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Context: The term mainly refers to a mix of lithium and aluminosilicates that yields an array of materials with interesting thermomechanical properties. The most commercially important of these have the distinction of being impervious to thermal shock. Thus, glass-ceramics have become extremely useful for countertop cooking. The negative thermal expansion coefficient (CTE) of the crystalline ceramic phase can be balanced with the positive CTE of the glassy phase. At a certain point (~70% crystalline) the glass-ceramic has a net CTE near zero. This type of glass-ceramic exhibits excellent mechanical properties and can sustain repeated and quick temperature changes up to 1000 °C.
Question: How high of a temperature change can glass-ceramics handle?
Answer: 1000 °C
Question: Because of their heat resistance, glass-ceramics are especially suitable for what?
Answer: countertop cooking
Question: What is the most economically significant property of glass-ceramics?
Answer: impervious to thermal shock
Question: What ingredients give glass-ceramics its useful heat tolerance?
Answer: lithium and aluminosilicates
Question: What proportion of crystalline ceramics yields a product with a CTE of around 0?
Answer: ~70%
Question: How high of a temperature change can CTEs handle?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Because of their heat resistance, arrays are especially suitable for what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the most economically significant property of countertops?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ingredients give glass-ceramics its useful thermal expansion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What proportion of crystalline ceramics yields a product with a CTE of around 1000?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As of September 2012, fifty-six species have been delisted; twenty-eight due to recovery, ten due to extinction (seven of which are believed to have been extinct prior to being listed), ten due to changes in taxonomic classification practices, six due to discovery of new populations, one due to an error in the listing rule, and one due to an amendment to the Endangered Species Act specifically requiring the species delisting. Twenty-five others have been down listed from "endangered" to "threatened" status.
Question: As of September 2012, how many species had been delisted due to recovery?
Answer: twenty-eight
Question: Of the ten species removed due to extinction, how many are believe to have already been extinct when listed?
Answer: seven
Question: How many species have been downgraded from endangered to threatened status?
Answer: Twenty-five
Question: How many species were delisted due to discoveries of new populations?
Answer: six
Question: How many species were delisted in September 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many species have gone from threatened to endangered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many new populations were lost?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many species have recovered since 2012 due to changes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the amendment to the ESA published?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Organisations such as Wetherspoons, Punch Taverns and O'Neill's were formed in the UK in the wake of the Beer Orders. A PubCo is a company involved in the retailing but not the manufacture of beverages, while a Pub chain may be run either by a PubCo or by a brewery.
Question: Along with Punch Taverns and Weatherspoons, what was an organization formed as a result of the Beer Orders?
Answer: O'Neill's
Question: What is the name of a company that retails but does not manufacture drinks?
Answer: PubCo
Question: Along with breweries, what type of company may run a pub chain?
Answer: PubCo
Question: In what country was Punch Taverns established?
Answer: the UK |
Context: South Raleigh is located along U.S. 401 south toward Fuquay-Varina and along US 70 into suburban Garner. This area is the least developed and least dense area of Raleigh (much of the area lies within the Swift Creek watershed district, where development regulations limit housing densities and construction). The area is bordered to the west by Cary, to the east by Garner, and to the southwest by Holly Springs. Neighborhoods in South Raleigh include Renaissance Park, Lake Wheeler, Swift Creek, Carolina Pines, Rhamkatte, Riverbrooke, and Enchanted Oaks.
Question: Where is South Raleigh?
Answer: along U.S. 401 south toward Fuquay-Varina
Question: What is different about South Raleigh?
Answer: least developed and least dense
Question: What borders South Raleigh to the west?
Answer: Cary,
Question: Where is Holly Springs compared to South Raleigh?
Answer: southwest
Question: What are some neighborhoods in South Raleigh?
Answer: Renaissance Park, Lake Wheeler, Swift Creek
Question: Where is North Raleigh?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not unique about South Raleigh?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What borders South Raleigh to the east?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What borders South Raleigh to the west?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What borders South Raleigh to the north?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Bush stated in an interview that the comment was "one of the most disgusting moments" of his presidency. In November 2010, in a taped interview with Matt Lauer for the Today show, West expressed regret for his criticism of Bush. "I would tell George Bush in my moment of frustration, I didn't have the grounds to call him a racist", he told Lauer. "I believe that in a situation of high emotion like that we as human beings don't always choose the right words." The following day, Bush reacted to the apology in a live interview with Lauer saying he appreciated the rapper's remorse. "I'm not a hater", Bush said. "I don't hate Kanye West. I was talking about an environment in which people were willing to say things that hurt. Nobody wants to be called a racist if in your heart you believe in equality of races." Reactions were mixed, but some felt that West had no need to apologize. "It was not the particulars of your words that mattered, it was the essence of a feeling of the insensitivity towards our communities that many of us have felt for far too long", argued Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons. Bush himself was receptive to the apology, saying, "I appreciate that. It wasn't just Kanye West who was talking like that during Katrina, I cited him as an example, I cited others as an example as well. You know, I appreciate that."
Question: How did George W. Bush describe Kanye's controversial statement?
Answer: "one of the most disgusting moments" of his presidency
Question: To which reporter did Kanye West express regret for his remark about President Bush?
Answer: Matt Lauer |
Context: During the Hundred Years' War a French attack (1340) burned a manor house and took some prisoners, but failed to get into the town. In 1403 the town was burned by Breton raiders. In the late fifteenth century a 'castle quadrate' was constructed close to the area now known as The Barbican; it included four round towers, one at each corner, as featured on the city coat of arms. The castle served to protect Sutton Pool, which is where the fleet was based in Plymouth prior to the establishment of Plymouth Dockyard. In 1512 an Act of Parliament was passed for further fortifying Plymouth, and a series of fortifications were then built, including defensive walls at the entrance to Sutton Pool (across which a chain would be extended in time of danger). Defences on St Nicholas Island also date from this time, and a string of six artillery blockhouses were built, including one on Fishers Nose at the south-eastern corner of the Hoe. This location was further strengthened by the building of a fort (later known as Drake's Fort) in 1596, which itself went on to provide the site for the Citadel, established in the 1660s (see below).
Question: In what year during the Hundred Years' War did the French assault Plymouth?
Answer: 1340
Question: Who set fire to Plymouth in 1403?
Answer: Breton raiders
Question: In what year was the fortification later known as Drake's Fort constructed?
Answer: 1596
Question: Before Plymouth dockyard was built, where was the fleet located?
Answer: Sutton Pool
Question: In what year did Parliament pass a notable law that led to the building of fortifications in Plymouth?
Answer: 1512 |
Context: Kennedy ultimately decided to pursue what became the Apollo program, and on May 25 took the opportunity to ask for Congressional support in a Cold War speech titled "Special Message on Urgent National Needs". Full text
Question: The speech by Kennedy, "Special Message on Urgent National Needs" was delivered on what date?
Answer: May 25 |
Context: From the beginning of 2014, Madonna began to make multiple media appearances. She appeared at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in January 2014, performing "Open Your Heart" alongside rappers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and singer Mary Lambert, who sang their single "Same Love", as 33 couples were wed onstage, officiated by Queen Latifah. Days later, she joined singer Miley Cyrus on her MTV Unplugged special, singing a mash-up of "Don't Tell Me" and Cyrus' single "We Can't Stop" (2013). She also extended her business ventures and in February 2014 the singer premiered MDNA Skin, a range of skin care products, in Tokyo, Japan. After visiting her hometown of Detroit during May 2014, Madonna decided to contribute funds to three of the city's organizations, to help eliminate poverty from there. The singer released a statement saying that she was inspired by their work, adding that "it was obvious to me that I had to get involved and be part of the solution to help Detroit recover".
Question: What award ceremony did Madonna appeared in?
Answer: 56th Annual Grammy Awards
Question: What song did Madonna sing at the ceremony?
Answer: Open Your Heart
Question: Which singer did she join on MTV Unplugged to sing?
Answer: Miley Cyrus
Question: When did Madonna premiered her MDNA skincare line?
Answer: February 2014
Question: Which city did Madonna contribute funds to help poverty?
Answer: Detroit |
Context: The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. Only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have a brain; diffuse or localised nerve nets are present instead. The brain is located in the head, usually close to the primary sensory organs for such senses as vision, hearing, balance, taste, and smell. The brain is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body. In a typical human, the cerebral cortex (the largest part) is estimated to contain 15–33 billion neurons, each connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons. These neurons communicate with one another by means of long protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body targeting specific recipient cells.
Question: What is the center of the nervous system in all creatures?
Answer: The brain
Question: What is the most complex organ in an animal's body?
Answer: The brain
Question: In people, how many neurons make up the cerebral cortex?
Answer: 15–33 billion
Question: Neurons in the brain interact with each other by fibers called what?
Answer: axons
Question: A few animals without spines that do not have a brain are what?
Answer: sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts |
Context: Though the proportions were always important in Greek art, the appeal of the Greek sculptures eludes any explanation by proportion alone. The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age. Just as the Greeks saw the mountains, forests, sea and rivers as inhabited by concrete beings, so nature in all of its manifestations possesses clear form, and the form of a work of art. Spiritual life is incorporated in matter, when it is given artistic form. Just as in the arts the Greeks sought some reality behind appearances, so in mathematics they sought permanent principles which could be applied wherever the conditions were the same. Artists and sculptors tried to find this ideal order in relation with mathematics, but they believed that this ideal order revealed itself not so much to the dispassionate intellect, as to the whole sentient self. Things as we see them, and as they really are, are one, that each stresses the nature of the other in a single unity.
Question: The statues of who were thought to incarnate his living presence?
Answer: Apollo
Question: Representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in what period?
Answer: Minoan
Question: What people saw the mountains, forests, sea and rivers as inhabited by concrete beings?
Answer: Greeks |
Context: Spielberg has filmed and is currently in post-production on an adaptation of Roald Dahl's celebrated children's story The BFG. Spielberg's DreamWorks bought the rights in 2010, originally intending John Madden to direct. The film was written by E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison and is co-produced by Walt Disney Pictures, marking the first Disney-branded film to be directed by Spielberg. The BFG is set to premiere out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016, before its wide release in the US on July 1, 2016.
Question: Who wrote 'The BFG'?
Answer: Roald Dahl
Question: Who wrote E.T.'s script?
Answer: Melissa Mathison
Question: What film festival will first air 'The BFG'?
Answer: Cannes Film Festival
Question: In what month is Cannes held?
Answer: May
Question: When will 'The BFG' be in most theaters?
Answer: July 1, 2016
Question: In what month in 2010 did Dreamworks buy the rights to The BFG?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was John Madden dropped from directing The BFG?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first movie written by Melissa Mathison?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Spielberg become the director of The BFG?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Delhi Flying Club, established in 1928 with two de Havilland Moth aircraft named Delhi and Roshanara, was based at Safdarjung Airport which started operations in 1929, when it was the Delhi's only airport and the second in India. The airport functioned until 2001, however in January 2002 the government closed the airport for flying activities because of security concerns following the New York attacks in September 2001. Since then, the club only carries out aircraft maintenance courses, and is used for helicopter rides to Indira Gandhi International Airport for VIP including the president and the prime minister.
Question: The Delhi Flying Club was established in what year?
Answer: 1928
Question: When established in 1928, which airport served as the base of the Delhi Flying Club?
Answer: Safdarjung Airport
Question: In what year did the government close Safdarjung Airport due to security concerns?
Answer: 2002
Question: In what year did the Delhi Flying club begin operations?
Answer: 1929
Question: What type of aircraft was first used by the Delhi Flying Club after its founding?
Answer: de Havilland Moth aircraft |
Context: In antiquity, the ancestors of the Somali people were an important link in the Horn of Africa connecting the region's commerce with the rest of the ancient world. Somali sailors and merchants were the main suppliers of frankincense, myrrh and spices, items which were considered valuable luxuries by the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Mycenaeans and Babylonians.
Question: What economic activity in the Horn of Africa did the ancient Somalis connect to the rest of the world?
Answer: commerce
Question: Along with myrrh and spices, what important luxury did ancient Somali merchants provide?
Answer: frankincense
Question: Along with the ancient Phoenicians, Egyptians and Babylonians, what ancient people regarded myrrh as a luxury?
Answer: Mycenaeans |
Context: The Seljuk Empire soon started to collapse. In the early 12th century, Armenian princes of the Zakarid noble family drove out the Seljuk Turks and established a semi-independent Armenian principality in Northern and Eastern Armenia, known as Zakarid Armenia, which lasted under the patronage of the Georgian Kingdom. The noble family of Orbelians shared control with the Zakarids in various parts of the country, especially in Syunik and Vayots Dzor, while the Armenian family of Hasan-Jalalians controlled provinces of Artsakh and Utik as the Kingdom of Artsakh.
Question: Which family overthrew the Seljuk Turks?
Answer: the Zakarid
Question: What principality did the Zakarid family form?
Answer: Zakarid Armenia
Question: What area did the Orbelians and Zakarids command together?
Answer: Syunik and Vayots Dzor
Question: What area did the Hasan-jalalians command?
Answer: Artsakh and Utik
Question: When did the Seljuk Empire experience it's decline?
Answer: early 12th century |
Context: Banking services are provided by the National Bank of Tuvalu. Public sector workers make up about 65% of those formally employed. Remittances from Tuvaluans living in Australia and New Zealand, and remittances from Tuvaluan sailors employed on overseas ships are important sources of income for Tuvaluans. Approximately 15% of adult males work as seamen on foreign-flagged merchant ships. Agriculture in Tuvalu is focused on coconut trees and growing pulaka in large pits of composted soil below the water table. Tuvaluans are otherwise involved in traditional subsistence agriculture and fishing.
Question: What business provides banking services on Tuvalu?
Answer: National Bank of Tuvalu
Question: What percentage of the Tuvalu workforce is in the public sector?
Answer: 65%
Question: Where are many of those who provide income to residents earning?
Answer: overseas
Question: How do 15% of male Tuvaluans earn their income?
Answer: seamen
Question: What are the traditional forms of living employed by Tuvaluans?
Answer: agriculture and fishing. |
Context: Proto-Iranian thus dates to some time after Proto-Indo-Iranian break-up, or the early second millennium BCE, as the Old Iranian languages began to break off and evolve separately as the various Iranian tribes migrated and settled in vast areas of southeastern Europe, the Iranian plateau, and Central Asia.
Question: Where did early Iranian people establish societies?
Answer: southeastern Europe, the Iranian plateau, and Central Asia
Question: What language came sometime after the breakup of Proto-Iranian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language broke up after the second millennium BCE?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the middle Iranian language begin to break off?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With the decline of Herodians, Judea, transformed into a Roman province, became the site of a violent struggle of Jews against Greco-Romans, culminating in the Jewish-Roman Wars, ending in wide-scale destruction, expulsions, and genocide. Jewish presence in the region significantly dwindled after the failure of the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. Nevertheless, there was a continuous small Jewish presence and Galilee became its religious center. The Mishnah and part of the Talmud, central Jewish texts, were composed during the 2nd to 4th centuries CE in Tiberias and Jerusalem. The region came to be populated predominantly by Greco-Romans on the coast and Samaritans in the hill-country. Christianity was gradually evolving over Roman paganism, when the area stood under Byzantine rule. Through the 5th and 6th centuries, the dramatic events of the repeated Samaritan revolts reshaped the land, with massive destruction to Byzantine Christian and Samaritan societies and a resulting decrease of the population. After the Persian conquest and the installation of a short-lived Jewish Commonwealth in 614 CE, the Byzantine Empire reconquered the country in 628.
Question: When did the Jewish presence dwindle in the region?
Answer: 132 CE
Question: Who conquered the country in 628?
Answer: Byzantine Empire
Question: What was evolving over Roman paganism?
Answer: Christianity |
Context: To Kill a Mockingbird has been a source of significant controversy since its being the subject of classroom study as early as 1963. The book's racial slurs, profanity, and frank discussion of rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms across the United States. The American Library Association reported that To Kill a Mockingbird was number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000–2009.
Question: To Kill a Mockingbird was first studied in American schools in what year?
Answer: 1963
Question: The American Library Associated ranked To Kill a Mockingbird where on its most frequently challenged books of 2000-2009?
Answer: 21
Question: In what year did the book become a subject of classroom study?
Answer: 1963
Question: According to The American Library Association, what rank did the book have among the most frequently challenged books from 2000 to 2009?
Answer: 21 |
Context: Unicode defines two mapping methods: the Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encodings, and the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) encodings. An encoding maps (possibly a subset of) the range of Unicode code points to sequences of values in some fixed-size range, termed code values. The numbers in the names of the encodings indicate the number of bits per code value (for UTF encodings) or the number of bytes per code value (for UCS encodings). UTF-8 and UTF-16 are probably the most commonly used encodings. UCS-2 is an obsolete subset of UTF-16; UCS-4 and UTF-32 are functionally equivalent.
Question: How many mapping methods does Unicode define?
Answer: two
Question: What are the two mapping methods that Unicode defines?
Answer: Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) encodings, and the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) encodings
Question: What do numbers in the names of the encodings indicate?
Answer: the number of bits per code value (for UTF encodings) or the number of bytes per code value
Question: What are the most commonly used encodings?
Answer: UTF-8 and UTF-16
Question: What does UCS stand for?
Answer: Universal Coded Character Set
Question: How many mapping modes does USC have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What maps an encoding?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the subset of UTF-8?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is functionally equivalent to USC-2?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do the sequences of values indicate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Twelve Nidānas describe a causal connection between the subsequent characteristics or conditions of cyclic existence, each one giving rise to the next:
Question: What describes the connection between the conditions of cyclic existence?
Answer: The Twelve Nidānas
Question: What describes the causal connection between the subsequent conditions of cyclic existance?
Answer: The Twelve Nidānas |
Context: In 1842, the Bishop of Vincennes, Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, offered land to Father Edward Sorin of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, on the condition that he build a college in two years. Fr. Sorin arrived on the site with eight Holy Cross brothers from France and Ireland on November 26, 1842, and began the school using Father Stephen Badin's old log chapel. He soon erected additional buildings, including Old College, the first church, and the first main building. They immediately acquired two students and set about building additions to the campus.
Question: In what year was Father Edward Sorin given two years to create a college?
Answer: 1842
Question: Which individual offered land to Father Edward Sorin?
Answer: Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière
Question: Which church was Father Edward Sorin representing?
Answer: the Congregation of the Holy Cross
Question: On what date did brothers from Holy Cross arrive at the future location of Notre Dame?
Answer: November 26, 1842
Question: Which structure was the first used for the purposes of the college?
Answer: Father Stephen Badin's old log chapel |
Context: The first "free election" (Polish: "wolna elekcja") of a king took place in 1492. (To be sure, some earlier Polish kings had been elected with help from bodies such as that which put Casimir II on the throne, thereby setting a precedent for free elections.) Only senators voted in the 1492 free election, which was won by John I Albert. For the duration of the Jagiellonian Dynasty, only members of that royal family were considered for election; later, there would be no restrictions on the choice of candidates.
Question: When did the first free election take place?
Answer: 1492
Question: What was different about later elections then first free election?
Answer: no restrictions on the choice of candidates.
Question: Who only voted in the election of 1492?
Answer: senators
Question: Who won the election of 1492?
Answer: John I Albert
Question: What dynasty was in reign during the election of 1492?
Answer: Jagiellonian Dynasty |
Context: Lilius's proposals had two components. Firstly, he proposed a correction to the length of the year. The mean tropical year is 365.24219 days long. As the average length of a Julian year is 365.25 days, the Julian year is almost 11 minutes longer than the mean tropical year. The discrepancy results in a drift of about three days every 400 years. Lilius's proposal resulted in an average year of 365.2425 days (see Accuracy). At the time of Gregory's reform there had already been a drift of 10 days since the Council of Nicaea, resulting in the vernal equinox falling on 10 or 11 March instead of the ecclesiastically fixed date of 21 March, and if unreformed it would drift further. Lilius proposed that the 10-day drift should be corrected by deleting the Julian leap day on each of its ten occurrences over a period of forty years, thereby providing for a gradual return of the equinox to 21 March.
Question: What did Lilius first propose to correct in the calendar?
Answer: length of the year
Question: By how much is the Julian calendar too long?
Answer: 11 minutes
Question: How much difference does the extra 11 minutes make over 400 years time?
Answer: three days
Question: On what date was the original vernal equinox set?
Answer: 21 March
Question: By the time of Lilius where was the equinox falling?
Answer: 10 or 11 March
Question: Who proposed lengthening the year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which year was eleven minutes too short?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What causes an extra three days every 400 years in the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was originally set as March 25?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Gregory propose deleting to correct the ten day drift?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The United States Army (USA) is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed (14 June 1775) to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–83)—before the U.S. was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784, to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775.
Question: What branch of the USA Armed Forces is the largest?
Answer: The United States Army
Question: How many uniformed services are there in the US?
Answer: seven
Question: What years did the American Revolutionary War span?
Answer: 1775–83
Question: What date was the U.S. Army created?
Answer: 3 June 1784
Question: What did the U.S Army replace?
Answer: Continental Army
Question: What branch of the USA Armed Forces is the smallest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many uniformed services are there in Canada?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What years did the French Revolutionary War span?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the U.S. Navy replace?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the U.S. Navy disbanded?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In addition to the call buttons, elevators usually have floor indicators (often illuminated by LED) and direction lanterns. The former are almost universal in cab interiors with more than two stops and may be found outside the elevators as well on one or more of the floors. Floor indicators can consist of a dial with a rotating needle, but the most common types are those with successively illuminated floor indications or LCDs. Likewise, a change of floors or an arrival at a floor is indicated by a sound, depending on the elevator.
Question: Modern elevator position or floor indicaters often use what type of bulbs?
Answer: LED
Question: What type of lanterns are used outside elevators as well as inside most cabs?
Answer: direction lanterns
Question: What do floor indicaters often consist of?
Answer: successively illuminated floor indications or LCDs
Question: What generally indicates the arrival of the elevator at a new floor?
Answer: a sound |
Context: At the time the store was introduced, purchased audio files used the AAC format with added encryption, based on the FairPlay DRM system. Up to five authorized computers and an unlimited number of iPods could play the files. Burning the files with iTunes as an audio CD, then re-importing would create music files without the DRM. The DRM could also be removed using third-party software. However, in a deal with Apple, EMI began selling DRM-free, higher-quality songs on the iTunes Stores, in a category called "iTunes Plus." While individual songs were made available at a cost of US$1.29, 30¢ more than the cost of a regular DRM song, entire albums were available for the same price, US$9.99, as DRM encoded albums. On October 17, 2007, Apple lowered the cost of individual iTunes Plus songs to US$0.99 per song, the same as DRM encoded tracks. On January 6, 2009, Apple announced that DRM has been removed from 80% of the music catalog, and that it would be removed from all music by April 2009.
Question: When the iTunes store was launched, what type of file format was used?
Answer: AAC
Question: How many computers were allowed to play files that used the FairPlay DRM system?
Answer: five
Question: In what category could files without digital rights management be found on the iTunes store?
Answer: iTunes Plus
Question: When did Apple reveal that most of the iTunes selection was free from DRM?
Answer: January 6, 2009
Question: By what time did Apple project its entire catalog would be free of DRM?
Answer: April 2009
Question: What was the original format for purchased audio files on iTunes?
Answer: AAC
Question: What was the name of the DRM system originally used by Apple and iTunes?
Answer: FairPlay
Question: What was the name of the premium service that offered higher quality and DRM-free songs?
Answer: iTunes Plus
Question: In what year was DRM completely eliminated from the iTunes offerings?
Answer: 2009 |
Context: In Western Catalan, unstressed vowels reduce to five: /e ɛ/ > [e]; /o ɔ/ > [o]; /a u i/ remain distinct. This reduction pattern, inherited from Proto-Romance, is also found in Italian and Portuguese. Some Western dialects present further reduction or vowel harmony in some cases.
Question: What do unstressed vowels reduce to in Western Catalan?
Answer: five
Question: Which letters remain distinct?
Answer: /a u i/
Question: Where did this pattern come from?
Answer: Proto-Romance
Question: In what other languages is this pattern found?
Answer: Italian and Portuguese
Question: What do other Western dialects sometimes offer?
Answer: further reduction |
Context: The first union was built on campus in 1926 as a campus community center. The unions are still the "living rooms" of campus today and include three locations – the Kansas Union and Burge Union at the Lawrence Campus and Jayhawk Central at the Edwards Campus. The KU Memorial Unions Corporation manages the KU Bookstore (with seven locations). The KU Bookstore is the official bookstore of KU. The Corporation also includes KU Dining Services, with more than 20 campus locations, including The Market (inside the Kansas Union) and The Underground (located in Wescoe Hall). The KU Bookstore and KU Dining Services are not-for-profit, with proceeds going back to support student programs, such as Student Union Activities.
Question: When was KU's first student union constructed?
Answer: 1926
Question: What was the role the union was intended serve?
Answer: campus community center
Question: What is the name of the student union on the Edwards Campus of KU?
Answer: Jayhawk Central
Question: What company runs the University of Kansas's bookstore?
Answer: KU Memorial Unions Corporation
Question: What is the name of a potential recipient of funds from enterprises like the bookstore and dining centers at KU?
Answer: Student Union Activities
Question: When was KU's last student union constructed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the role the union was never intended to serve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the faculty union on the Edwards Campus of KU?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company no longer runs the University of Kansas's bookstore?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of a potential giver of funds from enterprises like the bookstore and dining centers at KU?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another example is the practice of compulsory licensing, which is where the law forbids copyright owners from denying a license for certain uses of certain kinds of works, such as compilations and live performances of music. Compulsory licensing laws generally say that for certain uses of certain works, no infringement occurs as long as a royalty, at a rate determined by law rather than private negotiation, is paid to the copyright owner or representative copyright collective. Some fair dealing laws, such as Canada's, include similar royalty requirements.
Question: What is it called when a law disallows copyright owners from denying a license for certain uses?
Answer: compulsory licensing
Question: What are two examples of this licensing?
Answer: compilations and live performances of music
Question: What happens if a royalty is paid to the copyright owner or representative?
Answer: no infringement occurs
Question: What country has fair dealing laws?
Answer: Canada
Question: What is it called when a law allows copyright owners from denying a license for certain uses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is it called when a law disallows copyright owners from accepting a license for certain uses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What aren't two examples of this licensing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens if a royalty isn't paid to the copyright owner or representative?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country has no fair dealing laws?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Oakland County in Metro Detroit, once rated amongst the wealthiest US counties per household, is no longer shown in the top 25 listing of Forbes magazine. But internal county statistical methods – based on measuring per capita income for counties with more than one million residents – show that Oakland is still within the top 12, slipping from the 4th-most affluent such county in the U.S. in 2004 to 11th-most affluent in 2009. Detroit dominates Wayne County, which has an average household income of about $38,000, compared to Oakland County's $62,000.
Question: What is Oakland Counties rank in affluence in 2009?
Answer: 11th
Question: What city dominates Wayne County?
Answer: Detroit
Question: What is Oakland Counties average income?
Answer: $62,000
Question: What is Wayne Counties average income?
Answer: $38,000 |
Context: A variety of Indian social scientists as well as the Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs) have done extensive research on the numeric figures of child labour found in India and determined that India contributes to one-third of Asia’s child labour and one-fourth of the world's child labour. Due to a large number of children being illegally employed, the Indian government began to take extensive actions to reduce the number of children working, and to focus on the importance of facilitating the proper growth and development of children.
Question: How much of the world's child labour does India's workers contribute to?
Answer: one-fourth
Question: How many Asian child workers are from India?
Answer: one-third
Question: Did the India goverment take any actions against child labour?
Answer: extensive actions to reduce the number of children working, and to focus on the importance of facilitating the proper growth and development of children. |
Context: The Oppidan Houses are named Godolphin House, Jourdelay's, (both built as such c. 1720), Hawtrey House, Durnford House, (the first two built as such by the Provost and Fellows, 1845, when the school was increasing in numbers and needed more centralised control), The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans's, Keate House, Warre House, Villiers House, Common Lane House, Penn House, Walpole House, Cotton Hall, Wotton House, Holland House, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor House, Farrer House, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury.
Question: Which Oppidan Houses did not change from their original 1720 names?
Answer: Godolphin House, Jourdelay's
Question: Which two houses were built as student population increased 1845?
Answer: Hawtrey House, Durnford House
Question: Which two Oppidan Houses are the oldest?
Answer: Godolphin House, Jourdelay's
Question: Who built Godolphin House?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Hopgarden built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was South Lawn built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who built Villiers House?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the newest House?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In June 2009 the first major building work at the abbey for 250 years was proposed. A corona—a crown-like architectural feature—was intended to be built around the lantern over the central crossing, replacing an existing pyramidal structure dating from the 1950s. This was part of a wider £23m development of the abbey expected to be completed in 2013. On 4 August 2010 the Dean and Chapter announced that, "[a]fter a considerable amount of preliminary and exploratory work", efforts toward the construction of a corona would not be continued. In 2012, architects Panter Hudspith completed refurbishment of the 14th-century food-store originally used by the abbey's monks, converting it into a restaurant with English Oak furniture by Covent Garden-based furniture makers Luke Hughes and Company.
Question: What was proposed for the abbey in June 2009?
Answer: major building work
Question: On what date did the Dean and Chapter announce that work would not be continued?
Answer: 4 August 2010
Question: Panter Hudspith refurbished a 14th-century foodstore into what?
Answer: a restaurant
Question: What kind of furniture is in the restaurant?
Answer: English Oak
Question: Who supplied the furniture for the restaurant?
Answer: Luke Hughes and Company
Question: What was proposed for the abbey in June 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did the Dean and Chapter announce that work would be continued?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Panter Hudspith refurbished a 13th-century foodstore into what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of furniture isn't in the restaurant?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who never supplied the furniture for the restaurant?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The U.N. speech was well received but the Soviets never acted upon it, due to an overarching concern for the greater stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Indeed, Eisenhower embarked upon a greater reliance on the use of nuclear weapons, while reducing conventional forces, and with them the overall defense budget, a policy formulated as a result of Project Solarium and expressed in NSC 162/2. This approach became known as the "New Look", and was initiated with defense cuts in late 1953.
Question: What did Eisenhower reduce as he increased nuclear weapons stockpiles?
Answer: conventional forces
Question: What was the policy of increasing nuclear weapons while decreasing conventional forces called?
Answer: New Look
Question: When did Eisenhower begin to cut the defense budget?
Answer: 1953
Question: Along with NSC 162/2, what influenced the development of the New Look policy?
Answer: Project Solarium |
Context: As of 2010[update], 79.12% (1,112,441) of Philadelphia residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 9.72% (136,688) spoke Spanish, 1.64% (23,075) Chinese, 0.89% (12,499) Vietnamese, 0.77% (10,885) Russian, 0.66% (9,240) French, 0.61% (8,639) other Asian languages, 0.58% (8,217) African languages, 0.56% (7,933) Cambodian (Mon-Khmer), and Italian was spoken as a main language by 0.55% (7,773) of the population over the age of five. In total, 20.88% (293,544) of Philadelphia's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.
Question: What percent of 5 year olds or older speak English?
Answer: 79.12%
Question: What percent of 5 year olds or older speak Spanish?
Answer: 9.72%
Question: What is the total over 5's that speak another language than English?
Answer: 20.88% |
Context: It is a fundamental property of antennas that the electrical characteristics of an antenna described in the next section, such as gain, radiation pattern, impedance, bandwidth, resonant frequency and polarization, are the same whether the antenna is transmitting or receiving. For example, the "receiving pattern" (sensitivity as a function of direction) of an antenna when used for reception is identical to the radiation pattern of the antenna when it is driven and functions as a radiator. This is a consequence of the reciprocity theorem of electromagnetics. Therefore, in discussions of antenna properties no distinction is usually made between receiving and transmitting terminology, and the antenna can be viewed as either transmitting or receiving, whichever is more convenient.
Question: Are essential properties of an antenna changed based on what fungtion they are performing
Answer: the same
Question: What proposition explains the equivalency of the recieving pattern of an antenna?
Answer: reciprocity theorem of electromagnetics
Question: Can the antenna serve more than one fungtion at a time?
Answer: either transmitting or receiving
Question: What is one electrical trait of an antenna?
Answer: radiation pattern |
Context: Anthropologists have contributed to the debate by shifting the focus of research: One of the first challenges for the researcher wishing to carry out empirical research in this area is to identify an appropriate analytical tool. The concept of boundaries is useful here for demonstrating how identity works. In the same way as Barth, in his approach to ethnicity, advocated the critical focus for investigation as being "the ethnic boundary that defines the group rather than the cultural stuff that it encloses" (1969:15), social anthropologists such as Cohen and Bray have shifted the focus of analytical study from identity to the boundaries that are used for purposes of identification. If identity is a kind of virtual site in which the dynamic processes and markers used for identification are made apparent, boundaries provide the framework on which this virtual site is built. They concentrated on how the idea of community belonging is differently constructed by individual members and how individuals within the group conceive ethnic boundaries.
Question: What group has shifted the focus of research in identity?
Answer: Anthropologists
Question: What does a researcher have to identify to carry out empirical research?
Answer: an appropriate analytical tool
Question: What researcher advocated for focus on the boundaries of ethnic groups rather than the cultural aspects of ethnic groups?
Answer: Barth
Question: If identity is a virtual site, what do boundaries supply to the virtual site?
Answer: the framework
Question: Boundaries are frequently used by researchers to help define what?
Answer: identity
Question: Who has contributed to the debate by making the research more focused?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What conce what research advocated for focusing on cultural aspects of ethnic groups rather than on boundaries of ethnic groups? Pt is useless for demonstrating how identity works?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are boundaries not used to define?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Barth shift the focus of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Cohan and Bray advocated what is the critical focus for investigation?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2012, Fortune ranked IBM the second largest U.S. firm in terms of number of employees (435,000 worldwide), the fourth largest in terms of market capitalization, the ninth most profitable, and the nineteenth largest firm in terms of revenue. Globally, the company was ranked the 31st largest in terms of revenue by Forbes for 2011. Other rankings for 2011/2012 include №1 company for leaders (Fortune), №1 green company in the United States (Newsweek), №2 best global brand (Interbrand), №2 most respected company (Barron's), №5 most admired company (Fortune), and №18 most innovative company (Fast Company).
Question: How many employees did IBM have in 2012?
Answer: 435,000 worldwide
Question: What was the ranking in terms of market cap for IBM in 2012?
Answer: fourth largest
Question: In 2011 Forbes, by revenue, ranked IBM at what rank globally?
Answer: 31st largest
Question: At what rank was IBM rated as a global brand by Interbrand?
Answer: №2
Question: In 2012 Fortune ranked the largest US firms by number employees, what was IBMs rank?
Answer: second largest
Question: How many employees did Forbes have in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was Forbes ranked as far as number of employees in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How profitable was Forbes considered in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What rank did Forbes have in terms of revenue in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was Forbes ranked globally for revenue in 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Burgh (2006), suggests that the roots of Western classical music ultimately lie in ancient Egyptian art music via cheironomy and the ancient Egyptian orchestra, which dates to 2695 BC. This was followed by early Christian liturgical music, which itself dates back to the Ancient Greeks[citation needed]. The development of individual tones and scales was made by ancient Greeks such as Aristoxenus and Pythagoras. Pythagoras created a tuning system and helped to codify musical notation. Ancient Greek instruments such as the aulos (a reed instrument) and the lyre (a stringed instrument similar to a small harp) eventually led to the modern-day instruments of a classical orchestra. The antecedent to the early period was the era of ancient music before the fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD). Very little music survives from this time, most of it from ancient Greece.
Question: When does the Egyptian orchestra date to?
Answer: 2695 BC
Question: Who suggested that Western classical music is rooted to ancient Egyptian art music?
Answer: Burgh
Question: What music followed ancient Egyptian art music?
Answer: early Christian liturgical music,
Question: Which ancient society developed individual tones and scales?
Answer: ancient Greeks
Question: Who helped codify musical notation?
Answer: Pythagoras |
Context: San Diego is one of the top-ten best climates in the Farmers' Almanac and is one of the two best summer climates in America as scored by The Weather Channel. Under the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system, the San Diego area has been variously categorized as having either a semi-arid climate (BSh in the original classification and BSkn in modified Köppen classification) or a Mediterranean climate (Csa and Csb). San Diego's climate is characterized by warm, dry summers and mild winters with most of the annual precipitation falling between December and March. The city has a mild climate year-round, with an average of 201 days above 70 °F (21 °C) and low rainfall (9–13 inches [230–330 mm] annually). Dewpoints in the summer months range from 57.0 °F (13.9 °C) to 62.4 °F (16.9 °C).
Question: When does San Diego receive most of its precipitation?
Answer: between December and March
Question: How many days of the year does San Diego typically experience temperatures above 70 degrees Fahrenheit ?
Answer: 201 days
Question: What ranked San Diego as having the country's best summer climate?
Answer: Weather Channel
Question: What type of climate is San Diego classified as having?
Answer: semi-arid climate
Question: What type of weather can one expect to experience in San Diego in the winter?
Answer: mild
Question: When does San Francisco receive most of its precipitation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many days of the year does San Diego typically experience temperatures above 60 degrees Fahrenheit ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ranked San Diego as having the country's worst summer climate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of climate is San Francisco classified as having?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of weather can one expect to experience in San Francisco in the winter?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Besides increased efficiency of power plants, there was an increase in efficiency (between 1950 and 1973) of the railway utilization of this electricity with energy-intensity dropping from 218 to 124 kwh/10,000 gross tonne-km (of both passenger and freight trains) or a 43% drop. Since energy-intensity is the inverse of energy-efficiency it drops as efficiency goes up. But most of this 43% decrease in energy-intensity also benefited diesel traction. The conversion of wheel bearings from plain to roller, increase of train weight, converting single track lines to double track (or partially double track), and the elimination of obsolete 2-axle freight cars increased the energy-efficiency of all types of traction: electric, diesel, and steam. However, there remained a 12–15% reduction of energy-intensity that only benefited electric traction (and not diesel). This was due to improvements in locomotives, more widespread use of regenerative braking (which in 1989 recycled 2.65% of the electric energy used for traction,) remote control of substations, better handling of the locomotive by the locomotive crew, and improvements in automation. Thus the overall efficiency of electric traction as compared to diesel more than doubled between 1950 and the mid-1970s in the Soviet Union. But after 1974 (thru 1980) there was no improvement in energy-intensity (wh/tonne-km) in part due to increasing speeds of passenger and freight trains.
Question: What caused the energy efficiency to go up?
Answer: energy-intensity dropping
Question: Elimination of what helped the efficiency of diesel traction to go up?
Answer: 2-axle freight cars
Question: What type of locomotives got improved during 1950-1973 in Soviet Union?
Answer: electric
Question: How much of energy was saved and re-used due to regenerative braking in 1989?
Answer: 2.65%
Question: Was there an energy efficiency improvement in the period 1974 through 1980?
Answer: no improvement
Question: There was a decreased use of what type of braking?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The overall efficiency of electric traction tripled during what years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The overall efficiency of electric traction tripled in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: There were massive improvements in energy-intensity after what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Energy-efficiency increases as what goes up?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The governments of Australia and New Zealand responded to the 2011 fresh-water crisis by supplying temporary desalination plants, and assisted in the repair of the existing desalination unit that was donated by Japan in 2006. In response to the 2011 drought, Japan funded the purchase of a 100 m3/d desalination plant and two portable 10 m3/d plants as part of its Pacific Environment Community (PEC) program. Aid programs from the European Union and Australia also provided water tanks as part of the longer term solution for the storage of available fresh water.
Question: What type of device did Australia and New Zealand offer to Tuvalu during the 2011 drought?
Answer: desalination plants
Question: As aprt of what program did Japan fund a new desalination plant at Tuvalu?
Answer: Pacific Environment Community
Question: What did aid from the European Union provide during the drought on Tuvalu?
Answer: water tanks
Question: What did Tuvalu's new water tanks make possible to store?
Answer: fresh water
Question: In what year had Japan previously donated a desalination plant to Tuvalu?
Answer: 2006 |
Context: The second Digimon series is direct continuation of the first one, and began airing on April 2, 2000. Three years later, with most of the original DigiDestined now in high school at age fourteen, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in the form of the Digimon Emperor (Digimon Kaiser) who as opposed to previous enemies is a human just like the DigiDestined. The Digimon Emperor has been enslaving Digimon with Dark Rings and Control Spires and has somehow made regular Digivolution impossible. However, five set Digi-Eggs with engraved emblems had been appointed to three new DigiDestined along with T.K. and Kari, two of the DigiDestined from the previous series. This new evolutionary process, dubbed Armor Digivolution helps the new DigiDestined to defeat evil lurking in the Digital World. Eventually, the DigiDestined defeat the Digimon Emperor, more commonly known as Ken Ichijouji on Earth, only with the great sacrifice of Ken's own Digimon, Wormmon. Just when things were thought to be settled, new Digimon enemies made from the deactivated Control Spires start to appear and cause trouble in the Digital World. To atone for his past mistakes, Ken joins the DigiDestined, being a DigiDestined himself, with his Partner Wormmon revived to fight against them. They soon save countries including France and Australia from control spires and defeat MaloMyotismon (BelialVamdemon), the digivolved form of Myotismon (Vamdemon) from the previous series. They stop the evil from destroying the two worlds, and at the end, every person on Earth gains their own Digimon partner.
Question: When did the second series of Digimon air?
Answer: April 2, 2000
Question: What age are the original DigiDestined now that they are in High School?
Answer: fourteen
Question: Who is the new evil force that has been enslaving people?
Answer: Digimon Kaiser
Question: What did Ken do in order to atone for his mistakes?
Answer: joins the DigiDestined
Question: What aired in April 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the Digimon Empress?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has the Emperor been doing with dark spires and control rings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do all the people on earth lose in the end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What countries are lost to the controls spires?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the Wehrmacht crossed the Estonian southern border on 7 July. The Red Army retreated behind the Pärnu River – Emajõgi line on 12 July. At the end of July the Germans resumed their advance in Estonia working in tandem with the Estonian Forest Brothers. Both German troops and Estonian partisans took Narva on 17 August and the Estonian capital Tallinn on 28 August. After the Soviets were driven out from Estonia, German troops disarmed all the partisan groups.
Question: What date did the Germans invade the Soviets?
Answer: 22 June 1941
Question: When did the Werhmacht cross the south border of Estonia?
Answer: 7 July
Question: What body of water did the Red Army retreat behind?
Answer: the Pärnu River
Question: When did the Red Army fall back to the Parnu River?
Answer: 12 July
Question: When did the Germans invade the Soviet Union?
Answer: 22 June 1941
Question: When did the Werhmacht cross south border of Estonia?
Answer: 7 July
Question: Who helped the Germans take over Estonia?
Answer: the Estonian Forest Brothers |
Context: Although England's first away kits were blue, England's traditional away colours are red shirts, white shorts and red socks. In 1996, England's away kit was changed to grey shirts, shorts and socks. This kit was only worn three times, including against Germany in the semi-final of Euro 96 but the deviation from the traditional red was unpopular with supporters and the England away kit remained red until 2011, when a navy blue away kit was introduced. The away kit is also sometimes worn during home matches, when a new edition has been released to promote it.
Question: What color were England's first away kits?
Answer: blue
Question: What color are the socks traditionally worn in England's away kits?
Answer: red
Question: Three times in 1996, England wore what color socks in their away kits instead of the traditional red socks?
Answer: grey
Question: In 2011, England introduced a new away kit in what color?
Answer: navy blue
Question: When a new edition of England's away kit has been introduced, the kit is sometimes worn during what type of matches?
Answer: home matches
Question: In what year did England stop using blue away kits?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Germany's supporters think of their kits during the Euro 96 matches?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What shade of blue was used in England's first away kits?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color kits was Germany wearing during the Euro 96?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What shade of red is England's traditional away colour shirts?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In September 2013, West was widely rebuked by human rights groups for performing in Kazakhstan at the wedding of authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev's grandson. He traveled to Kazakhstan, which has one of the poorest human rights records in the world, as a personal guest of Nazarbayev. Other notable Western performers, including Sting, have previously cancelled performances in the country over human rights concerns. West was reportedly paid US$3 million for his performance. West had previously participated in cultural boycotts, joining Shakira and Rage Against The Machine in refusing to perform in Arizona after the 2010 implementation of stop and search laws directed against potential illegal aliens.
Question: Kanye was criticized by human rights groups for performing in what country?
Answer: Kazakhstan
Question: How much was Kanye paid to perform in Kazakhstan?
Answer: $3 million
Question: How is Kazakhstan's human rights record compared to the rest of the world?
Answer: one of the poorest
Question: What country's President paid Kanye West to perform at his grandson's wedding?
Answer: Kazakhstan
Question: Kanye, Shakira, and Rage Against the Machine refused to perform in what state due to a new law against illegal aliens?
Answer: Arizona
Question: For what reason did Sting and other artists cancel their scheduled performances in Kazakhstan?
Answer: human rights concerns |
Context: George VI's reign saw the acceleration of the dissolution of the British Empire. The Statute of Westminster 1931 had already acknowledged the evolution of the Dominions into separate sovereign states. The process of transformation from an empire to a voluntary association of independent states, known as the Commonwealth, gathered pace after the Second World War. During the ministry of Clement Attlee, British India became the two independent dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947. George relinquished the title of Emperor of India, and became King of India and King of Pakistan instead. In 1950 he ceased to be King of India when it became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, but he remained King of Pakistan until his death and India recognised his new title of Head of the Commonwealth. Other countries left the Commonwealth, such as Burma in January 1948, Palestine (divided between Israel and the Arab states) in May 1948 and the Republic of Ireland in 1949.
Question: What is the association of independent states in Britain called?
Answer: the Commonwealth
Question: What two dominions did British India become?
Answer: India and Pakistan
Question: What country left the Commonwealth in January 1948?
Answer: Burma
Question: What year was the Republic of Ireland formed?
Answer: 1949
Question: In what year did the Second World War end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what month in 1950 did George VI cease being the King of India?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what month in 1949 did the Republic of Ireland leave the Commonwealth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Clement Attlee become the minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did George VI die?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: John's position in France was considerably strengthened by the victory at Mirebeau, but John's treatment of his new prisoners and of his ally, William de Roches, quickly undermined these gains. De Roches was a powerful Anjou noble, but John largely ignored him, causing considerable offence, whilst the king kept the rebel leaders in such bad conditions that twenty-two of them died. At this time most of the regional nobility were closely linked through kinship, and this behaviour towards their relatives was regarded as unacceptable. William de Roches and other of John's regional allies in Anjou and Brittany deserted him in favour of Philip, and Brittany rose in fresh revolt. John's financial situation was tenuous: once factors such as the comparative military costs of materiel and soldiers were taken into account, Philip enjoyed a considerable, although not overwhelming, advantage of resources over John.[nb 6]
Question: What victory strengthened John's position?
Answer: Mirebeau
Question: Who deserted John in favor of Philip?
Answer: William de Roches
Question: How was John's financial situation?
Answer: tenuous |
Context: This meant that nearly one-third of the U.S. lending mechanism was frozen and continued to be frozen into June 2009. According to the Brookings Institution, the traditional banking system does not have the capital to close this gap as of June 2009: "It would take a number of years of strong profits to generate sufficient capital to support that additional lending volume". The authors also indicate that some forms of securitization are "likely to vanish forever, having been an artifact of excessively loose credit conditions". While traditional banks have raised their lending standards, it was the collapse of the shadow banking system that is the primary cause of the reduction in funds available for borrowing.
Question: How much of the U.S. lending mechanism was frozen until June 2009?
Answer: nearly one-third
Question: What is the primary cause of the reduction in funds available for borrowing?
Answer: the collapse of the shadow banking system
Question: What institution reported that the traditional banking systems does not have the capital to close the gap in the lending mechanism?
Answer: Brookings Institution
Question: What is likely to vanish forever, as a result of excessively loose credit conditions?
Answer: some forms of securitization
Question: As of June 2009, the Brookings Institution reports that traditional banking system does not have enough of what to close the lending gap?
Answer: capital |
Context: Hunting also has a significant financial impact in the United States, with many companies specialising in hunting equipment or speciality tourism. Many different technologies have been created to assist hunters, even including iPhone applications. Today's hunters come from a broad range of economic, social, and cultural backgrounds. In 2001, over thirteen million hunters averaged eighteen days hunting, and spent over $20.5 billion on their sport.[citation needed] In the US, proceeds from hunting licenses contribute to state game management programs, including preservation of wildlife habitat.
Question: Hunting has significant financial impact in what country?
Answer: the United States
Question: What do many companies specialize in apropos to hunting?
Answer: equipment or speciality tourism
Question: "There's an app for that!", what have been different technologies been created to do?
Answer: assist hunters
Question: What broad range of backgrounds do today's hunters come from?
Answer: economic, social, and cultural
Question: How much money did the thirteen million hunters spend on their sport in 2001?
Answer: over $20.5 billion
Question: What type of financial impact does hunting have on the U.S.?
Answer: significant financial impact
Question: What has been developed in the U.S. to help hunters?
Answer: different technologies
Question: One technology that is available for hunters in the U.S. is?
Answer: iPhone applications
Question: How much did hunters spend in 2001?
Answer: over $20.5 billion
Question: What do the proceeds from hunting assist with?
Answer: preservation of wildlife habitat
Question: In what country was the IPhone first developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did consumers spend on the IPhone in 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one cause that was most supported by IPhone users in 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people owned IPhones in 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many types of technology went into the creation of the IPhone?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the Middle Ages, Virgil's reputation was such that it inspired legends associating him with magic and prophecy. From at least the 3rd century, Christian thinkers interpreted Eclogues 4, which describes the birth of a boy ushering in a golden age, as a prediction of Jesus' birth. As such, Virgil came to be seen on a similar level as the Hebrew prophets of the Bible as one who had heralded Christianity.
Question: Which of Virgil's works was said by some to have predicted Jesus' birth?
Answer: Eclogues 4
Question: Which religion did some consider Virgil to have heralded in?
Answer: Christianity
Question: During which time period did Virgil's reputation inspire legends associating him with magic and prophecy?
Answer: Middle Ages
Question: What did Virgil write about the most?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the first to predict Jesus's birth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion did Virgil follow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Virgil predict Jesus would be born?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another Alaskan transportation method is the dogsled. In modern times (that is, any time after the mid-late 1920s), dog mushing is more of a sport than a true means of transportation. Various races are held around the state, but the best known is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a 1,150-mile (1,850 km) trail from Anchorage to Nome (although the distance varies from year to year, the official distance is set at 1,049 miles or 1,688 km). The race commemorates the famous 1925 serum run to Nome in which mushers and dogs like Togo and Balto took much-needed medicine to the diphtheria-stricken community of Nome when all other means of transportation had failed. Mushers from all over the world come to Anchorage each March to compete for cash, prizes, and prestige. The "Serum Run" is another sled dog race that more accurately follows the route of the famous 1925 relay, leaving from the community of Nenana (southwest of Fairbanks) to Nome.
Question: Which Alaskan way of transport is more for sport than for transportation?
Answer: dogsled
Question: Which dog-sled race in Alaska is the most famous?
Answer: Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Question: What does the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorate in Alaskan history?
Answer: the famous 1925 serum run to Nome
Question: Why were sled-dogs used to deliver medicine to Nome in 1925?
Answer: all other means of transportation had failed
Question: Which dogsled race most accurately follows the route of the 1925 serum run?
Answer: "Serum Run"
Question: Which Alaskan way of transport is less for sport than for transportation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Alaskan way of transport isn't more for sport than for transportation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which dog-sled race in Alaska is the least famous?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What doesn't the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race commemorate in Alaskan history?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were sled-dogs used to deliver medicine to Nome in 1952?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A number of meta-analyses have found clinical hypnosis to be effective in controlling pain associated with diagnostic and surgical procedures in both adults and children, as well as pain associated with cancer and childbirth. A 2007 review of 13 studies found evidence for the efficacy of hypnosis in the reduction of chronic pain in some conditions, though the number of patients enrolled in the studies was low, bringing up issues of power to detect group differences, and most lacked credible controls for placebo and/or expectation. The authors concluded that "although the findings provide support for the general applicability of hypnosis in the treatment of chronic pain, considerably more research will be needed to fully determine the effects of hypnosis for different chronic-pain conditions."
Question: Clinical hypnosis may be effective in doing what with pain associated with surgical procedures in adults and children?
Answer: controlling
Question: How many studies in 2007 found evidence for the efficacy of hypnosis in the reduction of chronic pain?
Answer: 13
Question: What did the studies regarding the effectiveness of hypnosis lack?
Answer: credible controls for placebo and/or expectation
Question: What is considerable more research needed to determine for different chronic pain conditions?
Answer: effects of hypnosis
Question: What did a 2013 review of 7 studies find?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did meta-analyses find to be effective in controlling surgical procedures?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was found about the number of participants in 7 studies?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: All England matches are broadcast with full commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. From the 2008–09 season until the 2017–18 season, England's home and away qualifiers, and friendlies both home and away are broadcast live on ITV (often with the exception of STV, the ITV affiliate in central and northern Scotland). England's away qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup were shown on Setanta Sports until that company's collapse. As a result of Setanta Sports's demise, England's World Cup qualifier in Ukraine on 10 October 2009 was shown in the United Kingdom on a pay-per-view basis via the internet only. This one-off event was the first time an England game had been screened in such a way. The number of subscribers, paying between £4.99 and £11.99 each, was estimated at between 250,000 and 300,000 and the total number of viewers at around 500,000.
Question: Commentated broadcasts of all England matches air on what network?
Answer: BBC Radio 5 Live
Question: What was the first season in which England's qualifiers and friendlies were broadcast on ITV?
Answer: 2008–09
Question: What network is ITV's affiliate in northern and central Scotland?
Answer: STV
Question: In what year was an England football match aired only via the internet for the first time?
Answer: 2009
Question: Approximately how many total viewers watched the England World Cup qualifier on the internet on 10 October 2009?
Answer: 500,000
Question: In what year did BBC Radio 5 Live start broadcasting England's matches?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the 2010 World Cup?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people listen to BBC Radio 5 Live broadcasts of England's matches during the 2008-09 season?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Setanta Sports founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did England play against on 10 October 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The new state became a focal point for the emerging oil industry, as discoveries of oil pools prompted towns to grow rapidly in population and wealth. Tulsa eventually became known as the "Oil Capital of the World" for most of the 20th century and oil investments fueled much of the state's early economy. In 1927, Oklahoman businessman Cyrus Avery, known as the "Father of Route 66", began the campaign to create U.S. Route 66. Using a stretch of highway from Amarillo, Texas to Tulsa, Oklahoma to form the original portion of Highway 66, Avery spearheaded the creation of the U.S. Highway 66 Association to oversee the planning of Route 66, based in his hometown of Tulsa.
Question: What was the "Oil Capital of the World"?
Answer: Tulsa
Question: What type of investments were important in early Oklahoma?
Answer: oil
Question: Who was the "Father of Route 66"?
Answer: Cyrus Avery
Question: When did Route 66 begin?
Answer: 1927
Question: Where was the Highway 66 Association based?
Answer: Tulsa |
Context: Pubs often have traditional names. A common name is the "Marquis of Granby". These pubs were named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby, who was the son of John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland and a general in the 18th century British Army. He showed a great concern for the welfare of his men, and on their retirement, provided funds for many of them to establish taverns, which were subsequently named after him. All pubs granted their licence in 1780 were called the Royal George[citation needed], after King George III, and the twentieth anniversary of his coronation.
Question: After whom was the Marquis of Granby pub named?
Answer: John Manners, Marquess of Granby
Question: Who was the father of John Manners, Marquess of Granby?
Answer: John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland
Question: What was the military rank of the 3rd Duke of Rutland?
Answer: general
Question: In what century did the 3rd Duke of Rutland live?
Answer: 18th
Question: What were pubs licensed in 1780 named?
Answer: the Royal George |
Context: The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is a domesticated canid which has been selectively bred for millennia for various behaviors, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.
Question: What is the three word Latin name for domesticated dogs?
Answer: Canis lupus familiaris
Question: What is Canis familiaris?
Answer: domestic dog
Question: How long has the domestic dog been selectively bred?
Answer: millennia
Question: Along with various behaviors and physical attributes, what were domestic dogs bred for?
Answer: sensory capabilities |
Context: Han Chinese farmers were resettled from north China by the Qing to the area along the Liao River in order to restore the land to cultivation. Wasteland was reclaimed by Han Chinese squatters in addition to other Han who rented land from Manchu landlords. Despite officially prohibiting Han Chinese settlement on the Manchu and Mongol lands, by the 18th century the Qing decided to settle Han refugees from northern China who were suffering from famine, floods, and drought into Manchuria and Inner Mongolia so that Han Chinese farmed 500,000 hectares in Manchuria and tens of thousands of hectares in Inner Mongolia by the 1780s. Qianlong allowed Han Chinese peasants suffering from drought to move into Manchuria despite him issuing edicts in favor of banning them from 1740–1776. Chinese tenant farmers rented or even claimed title to land from the "imperial estates" and Manchu Bannerlands in the area. Besides moving into the Liao area in southern Manchuria, the path linking Jinzhou, Fengtian, Tieling, Changchun, Hulun, and Ningguta was settled by Han Chinese during the Qianlong Emperor's rule, and Han Chinese were the majority in urban areas of Manchuria by 1800. To increase the Imperial Treasury's revenue, the Qing sold formerly Manchu only lands along the Sungari to Han Chinese at the beginning of the Daoguang Emperor's reign, and Han Chinese filled up most of Manchuria's towns by the 1840s according to Abbe Huc.
Question: Where were starving Han sent by the Qing?
Answer: Manchuria and Inner Mongolia
Question: How much land did the Han farm in Inner Mongolia?
Answer: tens of thousands of hectares
Question: What other types of land were the Han allowed to farm?
Answer: "imperial estates" and Manchu Bannerlands
Question: Who was the emperor in the later half of the 18th century?
Answer: Qianlong
Question: What ethnicity was the majority in urban Manchuria?
Answer: Han Chinese |
Context: The country continued to be governed by a Junta de Salvação Nacional until the Portuguese legislative election of 1976. It was won by the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) and Mário Soares, its leader, became Prime Minister of the 1st Constitutional Government on 23 July. Mário Soares would be Prime Minister from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1983 to 1985. In this capacity Soares tried to resume the economic growth and development record that had been achieved before the Carnation Revolution, during the last decade of the previous regime. He initiated the process of accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) by starting accession negotiations as early as 1977.
Question: What entity governed Portugal until 1976?
Answer: Junta de Salvação Nacional
Question: Which party won the Portuguese election in 1976?
Answer: Socialist Party
Question: Who became the Prime Minister of Portugal in 1976?
Answer: Mário Soares
Question: Through what years was Mario Soares the Portuguese Prime Minister?
Answer: 1976 to 1978 and again from 1983 to 1985 |
Context: All notable wrestlers now enter the ring accompanied by music, and regularly add other elements to their entrance. The music played during the ring entrance will usually mirror the wrestler's personality. Many wrestlers, particularly in America, have music and lyrics specially written for their ring entrance. While invented long before, the practice of including music with the entrance gained rapid popularity during the 1980s, largely as a result of the huge success of Hulk Hogan and the WWF, and their Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection. When a match is won, the victor's theme music is usually also played in celebration.
Question: What occurs when a wrestler enters the ring?
Answer: accompanied by music
Question: What does the music playing indicate?
Answer: the wrestler's personality
Question: What typically happens when a match is won?
Answer: victor's theme music is usually also played
Question: What happens with many wrestlers?
Answer: have music and lyrics specially written for their ring entrance |
Context: After World War II, due to Ukrainian collaborationism with the Axis powers in an attempt to gain independence, Moscow changed its policy towards repression of the Ukrainian language.
Question: After what war did Moscow begin to repress the Ukrainian language?
Answer: World War II
Question: Why did Moscow begin to repress the Ukrainian language?
Answer: Ukrainian collaborationism with the Axis powers
Question: Why did Ukrainians collaborate with the Axis?
Answer: to gain independence
Question: What happened to Moscow policy after World War I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Ukraine change its policy towards repression of the Moscow language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did collaboration between Moscow and the Axis powers cause the Ukraine to change policies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose collaboration caused Moscow to change its policy regarding independence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was in collaboration with Moscow?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek hosts major international touring acts. In 2011, the Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater opened (now sponsored as the Red Hat Amphitheater), which hosts numerous concerts primarily in the summer months. An additional amphitheater sits on the grounds of the North Carolina Museum of Art, which hosts a summer concert series and outdoor movies. Nearby Cary is home to the Koka Booth Amphitheatre which hosts additional summer concerts and outdoor movies, and serves as the venue for regularly scheduled outdoor concerts by the North Carolina Symphony based in Raleigh. During the North Carolina State Fair, Dorton Arena hosts headline acts. The private Lincoln Theatre is one of several clubs in downtown Raleigh that schedules many concerts throughout the year in multiple formats (rock, pop, country).
Question: Where are major touring acts hosted in the city?
Answer: The Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
Question: What is the Red Hat Amphitheater also called?
Answer: Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater
Question: What event plaza is in Cary?
Answer: Koka Booth Amphitheatre
Question: Where is the North Carolina State Fair?
Answer: Dorton Arena
Question: What is the Lincoln Theater downtown?
Answer: one of several clubs in downtown Raleigh that schedules many concerts
Question: What opened in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What used to be known as Red Hat?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the North Carolina County Fair?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Ford Theater downtown?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first Dominican site in England was at Oxford, in the parishes of St. Edward and St. Adelaide. The friars built an oratory to the Blessed Virgin Mary and by 1265, the brethren, in keeping with their devotion to study, began erecting a school. Actually, the Dominican brothers likely began a school immediately after their arrival, as priories were legally schools. Information about the schools of the English Province is limited, but a few facts are known. Much of the information available is taken from visitation records. The "visitation" was a section of the province through which visitors to each priory could describe the state of its religious life and its studies to the next chapter. There were four such visits in England and Wales—Oxford, London, Cambridge and York. All Dominican students were required to learn grammar, old and new logic, natural philosophy and theology. Of all of the curricular areas, however, theology was the most important. This is not surprising when one remembers Dominic's zeal for it.
Question: What famous school was home to the first English Dominican Order?
Answer: Oxford
Question: Who did the friars build an oratory in honor of?
Answer: the Blessed Virgin Mary
Question: What was a subject that all Dominican students had to learn?
Answer: natural philosophy
Question: What was the most important subject for Dominican students?
Answer: theology
Question: By what year was the school in Oxford completed?
Answer: 1265
Question: Where was the first Benedictine site in England?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Benedictine friars build?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Dominican friars build in 1260?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the subjects that all Benedictine students had to learn?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the most important subject that all Benedictine students had to learn?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Perhaps the most prominent, controversial and far-reaching theory in all of science has been the theory of evolution by natural selection put forward by the British naturalist Charles Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species in 1859. Darwin proposed that the features of all living things, including humans, were shaped by natural processes over long periods of time. The theory of evolution in its current form affects almost all areas of biology. Implications of evolution on fields outside of pure science have led to both opposition and support from different parts of society, and profoundly influenced the popular understanding of "man's place in the universe". In the early 20th century, the study of heredity became a major investigation after the rediscovery in 1900 of the laws of inheritance developed by the Moravian monk Gregor Mendel in 1866. Mendel's laws provided the beginnings of the study of genetics, which became a major field of research for both scientific and industrial research. By 1953, James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins clarified the basic structure of DNA, the genetic material for expressing life in all its forms. In the late 20th century, the possibilities of genetic engineering became practical for the first time, and a massive international effort began in 1990 to map out an entire human genome (the Human Genome Project).
Question: Which scientist championed the idea of evolution?
Answer: Charles Darwin
Question: What was the name of the book that Darwin wrote about evolution?
Answer: On the Origin of Species
Question: What was the reception of Darwin's ideas about evolution?
Answer: both opposition and support from different parts of society
Question: Who rediscovered the laws of inheritance?
Answer: Moravian monk Gregor Mendel
Question: What was the major break through for the study of genetics?
Answer: the basic structure of DNA |
Context: In the 2005 National Family Health Survey, it was reported that the city's total fertility rate is 1.8,:47 which is below the replacement rate. Only 61% of children had been provided with all basic vaccines (BCG, measles and full courses of polio and DPT), fewer than in all other surveyed cities except Meerut.:98 The infant mortality rate was 35 per 1,000 live births, and the mortality rate for children under five was 41 per 1,000 live births.:97 The survey also reported that a third of women and a quarter of men are overweight or obese, 49% of children below 5 years are anaemic, and up to 20% of children are underweight,:44, 55–56 while more than 2% of women and 3% of men suffer from diabetes.:57
Question: What percentage of the children in Hyderabad city had basic vaccinations in 2005?
Answer: 61%
Question: What is the only city that had a lower vaccination rate for children than Hyderabad in the 2005 National Family Health Survey?
Answer: Meerut
Question: What was the fertility rate of Hyderabad according to a 2005 survey?
Answer: 1.8
Question: What was the child vaccination rate according to a 2005 survey of Hyderabad?
Answer: 61%
Question: Only one city, according to a 2005 survey, had a lower child vaccination rate than Hyderabad, what was it?
Answer: Meerut
Question: According to a 2005 survey what was in Hyderabad?
Answer: 35 per 1,000 live births
Question: What percentage of children in a 2005 survey of people in Hyderabad were underweight?
Answer: 20% |
Context: In southeast Asian colonies, such as Hong Kong, child labour such as the Mui Tsai (妹仔), was rationalised as a cultural tradition and ignored by British authorities. The Dutch East India Company officials rationalised their child labour abuses with, "it is a way to save these children from a worse fate." Christian mission schools in regions stretching from Zambia to Nigeria too required work from children, and in exchange provided religious education, not secular education. Elsewhere, the Canadian Dominion Statutes in form of so-called Breaches of Contract Act, stipulated jail terms for uncooperative child workers.
Question: Where did the British turn a blind eye to child labour?
Answer: Hong Kong
Question: What schools required child labour?
Answer: Christian mission schools
Question: Did the child workers receive anything from the christian mission schools?
Answer: provided religious education
Question: What did the Canadians do to children that did not wish to work?
Answer: stipulated jail terms |
Context: The essential usefulness of a transistor comes from its ability to use a small signal applied between one pair of its terminals to control a much larger signal at another pair of terminals. This property is called gain. It can produce a stronger output signal, a voltage or current, which is proportional to a weaker input signal; that is, it can act as an amplifier. Alternatively, the transistor can be used to turn current on or off in a circuit as an electrically controlled switch, where the amount of current is determined by other circuit elements.
Question: Why is a transistor so useful?
Answer: gain
Question: What is gain?
Answer: it can act as an amplifier
Question: What is an additional use of the transistor?
Answer: turn current on or off in a circuit
Question: What determines the amount of current in an electrically controlled switch?
Answer: other circuit elements
Question: What controls how strong the output signal is?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are transistors located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How large is a transistor in comparison to a terminal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a signal become when the transistor does not work properly?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where would an electrically controlled switch be located?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The establishment of Ottoman military aviation dates back to between June 1909 and July 1911. The Ottoman Empire started preparing its first pilots and planes, and with the founding of the Aviation School (Tayyare Mektebi) in Yeşilköy on 3 July 1912, the Empire began to tutor its own flight officers. The founding of the Aviation School quickened advancement in the military aviation program, increased the number of enlisted persons within it, and gave the new pilots an active role in the Ottoman Army and Navy. In May 1913 the world's first specialized Reconnaissance Training Program was started by the Aviation School and the first separate reconnaissance division was established.[citation needed] In June 1914 a new military academy, the Naval Aviation School (Bahriye Tayyare Mektebi) was founded. With the outbreak of World War I, the modernization process stopped abruptly. The Ottoman aviation squadrons fought on many fronts during World War I, from Galicia in the west to the Caucasus in the east and Yemen in the south.
Question: What was the first date that the Ottoman empire had an air-based military unit?
Answer: June 1909
Question: Where was the first Ottoman Aviation school?
Answer: Yeşilköy
Question: On what date was the Aviation School founded?
Answer: 3 July 1912
Question: What happened at the aviation school in May 1913?
Answer: the world's first specialized Reconnaissance Training Program was started
Question: What new military academy was formed in June 1914?
Answer: the Naval Aviation School (Bahriye Tayyare Mektebi) |
Context: Spring 1989 saw the people of the Soviet Union exercising a democratic choice, albeit limited, for the first time since 1917, when they elected the new Congress of People's Deputies. Just as important was the uncensored live TV coverage of the legislature's deliberations, where people witnessed the previously feared Communist leadership being questioned and held accountable. This example fueled a limited experiment with democracy in Poland, which quickly led to the toppling of the Communist government in Warsaw that summer – which in turn sparked uprisings that overthrew communism in the other five Warsaw Pact countries before the end of 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell. These events showed that the people of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union did not support Gorbachev's drive to modernize Communism; rather, they preferred to abandon it altogether.
Question: What was elected in 1989?
Answer: new Congress of People's Deputies
Question: Who was questioned on live TV?
Answer: Communist leadership
Question: Where was the Communist government overthrown first?
Answer: Warsaw
Question: When did the Berlin Wall get torn down?
Answer: 1989
Question: What did Eastern European people want to do with communism?
Answer: abandon it |
Context: From the end of World War I until 1962, New Zealand controlled Samoa as a Class C Mandate under trusteeship through the League of Nations, then through the United Nations. There followed a series of New Zealand administrators who were responsible for two major incidents. In the first incident, approximately one fifth of the Samoan population died in the influenza epidemic of 1918–1919. Between 1919 and 1962, Samoa was administered by the Department of External Affairs, a government department which had been specially created to oversee New Zealand's Island Territories and Samoa. In 1943, this Department was renamed the Department of Island Territories after a separate Department of External Affairs was created to conduct New Zealand's foreign affairs.
Question: What country was in control of Samoa up until 1962?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: During what years was the Samoan influenza epidemic?
Answer: 1918–1919
Question: What official organization was responsible for Samoa during most of the 20th century?
Answer: the Department of External Affairs
Question: What new label did the Department of External Affairs receive in 1943?
Answer: Department of Island Territories
Question: About how much of the total population of Samoa died from influenza during the epidemic?
Answer: one fifth
Question: For how long did the UN control Samoa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of the New Zeland population died from the flu from 1918-1919?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization was responsible for governing New Zeland from 1919-1962?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the new name of the Department of External Affairs in 1918?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was New Zeland classified when under the League of Nations and the UN?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Emulation of the SNES is now available on handheld units, such as Android devices, Apple's iPhone and iPad, Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, the Gizmondo, the Dingoo and the GP2X by GamePark Holdings, as well as PDAs. While individual games have been included with emulators on some GameCube discs, Nintendo's Virtual Console service for the Wii marks the introduction of officially sanctioned general SNES emulation, though SNES9x GX, a port of SNES9x, has been made for the Wii.
Question: What smartphones have SNES emulators?
Answer: Android devices, Apple's iPhone and iPad
Question: What portable game systems have SNES emulators?
Answer: Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP), the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, the Gizmondo, the Dingoo and the GP2X by GamePark Holdings
Question: What was Nintendo's first approved emulator?
Answer: Nintendo's Virtual Console service for the Wii
Question: What was Android's first official emulator?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have been included with emulators on Playstation Portable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What smartphones have Gamecube emulators?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What game systems are officially sanctioned by GameCube to include emulators?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the GP2X a port of on the Wii?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Each congregation has a body of appointed unpaid male elders and ministerial servants. Elders maintain general responsibility for congregational governance, setting meeting times, selecting speakers and conducting meetings, directing the public preaching work, and creating "judicial committees" to investigate and decide disciplinary action for cases involving sexual misconduct or doctrinal breaches. New elders are appointed by a traveling overseer after recommendation by the existing body of elders. Ministerial servants—appointed in a similar manner to elders—fulfill clerical and attendant duties, but may also teach and conduct meetings. Witnesses do not use elder as a title to signify a formal clergy-laity division, though elders may employ ecclesiastical privilege such as confession of sins.
Question: What does each congregation have?
Answer: a body of appointed unpaid male elders
Question: Whose responsibility is it to conduct meetings and decide action for cases involving sexual misconduct?
Answer: Elders
Question: Who appoints new elders?
Answer: a traveling overseer
Question: What does the title of elder not signify?
Answer: a formal clergy-laity division
Question: What ecclesiastical privilege may elders employ?
Answer: confession of sins
Question: Who sets teaching times?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does public preaching work?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the title used for ministerial servants?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who among the Witnesses does formal clergy-laity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who appoints traveling overseers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1824, the French physicist François Arago formulated the existence of rotating magnetic fields, termed Arago's rotations, which, by manually turning switches on and off, Walter Baily demonstrated in 1879 as in effect the first primitive induction motor. In the 1880s, many inventors were trying to develop workable AC motors because AC's advantages in long-distance high-voltage transmission were counterbalanced by the inability to operate motors on AC. The first alternating-current commutatorless induction motors were independently invented by Galileo Ferraris and Nikola Tesla, a working motor model having been demonstrated by the former in 1885 and by the latter in 1887. In 1888, the Royal Academy of Science of Turin published Ferraris' research detailing the foundations of motor operation while however concluding that "the apparatus based on that principle could not be of any commercial importance as motor." In 1888, Tesla presented his paper A New System for Alternating Current Motors and Transformers to the AIEE that described three patented two-phase four-stator-pole motor types: one with a four-pole rotor forming a non-self-starting reluctance motor, another with a wound rotor forming a self-starting induction motor, and the third a true synchronous motor with separately excited DC supply to rotor winding. One of the patents Tesla filed in 1887, however, also described a shorted-winding-rotor induction motor. George Westinghouse promptly bought Tesla's patents, employed Tesla to develop them, and assigned C. F. Scott to help Tesla, Tesla left for other pursuits in 1889. The constant speed AC induction motor was found not to be suitable for street cars but Westinghouse engineers successfully adapted it to power a mining operation in Telluride, Colorado in 1891. Steadfast in his promotion of three-phase development, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky invented the three-phase cage-rotor induction motor in 1889 and the three-limb transformer in 1890. This type of motor is now used for the vast majority of commercial applications. However, he claimed that Tesla's motor was not practical because of two-phase pulsations, which prompted him to persist in his three-phase work. Although Westinghouse achieved its first practical induction motor in 1892 and developed a line of polyphase 60 hertz induction motors in 1893, these early Westinghouse motors were two-phase motors with wound rotors until B. G. Lamme developed a rotating bar winding rotor. The General Electric Company began developing three-phase induction motors in 1891. By 1896, General Electric and Westinghouse signed a cross-licensing agreement for the bar-winding-rotor design, later called the squirrel-cage rotor. Induction motor improvements flowing from these inventions and innovations were such that a 100 horsepower (HP) induction motor currently has the same mounting dimensions as a 7.5 HP motor in 1897.
Question: Who built the first induction motor?
Answer: Walter Baily
Question: What type of power were early motors unable to use?
Answer: AC
Question: Who bought Tesla's patents?
Answer: George Westinghouse
Question: For what application was Tesla's motor first used?
Answer: mining
Question: What's another name for the bar-winding-rotor?
Answer: squirrel-cage
Question: Who built the second induction motor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of power were late motors unable to use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who sold Tesla's patents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For what application was Tesla's motor never used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's not another name for the bar-winding-rotor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: State law codifies Oklahoma's state emblems and honorary positions; the Oklahoma Senate or House of Representatives may adopt resolutions designating others for special events and to benefit organizations. Currently the State Senate is waiting to vote on a change to the state's motto. The House passed HCR 1024, which will change the state motto from "Labor Omnia Vincit" to "Oklahoma-In God We Trust!" The author of the resolution stated that a constituent researched the Oklahoma Constitution and found no "official" vote regarding "Labor Omnia Vincit", therefore opening the door for an entirely new motto.
Question: What state House bill would change Oklahoma's motto to 'Oklahoma - In God We Trust'?
Answer: HCR 1024
Question: What was Oklahoma's state motto, before the state House bill might change it?
Answer: Labor Omnia Vincit
Question: Why did the state House think they could change Oklahoma's motto?
Answer: no "official" vote regarding "Labor Omnia Vincit" |
Context: In the dystopian future world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Times has been transformed into the organ of the totalitarian ruling party, its editorials—of which several are quoted in the book—reflecting Big Brother's pronouncements.
Question: In what novel was The Times featured as an organ of a totalitarian ruling party?
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Question: What is the name of the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Answer: George Orwell
Question: What kind of future world did George Orwell create in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Answer: dystopian |
Context: Meanwhile, in Renaissance Italy, a new period in the history of translation had opened in Florence with the arrival, at the court of Cosimo de' Medici, of the Byzantine scholar Georgius Gemistus Pletho shortly before the fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1453). A Latin translation of Plato's works was undertaken by Marsilio Ficino. This and Erasmus' Latin edition of the New Testament led to a new attitude to translation. For the first time, readers demanded rigor of rendering, as philosophical and religious beliefs depended on the exact words of Plato, Aristotle and Jesus.
Question: Whose court did Pletho arrive in and begin a new period of translation in Renaissance Italy?
Answer: Cosimo de' Medici
Question: What title did Georgius Gemistus Pletho carry?
Answer: Byzantine scholar
Question: When did Constantinople fall to the Turks?
Answer: 1453
Question: Who undertook translating Plato's works to Latin?
Answer: Marsilio Ficino
Question: What did religious beliefs depend upon when it came to Plato, Aristotle and Jesus?
Answer: the exact words
Question: Whose court did Pletho buy and begin a new period of translation in Renaissance Italy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What title did Georgius Gemistus Pletho lose status as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Constantinople defeat the Turks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who couldn't translate Plato's works to Latin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did scientific beliefs depend upon when it came to Plato, Aristotle and Jesus?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Robots.txt is used as part of the Robots Exclusion Standard, a voluntary protocol the Internet Archive respects that disallows bots from indexing certain pages delineated by its creator as off-limits. As a result, the Internet Archive has rendered unavailable a number of web sites that now are inaccessible through the Wayback Machine. Currently, the Internet Archive applies robots.txt rules retroactively; if a site blocks the Internet Archive, such as Healthcare Advocates, any previously archived pages from the domain are rendered unavailable as well. In cases of blocked sites, only the robots.txt file is archived.
Question: What kind of protocol is the Robots Exclusion Standard?
Answer: voluntary
Question: What file is utilized to exercise the rights promoted by the Robots Exclusion Standard?
Answer: Robots.txt
Question: If a site prevents Internet Archive from recording it, what file is still saved?
Answer: Robots.txt
Question: What kind of protocol is the Internet Archive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What file is utilized to exercise the rights promoted by the Internet Archive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: If a site prevents Internet Archive from recording it, what file is rendered unavailable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Healthcare Advocates respect?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Throughout the 19th century, Philadelphia had a variety of industries and businesses, the largest being textiles. Major corporations in the 19th and early 20th centuries included the Baldwin Locomotive Works, William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Industry, along with the U.S. Centennial, was celebrated in 1876 with the Centennial Exposition, the first official World's Fair in the United States. Immigrants, mostly Irish and German, settled in Philadelphia and the surrounding districts. The rise in population of the surrounding districts helped lead to the Act of Consolidation of 1854, which extended the city limits of Philadelphia from the 2 square miles of present-day Center City to the roughly 130 square miles of Philadelphia County.
Question: What was Philadelphia's biggest industry during the 19th century?
Answer: textiles
Question: When was the first World's Fair?
Answer: 1876
Question: Which were the two biggest immigrant groups in Philadelphia?
Answer: Irish and German
Question: What is the size in square miles today?
Answer: 130 square miles |
Context: Part of the phonological study of a language therefore involves looking at data (phonetic transcriptions of the speech of native speakers) and trying to deduce what the underlying phonemes are and what the sound inventory of the language is. The presence or absence of minimal pairs, as mentioned above, is a frequently used criterion for deciding whether two sounds should be assigned to the same phoneme. However, other considerations often need to be taken into account as well.
Question: What type of language study involves trying to deduce underlying phonomes?
Answer: phonological
Question: Aside from finding out what underlying phonemes are there what does the phonological study of a language try to find out about the language?
Answer: sound inventory
Question: What kind of speaker data does studying a language phonologically involve examining?
Answer: native
Question: What type of language study involves trying to deduce transcriptions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Aside from finding out what underlying phonemes are there what does the phnological study of a language tray to find out about minimal pairs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of transcription data does studying a language phonologically involve examining?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a frequently used criterion for deciding whether two languages should be assigned to the same phoneme?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does part of the assigned transcription of a language involve?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Each year HHC's facilities provide about 225,000 admissions, one million emergency room visits and five million clinic visits to New Yorkers. HHC facilities treat nearly one-fifth of all general hospital discharges and more than one third of emergency room and hospital-based clinic visits in New York City.
Question: How many people are admitted to HHC institutions annually?
Answer: 225,000
Question: How many people visit HHC emergency rooms every year?
Answer: one million
Question: How many people visit HHC clinics annually?
Answer: five million
Question: What fraction of general hospital discharges receive treatment at HHC?
Answer: one-fifth
Question: What fraction of emergency room visits receive treatment at HHC?
Answer: one third |
Context: On November 13, 1988, approximately 10,000 people attended an officially sanctioned meeting organized by the cultural heritage organization Spadschyna, the Kyiv University student club Hromada, and the environmental groups Zelenyi Svit ("Green World") and Noosfera, to focus on ecological issues. From November 14–18, 15 Ukrainian activists were among the 100 human-, national- and religious-rights advocates invited to discuss human rights with Soviet officials and a visiting delegation of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the Helsinki Commission). On December 10, hundreds gathered in Kiev to observe International Human Rights Day at a rally organized by the Democratic Union. The unauthorized gathering resulted in the detention of local activists.
Question: What is the English translation of Zelenyi Svit?
Answer: Green World
Question: What sort of issues were Zenlenyi Svit and Noosfera concerned with?
Answer: ecological
Question: What sort of organization is Spadschnyna?
Answer: cultural heritage
Question: What did people gather to observe on December 10th?
Answer: International Human Rights Day |
Context: Jehovah's Witnesses believe their highest allegiance belongs to God's kingdom, which is viewed as an actual government in heaven, with Christ as king. They remain politically neutral, do not seek public office, and are discouraged from voting, though individual members may participate in uncontroversial community improvement issues. Although they do not take part in politics, they respect the authority of the governments under which they live. They do not celebrate religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter, nor do they observe birthdays, nationalistic holidays, or other celebrations they consider to honor people other than Jesus. They feel that these and many other customs have pagan origins or reflect a nationalistic or political spirit. Their position is that these traditional holidays reflect Satan's control over the world. Witnesses are told that spontaneous giving at other times can help their children to not feel deprived of birthdays or other celebrations.
Question: Who is king of God's kingdom in heaven?
Answer: Christ
Question: What do Jehovah Witnesses remain politically?
Answer: neutral
Question: What are Jehovah Witnesses discouraged from doing?
Answer: voting
Question: Why do Jehovah Witnesses forego religious holidays and birthdays or other celebrations?
Answer: they consider to honor people other than Jesus
Question: What do Jehovah Witnesses feel all the traditional holidays reflect?
Answer: Satan's control over the world
Question: What Protestant group encourages their members to celebrate Easter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Protestant religion encourages members to vote in elections?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one of the Protestant religions that thinks it's fun to celebrate their kid's birthdays?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one of the Protestant religions that thinks celebrating things other than Jesus are ok?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one of the Protestant religions that enjoys celebrating Christmas with one another?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Lobund Institute grew out of pioneering research in germ-free-life which began in 1928. This area of research originated in a question posed by Pasteur as to whether animal life was possible without bacteria. Though others had taken up this idea, their research was short lived and inconclusive. Lobund was the first research organization to answer definitively, that such life is possible and that it can be prolonged through generations. But the objective was not merely to answer Pasteur's question but also to produce the germ free animal as a new tool for biological and medical research. This objective was reached and for years Lobund was a unique center for the study and production of germ free animals and for their use in biological and medical investigations. Today the work has spread to other universities. In the beginning it was under the Department of Biology and a program leading to the master's degree accompanied the research program. In the 1940s Lobund achieved independent status as a purely research organization and in 1950 was raised to the status of an Institute. In 1958 it was brought back into the Department of Biology as integral part of that department, but with its own program leading to the degree of PhD in Gnotobiotics.
Question: Work on a germ-free-life ended up in the creation of which Notre Dame institute?
Answer: The Lobund Institute
Question: When did study of a germ-free-life begin at Notre Dame?
Answer: 1928
Question: Around what time did Lobund of Notre Dame become independent?
Answer: the 1940s
Question: In what year did Lobund at Notre Dame become an Institute?
Answer: 1950
Question: The Lobund Institute was merged into the Department of Biology at Notre Dame in what year?
Answer: 1958 |
Context: In free-range husbandry, the birds can roam freely outdoors for at least part of the day. Often, this is in large enclosures, but the birds have access to natural conditions and can exhibit their normal behaviours. A more intensive system is yarding, in which the birds have access to a fenced yard and poultry house at a higher stocking rate. Poultry can also be kept in a barn system, with no access to the open air, but with the ability to move around freely inside the building. The most intensive system for egg-laying chickens is battery cages, often set in multiple tiers. In these, several birds share a small cage which restricts their ability to move around and behave in a normal manner. The eggs are laid on the floor of the cage and roll into troughs outside for ease of collection. Battery cages for hens have been illegal in the EU since January 1, 2012.
Question: What is the benefit to chickens of being in a free-range farming location?
Answer: the birds have access to natural conditions and can exhibit their normal behaviours
Question: What is yarding in relation to the pultry industry?
Answer: birds have access to a fenced yard and poultry house at a higher stocking rate
Question: What is the most intensive type of enclosure system used in the poultry business?
Answer: battery cages, often set in multiple tiers
Question: How are eggs collected in teh battery cage system?
Answer: The eggs are laid on the floor of the cage and roll into troughs outside for ease of collection
Question: What is the benefit to chickens of being in a caged location?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is yarding in relation to the pottery industry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only type of enclosure system used in the poultry business?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are eggs destroyed in the battery cage system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did battery cages become the only way to house hens?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the oil boom of the 1970s, Nigeria joined OPEC and the huge revenue generated made the economy richer. Despite huge revenues from oil production and sale, the military administration did little to improve the standard of living of the population, help small and medium businesses, or invest in infrastructure. As oil revenues fuelled the rise of federal subventions to states, the federal government became the centre of political struggle and the threshold of power in the country. As oil production and revenue rose, the Nigerian government became increasingly dependent on oil revenues and the international commodity markets for budgetary and economic concerns. It did not develop other sources of the economy for economic stability. That spelled doom to federalism in Nigeria.
Question: Which oil group did Nigeria join?
Answer: OPEC
Question: Who failed to use the oil revenues to invest in infrastructure?
Answer: the military administration
Question: Overdependence on oil income led to the fall of what form of government in Nigeria?
Answer: federalism |
Context: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections do not have symptoms, known as latent tuberculosis. About 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which, if left untreated, kills about half of those infected. The classic symptoms of active TB are a chronic cough with blood-containing sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. The historical term "consumption" came about due to the weight loss. Infection of other organs can cause a wide range of symptoms.
Question: What bacterium causes tuberculosis infection?
Answer: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Question: What primary body part is affected by tuberculosis?
Answer: lungs
Question: Roughly, what percentage of latent tuberculosis infections result in active tuberculosis?
Answer: 10%
Question: What name has been used to refer to tuberculosis because of associated weight loss?
Answer: consumption
Question: Along with cough, weight loss, and night sweats, what's the fourth classic symptom of the disease?
Answer: fever
Question: What disease is caused by TB?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of infections do not have symptoms?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was consumption originally called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an infection with symptoms called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of patients with latent TB die?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are several rocks and islets off the coast, including: Castle Rock, Speery Island, the Needle, Lower Black Rock, Upper Black Rock (South), Bird Island (Southwest), Black Rock, Thompson's Valley Island, Peaked Island, Egg Island, Lady's Chair, Lighter Rock (West), Long Ledge (Northwest), Shore Island, George Island, Rough Rock Island, Flat Rock (East), the Buoys, Sandy Bay Island, the Chimney, White Bird Island and Frightus Rock (Southeast), all of which are within one kilometre (0.62 miles) of the shore.
Question: How close are the rockets and islets off the coast?
Answer: one kilometre
Question: Which direction from the island is Upper Black Rock located?
Answer: South
Question: Which direction from the island is Bird Island located?
Answer: Southwest
Question: Which direction from the island is Lighter Rock located?
Answer: West
Question: Which direction from the island is Frightus Rock located?
Answer: Southeast |
Context: The expression of genes encoded in DNA begins by transcribing the gene into RNA, a second type of nucleic acid that is very similar to DNA, but whose monomers contain the sugar ribose rather than deoxyribose. RNA also contains the base uracil in place of thymine. RNA molecules are less stable than DNA and are typically single-stranded. Genes that encode proteins are composed of a series of three-nucleotide sequences called codons, which serve as the "words" in the genetic "language". The genetic code specifies the correspondence during protein translation between codons and amino acids. The genetic code is nearly the same for all known organisms.:4.1
Question: How does the expression of genes encoded in DNA begin?
Answer: by transcribing the gene into RNA
Question: What is RNA?
Answer: a second type of nucleic acid that is very similar to DNA
Question: What base does RNA have in place of thymine?
Answer: the base uracil
Question: What are codons?
Answer: a series of three-nucleotide sequences
Question: What specifies the correspondence between codons and amino acids during protein translation?
Answer: The genetic code |
Context: In the early 15th century, the countries of the Iberian peninsula began to sponsor exploration beyond the boundaries of Europe. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (d. 1460) sent expeditions that discovered the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Cape Verde during his lifetime. After his death, exploration continued; Bartolomeu Dias (d. 1500) went around the Cape of Good Hope in 1486 and Vasco da Gama (d. 1524) sailed around Africa to India in 1498. The combined Spanish monarchies of Castile and Aragon sponsored the voyage of exploration by Christopher Columbus (d. 1506) in 1492 that discovered the Americas. The English crown under Henry VII sponsored the voyage of John Cabot (d. 1498) in 1497, which landed on Cape Breton Island.
Question: Explorers in the employ of what nation discovered the Azores?
Answer: Portugal
Question: What leader sponsored the expedition that discovered Cape Verde?
Answer: Prince Henry the Navigator
Question: What Portuguese explorer visited India in 1498?
Answer: Vasco da Gama
Question: What did Christopher Columbus discover in 1492?
Answer: the Americas
Question: What English monarch financed John Cabot?
Answer: Henry VII |
Context: Unlike other Germanic languages, Dutch doesn't have phonological aspiration of consonants. Like English, Dutch did not participate in the second consonant shift. Like most Germanic languages, the Dutch consonant system did not undergo the High German consonant shift and has a syllable structure that allows fairly complex consonant clusters. Dutch also retains full use of the velar fricatives that were present in Proto-Germanic, but lost or modified in many other Germanic languages. Dutch has final-obstruent devoicing: at the end of a word, voicing distinction is neutralised and all obstruents are pronounced voiceless. For example, goede ("good") is /ˈɣudə/ but the related form goed is /ɣut/. Dutch shares with German Final-obstruent devoicing (Du brood [broːt] and German Brot vs Eng bread).
Question: What sound does Dutch still use from Proto-Germanic that was phased out in other Germanic languages?
Answer: velar fricatives
Question: Along with English, what pronunciation shift did Dutch not undergo?
Answer: the second consonant shift
Question: How are obstruents pronounced at the end of Dutch words?
Answer: voiceless
Question: How would you say "good" in Dutch?
Answer: goede
Question: What language other than Dutch also employs final-obstruent devoicing?
Answer: German |
Context: Much of Yale University's staff, including most maintenance staff, dining hall employees, and administrative staff, are unionized. Clerical and technical employees are represented by Local 34 of UNITE HERE and service and maintenance workers by Local 35 of the same international. Together with the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), an unrecognized union of graduate employees, Locals 34 and 35 make up the Federation of Hospital and University Employees. Also included in FHUE are the dietary workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital, who are members of 1199 SEIU. In addition to these unions, officers of the Yale University Police Department are members of the Yale Police Benevolent Association, which affiliated in 2005 with the Connecticut Organization for Public Safety Employees. Finally, Yale security officers voted to join the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America in fall 2010 after the National Labor Relations Board ruled they could not join AFSCME; the Yale administration contested the election.
Question: What union are the members of the Yale University Police Department a part of?
Answer: Yale Police Benevolent Association
Question: What union do Yale security guards belong to?
Answer: International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America
Question: What is the name of the unrecognized union of graduate employees?
Answer: Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO)
Question: What union are Yale's clerical and technical employees a part of?
Answer: Local 34 of UNITE HERE
Question: What union are Yale's service and maintenance workers a part of?
Answer: Local 35 of the same international
Question: What union are the members of the Yale University Police Department not a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What union don't Yale security guards belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the recognized union of graduate employees?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What union aren't Yale's clerical and technical employees a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What union aren't Yale's service and maintenance workers a part of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Archaic period in the Americas saw a changing environment featuring a warmer more arid climate and the disappearance of the last megafauna. The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers; but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally, thus with the passage of time there is a pattern of increasing regional generalization like, the Southwest, Arctic, Poverty, Dalton and Plano traditions. This regional adaptations would become the norm, with reliance less on hunting and gathering, with a more mixed economy of small game, fish, seasonally wild vegetables and harvested plant foods.
Question: What kind of climate occurred in the Americas?
Answer: warmer more arid
Question: What disappeared during the Archaic period?
Answer: megafauna
Question: What became the norm for the mobile bands?
Answer: regional adaptations
Question: What did they rely less and less on?
Answer: hunting and gathering
Question: What was there a pattern of in this period?
Answer: increasing regional generalization
Question: Which period in the Americas saw an unchanging environment?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The first appearance of the megafauna happened in what period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A colder, more arid climate happened in what period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The minority of population groups at this time were what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which groups started to focus on resources available to them globally?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In glaciated areas where the glacier moves faster than one km per year, glacial earthquakes occur. These are large scale temblors that have seismic magnitudes as high as 6.1. The number of glacial earthquakes in Greenland peaks every year in July, August and September and is increasing over time. In a study using data from January 1993 through October 2005, more events were detected every year since 2002, and twice as many events were recorded in 2005 as there were in any other year. This increase in the numbers of glacial earthquakes in Greenland may be a response to global warming.
Question: How far does a glacier have to move to cause glacial earthquakes?
Answer: one km per year
Question: How high can the seismic magnitude be of a glacial earthquake?
Answer: 6.1
Question: Are Greenland's glacial earthquakes increasing or decreasing as time goes on?
Answer: increasing
Question: During which months do glacial earthquakes peak in Greenland?
Answer: July, August and September
Question: In what year were twice as many glacial earthquakes seen than in any other year in Greenland?
Answer: 2005
Question: What occurs where glaciers are moving slower than 1 km per day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What peaks Every July in Iceland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is causing a decrease in Greenlands glacial earthquakes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been decreasing over time?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Around this time, tensions began to arise between what was perceived as president Núñez's dictatorial rule and the nationalistic support group, Boixos Nois. The group, identified with a left-wing separatism, repeatedly demanded the resignation of Núñez and openly defied him through chants and banners at matches. At the same time, Barcelona experienced an eruption in skinheads, who often identified with a right-wing separatism. The skinheads slowly transferred the Boixos Nois' ideology from liberalism to fascism, which caused division within the group and a sudden support for Núñez's presidency. Inspired by British hooligans, the remaining Boixos Nois became violent, causing havoc leading to large-scale arrests.
Question: What political group wanted Nunez to resign the presidency?
Answer: Boixos Nois
Question: To what did Boixos Nois idetify themselves as belonging?
Answer: left-wing separatism
Question: What right-wing separatists tried to spread fascism to the Boixos Nois?
Answer: skinheads
Question: What did the resulting split in the Boixos Nois group cause many to support?
Answer: Núñez's presidency
Question: What did the resulting violence perpetrated by the extremists produce?
Answer: large-scale arrests |
Context: In the north Eristov pushed southwest, fought two battles, forced the Turks back to Batum, retired behind the Cholok River and suspended action for the rest of the year (June). In the far south Wrangel pushed west, fought a battle and occupied Bayazit. In the center the main forces stood at Kars and Gyumri. Both slowly approached along the Kars-Gyumri road and faced each other, neither side choosing to fight (June–July). On 4 August Russian scouts saw a movement which they thought was the start of a withdrawal, the Russians advanced and the Turks attacked first. They were defeated, losing 8000 men to the Russian 3000. 10000 irregulars deserted to their villages. Both sides withdrew to their former positions. About this time the Persians made a semi-secret agreement to remain neutral in exchange for the cancellation of the indemnity from the previous war.
Question: Who make the Turks retreat back to Batum?
Answer: Eristov
Question: Who occupied Bayazit?
Answer: Wrangel
Question: Where did the main forces stand?
Answer: Kars and Gyumri
Question: On August 4th, who thought the other side was withdrawing?
Answer: the Russians
Question: Who made a secret agreement to remain neutral?
Answer: the Persians |
Context: With the onset of the Crusades in 1095, and the expulsions from England (1290), France (1394), and parts of Germany (15th century), Jewish migration pushed eastward into Poland (10th century), Lithuania (10th century), and Russia (12th century). Over this period of several hundred years, some have suggested, Jewish economic activity was focused on trade, business management, and financial services, due to several presumed factors: Christian European prohibitions restricting certain activities by Jews, preventing certain financial activities (such as "usurious" loans) between Christians, high rates of literacy, near universal male education, and ability of merchants to rely upon and trust family members living in different regions and countries.
Question: What year marked the onset of the Crusades?
Answer: 1095
Question: What year were the expulsions from England?
Answer: 1290
Question: What year were the expulsions from France?
Answer: 1394
Question: After expulsions from England and France, Jewish migration headed in which direction?
Answer: Jewish migration pushed eastward
Question: As Jews were expelled from England, France, and parts of Germany they head into which three countries?
Answer: Poland (10th century), Lithuania (10th century), and Russia (12th century) |
Context: Definitions of "Southeast Asia" vary, but most definitions include the area represented by the countries (sovereign states and dependent territories) listed below. All of the states except for East Timor are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The area, together with part of South Asia, was widely known as the East Indies or simply the Indies until the 20th century. Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands[citation needed] are considered part of Southeast Asia though they are governed by Australia.[citation needed] Sovereignty issues exist over some territories in the South China Sea. Papua New Guinea has stated that it might join ASEAN, and is currently an observer.
Question: Which country has stated that it might join ASEAN?
Answer: Papua New Guinea
Question: What does ASEAN mean?
Answer: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Question: Which two Islands governed by Australia are considered a part of ASEAN?
Answer: Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Question: Which state is not a member of ASEAN?
Answer: East Timor
Question: What association is East Timo a member of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Southeast Asia also known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been called the Indies since the 20th Century
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What islands are not considered part of Southeast Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What islands are part of Australia?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From 9 February for two days his coffin rested in St. Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, before lying in state at Westminster Hall from 11 February. His funeral took place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on the 15th. He was interred initially in the Royal Vault until he was transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St. George's on 26 March 1969. In 2002, fifty years after his death, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred in the chapel alongside him.
Question: What church did the King's funeral take place on the 15th?
Answer: Windsor Castle
Question: What year did Queen Elizabeth die?
Answer: 2002
Question: What year did Princess Margaret die?
Answer: 2002
Question: In which chapel does King George's body lie in today?
Answer: King George VI Memorial Chapel
Question: In what city is Westminster Hall?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what city is the King George VI Memorial Chapel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Princess Margaret when she died?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date was Queen Elizabeth crowned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Queen Elizabeth crowned?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz tîto]; born Josip Broz; 7 May 1892[nb 1] – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, and concerns about the repression of political opponents have been raised, Tito was "seen by most as a benevolent dictator" due to his economic and diplomatic policies. He was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad. Viewed as a unifying symbol, his internal policies maintained the peaceful coexistence of the nations of the Yugoslav federation. He gained further international attention as the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, working with Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Sukarno of Indonesia.
Question: In what year did Josip Broz Tito die?
Answer: 1980
Question: During World War II what resistance movement did he lead?
Answer: the Partisans,
Question: For what country is Tito viewed as unifying figure?
Answer: Yugoslavia
Question: In the Non-Aligned Movement, which Egyptian leader did Tito work with?
Answer: Gamal Abdel Nasser
Question: In the Non-Aligned Movement, which Indonesian leader did Tito work with?
Answer: Sukarno |
Context: AFL Global and Ganlan Media were created in 2012 by businessman Martin E. Judge, founder and owner of the Judge Group. The company, called AFL Global, LLC, looks to introduce and launch professional Arena Football teams and franchises in various locations throughout the world (like NFL Europe). After their successful trip to China to help promote the game, they formally announced plans to further develop AFL China by the fall of 2014 by starting a comprehensive training program in May 2013 with exhibition games planned for the cities of Beijing and Guangzhou in October. This is the first time professional football of any kind will be played in China with the support of the Chinese government and the CRFA (Chinese Rugby Football Association). Key persons involved include founder and CEO. Martin E. Judge, partner Ron Jaworski, CAFL CEO Gary Morris and president David Niu. Ganlan Media has since dropped this name and will carry the league's name as its corporate identity.
Question: Who created Ganlan Media?
Answer: Martin E. Judge
Question: What company is Martin Judge the founder of?
Answer: the Judge Group
Question: In what year was AFL Global created?
Answer: 2012
Question: In what month was an exhibition game planned for Guangzhou?
Answer: October
Question: Who is the Chief Executive Officer of the China American Football League?
Answer: Gary Morris |
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