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Context: The Theater District is a 17-block area in the center of downtown Houston that is home to the Bayou Place entertainment complex, restaurants, movies, plazas, and parks. Bayou Place is a large multilevel building containing full-service restaurants, bars, live music, billiards, and Sundance Cinema. The Bayou Music Center stages live concerts, stage plays, and stand-up comedy. Space Center Houston is the official visitors' center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. The Space Center has many interactive exhibits including moon rocks, a shuttle simulator, and presentations about the history of NASA's manned space flight program. Other tourist attractions include the Galleria (Texas's largest shopping mall, located in the Uptown District), Old Market Square, the Downtown Aquarium, and Sam Houston Race Park.
Question: How much area of downtown Houston does the Theater District cover?
Answer: 17-block area
Question: What place produces live concerts, plays and comedy?
Answer: Bayou Music Center
Question: Where is Space Center Houston?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Question: What tourist offerings does the Space Center have?
Answer: interactive exhibits
Question: What is the Galleria the largest of in Texas?
Answer: shopping mall
Question: How much area of downtown Texas does the Theater District cover?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What place banned live concerts, plays and comedy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Space Center Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What tourist offerings does the Space Center not have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Galleria the largest of in Houston?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Boston's colleges and universities have a significant effect on the regional economy. Boston attracts more than 350,000 college students from around the world, who contribute more than $4.8 billion annually to the city's economy. The area's schools are major employers and attract industries to the city and surrounding region. The city is home to a number of technology companies and is a hub for biotechnology, with the Milken Institute rating Boston as the top life sciences cluster in the country. Boston receives the highest absolute amount of annual funding from the National Institutes of Health of all cities in the United States.
Question: How many college students does Boston attract?
Answer: more than 350,000
Question: Students from around the world contribute how much a year to Bostons economy?
Answer: $4.8 billion
Question: Because of the number of tech companies, the city is a hub for what?
Answer: biotechnology
Question: The Milken Institute rated Boston as the top what in the country?
Answer: life sciences cluster
Question: Of all cities in the US, Boston received the highest amount of funding from where?
Answer: the National Institutes of Health |
Context: A CD is read by focusing a 780 nm wavelength (near infrared) semiconductor laser housed within the CD player, through the bottom of the polycarbonate layer. The change in height between pits and lands results in a difference in the way the light is reflected. By measuring the intensity change with a photodiode, the data can be read from the disc. In order to accommodate the spiral pattern of data, the semiconductor laser is placed on a swing arm within the disc tray of any CD player. This swing arm allows the laser to read information from the centre to the edge of a disc, without having to interrupt the spinning of the disc itself.
Question: Where is the semiconductor laser found in a CD player?
Answer: on a swing arm
Question: What wavelenght is used to pull data from a CD?
Answer: 780 nm
Question: In what pattern is data stored on a CD?
Answer: spiral
Question: What is used to discern the change of intensity in light on a CD?
Answer: photodiode
Question: What createds the change in light reflected off of a CD?
Answer: change in height between pits and lands
Question: How long is the swing arm?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many layers of polycarbonate are there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is the data arranged in a spiral pattern?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the photodiode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the width of a pit indicate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to Joshua Baron – a "researcher, lecturer, and consultant on international conflict" – since the early 1960s direct military conflicts and major confrontations have "receded into the background" with regards to relations among the great powers. Baron argues several reasons why this is the case, citing the unprecedented rise of the United States and its predominant position as the key reason. Baron highlights that since World War Two no other great power has been able to achieve parity or near parity with the United States, with the exception of the Soviet Union for a brief time. This position is unique among the great powers since the start of the modern era (the 16th century), where there has traditionally always been "tremendous parity among the great powers". This unique period of American primacy has been an important factor in maintaining a condition of peace between the great powers.
Question: Since what time has military conflicts receded?
Answer: 1960s
Question: What country has risen above other superpowers?
Answer: United States
Question: Since what century has there always been parity in powers?
Answer: modern era (the 16th century)
Question: Who's primacy has factored into maintaining peace among powers?
Answer: American
Question: Since what time has there been direct military conflicts among countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been important factor of the great powers receding into the background?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Since the 1960's what power was briefly equal in parity with the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country has been involved in major confrontations among powers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has the Soviet Union mentioned about relations between the great powers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Napoleon could be considered one of the founders of modern Germany. After dissolving the Holy Roman Empire, he reduced the number of German states from 300 to less than 50, paving the way to German Unification. A byproduct of the French occupation was a strong development in German nationalism. Napoleon also significantly aided the United States when he agreed to sell the territory of Louisiana for 15 million dollars during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. That territory almost doubled the size of the United States, adding the equivalent of 13 states to the Union.
Question: Napoleon is viewed by some as a founder of what modern nation?
Answer: Germany
Question: What is the name of the empire Napoleon dissolved?
Answer: the Holy Roman Empire
Question: How many German states were there before Napoleon began to reduce their numbers?
Answer: 300
Question: How many German states remained after Napoleon reduced their numbers?
Answer: less than 50
Question: How much did Napoleon sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States for?
Answer: 15 million dollars |
Context: The Classical era, from about 1750 to 1820, established many of the norms of composition, presentation, and style, and was also when the piano became the predominant keyboard instrument. The basic forces required for an orchestra became somewhat standardized (although they would grow as the potential of a wider array of instruments was developed in the following centuries). Chamber music grew to include ensembles with as many as 8 to 10 performers for serenades. Opera continued to develop, with regional styles in Italy, France, and German-speaking lands. The opera buffa, a form of comic opera, rose in popularity. The symphony came into its own as a musical form, and the concerto was developed as a vehicle for displays of virtuoso playing skill. Orchestras no longer required a harpsichord (which had been part of the traditional continuo in the Baroque style), and were often led by the lead violinist (now called the concertmaster).
Question: When was the Classical era?
Answer: 1750 to 1820
Question: What instrument became the predominant keyboard during the classical era?
Answer: the piano
Question: What became more standardized during the classical era?
Answer: The basic forces required for an orchestra
Question: How many muscians, at most, could make up a chamber ensemble during the classical period?
Answer: 10
Question: What is an opera buffa?
Answer: a form of comic opera |
Context: There is no scale factor band 21 (sfb21) for frequencies above approx 16 kHz, forcing the encoder to choose between less accurate representation in band 21 or less efficient storage in all bands below band 21, the latter resulting in wasted bitrate in VBR encoding.
Question: What can scale factor band 21 be shortened to?
Answer: sfb21
Question: What is the maximum frequency that scale factor band 21 can go up to?
Answer: 16 kHz
Question: The encoder has to choose between less acurate representation in band 21 or which factor in all bands below band 21?
Answer: less efficient storage
Question: What does less efficient storage result in for VBR encoding?
Answer: wasted bitrate |
Context: Other local colleges and universities include Concordia University Ann Arbor, a Lutheran liberal-arts institution; a campus of the University of Phoenix; and Cleary University, a private business school. Washtenaw Community College is located in neighboring Ann Arbor Township. In 2000, the Ave Maria School of Law, a Roman Catholic law school established by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, opened in northeastern Ann Arbor, but the school moved to Ave Maria, Florida in 2009, and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School acquired the former Ave Maria buildings for use as a branch campus.
Question: Name a private business school located in Ann arbor.
Answer: Cleary University
Question: Who founded Domino's pizza?
Answer: Tom Monaghan
Question: Which school acquired the former Ave Maria building after a Roman catholic school moved from there?
Answer: Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Question: What law school moved to Florida in 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Lutheran school did Tom Monaghan found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What law school acquired the former Ave Maria buildings in 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What community college is located in Ann Arbor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What private business school is in Ann Arbor Township?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme. In Australia, Fox Sports broadcasts almost all of the season's 380 matches live, and Foxtel gives subscribers the option of selecting which Saturday 3pm match to watch. In India, the matches are broadcast live on STAR Sports. In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the 2013–14 season. As of the 2013–14 season, Canadian broadcast rights to the Premier League are jointly owned by Sportsnet and TSN, with both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.
Question: What country is the Premier League the most distributed televised sports broadcast?
Answer: The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in India?
Answer: In India, the matches are broadcast live on STAR Sports. In China
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in China?
Answer: In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the 2013–14 season.
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in Canada?
Answer: As of the 2013–14 season, Canadian broadcast rights to the Premier League are jointly owned by Sportsnet and TSN
Question: How many games does each of them broadcast?
Answer: both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.
Question: On which continent other than Europe is the Premier League especially popular?
Answer: Asia
Question: Which network is the main live broadcaster of Premier League in Australia?
Answer: Fox Sports
Question: Which network in Australia offers viewers the choice of which Saturday afternoon match they watch?
Answer: Foxtel
Question: Which network broadcasts Premier League live in India?
Answer: STAR Sports
Question: Which Chinese broadcaster has Premier League rights?
Answer: Super Sports
Question: Where is the Premier League particularly unpopular?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the Premier League the least widely distributed sports program?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Fox Sports broadcast in Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year where the broadcast rights in China given to Sportsnet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who jointly owns Sportsnet and TSN?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A database built with one DBMS is not portable to another DBMS (i.e., the other DBMS cannot run it). However, in some situations it is desirable to move, migrate a database from one DBMS to another. The reasons are primarily economical (different DBMSs may have different total costs of ownership or TCOs), functional, and operational (different DBMSs may have different capabilities). The migration involves the database's transformation from one DBMS type to another. The transformation should maintain (if possible) the database related application (i.e., all related application programs) intact. Thus, the database's conceptual and external architectural levels should be maintained in the transformation. It may be desired that also some aspects of the architecture internal level are maintained. A complex or large database migration may be a complicated and costly (one-time) project by itself, which should be factored into the decision to migrate. This in spite of the fact that tools may exist to help migration between specific DBMSs. Typically a DBMS vendor provides tools to help importing databases from other popular DBMSs.
Question: Can a DBMS be transfered to a different DBMS?
Answer: ano
Question: Why would someone attempt to unite two different databases?
Answer: primarily economical
Question: In order to merge, what must the database maintain?
Answer: database related application
Question: What are the important parts of the database related application that should be moved?
Answer: conceptual and external architectural levels
Question: How can a DBMS database migration be made easier?
Answer: vendor provides tools
Question: What is portable from one DBMS to another?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of database is migration impossible from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is always an easy and cheap project for an individual?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What no longer exist to help migration between specific DBMSs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not typically provided by a DBMS vendor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Roofing shingles account for most of the remaining asphalt/bitumen consumption. Other uses include cattle sprays, fence-post treatments, and waterproofing for fabrics. Asphalt/bitumen is used to make Japan black, a lacquer known especially for its use on iron and steel, and it is also used in paint and marker inks by some graffiti supply companies to increase the weather resistance and permanence of the paint or ink, and to make the color much darker.[citation needed] Asphalt/bitumen is also used to seal some alkaline batteries during the manufacturing process.
Question: Besides fuels and paving, what accounts for most of the other use of bitumen?
Answer: Roofing shingles
Question: What lacquer is bitumen used to make for iron and steel production?
Answer: Japan black
Question: Why is Japan black used for outdoor paint?
Answer: weather resistance
Question: Besides weather resistance, why else is Japan black used in paints?
Answer: permanence
Question: What product is bitumen used in manufacturing as a sealant?
Answer: alkaline batteries
Question: What accounts for nearly all the remaining graffiti consumption?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Other uses of paint or ink include cattle sprays, fence- post treatments and what else?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Cattle sprays can be used to seal what type of batteries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What lacquer is known for its use on paint and ink?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What lacquer is used to make the color lighter?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Different linguists therefore take different approaches to the problem of assigning sounds to phonemes. For example, they differ in the extent to which they require allophones to be phonetically similar. There are also differing ideas as to whether this grouping of sounds is purely a tool for linguistic analysis, or reflects an actual process in the way the human brain processes a language.
Question: What are assigned to phonemes by different linguists?
Answer: sounds
Question: What part of a human does language processing?
Answer: brain
Question: The phonetical similarity of what thing causes disagreements between linguists?
Answer: allophones
Question: What are assigned to phonemes by different languages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What part of a human does allophone processing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The phonetical similarity of what thing causes disagreements between phenomes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who takes different approaches to the problem of assigning sounds to allophones?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who differs in the extent to which they requires phonemes to be phonetically similar?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In October 2014, Beyoncé signed a deal to launch an activewear line of clothing with British fashion retailer Topshop. The 50-50 venture is called Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd and is scheduled to launch its first dance, fitness and sports ranges in autumn 2015. The line will launch in April 2016.
Question: Beyonce, during October 2014, partnered with whom to produce an outdoor line of clothing?
Answer: Topshop
Question: Beyonce and Topshops first products were to be sold in stores when?
Answer: autumn 2015
Question: What is the new business called?
Answer: Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd
Question: What is Beyonce's percentage of ownership in the new venture?
Answer: 50
Question: When will the full line appear?
Answer: April 2016
Question: What company did Beyoncé contract with to sell clothing in England?
Answer: Topshop
Question: What is the name of the equal partnership's fashion line between Beyoncé and the British company to come out in 2016?
Answer: Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd
Question: What type of clothing does the British partnership with Beyoncé sell?
Answer: activewear |
Context: The wastewater treatment plant and distribution system of water mains, pumping stations and storage facilities provide water to approximately 62,000 customers in the city. There is also a wastewater treatment plant located on the south bank of the James River. This plant can treat up to 70 million gallons of water per day of sanitary sewage and stormwater before returning it to the river. The wastewater utility also operates and maintains 1,500 miles (2,400 km) of sanitary sewer and pumping stations, 38 miles (61 km) of intercepting sewer lines, and the Shockoe Retention Basin, a 44-million-gallon stormwater reservoir used during heavy rains.
Question: How many kilometers of sewer lines exist in Richmond?
Answer: 61
Question: How much water is contained in Shockoe Retention Basin?
Answer: 44-million-gallon
Question: How many Richmond inhabitants get their water from the wastewater treatment plant?
Answer: 62,000
Question: How much sewage and stormwater can the treatment plant adjacent to the James River treat daily?
Answer: 70 million gallons |
Context: The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1959 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos (see Secret War) and in the strategic bombing (see Operation Rolling Thunder) of North Vietnam. American advisors came in the late 1950s to help the RVN (Republic of Vietnam) combat Communist insurgents known as "Viet Cong." Major American military involvement began in 1964, after Congress provided President Lyndon B. Johnson with blanket approval for presidential use of force in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Question: When was the Vietnam War fought?
Answer: between 1959 and 1975
Question: Besides Vietnam, what other countries saw fighting in this war?
Answer: Cambodia and Laos
Question: What was the name of the strategic bombing of North Vietnam?
Answer: Operation Rolling Thunder
Question: When did American military involvement ramp up in Vietnam?
Answer: 1964
Question: What congressional declaration gave President Johnson authority to send troops to Vietnam?
Answer: the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Question: When was the Chinese War fought?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Besides China, what other countries saw fighting in this war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the bombing of South Korea?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did American military involvement ramp up in China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What congressional declaration gave President Johnson authority to send troops to China?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On May 29, 2008, government officials began inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed, searching for clues about why they crumbled. Thousands of parents around the province have accused local officials and builders of cutting corners in school construction, citing that after the quake other nearby buildings were little damaged. In the aftermath of the quake, many local governments promised to formally investigate the school collapses, but as of July 17, 2008 across Sichuan, parents of children lost in collapsed schools complained they had yet to receive any reports. Local officials urged them not to protest but the parents demonstrated and demanded an investigation. Furthermore, censors discouraged stories of poorly built schools from being published in the media and there was an incident where police drove the protestors away.
Question: What did parents accuse builders of doing?
Answer: cutting corners
Question: As of July 17, 2008 what did parents complain of not receiving?
Answer: any reports
Question: What kind of stories were being censored in the media?
Answer: poorly built schools |
Context: The history of a unified Tibet begins with the rule of Songtsän Gampo (604–650 CE), who united parts of the Yarlung River Valley and founded the Tibetan Empire. He also brought in many reforms, and Tibetan power spread rapidly, creating a large and powerful empire. It is traditionally considered that his first wife was the Princess of Nepal, Bhrikuti, and that she played a great role in the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet. In 640 he married Princess Wencheng, the niece of the powerful Chinese emperor Taizong of Tang China.
Question: Who founded the Tibetan Empire?
Answer: Songtsän Gampo
Question: Who did Songtsan Gampo marry in 640?
Answer: Princess Wencheng
Question: Who was Songtsan Gampo's first wife?
Answer: Princess of Nepal, Bhrikuti
Question: What did Songtsan Gampo unite?
Answer: parts of the Yarlung River Valley
Question: Who ruled Tibet from 640-650 CE?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What began in the period from 640 to 650 CE?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What empire did Gampo Songstan found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Princess Wencheng the first wife of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the Princess of Nepal the second wife of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the period of North–South division, Nanjing remained the capital of the Southern dynasties for more than two and a half centuries. During this time, Nanjing was the international hub of East Asia. Based on historical documents, the city had 280,000 registered households. Assuming an average Nanjing household had about 5.1 people at that time, the city had more than 1.4 million residents.
Question: How long was Nanjing the capital of the Southern dynasties?
Answer: more than two and a half centuries
Question: During the time of the North–South division, what city was the center of East Asia?
Answer: Nanjing
Question: During the time of the North–South division, how many households were in Nanjing?
Answer: 280,000 registered households
Question: What is the estimated population of Nanjing during that time?
Answer: more than 1.4 million residents
Question: Where did the information on registered households during that period originate?
Answer: historical documents |
Context: Emotions have been described by some theorists as discrete and consistent responses to internal or external events which have a particular significance for the organism. Emotions are brief in duration and consist of a coordinated set of responses, which may include verbal, physiological, behavioural, and neural mechanisms. Psychotherapist Michael C. Graham describes all emotions as existing on a continuum of intensity. Thus fear might range from mild concern to terror or shame might range from simple embarrassment to toxic shame. Emotions have also been described as biologically given and a result of evolution because they provided good solutions to ancient and recurring problems that faced our ancestors. Moods are feelings that tend to be less intense than emotions and that often lack a contextual stimulus.
Question: Who described the concept of a continuum of intensity?
Answer: Michael C. Graham
Question: What is Michael Graham's profession?
Answer: Psychotherapist
Question: What is an example of an extreme form of fear?
Answer: terror
Question: What would be an example of mild shame?
Answer: embarrassment
Question: What are non-intense feelings that lack a contextual stimulus called?
Answer: Moods
Question: Who described the concept of a non-continuum of intensity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Michael Graham's interest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not an example of an extreme form of fear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What would be an example of middle shame?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are intense feelings that lack a contextual stimulus called?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: 83% of the total population adheres to Christianity, making it the most common religion in Swaziland. Anglican, Protestant and indigenous African churches, including African Zionist, constitute the majority of the Christians (40%), followed by Roman Catholicism at 20% of the population. On 18 July 2012, Ellinah Wamukoya, was elected Anglican Bishop of Swaziland, becoming the first woman to be a bishop in Africa. 15% of the population follows traditional religions; other non-Christian religions practised in the country include Islam (1%), the Bahá'í Faith (0.5%), and Hinduism (0.2%). There are 14 Jewish families.
Question: What percentage of the Swazi population are Christian?
Answer: 83%
Question: Which religious belief is most prevelant in Swaziland?
Answer: Christianity
Question: What amount of Swazi Christians are Roman Catholic?
Answer: 20%
Question: Who is the Anglican Bishop of Swaziland?
Answer: Ellinah Wamukoya
Question: How many Jewish families are there in Swaziland?
Answer: 14
Question: What country makes up 83% of Africa's Christians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What protestant denominations make up 20% of the population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Catholic Rite makes up 40% of the population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Hindu families are there?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At the beginning of Greek literature stand the two monumental works of Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey. Though dates of composition vary, these works were fixed around 800 BC or after. In the classical period many of the genres of western literature became more prominent. Lyrical poetry, odes, pastorals, elegies, epigrams; dramatic presentations of comedy and tragedy; historiography, rhetorical treatises, philosophical dialectics, and philosophical treatises all arose in this period. The two major lyrical poets were Sappho and Pindar. The Classical era also saw the dawn of drama.
Question: What are two works by Homer?
Answer: Iliad and the Odyssey
Question: During what time period did Homer write the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Answer: 800 BC
Question: Who were two major lyrical poets?
Answer: Sappho and Pindar
Question: When did drama first begin in history?
Answer: Classical era |
Context: In 2005, the company sold its personal computer business to Chinese technology company Lenovo, and in the same year it agreed to acquire Micromuse. A year later IBM launched Secure Blue, a low-cost hardware design for data encryption that can be built into a microprocessor. In 2009 it acquired software company SPSS Inc. Later in 2009, IBM's Blue Gene supercomputing program was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by U.S. President Barack Obama. In 2011, IBM gained worldwide attention for its artificial intelligence program Watson, which was exhibited on Jeopardy! where it won against game-show champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. As of 2012[update], IBM had been the top annual recipient of U.S. patents for 20 consecutive years.
Question: IBM sold its personal computer business to what company?
Answer: Lenovo
Question: In what year did IBM sell its personal computer business?
Answer: 2005
Question: What was the design for low cost data encryption named?
Answer: Secure Blue
Question: SPSS Inc. was acquired in what year?
Answer: 2009
Question: This program was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Answer: Blue Gene
Question: Who did Micromuse sell its personal computer business to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Micromuse sell its business to Lenovo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What design did Micromuse launch that is low-cost and can be built into a microprocessor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What award was given to Micromuse in 2009 for its Blue Gene supercomputing program?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What president awarded Micromuse for the Blue Gene program?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Macintosh SE was released at the same time as the Macintosh II for $2900 (or $3900 with hard drive), as the first compact Mac with a 20 MB internal hard drive and an expansion slot. The SE's expansion slot was located inside the case along with the CRT, potentially exposing an upgrader to high voltage. For this reason, Apple recommended users bring their SE to an authorized Apple dealer to have upgrades performed. The SE also updated Jerry Manock and Terry Oyama's original design and shared the Macintosh II's Snow White design language, as well as the new Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) mouse and keyboard that had first appeared on the Apple IIGS some months earlier.
Question: When was the Macintosh SE released at the same time as?
Answer: the Macintosh II
Question: What was the first compact Mac with a 20 MB internal hard drive and an expansion slot?
Answer: The Macintosh SE
Question: What was the starting price of the Macintosh SE?
Answer: $2900
Question: What did the location of the SE's expansion slot potentially expose an upgrader to?
Answer: high voltage
Question: Who did Apple suggest users go to for performing updates on their SE's?
Answer: an authorized Apple dealer
Question: When was the Macintosh ES released at the same time as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the last compact Mac with a 20 MB internal hard drive and an expansion slot?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first compact Mac with a 40 MB internal hard drive and an expansion slot?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the starting price of the Macintosh ES?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the location of the ES's expansion slot potentially expose an upgrader to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many current and recent philosophers—e.g., Daniel Dennett, Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, and Jerry Fodor—operate within a broadly physicalist or materialist framework, producing rival accounts of how best to accommodate mind, including functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory, and so on.
Question: In regards to the mind, what are 3 theories that modern day philosophers try to harmonize?
Answer: functionalism, anomalous monism, identity theory
Question: What are 3 theories that ancient day philosophers try to harmonize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What 3 theories do modern philosophers disagree with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the three theories that do not accommodate mind?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Jerry Fodor disagrees with what framework?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Daniel Dennett founded which theory?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By 3400 BCE, the Sahara was as dry as it is today, due to reduced precipitation and higher temperatures resulting from a shift in the Earth's orbit. As a result of this aridification, it became a largely impenetrable barrier to humans, with the remaining settlements mainly being concentrated around the numerous oases that dot the landscape. Little trade or commerce is known to have passed through the interior in subsequent periods, the only major exception being the Nile Valley. The Nile, however, was impassable at several cataracts, making trade and contact by boat difficult.
Question: By What time period was the Sahara dry like it is today?
Answer: 3400 BCE
Question: What was the main reason that the Sahara became so dry?
Answer: reduced precipitation and higher temperatures
Question: What area is known for having the majority of the trade?
Answer: the Nile Valley
Question: When did the Sahara become accessible to humans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What features of the Nile made it ideal for trading?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did people trade in the Sahara before the aridification?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused the shift in the earth's orbit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did humans cause the aridification of the Sahara?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: However, according to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, the UNFPA contributed vehicles and computers to the Chinese to carry out their population control policies. However, both the Washington Post and the Washington Times reported that Powell simply fell in line, signing a brief written by someone else.
Question: What policies did a State Department official accuse UNFPA of helping China carry out?
Answer: population control policies
Question: What was this official's position at the time?
Answer: Secretary of State
Question: Who was the official that accused UNFPA?
Answer: Colin Powell
Question: What was UNFPA accused of contributing to the Chinese program?
Answer: vehicles and computers
Question: What papers reported on this incident?
Answer: the Washington Post and the Washington Times
Question: What policies did a State Department official accuse UNFPA of not helping China carry out?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the official that was part of UNFPA?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was UNFPA accused of taking away from the Chinese program?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What papers denied to report on this incident?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1681, in partial repayment of a debt, Charles II of England granted William Penn a charter for what would become the Pennsylvania colony. Despite the royal charter, Penn bought the land from the local Lenape to be on good terms with the Native Americans and ensure peace for his colony. Penn made a treaty of friendship with Lenape chief Tammany under an elm tree at Shackamaxon, in what is now the city's Fishtown section. Penn named the city Philadelphia, which is Greek for brotherly love (from philos, "love" or "friendship", and adelphos, "brother"). As a Quaker, Penn had experienced religious persecution and wanted his colony to be a place where anyone could worship freely. This tolerance, far more than afforded by most other colonies, led to better relations with the local Native tribes and fostered Philadelphia's rapid growth into America's most important city. Penn planned a city on the Delaware River to serve as a port and place for government. Hoping that Philadelphia would become more like an English rural town instead of a city, Penn laid out roads on a grid plan to keep houses and businesses spread far apart, with areas for gardens and orchards. The city's inhabitants did not follow Penn's plans, as they crowded by the Delaware River, the port, and subdivided and resold their lots. Before Penn left Philadelphia for the last time, he issued the Charter of 1701 establishing it as a city. It became an important trading center, poor at first, but with tolerable living conditions by the 1750s. Benjamin Franklin, a leading citizen, helped improve city services and founded new ones, such as fire protection, a library, and one of the American colonies' first hospitals.
Question: Who founded the Pennsylvania colony?
Answer: William Penn
Question: Who did Penn buy the land from?
Answer: Lenape
Question: What religion did William Penn practice?
Answer: Quaker
Question: When was Philadelphia established as a city?
Answer: 1701
Question: What type of street layout did Penn use for Philadelphia?
Answer: grid plan |
Context: At the invitation of the United States government, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent a team of observers to monitor the presidential elections in 2004. It was the first time the OSCE had sent observers to a U.S. presidential election, although they had been invited in the past. In September 2004 the OSCE issued a report on U.S. electoral processes and the election final report. The report reads: "The November 2, 2004 elections in the United States mostly met the OSCE commitments included in the 1990 Copenhagen Document. They were conducted in an environment that reflects a long-standing democratic tradition, including institutions governed by the rule of law, free and generally professional media, and a civil society intensively engaged in the election process. There was exceptional public interest in the two leading presidential candidates and the issues raised by their respective campaigns, as well as in the election process itself."
Question: Who was called in to watch over the presidential election in 2004?
Answer: the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent a team of observers to monitor the presidential elections in 2004
Question: Was this the only occasion the OSCE was invited to preside over a presidential election?
Answer: It was the first time the OSCE had sent observers to a U.S. presidential election, although they had been invited in the past.
Question: What were the findings of the OSCE team?
Answer: mostly met the OSCE commitments included in the 1990 Copenhagen Document
Question: What type of values did the OSCE determine were adhered to during the election process?
Answer: long-standing democratic tradition
Question: What group was invited to the US by the public in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did OSCE come to the US in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the OSCE send to the US in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times had the OSCE been to the US before 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was issued by the OSCE in 1990 on the election?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The earliest extant samples of connected (north) Estonian are the so-called Kullamaa prayers dating from 1524 and 1528. In 1525 the first book published in the Estonian language was printed. The book was a Lutheran manuscript, which never reached the reader and was destroyed immediately after publication.
Question: What was the first Estonian language book to be published?
Answer: a Lutheran manuscript
Question: When were the Kallamaa prayers written?
Answer: 1524 and 1528
Question: What was the fate of the Lutheran manuscript printed in 1525?
Answer: destroyed
Question: At what point in its existence was the Lutheran manuscript destroyed?
Answer: immediately after publication
Question: What was the last Estonian language book to be published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the first prayers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the fate of the Lutheran manuscript printed in 1524?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what point in its existence was the Lutheran manuscript published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What manuscript was written in 1528?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The maximum energy is a function of dielectric volume, permittivity, and dielectric strength. Changing the plate area and the separation between the plates while maintaining the same volume causes no change of the maximum amount of energy that the capacitor can store, so long as the distance between plates remains much smaller than both the length and width of the plates. In addition, these equations assume that the electric field is entirely concentrated in the dielectric between the plates. In reality there are fringing fields outside the dielectric, for example between the sides of the capacitor plates, which will increase the effective capacitance of the capacitor. This is sometimes called parasitic capacitance. For some simple capacitor geometries this additional capacitance term can be calculated analytically. It becomes negligibly small when the ratios of plate width to separation and length to separation are large.
Question: What is a function of the amount of dielectric, the strength of dielectric and its permittivity?
Answer: The maximum energy
Question: If the plate area and separation distance are altered while keeping the amount of dielectric the same, what effect is had on the maximum energy of the capacitor?
Answer: no change of the maximum amount of energy
Question: In a realistic model of a capacitor, where else besides between the dielectric between the conductors might an electric field be found?
Answer: fringing fields outside the dielectric
Question: When an electric field exists between the sides of the plates as well as in within the dielectric, what effect is had on the effective capacitance of the capacitor?
Answer: will increase the effective capacitance
Question: When the ratios of plate length and width to separation distance are large, what size is the parasitic capacitance?
Answer: negligibly small
Question: What is a function of the amount of dielectric, the strength of dielectric and its permittivity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens when there is a change of the maximum amount of energy
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In a realistic model of a capacitor, where else besides between the dielectric between the conductors will an electric field never be found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When an electric field exists between the sides of the plates as well as in within the dielectric, what effect is had on the lack of effective capacitance of the capacitor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When the ratios of plate length and width to separation distance are small, what size is the parasitic capacitance?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Yale has a complicated relationship with its home city; for example, thousands of students volunteer every year in a myriad of community organizations, but city officials, who decry Yale's exemption from local property taxes, have long pressed the university to do more to help. Under President Levin, Yale has financially supported many of New Haven's efforts to reinvigorate the city. Evidence suggests that the town and gown relationships are mutually beneficial. Still, the economic power of the university increased dramatically with its financial success amid a decline in the local economy.
Question: Why do New Haven city officials dislike Yale?
Answer: exemption from local property taxes
Question: Which Yale president assisted with New Haven's revitalization efforts?
Answer: President Levin
Question: What has been the effect of Yale and New Haven's relationship on Yale?
Answer: economic power of the university increased dramatically with its financial success
Question: What has been the effect of Yale and New Haven's relation on New Haven?
Answer: decline in the local economy
Question: Why do New Haven city officials like Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Yale president rejected the New Haven's revitalization efforts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What hasn't been the effect of Yale and New Haven's relationship on Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why don't New Haven city officials dislike Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What hasn't been the effect of Yale and New Haven's relation on New Haven?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Constitution does not explicitly indicate the pre-eminence of any particular branch of government. However, James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, regarding the ability of each branch to defend itself from actions by the others, that "it is not possible to give to each department an equal power of self-defense. In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."
Question: Who wrote that the legislative branch was the predominate branch of government?
Answer: James Madison
Question: In which Federalist paper did James Madison state that the legislative branch of government was predominate?
Answer: Federalist 51
Question: Who wrote in the Constitution that legislative authority is predominate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the Constitution write that it's not possible to give each department equal power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote that it was possible to give equal power of self defense to each department?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which document explicitly indicates pre-eminence of the judicial branch of government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which document explicitly indicates pre-eminence of the executive branch of government?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Supermarine Spitfire was designed and developed in Southampton, evolving from the Schneider trophy-winning seaplanes of the 1920s and 1930s. Its designer, R J Mitchell, lived in the Portswood area of Southampton, and his house is today marked with a blue plaque. Heavy bombing of the factory in September 1940 destroyed it as well as homes in the vicinity, killing civilians and workers. World War II hit Southampton particularly hard because of its strategic importance as a major commercial port and industrial area. Prior to the Invasion of Europe, components for a Mulberry harbour were built here. After D-Day, Southampton docks handled military cargo to help keep the Allied forces supplied, making it a key target of Luftwaffe bombing raids until late 1944. Southampton docks was featured in the television show 24: Live Another Day in Day 9: 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Question: Who designed the Supermarine Spitfire?
Answer: R J Mitchell
Question: What area of Southampton did Mitchell hail from?
Answer: Portswood
Question: What color is the plaque that marks the Spitfire designer's house?
Answer: blue
Question: In what month of 1940 did bombs destroy the factory that made Mitchell's seaplanes?
Answer: September
Question: Which forces did Southampton supply after D-Day that made it a target for many Luftwaffe air raids?
Answer: Allied forces |
Context: Scientific "Materialism" is often synonymous with, and has so far been described, as being a reductive materialism. In recent years, Paul and Patricia Churchland have advocated a radically contrasting position (at least, in regards to certain hypotheses); eliminativist materialism holds that some mental phenomena simply do not exist at all, and that talk of those mental phenomena reflects a totally spurious "folk psychology" and introspection illusion. That is, an eliminative materialist might suggest that a concept like "belief" simply has no basis in fact - the way folk science speaks of demon-caused illnesses. Reductive materialism being at one end of a continuum (our theories will reduce to facts) and eliminative materialism on the other (certain theories will need to be eliminated in light of new facts), Revisionary materialism is somewhere in the middle.
Question: Reductive materialism is not synonymous with what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Scientific materialism is not synonymous with what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Paul and Patricia disagree with what hypotheses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Belief has a basis in fact in what type of materialist mindset?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the same as revisionary materialism?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The city has many distinct neighborhoods. In addition to Downtown, centered on the central business district and the Green, are the following neighborhoods: the west central neighborhoods of Dixwell and Dwight; the southern neighborhoods of The Hill, historic water-front City Point (or Oyster Point), and the harborside district of Long Wharf; the western neighborhoods of Edgewood, West River, Westville, Amity, and West Rock-Westhills; East Rock, Cedar Hill, Prospect Hill, and Newhallville in the northern side of town; the east central neighborhoods of Mill River and Wooster Square, an Italian-American neighborhood; Fair Haven, an immigrant community located between the Mill and Quinnipiac rivers; Quinnipiac Meadows and Fair Haven Heights across the Quinnipiac River; and facing the eastern side of the harbor, The Annex and East Shore (or Morris Cove).
Question: What area of New Haven comprises the area centered around the business district and New Haven Green?
Answer: Downtown
Question: What is the historic water-front neighborhood located in the southern area of New Haven?
Answer: City Point
Question: What east-central neighborhood in New Haven is home to a large number of Italian-Americans?
Answer: Wooster Square
Question: What is the name of the neighborhood in New Haven that rests between the Mill and Quinnipiac rivers, and is comprised primarily of an immigrant community?
Answer: Fair Haven
Question: What is the name of the district nearing the harbor of the city?
Answer: Long Wharf
Question: Though the Green is the popular center of the city, there is another district, what's the name?
Answer: central business district
Question: If you were to go northern part of New Haven, what district would you find?
Answer: Newhallville
Question: Between two of it's rivers lies a district with a heavy immigrant population, the name is?
Answer: Fair Haven
Question: Wooster Square is known for what roots?
Answer: Italian-American |
Context: During the 19th century, Britain and the Russian Empire vied to fill the power vacuums that had been left by the declining Ottoman Empire, Qajar dynasty and Qing Dynasty. This rivalry in Eurasia came to be known as the "Great Game". As far as Britain was concerned, defeats inflicted by Russia on Persia and Turkey demonstrated its imperial ambitions and capabilities and stoked fears in Britain of an overland invasion of India. In 1839, Britain moved to pre-empt this by invading Afghanistan, but the First Anglo-Afghan War was a disaster for Britain.
Question: Britain competed with which country to fill the Asian power vacuum in the 19th century?
Answer: Russian
Question: When did Britain first invade Afghanistan?
Answer: 1839
Question: What was the British-Russian rivalry called?
Answer: the "Great Game"
Question: Britain feared Russia would invade what country/territory?
Answer: India
Question: Russian victories against which countries increased British fears?
Answer: Persia and Turkey |
Context: The psychoacoustic masking codec was first proposed in 1979, apparently independently, by Manfred R. Schroeder, et al. from Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. in Murray Hill, NJ, and M. A. Krasner both in the United States. Krasner was the first to publish and to produce hardware for speech (not usable as music bit compression), but the publication of his results as a relatively obscure Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report did not immediately influence the mainstream of psychoacoustic codec development. Manfred Schroeder was already a well-known and revered figure in the worldwide community of acoustical and electrical engineers, but his paper was not much noticed, since it described negative results due to the particular nature of speech and the linear predictive coding (LPC) gain present in speech. Both Krasner and Schroeder built upon the work performed by Eberhard F. Zwicker in the areas of tuning and masking of critical bands, that in turn built on the fundamental research in the area from Bell Labs of Harvey Fletcher and his collaborators. A wide variety of (mostly perceptual) audio compression algorithms were reported in IEEE's refereed Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. That journal reported in February 1988 on a wide range of established, working audio bit compression technologies, some of them using auditory masking as part of their fundamental design, and several showing real-time hardware implementations.
Question: What was first proposed in 1979?
Answer: The psychoacoustic masking codec
Question: Which country were the researchers located in?
Answer: United States
Question: Who was the first to produce hardware for speech?
Answer: Krasner
Question: What does LPC stand for?
Answer: linear predictive coding
Question: What was reported in IEEE's Journal on Selected Areas in Communications?
Answer: audio compression algorithms |
Context: In 1983 fighting between Palestinian refugees and Lebanese factions reignited that nation's long-running civil war. A UN agreement brought an international force of peacekeepers to occupy Beirut and guarantee security. US Marines landed in August 1982 along with Italian and French forces. On October 23, 1983, a suicide bomber driving a truck filled with 6 tons of TNT crashed through a fence and destroyed the Marine barracks, killing 241 Marines; seconds later, a second bomber leveled a French barracks, killing 58. Subsequently the US Navy engaged in bombing of militia positions inside Lebanon. While US President Ronald Reagan was initially defiant, political pressure at home eventually forced the withdrawal of the Marines in February 1984.
Question: When did fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese begin?
Answer: 1983
Question: When did US marines land in Lebanon?
Answer: 1982
Question: When did a suicide bomber successfully attack the marine barracks in Lebanon?
Answer: October 23, 1983
Question: How many marines were killed in the attack?
Answer: 241
Question: When did President Reagan withdraw marines from Lebanon?
Answer: February 1984
Question: When did fighting between Palestinians and the Lebanese stop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did UK marines land in Lebanon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did a suicide bomber successfully attack the marine barracks in China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Africans were killed in the attack?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did President Bush withdraw marines from Lebanon?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Philadelphia's importance and central location in the colonies made it a natural center for America's revolutionaries. By the 1750s, Philadelphia had surpassed Boston to become the largest city and busiest port in British America, and second in the British Empire, behind London. The city hosted the First Continental Congress before the American Revolutionary War; the Second Continental Congress, which signed the United States Declaration of Independence, during the war; and the Constitutional Convention (1787) after the war. Several battles were fought in and near Philadelphia as well.
Question: What important revolutionary document was signed in Philadelphia?
Answer: Declaration of Independence,
Question: When did Philadelphia host the Constitutional Convention?
Answer: 1787
Question: How many Revolutionary War battles were fought around Philadelphia?
Answer: Several |
Context: Zhu Yousong, however, fared a lot worse than his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang three centuries earlier. Beset by factional conflicts, his regime could not offer effective resistance to Qing forces, when the Qing army, led by the Manchu prince Dodo approached Jiangnan the next spring. Days after Yangzhou fell to the Manchus in late May 1645, the Hongguang Emperor fled Nanjing, and the imperial Ming Palace was looted by local residents. On June 6, Dodo's troops approached Nanjing, and the commander of the city's garrison, Zhao the Earl of Xincheng, promptly surrendered the city to them. The Manchus soon ordered all male residents of the city to shave their heads in the Manchu queue way. They requisitioned a large section of the city for the bannermen's cantonment, and destroyed the former imperial Ming Palace, but otherwise the city was spared the mass murders and destruction that befell Yangzhou.
Question: When did the Hongguang Emperor leave Nanjing, having been defeated?
Answer: late May 1645
Question: Who surrendered Nanjing to invaders on June 6?
Answer: Zhao the Earl of Xincheng
Question: What did the Manchu's make all the men in the city do?
Answer: shave their heads |
Context: In the last two decades of the 18th century, the theory of polygenism, the belief that different races had evolved separately in each continent and shared no common ancestor, was advocated in England by historian Edward Long and anatomist Charles White, in Germany by ethnographers Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster, and in France by Julien-Joseph Virey. In the US, Samuel George Morton, Josiah Nott and Louis Agassiz promoted this theory in the mid-nineteenth century. Polygenism was popular and most widespread in the 19th century, culminating in the founding of the Anthropological Society of London (1863) during the period of the American Civil War, in opposition to the Ethnological Society, which had abolitionist sympathies.
Question: What theory is the belief that differences races had evolved independently on each continent?
Answer: polygenism
Question: What country did Edward Long and Charles White advocated the belief of polygenism in?
Answer: England
Question: What was the profession of Christoph Meiners and Georg Forster?
Answer: ethnographers
Question: In what century was polygenism most widespread?
Answer: 19th century
Question: The Ethnological Society was sympathetic towards what cause?
Answer: abolitionist |
Context: By the early 1940s, the company was concentrating on lower-budget productions that were the company's main staple: westerns, melodramas, serials and sequels to the studio's horror pictures, the latter now solely B pictures. The studio fostered many series: The Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys action features and serials (1938–43); the comic adventures of infant Baby Sandy (1938–41); comedies with Hugh Herbert (1938–42) and The Ritz Brothers (1940–43); musicals with Robert Paige, Jane Frazee, The Andrews Sisters, and The Merry Macs (1938–45); and westerns with Tom Mix (1932–33), Buck Jones (1933–36), Bob Baker (1938–39), Johnny Mack Brown (1938–43); Rod Cameron (1944–45), and Kirby Grant (1946–47).
Question: During what period were the Little Tough Guys films produced?
Answer: 1938–43
Question: Over what span were the Baby Sandy films made?
Answer: 1938–41
Question: In what period did Universal produce Hugh Herbert comedies?
Answer: 1938–42
Question: When did Universal make Tom Mix westerns?
Answer: 1932–33
Question: In what span did Universal produce westerns with Kirby Grant?
Answer: 1946–47
Question: When did The Dead End Guys run?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Little Touch Kids run?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did comedies with Sandy Herbert run?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who preformed in the 1932-33 musicals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did westerns with Johnny Rod Brown run?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the night of December 2 and early morning of December 3, 1968, Kerry was in charge of a small boat operating near a peninsula north of Cam Ranh Bay together with a Swift boat (PCF-60). According to Kerry and the two crewmen who accompanied him that night, Patrick Runyon and William Zaladonis, they surprised a group of Vietnamese men unloading sampans at a river crossing, who began running and failed to obey an order to stop. As the men fled, Kerry and his crew opened fire on the sampans and destroyed them, then rapidly left. During this encounter, Kerry received a shrapnel wound in the left arm above the elbow. It was for this injury that Kerry received his first Purple Heart Medal.
Question: Where was Kerry's boat on Dec 2-3, 1968?
Answer: near a peninsula north of Cam Ranh Bay
Question: How many crew were with Kerry?
Answer: two
Question: Who were in Kerry's crew?
Answer: Patrick Runyon and William Zaladonis
Question: What did Kerry's crew destroy?
Answer: sampans
Question: Where was Kerry injured?
Answer: in the left arm above the elbow |
Context: Communal shelters never housed more than one seventh of Greater London residents, however. Peak use of the Underground as shelter was 177,000 on 27 September 1940, and a November 1940 census of London found that about 4% of residents used the Tube and other large shelters; 9% in public surface shelters; and 27% in private home shelters, implying that the remaining 60% of the city likely stayed at home. The government distributed Anderson shelters until 1941 and that year began distributing the Morrison shelter, which could be used inside homes.:190
Question: What was the largest number to use Underground shelters in September 27, 1940?
Answer: 177,000
Question: In 1940 what percentage used the Tube for a sleeping shelter?
Answer: 4%
Question: Where did 60% of populations stay?
Answer: at home
Question: What year did the government start giving out Morrison shelters?
Answer: 1941
Question: Where could the Morrison shelters be used?
Answer: inside homes |
Context: Instruments like the duduk, the dhol, the zurna and the kanun are commonly found in Armenian folk music. Artists such as Sayat Nova are famous due to their influence in the development of Armenian folk music. One of the oldest types of Armenian music is the Armenian chant which is the most common kind of religious music in Armenia. Many of these chants are ancient in origin, extending to pre-Christian times, while others are relatively modern, including several composed by Saint Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. Whilst under Soviet rule, Armenian classical music composer Aram Khatchaturian became internationally well known for his music, for various ballets and the Sabre Dance from his composition for the ballet Gayane.
Question: What kind of music does Sayat Nova play?
Answer: Armenian folk music
Question: What instruments are used in Armenian folk music?
Answer: the duduk, the dhol, the zurna and the kanun
Question: What kind of Armenian religious music is prevalent?
Answer: the Armenian chant
Question: What did Mashtots do besides composing religious chants?
Answer: inventor of the Armenian alphabet
Question: What was Aram Khatchaturian's career?
Answer: classical music composer
Question: What did Saint Sabre invent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What instruments is Aram Khatchaturian famous for playing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Sayat Nova create the Sabre Dance for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Sayat Nova create besides the Armenian alphabet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Under who's rule did Mesrop Mashots become famous internationally?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: For much of Arsenal's history, their home colours have been bright red shirts with white sleeves and white shorts, though this has not always been the case. The choice of red is in recognition of a charitable donation from Nottingham Forest, soon after Arsenal's foundation in 1886. Two of Dial Square's founding members, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, were former Forest players who had moved to Woolwich for work. As they put together the first team in the area, no kit could be found, so Beardsley and Bates wrote home for help and received a set of kit and a ball. The shirt was redcurrant, a dark shade of red, and was worn with white shorts and socks with blue and white hoops.
Question: What has the color of the Arsenal home shirts been?
Answer: bright red
Question: In recognition of what event was the color red adopted for Arsenal shirts?
Answer: charitable donation
Question: Which founding members were responsible for the red shirts?
Answer: Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates
Question: What was the early name for the Arsenal FC?
Answer: Dial Square
Question: What was the color of the early uniforms' shorts and socks?
Answer: white
Question: What color are Arsenal players shoes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color were Forest players shirts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Nottingham Forest's football team founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Fred Beardsley first play for Forest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Morris Bates stop playing for Forest?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Roosevelt Boulevard and the Roosevelt Expressway (U.S. 1) connect Northeast Philadelphia with Center City. Woodhaven Road (Route 63), built in 1966, and Cottman Avenue (Route 73) serve the neighborhoods of Northeast Philadelphia, running between Interstate 95 and the Roosevelt Boulevard (U.S. 1). The Fort Washington Expressway (Route 309) extends north from the city's northern border, serving Montgomery County and Bucks County. U.S. 30, extending east-west from West Philadelphia to Lancaster, is known as Lancaster Avenue throughout most of the city and through the adjacent Main Line suburbs.
Question: What is another name for the Roosevelt Expressway?
Answer: U.S. 1
Question: When was Woodhaven road built?
Answer: 1966
Question: What neighborhoods does Cottman Avenue serve?
Answer: Northeast Philadelphia,
Question: What is another name for The Fort Washington Expressway?
Answer: Route 309
Question: What is US-30 also known as?
Answer: Lancaster Avenue |
Context: When Pasternak stopped producing Durbin's pictures, and she outgrew her screen persona and pursued more dramatic roles, the studio signed 13-year-old Gloria Jean for her own series of Pasternak musicals from 1939; she went on to star with Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Donald O'Connor. A popular Universal film of the late 1930s was Destry Rides Again (1939), starring James Stewart as Destry and Marlene Dietrich in her comeback role after leaving Paramount Studios.
Question: How old was Gloria Jean in 1939?
Answer: 13
Question: Along with Donald O'Connor and Bing Crosby, with whom did Gloria Jean star?
Answer: Bing Crosby
Question: Who played Destry in Destry Rides Again?
Answer: James Stewart
Question: Prior to working at Universal, what studio employed Marlene Dietrich?
Answer: Paramount Studios
Question: In what year was Destry Rides again produced?
Answer: 1939
Question: What year did the studio sign Gloria Durbin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Gloria Durbin star in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Gloria Durbin star with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What 1930 film starred James Stewart?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What woman starred in the 1930 film Destry Rides Again?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After its defeat in the 1979 general election the Labour Party underwent a period of internal rivalry between the left represented by Tony Benn, and the right represented by Denis Healey. The election of Michael Foot as leader in 1980, and the leftist policies he espoused, such as unilateral nuclear disarmament, leaving the European Economic Community (EEC) and NATO, closer governmental influence in the banking system, the creation of a national minimum wage and a ban on fox hunting led in 1981 to four former cabinet ministers from the right of the Labour Party (Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins and David Owen) forming the Social Democratic Party. Benn was only narrowly defeated by Healey in a bitterly fought deputy leadership election in 1981 after the introduction of an electoral college intended to widen the voting franchise to elect the leader and their deputy. By 1982, the National Executive Committee had concluded that the entryist Militant tendency group were in contravention of the party's constitution. The Militant newspaper's five member editorial board were expelled on 22 February 1983.
Question: When was the Labout party defeated?
Answer: 1979
Question: What year was Michael Foot elected as leader?
Answer: 1980
Question: What did four members of the Labour Party leave to creat?
Answer: Social Democratic Party
Question: Why was the electoral college introduced?
Answer: widen the voting franchise
Question: What did the Labour Party do after it won in 1979?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who lost the election in 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What policy did Michael Foot oppose?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was easily defeated by Healey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the National Executive Committee conclude before 1982?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As the primary former Capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond is home to many museums and battlefields of the American Civil War. Near the riverfront is the Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitors Center and the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, both housed in the former buildings of the Tredegar Iron Works, where much of the ordnance for the war was produced. In Court End, near the Virginia State Capitol, is the Museum of the Confederacy, along with the Davis Mansion, also known as the White House of the Confederacy; both feature a wide variety of objects and material from the era. The temporary home of former Confederate General Robert E. Lee still stands on Franklin Street in downtown Richmond. The history of slavery and emancipation are also increasingly represented: there is a former slave trail along the river that leads to Ancarrow's Boat Ramp and Historic Site which has been developed with interpretive signage, and in 2007, the Reconciliation Statue was placed in Shockoe Bottom, with parallel statues placed in Liverpool and Benin representing points of the Triangle Trade.
Question: In what former industrial facility is the Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitors Center located?
Answer: Tredegar Iron Works
Question: What government building is the Museum of the Confederacy located near?
Answer: Virginia State Capitol
Question: What is another name for the Davis Mansion?
Answer: White House of the Confederacy
Question: On what Richmond street did General Lee live for a while?
Answer: Franklin
Question: Where are the Reconciliation Statues outside Richmond located?
Answer: Liverpool and Benin |
Context: Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks on walls of some residential buildings in the downtown areas, but no buildings collapsed. Many Beijing office towers were evacuated, including the building housing the media offices for the organizers of the 2008 Summer Olympics. None of the Olympic venues were damaged. Meanwhile, a cargo train carrying 13 petrol tanks derailed in Hui County, Gansu, and caught on fire after the rail was distorted.
Question: Where did the reporters say they saw cracks on walls of some buildings?
Answer: in Chengdu
Question: Where were office towers evacuated?
Answer: Beijing
Question: Where did a cargo train derail as a result?
Answer: Hui County, Gansu
Question: What happened to the cargo train?
Answer: caught on fire
Question: What was reported in Chengdu?
Answer: cracks on walls
Question: What was evacuated in Beijing?
Answer: office towers
Question: What part of the Olympic area was not damaged?
Answer: venues
Question: Where did a cargo train derail?
Answer: Hui County, Gansu
Question: Why did the train catch fire?
Answer: rail was distorted |
Context: From 1950 to 2011, world population increased from 2.5 billion to 7 billion and is forecast to reach a plateau of more than 9 billion during the 21st century. Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, told a parliamentary inquiry: "It is self-evident that the massive growth in the human population through the 20th century has had more impact on biodiversity than any other single factor." At least until the middle of the 21st century, worldwide losses of pristine biodiverse land will probably depend much on the worldwide human birth rate.
Question: What was the increase in population from 1950 to 2011?
Answer: world population increased from 2.5 billion to 7 billion
Question: What year started the increase of population to 7 billion?
Answer: From 1950
Question: What is the forecast plateau that the population will reach during the 21st century?
Answer: more than 9 billion
Question: Who is the former chief scientific adviser to the UK government?
Answer: Sir David King
Question: What was the increase in population from 1957 to 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year started the increase of population to 2 billion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the forecast plateau that the population will reach during the 22nd century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the former chief scientific parliamentary to the UK government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Until at least when will worldwide loss of scientific advisers probably depend much on the worldwide birth rate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The 1469 marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon and the 1479 death of John II of Aragon led to the creation of modern-day Spain. In 1492, Granada was captured from the Moors, thereby completing the Reconquista. Portugal had during the 15th century – particularly under Henry the Navigator – gradually explored the coast of Africa, and in 1498, Vasco da Gama found the sea route to India. The Spanish monarchs met the Portuguese challenge by financing the expedition of Christopher Columbus to find a western sea route to India, leading to the discovery of the Americas in 1492.
Question: In what year were Isabel I and Ferdinand II married?
Answer: 1469
Question: When was modern-day Spain created?
Answer: 1492
Question: The capture of which city finalized the Reconquista?
Answer: Granada
Question: Which explorer discovered a sea-route to India?
Answer: Vasco da Gama
Question: In what year did Christopher Columbus discover the Americas?
Answer: 1492
Question: In what year were Isabel II and Ferdinand II married?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was ancient-day Spain created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The release of which city finalized the Reconquista?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which explorer ignored a sea-route to India?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Christopher Columbus miss the Americas?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Victorian era of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from June 1837 to January 1901. This was a long period of prosperity for the British people, as profits gained from the overseas British Empire, as well as from industrial improvements at home, allowed a large, educated middle class to develop. Some scholars would extend the beginning of the period—as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political games that have come to be associated with the Victorians—back five years to the passage of the Reform Act 1832.
Question: What was the Victorian era of the United Kingdom?
Answer: the period of Queen Victoria's reign
Question: Through what Period did Queen Victoria reign?
Answer: 1837 to January 1901
Question: What did the people consider Queen Victoria reign to be?
Answer: a long period of prosperity for the British people
Question: How far back would some scholars extend Victoria's reign?
Answer: five years to the passage of the Reform Act 1832. |
Context: Similar to the other Eur-A countries, most Portuguese die from noncommunicable diseases. Mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is higher than in the eurozone, but its two main components, ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease, display inverse trends compared with the Eur-A, with cerebrovascular disease being the single biggest killer in Portugal (17%). Portuguese people die 12% less often from cancer than in the Eur-A, but mortality is not declining as rapidly as in the Eur-A. Cancer is more frequent among children as well as among women younger than 44 years. Although lung cancer (slowly increasing among women) and breast cancer (decreasing rapidly) are scarcer, cancer of the cervix and the prostate are more frequent. Portugal has the highest mortality rate for diabetes in the Eur-A, with a sharp increase since the 1980s.
Question: What do most Portuguese people die from?
Answer: noncommunicable diseases
Question: What are the two main components of cardiovascular disease?
Answer: ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease
Question: What is the biggest killer in Portugal?
Answer: cerebrovascular disease
Question: What percentage of Portuguese people die less often from cancer than in the Eur-A?
Answer: 12%
Question: Who is cancer more common among in Portugal?
Answer: children as well as among women younger than 44 years |
Context: During Mubarak's reign, the political scene was dominated by the National Democratic Party, which was created by Sadat in 1978. It passed the 1993 Syndicates Law, 1995 Press Law, and 1999 Nongovernmental Associations Law which hampered freedoms of association and expression by imposing new regulations and draconian penalties on violations.[citation needed] As a result, by the late 1990s parliamentary politics had become virtually irrelevant and alternative avenues for political expression were curtailed as well.
Question: What group dominated the political scene when Mubarak was in power?
Answer: National Democratic Party,
Question: What laws created in 1990s impacted culture?
Answer: 1993 Syndicates Law, 1995 Press Law, and 1999 Nongovernmental Associations Law
Question: When did parliamentary politics become irrelevant in Egypt?
Answer: late 1990s |
Context: Naturally occurring crude asphalt/bitumen impregnated in sedimentary rock is the prime feed stock for petroleum production from "Oil sands", currently under development in Alberta, Canada. Canada has most of the world's supply of natural asphalt/bitumen, covering 140,000 square kilometres (an area larger than England), giving it the second-largest proven oil reserves in the world. The Athabasca oil sands is the largest asphalt/bitumen deposit in Canada and the only one accessible to surface mining, although recent technological breakthroughs have resulted in deeper deposits becoming producible by in situ methods. Because of oil price increases after 2003, producing bitumen became highly profitable, but as a result of the decline after 2014 it became uneconomic to build new plants again. By 2014, Canadian crude asphalt/bitumen production averaged about 2.3 million barrels (370,000 m3) per day and was projected to rise to 4.4 million barrels (700,000 m3) per day by 2020. The total amount of crude asphalt/bitumen in Alberta which could be extracted is estimated to be about 310 billion barrels (50×10^9 m3), which at a rate of 4,400,000 barrels per day (700,000 m3/d) would last about 200 years.
Question: Where is naturally occurring bitumen in rock being developed as a feed stock for petroleum production?
Answer: Alberta, Canada
Question: How much area does Canada's natural bitumen cover?
Answer: 140,000 square kilometres
Question: Where does Canada rank in world's oil supplies?
Answer: second-largest
Question: What is Canada's only surface bitumen mine?
Answer: Athabasca oil sands
Question: What is the amount of bitumen that can be extracted in Alberta?
Answer: 310 billion barrels
Question: How much area does the smallest supply of natural bitumen, in Canada, cover?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which country has the third-largest known oil preserves in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Oil prices decreased after which year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By what year did Canadian oil sands production average 2.3 million barrels per day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By what year did Athabascan crude asphalt/bitumen production average 2.3 million barrels per day?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Indira Gandhi International Airport, situated to the southwest of Delhi, is the main gateway for the city's domestic and international civilian air traffic. In 2012-13, the airport was used by more than 35 million passengers, making it one of the busiest airports in South Asia. Terminal 3, which cost ₹96.8 billion (US$1.4 billion) to construct between 2007 and 2010, handles an additional 37 million passengers annually.
Question: What major airport is located to the southwest of Delhi?
Answer: Indira Gandhi International Airport
Question: Approximately how many passengers used Indira Gandhi Airport from 2012-2013?
Answer: 35 million
Question: How much money did Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport cost to construct?
Answer: ₹96.8 billion
Question: How many passengers use Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi Airport each year?
Answer: 37 million
Question: What year was construction of Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi airport finished?
Answer: 2010 |
Context: The major Allied participants were the United States, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom (including the armed forces of British India, the Fiji Islands, Samoa, etc.), Australia, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, the Netherlands (as the possessor of the Dutch East Indies and the western part of New Guinea), New Zealand, and Canada, all of whom were members of the Pacific War Council. Mexico, Free France and many other countries also took part, especially forces from other British colonies.
Question: Did Mexico play a part in the war?
Answer: took part
Question: On which side of the war were the Chinese?
Answer: United States
Question: What other major continent participated as an ally of the U.S.?
Answer: Australia
Question: What colonies did the Netherlands possess?
Answer: Dutch East Indies and the western part of New Guinea
Question: What large Asian country was allied with the United States?
Answer: Republic of China
Question: What was the name of the Philippines nation?
Answer: Commonwealth of the Philippines
Question: What nation possessed the Dutch East Indies?
Answer: Netherlands
Question: What nation possessed west New Guinea?
Answer: Netherlands |
Context: U.S. submarines accounted for 56% of the Japanese merchantmen sunk; mines or aircraft destroyed most of the rest. US submariners also claimed 28% of Japanese warships destroyed. Furthermore, they played important reconnaissance roles, as at the battles of the Philippine Sea (June 1944) and Leyte Gulf (October 1944) (and, coincidentally,[clarification needed] at Midway in June 1942), when they gave accurate and timely warning of the approach of the Japanese fleet. Submarines also rescued hundreds of downed fliers, including future U.S. president George H.W. Bush.
Question: What percentage of Japanese merchantmen were sunk by U.S. submarines?
Answer: 56%
Question: What percentage of Japanese warships were sunk by U.S. submarines?
Answer: 28%
Question: What future U.S. president was rescued by a submarine?
Answer: George H.W. Bush
Question: What was one of the important roles submarine played in the war?
Answer: reconnaissance roles |
Context: Kerry said on September 9 in response to a reporter's question about whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avert a military strike: "He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over, all of it, without delay, and allow a full and total accounting for that. But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously." This unscripted remark initiated a process that would lead to Syria agreeing to relinquish and destroy its chemical weapons arsenal, as Russia treated Kerry's statement as a serious proposal. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia would work "immediately" to convince Syria relinquish and destroy its large chemical weapons arsenal. Syria quickly welcomed this proposal and on September 14, the UN formally accepted Syria's application to join the convention banning chemical weapons, and separately, the U.S. and Russia agreed on a plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of 2014. On September 28, the UN Security Council passed a resolution ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning the August 21 Ghouta attack.
Question: Who was Syria's president in 2014?
Answer: Bashar al-Assad
Question: What did Kerry say Syria could do to avoid a military strike?
Answer: turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week
Question: Which country convinced Syria to actually give up its chemical weapons?
Answer: Russia
Question: What was Sergey Lavrov's position?
Answer: Russian Foreign Minister
Question: When did the UN Security Council order Syria's chemical weapons be destroyed?
Answer: September 28 |
Context: In 2010 there was an attempt to register a 51st State Party with the New Zealand Electoral Commission. The party advocates New Zealand becoming the 51st state of the United States of America. The party's secretary is Paulus Telfer, a former Christchurch mayoral candidate. On February 5, 2010, the party applied to register a logo with the Electoral Commission. The logo – a US flag with 51 stars – was rejected by the Electoral Commission on the grounds that it was likely to cause confusion or mislead electors. As of 2014[update], the party remains unregistered and cannot appear on a ballot.
Question: When did the 51st State Party attempt to register in New Zealand?
Answer: 2010
Question: What does the 51st State Party advocate?
Answer: The party advocates New Zealand becoming the 51st state of the United States of America
Question: Who is the secretary of the 51st State Party?
Answer: Paulus Telfer
Question: Can people in New Zealand vote for the 51st State Party?
Answer: the party remains unregistered and cannot appear on a ballot.
Question: When did the 51st State Party attempt to register with Paulus Telfer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Electoral Commission Party advocate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the secretary of the Electoral Commission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Can people in New Zealand vote for the Electoral Commission Party?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the logo of the Electoral Commission Party?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first generation iPod Nano may overheat and pose a health and safety risk. Affected iPod Nanos were sold between September 2005 and December 2006. This is due to a flawed battery used by Apple from a single battery manufacturer. Apple recommended that owners of affected iPod Nanos stop using them. Under an Apple product replacement program, affected Nanos were replaced with current generation Nanos free of charge.
Question: What part of the iPod Nano was the cause of the overheating issue?
Answer: battery
Question: What program allowed users to exchange iPod Nanos which suffered from overheating problems with new safe models?
Answer: Apple product replacement program |
Context: A necessary condition for the aforementioned reciprocity property is that the materials in the antenna and transmission medium are linear and reciprocal. Reciprocal (or bilateral) means that the material has the same response to an electric current or magnetic field in one direction, as it has to the field or current in the opposite direction. Most materials used in antennas meet these conditions, but some microwave antennas use high-tech components such as isolators and circulators, made of nonreciprocal materials such as ferrite. These can be used to give the antenna a different behavior on receiving than it has on transmitting, which can be useful in applications like radar.
Question: What must be true of the antenna and transmission medium for the repiprocity rule to apply ?
Answer: linear and reciprocal
Question: What is called when the direction of the elctrical current does not make a difference to the current?
Answer: Reciprocal
Question: What is one material that does not have this quality?
Answer: ferrite
Question: How can the lack of this quality be used in an everyday way?
Answer: radar |
Context: On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. Author/solicitor David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire has had more letters published on the main letters page than any other known contributor – 158 by 31 January 2008. According to its leading article, "From Our Own Correspondents", removal of full postal addresses was in order to fit more letters onto the page.
Question: On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned what page of its newspaper?
Answer: Letters page
Question: In 2005, The Times dropped the practice of printing what kind of feature of its correspondents?
Answer: full postal addresses
Question: Which author and solicitor has had more letters published on the main letters page of The Times than any other known contributor?
Answer: David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire
Question: The leading author and solicitor of the letters page in The Times had how many articles published?
Answer: 158
Question: What is the name of the leading article that referenced the removal of a major feature in The Times in 2005?
Answer: From Our Own Correspondents |
Context: Intellectuals such as Robert Darnton and Jürgen Habermas have focused on the social conditions of the Enlightenment. Habermas described the creation of the "bourgeois public sphere" in 18th-century Europe, containing the new venues and modes of communication allowing for rational exchange. Habermas said that the public sphere was bourgeois, egalitarian, rational, and independent from the state, making it the ideal venue for intellectuals to critically examine contemporary politics and society, away from the interference of established authority. While the public sphere is generally an integral component of the social study of the Enlightenment, other historians have questioned whether the public sphere had these characteristics.
Question: What aspect of the Enlightenment did Robert Darnton and Jurgen Habermas focus on within the Enlightenment?
Answer: social conditions
Question: How did Habermas describe the public sphere?
Answer: bourgeois, egalitarian, rational, and independent from the state
Question: The new venues and modes of communication allowing for rational exchange were given what term by Habermas in 18th century Europe?
Answer: the "bourgeois public sphere" |
Context: Between 1945 and 1989, the share of ethnic Estonians in the population resident within the currently defined boundaries of Estonia dropped to 61%, caused primarily by the Soviet programme promoting mass immigration of urban industrial workers from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, as well as by wartime emigration and Joseph Stalin's mass deportations and executions.[citation needed] By 1989, minorities constituted more than one-third of the population, as the number of non-Estonians had grown almost fivefold.
Question: What period did the amount of ethnic Estonians drop by 61%?
Answer: Between 1945 and 1989
Question: What trend caused the drop of ethnic Estonians?
Answer: mass immigration of urban industrial workers from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
Question: Who ordered large scales of deportations and executions?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: What year did minorities in Estonia make up more than a third of the country?
Answer: 1989 |
Context: The polytechnics of Thuringia are based in Erfurt (4,500 students), Jena (5,000 students), Nordhausen (2,500 students) and Schmalkalden (3,000 students). In addition, there is a civil service college in Gotha with 500 students, the College of Music "Franz Liszt" in Weimar (800 students) as well as two private colleges, the Adam-Ries-Fachhochschule in Erfurt (500 students) and the SRH College for nursing and allied medical subjects (SRH Fachhochschule für Gesundheit Gera) in Gera (500 students). Finally, there are colleges for those studying for a technical qualification while working in a related field (Berufsakademie) at Eisenach (600 students) and Gera (700 students).
Question: Where is the civil service college of Thuringia?
Answer: Gotha
Question: How many students attend the college of music in Thuringia?
Answer: 800
Question: How many schools offer polytechnics?
Answer: Erfurt (4,500 students), Jena (5,000 students), Nordhausen (2,500 students) and Schmalkalden
Question: Where is the civil service college of Thuringia restricted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many students dislike the college of music in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many schools forbid polytechnics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does not allow studying for technical qualifications?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many accessories have been made for the iPod line. A large number are made by third party companies, although many, such as the iPod Hi-Fi, are made by Apple. Some accessories add extra features that other music players have, such as sound recorders, FM radio tuners, wired remote controls, and audio/visual cables for TV connections. Other accessories offer unique features like the Nike+iPod pedometer and the iPod Camera Connector. Other notable accessories include external speakers, wireless remote controls, protective case, screen films, and wireless earphones. Among the first accessory manufacturers were Griffin Technology, Belkin, JBL, Bose, Monster Cable, and SendStation.
Question: What is the name of an Apple-produced iPod accessory?
Answer: iPod Hi-Fi
Question: What is an example of an iPod accessory made work exercise?
Answer: Nike+iPod pedometer
Question: What are six companies that made some of the first peripherals for the iPod?
Answer: Griffin Technology, Belkin, JBL, Bose, Monster Cable, and SendStation
Question: What can A/V cables be used to connect the iPod to?
Answer: TV
Question: Who manufactures a pedometer accessory for the iPod?
Answer: Nike
Question: Which company manufactures the iPod Hi-Fi accessory?
Answer: Apple |
Context: A capacitor consists of two conductors separated by a non-conductive region. The non-conductive region is called the dielectric. In simpler terms, the dielectric is just an electrical insulator. Examples of dielectric media are glass, air, paper, vacuum, and even a semiconductor depletion region chemically identical to the conductors. A capacitor is assumed to be self-contained and isolated, with no net electric charge and no influence from any external electric field. The conductors thus hold equal and opposite charges on their facing surfaces, and the dielectric develops an electric field. In SI units, a capacitance of one farad means that one coulomb of charge on each conductor causes a voltage of one volt across the device.
Question: What type of area is between the two conductors in a capacitor?
Answer: a non-conductive region
Question: What is the name given to the area between two conductors in a capacitor?
Answer: the dielectric
Question: What net electric charge are capacitors assumed to have?
Answer: no net electric charge
Question: What type of charges do conductors hold on their facing surfaces?
Answer: equal and opposite charges
Question: What region within a capacitor develops an electric field?
Answer: the dielectric
Question: What type of area is between the three conductors in a capacitor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name given to the area between three conductors in a capacitor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What net electric charge are capacitors assumed to never have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of charges do conductors release on their facing surfaces?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What region outside of a capacitor develops an electric field?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Marshall Field & Company originated in 1852. It was the premier department store on the main shopping street in the Midwest, State Street in Chicago. Upscale shoppers came by train from throughout the region, patronizing nearby hotels. It grew to become a major chain before converting to the Macy's nameplate on 9 September 2006. Marshall Field's Served as a model for other departments stores in that it had exceptional customer service. Field's also brought with it the now famous Frango mints brand that became so closely identified with Marshall Field's and Chicago from the now defunct Frederick & Nelson Department store. Marshall Field's also had the firsts, among many innovations by Marshall Field's. Field's had the first European buying office, which was located in Manchester, England, and the first bridal registry. The company was the first to introduce the concept of the personal shopper, and that service was provided without charge in every Field's store, until the chain's last days under the Marshall Field's name. It was the first store to offer revolving credit and the first department store to use escalators. Marshall Field's book department in the State Street store was legendary; it pioneered the concept of the "book signing." Moreover, every year at Christmas, Marshall Field's downtown store windows were filled with animated displays as part of the downtown shopping district display; the "theme" window displays became famous for their ingenuity and beauty, and visiting the Marshall Field's windows at Christmas became a tradition for Chicagoans and visitors alike, as popular a local practice as visiting the Walnut Room with its equally famous Christmas tree or meeting "under the clock" on State Street.
Question: In what year was Marshall Field and company established?
Answer: 1852
Question: When did Marshall's convert to the Macy's name?
Answer: 9 September 2006
Question: What made Marshall's such a good example for other stores?
Answer: exceptional customer service
Question: Where was Marshall's European buying office located?
Answer: Manchester, England
Question: What free service did Marshall's provide customers until changing their name to Macy's?
Answer: personal shopper
Question: In what year was Marshall Field and company closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When didn't Marshall's convert to the Macy's name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What made Marshall's such a bad example for other stores?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Marshall's European selling office located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What charged service did Marshall's provide customers until changing their name to Macy's?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The foundation of Northwestern University is traceable to a meeting on May 31, 1850 of nine prominent Chicago businessmen, Methodist leaders and attorneys who had formed the idea of establishing a university to serve what had once been known as the Northwest Territory. On January 28, 1851, the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University, making it the first chartered university in Illinois. The school's nine founders, all of whom were Methodists (three of them ministers), knelt in prayer and worship before launching their first organizational meeting. Although they affiliated the university with the Methodist Episcopal Church, they were committed to non-sectarian admissions, believing that Northwestern should serve all people in the newly developing territory.
Question: In what environment was the foundation for Northwestern University planned on May 31, 1850?
Answer: a meeting
Question: Who granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University in January of 1851?
Answer: the Illinois General Assembly
Question: What was the religious affiliation of all 9 founding members of Northwestern?
Answer: Methodists
Question: How many of Northwestern's 9 founders were ministers?
Answer: three
Question: Which church did the 9 founders of Northwestern affiliate the university with?
Answer: Methodist Episcopal
Question: How many sellers did Northwestern University have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of church is Northwestern University unassociated with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the date that lay down the foundation for Southwestern University?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many ministers founded Southwestern University?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What denomination did the all of the founders disassociate with?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Oklahoma's judicial branch consists of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, and 77 District Courts that each serves one county. The Oklahoma judiciary also contains two independent courts: a Court of Impeachment and the Oklahoma Court on the Judiciary. Oklahoma has two courts of last resort: the state Supreme Court hears civil cases, and the state Court of Criminal Appeals hears criminal cases (this split system exists only in Oklahoma and neighboring Texas). Judges of those two courts, as well as the Court of Civil Appeals are appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the state Judicial Nominating Commission, and are subject to a non-partisan retention vote on a six-year rotating schedule.
Question: How many district courts does Oklahoma have?
Answer: 77
Question: How many counties does Oklahoma have?
Answer: 77
Question: What is the civil court of last resort in Oklahoma?
Answer: the state Supreme Court
Question: What is the criminal court of last resort in Oklahoma?
Answer: the state Court of Criminal Appeals
Question: What is the only other state with two courts of last resort?
Answer: Texas |
Context: In his usurpation of the throne from the Jianwen Emperor (r. 1398–1402), the Yongle Emperor was aided by the Buddhist monk Yao Guangxiao, and like his father, the Hongwu Emperor, the Yongle Emperor was "well-disposed towards Buddhism", claims Rossabi. On March 10, 1403, the Yongle Emperor invited Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama (1384–1415), to his court, even though the fourth Karmapa had rejected the invitation of the Hongwu Emperor. A Tibetan translation in the 16th century preserves the letter of the Yongle Emperor, which the Association for Asian Studies notes is polite and complimentary towards the Karmapa. The letter of invitation reads,
Question: What year did the Jianwen Emperor reign start and end?
Answer: 1398–1402
Question: Who aided the Yongle Emperor?
Answer: the Buddhist monk Yao Guangxiao
Question: Who was Yongle Emperor's father?
Answer: the Hongwu Emperor
Question: When did the Yongle Emperor invite Deshin Shekpa to his court?
Answer: March 10, 1403 |
Context: The old oracles in Delphi seem to be connected with a local tradition of the priesthood, and there is not clear evidence that a kind of inspiration-prophecy existed in the temple. This led some scholars to the conclusion that Pythia carried on the rituals in a consistent procedure through many centuries, according to the local tradition. In that regard, the mythical seeress Sibyl of Anatolian origin, with her ecstatic art, looks unrelated to the oracle itself. However, the Greek tradition is referring to the existence of vapours and chewing of laurel-leaves, which seem to be confirmed by recent studies.
Question: Who did scholars beieve carried on the rituals in a consistent procedure?
Answer: Pythia
Question: Who is a mythical seeress of Anatoian origin?
Answer: Sibyl
Question: What Greek tradition seems to be confirmed by recent studies?
Answer: existence of vapours and chewing of laurel-leaves |
Context: In the US, a prominent form of racial preferences relates to access to education, particularly admission to universities and other forms of higher education. Race, ethnicity, native language, social class, geographical origin, parental attendance of the university in question (legacy admissions), and/or gender are sometimes taken into account when the university assesses an applicant's grades and test scores. Individuals can also be awarded scholarships and have fees paid on the basis of criteria listed above. In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Bakke v. Regents that public universities (and other government institutions) could not set specific numerical targets based on race for admissions or employment. The Court said that "goals" and "timetables" for diversity could be set instead.
Question: Where are racial preferences highlighted the most in the United States?
Answer: admission to universities and other forms of higher education
Question: What is another term for kids who get preferential treatment due to their parents attending the same university?
Answer: legacy admissions
Question: Which case that went to the Supreme Court resulted in a decision regarding public universities and affirmative action?
Answer: Bakke v. Regents
Question: What are public universities not allowed to do?
Answer: set specific numerical targets based on race for admissions or employment
Question: Instead of being allowed to set numerical targets, what did the Court rule that universities are allowed to do?
Answer: "goals" and "timetables" for diversity could be set
Question: Where are racial preferences highlighted the most in the UK?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another term for kids who don't get preferential treatment due to their parents attending the same university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which case that went to the Supreme Court resulted in a decision regarding private universities and affirmative action?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are public universities allowed to do?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1998, two former Northwestern basketball players were charged and convicted for sports bribery as a result of being paid to shave points in games against three other Big Ten schools during the 1995 season. The football team became embroiled in a different betting scandal later that year when federal prosecutors indicted four former players for perjury related to betting on their own games. In August 2001, Rashidi Wheeler, a senior safety, collapsed and died during practice from an asthma attack. An autopsy revealed that he had ephedrine, a stimulant banned by the NCAA, in his system, which prompted Northwestern to investigate the prevalence of stimulants and other banned substances across all of its athletic programs. In 2006, the Northwestern women's soccer team was suspended and coach Jenny Haigh resigned following the release of images of alleged hazing.
Question: What were 2 former Northwestern basketball players charged and convicted for in 1998?
Answer: sports bribery
Question: What did federal prosecutors indict four former players for in a separate betting scandal?
Answer: perjury related to betting on their own games
Question: What did an autopsy reveal was in Rashidi Wheeler's system after he died during a practice?
Answer: ephedrine
Question: In 2006, what prompted the women's soccer team coach, Jenny Haigh, to resign?
Answer: the release of images of alleged hazing
Question: After the death of Rashidi Wheeler in 2001, which athletic programs were investigated for stimulants and other banned substances?
Answer: all
Question: What were 2 former Northwestern soccer players charged and convicted for in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did federal prosecutors indict eight former players for in a separate betting scandal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did an autopsy reveal was in Rashidi Wheeler's system after he died during a game?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2006, what prompted the women's football team coach, Jenny Haigh, to resign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After the death of Rashidi Wheeler in 2010, which athletic programs were investigated for stimulants and other banned substances?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Baden Powell praised "Mr Darwin's masterly volume [supporting] the grand principle of the self-evolving powers of nature". In America, Asa Gray argued that evolution is the secondary effect, or modus operandi, of the first cause, design, and published a pamphlet defending the book in terms of theistic evolution, Natural Selection is not inconsistent with Natural Theology. Theistic evolution became a popular compromise, and St. George Jackson Mivart was among those accepting evolution but attacking Darwin's naturalistic mechanism. Eventually it was realised that supernatural intervention could not be a scientific explanation, and naturalistic mechanisms such as neo-Lamarckism were favoured over natural selection as being more compatible with purpose.
Question: What was Baden Powell's opinion of On the Origin of Species?
Answer: Baden Powell praised "Mr Darwin's masterly volume [supporting] the grand principle of the self-evolving powers of nature"
Question: What did the pamphlet that Asa Gray published defend?
Answer: defending the book in terms of theistic evolution, Natural Selection is not inconsistent with Natural Theology.
Question: What was a way that theologians compromised with the information in Darwin's book?
Answer: Theistic evolution became a popular compromise
Question: What was later realized that caused naturalistic mechanisms such as neo-Lamarckism to be embraced?
Answer: supernatural intervention could not be a scientific explanation |
Context: PAL LaserDiscs have a slightly longer playing time than NTSC discs, but have fewer audio options. PAL discs only have two audio tracks, consisting of either two analog-only tracks on older PAL LDs, or two digital-only tracks on newer discs. In comparison, later NTSC LDs are capable of carrying four tracks (two analog and two digital). On certain releases, one of the analog tracks is used to carry a modulated AC-3 signal for 5.1 channel audio (for decoding and playback by newer LD players with an "AC-3 RF" output). However, older NTSC LDs made before 1984 (such as the original DiscoVision discs) only have two analog audio tracks.
Question: Which has a longer playing time: PAL LaserDiscs or NTSC discs?
Answer: PAL LaserDiscs
Question: How many audio tracks do PAL LaserDiscs have?
Answer: two
Question: Which two audio options are available on PAL LaserDiscs?
Answer: two analog-only tracks on older PAL LDs, or two digital-only tracks on newer discs |
Context: In the far north, there is a division between Berber-descendent Tuareg nomad populations and the darker-skinned Bella or Tamasheq people, due the historical spread of slavery in the region. An estimated 800,000 people in Mali are descended from slaves. Slavery in Mali has persisted for centuries. The Arabic population kept slaves well into the 20th century, until slavery was suppressed by French authorities around the mid-20th century. There still persist certain hereditary servitude relationships, and according to some estimates, even today approximately 200,000 Malians are still enslaved.
Question: Roughly how many Malians are descendants of slaves?
Answer: 800,000
Question: What is the estimate of current Mali enslavement?
Answer: 200,000
Question: What group of people were known to keep Malian salves into the 20th century?
Answer: Arabic population
Question: The darker skinned Bella people are also refereed to as what name?
Answer: Tamasheq
Question: What region of the country is historical slavery well known?
Answer: far north
Question: Who is their division between in the South?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Wiser division in southern Mali?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people in Mali are descended from slaveowners?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who kept slaves until the 2000's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Arabic authorities suppress in the twentieth century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A nonstandard dialect, like a standard dialect, has a complete vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, but is usually not the beneficiary of institutional support. Examples of a nonstandard English dialect are Southern American English, Western Australian English, Scouse and Tyke. The Dialect Test was designed by Joseph Wright to compare different English dialects with each other.
Question: What does a nonstandard dialect usually not have compared to a standard dialect?
Answer: institutional support
Question: What language is Scouse a dialect of?
Answer: English
Question: What was created for the sake of comparing English dialects?
Answer: The Dialect Test
Question: Who came up with the Dialect Test?
Answer: Joseph Wright
Question: Along with a syntax and grammar, what attribute does a dialect possess?
Answer: vocabulary
Question: Unlike a standard dialect, what does a nonstandard dialect have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Unlike a nonstandard dialect, what does a standard dialect have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A nonstandard dialect usually receives what type of support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some examples of standard American English?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which test was designed by Tyke to compare different English dialects?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The subsequent 1912 Salon des Indépendants was marked by the presentation of Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, which itself caused a scandal, even amongst the Cubists. It was in fact rejected by the hanging committee, which included his brothers and other Cubists. Although the work was shown in the Salon de la Section d'Or in October 1912 and the 1913 Armory Show in New York, Duchamp never forgave his brothers and former colleagues for censoring his work. Juan Gris, a new addition to the Salon scene, exhibited his Portrait of Picasso (Art Institute of Chicago), while Metzinger's two showings included La Femme au Cheval (Woman with a horse) 1911-1912 (National Gallery of Denmark). Delaunay's monumental La Ville de Paris (Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris) and Léger's La Noce, The Wedding (Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris) were also exhibited.
Question: Which Duchamp presentation was displayed in the 1912 Salon des Independants?
Answer: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Question: Was Duchamp's work considered controversial when displayed in 1912?
Answer: caused a scandal
Question: What were one of Metzingers two showings in 1912's Salon des Independants?
Answer: La Femme au Cheval (Woman with a horse) 1911-1912
Question: Which Duchamp presentation was displayed in the 1913 Salon des Independants?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What painting of Duchamp's was not controversial?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were one of Metzingers two showings in 1913's Salon des Independants?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Woman with a Door displayed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was La Ville de Rome featured?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since the construction of its oldest buildings, the university's physical plant has grown substantially. Over the years 29 residence halls have been built to accommodate students and each has been constructed with its own chapel. Many academic building were added together with a system of libraries, the most prominent of which is the Theodore Hesburgh Library, built in 1963 and today containing almost 4 million books. Since 2004, several buildings have been added, including the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, the Guglielmino Complex, and the Jordan Hall of Science. Additionally, a new residence for men, Duncan Hall, was begun on March 8, 2007, and began accepting residents for the Fall 2008 semester. Ryan Hall was completed and began housing undergraduate women in the fall of 2009. A new engineering building, Stinson-Remick Hall, a new combination Center for Social Concerns/Institute for Church Life building, Geddes Hall, and a law school addition have recently been completed as well. Additionally the new hockey arena opened in the fall of 2011. The Stayer Center for Executive Education, which houses the Mendoza College of Business Executive Education Department opened in March 2013 just South of the Mendoza College of Business building. Because of its long athletic tradition, the university features also many building dedicated to sport. The most famous is Notre Dame Stadium, home of the Fighting Irish football team; it has been renovated several times and today it can hold more than 80 thousand people. Prominent venues include also the Edmund P. Joyce Center, with indoor basketball and volleyball courts, and the Compton Family Ice Arena, a two-rink facility dedicated to hockey. Also, there are many outdoor fields, as the Frank Eck Stadium for baseball.
Question: How many halls are at Notre Dame that house students?
Answer: 29
Question: Which library was built at Notre Dame in 1963?
Answer: Theodore Hesburgh Library
Question: How many books are housed at the Theodore Hesburgh Library?
Answer: almost 4 million
Question: Construction for which hall started on March 8th 2007 at Notre Dame?
Answer: Duncan Hall
Question: Which baseball stadium is found at Notre Dame?
Answer: Frank Eck Stadium |
Context: From his early years, Bell showed a sensitive nature and a talent for art, poetry, and music that was encouraged by his mother. With no formal training, he mastered the piano and became the family's pianist. Despite being normally quiet and introspective, he reveled in mimicry and "voice tricks" akin to ventriloquism that continually entertained family guests during their occasional visits. Bell was also deeply affected by his mother's gradual deafness, (she began to lose her hearing when he was 12) and learned a manual finger language so he could sit at her side and tap out silently the conversations swirling around the family parlour. He also developed a technique of speaking in clear, modulated tones directly into his mother's forehead wherein she would hear him with reasonable clarity. Bell's preoccupation with his mother's deafness led him to study acoustics.
Question: Bell was gifted at art, poetry, and what?
Answer: music
Question: What did Bell succeed at without being taught?
Answer: piano
Question: How old was Bell when his mom started to go deaf?
Answer: 12
Question: What part of his mom's head would Bell talk into?
Answer: forehead
Question: What did Bell research because of his mom's deafness?
Answer: acoustics |
Context: Sport forms an integral part of German life, as demonstrated by the fact that 27 million Germans are members of a sports club and an additional twelve million pursue such an activity individually. Football is by far the most popular sport, and the German Football Federation (Deutscher Fußballbund) with more than 6.3 million members is the largest athletic organisation in the country. It also attracts the greatest audience, with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending Bundesliga matches and millions more watching on television.
Question: How many Germans are members of sports clubs?
Answer: 27 million
Question: What is the most popular sport in Germany?
Answer: Football
Question: What is the largest athletic organisation in the country?
Answer: German Football Federation
Question: How many members are in the German Football Federation?
Answer: 6.3 million
Question: What kind of clubs do 12 million Germans belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Federation has 6.3 thousand members?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has thousands of television spectators?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Byzantines were able to regain control of the country after a brief Sasanian Persian invasion early in the 7th century amidst the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 during which they established a new short-lived province for ten years known as Sasanian Egypt, until 639–42, when Egypt was invaded and conquered by the Islamic Empire by the Muslim Arabs. When they defeated the Byzantine Armies in Egypt, the Arabs brought Sunni Islam to the country. Early in this period, Egyptians began to blend their new faith with indigenous beliefs and practices, leading to various Sufi orders that have flourished to this day. These earlier rites had survived the period of Coptic Christianity.
Question: Who took control of Egypt from Sasanian Persian rule?
Answer: Byzantines
Question: What war gave Sasanin Persians control of Egypt?
Answer: Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628
Question: How long were Sasanin Persians ruling Egypt?
Answer: ten years
Question: What religion did Arabs bring to Egypt?
Answer: Sunni Islam |
Context: Scientists have been studying the impact of climate change and water use. For example, each year more water is diverted from rivers for snowmaking in the ski resorts, the effect of which is yet unknown. Furthermore, the decrease of glaciated areas combined with a succession of winters with lower-than-expected precipitation may have a future impact on the rivers in the Alps as well as an effect on the water availability to the lowlands.
Question: Who have been studying the impact of climate change and water use?
Answer: Scientists
Question: Water is diverted from rivers for what purpose?
Answer: snowmaking in the ski resorts
Question: What are the effects of diverting the water from rivers?
Answer: unknown |
Context: Other sections of society included the nobility, clergy, and townsmen. Nobles, both the titled nobility and simple knights, exploited the manors and the peasants, although they did not own lands outright but were granted rights to the income from a manor or other lands by an overlord through the system of feudalism. During the 11th and 12th centuries, these lands, or fiefs, came to be considered hereditary, and in most areas they were no longer divisible between all the heirs as had been the case in the early medieval period. Instead, most fiefs and lands went to the eldest son.[R] The dominance of the nobility was built upon its control of the land, its military service as heavy cavalry, control of castles, and various immunities from taxes or other impositions.[S] Castles, initially in wood but later in stone, began to be constructed in the 9th and 10th centuries in response to the disorder of the time, and provided protection from invaders as well as allowing lords defence from rivals. Control of castles allowed the nobles to defy kings or other overlords. Nobles were stratified; kings and the highest-ranking nobility controlled large numbers of commoners and large tracts of land, as well as other nobles. Beneath them, lesser nobles had authority over smaller areas of land and fewer people. Knights were the lowest level of nobility; they controlled but did not own land, and had to serve other nobles.[T]
Question: In what centuries did fiefs become hereditary?
Answer: 11th and 12th
Question: In this period, who usually inherited fiefs?
Answer: the eldest son
Question: What were castles originally built out of?
Answer: wood
Question: What group constituted the lowest nobility?
Answer: Knights
Question: In what century were castles first built?
Answer: 9th |
Context: Two assumptions underpinned the British approach to HAA fire; first, aimed fire was the primary method and this was enabled by predicting gun data from visually tracking the target and having its height. Second, that the target would maintain a steady course, speed and height. This HAA was to engage targets up to 24,000 feet. Mechanical, as opposed to igniferous, time fuses were required because the speed of powder burning varied with height so fuse length was not a simple function of time of flight. Automated fire ensured a constant rate of fire that made it easier to predict where each shell should be individually aimed.
Question: What was the primary method for HAA fire?
Answer: aimed fire
Question: Along with predicting the gun data from tracking the target, what else needed to be known about the target to enable the aimed fire?
Answer: its height
Question: Another assumption was that the target would maintain a steady course along with what other two factors?
Answer: speed and height
Question: Targets could be how many feet for the HAA to engage them?
Answer: 24,000 feet
Question: What kind of fuses were needed?
Answer: Mechanical |
Context: The music of the indigenous peoples of Central Mexico and Central America was often pentatonic. Before the arrival of the Spaniards and other Europeans, music was inseparable from religious festivities and included a large variety of percussion and wind instruments such as drums, flutes, sea snail shells (used as a trumpet) and "rain" tubes. No remnants of pre-Columbian stringed instruments were found until archaeologists discovered a jar in Guatemala, attributed to the Maya of the Late Classic Era (600–900 CE), which depicts a stringed musical instrument which has since been reproduced. This instrument is one of the very few stringed instruments known in the Americas prior to the introduction of European musical instruments; when played it produces a sound virtually identical to a jaguar's growl.
Question: What feature did the music of Central America have?
Answer: pentatonic
Question: What role did music play in the religious festivities?
Answer: inseparable from
Question: What instruments were used to make music by the Central Americans?
Answer: large variety of percussion and wind
Question: Where did archaeologists find a depiction of a Mayan stringed instrument?
Answer: a jar in Guatemala
Question: What did the Mayan's stringed instrument sound like when played?
Answer: a jaguar's growl |
Context: The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, much later than Roman law but predating the evolution of modern European civil law traditions. What began with rules ("canons") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew (Old Testament), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.
Question: What entity believes itself to have the longest standing internal mechanism of laws in Western Europe?
Answer: The Catholic Church
Question: What is a legal system older than Catholic law?
Answer: Roman law
Question: What is the term for laws produced at the Council of Jerusalem?
Answer: canons
Question: When was the Council of Jerusalem held?
Answer: first century
Question: Apart from the Old and New Testaments, which other cultures influenced canon?
Answer: Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic
Question: What does the Catholic Church claim to be the oldest of in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What laws predate both Roman law and European civil law traditions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What legal traditions were not included in early canons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What counsel was held in the first century BC
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A common misperception is that the Supreme Court is the only court that may determine constitutionality; the power is exercised even by the inferior courts. But only Supreme Court decisions are binding across the nation. Decisions of a Court of Appeals, for instance, are binding only in the circuit over which the court has jurisdiction.
Question: Which courts decisions are binding across the entire United States?
Answer: the Supreme Court
Question: Which court is the only one able to determine constitutionality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which power are inferior courts unable to exercise?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which courts' decisions, other than Supreme Court, are binding across the country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which is the only court unable to determine constitutionality?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: It was situated precisely in the western part of Central Asia that borders present-day Russia (and present-day Kazakhstan). It was in relative proximity to the other satem ethno-linguistic groups of the Indo-European family, like Thracian, Balto-Slavic and others, and to common Indo-European's original homeland (more precisely, the steppes of southern Russia to the north of the Caucasus), according to the reconstructed linguistic relationships of common Indo-European.
Question: What language family did Thracian and Balto-Slavic belong to?
Answer: Indo-European
Question: What Indo-European groups belong to the Satem language family?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language family originated in the mountains of Russia?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From 1981 to 2010, the average annual precipitation measured at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport was 37.49 inches (952 mm). Annual precipitation has ranged from 23.78 in (604 mm) in 1952 to 55.14 in (1,401 mm) in 1950; for water year (October 1 – September 30) precipitation, the range is 23.16 in (588 mm) in 1976–77 to 51.82 in (1,316 mm) in 1996–97. Due to local variations in microclimate, Seattle also receives significantly lower precipitation than some other locations west of the Cascades. Around 80 mi (129 km) to the west, the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park on the western flank of the Olympic Mountains receives an annual average precipitation of 142 in (3.61 m). Sixty miles to the south of Seattle, the state capital Olympia, which is out of the Olympic Mountains' rain shadow, receives an annual average precipitation of 50 in (1,270 mm). The city of Bremerton, about 15 mi (24 km) west of downtown Seattle, receives 56.4 in (1,430 mm) of precipitation annually.
Question: What is the average rainfall in Seattle?
Answer: 37.49 inches
Question: Where on the Olympic Peninsula does the rainfall average 142 inches a year?
Answer: Hoh Rain Forest
Question: What weather factor produces a great variance in local climates in the Seattle area?
Answer: variations in microclimate
Question: What is the capital of the state of Washington?
Answer: Olympia
Question: What mountain range is the cause of the variance in rainfall?
Answer: Olympic Mountains |
Context: The return of Soviet immigrants to their countries of origin has brought the proportion of Estonians in Estonia back above 70%. And again as in Latvia, today many of the remnant non-Estonians in Estonia have adopted the Estonian language; about 40% at the 2000 census.
Question: Following the departure of the Soviet immigrants what was the percentage of Estonians in Estonia?
Answer: above 70%
Question: When Soviet immigrants joined Estonia, how many Estonians lived in Estonia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many native Estonians adopted Estonian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Estonians spoke Russian in 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Soviets spoke Estonian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Latvians spoke Russian?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The density of paper ranges from 250 kg/m3 (16 lb/cu ft) for tissue paper to 1,500 kg/m3 (94 lb/cu ft) for some speciality paper. Printing paper is about 800 kg/m3 (50 lb/cu ft).
Question: What is the lightest density of paper produced?
Answer: tissue paper
Question: What is the common density of printing paper?
Answer: 800 kg/m3
Question: What is the range of paper weight?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the range of paper thickness?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the range of paper dampness?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the range of paper dryness?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How thick is printing paper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the lightest density of wood produced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the uncommon density of printing paper?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: India established full diplomatic ties with Israel in 1992 and has fostered a strong military, technological and cultural partnership with the country since then. According to an international opinion survey conducted in 2009 on behalf of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, India is the most pro-Israel country in the world. India is the largest customer of Israeli military equipment and Israel is the second-largest military partner of India after the Russian Federation. India is also the third-largest Asian economic partner of Israel and the two countries have military as well as extensive space technology ties. India became the top source market for Israel from Asia in 2010 with 41,000 tourist arrivals in that year. Azerbaijan is one of the few majority Muslim countries to develop bilateral strategic and economic relations with Israel. Azerbaijan supplies Israel with a substantial amount of its oil needs, and Israel has helped modernize the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. In Africa, Ethiopia is Israel's main and closest ally in the continent due to common political, religious and security interests. Israel provides expertise to Ethiopia on irrigation projects and thousands of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) live in Israel.
Question: When did India establish full diplomatic ties with Israel?
Answer: 1992
Question: Who's the most pro-Israel country in the world?
Answer: India
Question: Israel is the second-largest military trading partner of India after who?
Answer: Russian Federation |
Context: Further studies, e.g. Jerome Ravetz 1971 Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems referred to the role of the scientific community, as a social construct, in accepting or rejecting (objective) scientific knowledge. The Science wars of the 1990 were about the influence of especially French philosophers, which denied the objectivity of science in general or seemed to do so. They described as well differences between the idealized model of a pure science and the actual scientific practice; while scientism, a revival of the positivism approach, saw in precise measurement and rigorous calculation the basis for finally settling enduring metaphysical and moral controversies. However, more recently some of the leading critical theorists have recognized that their postmodern deconstructions have at times been counter-productive, and are providing intellectual ammunition for reactionary interests. Bruno Latour noted that "dangerous extremists are using the very same argument of social construction to destroy hard-won evidence that could save our lives. Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies? Is it enough to say that we did not really mean what we meant?"
Question: What did Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems describe the scientific community as?
Answer: a social construct
Question: What was the era called when scientists were rejecting the notion of objectivity of science?
Answer: The Science wars
Question: What was positivism called after it was revived?
Answer: scientism
Question: What did scientism aim to do?
Answer: settling enduring metaphysical and moral controversies |
Context: Intelligence is an important factor in how the individual responds to education. Those who have higher intelligence tend to perform better at school and go on to higher levels of education. This effect is also observable in the opposite direction, in that education increases measurable intelligence. Studies have shown that while educational attainment is important in predicting intelligence in later life, intelligence at 53 is more closely correlated to intelligence at 8 years old than to educational attainment.
Question: What is important for a student in education?
Answer: Intelligence
Question: What does education increase in a student?
Answer: measurable intelligence
Question: What is intelligence at 53 more closely related to?
Answer: intelligence at 8
Question: What is not important for a student in education?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does education decrease in a student?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is intelligence at 53 less related to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What level of education do those who do not perform well at school go to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome (carousel) is a National Historic Landmark. It sits on the Santa Monica Pier, which was built in 1909. The La Monica Ballroom on the pier was once the largest ballroom in the US and the source for many New Year's Eve national network broadcasts. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was an important music venue for several decades and hosted the Academy Awards in the 1960s. McCabe's Guitar Shop is still a leading acoustic performance space as well as retail outlet. Bergamot Station is a city-owned art gallery compound that includes the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The city is also home to the California Heritage Museum and the Angels Attic dollhouse and toy museum.
Question: What year was the Sanat Monica Pier buildt?
Answer: 1909
Question: What historic landmark is located on the Pier?
Answer: Looff Hippodrome
Question: La Monica Ballroom used to be what type of ballroom in the United States?
Answer: largest
Question: Where were the Academy Awards held in the 1960's?
Answer: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Question: What place is still considered a prominent acoustic performance area?
Answer: McCabe's Guitar Shop
Question: In what year was the Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what decade was the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the California Heritage Museum established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what building is the Angels Attic dollhouse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the toy museum built?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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