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Context: The first experimental radio license was issued in Philadelphia in August 1912 to St. Joseph's College. The first commercial broadcasting radio stations appeared in 1922: first WIP, then owned by Gimbel's department store, on March 17, followed the same year by WFIL, WOO, WCAU and WDAS. The highest-rated stations in Philadelphia include soft rock WBEB, KYW Newsradio, and urban adult contemporary WDAS-FM. Philadelphia is served by three major non-commercial public radio stations, WHYY-FM (NPR), WRTI (jazz, classical), and WXPN-FM (adult alternative music), as well as several smaller stations.
Question: Where was the first radio license granted?
Answer: St. Joseph's College
Question: When did the first radio stations appear?
Answer: 1922
Question: Name the 3 public radio stations?
Answer: WHYY-FM (NPR), WRTI (jazz, classical), and WXPN-FM |
Context: Caleb Johnson was named the winner of the season, with Jena Irene as the runner-up. Johnson released "As Long as You Love Me" as his coronation single while Irene released "We Are One".
Question: Who won season 13 of American Idol?
Answer: Caleb Johnson
Question: Who came in second on season 13 of American Idol?
Answer: Jena Irene
Question: What song did Caleb Johnson first release after winning American Idol?
Answer: As Long as You Love Me
Question: What song did Jena Irene release after coming in second on American Idol?
Answer: We Are One
Question: Who was the runner up this season?
Answer: Jena Irene
Question: What was Johnson's coronation song?
Answer: As Long as You Love Me
Question: What was Irene's coronation song?
Answer: We Are One |
Context: Once in Hollywood, the contestants perform individually or in groups in a series of rounds. Until season ten, there were usually three rounds of eliminations in Hollywood. In the first round the contestants emerged in groups but performed individually. For the next round, the contestants put themselves in small groups and perform a song together. In the final round, the contestants perform solo with a song of their choice a cappella or accompanied by a band—depending on the season. In seasons two and three, contestants were also asked to write original lyrics or melody in an additional round after the first round. In season seven, the group round was eliminated and contestants may, after a first solo performance and on judges approval, skip a second solo round and move directly to the final Hollywood round. In season twelve, the executive producers split up the females and males and chose the members to form the groups in the group round.
Question: Which season did not have a group round in Hollywood?
Answer: seven
Question: In which seasons were contestants required to write original lyrics?
Answer: two and three
Question: How many Hollywood rounds were there in the first nine seasons?
Answer: usually three
Question: In which season were contestants separated by gender to form groups?
Answer: twelve
Question: How many rounds of cuts were in the Hollywood stage until season ten?
Answer: three
Question: What was eliminated from the Hollywood round in Season seven?
Answer: groups
Question: Which seasons did contestants have to write an original lyric or melody?
Answer: seasons two and three |
Context: Hydrogen, as atomic H, is the most abundant chemical element in the universe, making up 75% of normal matter by mass and over 90% by number of atoms (most of the mass of the universe, however, is not in the form of chemical-element type matter, but rather is postulated to occur as yet-undetected forms of mass such as dark matter and dark energy). This element is found in great abundance in stars and gas giant planets. Molecular clouds of H2 are associated with star formation. Hydrogen plays a vital role in powering stars through the proton-proton reaction and the CNO cycle nuclear fusion.
Question: What percent of normal matter is hydrogen?
Answer: 75%
Question: What percent of atoms is hydrogen?
Answer: 90%
Question: What 2 forms of mass is most of the universe consisted of?
Answer: dark matter and dark energy
Question: Clouds of H2 form what?
Answer: stars |
Context: Meanwhile, U.S. garrisons in Japan continually dispatched soldiers and matériel to reinforce defenders in the Pusan Perimeter. Tank battalions deployed to Korea directly from the U.S. mainland from the port of San Francisco to the port of Pusan, the largest Korean port. By late August, the Pusan Perimeter had some 500 medium tanks battle-ready. In early September 1950, ROK Army and UN Command forces outnumbered the KPA 180,000 to 100,000 soldiers. The UN forces, once prepared, counterattacked and broke out of the Pusan Perimeter.
Question: Where in the United States was the tank battalion located?
Answer: San Francisco
Question: What is Korea's largest port?
Answer: the port of Pusan
Question: Besides the United States, what other country sent military personnel to Korea?
Answer: Japan
Question: Who had the fewest number of troops in Korea?
Answer: KPA
Question: Who was able to counterattack and move the KPA away from the Pusan Perimeter?
Answer: UN forces |
Context: A cappella music was originally used in religious music, especially church music as well as anasheed and zemirot. Gregorian chant is an example of a cappella singing, as is the majority of secular vocal music from the Renaissance. The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form. Jewish and Christian music were originally a cappella,[citation needed] and this practice has continued in both of these religions as well as in Islam.
Question: What form of music was A cappella predominately used for in its early years?
Answer: religious music
Question: What was considered part of A cappella until the Baroque period?
Answer: The madrigal
Question: The madrigal became what type of form that prevented it from being accompanied with A cappella?
Answer: instrumentally-accompanied
Question: In what era was most of the vocal music considered A cappella?
Answer: Renaissance
Question: What was originally used in Renaissance secular vocal music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was considered part of a cappella following the Baroque period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religions later incoperated a cappella into their traditions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: uring what period was a cappella losinging popularity as religious music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was Islamic music originally used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other type of music was considered A capella from the madrigal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was considered a form of A capella until the Jewish period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of instrumentally accompanied singing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what practice what most of the vocal music A capella?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus, for example, incapacitate their victims extremely quickly and kill them soon after. As a result, the victims of this disease do not have the opportunity to travel very far from the initial infection zone. Also, this virus must spread through skin lesions or permeable membranes such as the eye. Thus, the initial stage of Ebola is not very contagious since its victims experience only internal hemorrhaging. As a result of the above features, the spread of Ebola is very rapid and usually stays within a relatively confined geographical area. In contrast, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) kills its victims very slowly by attacking their immune system. As a result, many of its victims transmit the virus to other individuals before even realizing that they are carrying the disease. Also, the relatively low virulence allows its victims to travel long distances, increasing the likelihood of an epidemic.
Question: Recognizing the different characteristics of various diseases is one way to do what?
Answer: prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases
Question: What are some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated?
Answer: virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness
Question: What virus' strains incapacitate their victims extremely quickly before killing them?
Answer: Ebola
Question: Why is the initial stage of Ebola not very contagious?
Answer: victims experience only internal hemorrhaging
Question: What does the low virulence of HIV allow victims to do?
Answer: travel long distances
Question: What does recognizing the different characteristics of various diseases allow someone to increase?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some critical disease characteristics that should not be evaluated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What virus' strains strengthen their victims extremely quickly before killing them?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is the initial stage of Ebola so contagious?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the extreme virulence of HIV allow victims to do?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Frederick saw Saxony and Polish west Prussia as potential fields for expansion but could not expect French support if he started an aggressive war for them. If he joined the French against the British in the hope of annexing Hanover, he might fall victim to an Austro-Russian attack. The hereditary elector of Saxony, Augustus III, was also elective King of Poland as Augustus III, but the two territories were physically separated by Brandenburg and Silesia. Neither state could pose as a great power. Saxony was merely a buffer between Prussia and Austrian Bohemia, whereas Poland, despite its union with the ancient lands of Lithuania, was prey to pro-French and pro-Russian factions. A Prussian scheme for compensating Frederick Augustus with Bohemia in exchange for Saxony obviously presupposed further spoliation of Austria.
Question: What two geographies did Frederick want for Prussia?
Answer: Saxony and Polish west Prussia
Question: What country would refuse support if Frederick wen to war for Saxony and west Prussia?
Answer: could not expect French support
Question: What was his concern about trying take Hanover from the British?
Answer: he might fall victim to an Austro-Russian attack
Question: What kept Augustus III from consolidating Saxony and Poland?
Answer: the two territories were physically separated by Brandenburg and Silesia
Question: Who was Poland's ancient ally?
Answer: Poland, despite its union with the ancient lands of Lithuania, |
Context: Since 2004, through the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership, the RIBA and V&A have worked together to promote the understanding and enjoyment of architecture.
Question: When did the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects start a formal relationship?
Answer: 2004
Question: What is the name of the joint venture involving the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects?
Answer: the V&A + RIBA Architecture Partnership
Question: What is the main goal of the V&A + RIBA partnership?
Answer: to promote the understanding and enjoyment of architecture
Question: When did the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects end a formal relationship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the joint venture no longer involving the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the main disadvantage of the V&A + RIBA partnership?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has never worked together?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2010, bills to abolish the death penalty in Kansas and in South Dakota (which had a de facto moratorium at the time) were rejected. Idaho ended its de facto moratorium, during which only one volunteer had been executed, on November 18, 2011 by executing Paul Ezra Rhoades; South Dakota executed Donald Moeller on October 30, 2012, ending a de facto moratorium during which only two volunteers had been executed. Of the 12 prisoners whom Nevada has executed since 1976, 11 waived their rights to appeal. Kentucky and Montana have executed two prisoners against their will (KY: 1997 and 1999, MT: 1995 and 1998) and one volunteer, respectively (KY: 2008, MT: 2006). Colorado (in 1997) and Wyoming (in 1992) have executed only one prisoner, respectively.
Question: Along with South Dakota, what state rejected a death penalty abolition bill in 2010?
Answer: Kansas
Question: Who did Idaho execute in 2011?
Answer: Paul Ezra Rhoades
Question: Who was executed on October 30, 2012?
Answer: Donald Moeller
Question: Since 1976, how many prisoners has Nevada executed?
Answer: 12
Question: Since 1976, in what year was a prisoner executed in Wyoming?
Answer: 1992
Question: Along with North Dakota, what state rejected a death penalty abolition bill in 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Idaho execute in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was freed on October 30, 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Since 1976, in what year was a prisoner freed in Wyoming?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In later editions of the book, Darwin traced evolutionary ideas as far back as Aristotle; the text he cites is a summary by Aristotle of the ideas of the earlier Greek philosopher Empedocles. Early Christian Church Fathers and Medieval European scholars interpreted the Genesis creation narrative allegorically rather than as a literal historical account; organisms were described by their mythological and heraldic significance as well as by their physical form. Nature was widely believed to be unstable and capricious, with monstrous births from union between species, and spontaneous generation of life.
Question: To what ancient philosopher did Darwin trace some of his evolutionary ideas?
Answer: Aristotle
Question: Whose ideas were summarized by Aristotle in the work Darwin studied?
Answer: Greek philosopher Empedocles
Question: How did medieval scholars view the Genesis creation story?
Answer: allegorically
Question: What kind of births did the Christian Church fathers believe occurred in nature?
Answer: monstrous births from union between species, and spontaneous generation of life. |
Context: Charleston annually hosts Spoleto Festival USA founded by Gian Carlo Menotti, a 17-day art festival featuring over 100 performances by individual artists in a variety of disciplines. The Spoleto Festival is internationally recognized as America's premier performing arts festival. The annual Piccolo Spoleto festival takes place at the same time and features local performers and artists, with hundreds of performances throughout the city. Other festivals and events include Historic Charleston Foundation's Festival of Houses and Gardens and Charleston Antiques Show, the Taste of Charleston, The Lowcountry Oyster Festival, the Cooper River Bridge Run, The Charleston Marathon, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), Charleston Food and Wine Festival, Charleston Fashion Week, the MOJA Arts Festival, and the Holiday Festival of Lights (at James Island County Park), and the Charleston International Film Festival.
Question: How many days does the Spoleto Festival USA run each year?
Answer: 17
Question: What kind of festival is Spoleto Festival USA?
Answer: art festival
Question: The Holiday Festival of Lights are held where?
Answer: James Island County Park
Question: About how many performances are there in the Spoleto Festival USA?
Answer: over 100 performances
Question: Who founded the Spoleto Festival USA?
Answer: Gian Carlo Menotti
Question: How many days does the Spoleto Festival UK run each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of festival is Spoleto Festival UK?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Holiday Festival of Lights aren't held where?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: About how many performances are there in the Spoleto Festival UK?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who founded the Spoleto Festival UK?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Protestant concept of God and man allows believers to use all their God-given faculties, including the power of reason. That means that they are allowed to explore God's creation and, according to Genesis 2:15, make use of it in a responsible and sustainable way. Thus a cultural climate was created that greatly enhanced the development of the humanities and the sciences. Another consequence of the Protestant understanding of man is that the believers, in gratitude for their election and redemption in Christ, are to follow God's commandments. Industry, frugality, calling, discipline, and a strong sense of responsibility are at the heart of their moral code. In particular, Calvin rejected luxury. Therefore, craftsmen, industrialists, and other businessmen were able to reinvest the greater part of their profits in the most efficient machinery and the most modern production methods that were based on progress in the sciences and technology. As a result, productivity grew, which led to increased profits and enabled employers to pay higher wages. In this way, the economy, the sciences, and technology reinforced each other. The chance to participate in the economic success of technological inventions was a strong incentive to both inventors and investors. The Protestant work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated mass action that influenced the development of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. This idea is also known as the "Protestant ethic thesis."
Question: What is the heart of the Protestant moral code?
Answer: Industry, frugality, calling, discipline, and a strong sense of responsibility
Question: What did Calvin particular reject?
Answer: luxury
Question: What was a strong reason for inventors and investors to work on technical inventions?
Answer: economic success
Question: What work ethic was an influence on capitalism and the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: Protestant
Question: What is another name for the Protestant work ethic?
Answer: Protestant ethic thesis |
Context: On March 30, 2015, it was announced that Beyoncé is a co-owner, with various other music artists, in the music streaming service Tidal. The service specialises in lossless audio and high definition music videos. Beyoncé's husband Jay Z acquired the parent company of Tidal, Aspiro, in the first quarter of 2015. Including Beyoncé and Jay-Z, sixteen artist stakeholders (such as Kanye West, Rihanna, Madonna, Chris Martin, Nicki Minaj and more) co-own Tidal, with the majority owning a 3% equity stake. The idea of having an all artist owned streaming service was created by those involved to adapt to the increased demand for streaming within the current music industry, and to rival other streaming services such as Spotify, which have been criticised for their low payout of royalties. "The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value", stated Jay-Z on the release of Tidal.
Question: When was it discovered Beyonce was a co-owner of the music service, Tidal?
Answer: March 30, 2015
Question: The parent company of Tidal became under the ownership of whom in 2015?
Answer: Jay Z
Question: When was it announced that Beyonce was a co-owner in Tidal?
Answer: March 30, 2015
Question: What kind of service is Tidal?
Answer: music streaming service
Question: What is a criticism of other streaming services?
Answer: low payout of royalties
Question: What music streaming system is Beyoncé part owner of?
Answer: Tidal.
Question: What is the parent company of the music service Beyoncé owns part of?
Answer: Aspiro
Question: Who acquired the parent company of the music service Beyoncé owns part of?
Answer: Jay Z
Question: What music service is accused of providing low royalty amounts?
Answer: Spotify |
Context: In the 21st century the most famous department store in Russia is GUM in Moscow, followed by TsUM and the Petrovsky Passage. Other popular stores are Mega (shopping malls), Stockmann, and Marks & Spencer. Media Markt, M-video, Technosila, and White Wind (Beliy Veter) sell large number of electronic devices. In St. Petersburg The Passage has been popular since the 1840s. 1956 Soviet film Behind Store Window (За витриной универмага) on YouTube depicts operation of a Moscow department store in 1950's.
Question: Where is the most notable Russian department store located?
Answer: Moscow
Question: In what city is the Passage located?
Answer: St. Petersburg
Question: What movie demonstrates the operation of department stores in the former Soviet Union?
Answer: Behind Store Window
Question: When was the movie depicting soviet department stores filmed?
Answer: 1956
Question: Where is the least notable Russian department store located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the most notable Russian department store not located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what city isn't the Passage located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What movie demonstrates the operation of department stores in the current Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When wasn't the movie depicting soviet department stores filmed?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On February 29, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8 Consumer Preview, the beta version of Windows 8, build 8250. Alongside other changes, the build removed the Start button from the taskbar for the first time since its debut on Windows 95; according to Windows manager Chaitanya Sareen, the Start button was removed to reflect their view that on Windows 8, the desktop was an "app" itself, and not the primary interface of the operating system. Windows president Steven Sinofsky said more than 100,000 changes had been made since the developer version went public. The day after its release, Windows 8 Consumer Preview had been downloaded over one million times. Like the Developer Preview, the Consumer Preview expired on January 15, 2013.
Question: When was the beta version of Windows 8 made available to the public?
Answer: February 29, 2012
Question: Who is the Windows Manager?
Answer: Chaitanya Sareen
Question: How many things were altered after developer version release?
Answer: 100,000
Question: When was the Consumer Preview set to expire?
Answer: January 15, 2013
Question: How many times was the Consumer Preview downloaded in the first 24 hours?
Answer: over one million times
Question: When was the beta version of Windows 9 made available to the public?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who isn't the Windows Manager?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many things were altered before developer version release?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When wasn't the Consumer Preview set to expire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times was the Consumer Preview downloaded in the first 42 hours?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Approximately 10% of the country's population belong to the Christian community, and 40% continue to hold Indigenous beliefs. These statistics can be misleading, however, as many residents practice syncretic forms of Islamic and Christian faiths, combining their practices with traditional African beliefs.
Question: What percentage of the population is Christian?
Answer: Approximately 10%
Question: What percentage of the population continues to hold indigenous beliefs?
Answer: 40%
Question: What forms of Islamic and Christian faiths do many residents practice?
Answer: syncretic
Question: What do many residents combine with Islamic and Christian practices?
Answer: traditional African beliefs |
Context: Isolated remains of Homo erectus in Hathnora in the Narmada Valley in central India indicate that India might have been inhabited since at least the Middle Pleistocene era, somewhere between 500,000 and 200,000 years ago. Tools crafted by proto-humans that have been dated back two million years have been discovered in the northwestern part of the subcontinent. The ancient history of the region includes some of South Asia's oldest settlements and some of its major civilisations. The earliest archaeological site in the subcontinent is the palaeolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley. Soanian sites are found in the Sivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan, and Nepal.
Question: By what era was India inhabited by humans of some form?
Answer: Middle Pleistocene
Question: What type of remains were found in the Narmada Valley?
Answer: Homo erectus
Question: From how long ago do tools date in India?
Answer: two million years
Question: Where in the subcontinent is the oldest archaeological site?
Answer: Soan River valley
Question: What type of resident lived at the site in Soan River Valley?
Answer: palaeolithic hominid |
Context: The principles of phonological analysis can be applied independently of modality because they are designed to serve as general analytical tools, not language-specific ones. The same principles have been applied to the analysis of sign languages (see Phonemes in sign languages), even though the sub-lexical units are not instantiated as speech sounds.
Question: Instead of being language-specific what kind of tools are the principles of phonological analysis designed to be?
Answer: general analytical tools
Question: What other types of language have the phonological analysis principles been applied to?
Answer: sign languages
Question: What are the principles of phonological analysis able to be applied separately from?
Answer: modality
Question: In sign languages what are not represented as instances of speech sounds?
Answer: sub-lexical units
Question: Instead of being language specific what kind of tool is sign language designed to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other types of language have the speech sound principles been applied to
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the principles of sign language able to be applied separately from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In sign laguages what are not represented as instances of analytical tools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can be applied depending on modality?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The majority of Freemasonry considers the Liberal (Continental) strand to be Irregular, and thus withhold recognition. For the Continental lodges, however, having a different approach to Freemasonry was not a reason for severing masonic ties. In 1961, an umbrella organisation, Centre de Liaison et d'Information des Puissances maçonniques Signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg (CLIPSAS) was set up, which today provides a forum for most of these Grand Lodges and Grand Orients worldwide. Included in the list of over 70 Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are representatives of all three of the above categories, including mixed and women's organisations. The United Grand Lodge of England does not communicate with any of these jurisdictions, and expects its allies to follow suit. This creates the distinction between Anglo-American and Continental Freemasonry.
Question: Why was the Centre de Liasion et d'information des Puissances maconniques signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg set up?
Answer: provides a forum for most of these Grand Lodges and Grand Orients worldwide
Question: When was CLIPSAS set up?
Answer: 1961
Question: What are two major sections of Freemasonry?
Answer: Anglo-American and Continental
Question: What is the Continental Strand consideres to be by most of Freemasonry?
Answer: Irregular
Question: What strand is considered to be irregular by the majority of Freemasons?
Answer: the Liberal (Continental) strand
Question: The CLIPSAS Organization was formed in what year?
Answer: 1961
Question: How many Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are listed in the CLIPSAS list?
Answer: 70
Question: Does the United Grand Lodge of England communicate with any of the 70 lodges on the CLIPSAS list?
Answer: does not communicate
Question: Why was the Centre de Liasion et d'information des Puissances maconniques signataires de l'Appel de Strasbourg removed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was CLIPSAS forbidden?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only major section of Freemasonry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Continental Strand considered to be by all of Freemasonry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Grand Lodges and Grand Orients are unlisted in the CLIPSAS list?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The city has undergone many changes to its governance over the centuries and once again became administratively independent from Hampshire County as it was made into a unitary authority in a local government reorganisation on 1 April 1997, a result of the 1992 Local Government Act. The district remains part of the Hampshire ceremonial county.
Question: What county did the city of Southampton become administratively independent of in April of 1997?
Answer: Hampshire County
Question: What official designation did Southampton receive in the April 1997 local government reorganization?
Answer: unitary authority
Question: What act was responsible for the reorganization of local government on April 1, 1997?
Answer: 1992 Local Government Act
Question: What ceremonial county does Southampton still belong to?
Answer: Hampshire |
Context: The adoption of the mother of Jesus as a virtual goddess may represent a reintroduction of aspects of the worship of Isis. "When looking at images of the Egyptian goddess Isis and those of the Virgin Mary, one may initially observe iconographic similarities. These parallels have led many scholars to suggest that there is a distinct iconographic relationship between Isis and Mary. In fact, some scholars have gone even further, and have suggested, on the basis of this relationship, a direct link between the cult of Mary and that of Isis."
Question: Which Egyptian goddess do some scholars ascribe similarities to?
Answer: Isis
Question: What type of goddess is Isis?
Answer: Egyptian
Question: What kind of relationship do some scholars believe exists between Isis and Mary?
Answer: iconographic
Question: What is the name of the goddess that the Virgin Mary met in Egypt?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is considered to be a sister of the Egyptian goddess Isis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the relationship between Jesus and the Egyptian goddess Isis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the cult that some scholars subscribe to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: This is fortunate, since antennas at lower frequencies which are not rather large (a good fraction of a wavelength in size) are inevitably inefficient (due to the small radiation resistance Rr of small antennas). Most AM broadcast radios (except for car radios) take advantage of this principle by including a small loop antenna for reception which has an extremely poor efficiency. Using such an inefficient antenna at this low frequency (530–1650 kHz) thus has little effect on the receiver's net performance, but simply requires greater amplification by the receiver's electronics. Contrast this tiny component to the massive and very tall towers used at AM broadcast stations for transmitting at the very same frequency, where every percentage point of reduced antenna efficiency entails a substantial cost.
Question: Small and minimal frequency antennas are know to be what?
Answer: inefficient
Question: What is added to to increase ability for reception?
Answer: small loop antenna
Question: How would this antenna rate in the greater scheme of things?
Answer: little effect
Question: When talking about much larger network what effect can reduced antenna effectiveness have?
Answer: substantial cost |
Context: The third generation began including a 30-pin dock connector, allowing for FireWire or USB connectivity. This provided better compatibility with non-Apple machines, as most of them did not have FireWire ports at the time. Eventually Apple began shipping iPods with USB cables instead of FireWire, although the latter was available separately. As of the first-generation iPod Nano and the fifth-generation iPod Classic, Apple discontinued using FireWire for data transfer (while still allowing for use of FireWire to charge the device) in an attempt to reduce cost and form factor. As of the second-generation iPod Touch and the fourth-generation iPod Nano, FireWire charging ability has been removed. The second-, third-, and fourth-generation iPod Shuffle uses a single 3.5 mm minijack phone connector which acts as both a headphone jack and a data port for the dock.
Question: In which generation did iPod start providing compatibility with USB?
Answer: third generation
Question: What iPod feature allowed for USB connections with the device?
Answer: 30-pin dock connector
Question: Which generation of iPod Classic was the first to abandon use of FireWire in transferring files?
Answer: fifth
Question: Starting with which generation of iPod Nano was FireWire charging functionality no longer available?
Answer: fourth
Question: What kind of connection is provided on the iPod Shuffle for both audio output and file transfer?
Answer: 3.5 mm minijack
Question: Which generation iPod was the first to include the 30-pin dock connector?
Answer: third generation
Question: Which model of iPod combined the headphone jack and data port?
Answer: Shuffle
Question: What interface was gradually phased out for both charging and data transfer?
Answer: FireWire
Question: What interface replaced FireWire in later iterations of the iPod?
Answer: USB |
Context: As the Nintendo Entertainment System grew in popularity and entered millions of American homes, some small video rental shops began buying their own copies of NES games, and renting them out to customers for around the same price as a video cassette rental for a few days. Nintendo received no profit from the practice beyond the initial cost of their game, and unlike movie rentals, a newly released game could hit store shelves and be available for rent on the same day. Nintendo took steps to stop game rentals, but didn't take any formal legal action until Blockbuster Video began to make game rentals a large-scale service. Nintendo claimed that allowing customers to rent games would significantly hurt sales and drive up the cost of games. Nintendo lost the lawsuit, but did win on a claim of copyright infringement. Blockbuster was banned from including original, copyrighted instruction booklets with their rented games. In compliance with the ruling, Blockbuster produced their own short instructions—usually in the form of a small booklet, card, or label stuck on the back of the rental box—that explained the game's basic premise and controls. Video rental shops continued the practice of renting video games and still do today.
Question: Who caused Nintendo to take formal action regarding rentals?
Answer: Blockbuster Video
Question: According to Nintendo what was the danger in renting games?
Answer: would significantly hurt sales and drive up the cost of games
Question: Blockbuster was banned from including what with their games?
Answer: copyrighted instruction booklets
Question: What did Blockbuster do instead of use copyrighted instruction booklets?
Answer: produced their own short instructions
Question: Who caused Nintendo to take informal action regarding rentals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: According to Nintendo what wasn't the danger in renting games?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Blockbuster wasn't banned from including what with their games?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Blockbuster do along with use copyrighted instruction booklets?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After secretly crossing the Yalu River on 19 October, the PVA 13th Army Group launched the First Phase Offensive on 25 October, attacking the advancing UN forces near the Sino-Korean border. This military decision made solely by China changed the attitude of the Soviet Union. Twelve days after Chinese troops entered the war, Stalin allowed the Soviet Air Force to provide air cover, and supported more aid to China. After decimating the ROK II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, the first confrontation between Chinese and U.S. military occurred on 1 November 1950; deep in North Korea, thousands of soldiers from the PVA 39th Army encircled and attacked the U.S. 8th Cavalry Regiment with three-prong assaults—from the north, northwest, and west—and overran the defensive position flanks in the Battle of Unsan. The surprise assault resulted in the UN forces retreating back to the Ch'ongch'on River, while the Chinese unexpectedly disappeared into mountain hideouts following victory. It is unclear why the Chinese did not press the attack and follow up their victory.
Question: Who initiated the First Phase offensive?
Answer: PVA 13th Army Group
Question: Who did the First Phase offensive motivated to send more troops and resources to Korea?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: When did the Chinese and US military have their first confrontation in Korea?
Answer: 1 November 1950
Question: Where did UN forces retreat to when the PVA executed their sneak attack?
Answer: Ch'ongch'on River
Question: What is unusual about the PVA's successful, surprise attack?
Answer: Chinese unexpectedly disappeared into mountain hideouts |
Context: The climate of Cork, like the rest of Ireland, is mild and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes. Cork lies in plant Hardiness zone 9b. Met Éireann maintains a climatological weather station at Cork Airport, a few kilometres south of the city. It should be noted that the airport is at an altitude of 151 metres (495 ft) and temperatures can often differ by a few degrees between the airport and the city itself. There are also smaller synoptic weather stations at UCC and Clover Hill.
Question: What is the weather like in Cork?
Answer: mild and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes
Question: Who keeps a weather station in Cork?
Answer: Met Éireann
Question: Why can temperatures differ so much between the city of Cork and the weather station maintained at the airport?
Answer: the airport is at an altitude of 151 metres (495 ft)
Question: Where are some weather stations near Cork?
Answer: UCC and Clover Hill
Question: If you are going to farm in Cork, what should you be aware of?
Answer: lies in plant Hardiness zone 9b
Question: How is the rest of Ireland climate different than Cork's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who maintains a weather station in the city of Cork?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is at an altitude of 495 meters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the larger synoptic weather station located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what zone does Clover Hill lie?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Met Eireann maintain at Clover Hill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is UCC located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By how much does the temperature differ at UCC compared to Clover Hill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What altitude is Clover Hill located at?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The KU School of Engineering is an ABET accredited, public engineering school located on the main campus. The School of Engineering was officially founded in 1891, although engineering degrees were awarded as early as 1873.
Question: What is the acronym for an organization that serves as an accreditation body for engineering schools?
Answer: ABET
Question: On what campus is the University of Kansas School of Engineering located?
Answer: main campus
Question: When was KU's engineering school established?
Answer: 1891
Question: When did the University of Kansas start issuing degrees in engineering?
Answer: 1873
Question: What kind of institution is KU's engineering school?
Answer: public
Question: What is the acronym for an organization that serves as an accreditation body for med schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what campus is the University of Kansas School of Engineering not located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was KU's engineering school closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the University of Kansas stop issuing degrees in engineering?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of institution is KU's law school?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In bulk, matter can exist in several different forms, or states of aggregation, known as phases, depending on ambient pressure, temperature and volume. A phase is a form of matter that has a relatively uniform chemical composition and physical properties (such as density, specific heat, refractive index, and so forth). These phases include the three familiar ones (solids, liquids, and gases), as well as more exotic states of matter (such as plasmas, superfluids, supersolids, Bose–Einstein condensates, ...). A fluid may be a liquid, gas or plasma. There are also paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of magnetic materials. As conditions change, matter may change from one phase into another. These phenomena are called phase transitions, and are studied in the field of thermodynamics. In nanomaterials, the vastly increased ratio of surface area to volume results in matter that can exhibit properties entirely different from those of bulk material, and not well described by any bulk phase (see nanomaterials for more details).
Question: What are phases known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a phase not dependent on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many phases are there total?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are examples of paramagnetic phases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What field studies nanomaterials?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: LEDs have been developed by Seoul Semiconductor that can operate on AC power without the need for a DC converter. For each half-cycle, part of the LED emits light and part is dark, and this is reversed during the next half-cycle. The efficacy of this type of HP-LED is typically 40 lm/W. A large number of LED elements in series may be able to operate directly from line voltage. In 2009, Seoul Semiconductor released a high DC voltage LED, named as 'Acrich MJT', capable of being driven from AC power with a simple controlling circuit. The low-power dissipation of these LEDs affords them more flexibility than the original AC LED design.
Question: What company has developed LEDs that can operate on AC power?
Answer: Seoul Semiconductor
Question: What is the efficacy of an AC powered HP-LED?
Answer: 40 lm/W
Question: When did Seoul Semiconductor release the first high DC voltage LED?
Answer: 2009
Question: What is so good about ac powered HP-LEDs?
Answer: more flexibility
Question: What did Seoul Semiconductor name their ac powered HP-LED?
Answer: Acrich MJT
Question: What company has developed non-LEDs that can operate on AC power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the efficacy of an non-AC powered HP-LED?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did non-Seoul Semiconductor release the first high DC voltage LED?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is so good about ac powered non-HP-LEDs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another important factor is the apparent consensus among Western great powers that military force is no longer an effective tool of resolving disputes among their peers. This "subset" of great powers – France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States – consider maintaining a "state of peace" as desirable. As evidence, Baron outlines that since the Cuban missile crisis (1962) during the Cold War, these influential Western nations have resolved all disputes among the great powers peacefully at the United Nations and other forums of international discussion.
Question: What formerly effective tool for international disputes is no longer effective among peer powers?
Answer: military force
Question: What great powers have maintained peace?
Answer: France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States
Question: Where have the powers maintained peace in recent years?
Answer: United Nations and other forums
Question: What was the last crisis during cold war to escalate world powers?
Answer: Cuban missile crisis (1962
Question: What countries agree that military force is effective to resolve disputes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what event did great powers use military force?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who mentioned that Western great powers still use military force to resolve disputes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What formerly effective tool for the Cuban missile crisis is no longer effective?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where have western nations discussed using military force?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: PlayStation 3 uses the Cell microprocessor, designed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, as its CPU, which is made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). The eighth SPE is disabled to improve chip yields. Only six of the seven SPEs are accessible to developers as the seventh SPE is reserved by the console's operating system. Graphics processing is handled by the NVIDIA RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', which can produce resolutions from 480i/576i SD up to 1080p HD. PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of XDR DRAM main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSX.
Question: What type of microprocessor is in a PS3?
Answer: Cell
Question: What does PPE stand for?
Answer: Power Processing Element
Question: How many Synergistic Processing Elements are in a PS3's CPU?
Answer: eight
Question: How much XDR DRAM is on board a PS3?
Answer: 256 MB
Question: What function is the NVIDIA RSX responsible for in a PlayStation 3?
Answer: Graphics processing
Question: Which PlayStaytion uses a Cell processor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The ninth SPE is disabled to improve what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Only seven on the eight SPEs are accessible to whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: PS4 has 526 MB of what kind of main memory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of macroprocessor is in a PS3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What doesn't PPE stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Synergistic Processing Elements are in a PS3's CUP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much XDR BRAM is on board a PS3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What function is the NVIDIA RXS responsible for in a PlayStation 3?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The USA PATRIOT Act of October 2001 dramatically reduces restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eases restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expands the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and broadens the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts. The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act's expanded law enforcement powers could be applied. A new Terrorist Finance Tracking Program monitored the movements of terrorists' financial resources (discontinued after being revealed by The New York Times). Global telecommunication usage, including those with no links to terrorism, is being collected and monitored through the NSA electronic surveillance program. The Patriot Act is still in effect.
Question: When was the Patriot Act passed?
Answer: October 2001
Question: What did the Patriot Act make it easier for law enforcement to search?
Answer: telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records
Question: What did the Patriot Act make it easier to do to immigrants?
Answer: detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts
Question: How was the definition of terrorism expanded by the Patriot Act?
Answer: to include domestic terrorism
Question: Which newspaper revealed the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program?
Answer: The New York Times
Question: What bill increased restrictions on law enforcement agencies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What bill did the Secretary of the Treasury pass?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the Terrorist Finance Tracking program discontinued?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What program does the NSA currently use to monitor financial activity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What newspaper uncovered the Patriot Act?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By 1940 the Third Reich had occupied many of the Alpine countries. Austria underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich; France had been invaded and Italy was a fascist regime. Switzerland was the only country to luckily avoid invasion. The Swiss Confederate mobilized its troops—the country follows the doctrine of "armed neutrality" with all males required to have military training—a number that General Eisenhower estimated to be about 850,000. The Swiss commanders wired the infrastructure leading into the country, and threatening to destroy bridges, railway tunnels and passes in the event of a Nazi invasion, and then they retreated to the heart of the mountain peaks where conditions were harsher and a military invasion would involve difficult and protracted battles.
Question: By 1940 who occupied many of the Alpine countries?
Answer: the Third Reich
Question: What country underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich?
Answer: Austria
Question: What was the only country that avoided invasion from the Third Reich?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Who wired the infrastructure leading into Switzerland?
Answer: The Swiss commanders |
Context: Lamps designed for different voltages have different luminous efficacy. For example, a 100-watt, 120-volt lamp will produce about 17.1 lumens per watt. A lamp with the same rated lifetime but designed for 230 V would produce only around 12.8 lumens per watt, and a similar lamp designed for 30 volts (train lighting) would produce as much as 19.8 lumens per watt. Lower voltage lamps have a thicker filament, for the same power rating. They can run hotter for the same lifetime before the filament evaporates.
Question: How many lumens per watt does a typical 100-watt, 120-volt lamp produce?
Answer: 17.1 lumens per watt
Question: How does filament size relate to voltage level?
Answer: Lower voltage lamps have a thicker filament
Question: What is the effect of a thicker filament on bulb temperature?
Answer: They can run hotter for the same lifetime before the filament evaporates.
Question: How many lumens per watt does a typical train light produce?
Answer: as much as 19.8 lumens per watt
Question: What watt lamp can produce 17.3 lumens per watt?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does a filament size not relate to voltage level?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not effect of a thicker filament on bulb temperature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many lumens per watt does an atypical train light produce?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 255 B.C., Ariarathes III took the title of king and married Stratonice, a daughter of Antiochus II, remaining an ally of the Seleucid kingdom. Under Ariarathes IV, Cappadocia came into relations with Rome, first as a foe espousing the cause of Antiochus the Great, then as an ally against Perseus of Macedon and finally in a war against the Seleucids. Ariarathes V also waged war with Rome against Aristonicus, a claimant to the throne of Pergamon, and their forces were annihilated in 130 BCE. This defeat allowed Pontus to invade and conquer the kingdom.
Question: Who married Stratonice?
Answer: Ariarathes III
Question: When did Stratonice marry Ariarathes III?
Answer: 255 B.C.
Question: Who was Stratonice's father?
Answer: Antiochus II
Question: Cappadocia began it's realtionship with Rome under whom?
Answer: Ariarathes IV
Question: What year was Ariarathes V defeated?
Answer: 130 BCE |
Context: The etymology of the name Bern is uncertain. According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear. It has long been considered likely that the city was named after the Italian city of Verona, which at the time was known as Bern in Middle High German. As a result of the find of the Bern zinc tablet in the 1980s, it is now more common to assume that the city was named after a pre-existing toponym of Celtic origin, possibly *berna "cleft". The bear was the heraldic animal of the seal and coat of arms of Bern from at least the 1220s. The earliest reference to the keeping of live bears in the Bärengraben dates to the 1440s.
Question: What animal is on the seal and coat of arms of Bern?
Answer: bear
Question: What live animals did they keep in the Bärengraben?
Answer: bears
Question: What is the earliest that they kept live bears in the Bärengraben?
Answer: 1440s. |
Context: To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
Question: When did To Kill a Mockingbird first get circulated?
Answer: 1960
Question: What prize did To Kill a Mockingbird win?
Answer: Pulitzer Prize
Question: Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Harper Lee
Question: Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?
Answer: Harper Lee
Question: What year was To Kill a Mockingbird first published?
Answer: 1960
Question: Whom did Lee base the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird on?
Answer: her family and neighbors |
Context: One significant consequence of the tension arising between Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, was that Tito fought Yugoslav Stalinists with Stalin's methods. In other words, Aleksandar Ranković and the State Security Service (UBDA) employed the same inhumane methods against their opponents as Stalin did in the Soviet Union against his. Not every person accused of a political crime was convicted and nobody was sentenced to death for his or her pro-Soviet feelings. However this repression, which lasted until 1956, was marked by significant violations of human rights.
Question: Whose methods did Tito use to fight Yugoslav Stalinists?
Answer: Stalin
Question: Who used inhumane methods against oponents through the UBDA?
Answer: Ranković
Question: Until what year did the repression of the UBDA last?
Answer: 1956
Question: The work of the UBDA was due to tension between Yugoslavia and what country?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: What is another name for the UBDA?
Answer: State Security Service |
Context: Bodhi (Pāli and Sanskrit, in devanagari: बॊधि) is a term applied to the experience of Awakening of arahants. Bodhi literally means "awakening", but it is more commonly translated into English as "enlightenment". In Early Buddhism, bodhi carried a meaning synonymous to nirvana, using only some different metaphors to describe the experience, which implies the extinction of raga (greed, craving),[web 12] dosa (hate, aversion)[web 13] and moha (delusion).[web 14] In the later school of Mahayana Buddhism, the status of nirvana was downgraded in some scriptures, coming to refer only to the extinction of greed and hate, implying that delusion was still present in one who attained nirvana, and that one needed to attain bodhi to eradicate delusion:
Question: What is the term applied to the experience of the awakening of arahants?
Answer: Bodhi
Question: In early Buddhism Bodhi used a meaning synonymous to what word?
Answer: nirvana
Question: What is the term for greed or craving?
Answer: raga
Question: what is the word for hate or aversion?
Answer: dosa
Question: What does moha mean?
Answer: delusion |
Context: In the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kwajalein Atoll was the administrative center of the Japanese 6th Fleet Forces Service, whose task was the defense of the Marshall Islands.
Question: What Japanese fleet was based in the Marshall Islands?
Answer: 6th Fleet
Question: On what atoll was the 6th Fleet Forces Service based?
Answer: Kwajalein
Question: What was the mission of the 6th Fleet Forces Service?
Answer: defense of the Marshall Islands |
Context: Simultaneous videoconferencing among three or more remote points is possible by means of a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU). This is a bridge that interconnects calls from several sources (in a similar way to the audio conference call). All parties call the MCU, or the MCU can also call the parties which are going to participate, in sequence. There are MCU bridges for IP and ISDN-based videoconferencing. There are MCUs which are pure software, and others which are a combination of hardware and software. An MCU is characterised according to the number of simultaneous calls it can handle, its ability to conduct transposing of data rates and protocols, and features such as Continuous Presence, in which multiple parties can be seen on-screen at once. MCUs can be stand-alone hardware devices, or they can be embedded into dedicated videoconferencing units.
Question: What enables videoconferencing to connect three or more remote points?
Answer: Multipoint Control Unit (MCU)
Question: What is one type of MCU bridge?
Answer: IP
Question: In what way can an MCU be characterized?
Answer: the number of simultaneous calls it can handle
Question: What feature enables an MCU to allow for multiple parties to be seen on screen at the same time?
Answer: Continuous Presence
Question: Where can an MCU be embedded?
Answer: dedicated videoconferencing units
Question: What makes videoconferencing between Continuous Presence possible?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one thing that characterizes an ISDN?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What feature lets more than one person participate in sequence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are remote points made of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one type of simultaneous call that acts as a bridge?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Injective mappings must be provided between characters in existing legacy character sets and characters in Unicode to facilitate conversion to Unicode and allow interoperability with legacy software. Lack of consistency in various mappings between earlier Japanese encodings such as Shift-JIS or EUC-JP and Unicode led to round-trip format conversion mismatches, particularly the mapping of the character JIS X 0208 '～' (1-33, WAVE DASH), heavily used in legacy database data, to either U+FF5E ～ FULLWIDTH TILDE (in Microsoft Windows) or U+301C 〜 WAVE DASH (other vendors).
Question: What kind of mappings must be provided between characters in existing legacy character sets and those in Unicode?
Answer: Injective mappings
Question: A lack of consistency between what earlier Japanese encodings and unicode led to mismatches?
Answer: Shift-JIS or EUC-JP
Question: what is the fullwidth tilde character code in Microsoft Windows?
Answer: U+FF5E
Question: What helps to convert characters out of Unicode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: WAVE DASH is only found in what version of OS?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Windows code for EUC-JP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the names of the two forms of Unicode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a lack of consistency prevent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Baroque instruments included some instruments from the earlier periods (e.g., the hurdy-gurdy and recorder) and a number of new instruments (e.g, the cello, contrabass and fortepiano). Some instruments from previous eras fell into disuse, such as the shawm and the wooden cornet. The key Baroque instruments for strings included the violin, viol, viola, viola d'amore, cello, contrabass, lute, theorbo (which often played the basso continuo parts), mandolin, cittern, Baroque guitar, harp and hurdy-gurdy. Woodwinds included the Baroque flute, Baroque oboe, rackett, recorder and the bassoon. Brass instruments included the cornett, natural horn, Baroque trumpet, serpent and the trombone. Keyboard instruments included the clavichord, tangent piano, the fortepiano (an early version of the piano), the harpsichord and the pipe organ. Percussion instruments included the timpani, snare drum, tambourine and the castanets.
Question: The cello, contrabrass and fortepiano were new instruments during what period?
Answer: Baroque
Question: What happened to the shawn and the wooden cornet during the Baroque period?
Answer: fell into disuse
Question: The timpani ans castanets are what type of instrument?
Answer: Percussion
Question: The serpent is what type of instrument?
Answer: Brass
Question: Which string instrument often played the basso continuo parts?
Answer: theorbo |
Context: East 2nd Street begins just North of East Houston Street at Avenue C and also continues to Bowery. The East end of East 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th Streets is Avenue D, with East 6th Street continuing further Eastward and connecting to FDR Drive.
Question: East 6th Street continues further Eastward and connects to which Drive?
Answer: FDR
Question: Where is the East end of East 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th Streets?
Answer: Avenue D
Question: Which Avenue is the starting location for East 2nd Street?
Answer: C
Question: Which street begins just North of East Huston Street and continues to Bowery?
Answer: East 2nd Street |
Context: The city is also well provided for in amateur men's and women's rugby with a number of teams in and around the city, the oldest of which is Trojans RFC who were promoted to London South West 2 division in 2008/9. A notable former player is Anthony Allen, who played with Leicester Tigers as a centre. Tottonians are also in London South West division 2 and Southampton RFC are in Hampshire division 1 in 2009/10, alongside Millbrook RFC and Eastleigh RFC. Many of the sides run mini and midi teams from under sevens up to under sixteens for both boys and girls.
Question: What's the oldest rugby team in Southampton?
Answer: Trojans RFC
Question: What division was Trojans RFC promoted to in 2008-9?
Answer: London South West 2
Question: What famous player from Trojans RFC also played for the Leicester Tigers?
Answer: Anthony Allen
Question: What position did Allen play for the Leicester Tigers?
Answer: centre
Question: What division do the Tottonians belong to?
Answer: London South West division 2 |
Context: Groove recordings, first designed in the final quarter of the 19th century, held a predominant position for nearly a century—withstanding competition from reel-to-reel tape, the 8-track cartridge, and the compact cassette. In 1988, the compact disc surpassed the gramophone record in unit sales. Vinyl records experienced a sudden decline in popularity between 1988 and 1991, when the major label distributors restricted their return policies, which retailers had been relying on to maintain and swap out stocks of relatively unpopular titles. First the distributors began charging retailers more for new product if they returned unsold vinyl, and then they stopped providing any credit at all for returns. Retailers, fearing they would be stuck with anything they ordered, only ordered proven, popular titles that they knew would sell, and devoted more shelf space to CDs and cassettes. Record companies also deleted many vinyl titles from production and distribution, further undermining the availability of the format and leading to the closure of pressing plants. This rapid decline in the availability of records accelerated the format's decline in popularity, and is seen by some as a deliberate ploy to make consumers switch to CDs, which were more profitable for the record companies.
Question: What was a major cause of declined vinyl sales?
Answer: major label distributors restricted their return policies
Question: Which allows for more profits, vinyl or compact discs?
Answer: CDs, which were more profitable for the record companies
Question: When did vinyl record sales decline?
Answer: between 1988 and 1991
Question: When did compact disc popularity take hold?
Answer: 1988
Question: When were groove recordings developed?
Answer: final quarter of the 19th century, |
Context: The language has numerous regional dialects which are generally not mutually intelligible. It is employed throughout the Tibetan plateau and Bhutan and is also spoken in parts of Nepal and northern India, such as Sikkim. In general, the dialects of central Tibet (including Lhasa), Kham, Amdo and some smaller nearby areas are considered Tibetan dialects. Other forms, particularly Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Sherpa, and Ladakhi, are considered by their speakers, largely for political reasons, to be separate languages. However, if the latter group of Tibetan-type languages are included in the calculation, then 'greater Tibetan' is spoken by approximately 6 million people across the Tibetan Plateau. Tibetan is also spoken by approximately 150,000 exile speakers who have fled from modern-day Tibet to India and other countries.
Question: How many people across the Tibetan Plateau speak 'greater Tibetan'?
Answer: approximately 6 million
Question: How many people who have fled modern-day Tibet are considered to be exile speakers of Tibetan?
Answer: approximately 150,000
Question: Why are Dzongkha, Sikkimese, Sherpa, and Ladakhi considered to be separate languages?
Answer: political reasons
Question: Where have 6 million exiles fled to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is spoken by 156,000 people?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of dialects are Dzongkha and Sherpa considered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What reason do the speakers of Kham consider their language to be separate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Quine-Duhem thesis argues that it's impossible to test a single hypothesis on its own, since each one comes as part of an environment of theories. Thus we can only say that the whole package of relevant theories has been collectively falsified, but cannot conclusively say which element of the package must be replaced. An example of this is given by the discovery of the planet Neptune: when the motion of Uranus was found not to match the predictions of Newton's laws, the theory "There are seven planets in the solar system" was rejected, and not Newton's laws themselves. Popper discussed this critique of naïve falsificationism in Chapters 3 and 4 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery. For Popper, theories are accepted or rejected via a sort of selection process. Theories that say more about the way things appear are to be preferred over those that do not; the more generally applicable a theory is, the greater its value. Thus Newton's laws, with their wide general application, are to be preferred over the much more specific "the solar system has seven planets".[dubious – discuss]
Question: What thesis says a scientific hypothesis is not testable in isolation from its system of theories?
Answer: Quine-Duhem
Question: Which of Popper's works responds to critiques of naive falsificationism?
Answer: The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Question: The planet Uranus' apparent failure to follow Newton's laws led to the discovery of which planet?
Answer: Neptune
Question: According to Popper, the scientific selection process favors which type of theory?
Answer: more generally applicable
Question: What thesis says it is possible to test a single hypothesis alone?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can we conclusively say must be replaced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the theory that there are eight planets in the solar system rejected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Popper discuss in chapters 5 and 6 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are Newton's laws not preferred over the other theory?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Bronx is home to several Off-Off-Broadway theaters, many staging new works by immigrant playwrights from Latin America and Africa. The Pregones Theater, which produces Latin American work, opened a new 130-seat theater in 2005 on Walton Avenue in the South Bronx. Some artists from elsewhere in New York City have begun to converge on the area, and housing prices have nearly quadrupled in the area since 2002. However rising prices directly correlate to a housing shortage across the city and the entire metro area.
Question: Where are many of the Bronx's playwrights from?
Answer: Latin America and Africa
Question: How many seats does the Pregones' new theater have?
Answer: 130
Question: What does the Pregones specialize in?
Answer: Latin American work
Question: When did the Pregones' new theater open?
Answer: 2005
Question: Where is the Pregones' new theater?
Answer: on Walton Avenue in the South Bronx |
Context: Critics such as economist Paul Krugman and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have argued that the regulatory framework did not keep pace with financial innovation, such as the increasing importance of the shadow banking system, derivatives and off-balance sheet financing. A recent OECD study suggest that bank regulation based on the Basel accords encourage unconventional business practices and contributed to or even reinforced the financial crisis. In other cases, laws were changed or enforcement weakened in parts of the financial system. Key examples include:
Question: What economist believed that regulations did not keep up with financial innovation?
Answer: Paul Krugman
Question: Who was the U.S. Treasury Secretary dealing with the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007?
Answer: Timothy Geithner
Question: Which group's study suggested that Basel accords encourage unconventional business practices?
Answer: OECD
Question: It has been argued that what did not keep up with financial innovation?
Answer: regulatory framework
Question: What accords possibly contributed to or reinforced the financial crisis?
Answer: Basel |
Context: The above explanation is merely a simple introduction to vacuum pumping, and is not representative of the entire range of pumps in use. Many variations of the positive displacement pump have been developed, and many other pump designs rely on fundamentally different principles. Momentum transfer pumps, which bear some similarities to dynamic pumps used at higher pressures, can achieve much higher quality vacuums than positive displacement pumps. Entrapment pumps can capture gases in a solid or absorbed state, often with no moving parts, no seals and no vibration. None of these pumps are universal; each type has important performance limitations. They all share a difficulty in pumping low molecular weight gases, especially hydrogen, helium, and neon.
Question: What pump can capture gases in a solid or absorbed state?
Answer: Entrapment pumps
Question: Entrapment pumps often work without seals, moving parts and what else?
Answer: no vibration.
Question: What pump has a higher quality vacuum than a positive displacement pump?
Answer: Momentum transfer pumps
Question: What can positive displacement pumps achieve more than entrapment pumps?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can momentum transfer pumps capture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Dynamic pumps often work without moving parts, seals and what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are entrapment pumps usually considered above all of the others?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other pump do entrapment pumps have similarities to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the sync field, all packets are made of 8-bit bytes, transmitted least-significant bit first. The first byte is a packet identifier (PID) byte. The PID is actually 4 bits; the byte consists of the 4-bit PID followed by its bitwise complement. This redundancy helps detect errors. (Note also that a PID byte contains at most four consecutive 1 bits, and thus never needs bit-stuffing, even when combined with the final 1 bit in the sync byte. However, trailing 1 bits in the PID may require bit-stuffing within the first few bits of the payload.)
Question: After the sync field, all packets are made of how many bit bytes?
Answer: 8-bit bytes
Question: How are the bit bytes transmitted?
Answer: least-significant bit first
Question: The first byte is what?
Answer: a packet identifier (PID) byte |
Context: During the 19th century, Paris was the home and subject for some of France's greatest writers, including Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Mérimée, Alfred de Musset, Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant and Honoré de Balzac. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame inspired the renovation of its setting, the Notre-Dame de Paris. Another of Victor Hugo's works, Les Misérables, written while he was in exile outside France during the Second Empire, described the social change and political turmoil in Paris in the early 1830s. One of the most popular of all French writers, Jules Verne, worked at the Theatre Lyrique and the Paris stock exchange, while he did research for his stories at the National Library.
Question: What book inspired the renovation of Notre Dame?
Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Question: Who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Answer: Victor Hugo
Question: During what period of time was Victor Hugo exiled from France?
Answer: Second Empire
Question: Where did Jules Verne work during the day?
Answer: Theatre Lyrique and the Paris stock exchange
Question: Where did Jules Verne do research for his stories?
Answer: National Library |
Context: International-level sportspeople from Hyderabad include: cricketers Ghulam Ahmed, M. L. Jaisimha, Mohammed Azharuddin, V. V. S. Laxman, Venkatapathy Raju, Shivlal Yadav, Arshad Ayub, Syed Abid Ali and Noel David; football players Syed Abdul Rahim, Syed Nayeemuddin and Shabbir Ali; tennis player Sania Mirza; badminton players S. M. Arif, Pullela Gopichand, Saina Nehwal, P. V. Sindhu, Jwala Gutta and Chetan Anand; hockey players Syed Mohammad Hadi and Mukesh Kumar; rifle shooters Gagan Narang and Asher Noria and bodybuilder Mir Mohtesham Ali Khan.
Question: Ghulam Ahmed and Shivlal Yadav are what kind of sportsmen?
Answer: cricketers
Question: What sport does Sania Mirza play?
Answer: tennis
Question: Gagan Narang does what sporting activity?
Answer: rifle shooters
Question: Who is a notable bodybuilder from Hyderabad?
Answer: Mir Mohtesham Ali Khan
Question: Pullela Gopichand and Saina Nehwal are known in Hyderabad for being what?
Answer: badminton players |
Context: About 1150 species of fungi have been recorded from Antarctica, of which about 750 are non-lichen-forming and 400 are lichen-forming. Some of these species are cryptoendoliths as a result of evolution under extreme conditions, and have significantly contributed to shaping the impressive rock formations of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and surrounding mountain ridges. The apparently simple morphology, scarcely differentiated structures, metabolic systems and enzymes still active at very low temperatures, and reduced life cycles shown by such fungi make them particularly suited to harsh environments such as the McMurdo Dry Valleys. In particular, their thick-walled and strongly melanized cells make them resistant to UV light. Those features can also be observed in algae and cyanobacteria, suggesting that these are adaptations to the conditions prevailing in Antarctica. This has led to speculation that, if life ever occurred on Mars, it might have looked similar to Antarctic fungi such as Cryomyces minteri. Some of these fungi are also apparently endemic to Antarctica. Endemic Antarctic fungi also include certain dung-inhabiting species which have had to evolve in response to the double challenge of extreme cold while growing on dung, and the need to survive passage through the gut of warm-blooded animals.
Question: How many species of fungi have been found on Antarctica?
Answer: 1150
Question: How many of the extant fungi in Antarctica are lichen-forming?
Answer: 400
Question: What type of fungi help shape rock formations in Antarctica?
Answer: cryptoendoliths
Question: What has the study of fungi in Antarctica shown about these organisms?
Answer: adaptations
Question: How is it postulated that Mars life might have evolved?
Answer: similar to Antarctic
Question: How many species of fungi are there at the South Pole?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are there 400 non-lichen forming fungi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are there 750 lichen-forming fungi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of fungi help break down rock in Antarctica?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were 750 lichen-forming fungi found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were 400 non-lichen-forming fungi found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has significantly contributed to shaping the Dry McMurdo Valleys?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of environment is the Dr McMurdo Valleys?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the Revolution of 1979, as the new government imposed new laws and standards, a new age in Iranian cinema emerged, starting with Viva... by Khosrow Sinai and followed by many other directors, such as Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi. Kiarostami, an admired Iranian director, planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or for Taste of Cherry in 1997. The continuous presence of Iranian films in prestigious international festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival, attracted world attention to Iranian masterpieces. In 2006, six Iranian films, of six different styles, represented Iranian cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival. Critics considered this a remarkable event in the history of Iranian cinema.
Question: Which director led off a new age of Iranian film after the 1979 Revolution?
Answer: Khosrow Sinai
Question: What was the name of Sinai's film that ushered in Iran's new era of film after the 1979 Revolution?
Answer: Viva...
Question: Which Iranian director won the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1997?
Answer: Abbas Kiarostami
Question: What was the name of Kiarostami's film which won the Palm d'Or at Cannes in 1997?
Answer: Taste of Cherry
Question: What year did 6 different Iranian films of six different styles represent at the Berlin International Film Festival?
Answer: 2006 |
Context: Newly electrified lines often show a "sparks effect", whereby electrification in passenger rail systems leads to significant jumps in patronage / revenue. The reasons may include electric trains being seen as more modern and attractive to ride, faster and smoother service, and the fact that electrification often goes hand in hand with a general infrastructure and rolling stock overhaul / replacement, which leads to better service quality (in a way that theoretically could also be achieved by doing similar upgrades yet without electrification). Whatever the causes of the sparks effect, it is well established for numerous routes that have electrified over decades.
Question: What can be seen in the newly electrified lines?
Answer: "sparks effect"
Question: What can electrification of modern trains effect?
Answer: patronage / revenue
Question: How can better service quality be achieved?
Answer: rolling stock overhaul / replacement
Question: Electrification in passenger rail systems leads to insignificant jumps in what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What leads to decreasing service quality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A "sparks effect" is often seen on old lines which are what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Electric trains are often seen as less modern and what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is well established for routes that have been electrified for days?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Wood has been an important construction material since humans began building shelters, houses and boats. Nearly all boats were made out of wood until the late 19th century, and wood remains in common use today in boat construction. Elm in particular was used for this purpose as it resisted decay as long as it was kept wet (it also served for water pipe before the advent of more modern plumbing).
Question: What wood is decay-resistant when wet?
Answer: Elm
Question: What plumbing component was once made out of elm?
Answer: water pipe
Question: Until the late 19th century, what vessels were almost always wooden?
Answer: boats
Question: What significant purpose has wood been used for as long as humans have built shelters?
Answer: construction material
Question: Other than boats, what do people often build with wood?
Answer: houses |
Context: There is no clear mechanism by which these local trade organisations became today's Masonic Lodges, but the earliest rituals and passwords known, from operative lodges around the turn of the 17th–18th centuries, show continuity with the rituals developed in the later 18th century by accepted or speculative Masons, as those members who did not practice the physical craft came to be known. The minutes of the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1 in Scotland show a continuity from an operative lodge in 1598 to a modern speculative Lodge. It is reputed to be the oldest Masonic Lodge in the world.
Question: From what centuries are the earliest passwords and rituals of Freemasonry known?
Answer: 17th–18th
Question: What is the oldest Masonic lodge in the world?
Answer: Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1 in Scotland
Question: What were members who did not practice the physical craft known as?
Answer: accepted or speculative Masons
Question: When compared, how similar are the rituals and passwords from the turn of the 17 - 18 centuries to the ones from the later 18th century?
Answer: show continuity
Question: What is the oldest Masonic Lodge in the world?
Answer: the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1
Question: When was the Lodge of Edinburgh started?
Answer: 1598
Question: When did rituals become similar between different Masonic Lodges?
Answer: in the later 18th century
Question: What century is the only one with passwords and rituals of Freemasonry known?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only Masonic lodge in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were members who practiced the magical craft known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Lodge of Edinburgh abandoned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did rituals become identical between different Masonic Lodges?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By September 2008, average U.S. housing prices had declined by over 20% from their mid-2006 peak. As prices declined, borrowers with adjustable-rate mortgages could not refinance to avoid the higher payments associated with rising interest rates and began to default. During 2007, lenders began foreclosure proceedings on nearly 1.3 million properties, a 79% increase over 2006. This increased to 2.3 million in 2008, an 81% increase vs. 2007. By August 2008, 9.2% of all U.S. mortgages outstanding were either delinquent or in foreclosure. By September 2009, this had risen to 14.4%.
Question: How much had average U.S. housing prices declined by September 2008?
Answer: over 20%
Question: When was the peak of U.S. housing prices?
Answer: mid-2006
Question: How many foreclosure proceedings were initiated by lenders in 2007?
Answer: nearly 1.3 million
Question: What was the percentage increase on foreclosure proceedings from 2007 to 2008?
Answer: 81%
Question: How many U.S. mortgages were either delinquent or in foreclosure by September 2009?
Answer: 14.4% |
Context: From the 1950s on, many areas of the Great Plains have become productive crop-growing areas because of extensive irrigation on large landholdings. The United States is a major exporter of agricultural products. The southern portion of the Great Plains lies over the Ogallala Aquifer, a huge underground layer of water-bearing strata dating from the last ice age. Center pivot irrigation is used extensively in drier sections of the Great Plains, resulting in aquifer depletion at a rate that is greater than the ground's ability to recharge.
Question: around when did the great plains become productive for crop growing
Answer: 1950s
Question: what is the large underground layer of water in the great plains called?
Answer: Ogallala Aquifer
Question: what type of irrigation is used in the great plains?
Answer: Center pivot irrigation
Question: When was the last ice age?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what decade did center pivot irrigation get invented?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what decade did aquafier depletion begin to outpace the ground's ability to recharge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what country was center pivot irrigation invented?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Traditionally, the flowering plants are divided into two groups, which in the Cronquist system are called Magnoliopsida (at the rank of class, formed from the family name Magnoliaceae) and Liliopsida (at the rank of class, formed from the family name Liliaceae). Other descriptive names allowed by Article 16 of the ICBN include Dicotyledones or Dicotyledoneae, and Monocotyledones or Monocotyledoneae, which have a long history of use. In English a member of either group may be called a dicotyledon (plural dicotyledons) and monocotyledon (plural monocotyledons), or abbreviated, as dicot (plural dicots) and monocot (plural monocots). These names derive from the observation that the dicots most often have two cotyledons, or embryonic leaves, within each seed. The monocots usually have only one, but the rule is not absolute either way. From a diagnostic point of view, the number of cotyledons is neither a particularly handy nor a reliable character.
Question: What do monocots usually have two of within each seed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: According to the Cronquist system how is the number of cotyledons viewed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other descriptive names are allowed by the English system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many groups are flowering plants divided into in the English system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one group that is used under the English system?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: To the west, settlements in the Zagros basin experience lower temperatures, severe winters with below zero average daily temperatures and heavy snowfall. The eastern and central basins are arid, with less than 200 mm (7.9 in) of rain, and have occasional deserts. Average summer temperatures rarely exceed 38 °C (100.4 °F). The coastal plains of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman in southern Iran have mild winters, and very humid and hot summers. The annual precipitation ranges from 135 to 355 mm (5.3 to 14.0 in).
Question: In Iran's western Zagros Basin, what are the average daily temperatures during winter?
Answer: below zero
Question: In Iran's western Zagros Basin, temperatures do not exceed what level during the summer?
Answer: 38 °C (100.4 °F)
Question: The eastern and central basins of Iran experience how much annual precipitation?
Answer: less than 200 mm (7.9 in) of rain
Question: What is the coastal plains of Iran's annual precipitation ranges?
Answer: 135 to 355 mm (5.3 to 14.0 in) |
Context: As many pubs are centuries old, many of their early customers were unable to read, and pictorial signs could be readily recognised when lettering and words could not be read.
Question: What type of pub signs were useful to an illiterate clientele?
Answer: pictorial signs |
Context: Treaties are not necessarily permanently binding upon the signatory parties. As obligations in international law are traditionally viewed as arising only from the consent of states, many treaties expressly allow a state to withdraw as long as it follows certain procedures of notification. For example, the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs provides that the treaty will terminate if, as a result of denunciations, the number of parties falls below 40. Many treaties expressly forbid withdrawal. Article 56 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provides that where a treaty is silent over whether or not it can be denounced there is a rebuttable presumption that it cannot be unilaterally denounced unless:
Question: Traditionally, what must a state do in order for an obligation to arise in international law?
Answer: consent
Question: What is the only barrier to withdrawal contained in many treaties?
Answer: procedures of notification
Question: Are treaties permanently binding upon the signatory parties?
Answer: not necessarily
Question: What treaty will terminate if the number of parties falls below 40 as a result of denunciations?
Answer: the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
Question: Which article of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provides that there is a presumption that treaties cannot be unilaterally denounced?
Answer: Article 56 |
Context: Madonna's use of sexual imagery has benefited her career and catalyzed public discourse on sexuality and feminism. As Roger Chapman documents in Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices, Volume 1 (2010), she has drawn frequent condemnation from religious organizations, social conservatives and parental watchdog groups for her use of explicit, sexual imagery and lyrics, religious symbolism, and otherwise "irreverent" behavior in her live performances. The Times wrote that she had "started a revolution amongst women in music ... Her attitudes and opinions on sex, nudity, style and sexuality forced the public to sit up and take notice." Professor John Fiske noted that the sense of empowerment that Madonna offers is inextricably connected with the pleasure of exerting some control over the meanings of self, of sexuality, and of one's social relations. In Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture (2009), the authors noted that Madonna, as a female celebrity, performer, and pop icon, is able to unsettle standing feminist reflections and debates. According to lesbian feminist Sheila Jeffreys, Madonna represents woman's occupancy of what Monique Wittig calls the category of sex, as powerful, and appears to gleefully embrace the performance of the sexual corvée allotted to women. Professor Sut Jhally has referred to Madonna as "an almost sacred feminist icon."
Question: Madonna used what to benefit her career?
Answer: sexual imagery
Question: Who started a revolution in music with women?
Answer: Madonna
Question: Who wrote that Madonna is an almost scared feminist icon?
Answer: Professor Sut Jhally
Question: Who is regarded as a feminist during her time?
Answer: Madonna |
Context: Mexico city primarily rests on what was Lake Texcoco. Seismic activity is frequent here. Lake Texcoco was drained starting from the 17th century. Although none of the lake waters remain, the city rests on the lake bed's heavily saturated clay. This soft base is collapsing due to the over-extraction of groundwater, called groundwater-related subsidence. Since the beginning of the 20th century the city has sunk as much as nine metres (30 feet) in some areas. This sinking is causing problems with runoff and wastewater management, leading to flooding problems, especially during the rainy season. The entire lake bed is now paved over and most of the city's remaining forested areas lie in the southern boroughs of Milpa Alta, Tlalpan and Xochimilco.
Question: When did draining of Lake Texcoco begin?
Answer: 17th century
Question: How much water is there, approximately, in the lake Mexico City is on?
Answer: none
Question: How much has the city fallen?
Answer: as much as nine metres (30 feet)
Question: What does Mexico City rest on?
Answer: Lake Texcoco
Question: Where are most of the trees located in Mexico City?
Answer: southern boroughs |
Context: The band had a number of bass players during this period who did not fit with the band's chemistry. It was not until February 1971 that they settled on John Deacon and began to rehearse for their first album. They recorded four of their own songs, "Liar", "Keep Yourself Alive", "The Night Comes Down" and "Jesus", for a demo tape; no record companies were interested. It was also around this time Freddie changed his surname to "Mercury", inspired by the line "Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me" in the song "My Fairy King". On 2 July 1971, Queen played their first show in the classic line-up of Mercury, May, Taylor and Deacon at a Surrey college outside London.
Question: John Deacon played what instrument?
Answer: bass
Question: In what year did John Deacon join Queen?
Answer: 1971
Question: What did Freddie from Queen change his last name to?
Answer: Mercury
Question: What song inspired Freddie from Queen's surname?
Answer: My Fairy King
Question: On what date did Queen play their first show?
Answer: 2 July 1971 |
Context: The Federal Council constitutes the federal government, directs the federal administration and serves as collective Head of State. It is a collegial body of seven members, elected for a four-year mandate by the Federal Assembly which also exercises oversight over the Council. The President of the Confederation is elected by the Assembly from among the seven members, traditionally in rotation and for a one-year term; the President chairs the government and assumes representative functions. However, the president is a primus inter pares with no additional powers, and remains the head of a department within the administration.
Question: What serves as the collective Head of State?
Answer: The Federal Council
Question: How many members are in the Federal Council?
Answer: seven
Question: Who elects the members of the Federal Council?
Answer: Federal Assembly
Question: What is the traditional term for the President of the Confederation?
Answer: one-year
Question: Who elects the President of the Confederation from its 7 members?
Answer: the Assembly |
Context: Of the 80 torch-bearers in London, Sir Steve Redgrave, who started the relay, mentioned to the media that he had received e-mailed pleas to boycott the event and could "see why they would like to make an issue" of it. Francesca Martinez and Richard Vaughan refused to carry the torch, while Konnie Huq decided to carry it and also speak out against China. The pro-Tibetan Member of Parliament Norman Baker asked all bearers to reconsider. Amid pressure from both directions, Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed the torch outside 10 Downing Street without holding or touching it. The London relay saw the torch surrounded by what the BBC described as "a mobile protective ring." Protests began as soon as Redgrave started the event, leading to at least thirty-five arrests. In Ladbroke Grove a demonstrator attempted to snatch the torch from Konnie Huq in a momentary struggle, and in a separate incident, a fire extinguisher was set off near the torch. The Chinese ambassador carried the torch through Chinatown after an unpublicized change to the route amid security concerns. The torch made an unscheduled move onto a bus along Fleet Street amid security concerns and efforts to evade the protesters. In an effort to counter the pro-Tibet protesters and show their support for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, more than 2,000 Chinese also gathered on the torch route and demonstrated with signs, banners and Chinese flags. A large number of supporters were concentrated in Trafalgar Square, displaying the Olympic slogan "One World, One Dream".
Question: How many torchbearers took part in the London route?
Answer: 80
Question: Who was the first person to hold the torch for the London route?
Answer: Sir Steve Redgrave
Question: Along with Francesca Martinez, who decided to not carry the torch?
Answer: Richard Vaughan
Question: Who was outside at 10 Downing Street to welcome the torch without actually touching it?
Answer: Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Question: Who got emails asking him to boycott the torch relay?
Answer: Sir Steve Redgrave
Question: How many people carried the torch in England for the 2008 Olympics?
Answer: 80
Question: What two people in England declined to bear the torch?
Answer: Francesca Martinez and Richard Vaughan
Question: Where did Gordon Brown welcome the torch?
Answer: 10 Downing Street
Question: Where was an attempt made to take the torch?
Answer: Ladbroke Grove |
Context: National Basketball Association teams play eight preseason games per year. Today, NBA teams almost always play each other in the preseason, but mainly at neutral sites within their market areas in order to allow those who can't usually make a trip to a home team's arena during the regular season to see a game close to home; for instance the Minnesota Timberwolves will play games in arenas in North Dakota and South Dakota, while the Phoenix Suns schedule one exhibition game outdoors at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California yearly, the only such instance an NBA game takes place in an outdoor venue.
Question: How many preseason games do NBA teams play?
Answer: eight
Question: Where are the TImberwolves based?
Answer: Minnesota
Question: Where are the Suns based?
Answer: Phoenix
Question: The Suns' exhibition game in Indian Wells, CA is the only time an NBA game is played in what setting?
Answer: an outdoor venue
Question: What venue do the Suns play at in Indian Wells?
Answer: Indian Wells Tennis Garden
Question: What basketball Association placed eight postseason games
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who almost always plays each other in the postseason?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What lead has teams play each other outside of their market areas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only NBA game that's played in an indoor venue?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In January 1957, the US adopted the Eisenhower Doctrine and pledged to prevent the spread of communism and its perceived agents in the Middle East. Although Nasser was an opponent of communism in the region, his promotion of pan-Arabism was viewed as a threat by pro-Western states in the region. Eisenhower tried to isolate Nasser and reduce his regional influence by attempting to transform King Saud into a counterweight. Also in January, the elected Jordanian prime minister and Nasser supporter Sulayman al-Nabulsi brought Jordan into a military pact with Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Question: What was the policy meant to contain communism in the middle east?
Answer: Eisenhower Doctrine
Question: When was the Eisenhower Doctrine adopted?
Answer: 1957
Question: What leader did the US prop up to foil Nasser?
Answer: King Saud
Question: What country joined an alliance with Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia?
Answer: Jordan
Question: Although not communist, what about Nasser concerned pro-western groups?
Answer: pan-Arabism |
Context: A move to "permanent daylight saving time" (staying on summer hours all year with no time shifts) is sometimes advocated, and has in fact been implemented in some jurisdictions such as Argentina, Chile, Iceland, Singapore, Uzbekistan and Belarus. Advocates cite the same advantages as normal DST without the problems associated with the twice yearly time shifts. However, many remain unconvinced of the benefits, citing the same problems and the relatively late sunrises, particularly in winter, that year-round DST entails. Russia switched to permanent DST from 2011 to 2014, but the move proved unpopular because of the late sunrises in winter, so the country switched permanently back to "standard" or "winter" time in 2014.
Question: What phrase describes keeping adjusted summer hours year-round?
Answer: permanent daylight saving time
Question: Proponents of permanent DST say it has all the advantages of regular DST without the issues some people have from what bi-annual occurrences?
Answer: time shifts
Question: In year-round DST, would sunrise happen early or late compared to most places?
Answer: late
Question: During what time period did Russia use permanent DST?
Answer: 2011 to 2014
Question: In what season in areas observing permanent daylight saving time will it stay dark the latest in the morning?
Answer: winter |
Context: The city's growing Latino population has given rise to a number of local and regional Spanish-language newspapers. These include El Planeta (owned by the former publisher of The Boston Phoenix), El Mundo, and La Semana. Siglo21, with its main offices in nearby Lawrence, is also widely distributed.
Question: Where is the main office of Siglo21?
Answer: Lawrence
Question: The former publisher of the Boston phoenix owns what Spanish newspaper?
Answer: El Planeta |
Context: Portugal (Portuguese: [puɾtuˈɣaɫ]), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa), is a country on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe, being bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Portugal–Spain border is 1,214 km (754 mi) long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union. The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.
Question: What ocean does Portugal border?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: What other country does Portugal border?
Answer: Spain
Question: What is the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union?
Answer: Portugal–Spain
Question: Where is Portugal located?
Answer: Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe
Question: How long is the Portugal-Spain border?
Answer: 1,214 km (754 mi)
Question: What two autonomous regions have their own governments in Portugal?
Answer: Azores and Madeira |
Context: More detail was given in Darwin's 1868 book on The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, which tried to explain heredity through his hypothesis of pangenesis. Although Darwin had privately questioned blending inheritance, he struggled with the theoretical difficulty that novel individual variations would tend to blend into a population. However, inherited variation could be seen, and Darwin's concept of selection working on a population with a range of small variations was workable. It was not until the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s that a model of heredity became completely integrated with a model of variation. This modern evolutionary synthesis had been dubbed Neo Darwinian Evolution because it encompasses Charles Darwin's theories of evolution with Gregor Mendel's theories of genetic inheritance.
Question: When was The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin published?
Answer: 1868
Question: What was the hypothesis that attempted to explain heredity?
Answer: hypothesis of pangenesis.
Question: While Darwin wasn't sure about blending inherited traits, what was his opinion about utilizing inherited variation?
Answer: Darwin's concept of selection working on a population with a range of small variations was workable
Question: When did a model of heredity begin to be integrated with that of variation?
Answer: in the 1930s and 1940s
Question: What was the modern evolutionary synthesis named?
Answer: Neo Darwinian Evolution |
Context: Alexander faced pressure from his brother, Duke Constantine, to make peace with Napoleon. Given the victory he had just achieved, the French emperor offered the Russians relatively lenient terms–demanding that Russia join the Continental System, withdraw its forces from Wallachia and Moldavia, and hand over the Ionian Islands to France. By contrast, Napoleon dictated very harsh peace terms for Prussia, despite the ceaseless exhortations of Queen Louise. Wiping out half of Prussian territories from the map, Napoleon created a new kingdom of 1,100 square miles called Westphalia. He then appointed his young brother Jérôme as the new monarch of this kingdom. Prussia's humiliating treatment at Tilsit caused a deep and bitter antagonism which festered as the Napoleonic era progressed. Moreover, Alexander's pretensions at friendship with Napoleon led the latter to seriously misjudge the true intentions of his Russian counterpart, who would violate numerous provisions of the treaty in the next few years. Despite these problems, the Treaties of Tilsit at last gave Napoleon a respite from war and allowed him to return to France, which he had not seen in over 300 days.
Question: What is the name of the Duke who pressured Alexander to make peace with Napoleon?
Answer: Constantine
Question: Which ocean territories did Napoleon demand Russia cede to France as part of the terms for peace?
Answer: the Ionian Islands
Question: What was the name of the new kingdom Napoleon created from Prussian territories?
Answer: Westphalia
Question: What was the name of the younger brother who Napoleon appointed as the ruler of Westphalia?
Answer: Jérôme
Question: What was the name of the series of agreements that ended war for a time and allowed Napoleon to return to France?
Answer: the Treaties of Tilsit |
Context: At the very end of the 19th century, a new style, with a carved top and back construction inspired by violin family instruments began to supplant the European-style bowl-back instruments in the United States. This new style is credited to mandolins designed and built by Orville Gibson, a Kalamazoo, Michigan luthier who founded the "Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Limited" in 1902. Gibson mandolins evolved into two basic styles: the Florentine or F-style, which has a decorative scroll near the neck, two points on the lower body and usually a scroll carved into the headstock; and the A-style, which is pear shaped, has no points and usually has a simpler headstock.
Question: When was a new sytle of carved top and back construction mandolins created?
Answer: end of the 19th century
Question: What was the new sytle of mandolins inspired from?
Answer: violin family instruments
Question: What sytle did the new style of mandolins supplant?
Answer: European-style bowl-back
Question: Who founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co, Limited?
Answer: Orville Gibson
Question: When was a old style of carved top and back construction mandolins created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the old style of mandolins inspired from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What style did the old style of mandolins supplant?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who founded the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co, Unlimited?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Public demand caused the government in October 1940 to build new deep shelters:189–190 within the Underground to hold 80,000 people but were not completed until the period of heaviest bombing had passed. By the end of 1940 significant improvements had been made in the Underground and in many other large shelters. Authorities provided stoves and bathrooms and canteen trains provided food. Tickets were issued for bunks in large shelters to reduce the amount of time spent queuing. Committees quickly formed within shelters as informal governments, and organisations such as the British Red Cross and the Salvation Army worked to improve conditions. Entertainment included concerts, films, plays and books from local libraries.
Question: What year did the government start to build new deep shelters?
Answer: 1940
Question: How many people were the new shelters going to hold?
Answer: 80,000
Question: What helped cut down time standing in the queue for shelters?
Answer: Tickets
Question: Which two groups help improve life in the shelters?
Answer: British Red Cross and the Salvation Army
Question: What kind of trains provided food in the shelters?
Answer: canteen |
Context: New Delhi is home to several historic sites and museums. The National Museum which began with an exhibition of Indian art and artefacts at the Royal Academy in London in the winter of 1947–48 was later at the end was shown at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in 1949. Later it was to form a permanent National Museum. On 15 August 1949, the National Museum was formally inaugurated and currently has 200,000 works of art, both of Indian and foreign origin, covering over 5,000 years.
Question: On what date was the National Museum formally inaugurated?
Answer: 15 August 1949
Question: How many works of art currently reside in the National Museum?
Answer: 200,000
Question: What length of time do the 200,000 works of art in the National Museum encompass?
Answer: 5,000 years
Question: The National Museum began in 1947 with a display of what type of art?
Answer: Indian art
Question: In the winter of 1947, the National Museum started with a display of Indian art in what location?
Answer: Royal Academy in London |
Context: On 20 April 1992, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was held at London's Wembley Stadium to a 72,000-strong crowd. Performers, including Def Leppard, Robert Plant, Guns N' Roses, Elton John, David Bowie, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Seal, Extreme, and Metallica performed various Queen songs along with the three remaining Queen members (and Spike Edney.) The concert is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as "The largest rock star benefit concert", as it was televised to over 1.2 billion viewers worldwide, and raised over £20,000,000 for AIDS charities.
Question: When was the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held?
Answer: 20 April 1992
Question: Where was the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held?
Answer: London's Wembley Stadium
Question: How many people attended the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert?
Answer: 72,000
Question: Which band was he largest benefit concert in history about?
Answer: Queen
Question: How many viewers did the largest rock star benefit concert attract?
Answer: 1.2 billion viewers worldwide |
Context: Greeks from Cyprus have a similar history of emigration, usually to the English-speaking world because of the island's colonization by the British Empire. Waves of emigration followed the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, while the population decreased between mid-1974 and 1977 as a result of emigration, war losses, and a temporary decline in fertility. After the ethnic cleansing of a third of the Greek population of the island in 1974, there was also an increase in the number of Greek Cypriots leaving, especially for the Middle East, which contributed to a decrease in population that tapered off in the 1990s. Today more than two-thirds of the Greek population in Cyprus is urban.
Question: Which colonial enterprise for land was the Greek Isles a part of
Answer: British Empire
Question: Who was living on with the Greeks in Cyprus s 1974 ?
Answer: Turkish
Question: Whee these new inhabitants welcomed ?
Answer: Turkish invasion of Cyprus
Question: During the early seventies where did most Cyprus Greeks decide to go ?
Answer: the Middle East
Question: Which colonial enterprise for land was the Greek Isles not a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was living on with the Irish in Cyprus in 1974?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who invaded Turkey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During the early eighties where did most Cyprus Greeks decide to go
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Two controversies during the campaign tested him and his staff, but did not affect the campaign. One involved a report that Nixon had improperly received funds from a secret trust. Nixon spoke out adroitly to avoid potential damage, but the matter permanently alienated the two candidates. The second issue centered on Eisenhower's relented decision to confront the controversial methods of Joseph McCarthy on his home turf in a Wisconsin appearance. Just two weeks prior to the election, Eisenhower vowed to go to Korea and end the war there. He promised to maintain a strong commitment against Communism while avoiding the topic of NATO; finally, he stressed a corruption-free, frugal administration at home.
Question: What was the home state of Joseph McCarthy?
Answer: Wisconsin
Question: Where did Eisenhower claim he would end the war?
Answer: Korea
Question: During the campaign, from where was it claimed Nixon had received money improperly?
Answer: a secret trust
Question: What topic did Eisenhower not discuss during the campaign?
Answer: NATO |
Context: The world of clothing is always changing, as new cultural influences meet technological innovations. Researchers in scientific labs have been developing prototypes for fabrics that can serve functional purposes well beyond their traditional roles, for example, clothes that can automatically adjust their temperature, repel bullets, project images, and generate electricity. Some practical advances already available to consumers are bullet-resistant garments made with kevlar and stain-resistant fabrics that are coated with chemical mixtures that reduce the absorption of liquids.
Question: Changes keep happening because new cultural stuff meets these type of innovations.
Answer: technological
Question: What have researchers in science labs been making?
Answer: prototypes
Question: What elementary force can some specialized fabrics generate?
Answer: electricity
Question: What can garments made with kevlar resist?
Answer: bullets
Question: Stain-resistant fabrics are coated with chemicals to reduce what?
Answer: absorption of liquids
Question: Why is clothing slow to change?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Scientists are developing what they can serve either a functional purpose for a traditional
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Some less practical
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Stain resistant fabrics absorb what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The initial assault by North Korean KPA forces were aided by the use of Soviet T-34-85 tanks. A North Korean tank corps equipped with about 120 T-34s spearheaded the invasion. These drove against a ROK Army with few anti-tank weapons adequate to deal with the Soviet T-34s. Additional Soviet armor was added as the offensive progressed. The North Korean tanks had a good deal of early successes against South Korean infantry, elements of the 24th Infantry Division, and those United States built M24 Chaffee light tanks that they encountered. Interdiction by ground attack aircraft was the only means of slowing the advancing Korean armor. The tide turned in favour of the United Nations forces in August 1950 when the North Koreans suffered major tank losses during a series of battles in which the UN forces brought heavier equipment to bear, including M4A3 Sherman medium tanks backed by U.S. M26 heavy tanks, along with the British Centurion, Churchill, and Cromwell tanks.
Question: What form of attack was an effective measure of slowing Korean armor?
Answer: ground attack aircraft
Question: What weapon did the the KPA use that was successful early in the Korean conflict?
Answer: Soviet T-34-85 tanks
Question: What helped the UN forces and shifted the war in their favor?
Answer: the North Koreans suffered major tank losses
Question: What actions of the UN also helped them improve their results during the war?
Answer: the UN forces brought heavier equipment
Question: How many tanks were in the North Korean tank corps?
Answer: 120 |
Context: The RSFSR was established on November 7, 1917 (October Revolution) as a sovereign state. The first Constitution was adopted in 1918. In 1922 the Russian SFSR signed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR.
Question: On what date was the RSFSR established?
Answer: November 7, 1917
Question: What event led to the establishment of the RSFSR?
Answer: October Revolution
Question: In what year was the Constitution adopted?
Answer: 1918
Question: The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was signed in what year?
Answer: 1922
Question: On what date was the RSFSR abolished?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What event led to the abolishment of the RSFSR?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Constitution rejected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR was not signed in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the first Constitution not adopted?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. During its golden age, there was a flourishing of mathematics, astronomy, literature, and art. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire covered an area about twice the size of modern-day France and stretched to the west coast of Africa. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan. French Sudan (then known as the Sudanese Republic) joined with Senegal in 1959, achieving independence in 1960 as the Mali Federation. Shortly thereafter, following Senegal's withdrawal from the federation, the Sudanese Republic declared itself the independent Republic of Mali. After a long period of one-party rule, a coup in 1991 led to the writing of a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi-party state.
Question: In the latter part of the 19th century what country took control of Mali?
Answer: France seized control of Mali
Question: What year did Mali gain independence as the Mali Federation?
Answer: 1960
Question: Along with a new constitution, Mali became what type of state in 1991?
Answer: Mali as a democratic, multi-party state
Question: Mali was once part of how many West African empires?
Answer: three
Question: What was the name of the Empire that the country is now named after?
Answer: Mali Empire (for which Mali is named)
Question: What empire is present day Mali part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country took control of Mali in the 1900s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was at its peak in the thirteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who joined with Senegal in 1960?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won its independence in 1959?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Greco-Egyptian scientist Claudius Ptolemy referred to the larger island as great Britain (μεγάλης Βρεττανίας - megális Brettanias) and to Ireland as little Britain (μικρής Βρεττανίας - mikris Brettanias) in his work Almagest (147–148 AD). In his later work, Geography (c. 150 AD), he gave these islands the names Alwion, Iwernia, and Mona (the Isle of Man), suggesting these may have been names of the individual islands not known to him at the time of writing Almagest. The name Albion appears to have fallen out of use sometime after the Roman conquest of Great Britain, after which Britain became the more commonplace name for the island called Great Britain.
Question: What did name did Claudius Ptolemy (Greco-Egyptian scientist) use for Ireland?
Answer: little Britain (μικρής Βρεττανίας - mikris Brettanias)
Question: In later writings, what did Claudius Ptolemy called the British Isles?
Answer: Alwion, Iwernia, and Mona
Question: After the Romans conqured the British Isles what became the more common name for the country?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: Who refered to the islands as little Britian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Claudis Ptolemy write in the 1st century AD
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote Geography in the 1st century AD?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's conquest lead to the more common use of the name Albion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What islands were descovered in 150 AD?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the German scientist call the larger island?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the German scientist refer to Ireland as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What names did the British scientist give the islands in his later work?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what years did the British scientist Claudius Ptolemy complete his work, Almagest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the British scientist Claudius Ptolemy complete his work, Geography?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Nicknamed "The Walking City", Boston hosts more pedestrian commuters than do other comparably populated cities. Owing to factors such as the compactness of the city and large student population, 13 percent of the population commutes by foot, making it the highest percentage of pedestrian commuters in the country out of the major American cities. In 2011, Walk Score ranked Boston the third most walkable city in the United States. As of 2015[update], Walk Score still ranks Boston as the third most walkable US city, with a Walk Score of 80, a Transit Score of 75, and a Bike Score of 70.
Question: What is Bostons nickname?
Answer: The Walking City
Question: What type of commuters does Have than any other largely populated city?
Answer: pedestrian
Question: What percent of Boston's population commutes by walking?
Answer: 13 percent
Question: What year did walkscore rank Boston the third most walkable city in the US?
Answer: 2015
Question: What was the walk score given to Boston?
Answer: 80 |
Context: On 7 July 1994, the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder called l3enc. The filename extension .mp3 was chosen by the Fraunhofer team on 14 July 1995 (previously, the files had been named .bit). With the first real-time software MP3 player WinPlay3 (released 9 September 1995) many people were able to encode and play back MP3 files on their PCs. Because of the relatively small hard drives back in that time (~ 500–1000 MB) lossy compression was essential to store non-instrument based (see tracker and MIDI) music for playback on computer.
Question: When was the first software MP3 encoder released?
Answer: 7 July 1994
Question: What was the name of the first software MP3 encoder?
Answer: l3enc
Question: What was the filename extension?
Answer: .mp3
Question: What was the name of the first real-time software MP3 player?
Answer: WinPlay3
Question: What was the average high end hard drive size?
Answer: 1000 MB |
Context: Mali (i/ˈmɑːli/; French: [maˈli]), officially the Republic of Mali (French: République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres (480,000 sq mi). The population of Mali is 14.5 million. Its capital is Bamako. Mali consists of eight regions and its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara Desert, while the country's southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, features the Niger and Senegal rivers. The country's economy centers on agriculture and fishing. Some of Mali's prominent natural resources include gold, being the third largest producer of gold in the African continent, and salt. About half the population lives below the international poverty line of $1.25 (U.S.) a day. A majority of the population (55%) are non-denominational Muslims.
Question: Of Africa what rank in size country is Mali?
Answer: Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa
Question: What is Mali's capital named?
Answer: Bamako
Question: What are two major rivers located inside of Mali?
Answer: Niger and Senegal rivers
Question: Besides salt what other major natural resources does Mali produce?
Answer: prominent natural resources include gold
Question: More than half of the population is what religion?
Answer: (55%) are non-denominational Muslims
Question: What is the eighth largest country in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which African coast is Mali?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country has an area of 1,240,000 mi.²?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What desert does Mali just touch the edge of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is basal agriculture in deep-sea fishing?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The University of Kansas School of Law was the top law school in the state of Kansas, and 68th nationally, according to the 2014 U.S. News & World Report "Best Graduate Schools" edition. Classes are held in Green Hall at W 15th St and Burdick Dr, which is named after former dean James Green.
Question: In 2014, what issue of U.S. News & World Report provided rankins for law schools?
Answer: Best Graduate Schools
Question: What was KU's national law school ranking in 2014?
Answer: 68th
Question: The University of Kansas had the highest rated law school in which state?
Answer: Kansas
Question: In what building do law students attend classes at KU?
Answer: Green Hall
Question: For whom is Green Hall named?
Answer: James Green
Question: In 2015, what issue of U.S. News & World Report provided rankins for law schools?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was KU's local law school ranking in 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The University of Kansas had the lowest rated law school in which state?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what building do law students skip classes at KU?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For whom is Green Hall not named?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Originating as a popular form of entertainment in 19th-century Europe and later as a sideshow exhibition in North American traveling carnivals and vaudeville halls, professional wrestling grew into a standalone genre of entertainment with many diverse variations in cultures around the globe, and is now considered a multimillion-dollar entertainment industry. While it has greatly declined in Europe, in North America it has experienced several different periods of prominent cultural popularity during its century and a half of existence. The advent of television gave professional wrestling a new outlet, and wrestling (along with boxing) was instrumental in making pay-per-view a viable method of content delivery.
Question: What part of the world has wrestling become less popular in?
Answer: it has greatly declined in Europe
Question: Where did wrestling originally come from?
Answer: Originating as a popular form of entertainment in 19th-century Europe
Question: Where was wrestling later showcased in North America?
Answer: later as a sideshow exhibition in North American traveling carnivals and vaudeville halls
Question: What is wrestling now thought to be?
Answer: is now considered a multimillion-dollar entertainment industry
Question: What did television do for wrestling?
Answer: The advent of television gave professional wrestling a new outlet |
Context: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Sociology professor at Duke University, remarks, "I contend that racism is, more than anything else, a matter of group power; it is about a dominant racial group (whites) striving to maintain its systemic advantages and minorities fighting to subvert the racial status quo." The types of practices that take place under this new color-blind racism is subtle, institutionalized, and supposedly not racial. Color-blind racism thrives on the idea that race is no longer an issue in the United States. There are contradictions between the alleged color-blindness of most whites and the persistence of a color-coded system of inequality.
Question: Where is Eduardo Bonilla-Silver a Sociology professor?
Answer: Duke University
Question: What does Bonilla-Silva contend racism is about more than anything else?
Answer: group power
Question: Who does Bonilla-Silva think is the dominant racial group?
Answer: whites
Question: What idea does color-blind racism thrive on?
Answer: that race is no longer an issue
Question: What exists between the alleged color-blindness of most whites and the persistence of a system of inequality?
Answer: contradictions |
Context: Nanjing, with a total land area of 6,598 square kilometres (2,548 sq mi), is situated in the heartland of drainage area of lower reaches of Yangtze River, and in Yangtze River Delta, one of the largest economic zones of China. The Yangtze River flows past the west side and then north side of Nanjing City, while the Ningzheng Ridge surrounds the north, east and south side of the city. The city is 300 kilometres (190 mi) west-northwest of Shanghai, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) south-southeast of Beijing, and 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) east-northeast of Chongqing. The downstream Yangtze River flows from Jiujiang, Jiangxi, through Anhui and Jiangsu to East Sea, north to drainage basin of downstream Yangtze is Huai River basin and south to it is Zhe River basin, and they are connected by the Grand Canal east to Nanjing. The area around Nanjing is called Hsiajiang (下江, Downstream River) region, with Jianghuai (江淮) stressing northern part and Jiangzhe (江浙) stressing southern part. The region is also known as Dongnan (東南, South East, the Southeast) and Jiangnan (江南, River South, south of Yangtze).
Question: How large is Nanjing, in miles?
Answer: 2,548 sq mi
Question: Where does the Yangtze River flow in Nanjing?
Answer: past the west side and then north side
Question: How far is Nanjing from Shanghai, in miles?
Answer: 190 mi
Question: How far is Nanjing from Beijing?
Answer: 750 mi
Question: What is the name of the area of land around Nanjing?
Answer: Hsiajiang (下江, Downstream River) region |
Context: The Pindus range continues through the central Peloponnese, crosses the islands of Kythera and Antikythera and finds its way into southwestern Aegean, in the island of Crete where it eventually ends. The islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that once constituted an extension of the mainland. Pindus is characterized by its high, steep peaks, often dissected by numerous canyons and a variety of other karstic landscapes. The spectacular Vikos Gorge, part of the Vikos-Aoos National Park in the Pindus range, is listed by the Guinness book of World Records as the deepest gorge in the world. Another notable formation are the Meteora rock pillars, atop which have been built medieval Greek Orthodox monasteries.
Question: Where does the Pindus mountain range end?
Answer: the island of Crete
Question: Islands in the Aegean Sea are formed by what?
Answer: underwater mountains
Question: What is the deepest gorge in the world?
Answer: Vikos Gorge |
Context: One of the major developments in the military sphere during the Late Middle Ages was the increased use of infantry and light cavalry. The English also employed longbowmen, but other countries were unable to create similar forces with the same success. Armour continued to advance, spurred by the increasing power of crossbows, and plate armour was developed to protect soldiers from crossbows as well as the hand-held guns that were developed. Pole arms reached new prominence with the development of the Flemish and Swiss infantry armed with pikes and other long spears.
Question: Along with light cavalry, what military arm was used with increasing frequency in the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: infantry
Question: What troops were uniquely successful in English service?
Answer: longbowmen
Question: What influenced the increasing development of armor?
Answer: the increasing power of crossbows
Question: What weapons were notably employed by the Swiss infantry?
Answer: pikes
Question: Along with crossbows, what was plate armor designed to defend against?
Answer: hand-held guns |
Context: Other animals, such as rabbits and rodents, practise coprophagia behaviours - eating specialised faeces in order to re-digest food, especially in the case of roughage. Capybara, rabbits, hamsters and other related species do not have a complex digestive system as do, for example, ruminants. Instead they extract more nutrition from grass by giving their food a second pass through the gut. Soft faecal pellets of partially digested food are excreted and generally consumed immediately. They also produce normal droppings, which are not eaten.
Question: What is the practive of coprophagia behaviours?
Answer: eating specialised faeces in order to re-digest food
Question: Why do some animals pass food through their gut twice?
Answer: extract more nutrition
Question: What happens with these soft feacal pellets?
Answer: excreted and generally consumed immediately
Question: Are normal droppings also eaten?
Answer: not eaten |
Context: The Quran and Muhammad talked about racial equality and justice as in The Farewell Sermon. Tribal and nationalistic differences were discouraged. But after Muhammad's passing, the old tribal differences between the Arabs started to resurface. Following the Roman–Persian Wars and the Byzantine–Sassanid Wars, deep rooted differences between Iraq, formally under the Persian Sassanid Empire, and Syria, formally under the Byzantine Empire, also existed. Each wanted the capital of the newly established Islamic State to be in their area. Previously, the second caliph Umar was very firm on the governors and his spies kept an eye on them. If he felt that a governor or a commander was becoming attracted to wealth, he had him removed from his position.
Question: Who controlled Iraq before the Arabs?
Answer: Persian Sassanid Empire
Question: Who ruled Syria before it was conquered by the followers of Muhammad?
Answer: Byzantine Empire
Question: Who was the second caliph?
Answer: Umar
Question: What book never mentioned racial equality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was encouraged in the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What started to resurface before Muhammad's passing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was soft on the governors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area wanted the capital of the Islamic State to be outside their area?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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