union. The gastropub concept has caught on, as traditional British influences are to be found in many Canadian dishes. There are now pubs in the large cities of Canada that cater to anyone interested in a "pub" type drinking environment.[citation needed]
Question: Traditionally, what was the popular term for a drinking establishment in English-speaking Canada?
Answer: tavern
Question: In what decade did "bar" become the popular term for a drinking establishment in English-speaking Canada?
Answer: 1970s
Question: In the 19th century, what term was used in English-speaking Canada to describe a drinking establishment?
Answer: public house
Question: What body often runs pubs on the campuses of Canadian universities?
Answer: the student's union
Question: In what decade could one find an "English looking" pub trend in Canada?
Answer: 1990s |
Context: San Diego's roadway system provides an extensive network of routes for travel by bicycle. The dry and mild climate of San Diego makes cycling a convenient and pleasant year-round option. At the same time, the city's hilly, canyon-like terrain and significantly long average trip distances—brought about by strict low-density zoning laws—somewhat restrict cycling for utilitarian purposes. Older and denser neighborhoods around the downtown tend to be utility cycling oriented. This is partly because of the grid street patterns now absent in newer developments farther from the urban core, where suburban style arterial roads are much more common. As a result, a vast majority of cycling-related activities are recreational. Testament to San Diego's cycling efforts, in 2006, San Diego was rated as the best city for cycling for U.S. cities with a population over 1 million.
Question: In what year was San Diego rated as the country's best densely populated city for cycling?
Answer: 2006
Question: Why are older neighborhoods in San Diego popular with cyclists?
Answer: the grid street patterns
Question: What makes San Diego the ideal city to commute via bike?
Answer: dry and mild climate
Question: Why are average trip distances so lengthy in San Diego?
Answer: the city's hilly, canyon-like terrain
Question: In what year was San Diego rated as the country's worst densely populated city for cycling?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are older neighborhoods in San Diego unpopular with cyclists?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are older neighborhoods in San Francisco popular with cyclists?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What makes San Francisco the ideal city to commute via bike?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are average trip distances so lengthy in San Francisco?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Indoor lighting is usually accomplished using light fixtures, and is a key part of interior design. Lighting can also be an intrinsic component of landscape projects.
Question: What type of fixtures do you use for indoor lighting?
Answer: light fixtures
Question: What is considered a key part of interior design?
Answer: Indoor lighting
Question: What can be a intrinsic component of landscaping?
Answer: lighting
Question: What type of fixtures are used typically used for indoor lighting?
Answer: light fixtures
Question: What can be used as a intrinsic component of landscape projects?
Answer: lighting |
Context: In 1952, the United States elected a new president, and on 29 November 1952, the president-elect, Dwight D. Eisenhower, went to Korea to learn what might end the Korean War. With the United Nations' acceptance of India's proposed Korean War armistice, the KPA, the PVA, and the UN Command ceased fire with the battle line approximately at the 38th parallel. Upon agreeing to the armistice, the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which has since been patrolled by the KPA and ROKA, United States, and Joint UN Commands.
Question: Who did the US elect as president during the Korean War?
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Question: Who approved the Korean War armistice that officially declared a ceasefire?
Answer: the United Nations
Question: What area was created by the parties involved in the Korean conflict?
Answer: Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Question: Along with the Joint UN Commands, ROKA and KPA, what country also still patrols the demilitarized zone?
Answer: United States
Question: What was one of the first things that the newly-elected Dwight Eisenhower did after the election?
Answer: went to Korea to learn what might end the Korean War |
Context: The company's 14 member Board of Directors is responsible for overall corporate management. As of Cathie Black's resignation in November 2010 its membership (by affiliation and year of joining) included: Alain J. P. Belda '08 (Alcoa), William R. Brody '07 (Salk Institute / Johns Hopkins University), Kenneth Chenault '98 (American Express), Michael L. Eskew '05 (UPS), Shirley Ann Jackson '05 (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Andrew N. Liveris '10 (Dow Chemical), W. James McNerney, Jr. '09 (Boeing), James W. Owens '06 (Caterpillar), Samuel J. Palmisano '00 (IBM), Joan Spero '04 (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation), Sidney Taurel '01 (Eli Lilly), and Lorenzo Zambrano '03 (Cemex).
Question: IBM has how many members on its Board of Directors?
Answer: 14
Question: What board member resigned in November 2010?
Answer: Cathie Black's
Question: What year did William R. Brody join the IBM Board of Directors?
Answer: '07
Question: Kenneth Chenault is affiliated with what company?
Answer: American Express
Question: Who is the most recent member to join the IBM Board of Directors?
Answer: Andrew N. Liveris
Question: In what year did Alain J. P. Belda resign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many corporate offices are there at IBM?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Alain J. P. Belda's main responsibility as a board member?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What chemical company is Cathie Black affiliated with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What credit card company is Doris Duke connected with?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Sumerians were a non-Semitic caucasoid people, and spoke a language isolate; a number of linguists believed they could detect a substrate language beneath Sumerian, because names of some of Sumer's major cities are not Sumerian, revealing influences of earlier inhabitants. However, the archaeological record shows clear uninterrupted cultural continuity from the time of the early Ubaid period (5300 – 4700 BC C-14) settlements in southern Mesopotamia. The Sumerian people who settled here farmed the lands in this region that were made fertile by silt deposited by the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.
Question: Who were a non-Semitic caucasoid people?
Answer: The Sumerians
Question: What influences did the Sumerian language seem to retain?
Answer: earlier inhabitants
Question: What do archaeological records clearly show about the Sumerian culture?
Answer: uninterrupted cultural continuity
Question: When were settlements started in southern Mesopotamia?
Answer: early Ubaid period
Question: Why were the lands in the region the Sumerian people settled fertile?
Answer: silt deposited by the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers
Question: What people were Semitic Caucasoid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period began in the 53rd century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did people fish in the Ubaid period?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In January 2007, the average annual salary in the city was £22,267. This was £1,700 lower than the national average and £3,800 less than the average for the South East.
Question: What was Southampton's average annual salary in January of 2007?
Answer: £22,267
Question: How far below the national average is the average annual salary in Southampton?
Answer: £1,700
Question: How far below England's South East region is Southampton's average annual salary?
Answer: £3,800 |
Context: In contrast to the Proterozoic, Archean rocks are often heavily metamorphized deep-water sediments, such as graywackes, mudstones, volcanic sediments and banded iron formations. Greenstone belts are typical Archean formations, consisting of alternating high- and low-grade metamorphic rocks. The high-grade rocks were derived from volcanic island arcs, while the low-grade metamorphic rocks represent deep-sea sediments eroded from the neighboring island frogs and deposited in a forearc basin. In short, greenstone belts represent sutured protocontinents.
Question: What are Archean rocks composed of, in general?
Answer: metamorphized deep-water sediments
Question: What type of formation is indicated by low and high grade metamorphic rocks?
Answer: Greenstone
Question: From where did high grade Archean rocks originate?
Answer: volcanic island arcs
Question: Low grade metamorphic rocks are composed of what, generally?
Answer: deep-sea sediments
Question: What is a greenstone belt?
Answer: sutured protocontinents
Question: What kind od sediments where Proterozoic rocks made from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind od belts often formed during the Proterozoic period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What single type of rock formed Greenstone belts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of volcanic rock formed low-density metamorphic rock?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of sediment formed high-density metamorphic rock?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The great majority of asphalt used commercially is obtained from petroleum. Nonetheless, large amounts of asphalt occur in concentrated form in nature. Naturally occurring deposits of asphalt/bitumen are formed from the remains of ancient, microscopic algae (diatoms) and other once-living things. These remains were deposited in the mud on the bottom of the ocean or lake where the organisms lived. Under the heat (above 50 °C) and pressure of burial deep in the earth, the remains were transformed into materials such as asphalt/bitumen, kerogen, or petroleum.
Question: From where does most asphalt come?
Answer: petroleum
Question: What are the sources of natural deposits of asphalt?
Answer: once-living things
Question: How much heat is required for the natural production of asphalt?
Answer: above 50 °C
Question: Besides heat, what other requirement is needed to form asphalt?
Answer: pressure
Question: What other product of heat and pressure does the formation of asphalt and petroleum produce?
Answer: kerogen
Question: Most of the petroleum used for commercial purposes is obtained from what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Current living things are the source of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What product of heat and pressure does the formation of asphalt and microscopic algae produce?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Besides pressure, what is required to form mud?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Besides heat, what is required to form Besides pressure, what is required to form mud??
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A third gain in cognitive ability involves thinking about thinking itself, a process referred to as metacognition. It often involves monitoring one's own cognitive activity during the thinking process. Adolescents' improvements in knowledge of their own thinking patterns lead to better self-control and more effective studying. It is also relevant in social cognition, resulting in increased introspection, self-consciousness, and intellectualization (in the sense of thought about one's own thoughts, rather than the Freudian definition as a defense mechanism). Adolescents are much better able than children to understand that people do not have complete control over their mental activity. Being able to introspect may lead to two forms of adolescent egocentrism, which results in two distinct problems in thinking: the imaginary audience and the personal fable. These likely peak at age fifteen, along with self-consciousness in general.
Question: What is the term used to describe thinking about thinking itself?
Answer: metacognition
Question: Are adolescents or children better able to understand that people do not have complete control over their thoughts?
Answer: Adolescents
Question: The imaginary audience and personal fable peak at what age?
Answer: fifteen
Question: At what age does self-consciousness in general peak?
Answer: fifteen |
Context: An antenna lead-in is the transmission line (or feed line) which connects the antenna to a transmitter or receiver. The antenna feed may refer to all components connecting the antenna to the transmitter or receiver, such as an impedance matching network in addition to the transmission line. In a so-called aperture antenna, such as a horn or parabolic dish, the "feed" may also refer to a basic antenna inside the entire system (normally at the focus of the parabolic dish or at the throat of a horn) which could be considered the one active element in that antenna system. A microwave antenna may also be fed directly from a waveguide in place of a (conductive) transmission line.
Question: What is mainly responsible for the connection of the antenna to its end destinations?
Answer: antenna lead-in
Question: What is the group of elements used to join the elements of an antenna?
Answer: antenna feed
Question: What are the type of antennas used with satellite television called?
Answer: aperture antenna
Question: What can be used in place of a standard transmission line?
Answer: microwave antenna |
Context: The Monreale mosaics constitute the largest decoration of this kind in Italy, covering 0,75 hectares with at least 100 million glass and stone tesserae. This huge work was executed between 1176 and 1186 by the order of King William II of Sicily. The iconography of the mosaics in the presbytery is similar to Cefalu while the pictures in the nave are almost the same as the narrative scenes in the Cappella Palatina. The Martorana mosaic of Roger II blessed by Christ was repeated with the figure of King William II instead of his predecessor. Another panel shows the king offering the model of the cathedral to the Theotokos.
Question: What is the name of the largest mosaics in Italy?
Answer: The Monreale mosaics
Question: At least how many tesserae are used in the the Monreale mosaics?
Answer: 100 million
Question: Who commissioned the Monreale mosaics between 1176 and 1186?
Answer: King William II of Sicily
Question: Who is displayed getting crowned by christ in the Monreale mosaics?
Answer: King William II
Question: What is the king offering Theotokos in the Monreale mosaics?
Answer: the model of the cathedral |
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