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Context: The NES was released after the "video game crash" of the early 1980s, whereupon many retailers and adults had regarded electronic games as being merely a passing fad, and many believed at first that the NES was another fad. Before the NES/Famicom, Nintendo was known as a moderately successful Japanese toy and playing card manufacturer, and the popularity of the NES/Famicom helped the company grow into an internationally recognized name almost synonymous with video games as Atari had been during the 2600 era and set the stage for Japanese dominance of the video game industry. With the NES, Nintendo also changed the relationship of console manufacturers and third-party software developers by restricting developers from publishing and distributing software without licensed approval. This led to higher quality software titles, which helped to change the attitude of a public that had grown weary from poorly produced titles for other game systems of the day.
Question: Nintendo produced toys and what other item before its game system?
Answer: playing card
Question: Nintendo's era was compared with who as another video game manufacturer?
Answer: Atari
Question: Nintendo required what from its software developers?
Answer: licensed approval
Question: What did licensing lead to regarding games?
Answer: higher quality
Question: Nintendo didn't produce toys and what other item before its game system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Nintendo's era was compared with who as another non-video game manufacturer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Nintendo didn't require what from its software developers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did no licensing lead to regarding games?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A combination of urban and suburban development, the West Side is generally defined as the area west of I-10. Western Tucson encompasses the banks of the Santa Cruz River and the foothills of the Tucson Mountains, and includes the International Wildlife Museum, Sentinel Peak, and the Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa, located in the wealthy enclave known as Starr Pass. Moving past the Tucson Mountains, travelers find themselves in the area commonly referred to as "west of" Tucson or "Old West Tucson". A large undulating plain extending south into the Altar Valley, rural residential development predominates, but here you will also find major attractions including Saguaro National Park West, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and the Old Tucson Studios movie set/theme park.
Question: What interstate is the West side west of?
Answer: I-10
Question: What is the name of the movie set in Old West Tuscon?
Answer: Old Tucson Studios
Question: What is the name of the national park in Old West Tuscon?
Answer: Saguaro National Park West
Question: What is the museum in Old West Tuscon?
Answer: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Question: The Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa is located where?
Answer: Starr Pass
Question: What part of Tucson is considered the West Side?
Answer: the area west of I-10
Question: What museum is in Western Tucson?
Answer: International Wildlife Museum
Question: What resort is in Western Tucson?
Answer: Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa
Question: What neighborhood is the Marriott Starr Pass Resort & Spa in?
Answer: Starr Pass
Question: What theme park is in Old West Tucson?
Answer: Old Tucson Studios |
Context: Hellenistic military equipment was generally characterized by an increase in size. Hellenistic-era warships grew from the trireme to include more banks of oars and larger numbers of rowers and soldiers as in the Quadrireme and Quinquereme. The Ptolemaic Tessarakonteres was the largest ship constructed in Antiquity. New siege engines were developed during this period. An unknown engineer developed the torsion-spring catapult (ca. 360) and Dionysios of Alexandria designed a repeating ballista, the Polybolos. Preserved examples of ball projectiles range from 4.4 kg to 78 kg (or over 170 lbs). Demetrius Poliorcetes was notorious for the large siege engines employed in his campaigns, especially during the 12-month siege of Rhodes when he had Epimachos of Athens build a massive 160 ton siege tower named Helepolis, filled with artillery.
Question: What was the largest ship constructed in Antiquity?
Answer: Ptolemaic Tessarakonteres
Question: Who invented the Polybolos?
Answer: Dionysios of Alexandria
Question: What type of weapon is the Polybolos?
Answer: ballista
Question: Who heavy was the Helepolis siege tower?
Answer: 160 ton
Question: How long was Demetrius Poliorcetes siege of Rhodes?
Answer: 12-month |
Context: On 7 May 2010, May and Taylor announced that they were quitting their record label, EMI, after almost 40 years. On 20 August 2010, Queen's manager Jim Beach put out a Newsletter stating that the band had signed a new contract with Universal Music. During an interview for Hardtalk on the BBC on 22 September, May confirmed that the band's new deal was with Island Records, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. For the first time since the late 1980s, Queen's catalogue will have the same distributor worldwide, as their current North American label—Hollywood Records—is currently distributed by Universal (for a time in the late 1980s, Queen was on EMI-owned Capitol Records in the US).
Question: What record label did May and Taylor leave in 2010?
Answer: EMI
Question: What label did Queen join in August 2010?
Answer: Universal Music
Question: What program interviewed Queen on 22 September 2010?
Answer: Hardtalk
Question: Island records is a subsidiary of what group?
Answer: Universal Music Group |
Context: Turner Classic Movies essentially operates as a commercial-free service, with the only advertisements on the network being shown between features – which advertise TCM products, network promotions for upcoming special programs and the original trailers for films that are scheduled to be broadcast on TCM (particularly those that will air during the primetime hours), and featurettes about classic film actors and actresses. In addition to this, extended breaks between features are filled with theatrically released movie trailers and classic short subjects – from series such as The Passing Parade, Crime Does Not Pay, Pete Smith Specialties, and Robert Benchley – under the banner name TCM Extras (formerly One Reel Wonders). In 2007, some of the short films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCM's website. Partly to allow these interstitials, Turner Classic Movies schedules its feature films either at the top of the hour or at :15, :30 or :45 minutes past the hour, instead of in timeslots of varying five-minute increments.
Question: What were TCM Extras previously known as?
Answer: One Reel Wonders
Question: When did short films from TCM begin to stream on TCM's website?
Answer: 2007
Question: Along with The Passing Parade, Crime Does Not Pay and Pete Smith Specialties, what short subjects feature on TCM?
Answer: Robert Benchley
Question: Along with :45, :30 and :15 past the hour, at what time do TCM features begin?
Answer: top of the hour
Question: What were TCM products previously known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did short films from TCM begin to stream on Passing Parade's website?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What short subjects feature on primetime hours along with The Passing Parade, Crime Does Not Pay and Pete Smith Specialties?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Along with :35, :30, and :15 past the hour, at what time does Benchley begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are filled with theatricallly released banner names?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After a major blaze in 1405, the city's original wooden buildings were gradually replaced by half-timbered houses and subsequently the sandstone buildings which came to be characteristic for the Old Town. Despite the waves of pestilence that hit Europe in the 14th century, the city continued to grow: mainly due to immigration from the surrounding countryside.
Question: What year was there a huge fire?
Answer: 1405
Question: What was destroyed in the fire?
Answer: the city's original wooden buildings |
Context: Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (sometimes known as Sony Music or by the initials, SME) is an American music corporation managed and operated by Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation. In 1929, the enterprise was first founded as American Record Corporation (ARC) and, in 1938, was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, following ARC's acquisition by CBS. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. In 1987, Sony Corporation of Japan bought the company, and in 1991, renamed it SME. It is the world's second largest recorded music company, after Universal Music Group.
Question: What was the first name of Sony Music Entertainment, Inc?
Answer: American Record Corporation
Question: In what year was it renamed Columbia Recording Corporation?
Answer: 1938
Question: In what year was it known as CBS Records?
Answer: 1966
Question: In what year did it land the name, Sony Music Entertainment?
Answer: 1987
Question: What company is the only group larger than Sony Music Entertainment?
Answer: Universal Music Group.
Question: Who is the Chinese conglomerate who owns SCA?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The American Recording Company (ARC) was founded in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: ABC Records was established in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Sony Corporation of China bought CBS Records in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: SME is the world's third largest recorded what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After losing the 1970 general election, Labour returned to opposition, but retained Harold Wilson as Leader. Heath's government soon ran into trouble over Northern Ireland and a dispute with miners in 1973 which led to the "three-day week". The 1970s proved a difficult time to be in government for both the Conservatives and Labour due to the 1973 oil crisis which caused high inflation and a global recession. The Labour Party was returned to power again under Wilson a few weeks after the February 1974 general election, forming a minority government with the support of the Ulster Unionists. The Conservatives were unable to form a government alone as they had fewer seats despite receiving more votes numerically. It was the first general election since 1924 in which both main parties had received less than 40% of the popular vote and the first of six successive general elections in which Labour failed to reach 40% of the popular vote. In a bid to gain a majority, a second election was soon called for October 1974 in which Labour, still with Harold Wilson as leader, won a majority of three, gaining just 18 seats taking its total to 319.
Question: What did Labour do after winning the 1970 general election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the 1970 general election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was an easy era to be in government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group of people supported the Conservatives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were the Conservatives able to form a government alone?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The console was originally planned for a global release through November, but at the start of September the release in Europe and the rest of the world was delayed until March. With it being a somewhat last-minute delay, some companies had taken deposits for pre-orders, at which Sony informed customers that they were eligible for full refunds or could continue the pre-order. On January 24, 2007, Sony announced that PlayStation 3 would go on sale on March 23, 2007, in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and New Zealand. The system sold about 600,000 units in its first two days. On March 7, 2007, the 60 GB PlayStation 3 launched in Singapore with a price of S$799. The console was launched in South Korea on June 16, 2007, as a single version equipped with an 80 GB hard drive and IPTV.
Question: Instead of November, for what month of the following year was the release rescheduled?
Answer: March
Question: What country had to wait until June of 2007 for their PS3?
Answer: South Korea
Question: How big was the hard drive in the single South Korean version?
Answer: 80 GB
Question: What did customers in Singapore pay for the 60 GB PS3?
Answer: S$799
Question: On what date did the PlayStation 3 go on sale in Africa?
Answer: March 23, 2007
Question: What system sold about 6,000,000 units in its first two days?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The 80 GB PS3 launched in Singapore when?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the price of the 80 GB PS3 launched in Singapore?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the 60 GB PS3 launched in South Korea?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Instead of October, for what month of the following year was the release rescheduled?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country had to wait until June of 2008 for their PS3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How big was the hard drive in the single North Korean version?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did customers in Singapore pay for the 60 GB PS2?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did the PlayStation 2 go on sale in Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many energy markets, institutions, and policies have been developed to support the production and use of fossil fuels. Newer and cleaner technologies may offer social and environmental benefits, but utility operators often reject renewable resources because they are trained to think only in terms of big, conventional power plants. Consumers often ignore renewable power systems because they are not given accurate price signals about electricity consumption. Intentional market distortions (such as subsidies), and unintentional market distortions (such as split incentives) may work against renewables. Benjamin K. Sovacool has argued that "some of the most surreptitious, yet powerful, impediments facing renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States are more about culture and institutions than engineering and science".
Question: Why do utility operators often reject renewable resources?
Answer: because they are trained to think only in terms of big, conventional power plants
Question: Why do consumers often ignore renewable power systems?
Answer: because they are not given accurate price signals about electricity consumption
Question: Who argued that some of the problems facing renewable energy are more about culture and institutions than engineering and science?
Answer: Benjamin K. Sovacool
Question: Why do utility operators often accept renewable resources?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do utility operators only ever accept renewable resources?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do consumers often accept renewable power systems?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who agreed that some of the problems facing renewable energy are more about culture and institutions than engineering and science?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The South American highlands were a center of early agriculture. Genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species suggests that the potato has a single origin in the area of southern Peru, from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex. Over 99% of all modern cultivated potatoes worldwide are descendants of a subspecies indigenous to south-central Chile, Solanum tuberosum ssp. tuberosum, where it was cultivated as long as 10,000 years ago. According to George Raudzens, "It is clear that in pre-Columbian times some groups struggled to survive and often suffered food shortages and famines, while others enjoyed a varied and substantial diet." The persistent drought around 850 AD coincided with the collapse of Classic Maya civilization, and the famine of One Rabbit (AD 1454) was a major catastrophe in Mexico.
Question: Where was a center of early agriculture?
Answer: South American highlands
Question: Based on genetic testing, what has been suggested about the origin of the potato?
Answer: single
Question: Where did the potato originate?
Answer: area of southern Peru
Question: How long ago was the decedent of 99% of all modern potatoes cultivated as long ago as?
Answer: 10,000 years ago
Question: What event in 850 AD coincided with the collapse of Mayan civilization?
Answer: persistent drought |
Context: Translation is the process by which a mature mRNA molecule is used as a template for synthesizing a new protein.:6.2 Translation is carried out by ribosomes, large complexes of RNA and protein responsible for carrying out the chemical reactions to add new amino acids to a growing polypeptide chain by the formation of peptide bonds. The genetic code is read three nucleotides at a time, in units called codons, via interactions with specialized RNA molecules called transfer RNA (tRNA). Each tRNA has three unpaired bases known as the anticodon that are complementary to the codon it reads on the mRNA. The tRNA is also covalently attached to the amino acid specified by the complementary codon. When the tRNA binds to its complementary codon in an mRNA strand, the ribosome attaches its amino acid cargo to the new polypeptide chain, which is synthesized from amino terminus to carboxyl terminus. During and after synthesis, most new proteins must folds to their active three-dimensional structure before they can carry out their cellular functions.:3
Question: What is the process by which a mature mRNA molecule is used as a template for synthesizing a new protein called?
Answer: Translation
Question: What does a ribosome consist of?
Answer: large complexes of RNA and protein
Question: What is a ribosome responsible for?
Answer: carrying out the chemical reactions to add new amino acids to a growing polypeptide chain
Question: How is the genetic code read?
Answer: via interactions with specialized RNA molecules called transfer RNA (tRNA)
Question: How many unpaired bases does each tRNA have?
Answer: three |
Context: In November 1973, the city elected Coleman Young as its first black mayor. After taking office, Young emphasized increasing racial diversity in the police department. Young also worked to improve Detroit's transportation system, but tension between Young and his suburban counterparts over regional matters was problematic throughout his mayoral term. In 1976, the federal government offered $600 million for building a regional rapid transit system, under a single regional authority. But the inability of Detroit and its suburban neighbors to solve conflicts over transit planning resulted in the region losing the majority of funding for rapid transit. Following the failure to reach an agreement over the larger system, the City moved forward with construction of the elevated downtown circulator portion of the system, which became known as the Detroit People Mover.
Question: Who was the first black mayor of Detroit?
Answer: Coleman Young
Question: What did Detroit build after the failure of a larger regional transportation system?
Answer: Detroit People Mover
Question: How much did the federal government offer for a rapid transit system?
Answer: $600 million
Question: Who did Detroit argue with when trying to plane a regional transit system?
Answer: suburban neighbors |
Context: Straddling the intersection of Germanic and Romance Europe, Switzerland comprises four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh. Therefore, the Swiss, although predominantly German-speaking, do not form a nation in the sense of a common ethnicity or language; rather, Switzerland's strong sense of identity and community is founded on a common historical background, shared values such as federalism and direct democracy, and Alpine symbolism. Due to its linguistic diversity, Switzerland is known by a variety of native names: Schweiz [ˈʃvaɪts] (German);[note 5] Suisse [sɥis(ə)] (French); Svizzera [ˈzvittsera] (Italian); and Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ] or [ˈʒviːtsʁːɐ] (Romansh).[note 6]
Question: Which four main linguistic and cultural regions make up Switzerland?
Answer: German, French, Italian and Romansh
Question: What is the predominant language in Switzerland?
Answer: German
Question: What do the French Swiss call Switzerland?
Answer: Suisse
Question: What do the German Swiss call Switzerland?
Answer: Schweiz
Question: What do the Italian Swiss call Switzerland?
Answer: Svizzera |
Context: As the King's confidence in de Melo increased, the King entrusted him with more control of the state. By 1755, Sebastião de Melo was made Prime Minister. Impressed by British economic success that he had witnessed from the Ambassador, he successfully implemented similar economic policies in Portugal. He abolished slavery in Portugal and in the Portuguese colonies in India; reorganized the army and the navy; restructured the University of Coimbra, and ended discrimination against different Christian sects in Portugal.
Question: Did the King's confidence in de Melo increase or decrease?
Answer: increased
Question: What title was given to de Melo in 1755?
Answer: Prime Minister
Question: With whose economic success was de Melo impressed with?
Answer: British
Question: Who abolished slavery in Portugal?
Answer: Sebastião de Melo
Question: Who ended discrimination against difference Christian sects in Portugal?
Answer: Sebastião de Melo |
Context: Bush's margin of victory in the popular vote was the smallest ever for a reelected incumbent president, but marked the first time since his father's victory 16 years prior that a candidate won a majority of the popular vote. The electoral map closely resembled that of 2000, with only three states changing sides: New Mexico and Iowa voted Republican in 2004 after having voted Democratic in 2000, while New Hampshire voted Democratic in 2004 after previously voting Republican. In the Electoral College, Bush received 286 votes to Kerry's 252.
Question: Which candidate, in the 2004 election, had the majority of the popular vote?
Answer: Bush
Question: How many States renounced their preferred political party?
Answer: three
Question: Which state switched sides and embraced the Democratic party after previously choosing the Republican party?
Answer: New Hampshire
Question: How many votes did Kerry receive, in the Electoral College?
Answer: 252
Question: How large of a gap was there between Bush's and Kerry's votes?
Answer: the smallest ever
Question: What two states did George Bush campaign the hardest in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first state Bush's father campaigned in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What margin of victory did Bush's father have in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many votes did Bush Sr. receive in the Electoral Collage 16 years before?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What state was John Kerry originally from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After a tentative creation of several smaller suburban cemeteries, the Prefect Nicholas Frochot under Napoleon Bonaparte provided a more definitive solution in the creation of three massive Parisian cemeteries outside the city limits. Open from 1804, these were the cemeteries of Père Lachaise, Montmartre, Montparnasse, and later Passy; these cemeteries became inner-city once again when Paris annexed all neighbouring communes to the inside of its much larger ring of suburban fortifications in 1860. New suburban cemeteries were created in the early 20th century: The largest of these are the Cimetière parisien de Saint-Ouen, the Cimetière parisien de Pantin (also known as Cimetière parisien de Pantin-Bobigny, the Cimetière parisien d'Ivry, and the Cimetière parisien de Bagneux).[citation needed] Some of the most famous people in the world are buried in Parisian cemeteries.
Question: Who was Prefect Nicholas Frochot under?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Question: When were the 3 new cemeteries open?
Answer: 1804
Question: What is the largest of the cemeteries created in the 20th centuries?
Answer: Cimetière parisien de Saint-Ouen |
Context: In Theravada Buddhism, the ultimate goal is the attainment of the sublime state of Nirvana, achieved by practicing the Noble Eightfold Path (also known as the Middle Way), thus escaping what is seen as a cycle of suffering and rebirth. Mahayana Buddhism instead aspires to Buddhahood via the bodhisattva path, a state wherein one remains in this cycle to help other beings reach awakening. Tibetan Buddhism aspires to Buddhahood or rainbow body.
Question: What is the goal of Theravada Buddhism?
Answer: the attainment of the sublime state of Nirvana
Question: How is Nirvana achieved?
Answer: practicing the Noble Eightfold Path (also known as the Middle Way)
Question: What is the bodhisattva path?
Answer: a state wherein one remains in this cycle to help other beings reach awakening
Question: What is the goal of Tibetan Buddhism?
Answer: Buddhahood or rainbow body
Question: How is Nirvana attained?
Answer: by practicing the Noble Eightfold Path
Question: In what buddhism is the goal a state of nirvana?
Answer: Theravada
Question: What buddhism has a goal of Buddhahood or rainbow body?
Answer: Tibetan
Question: The Noble Eightfold Path is also known as what?
Answer: the Middle Way
Question: Mahayana aspires to Buddhahood through what path?
Answer: bodhisattva
Question: Theravada escapes what cycle?
Answer: suffering and rebirth |
Context: In 1353 Bern joined the Swiss Confederacy, becoming one of the eight cantons of the formative period of 1353 to 1481. Bern invaded and conquered Aargau in 1415 and Vaud in 1536, as well as other smaller territories; thereby becoming the largest city-state north of the Alps, by the 18th century comprising most of what is today the canton of Bern and the canton of Vaud.
Question: what year did Bern join the Swiss Confederacy?
Answer: 1353
Question: How many cantons were there between 1353 to 1481?
Answer: 8
Question: What year did Bern invade Aargau?
Answer: 1415
Question: What is the largest city-state north of the Alps?
Answer: Bern |
Context: The People's Republic of China issued its first round of official character simplifications in two documents, the first in 1956 and the second in 1964. A second round of character simplifications (known as erjian, or "second round simplified characters") was promulgated in 1977. It was poorly received, and in 1986 the authorities rescinded the second round completely, while making six revisions to the 1964 list, including the restoration of three traditional characters that had been simplified: 叠 dié, 覆 fù, 像 xiàng.
Question: Who issued its first round of character simplifications in two documents?
Answer: The People's Republic of China
Question: When was a second round announced?
Answer: 1977
Question: How was the second round received?
Answer: poorly |
Context: Hydrogen gas (dihydrogen or molecular hydrogen) is highly flammable and will burn in air at a very wide range of concentrations between 4% and 75% by volume. The enthalpy of combustion for hydrogen is −286 kJ/mol:
Question: For hydrogen what is the enthalpy of combustion?
Answer: 286 kJ/mol
Question: What are two forms of hydrogen gas?
Answer: dihydrogen or molecular hydrogen
Question: Which element has a enthalpy of combustion at −286 kJ/mol?
Answer: Hydrogen |
Context: Some sections of the state feature architectural styles including Spanish revival, Florida vernacular, and Mediterranean Revival Style. It has the largest collection of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in both the United States and the entire world, most of which are located in the Miami metropolitan area, especially Miami Beach's Art Deco District, constructed as the city was becoming a resort destination. A unique architectural design found only in Florida is the post-World War II Miami Modern, which can be seen in areas such as Miami's MiMo Historic District.
Question: What architectural styles are in Florida
Answer: architectural styles including Spanish revival, Florida vernacular, and Mediterranean Revival Style
Question: What does Florida have the largest collection of
Answer: the largest collection of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in both the United States and the entire world, most of which are located in the Miami
Question: When did the art deco area of Miami boom
Answer: Miami Beach's Art Deco District, constructed as the city was becoming a resort destination
Question: What other Unique Architecture started in Miami after world war 2
Answer: Miami Modern, which can be seen in areas such as Miami's MiMo Historic District.
Question: What architectural styles are not in Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Florida have the smallest collection of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the art deco area of Miami die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other unique architecture ended in Miami after WWII?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of buildings are not found in the Miami Metropolitan area?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Postwar broadcast coverage was extended to Birmingham in 1949 with the opening of the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station, and by the mid-1950s most of the country was covered, transmitting a 405-line interlaced image on VHF.[original research?]
Question: What city received BBC signals starting in 1949?
Answer: Birmingham
Question: Which facility brought the BBC's transmissions to Birmingham?
Answer: Sutton Coldfield transmitting station
Question: What kind of image was broadcasted by the BBC by the mid-'50s?
Answer: 405-line interlaced image
Question: On what frequency band was the BBC broadcasting in thie 1950s?
Answer: VHF
Question: What year was broadcast coverage extended to Sutton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Coldfield Birmingham transmitting station helped cover what area in 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did postwar coverage consist of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A common cause of software failure (real or perceived) is a lack of its compatibility with other application software, operating systems (or operating system versions, old or new), or target environments that differ greatly from the original (such as a terminal or GUI application intended to be run on the desktop now being required to become a web application, which must render in a web browser). For example, in the case of a lack of backward compatibility, this can occur because the programmers develop and test software only on the latest version of the target environment, which not all users may be running. This results in the unintended consequence that the latest work may not function on earlier versions of the target environment, or on older hardware that earlier versions of the target environment was capable of using. Sometimes such issues can be fixed by proactively abstracting operating system functionality into a separate program module or library.
Question: What is the most common reason for software failure?
Answer: compatibility with other application software
Question: What do developers commonly do when creating software that can lead to failures?
Answer: lack of backward compatibility
Question: What is the most common cause for software failure?
Answer: lack of its compatibility with other application software
Question: What often lacks in software developed when its released that can eventually lead to errors?
Answer: a lack of backward compatibility
Question: What does backwards compatibility always seem to be the cause of errors and bugs after a release?
Answer: test software only on the latest version of the target environment
Question: Lack of compatibility with other application software is an uncommon cause of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Programmers develop software on the earliest version of what environment?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the most uncommon reason for software failure?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Target environments rarely differ greatly from the what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Spanish language is the second most spoken language in the United States. There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States, as well as six million Spanish language students. Together, this makes the United States of America the second largest Hispanophone country in the world after Mexico, and with the United States having more Spanish-speakers than Colombia and Spain (but fewer first language speakers). Spanish is the Romance language and the Indo-European language with the largest number of native speakers in the world. Roughly half of all American Spanish-speakers also speak English "very well," based on their self-assessment in the U.S. Census.
Question: How many people speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States?
Answer: There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States,
Question: How many Hispanics speak English too?
Answer: Roughly half of all American Spanish-speakers also speak English "very well," based on their self-assessment in the U.S. Census.
Question: What other language is often spoken in the United states?
Answer: The Spanish language is the second most spoken language in the United States.
Question: What type of language id Spanish?
Answer: Spanish is the Romance language and the Indo-European language with the largest number of native speakers in the world.
Question: How many Spanish speaking students are there in the United States?
Answer: six million Spanish language students.
Question: 45 million people speak Spanish as a first or second language in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country is the second-largest Hispanophone country in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of language is Spanish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Half of all Spanish speakers also speak what very well?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Spanish has the largest number of native speakers in which branch of language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Spanish speaking students are there in Spain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the first American language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the second most spoken language in Columbia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country has more first language Spanish-speakers than Mexico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Hispanophones speak Spanish in Mexico?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hunting in the United States is not associated with any particular class or culture; a 2006 poll showed seventy-eight percent of Americans supported legal hunting, although relatively few Americans actually hunt. At the beginning of the 21st century, just six percent of Americans hunted. Southerners in states along the eastern seaboard hunted at a rate of five percent, slightly below the national average, and while hunting was more common in other parts of the South at nine percent, these rates did not surpass those of the Plains states, where twelve percent of Midwesterners hunted. Hunting in other areas of the country fell below the national average. Overall, in the 1996–2006 period, the number of hunters over the age of sixteen declined by ten percent, a drop attributable to a number of factors including habitat loss and changes in recreation habits.
Question: What is hunting in the U.S. not associated with?
Answer: any particular class or culture
Question: What percentage of Americans supported legal hunting in 2006?
Answer: seventy-eight percent
Question: What percentage of Americans actually hunted at the beginning of the 21st century?
Answer: just six percent
Question: What percentage of Midwesterners hunted?
Answer: twelve percent
Question: How much did the number of hunters over the age of sixteen decline in the period between 1996-2006?
Answer: ten percent
Question: What percentage of Americans support legal hunting?
Answer: seventy-eight percent
Question: What percentage of Americans actually hunted at the beginning of the 21st century?
Answer: six percent
Question: South Easterners hunted at what rate?
Answer: five percent
Question: Midwesterners hunted at what rate?
Answer: twelve percent
Question: What years did hunting decline?
Answer: 1996–2006
Question: What are recreation habits not associated with in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Americans were over the age of sixteen in the 21st century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: From 1996-2006 what percentage of Americans moved to the midwest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2006 what percentage of Americans had been to the eastern seaboard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of states in the midwest had habitat loss on farms?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Relocating his court from Jianzhou to Liaodong provided Nurhachi access to more resources; it also brought him in close contact with the Khorchin Mongol domains on the plains of Mongolia. Although by this time the once-united Mongol nation had long since fragmented into individual and hostile tribes, these tribes still presented a serious security threat to the Ming borders. Nurhachi's policy towards the Khorchins was to seek their friendship and cooperation against the Ming, securing his western border from a powerful potential enemy.
Question: Where did Nurhachi move his court to?
Answer: Liaodong
Question: Where did Nurhachi move his court from?
Answer: Jianzhou
Question: Who posed a threat to the Chinese borders?
Answer: Mongol nation |
Context: Some video compression schemes typically operate on square-shaped groups of neighboring pixels, often called macroblocks. These pixel groups or blocks of pixels are compared from one frame to the next, and the video compression codec sends only the differences within those blocks. In areas of video with more motion, the compression must encode more data to keep up with the larger number of pixels that are changing. Commonly during explosions, flames, flocks of animals, and in some panning shots, the high-frequency detail leads to quality decreases or to increases in the variable bitrate.
Question: What compression typically operate on square-shaped groups of pixels?
Answer: video
Question: What only sends the differences within those pixels and blocks?
Answer: macroblocks
Question: What does high-frequency detail lead to?
Answer: variable bitrate
Question: What compression typically operate on square-shaped groups of flames?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What only sends the differences within those bitrates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do high-frequency explosions lead to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sends only the difference within animals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When does high-frequency detail lead to blocks of pixels?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Starting at the transition between the Middle to Upper Paleolithic period, some 80,000 to 70,000 years ago, some hunter-gatherers bands began to specialize, concentrating on hunting a smaller selection of (often larger) game and gathering a smaller selection of food. This specialization of work also involved creating specialized tools, like fishing nets and hooks and bone harpoons. The transition into the subsequent Neolithic period is chiefly defined by the unprecedented development of nascent agricultural practices. Agriculture originated and spread in several different areas including the Middle East, Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes beginning as early as 12,000 years ago.
Question: During what period did hunter-gatherers begin to focus food collection on a more limited range?
Answer: Middle to Upper Paleolithic
Question: How many years ago did hunting-gatherers start specializing in their collection practices?
Answer: 80,000 to 70,000 years ago
Question: What was the change in gathering?
Answer: a smaller selection
Question: When did the use of agriculture begin it's spread?
Answer: 12,000 years ago
Question: The transition between the Lower and Middle Paleolithic period started when?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what period did all hunter-gatherers begin to specialize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The transition into the Paleolithic period is chiefly defined by what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Agriculture ended how many years ago?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When hunter-gatherers began to specialize, they concentrated on a larger selection of what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Museo Soumaya, named after the wife of Mexican magnate Carlos Slim, has the largest private collection of original Rodin sculptures outside Paris. It also has a large collection of Dalí sculptures, and recently began showing pieces in its masters collection including El Greco, Velázquez, Picasso and Canaletto. The museum inaugurated a new futuristic-design facility in 2011 just north of Polanco, while maintaining a smaller facility in Plaza Loreto in southern Mexico City. The Colección Júmex is a contemporary art museum located on the sprawling grounds of the Jumex juice company in the northern industrial suburb of Ecatepec. It is said to have the largest private contemporary art collection in Latin America and hosts pieces from its permanent collection as well as traveling exhibits by leading contemporary artists. The new Museo Júmex in Nuevo Polanco was slated to open in November 2013. The Museo de San Ildefonso, housed in the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City's historic downtown district is a 17th-century colonnaded palace housing an art museum that regularly hosts world-class exhibits of Mexican and international art. Recent exhibits have included those on David LaChapelle, Antony Gormley and Ron Mueck. The National Museum of Art (Museo Nacional de Arte) is also located in a former palace in the historic center. It houses a large collection of pieces by all major Mexican artists of the last 400 years and also hosts visiting exhibits.
Question: Who is the Museo Soumaya named after?
Answer: the wife of Mexican magnate Carlos Slim
Question: What city houses the only collection of Rodin sculptures that is larger than the one in Mexico City?
Answer: Paris
Question: What other famous sculpture has had his art displayed at the Museo Soumaya?
Answer: Dalí
Question: When did the new design of the museum open?
Answer: 2011
Question: How many years worth of art does the Museum in the historic center hold?
Answer: 400 |
Context: Beyoncé has received praise for her stage presence and voice during live performances. Jarett Wieselman of the New York Post placed her at number one on her list of the Five Best Singer/Dancers. According to Barbara Ellen of The Guardian Beyoncé is the most in-charge female artist she's seen onstage, while Alice Jones of The Independent wrote she "takes her role as entertainer so seriously she's almost too good." The ex-President of Def Jam L.A. Reid has described Beyoncé as the greatest entertainer alive. Jim Farber of the Daily News and Stephanie Classen of Star Phoenix both praised her strong voice and her stage presence.
Question: What characteristics has Beyonce received acclaim for?
Answer: stage presence and voice
Question: Which former president of Def Jam called Beyonce the greatest entertainer alive?
Answer: L.A. Reid
Question: For what does Beyonce receive praise?
Answer: stage presence
Question: Who chose her as number one on his list of Best singers/ Dancers?
Answer: Jarett Wieselman
Question: How has L.A. Reid described her?
Answer: greatest entertainer alive
Question: How does Alice Jones describe her?
Answer: she's almost too good
Question: Who has Beyoncé at number one on her Five Best Singer/Dancers?
Answer: Jarett Wieselman
Question: Who has said that Beyoncé is the best entertainer alive?
Answer: L.A. Reid |
Context: The iPod line can play several audio file formats including MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless. The iPod photo introduced the ability to display JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and PNG image file formats. Fifth and sixth generation iPod Classics, as well as third generation iPod Nanos, can additionally play MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) and QuickTime video formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data-rates. Originally, iPod software only worked with Mac OS; iPod software for Microsoft Windows was launched with the second generation model. Unlike most other media players, Apple does not support Microsoft's WMA audio format—but a converter for WMA files without Digital Rights Management (DRM) is provided with the Windows version of iTunes. MIDI files also cannot be played, but can be converted to audio files using the "Advanced" menu in iTunes. Alternative open-source audio formats, such as Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, are not supported without installing custom firmware onto an iPod (e.g., Rockbox).
Question: What is the name of an audio format developed by Apple?
Answer: Apple Lossless
Question: Which product enabled users to view images on the device?
Answer: iPod photo
Question: What Microsoft media format is not natively supported by Apple devices?
Answer: WMA
Question: What does DRM stand for?
Answer: Digital Rights Management
Question: What computer OS did iPod software exclusively work with at launch?
Answer: Mac OS
Question: What are some examples of audio formats supported by the iPod?
Answer: MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV, Audible audiobook, and Apple Lossless
Question: What was the first model to support JPEG and other still image formats?
Answer: iPod photo |
Context: The local councils are responsible for providing the functions set out in the Local Government Act 1989 such as urban planning and waste management. Most other government services are provided or regulated by the Victorian state government, which governs from Parliament House in Spring Street. These include services which are associated with local government in other countries and include public transport, main roads, traffic control, policing, education above preschool level, health and planning of major infrastructure projects. The state government retains the right to override certain local government decisions, including urban planning, and Melburnian issues often feature prominently in state election.
Question: Which act sets functions for Melbourne such as urban planning and waste management?
Answer: Local Government Act 1989
Question: From where does the Victorian state government operate?
Answer: Parliament House in Spring Street
Question: Contrary to other countires, are public transport, traffic control, policing, and education the responsibility of local or state government?
Answer: state government |
Context: In 1374 King Louis of Hungary approved the Privilege of Koszyce (Polish: "przywilej koszycki" or "ugoda koszycka") in Košice in order to guarantee the Polish throne for his daughter Jadwiga. He broadened the definition of who was a member of the nobility and exempted the entire class from all but one tax (łanowy, which was limited to 2 grosze from łan (an old measure of land size)). In addition, the King's right to raise taxes was abolished; no new taxes could be raised without the agreement of the nobility. Henceforth, also, district offices (Polish: "urzędy ziemskie") were reserved exclusively for local nobility, as the Privilege of Koszyce forbade the king to grant official posts and major Polish castles to foreign knights. Finally, this privilege obliged the King to pay indemnities to nobles injured or taken captive during a war outside Polish borders.
Question: When did King Louis of Hungary approve the privilege of Koszyce?
Answer: 1374
Question: WHy did King louis approve the privilege?
Answer: in order to guarantee the Polish throne for his daughter Jadwiga
Question: What did king louis of hungary do for the nobles?
Answer: exempted the entire class from all but one tax
Question: WHat happened to the kings right to raise taxes?
Answer: abolished
Question: What could the king do to nobles injured or taken during war?
Answer: King to pay indemnities |
Context: From May 13 to May 16 in 1929, Johnson hosted a conference for organized crime figures from all across America. The men who called this meeting were Masseria family lieutenant Charles "Lucky" Luciano and former Chicago South Side Gang boss Johnny "the Fox" Torrio, with heads of the Bugs and Meyer Mob, Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Siegel, being used as muscle for the meeting.
Question: Who was a meeting organized for in 1929 in Atlantic City?
Answer: organized crime figures from all across America
Question: What family was Charles
Answer: Charles "Lucky" Luciano and former Chicago South Side Gang boss Johnny "the Fox" Torrio
Question: In what year was there a conference for organized crime figures in Atlantic City?
Answer: 1929
Question: For which family was Charles "Lucky" Luciano a lieutenant?
Answer: Masseria family
Question: What was Johnny Torrio's nickname?
Answer: the Fox
Question: What was Charles Luciano's nickname?
Answer: Lucky
Question: Who was a former Chicago South Side Gang boss?
Answer: Johnny "the Fox" Torrio |
Context: Like other South Slavic languages, Serbo-Croatian has a simple phonology, with the common five-vowel system and twenty-five consonants. Its grammar evolved from Common Slavic, with complex inflection, preserving seven grammatical cases in nouns, pronouns, and adjectives. Verbs exhibit imperfective or perfective aspect, with a moderately complex tense system. Serbo-Croatian is a pro-drop language with flexible word order, subject–verb–object being the default. It can be written in Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin alphabet, whose thirty letters mutually map one-to-one, and the orthography is highly phonemic in all standards.
Question: How many vowels does the Serbo-Croatian language have?
Answer: five
Question: How many consonants does the Serbo-Croatian language have?
Answer: twenty-five
Question: From where does Serbo-Croatian derive its grammar?
Answer: Common Slavic
Question: Which alphabets can be used to express the Serbo-Croatian language?
Answer: Serbian Cyrillic or Gaj's Latin
Question: What kind of phonology does Serbian Cyrillic have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many consonants are in Gaj's Latin alphabet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Serbian Cyrillic evolve from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of word order does Gaj's latin alphabet have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Name another language that Common Slavic can be written in besides Serbian Cyrillic?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Start and end dates vary with location and year. Since 1996 European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union. Starting in 2007, most of the United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, almost two-thirds of the year. The 2007 US change was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; previously, from 1987 through 2006, the start and end dates were the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October, and Congress retains the right to go back to the previous dates now that an energy-consumption study has been done. Proponents for permanently retaining November as the month for ending DST point to Halloween as a reason to delay the change in order to allow extra daylight for the evening of October 31.
Question: What year did the European Union standardize their Summer Time?
Answer: 1996
Question: European Summer Time begins in March and ends in what month?
Answer: October
Question: What act in the U.S. brought about the 2007 change in DST policy?
Answer: the Energy Policy Act of 2005
Question: What government body is allowed to change the DST policy in the United States back to the dates observed from 1987 to 2006?
Answer: Congress
Question: Supporters of the November end to DST name what U.S. holiday as the justification for keeping the change through the end of October?
Answer: Halloween |
Context: WPXD channel 31, an affiliate of the ION Television network, is licensed to the city. WHTV channel 18, a MyNetworkTV-affiliated station for the Lansing market, broadcasts from a transmitter in Lyndon Township, west of Ann Arbor. Community Television Network (CTN) is a city-provided cable television channel with production facilities open to city residents and nonprofit organizations. Detroit and Toledo-area radio and television stations also serve Ann Arbor, and stations from Lansing and Windsor, Ontario, can be heard in parts of the area.
Question: WPXD channel 31 is an affliate of which TV network?
Answer: ION
Question: What is the abbreviation of CTN?
Answer: Community Television Network
Question: What affiliate of the ION Television Network broadcasts from Lyndon Township?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What MyNetworkTV-affiliated station is licensed to the city of Ann Arbor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is WHTV channel 81 based?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is WPXD channel 13 based?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The GameCube and Wii versions feature several minor differences in their controls. The Wii version of the game makes use of the motion sensors and built-in speaker of the Wii Remote. The speaker emits the sounds of a bowstring when shooting an arrow, Midna's laugh when she gives advice to Link, and the series' trademark "chime" when discovering secrets. The player controls Link's sword by swinging the Wii Remote. Other attacks are triggered using similar gestures with the Nunchuk. Unique to the GameCube version is the ability for the player to control the camera freely, without entering a special "lookaround" mode required by the Wii; however, in the GameCube version, only two of Link's secondary weapons can be equipped at a time, as opposed to four in the Wii version.[g]
Question: Where is the speaker located on the Wii console?
Answer: Wii Remote
Question: What sound do users here when uncovering secrets in the game?
Answer: chime
Question: What part of the Wii is employed to use weapons?
Answer: Wii Remote
Question: Aside from the sword, what is another weapon that Link can use?
Answer: Nunchuk
Question: How many weapons can be equipped by Link if playing Twilight Princess on a GameCube?
Answer: two
Question: The Wii version makes use of what kind of sensors?
Answer: motion
Question: What device on the Wii allows for sounds of a bowstring to be heard?
Answer: Wii Remote
Question: Where is the speaker located on the Midna console?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sound do users hear when uncovering weapons in the game?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What part of the Midna is employed to use weapons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Aside from the sword, what is another weapon that Midna can use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many weapons can be equipped by Midna if playing Twilight Princess on a GameCube?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some stations that broadcast from smaller cities are private affiliates of the CBC, that is, stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but predominantly incorporate CBC programming within their schedules. Such stations generally follow the CBC schedule, airing a minimum 40 hours per week of network programming. However, they may opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally produced programs, syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters, such as CTV Two, which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market. In these cases, the CBC programming being displaced may be broadcast at a different time than the network, or may not be broadcast on the station at all. Most private affiliates generally opt out of CBC's afternoon schedule and Thursday night arts programming. Private affiliates carry the 10 p.m. broadcast of The National as a core part of the CBC schedule, but generally omitted the 11 p.m. repeat (which is no longer broadcast). Most private affiliates produce their own local newscasts for a duration of at least 35 minutes. Some of the private affiliates have begun adding CBC's overnight programming to their schedules since the network began broadcasting 24 hours a day.
Question: What are private affiliates?
Answer: stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but predominantly incorporate CBC programming within their schedules
Question: Minimally, how many hours are devoted weekly to network programming in CBC's private affiliates?
Answer: 40
Question: Which broadcast do affiliates generally carry?
Answer: 10 p.m
Question: Much of the CBC's income is generated not from advertisements, but other stations known as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CBC tries to dedicate how many hours a week to public broadcasting programs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: CBC will terminate contracts when private affiliates opt to air what programs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CBC Private news usually will air at what time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: CBC's contract states all affiliates must broadcast how many hours a day?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to the Rev. John Gulick: "The inhabitants of other Asiatic nations, who have had occasion to represent the words of their several languages by Chinese characters, have as a rule used unaspirated characters for the sounds, g, d, b. The Muslims from Arabia and Persia have followed this method … The Mongols, Manchu, and Japanese also constantly select unaspirated characters to represent the sounds g, d, b, and j of their languages. These surrounding Asiatic nations, in writing Chinese words in their own alphabets, have uniformly used g, d, b, & c., to represent the unaspirated sounds."
Question: Who is John Gulick?
Answer: Rev
Question: Who constantly selected unaspirated characters?
Answer: Mongols, Manchu, and Japanese
Question: Who have followed this method?
Answer: Muslims from Arabia and Persia |
Context: Much of the legislative style was adapted from the Roman Law Code of Justinian. As a result, Roman ecclesiastical courts tend to follow the Roman Law style of continental Europe with some variation, featuring collegiate panels of judges and an investigative form of proceeding, called "inquisitorial", from the Latin "inquirere", to enquire. This is in contrast to the adversarial form of proceeding found in the common law system of English and U.S. law, which features such things as juries and single judges.
Question: What ancient law served as the precursor to the type of legislation seen in the Roman Catholics?
Answer: Roman Law Code of Justinian
Question: What word characterizes the type of procedure found in American and British courts?
Answer: adversarial
Question: What term characterizes the type of procedure used in Roman Church courts?
Answer: inquisitorial
Question: What is the English meaning of inquirere?
Answer: to enquire
Question: What was adapted from the Roman law code of Julius Caesar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What courts follow the room and law style found in Eurasia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other law system do ecclesiastical courts share an adversarial form with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do ecclesiastical courts have rather then collegiate panels of judges?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In parts of Italy, which were under eastern artistic influences, like Sicily and Venice, mosaic making never went out of fashion in the Middle Ages. The whole interior of the St Mark's Basilica in Venice is clad with elaborate, golden mosaics. The oldest scenes were executed by Greek masters in the late 11th century but the majority of the mosaics are works of local artists from the 12th–13th centuries. The decoration of the church was finished only in the 16th century. One hundred and ten scenes of mosaics in the atrium of St Mark's were based directly on the miniatures of the Cotton Genesis, a Byzantine manuscript that was brought to Venice after the sack of Constantinople (1204). The mosaics were executed in the 1220s.
Question: Which area in Italy besides Sicily did mosaic art not go out of fashion in the middle ages?
Answer: Venice
Question: Which church in Venice is decorated with elaborate golden mosaics?
Answer: St Mark's Basilica
Question: When were the oldest scenes in St. Mark's mosaics completed?
Answer: the late 11th century
Question: The majority of the mosaics in Venice were created by who?
Answer: local artists
Question: When was the sack of Constantinople?
Answer: 1204 |
Context: One important aspect of the rule-of-law initiatives is the study and analysis of the rule of law’s impact on economic development. The rule-of-law movement cannot be fully successful in transitional and developing countries without an answer to the question: does the rule of law matter for economic development or not? Constitutional economics is the study of the compatibility of economic and financial decisions within existing constitutional law frameworks, and such a framework includes government spending on the judiciary, which, in many transitional and developing countries, is completely controlled by the executive. It is useful to distinguish between the two methods of corruption of the judiciary: corruption by the executive branch, in contrast to corruption by private actors.
Question: The impact of the rule of law on what is closely studied?
Answer: economic development
Question: What doctrine seeks to study rules and their relationship with the economy?
Answer: Constitutional economics
Question: In what branch of government is corruption examined?
Answer: executive branch
Question: In developing countries, who makes most of the spending decisions?
Answer: the executive
Question: What is the term for corruption by individuals?
Answer: corruption by private actors
Question: What type of development is not impacted by rule of law?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What doctoring studies rules in your relationships with the government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is this study of economics and financial decisions regardless of law?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Czechs' language separated from other Slavic tongues into what would later be called Old Czech by the thirteenth century, a classification extending through the sixteenth century. Its use of cases differed from the modern language; although Old Czech did not yet have a vocative case or an animacy distinction, declension for its six cases and three genders rapidly became complicated (partially to differentiate homophones) and its declension patterns resembled those of Lithuanian (its Balto-Slavic cousin).
Question: By the thirteenth century, what had the Czech language separated from?
Answer: other Slavic tongues
Question: How long was the precursor to Czech classified as Old Czech?
Answer: through the sixteenth century
Question: How did Old Czech's use of cases differ from modern usage?
Answer: did not yet have a vocative case or an animacy distinction
Question: How many cases did Old Czech have?
Answer: six
Question: What other language did Old Czech's declension patterns resemble?
Answer: Lithuanian
Question: What other languages did Lithuanian separate from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Lithuanian called by the thirteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many cases did Lithuanian have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many genders were used in Lithuanian in the past?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long was Lithuanian considered Old Czech?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to geologist Stefan Schmid, because the Western Alps underwent a metamorphic event in the Cenozoic Era while the Austroalpine peaks underwent an event in the Cretaceous Period, the two areas show distinct differences in nappe formations. Flysch deposits in the Southern Alps of Lombardy probably occurred in the Cretaceous or later.
Question: What is Stefan Schmid's profession?
Answer: geologist
Question: What happened to the Western Alps during the Cenozoic Era
Answer: a metamorphic event
Question: When did the Austroalpine peaks undergo their event?
Answer: the Cretaceous Period
Question: The Western Alps and the Austroalpine peaks show distinct differences in what?
Answer: nappe formations
Question: When did Flysch deposits probably occur in the Southern Alps of Lombardy?
Answer: Cretaceous |
Context: Houston (i/ˈhjuːstən/ HYOO-stən) is the most populous city in Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million people, within a land area of 599.6 square miles (1,553 km2), it also is the largest city in the Southern United States, as well as the seat of Harris County. It is the principal city of Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, which is the fifth most populated metropolitan area in the United States.
Question: Where is Houston located?
Answer: in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico
Question: Where is Houston ranked among the most populous cities in the US?
Answer: fourth
Question: What was the population of Houston in 2014?
Answer: 2.239 million people
Question: What is Houston the principle city of?
Answer: Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land
Question: What is the fifth most populated metropolitan area in the US?
Answer: Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land
Question: What is the most populous city in Texas?
Answer: Houston
Question: How does Houston rank as to population in the U.S.?
Answer: fourth
Question: According to the 2014 census, how many people live in Houston?
Answer: 2.239 million
Question: What is the land are of the City of Houston?
Answer: 599.6 square miles
Question: Houston is located in which Texas county?
Answer: Harris County
Question: Where is Texas located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Houston ranked among the least populous cities in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the population of Houston in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Houston the non-principle city of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the sixth most populated metropolitan area in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Charleston has one official sister city, Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. The relationship between the two cities began when Pulitzer Prize-winning Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti selected Charleston as the city to host the American version of Spoleto's annual Festival of Two Worlds. "Looking for a city that would provide the charm of Spoleto, as well as its wealth of theaters, churches, and other performance spaces, they selected Charleston, South Carolina, as the ideal location. The historic city provided a perfect fit: intimate enough that the Festival would captivate the entire city, yet cosmopolitan enough to provide an enthusiastic audience and robust infrastructure."
Question: What is the name of Charleston's sister city?
Answer: Spoleto
Question: In what country is Spoleto located?
Answer: Italy
Question: Who selected Charleston to host an American version of a festival?
Answer: Gian Carlo Menotti
Question: What is the name of festival held in Spoleto?
Answer: Festival of Two Worlds
Question: What is the profession of Gian Carlo Menotti?
Answer: composer
Question: What is the name of Charleston's brother city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what country isn't Spoleto located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who selected Charleston not to host an American version of a festival?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the name of festival held in Spoleto?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the profession of Gian Carlo Menotti?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: IMF's forecast said that Greece's unemployment rate would hit the highest 14.8 percent in 2012 and decrease to 14.1 in 2014. But in fact, the Greek economy suffered a prolonged high unemployemnt. The unemployment figure was between 9 per cent and 11 per cent in 2009, and it soared to 28 per cent in 2013. In 2015, Greece's jobless rate is around 24 per cent. It is thought that Greece's potential output has been eroded by this prolonged massive unemployment due to the associated hysteresis effects.
Question: What did IMF forecast Greece's unemployment rate to be in 2012?
Answer: 14.8 percent
Question: What was Greece's unemployment rate between in 2009?
Answer: 9 per cent and 11 per cent
Question: What did Greece's unemployment rate soar to in 2013?
Answer: 28 per cent
Question: What was Greece's jobless rate in 2015?
Answer: 24 per cent
Question: What is thought to have eroded Greece's potential output?
Answer: prolonged massive unemployment
Question: What did IMF forecast Greece's employment rate to be in 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Greece's employment rate between 2000 and 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Greece's unemployment rate crash to in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is thought to have helped Greece's potential output?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Glaciers pick up rocks and sediment with them as they flow. This causes erosion and the formation of valleys over time. The Inn valley is an example of a valley carved by glaciers during the ice ages with a typical terraced structure caused by erosion. Eroded rocks from the most recent ice age lie at the bottom of the valley while the top of the valley consists of erosion from earlier ice ages. Glacial valleys have characteristically steep walls (reliefs); valleys with lower reliefs and talus slopes are remnants of glacial troughs or previously infilled valleys. Moraines, piles of rock picked up during the movement of the glacier, accumulate at edges, center and the terminus of glaciers.
Question: What is an example of a valley carved by glaciers during the ice ages?
Answer: The Inn valley
Question: What lays at the bottom of the Inn Valley
Answer: Eroded rocks from the most recent ice age
Question: The top of the Inn Valley consists of what?
Answer: erosion from earlier ice ages
Question: What are Moraines?
Answer: piles of rock picked up during the movement of the glacier
Question: Where have moraines accumulated?
Answer: at edges, center and the terminus of glaciers. |
Context: Presbyterianism is historically a confessional tradition. This has two implications. The obvious one is that confessional churches express their faith in the form of "confessions of faith," which have some level of authoritative status. However this is based on a more subtle point: In confessional churches, theology is not solely an individual matter. While individuals are encouraged to understand Scripture, and may challenge the current institutional understanding, theology is carried out by the community as a whole. It is this community understanding of theology that is expressed in confessions.
Question: Presbyterianism is based on this type of tradition, what is it?
Answer: confessional tradition
Question: Confessional churches express this form of confession, what is it named?
Answer: confessions of faith
Question: What is not a sole matter individually in a confessional church?
Answer: theology
Question: How is theology carried out in a confessional church?
Answer: by the community as a whole
Question: In which way do nonconfessional churches express their faith?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which is solely an individual matter in confessional churches?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which type of churches is theology carried out by individuals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The individual understanding of theology is expressed during what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The fact that Presbyterianism is historically a theology has how many implications?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The relationship between genes can be measured by comparing the sequence alignment of their DNA.:7.6 The degree of sequence similarity between homologous genes is called conserved sequence. Most changes to a gene's sequence do not affect its function and so genes accumulate mutations over time by neutral molecular evolution. Additionally, any selection on a gene will cause its sequence to diverge at a different rate. Genes under stabilizing selection are constrained and so change more slowly whereas genes under directional selection change sequence more rapidly. The sequence differences between genes can be used for phylogenetic analyses to study how those genes have evolved and how the organisms they come from are related.
Question: What does comparing the sequence alignment of genes' DNA measure?
Answer: The relationship between genes
Question: What is the degree of sequence similarity between homologous genes called?
Answer: conserved sequence
Question: How do genes typically accumulate mutations over time?
Answer: by neutral molecular evolution
Question: Under what type of selection are genes constrained so they change more slowly?
Answer: stabilizing
Question: What type of analyses can the sequence differences between genes be used for?
Answer: phylogenetic |
Context: Albert Einstein is known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. He also made important contributions to statistical mechanics, especially his mathematical treatment of Brownian motion, his resolution of the paradox of specific heats, and his connection of fluctuations and dissipation. Despite his reservations about its interpretation, Einstein also made contributions to quantum mechanics and, indirectly, quantum field theory, primarily through his theoretical studies of the photon.
Question: What is Albert Einstein known for?
Answer: his theories of special relativity and general relativity
Question: What did Einstein add to the Brownman Motion?
Answer: mathematical treatment
Question: What did Einstein discover a resolution to?
Answer: the paradox of specific heats
Question: What theory did Einstein have reservations about?
Answer: quantum field theory |
Context: Some NPOs may also be a charity or service organization; they may be organized as a profit corporation or as a trust, a cooperative, or they exist informally. A very similar type of organization termed a supporting organization operates like a foundation, but they are more complicated to administer, hold more favorable tax status and are restricted in the public charities they support. Their mole is not to be successful in terms of wealth, but in terms of giving value to the groups of people they administer to.
Question: How are charity or service NPOs usually organized?
Answer: profit corporation or as a trust, a cooperative, or they exist informally
Question: What type of organization behaves much like a foundation?
Answer: a supporting organization
Question: What is a major function of a foundation?
Answer: giving value to the groups of people they administer to
Question: What are foundations also allowed to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other organization do NPO's also operate like?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of tax status do NPO's have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What model do NPO's follow instead of being financially successful?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are groups that focus on financial success organized?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Changes also took place within the recruitment and composition of armies. The use of the national or feudal levy was gradually replaced by paid troops of domestic retinues or foreign mercenaries. The practice was associated with Edward III of England and the condottieri of the Italian city-states. All over Europe, Swiss soldiers were in particularly high demand. At the same time, the period also saw the emergence of the first permanent armies. It was in Valois France, under the heavy demands of the Hundred Years' War, that the armed forces gradually assumed a permanent nature.
Question: Which conflict in France resulted in the establishment of permanent armies?
Answer: Hundred Years' War
Question: The use of paid mercenaries and domestic retinues replaced which method of raising troops?
Answer: national or feudal levy
Question: Which soldiers were in high demand under the mercenary system?
Answer: Swiss
Question: Which English king is associated with the use of mercenaries in the 14th century?
Answer: Edward III
Question: Which conflict in France resulted in the abolishment of permanent armies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The use of paid mercenaries and international retinues replaced which method of raising troops?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which soldiers were in low demand under the mercenary system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which soldiers were in high demand under the judicial system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which English king is associated with the use of mercenaries in the 13th century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Crimean War was one of the first conflicts to use modern technologies such as explosive naval shells, railways, and telegraphs.(Preface) The war was one of the first to be documented extensively in written reports and photographs. As the legend of the "Charge of the Light Brigade" demonstrates, the war quickly became an iconic symbol of logistical, medical and tactical failures and mismanagement. The reaction in the UK was a demand for professionalization, most famously achieved by Florence Nightingale, who gained worldwide attention for pioneering modern nursing while treating the wounded.
Question: What modern technologies were first used during the Crimean War?
Answer: explosive naval shells, railways, and telegraphs
Question: Who was recognized for treating the wounded while pioneering modern nursing?
Answer: Florence Nightingale
Question: The war was one of the first to be documented in what two ways?
Answer: written reports and photographs |
Context: The use of uranium in its natural oxide form dates back to at least the year 79 CE, when it was used to add a yellow color to ceramic glazes. Yellow glass with 1% uranium oxide was found in a Roman villa on Cape Posillipo in the Bay of Naples, Italy, by R. T. Gunther of the University of Oxford in 1912. Starting in the late Middle Ages, pitchblende was extracted from the Habsburg silver mines in Joachimsthal, Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), and was used as a coloring agent in the local glassmaking industry. In the early 19th century, the world's only known sources of uranium ore were these mines.
Question: What was the earliest year in recorded history that uranium oxide was used?
Answer: 79 CE
Question: What color of ceramic glaze was extracted from uranium oxide?
Answer: yellow
Question: In what county was glass with uranium oxide content found?
Answer: Italy
Question: In what year was yellow uranium oxide glass discovered?
Answer: 1912
Question: What institution did R.T. Gunther belong to?
Answer: the University of Oxford
Question: What was the latest year in recorded history that uranium oxide was used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color of ceramic glaze was subtracted from uranium oxide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what county was glass with uranium dioxide content found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was yellow uranium oxide glass undiscovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What institution did T.T. Gunther belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Bithynians were a Thracian people living in northwest Anatolia. After Alexander's conquests the region of Bithynia came under the rule of the native king Bas, who defeated Calas, a general of Alexander the Great, and maintained the independence of Bithynia. His son, Zipoetes I of Bithynia maintained this autonomy against Lysimachus and Seleucus I, and assumed the title of king (basileus) in 297 BCE. His son and successor, Nicomedes I, founded Nicomedia, which soon rose to great prosperity, and during his long reign (c. 278 – c. 255 BCE), as well as those of his successors, the kingdom of Bithynia held a considerable place among the minor monarchies of Anatolia. Nicomedes also invited the Celtic Galatians into Anatolia as mercenaries, and they later turned on his son Prusias I, who defeated them in battle. Their last king, Nicomedes IV, was unable to maintain himself against Mithridates VI of Pontus, and, after being restored to his throne by the Roman Senate, he bequeathed his kingdom by will to the Roman republic (74 BCE).
Question: Who were a Thracian people living in northwest Anatolia?
Answer: The Bithynians
Question: King Bas defeated which general of Alexander?
Answer: Calas
Question: Who assumed the title of king from Bas?
Answer: Zipoetes I
Question: When did Zipoetes I assume the role of king?
Answer: 297 BCE
Question: Who founded Nicomedia?
Answer: Nicomedes I |
Context: It was unclear if Shell would recommence drilling in mid-2013, following the "Kulluk" incident and, in February 2013, the corporation stated that it would "pause" its closely watched drilling project off the Alaskan coast in 2013, and will instead prepare for future exploration. In January 2014, the corporation announced the extension of the suspension of its drilling program in the Arctic, with chief executive van Beurden explaining that the project is "under review" due to both market and internal issues.
Question: Following what event was it uncertain if Shell would recommence drilling?
Answer: the "Kulluk" incident
Question: In February 2013, Shell Corporation announced that it would pause what?
Answer: its closely watched drilling project off the Alaskan coast
Question: Shell Corporation announced what in January 2014?
Answer: the extension of the suspension of its drilling program in the Arctic
Question: Which Shell Corporation executive explained the reason for the January 2014 announcement?
Answer: van Beurden
Question: What reason did the executive give for Shell's January 2014 announcement?
Answer: the project is "under review" due to both market and internal issues.
Question: What project was based in Alaska?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did van Beurden become the chief executive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the original suspension of the drilling program?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did shell announce it was resuming it Alaskan project?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was van Beurden under review?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The CTAG (Latvian: Cilvēktiesību aizstāvības grupa, Human Rights Defense Group) Helsinki-86 was founded in July 1986 in the Latvian port town of Liepāja by three workers: Linards Grantiņš, Raimonds Bitenieks, and Mārtiņš Bariss. Its name refers to the human-rights statements of the Helsinki Accords. Helsinki-86 was the first openly anti-Communist organization in the U.S.S.R., and the first openly organized opposition to the Soviet regime, setting an example for other ethnic minorities' pro-independence movements.[citation needed]
Question: Who created the CTAG?
Answer: Linards Grantiņš, Raimonds Bitenieks, and Mārtiņš Bariss.
Question: What group was the first to oppose the Soviet government publicly?
Answer: Helsinki-86
Question: What party was Helsinki-86 in disagreement with?
Answer: Communist |
Context: Initially the change in strategy caught the RAF off-guard, and caused extensive damage and civilian casualties. Some 107,400 long tons (109,100 t) of shipping was damaged in the Thames Estuary and 1,600 civilians were casualties. Of this total around 400 were killed. The fighting in the air was more intense in daylight. Overall Loge had cost the Luftwaffe 41 aircraft; 14 bombers, 16 Messerschmitt Bf 109s, seven Messerschmitt Bf 110s and four reconnaissance aircraft. Fighter Command lost 23 fighters, with six pilots killed and another seven wounded. Another 247 bombers from Sperrle's Luftflotte 3 (Air Fleet 3) attacked that night. On 8 September, the Luftwaffe returned. This time 412 people were killed and 747 severely wounded.
Question: The bombing of the Thames Estuary cause how many civilian casualties?
Answer: 1,600
Question: How many were killed in the bombing of the Thames Estuary?
Answer: around 400
Question: How many aircraft did the Luftwaffe lose?
Answer: 41
Question: How many German pilots were killed?
Answer: six
Question: How many Air Fleet 3 attacked that night?
Answer: 247 |
Context: The 2nd, 3rd and 4th Canadian Divisions each has a Regular Force brigade group, and each division except the 1st has two to three Reserve Force brigades groups. In total, there are ten Reserve Force brigade groups. The 5th Canadian Division and the 2nd Canadian Division each have two Reserve Force brigade groups, while the 4th Canadian Division and the 3rd Canadian Division each have three Reserve Force brigade groups. Major training and support establishments exist at CFB Gagetown, CFB Montreal and CFB Wainwright.
Question: Where is most of the major training performed?
Answer: CFB Gagetown, CFB Montreal and CFB Wainwright.
Question: Where is most of the minor training performed?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Their first ever defeat on home soil to a foreign team was an 0–2 loss to the Republic of Ireland, on 21 September 1949 at Goodison Park. A 6–3 loss in 1953 to Hungary, was their second defeat by a foreign team at Wembley. In the return match in Budapest, Hungary won 7–1. This still stands as England's worst ever defeat. After the game, a bewildered Syd Owen said, "it was like playing men from outer space". In the 1954 FIFA World Cup, England reached the quarter-finals for the first time, and lost 4–2 to reigning champions Uruguay.
Question: In what year did England suffer their first defeat at home to a foreign team?
Answer: 1949
Question: What was the final score of England's worst ever defeat?
Answer: 7–1
Question: In what year did England reach the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup for the first time?
Answer: 1954
Question: To whom is the quote "it was like playing men from outer space" attributed?
Answer: Syd Owen
Question: After reaching the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals for the first time, to whom did England lose with a final score of 4-2?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: In what year was Goodison Park built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Syd Owen start playing for England's football team?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date in 1953 did England's football team lose to Hungary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the score of England's football teams biggest win?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: He was moved to the Bureau of Topography of the Committee of Public Safety and sought unsuccessfully to be transferred to Constantinople in order to offer his services to the Sultan. During this period, he wrote the romantic novella Clisson et Eugénie, about a soldier and his lover, in a clear parallel to Bonaparte's own relationship with Désirée. On 15 September, Bonaparte was removed from the list of generals in regular service for his refusal to serve in the Vendée campaign. He faced a difficult financial situation and reduced career prospects.
Question: After his move to the Committee of Public Safety, where did Napoleon unsuccessfully attempt to be transferred to?
Answer: Constantinople
Question: Inspired by his own relationship, what romantic tale did Napoleon author?
Answer: Clisson et Eugénie
Question: On what date was Napoleon taken off the list of generals in service due to his refusal to serve in Vendée?
Answer: 15 September
Question: In which department of the Committee of Public Safety did Napoleon serve?
Answer: the Bureau of Topography
Question: Napoleon's novella "Clisson et Eugénie" was based on his relationship with whom?
Answer: Désirée |
Context: Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals. For specific details, an overview is available at Daylight saving time by country.
Question: Has the world seen many or few changes in the observation of DST?
Answer: many
Question: Countries might change their DST policy by enactments, adjustments, and what other type of policy changes?
Answer: repeals |
Context: Other than by appearance, "Coloureds" can usually be distinguished from "Blacks" by language. Most speak Afrikaans or English as a first language, as opposed to Bantu languages such as Zulu or Xhosa. They also tend to have more European-sounding names than Bantu names.
Question: What is another way "Coloureds" can be distinguished from "Blacks"?
Answer: language
Question: What languages are most common?
Answer: Afrikaans or English
Question: What are less common languages spoken?
Answer: Zulu or Xhosa
Question: What types of names do "coloureds" have?
Answer: European-sounding names
Question: What type of names do "blacks" have?
Answer: Bantu names |
Context: Apple was initially reluctant to embrace mice with multiple buttons and scroll wheels. Macs did not natively support pointing devices that featured multiple buttons, even from third parties, until Mac OS X arrived in 2001. Apple continued to offer only single button mice, in both wired and Bluetooth wireless versions, until August 2005, when it introduced the Mighty Mouse. While it looked like a traditional one-button mouse, it actually had four buttons and a scroll ball, capable of independent x- and y-axis movement. A Bluetooth version followed in July 2006. In October 2009, Apple introduced the Magic Mouse, which uses multi-touch gesture recognition (similar to that of the iPhone) instead of a physical scroll wheel or ball. It is available only in a wireless configuration, but the wired Mighty Mouse (re-branded as "Apple Mouse") is still available as an alternative. Since 2010, Apple has also offered the Magic Trackpad as a means to control Macintosh desktop computers in a way similar to laptops.
Question: Who was initially reluctant to embrace mice with multiple buttons and scroll wheels?
Answer: Apple
Question: What was the name of the 1st multiple button mouse introduced by Apple?
Answer: Mighty Mouse
Question: How many buttons did the Mighty Mouse have?
Answer: four
Question: What did Apple introduce to take the place of a physical scroll wheel in 2009?
Answer: multi-touch gesture recognition
Question: What Apple mouse 1st used multi-touch gesture recognition?
Answer: Magic Mouse
Question: Who was initially reluctant to embrace keyboards with multiple buttons and scroll wheels?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the last multiple button mouse introduced by Apple?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many trackballs did the Mighty Mouse have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Apple introduce to take the place of a physical scroll wheel in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Apple mouse 1st used single-touch gesture recognition?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the 16th century the northern fringe of the Sahara, such as coastal regencies in present-day Algeria and Tunisia, as well as some parts of present-day Libya, together with the semi-autonomous kingdom of Egypt, were occupied by the Ottoman Empire. From 1517 Egypt was a valued part of the Ottoman Empire, ownership of which provided the Ottomans with control over the Nile Valley, the east Mediterranean and North Africa. The benefit of the Ottoman Empire was the freedom of movement for citizens and goods. Trade exploited the Ottoman land routes to handle the spices, gold and silk from the East, manufactures from Europe, and the slave and gold traffic from Africa. Arabic continued as the local language and Islamic culture was much reinforced. The Sahel and southern Sahara regions were home to several independent states or to roaming Tuareg clans.
Question: During the 1500 who was a valued part of the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Egypt
Question: What did the Ottoman Empire provide to its people?
Answer: freedom of movement for citizens and goods
Question: What was the local language during this time in Egypt?
Answer: Arabic
Question: When did the Ottoman Empire disband?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What key feature made Algeria a vital part of the Ottoman empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the language of Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What culture did Tuareg clans enforce?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of rule did the kingdom of Algeria have?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Each season premieres with the audition round, taking place in different cities. The audition episodes typically feature a mix of potential finalists, interesting characters and woefully inadequate contestants. Each successful contestant receives a golden ticket to proceed on to the next round in Hollywood. Based on their performances during the Hollywood round (Las Vegas round for seasons 10 onwards), 24 to 36 contestants are selected by the judges to participate in the semifinals. From the semifinal onwards the contestants perform their songs live, with the judges making their critiques after each performance. The contestants are voted for by the viewing public, and the outcome of the public votes is then revealed in the results show typically on the following night. The results shows feature group performances by the contestants as well as guest performers. The Top-three results show also features the homecoming events for the Top 3 finalists. The season reaches its climax in a two-hour results finale show, where the winner of the season is revealed.
Question: What is given to contestants who make it past the audition round?
Answer: a golden ticket
Question: In the audition rounds, what do contestants who win the approval of the judges receive?
Answer: a golden ticket
Question: Who votes for the winning contestants starting with the semi-final round?
Answer: the public |
Context: The FBI is near-impenetrable, with applicants intensely scrutinized and assessed over an extended period. To apply to become an FBI agent, one must be between the ages of 23 and 37. Due to the decision in Robert P. Isabella v. Department of State and Office of Personnel Management, 2008 M.S.P.B. 146, preference-eligible veterans may apply after age 37. In 2009, the Office of Personnel Management issued implementation guidance on the Isabella decision. The applicant must also hold American citizenship, be of high moral character, have a clean record, and hold at least a four-year bachelor's degree. At least three years of professional work experience prior to application is also required. All FBI employees require a Top Secret (TS) security clearance, and in many instances, employees need a TS/SCI (Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information) clearance. To obtain a security clearance, all potential FBI personnel must pass a series of Single Scope Background Investigations (SSBI), which are conducted by the Office of Personnel Management. Special Agents candidates also have to pass a Physical Fitness Test (PFT), which includes a 300-meter run, one-minute sit-ups, maximum push-ups, and a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) run. Personnel must pass a polygraph test with questions including possible drug use. Applicants who fail polygraphs may not gain employment with the FBI.
Question: What group of people may apply to join the FBI after age 37?
Answer: preference-eligible veterans
Question: What is the minimum age to join the FBI?
Answer: 23
Question: Is American citizenship required to be an FBI agent?
Answer: must also hold American citizenship
Question: What is a SSBI?
Answer: Single Scope Background Investigations
Question: Who conducts SSBIs?
Answer: Office of Personnel Management
Question: What organization is considered easy to infiltrate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can someone under the age of 23 apply to become?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who may not apply to the FBI after age 37?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not a requirement to be a FBI agent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do CIA personnel receive a security clearance?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The term "Enlightenment" emerged in English in the later part of the 19th century, with particular reference to French philosophy, as the equivalent of the French term 'Lumières' (used first by Dubos in 1733 and already well established by 1751). From Immanuel Kant's 1784 essay "Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?" ("Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?") the German term became 'Aufklärung' (aufklären = to illuminate; sich aufklären = to clear up). However, scholars have never agreed on a definition of the Enlightenment, or on its chronological or geographical extent. Terms like "les Lumières" (French), "illuminismo" (Italian), "ilustración" (Spanish) and "Aufklärung" (German) referred to partly overlapping movements. Not until the late nineteenth century did English scholars agree they were talking about "the Enlightenment."
Question: In what year was the French term Lumieres first used?
Answer: 1733
Question: What term became the German equivalent to the French term Lumieres?
Answer: Aufklärung
Question: In what century did the term Enlightenment emerge in English?
Answer: 19th
Question: What is the Italian equivalent to the French term Lumieres?
Answer: illuminismo
Question: Did the terms, Enlightenment, Lumieres, Aufklarung and illuminismo refer to distinct or overlapping movements?
Answer: overlapping |
Context: The last great period of Roman mosaic art was the 12th–13th century when Rome developed its own distinctive artistic style, free from the strict rules of eastern tradition and with a more realistic portrayal of figures in the space. Well-known works of this period are the floral mosaics of the Basilica di San Clemente, the façade of Santa Maria in Trastevere and San Paolo fuori le Mura. The beautiful apse mosaic of Santa Maria in Trastevere (1140) depicts Christ and Mary sitting next to each other on the heavenly throne, the first example of this iconographic scheme. A similar mosaic, the Coronation of the Virgin, decorates the apse of Santa Maria Maggiore. It is a work of Jacopo Torriti from 1295. The mosaics of Torriti and Jacopo da Camerino in the apse of San Giovanni in Laterano from 1288–94 were thoroughly restored in 1884. The apse mosaic of San Crisogono is attributed to Pietro Cavallini, the greatest Roman painter of the 13th century. Six scenes from the life of Mary in Santa Maria in Trastevere were also executed by Cavallini in 1290. These mosaics are praised for their realistic portrayal and attempts of perspective. There is an interesting mosaic medaillon from 1210 above the gate of the church of San Tommaso in Formis showing Christ enthroned between a white and a black slave. The church belonged to the Order of the Trinitarians which was devoted to ransoming Christian slaves.
Question: When was the last period of Roman mosaic art?
Answer: the 12th–13th century
Question: Where is the church of Santa maria?
Answer: Trastevere
Question: Who does the facade at the Santa Maria church depict?
Answer: Christ and Mary
Question: When were the mosaics at Torriti and Jacopo fully restored?
Answer: in 1884
Question: What year was the medallion above the gate of the church of San Tommaso?
Answer: 1210 |
Context: Most CBC television stations, including those in the major cities, are owned and operated by the CBC itself. CBC O&O stations operate as a mostly seamless national service with few deviations from the main network schedule, although there are some regional differences from time to time. For on-air identification, most CBC stations use the CBC brand rather than their call letters, not identifying themselves specifically until sign-on or sign-off (though some, like Toronto's CBLT, do not ID themselves at all except through PSIP). All CBC O&O stations have a standard call letter naming convention, in that the first two letters are "CB" (an ITU prefix allocated not to Canada, but to Chile) and the last letter is "T". Only the third letter varies from market to market; however, that letter is typically the same as the third letter of the CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 stations in the same market. An exception to this rule are the CBC North stations in Yellowknife, Whitehorse and Iqaluit, whose call signs begin with "CF" due to their historic association with the CBC's Frontier Coverage Package prior to the advent of microwave and satellite broadcasting.
Question: What station does not identify itself by its call letters?
Answer: Toronto's CBLT
Question: Who owns and operates most of the CBC television stations?
Answer: CBC itself
Question: What are the first two letters of nearly all CBC stations?
Answer: "CB"
Question: What is the last letter of nearly all CBC stations?
Answer: "T"
Question: Which stations break convention and begin with "CF" instead of "CB"?
Answer: CBC North
Question: The CBC does not allow on air call letter identification with which of their stations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CBC receives most of its funding from this entity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CBC only offered radio broadcasting in its northern regions before the advent of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In order to join the CBC broadcasting network, owners and operators change their call letters to conform to this rule?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the Second World War, General Dornberger was the military head of the army's rocket program, Zanssen became the commandant of the Peenemünde army rocket centre, and von Braun was the technical director of the ballistic missile program. They would lead the team that built the Aggregate-4 (A-4) rocket, which became the first vehicle to reach outer space during its test flight program in 1942 and 1943. By 1943, Germany began mass-producing the A-4 as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 ("Vengeance Weapon" 2, or more commonly, V2), a ballistic missile with a 320 kilometers (200 mi) range carrying a 1,130 kilograms (2,490 lb) warhead at 4,000 kilometers per hour (2,500 mph). Its supersonic speed meant there was no defense against it, and radar detection provided little warning. Germany used the weapon to bombard southern England and parts of Allied-liberated western Europe from 1944 until 1945. After the war, the V-2 became the basis of early American and Soviet rocket designs.
Question: During WWII, who was in charge of the German army's rocket program?
Answer: General Dornberger
Question: What was the first object to enter space?
Answer: Aggregate-4 (A-4) rocket
Question: When did the Aggregate-4 (A-4) rocket reach space?
Answer: 1942 and 1943 |
Context: Another principal tool in the diagnosis of infectious disease is microscopy. Virtually all of the culture techniques discussed above rely, at some point, on microscopic examination for definitive identification of the infectious agent. Microscopy may be carried out with simple instruments, such as the compound light microscope, or with instruments as complex as an electron microscope. Samples obtained from patients may be viewed directly under the light microscope, and can often rapidly lead to identification. Microscopy is often also used in conjunction with biochemical staining techniques, and can be made exquisitely specific when used in combination with antibody based techniques. For example, the use of antibodies made artificially fluorescent (fluorescently labeled antibodies) can be directed to bind to and identify a specific antigens present on a pathogen. A fluorescence microscope is then used to detect fluorescently labeled antibodies bound to internalized antigens within clinical samples or cultured cells. This technique is especially useful in the diagnosis of viral diseases, where the light microscope is incapable of identifying a virus directly.
Question: What is microscopy used for?
Answer: diagnosis of infectious disease
Question: What do virtually all culture techniques rely on at some point?
Answer: microscopic examination
Question: What can samples obtained from patients viewed directly under?
Answer: light microscope
Question: When is microscopy exquisitely specific?
Answer: when used in combination with antibody based techniques.
Question: What can antibodies with artificial fluorescence be directed to do?
Answer: bind to and identify a specific antigens present on a pathogen
Question: What is microscopy unnecessary for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do virtually no culture techniques rely on at some point?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can samples obtained from patients be viewed by from far away?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is microscopy exquisitely useless?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are antibodies with artificial fluorescence unable to do?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 21 December 1941, the Partisans created the First Proletarian Brigade (commanded by Koča Popović) and on 1 March 1942, Tito created the Second Proletarian Brigade. In liberated territories, the Partisans organised People's Committees to act as civilian government. The Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) convened in Bihać on 26–27 November 1942 and in Jajce on 29 November 1943. In the two sessions, the resistance representatives established the basis for post-war organisation of the country, deciding on a federation of the Yugoslav nations. In Jajce, a 67-member "presidency" was elected and established a nine-member National Committee of Liberation (five communist members) as a de facto provisional government. Tito was named President of the National Committee of Liberation.
Question: When did the Partisans create the First Proletarian Brigade?
Answer: 1941
Question: When did Tito create the Second Proletarian Brigade?
Answer: 1942
Question: What position was Tito named to for the National Committee of LIberation?
Answer: President
Question: Where was the 67-member "presidency" located?
Answer: Jajce
Question: How many members were in the "presidency" in Jajce?
Answer: 67 |
Context: Despite Tom's conviction, Bob Ewell is humiliated by the events of the trial, Atticus explaining that he "destroyed [Ewell's] last shred of credibility at that trial." Ewell vows revenge, spitting in Atticus' face, trying to break into the judge's house, and menacing Tom Robinson's widow. Finally, he attacks the defenseless Jem and Scout while they walk home on a dark night after the school Halloween pageant. One of Jem's arms is broken in the struggle, but amid the confusion someone comes to the children's rescue. The mysterious man carries Jem home, where Scout realizes that he is Boo Radley.
Question: Who did Bob Ewell attack during the story?
Answer: Jem and Scout
Question: What event did Jem and Scout attend right before they were attacked at night?
Answer: Halloween pageant
Question: Who saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell?
Answer: Boo Radley
Question: Who attacked Scout and Jem?
Answer: Bob Ewell
Question: Who rescued Scout and Jem?
Answer: Boo Radley |
Context: Because the nuns of the order did not preach among the people, the need to engage in study was not as immediate or intense as it was for men. They did participate, however, in a number of intellectual activities. Along with sewing and embroidery, nuns often engaged in reading and discussing correspondence from Church leaders. In the Strassburg monastery of St. Margaret, some of the nuns could converse fluently in Latin. Learning still had an elevated place in the lives of these religious. In fact, Margarette Reglerin, a daughter of a wealthy Nuremberg family, was dismissed from a convent because she did not have the ability or will to learn.
Question: What did the nuns not do in the Dominican Order?
Answer: preach among the people
Question: What was one of the activities the nuns enjoyed?
Answer: embroidery
Question: Who was expelled from a nunnery for not wanting to learn?
Answer: Margarette Reglerin
Question: Where was Margarette Reglerin from?
Answer: Nuremberg
Question: What monastery did the nuns belong to who could speak Latin fluently?
Answer: Strassburg monastery of St. Margaret
Question: What did the nuns of the Dominican order do among people?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was immediate or intense for the nuns as it was for men?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What activities did the nuns not have to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Strasbourg monastery did some nuns not converse fluently in Latin?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Also, anything that can be used as an element of drama can exist in professional wrestling stories: romantic relationships (including love triangles and marriage), racism, classism, nepotism, favoritism, corporate corruption, family bonds, personal histories, grudges, theft, cheating, assault, betrayal, bribery, seduction, stalking, confidence tricks, extortion, blackmail, substance abuse, self-doubt, self-sacrifice; even kidnapping, sexual fetishism, necrophilia, misogyny, rape and death have been portrayed in wrestling. Some promotions have included supernatural elements such as magic, curses, the undead and Satanic imagery (most notably The Undertaker and his Ministry of Darkness, a stable that regularly performed evil rituals and human sacrifice in Satanic-like worship of a hidden power figure). Celebrities would also be involved in storylines.
Question: What supernatural things have been portrayed in matches?
Answer: magic, curses, the undead and Satanic imagery
Question: What can be used in a wrestling story?
Answer: anything that can be used as an element of drama
Question: What romantic drama might be used in a story?
Answer: love triangles and marriage |
Context: Burdened with debt, in 2004 Vivendi Universal sold 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment (including the studio and theme parks) to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBCUniversal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. After that deal, GE owned 80% of NBC Universal; Vivendi held the remaining 20%, with an option to sell its share in 2006. GE purchased Vivendi's share in NBCU in 2011 and in turn sold 51% of the company to cable provider Comcast. Comcast merged the former GE subsidiary with its own cable-television programming assets, creating the current NBCUniversal. Following Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval, the Comcast-GE deal was closed on Jan 29, 2011. In March 2013, Comcast bought the remaining 49% of NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion.
Question: Who bought 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2004?
Answer: General Electric
Question: What percentage of NBC Universal was owned by Vivendi until 2011?
Answer: 20%
Question: Who bought 51% of NBC Universal in 2011?
Answer: Comcast
Question: In what month and year did Comcast buy 49% of NBCUniversal?
Answer: March 2013
Question: How much did Comcast pay for 49% of NBCUniversal in 2013?
Answer: $16.7 billion
Question: What percentage did General Electric sell to Vivendi Universal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does NCBU stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who purchased Vivendi's share of NBCU in 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does CFC stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who bought 49% of NBCUniversal for $17.6 billion?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Professional wrestling in the U.S. tends to have a heavy focus on story building and the establishment of characters (and their personalities). There is a story for each match, and even a longer story for successive matches. The stories usually contain characters like faces and heels, and less often antiheroes and tweeners. It is a "triumph" if the face wins, while it is a "tragedy" if the heel wins. The characters usually have strong and sharp personalities, with examples like Doink the Clown, whose personality is melodramatic, slapstick and fantastical. The opposition between faces and heels is very intense in the story, and the heels may even attack the faces during TV interviews. The relationship between different characters can also be very complex.
Question: What does every match have?
Answer: a story
Question: Who is usually included in stories?
Answer: characters like faces and heels
Question: What are the possibly outcomes of a story?
Answer: It is a "triumph" if the face wins, while it is a "tragedy" if the heel wins.
Question: What is Doink the Clown's persona like?
Answer: melodramatic, slapstick and fantastical
Question: What might happen during interviews?
Answer: heels may even attack the faces |
Context: After the Peace of Westphalia, several border territories were assigned to the United Provinces. They were federally-governed Generality Lands (Generaliteitslanden). They were Staats-Brabant (present North Brabant), Staats-Vlaanderen (present Zeeuws-Vlaanderen), Staats-Limburg (around Maastricht) and Staats-Oppergelre (around Venlo, after 1715).
Question: Several border territories were designated to the United Provinces after what?
Answer: the Peace of Westphalia
Question: The border territories assigned to the United Provinces were known as what?
Answer: federally-governed Generality Lands (Generaliteitslanden)
Question: What were the names of the border territories assigned to the United Provinces?
Answer: Staats-Brabant (present North Brabant), Staats-Vlaanderen (present Zeeuws-Vlaanderen), Staats-Limburg (around Maastricht) and Staats-Oppergelre (around Venlo, after 1715)
Question: In 1715 what was assigned to the United Provinces?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the Maastricht assigned to the United Provinces known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one name of a Staats-Brabant assigned to the United Provinces?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were several border territories assigned to the Staats-Oppergelre?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was federally-governed Maastricht?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The term "Gothic architecture" originated as a pejorative description. Giorgio Vasari used the term "barbarous German style" in his Lives of the Artists to describe what is now considered the Gothic style, and in the introduction to the Lives he attributes various architectural features to "the Goths" whom he holds responsible for destroying the ancient buildings after they conquered Rome, and erecting new ones in this style. At the time in which Vasari was writing, Italy had experienced a century of building in the Classical architectural vocabulary revived in the Renaissance and seen as evidence of a new Golden Age of learning and refinement.
Question: What type of description did the term "Gothic architecture" originate as?
Answer: a pejorative description
Question: Who used the term "barbarous German style" to portray what is known today as the Gothic style?
Answer: Giorgio Vasari
Question: Who does Vasari believe destroyed ancient buildings after they conquered Rome?
Answer: "the Goths"
Question: How long had Italy undergone building in a Classical architecture style at the time of Vasari?
Answer: a century
Question: In what period was the Classical architecture vocabulary revived?
Answer: the Renaissance
Question: What type of description did the term "Gothic architecture" dismiss?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who used the term "barbarous German style" to portray what is known today as the Modern style?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does Vasari believe destroyed new buildings after they fell to Rome?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long had Italy stopped building in a Classical architecture style at the time of Vasari?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period was the Classical architecture vocabulary forgotten?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: However Cornelius Clifford places his birth no earlier than 296 and no later than 298, based on the fact that Athanasius indicates no first hand recollection of the Maximian persecution of 303, which he suggests Athanasius would have remembered if he had been ten years old at the time. Secondly, the Festal Epistles state that the Arians had accused Athanasius, among other charges, of not having yet attained the canonical age (30) and thus could not have been properly ordained as Patriarch of Alexandria in 328. The accusation must have seemed plausible. The Orthodox Church places his year of birth around 297.
Question: What famous event happened in 303?
Answer: Maximian persecution
Question: What writing mentions the Arian accusation that Athanasius was under aged?
Answer: the Festal Epistles
Question: At what age was a man eligible to be ordained at Patriarch of Alexandria?
Answer: canonical age (30)
Question: When was Cornelius Clifford born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Cornelius Clifford attend the Maximian persecution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Cornelius Clifford ordained as Patriarch of Alexandria?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What church does Cornelius Clifford belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How old was Cornelius Clifford when he joined The Orthodox Church?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What famous event happened in 305?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What writing denies that the Arian accusation that Athanasius was under aged?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what age was a woman eligible to be ordained at Patriarch of Alexandria?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the age of 20 called?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: "The first Ottoman Medrese was created in İznik in 1331 and most Ottoman medreses followed the traditions of Sunni Islam." "When an Ottoman sultan established a new medrese, he would invite scholars from the Islamic world—for example, Murad II brought scholars from Persia, such as ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn and Fakhr al-Dīn who helped enhance the reputation of the Ottoman medrese". This reveals that the Islamic world was interconnected in the early modern period as they travelled around to other Islamic states exchanging knowledge. This sense that the Ottoman Empire was becoming modernised through globalization is also recognised by Hamadeh who says: "Change in the eighteenth century as the beginning of a long and unilinear march toward westernisation reflects the two centuries of reformation in sovereign identity." İnalcık also mentions that while scholars from for example Persia travelled to the Ottomans in order to share their knowledge, Ottomans travelled as well to receive education from scholars of these Islamic lands, such as Egypt, Persia and Turkestan. Hence, this reveals that similar to today's modern world, individuals from the early modern society travelled abroad to receive education and share knowledge and that the world was more interconnected than it seems. Also, it reveals how the system of "schooling" was also similar to today's modern world where students travel abroad to different countries for studies. Examples of Ottoman madaris are the ones built by Mehmed the Conqueror. He built eight madaris that were built "on either side of the mosque where there were eight higher madaris for specialised studies and eight lower medreses, which prepared students for these." The fact that they were built around, or near mosques reveals the religious impulses behind madrasa building and it reveals the interconnectedness between institutions of learning and religion. The students who completed their education in the lower medreses became known as danismends. This reveals that similar to the education system today, the Ottomans' educational system involved different kinds of schools attached to different kinds of levels. For example, there were lower madaris and specialised ones, and for one to get into the specialised area meant that he had to complete the classes in the lower one in order to adequately prepare himself for higher learning.
Question: Who traveled abroad to get an education at madaris?
Answer: Ottomans
Question: How many madaris were started by Mehmed the Conqueror?
Answer: eight
Question: How would a student matriculate to the next level of schooling in the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: complete the classes in the lower one
Question: Where were Ottoman madaris built?
Answer: near mosques
Question: When was the first Ottoman madrasa built?
Answer: 1331
Question: Who didn't traveled abroad to get an education at madaris?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many madaris were not started by Mehmed the Conqueror?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How would a teacher matriculate to the next level of schooling in the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were Ottoman madaris torn down?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the first Ottoman madrasa torn down?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: To prevent the risk of out-of-phase supplies mixing, sections of line fed from different feeder stations must be kept strictly isolated. This is achieved by Neutral Sections (also known as Phase Breaks), usually provided at feeder stations and midway between them although, typically, only half are in use at any time, the others being provided to allow a feeder station to be shut down and power provided from adjacent feeder stations. Neutral Sections usually consist of an earthed section of wire which is separated from the live wires on either side by insulating material, typically ceramic beads, designed so that the pantograph will smoothly run from one section to the other. The earthed section prevents an arc being drawn from one live section to the other, as the voltage difference may be higher than the normal system voltage if the live sections are on different phases and the protective circuit breakers may not be able to safely interrupt the considerable current that would flow. To prevent the risk of an arc being drawn across from one section of wire to earth, when passing through the neutral section, the train must be coasting and the circuit breakers must be open. In many cases, this is done manually by the drivers. To help them, a warning board is provided just before both the neutral section and an advance warning some distance before. A further board is then provided after the neutral section to tell drivers to re-close the circuit breaker, although drivers must not do this until the rear pantograph has passed this board. In the UK, a system known as Automatic Power Control (APC) automatically opens and closes the circuit breaker, this being achieved by using sets of permanent magnets alongside the track communicating with a detector on the train. The only action needed by the driver is to shut off power and coast and therefore warning boards are still provided at and on the approach to neutral sections.
Question: What was the main requirement for electric feeder stations?
Answer: line fed from different feeder stations must be kept strictly isolated
Question: What invention prevented lines from getting mixed?
Answer: Phase Breaks
Question: What was the part of wire in Phase Break sections an arc being drawn from one wire to another?
Answer: The earthed section
Question: How were the drivers warned to start coasting the train?
Answer: warning board
Question: What should the driver do in order to open and close the circuit breaker?
Answer: to shut off power and coast
Question: Charged Sections consist of an earthed section of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the US, a system known as Automatic Power Control does what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Typically what are in use all the time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The earthed section allows for what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must not be coasting to prevent the risk of an arc being drawn?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the city, 24.6% of the population were under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 25.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36.3 years. For every 100 females there were 96.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.4 males.
Question: What percentage of the population was under the age of 18?
Answer: 24.6%
Question: What percentage of the population was 65 years of age or older?
Answer: 12.7%
Question: What was the median age?
Answer: 36.3 years |
Context: Short-term memory is also known as working memory. Short-term memory allows recall for a period of several seconds to a minute without rehearsal. Its capacity is also very limited: George A. Miller (1956), when working at Bell Laboratories, conducted experiments showing that the store of short-term memory was 7±2 items (the title of his famous paper, "The magical number 7±2"). Modern estimates of the capacity of short-term memory are lower, typically of the order of 4–5 items; however, memory capacity can be increased through a process called chunking. For example, in recalling a ten-digit telephone number, a person could chunk the digits into three groups: first, the area code (such as 123), then a three-digit chunk (456) and lastly a four-digit chunk (7890). This method of remembering telephone numbers is far more effective than attempting to remember a string of 10 digits; this is because we are able to chunk the information into meaningful groups of numbers. This may be reflected in some countries in the tendency to display telephone numbers as several chunks of two to four numbers.
Question: What is another name for short-term memory?
Answer: working memory.
Question: What exactly does short-term memory allow a person to do?
Answer: recall for a period of several seconds to a minute without rehearsal
Question: How much information can one store and recall in short-term memory?
Answer: capacity is also very limited
Question: How can one higher their memory capacity?
Answer: chunking.
Question: Why do some countries display numbers in chunks of two to four numbers?
Answer: because we are able to chunk the information into meaningful groups of numbers
Question: What is another name for extended memory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What exactly does chunking memory allow a person to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much information can one store and recall in long-term memory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did George A. Miller work at AT&T?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many groups could a person chunk a 7 digit telephone number?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (also known as the Environmental Protocol or Madrid Protocol) came into force in 1998, and is the main instrument concerned with conservation and management of biodiversity in Antarctica. The Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting is advised on environmental and conservation issues in Antarctica by the Committee for Environmental Protection. A major concern within this committee is the risk to Antarctica from unintentional introduction of non-native species from outside the region.
Question: When did the Environmental Protocol become effective?
Answer: 1998
Question: What is the main concern of the Protocol?
Answer: conservation
Question: What is seen as a major risk to Antarctica?
Answer: non-native species
Question: What group advises the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting?
Answer: Committee for Environmental Protection
Question: Besides conservation, what is the Environmental Protocol's goal to manage?
Answer: biodiversity
Question: What is the Environomental Protection Protocol to the Treaty Antarctic also known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What came into force in 1988?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Environmental Protection Protocol to the Treaty Antarctic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the main concern about native species from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There were several protests along the torch relay route. Members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, including pro-democracy activist Szeto Wah, waved novelty inflatable plastic Olympic flames, which they said symbolised democracy. They wanted accountability for the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and the implementation of democracy in Hong Kong. Political activist and Legislative Council member Leung Kwok-hung (Longhair) also joined the protest, saying "I'm very proud that in Hong Kong we still have people brave enough to speak out." Pro-democracy activists were overwhelmed by a crowd of torch supporters with insults like "running dog," "traitor," "get out!," and "I love the Communist Party." At the same time, about 10 members of the Civil Human Rights Front had orange banners calling for human rights improvements and universal suffrage. Onlookers were saying "Aren't you Chinese?" in Mandarin putonghua as they tried to cover the orange banners with a large Chinese national flag. One woman had an orange sign that said, "Olympic flame for democracy", while a man carried a poster with a tank and the slogan "One world, two dreams". A university student and former RDHK radio host Christina Chan wrapped the Tibetan snow lion flag around her body and later began waving it. Several onlookers heckled Chan, shouting "What kind of Chinese are you?" and "What a shame!" In the end, she and some of the protesters were taken away against their will by the authorities via a police vehicle "for their own protection." Chan is currently[when?] suing the Hong Kong government, claiming her human rights were breached. (case number HCAL139/08)
Question: What did Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China members wave to symbolize democracy?
Answer: plastic Olympic flames
Question: This group wanted accountability for what 1989 event?
Answer: Tiananmen Square protests
Question: Who wrapped a Tibetan flag around her body and later waved it?
Answer: Christina Chan
Question: Who removed Chan from the protest?
Answer: police
Question: Why is Chan suing the Hong Kong government?
Answer: her human rights were breached.
Question: Some people waved plastic inflated flames, saying they symbolize what?
Answer: democracy.
Question: Who was proud that Hong Kong still has brave people speaking out?
Answer: Leung Kwok-hung
Question: What did radio host Christina Chan wear before waving it?
Answer: Tibetan snow lion flag |
Context: Constantine successfully balanced his own role as an instrument of the pax deorum with the power of the Christian priesthoods in determining what was (in traditional Roman terms) auspicious - or in Christian terms, what was orthodox. The edict of Milan (313) redefined Imperial ideology as one of mutual toleration. Constantine had triumphed under the signum (sign) of the Christ: Christianity was therefore officially embraced along with traditional religions and from his new Eastern capital, Constantine could be seen to embody both Christian and Hellenic religious interests. He may have officially ended – or attempted to end – blood sacrifices to the genius of living emperors but his Imperial iconography and court ceremonial outstripped Diocletian's in their supra-human elevation of the Imperial hierarch. His later direct intervention in Church affairs proved a political masterstroke. Constantine united the empire as an absolute head of state, and on his death, he was honored as a Christian, Imperial, and "divus".
Question: What edict defined imperial ideas as being those of toleration?
Answer: edict of Milan
Question: How did Constantine accept Christianity?
Answer: officially
Question: Besides the acceptance of Christianity, what other religious cults were tolerated?
Answer: traditional religions
Question: As what type of ruler did Constantine unite the empire and church?
Answer: absolute head of state
Question: As what was Constantine honored when he died?
Answer: Christian, Imperial, and "divus" |
Context: A month after the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, several players from Barcelona enlisted in the ranks of those who fought against the military uprising, along with players from Athletic Bilbao. On 6 August, Falangist soldiers near Guadarrama murdered club president Josep Sunyol, a representative of the pro-independence political party. He was dubbed the martyr of barcelonisme, and his murder was a defining moment in the history of FC Barcelona and Catalan identity. In the summer of 1937, the squad was on tour in Mexico and the United States, where it was received as an ambassador of the Second Spanish Republic. The tour led to the financial security of the club, but also resulted in half of the team seeking asylum in Mexico and France, making it harder for the remaining team to contest for trophies.
Question: Who was murdered on 6 August, 1936?
Answer: Josep Sunyol
Question: Besides being club president, what was Sunyol involved in to have caused his murder?
Answer: pro-independence political party
Question: What was Sunyol called after his death?
Answer: martyr
Question: What was club Barcelona considered to represent when on tour in 1937?
Answer: Second Spanish Republic
Question: Where did half of the Barcelona team seek asylum in 1937?
Answer: Mexico and France |
Context: The first book printed in France, Epistolae ("Letters"), by Gasparinus de Bergamo (Gasparino da Barzizza), was published in Paris in 1470 by the press established by Johann Heynlin. Since then, Paris has been the centre of the French publishing industry, the home of some of the world's best-known writers and poets, and the setting for many classic works of French literature. Almost all the books published in Paris in the Middle Ages were in Latin, rather than French. Paris did not become the acknowledged capital of French literature until the 17th century, with authors such as Boileau, Corneille, La Fontaine, Molière, Racine, several coming from the provinces, and the foundation of the Académie française. In the 18th century, the literary life of Paris revolved around the cafés and salons, and was dominated by Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Pierre de Marivaux, and Beaumarchais.
Question: What was the title of the first book printed in France?
Answer: Epistolae
Question: Who wrote Epistolae?
Answer: Gasparinus de Bergamo
Question: When was Epistolae published?
Answer: 1470
Question: In what language were most books printed in the middle ages?
Answer: Latin |
Context: Whittaker was unsuited for the role and soon retired. Stewart and Harlan were conservative Republicans, while Brennan was a Democrat who became a leading voice for liberalism. In selecting a Chief Justice, Eisenhower looked for an experienced jurist who could appeal to liberals in the party as well as law-and-order conservatives, noting privately that Warren "represents the kind of political, economic, and social thinking that I believe we need on the Supreme Court ... He has a national name for integrity, uprightness, and courage that, again, I believe we need on the Court". In the next few years Warren led the Court in a series of liberal decisions that revolutionized the role of the Court.
Question: What were Harlan and Stewart's party affiliations?
Answer: Republicans
Question: What party did Brennan belong to?
Answer: Democrat
Question: Who did Eisenhower nominate for Chief Justice?
Answer: Warren
Question: What sort of decisions did Warren favor on the Supreme Court?
Answer: liberal
Question: Along with liberals, who was Eisenhower trying to appeal to with the Warren pick?
Answer: law-and-order conservatives |
Context: Coop et al. (2009) found "a selected allele that strongly differentiates the French from both the Yoruba and Han could be strongly clinal across Europe, or at high frequency in Europe and absent elsewhere, or follow any other distribution according to the geographic nature of the selective pressure. However, we see that the global geographic distributions of these putatively selected alleles are largely determined simply by their frequencies in Yoruba, French and Han (Figure 3). The global distributions fall into three major geographic patterns that we interpret as non-African sweeps, west Eurasian sweeps and East Asian sweeps, respectively."
Question: What thing that strongly differentiates the French from some other populations be clinal across Europe?
Answer: a selected allele
Question: When did Coop and others find out something about a selected allele?
Answer: 2009
Question: Something that is found at high frequency in Europe could be what elsewhere?
Answer: absent
Question: How many major geographic patterns do the global distributions fall into?
Answer: three
Question: What are sweeps?
Answer: major geographic patterns |
Context: Many popular museums, such as the San Diego Museum of Art, the San Diego Natural History Museum, the San Diego Museum of Man, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the San Diego Air & Space Museum are located in Balboa Park, which is also the location of the San Diego Zoo. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is located in La Jolla and has a branch located at the Santa Fe Depot downtown. The downtown branch consists of two building on two opposite streets. The Columbia district downtown is home to historic ship exhibits belonging to the San Diego Maritime Museum, headlined by the Star of India, as well as the unrelated San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum featuring the USS Midway aircraft carrier.
Question: What museum has a branch at the Santa Fe Depot?
Answer: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
Question: In what district can historic ship exhibits be found?
Answer: Columbia district downtown
Question: Where can one find the San Diego Zoo?
Answer: Balboa Park
Question: Which museum houses the USS Midway aircraft carrier?
Answer: San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
Question: What space-focused museum is in Balboa Park?
Answer: San Diego Air & Space Museum
Question: What museum has no branch at the Santa Fe Depot?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what district can't historic ship exhibits be found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can one find the San Francisco Zoo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which museum houses the USA Midway aircraft carrier?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What space-focused museum is in Rocky Balboa Park?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some wrestlers may have their own specific "mini me", like Mascarita Sagrada, Alebrije has Quije, etc. There are also cases in which midgets can become valets for a wrestler, and even get physically involved in matches, like Alushe, who often accompanies Tinieblas, or KeMonito, who is portrayed as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's mascot and is also a valet for Mistico. Dave Finlay was often aided in his matches by a midget known mainly as Hornswoggle while in WWE, who hid under the ring and gave a shillelagh to Finlay to use on his opponent. Finlay also occasionally threw him at his opponent(s). Hornswoggle has also been given a run with the Cruiserweight Championship and feuded with D-Generation X in 2009.
Question: A wrestler may have a small person called what?
Answer: mini me
Question: What else can a little person do in the match?
Answer: become valets
Question: Who was Dave Finlay often helped by?
Answer: Hornswoggle
Question: What else did Finlay do with his little person?
Answer: occasionally threw him at his opponent(s
Question: What happened to Hornswoggle?
Answer: given a run with the Cruiserweight Championship |
Context: Ann Arbor was founded in 1824, named for wives of the village's founders and the stands of Bur Oak trees. The University of Michigan moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor in 1837, and the city grew at a rapid rate in the early to mid-20th century. During the 1960s and 1970s, the city gained a reputation as a center for left-wing politics. Ann Arbor became a focal point for political activism and served as a hub for the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War movement, as well as various student movements.
Question: When was Ann Arbor founded?
Answer: 1824
Question: Which University moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor in 1837?
Answer: University of Michigan
Question: During the 1960's & 70's, Ann Arbor gained a reputation for what?
Answer: center for left-wing politics
Question: Which type of tree is associated with the city Ann Arbor's name?
Answer: Bur Oak
Question: What college moved to Ann Arbor in 1873?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Michigan city was founded in 1842?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During the 1950's and 60's, Ann Arbor gained a reputation for what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In a series of emergency meetings that lasted from 2–5 October, Chinese leaders debated whether to send Chinese troops into Korea. There was considerable resistance among many leaders, including senior military leaders, to confronting the U.S. in Korea. Mao strongly supported intervention, and Zhou was one of the few Chinese leaders who firmly supported him. After Lin Biao politely refused Mao's offer to command Chinese forces in Korea (citing his upcoming medical treatment), Mao decided that Peng Dehuai would be the commander of the Chinese forces in Korea after Peng agreed to support Mao's position. Mao then asked Peng to speak in favor of intervention to the rest of the Chinese leaders. After Peng made the case that if U.S. troops conquered Korea and reached the Yalu they might cross it and invade China the Politburo agreed to intervene in Korea. Later, the Chinese claimed that US bombers had violated PRC national airspace on three separate occasions and attacked Chinese targets before China intervened. On 8 October 1950, Mao Zedong redesignated the PLA North East Frontier Force as the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA).
Question: What was discussed at the emergency talks held by Chinese leaders?
Answer: whether to send Chinese troops into Korea
Question: Who was a proponent for intervening in Korea?
Answer: Mao
Question: Who was Lin Biao replaced with when he declined to lead the Chinese troops in Korea?
Answer: Peng Dehuai
Question: Who convinced the Chinese leaders who were against entering the war that it was a good idea?
Answer: Peng
Question: What did Mao Zedong's reinvented PLA North East Frontier Force become?
Answer: People's Volunteer Army |
Context: Bern has an area, as of 2009[update], of 51.62 square kilometers (19.93 sq mi). Of this area, 9.79 square kilometers (3.78 sq mi) or 19.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 17.33 square kilometers (6.69 sq mi) or 33.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 23.25 square kilometers (8.98 sq mi) or 45.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.06 square kilometers (0.41 sq mi) or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.16 square kilometers (0.062 sq mi) or 0.3% is unproductive land.
Question: What is 33.6% of the land in Bern?
Answer: forested
Question: When was the last time the area of Bern was measured?
Answer: 2009 |
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