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Context: Because of the difficulty of moving crude bitumen through pipelines, non-upgraded bitumen is usually diluted with natural-gas condensate in a form called dilbit or with synthetic crude oil, called synbit. However, to meet international competition, much non-upgraded bitumen is now sold as a blend of multiple grades of bitumen, conventional crude oil, synthetic crude oil, and condensate in a standardized benchmark product such as Western Canadian Select. This sour, heavy crude oil blend is designed to have uniform refining characteristics to compete with internationally marketed heavy oils such as Mexican Mayan or Arabian Dubai Crude.
Question: What is done to crude bitumen to promote its movement through pipelines?
Answer: diluted
Question: What is the natural gas condensate used to dilute bitumen?
Answer: dilbit
Question: What is the synthetic crude additive to bitumen called?
Answer: synbit
Question: What is the usually sold standard blend of bitumen and oils named?
Answer: Western Canadian Select
Question: In what uniform use was Western Canadian Select meant to excel?
Answer: refining
Question: Because it's easy to move what through pipelines is non upgraded bitumen is usually diluted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is upgraded bitumen now sold as to meet international competition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is non-upgraded bitumen now sold as to meet national competition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The bitter and light crude oil mix is designed to competed with what types of oils?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The sour and heavy crude oil mix is designed to competed with what types of benchmarks?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Avicenna's psychology requires that connection between the body and soul be strong enough to ensure the soul's individuation, but weak enough to allow for its immortality. Avicenna grounds his psychology on physiology, which means his account of the soul is one that deals almost entirely with the natural science of the body and its abilities of perception. Thus, the philosopher's connection between the soul and body is explained almost entirely by his understanding of perception; in this way, bodily perception interrelates with the immaterial human intellect. In sense perception, the perceiver senses the form of the object; first, by perceiving features of the object by our external senses. This sensory information is supplied to the internal senses, which merge all the pieces into a whole, unified conscious experience. This process of perception and abstraction is the nexus of the soul and body, for the material body may only perceive material objects, while the immaterial soul may only receive the immaterial, universal forms. The way the soul and body interact in the final abstraction of the universal from the concrete particular is the key to their relationship and interaction, which takes place in the physical body.
Question: What does Avicenna ground his psychology on?
Answer: physiology
Question: According to Avicenna, the body and soul must be what in order to ensure the soul's individuation?
Answer: strong enough
Question: How does Avicenna explain the connection between body and soul?
Answer: his understanding of perception
Question: How does man first perceive features of an object?
Answer: external senses
Question: The body and soul's interaction takes place where?
Answer: the physical body
Question: What does Avicenna not ground his psychology on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: According to Avicenna, the body and soul must not be what in order to ensure the soul's individuation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Avicenna explain the disconnection between body and soul?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does man first perceive features of an subject?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The body and soul's interaction takes place when?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: To encourage further discovery, researchers and policymakers are promoting new economic models of vaccine development, including prizes, tax incentives, and advance market commitments. A number of groups, including the Stop TB Partnership, the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, and the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, are involved with research. Among these, the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation received a gift of more than $280 million (US) from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and license an improved vaccine against tuberculosis for use in high burden countries.
Question: What organization did the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donate $280 million to?
Answer: Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation
Question: Policymakers believe tax incentives, market commitments, and what third incentive will speed up vaccine development?
Answer: prizes
Question: What group with the initials SATVI is researching TB vaccines?
Answer: South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative
Question: What nonprofit tuberculosis research foundation has a verb in its name?
Answer: Stop TB Partnership
Question: Who gave the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation $280 mil?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the prize for vaccine development set at?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who gifted Stop TB Partnership a large amount of money for improving vaccinations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Stop TB Partnership working?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Previous post-Furman mass clemencies took place in 1986 in New Mexico, when Governor Toney Anaya commuted all death sentences because of his personal opposition to the death penalty. In 1991, outgoing Ohio Governor Dick Celeste commuted the sentences of eight prisoners, among them all four women on the state's death row. And during his two terms (1979–1987) as Florida's Governor, Bob Graham, although a strong death penalty supporter who had overseen the first post-Furman involuntary execution as well as 15 others, agreed to commute the sentences of six people on the grounds of "possible innocence" or "disproportionality."
Question: Who commuted all state capital sentences in 1986?
Answer: Toney Anaya
Question: Of what state was Toney Anaya governor?
Answer: New Mexico
Question: Who was Governor of Ohio in 1991?
Answer: Dick Celeste
Question: How many women were on Ohio's death row in 1991?
Answer: four
Question: In what year did Bob Graham become Governor of Florida?
Answer: 1979
Question: Who commuted all state capital sentences in 1936?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Of what state was Toney Anaya senator?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Governor of Nebraska in 1991?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many men were on Ohio's death row in 1991?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Bob Graham become Senator of Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From the fifth century to the thirteenth, Śrauta sacrifices declined, and initiatory traditions of Buddhism, Jainism or more commonly Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism expanded in royal courts. This period produced some of India's finest art, considered the epitome of classical development, and the development of the main spiritual and philosophical systems which continued to be in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Emperor Harsha of Kannauj succeeded in reuniting northern India during his reign in the 7th century, after the collapse of the Gupta dynasty. His empire collapsed after his death.
Question: What declined from the 5th to the 13th centuries
Answer: Śrauta sacrifices
Question: What philosophical traditions developed during the period of the 5th to the 13th centuries?
Answer: Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism
Question: In what century was Harsha's rule?
Answer: 7th century
Question: What happened to Harsha's empire after his death?
Answer: collapsed
Question: What area did Harsha unite during his reign?
Answer: northern India |
Context: The post-Mughal era was dominated by the rise of the Maratha suzerainty as other small regional states (mostly late Mughal tributary states) emerged, and also by the increasing activities of European powers. There is no doubt that the single most important power to emerge in the long twilight of the Mughal dynasty was the Maratha confederacy. The Maratha kingdom was founded and consolidated by Chatrapati Shivaji, a Maratha aristocrat of the Bhonsle clan who was determined to establish Hindavi Swarajya. Sir J.N. Sarkar described Shivaji as "the last great constructive genius and nation builder that the Hindu race has produced". However, the credit for making the Marathas formidable power nationally goes to Peshwa Bajirao I. Historian K.K. Datta wrote about Bajirao I:
Question: The rise of what dynasty followed the era of the Mughals?
Answer: Maratha suzerainty
Question: What founding was of importance in the decline of the Mughals?
Answer: Maratha confederacy
Question: Who consolidated the Maratha kingdom?
Answer: Chatrapati Shivaji
Question: What did J.N. Sarkar say of Shivaji's nation building?
Answer: great constructive genius
Question: Who made the Marathas a strong power?
Answer: Peshwa Bajirao I |
Context: The Story of the Kelly Gang, the world's first feature film, was shot in Melbourne in 1906. Melbourne filmmakers continued to produce bushranger films until they were banned by Victorian politicians in 1912 for the perceived promotion of crime, thus contributing to the decline of one of the silent film era's most productive industries. A notable film shot and set in Melbourne during Australia's cinematic lull is On the Beach (1959). The 1970s saw the rise of the Australian New Wave and its Ozploitation offshoot, instigated by Melbourne-based productions Stork and Alvin Purple. Picnic at Hanging Rock and Mad Max, both shot in and around Melbourne, achieved worldwide acclaim. 2004 saw the construction of Melbourne's largest film and television studio complex, Docklands Studios Melbourne, which has hosted many domestic productions, as well as international features. Melbourne is also home to the headquarters of Village Roadshow Pictures, Australia's largest film production company. Famous modern day actors from Melbourne include Cate Blanchett, Rachel Griffiths, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush and Eric Bana.
Question: What was the world's first feature film?
Answer: The Story of the Kelly Gang
Question: In what city was the world's first feature film shot in 1906?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Why were films banned by Victorian politicans in 1912?
Answer: perceived promotion of crime
Question: What year were bushranger films banned by Victorian politicians?
Answer: 1912
Question: In what "lull" year was On the Beach filmed?
Answer: 1959 |
Context: The Bohr magneton and the nuclear magneton are units which are used to describe the magnetic properties of the electron and atomic nuclei respectively. The Bohr magneton is the magnetic moment which would be expected for an electron if it behaved as a spinning charge according to classical electrodynamics. It is defined in terms of the reduced Planck constant, the elementary charge and the electron mass, all of which depend on the Planck constant: the final dependence on h1/2 (r2 > 0.995) can be found by expanding the variables.
Question: What is the unit of magentic properties of the electron?
Answer: Bohr magneton
Question: What is the unit of magentic properties of atomic nuclei?
Answer: nuclear magneton
Question: The Bohr magneton is the magnetic moment of an electron under what restriction?
Answer: behaved as a spinning charge according to classical electrodynamics
Question: What three terms define the Bohr magneton value?
Answer: the reduced Planck constant, the elementary charge and the electron mass
Question: What is the unit of magnetic properties of the neutron?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the unit of magnetic properties of nuclear molecules?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What three terms define the Bohr nucleus value?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is never defined in terms of the reduced Planck constant?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although older German loanwords were colloquial, recent borrowings from other languages are associated with high culture. During the nineteenth century, words with Greek and Latin roots were rejected in favor of those based on older Czech words and common Slavic roots; "music" is muzyka in Polish and музыка (muzyka) in Russian, but in Czech it is hudba. Some Czech words have been borrowed as loanwords into English and other languages—for example, robot (from robota, "labor") and polka (from polka, "Polish woman" or from "půlka" "half").
Question: In Czech, what are loanwords from other languages associated with?
Answer: high culture
Question: What word roots in the 19th century were rejected in favor of words with more common Slavic roots?
Answer: Greek and Latin
Question: How does one say the word "music" in Czech?
Answer: hudba
Question: What Czech word did the English "robot" derive from?
Answer: robota
Question: What is the meaning of the Czech word "robota"?
Answer: labor
Question: What were older Latin loanwords considered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of culture are words borrowed from Russia associated with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were words with Russian roots rejected for in the nineteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Russian word has the English robot been borrowed from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language has used borrowed words from Russian?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: US troops participated in a UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia beginning in 1992. By 1993 the US troops were augmented with Rangers and special forces with the aim of capturing warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, whose forces had massacred peacekeepers from Pakistan. During a raid in downtown Mogadishu, US troops became trapped overnight by a general uprising in the Battle of Mogadishu. Eighteen American soldiers were killed, and a US television crew filmed graphic images of the body of one soldier being dragged through the streets by an angry mob. Somali guerrillas paid a staggering toll at an estimated 1,000–5,000 total casualties during the conflict. After much public disapproval, American forces were quickly withdrawn by President Bill Clinton. The incident profoundly affected US thinking about peacekeeping and intervention. The book Black Hawk Down was written about the battle, and was the basis for the later movie of the same name.
Question: In what African country did US troops participate in peacekeeping operations?
Answer: Somalia
Question: What was the name of the Somalian warlord who directed massacres of peacekeeping troops?
Answer: Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Question: In what Somalian city did American troops become trapped?
Answer: Mogadishu
Question: How many US soldiers were killed in the battle of Mogadishu?
Answer: Eighteen
Question: What is the title of the book and movie about the Mogadishu uprising?
Answer: Black Hawk Down
Question: In what African country did UK troops participate in peacekeeping operations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the Korean warlord who directed massacres of peacekeeping troops?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what Somalian city did African troops become trapped?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many UK soldiers were killed in the battle of Mogadishu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the title of the song about the Mogadishu uprising?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A browser extension is a computer program that extends the functionality of a web browser. Every major web browser supports the development of browser extensions.
Question: A computer program that continues the functionality of a browser is called what?
Answer: browser extension
Question: What extends development of computer functionality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why does a computer create a browser extension?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does making a computer program support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does every computer program support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happens when a computer program is created?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The term comics refers to the comics medium when used as an uncountable noun and thus takes the singular: "comics is a medium" rather than "comics are a medium". When comic appears as a countable noun it refers to instances of the medium, such as individual comic strips or comic books: "Tom's comics are in the basement."
Question: The term comedies refers to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The term comics doesn't refer to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When comic appears as a countable verb it refers to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When comedies appears as a countable noun it refers to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When comic doesn't appear as a countable noun it refers to what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1989, during the "Singing Revolution", in a landmark demonstration for more independence, more than two million people formed a human chain stretching through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, called the Baltic Way. All three nations had similar experiences of occupation and similar aspirations for regaining independence. The Estonian Sovereignty Declaration was issued on 16 November 1988. On 20 August 1991, Estonia declared formal independence during the Soviet military coup attempt in Moscow, reconstituting the pre-1940 state. The Soviet Union recognised the independence of Estonia on 6 September 1991. The first country to diplomatically recognise Estonia's reclaimed independence was Iceland. The last units of the Russian army left on 31 August 1994.
Question: What year did the Singing Revolution occur?
Answer: 1989
Question: What was the demonstration of the Singing Revolution trying to fight for?
Answer: independence
Question: How many people created a chain of solidarity that went Estonia and other countries?
Answer: more than two million people
Question: What was the name of the human chain?
Answer: the Baltic Way |
Context: In the late 1980s, according to "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine", Feynman played a crucial role in developing the first massively parallel computer, and in finding innovative uses for it in numerical computations, in building neural networks, as well as physical simulations using cellular automata (such as turbulent fluid flow), working with Stephen Wolfram at Caltech. His son Carl also played a role in the development of the original Connection Machine engineering; Feynman influencing the interconnects while his son worked on the software.
Question: What did Feynman help develop in the 1980s?
Answer: parallel computer
Question: Who did Feynman work with on computers at Caltech?
Answer: Stephen Wolfram
Question: Who else worked with Feynman on developing computers?
Answer: His son Carl
Question: What specifically did his son work on?
Answer: software
Question: What did Feyman do while his son worked on software?
Answer: influencing the interconnects
Question: What did Feynman help find in the 1970s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Feynman work with on computers at Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who else worked with Feynman on developing planes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What specifically did Feynman's daughter work on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Feynman doing while his daughter worked on software?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Several private institutions of higher learning—ranging from liberal arts colleges, such as The University of St. Thomas, Houston's only Catholic university, to Rice University, the nationally recognized research university—are located within the city. Rice, with a total enrollment of slightly more than 6,000 students, has a number of distinguished graduate programs and research institutes, such as the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy. Houston Baptist University, affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, offers bachelor's and graduate degrees. It was founded in 1960 and is located in the Sharpstown area in Southwest Houston.
Question: What is Houston's one Catholic university?
Answer: The University of St. Thomas
Question: What famous research university is located in Houston?
Answer: Rice University
Question: What is the student enrollment of Rice University?
Answer: 6,000
Question: When was Houston Baptist University founded?
Answer: 1960
Question: What area in Houston is the home of the Houston Baptist University?
Answer: Sharpstown
Question: What is Texas's one Catholic university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What famous research university is located in Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the teacher enrollment of Rice University?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Texas Baptist University founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area in Texas is the home of the Houston Baptist University?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The January daily average is 33.0 °F (0.6 °C), though, in a normal winter, the temperature frequently rises to 50 °F (10 °C) during thaws and dips to 10 °F (−12 °C) for 2 or 3 nights. July averages 78.1 °F (25.6 °C), although heat waves accompanied by high humidity and heat indices are frequent; highs reach or exceed 90 °F (32 °C) on 27 days of the year. The average window for freezing temperatures is November 6 thru April 2, allowing a growing season of 217 days. Early fall and late winter are generally dry; February's average of 2.64 inches (67 mm) makes it the area's driest month. The dewpoint in the summer averages between 59.1 °F (15 °C) to 64.5 °F (18 °C).
Question: What is the average January temp?
Answer: 33.0 °F
Question: What is the July average temp?
Answer: 78.1 °F
Question: What is the average time for freezing temps?
Answer: November 6 thru April 2
Question: How long does the grow season last on average?
Answer: 217
Question: Which month is the driest?
Answer: February |
Context: At the end of the Second World War, Canada possessed the fourth-largest air force and fifth-largest naval surface fleet in the world, as well as the largest volunteer army ever fielded. Conscription for overseas service was introduced only near the end of the war, and only 2,400 conscripts actually made it into battle. Originally, Canada was thought to have had the third-largest navy in the world, but with the fall of the Soviet Union, new data based on Japanese and Soviet sources found that to be incorrect.
Question: Canada had which biggest army during the Second World War?
Answer: the largest volunteer army ever
Question: What country fell providing with more information on Canada's army size?
Answer: the Soviet Union
Question: Which other country had a sizable naval army?
Answer: Japanese
Question: When did Canada possess the fifth-largest air force?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Canada possess the fourth-largest naval surface fleet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was introduced at then end of the war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many conscripts made it into the naval surface fleet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Canada had which biggest army during the Third World War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country fell providing with less information on Canada's army size?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which other country had a small naval army?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1996, Kerry faced a difficult re-election fight against Governor William Weld, a popular Republican incumbent who had been re-elected in 1994 with 71% of the vote. The race was covered nationwide as one of the most closely watched Senate races that year. Kerry and Weld held several debates and negotiated a campaign spending cap of $6.9 million at Kerry's Beacon Hill townhouse. Both candidates spent more than the cap, with each camp accusing the other of being first to break the agreement. During the campaign, Kerry spoke briefly at the 1996 Democratic National Convention. Kerry won re-election with 53 percent to Weld's 45 percent.
Question: Who ran against Kerry in 1996?
Answer: William Weld
Question: When Weld was re-elected governor, how much of the vote did he get?
Answer: 71%
Question: When was Weld re-elected governor?
Answer: 1994
Question: What did Kerry and Weld agree to limit their campaign spending to?
Answer: $6.9 million
Question: Who broke the agreed-upon spending cap?
Answer: Both candidates |
Context: Yale has produced alumni distinguished in their respective fields. Among the best-known are U.S. Presidents William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; royals Crown Princess Victoria Bernadotte, Prince Rostislav Romanov and Prince Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo; heads of state, including Italian prime minister Mario Monti, Turkish prime minister Tansu Çiller, Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo, German president Karl Carstens, and Philippines president José Paciano Laurel; U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas; U.S. Secretaries of State John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Cyrus Vance, and Dean Acheson; authors Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Tom Wolfe; lexicographer Noah Webster; inventors Samuel F. B. Morse and Eli Whitney; patriot and "first spy" Nathan Hale; theologian Jonathan Edwards; actors, directors and producers Paul Newman, Henry Winkler, Vincent Price, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Patricia Clarkson, Courtney Vance, Frances McDormand, Elia Kazan, George Roy Hill, Edward Norton, Lupita Nyong'o, Allison Williams, Oliver Stone, Sam Waterston, and Michael Cimino; "Father of American football" Walter Camp, James Franco, "The perfect oarsman" Rusty Wailes; baseball players Ron Darling, Bill Hutchinson, and Craig Breslow; basketball player Chris Dudley; football players Gary Fencik, and Calvin Hill; hockey players Chris Higgins and Mike Richter; figure skater Sarah Hughes; swimmer Don Schollander; skier Ryan Max Riley; runner Frank Shorter; composers Charles Ives, Douglas Moore and Cole Porter; Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver; child psychologist Benjamin Spock; architects Eero Saarinen and Norman Foster; sculptor Richard Serra; film critic Gene Siskel; television commentators Dick Cavett and Anderson Cooper; New York Times journalist David Gonzalez; pundits William F. Buckley, Jr., and Fareed Zakaria; economists Irving Fischer, Mahbub ul Haq, and Paul Krugman; cyclotron inventor and Nobel laureate in Physics, Ernest Lawrence; Human Genome Project director Francis S. Collins; mathematician and chemist Josiah Willard Gibbs; and businesspeople, including Time Magazine co-founder Henry Luce, Morgan Stanley founder Harold Stanley, Boeing CEO James McNerney, FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, Time Warner president Jeffrey Bewkes, Electronic Arts co-founder Bing Gordon, and investor/philanthropist Sir John Templeton; pioneer in electrical applications Austin Cornelius Dunham.
Question: What royalty has attended Yale?
Answer: Crown Princess Victoria Bernadotte, Prince Rostislav Romanov and Prince Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo
Question: What Italian Prime Minister attended Yale?
Answer: Mario Monti
Question: What Mexican president attended Yale?
Answer: Ernesto Zedillo
Question: Who was the father of American football?
Answer: Walter Camp
Question: What Time magazine founder attended Yale?
Answer: Henry Luce
Question: What royalty hasn't attended Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Italian Prime Minister never attended Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Mexican president never attended Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the mother of American football?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Time magazine founder never attended Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Humboldtian science refers to the early 19th century approach of combining scientific field work with the age of Romanticism sensitivity, ethics and aesthetic ideals. It helped to install natural history as a separate field, gave base for ecology and was based on the role model of scientist, naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. The later 19th century positivism asserted that all authentic knowledge allows verification and that all authentic knowledge assumes that the only valid knowledge is scientific.
Question: What did Humboldtian science aim to do?
Answer: combining scientific field work with the age of Romanticism sensitivity, ethics and aesthetic ideals
Question: Who was the model for Humboldtian science?
Answer: Alexander von Humboldt
Question: What idea did positivism provide?
Answer: the only valid knowledge is scientific |
Context: LEDs have also been used as a medium-quality voltage reference in electronic circuits. The forward voltage drop (e.g. about 1.7 V for a normal red LED) can be used instead of a Zener diode in low-voltage regulators. Red LEDs have the flattest I/V curve above the knee. Nitride-based LEDs have a fairly steep I/V curve and are useless for this purpose. Although LED forward voltage is far more current-dependent than a Zener diode, Zener diodes with breakdown voltages below 3 V are not widely available.
Question: What quality has LEDs been used as?
Answer: medium-quality
Question: What LED has the flattest I/V curve above the knee?
Answer: Red
Question: What LEDs have a very steep I/V curve?
Answer: Nitride-based LEDs
Question: LED forward voltage is more current-dependent than what diode?
Answer: Zener
Question: Zener diodes below what voltage are not widely available?
Answer: 3 V
Question: What quality hasn't LEDs been used as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What LED has the least flattest I/V curve above the knee?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What LEDs have a not very steep I/V curve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What LEDs don't have a very steep I/V curve?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since the late 19th century, most treaties have followed a fairly consistent format. A treaty typically begins with a preamble describing the contracting parties and their joint objectives in executing the treaty, as well as summarizing any underlying events (such as a war). Modern preambles are sometimes structured as a single very long sentence formatted into multiple paragraphs for readability, in which each of the paragraphs begins with a verb (desiring, recognizing, having, and so on).
Question: What is shared by most treaties since the late 19th century?
Answer: a fairly consistent format
Question: What is the beginning of a typical treaty called?
Answer: a preamble
Question: Why are long sentences in a modern preamble formatted into multiple paragraphs?
Answer: readability
Question: Each paragraph of a modern preamble typically begins with which part of speech?
Answer: a verb
Question: In addition to describing the parties and their joint objectives, what else does a modern preamble typically summarize?
Answer: any underlying events (such as a war) |
Context: In 1839 Mariano Spada (1796 - 1872), professor of theology at the Roman College of Saint Thomas, published Esame Critico sulla dottrina dell’ Angelico Dottore S. Tommaso di Aquino circa il Peccato originale, relativamente alla Beatissima Vergine Maria [A critical examination of the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, regarding original sin with respect to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary], in which Aquinas is interpreted not as treating the question of the Immaculate Conception later formulated in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus but rather the sanctification of the fetus within Mary's womb. Spada furnished an interpretation whereby Pius IX was relieved of the problem of seeming to foster a doctrine not in agreement with the Aquinas' teaching. Pope Pius IX would later appoint Spada Master of the Sacred Palace in 1867.
Question: What did a teacher of religion from the college that was named after a Dominican friar do in 1839 of historical note ?
Answer: published Esame Critico sulla dottrina dell’ Angelico Dottore S. Tommaso di Aquino circa il Peccato originale, relativamente alla Beatissima Vergine Maria
Question: Who was the teacher who committed the act ?
Answer: Mariano Spada
Question: What position was the teacher later given by the Holy Roman Church ?
Answer: appoint Spada Master of the Sacred Palace in 1867
Question: Who gave the teacher the new job ?
Answer: Pope Pius IX
Question: What problem did the teacher's publication solve for the Holy Roman leader with act that was committed to do in response to the actions of the teacher ?
Answer: Pius IX was relieved of the problem of seeming to foster a doctrine not in agreement with the Aquinas' teaching.
Question: What did Mariano Spada publish in 1872?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who asserted that Aquinas was referring to the question of the immaculate conception?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What work asserted a problem between a doctrine of Pius IX and the teachings of Aquinas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who appointed Spada master of the sacred palace in the eighteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Von Neumann raised the intellectual and mathematical level of economics in several stunning publications. For his model of an expanding economy, von Neumann proved the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium using his generalization of the Brouwer fixed-point theorem. Von Neumann's model of an expanding economy considered the matrix pencil A − λB with nonnegative matrices A and B; von Neumann sought probability vectors p and q and a positive number λ that would solve the complementarity equation
Question: How did von Neumann raise the level of economics?
Answer: several stunning publications
Question: What did von Neumann prove with his model of expanding economy?
Answer: uniqueness of an equilibrium using his generalization of the Brouwer fixed-point theorem
Question: What did von Neumann consider for his model of expanding economy?
Answer: matrix pencil A − λB with nonnegative matrices A and B |
Context: Schwarzenegger began weight training at the age of 15. He won the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in bodybuilding and has written many books and articles on the sport. He is widely considered to be among the greatest bodybuilders of all times as well as its biggest icon. Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. His breakthrough film was the sword-and-sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian in 1982, which was a box-office hit and resulted in a sequel. In 1984, he appeared in James Cameron's science-fiction thriller film The Terminator, which was a massive critical and box-office success. Schwarzenegger subsequently reprised the Terminator character in the franchise's later installments in 1991, 2003, and 2015. He appeared in a number of successful films, such as Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Twins (1988), Total Recall (1990), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and True Lies (1994). He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnie" during his acting career, and "The Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "The Terminator", one of his best-known movie roles).
Question: How old was Schwarzenegger when he started bodybuilding?
Answer: 15
Question: How many times was Schwarzenegger awarded the Mr. Olympia title?
Answer: seven
Question: For which film from 1982 did Schwarzenegger first gain fame?
Answer: Conan the Barbarian
Question: How old was Schwarzenegger when he won Mr. Universe?
Answer: 20
Question: What nickname did Schwarzenegger's co-stars call him by during his acting career?
Answer: Arnie |
Context: Within London, both the City of London and the City of Westminster have city status and both the City of London and the remainder of Greater London are counties for the purposes of lieutenancies. The area of Greater London has incorporated areas that were once part of the historic counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire. London's status as the capital of England, and later the United Kingdom, has never been granted or confirmed officially—by statute or in written form.[note 6]
Question: What title regarding London has never been made official in law or by decree?
Answer: London's status as the capital of England
Question: What areas within Greater London have city status?
Answer: the City of London and the City of Westminster
Question: For what reason are the City of London and Greater London considered to be counties?
Answer: for the purposes of lieutenancies |
Context: Beyoncé's vocal range spans four octaves. Jody Rosen highlights her tone and timbre as particularly distinctive, describing her voice as "one of the most compelling instruments in popular music". While another critic says she is a "Vocal acrobat, being able to sing long and complex melismas and vocal runs effortlessly, and in key. Her vocal abilities mean she is identified as the centerpiece of Destiny's Child. The Daily Mail calls Beyoncé's voice "versatile", capable of exploring power ballads, soul, rock belting, operatic flourishes, and hip hop. Jon Pareles of The New York Times commented that her voice is "velvety yet tart, with an insistent flutter and reserves of soul belting". Rosen notes that the hip hop era highly influenced Beyoncé's strange rhythmic vocal style, but also finds her quite traditionalist in her use of balladry, gospel and falsetto. Other critics praise her range and power, with Chris Richards of The Washington Post saying she was "capable of punctuating any beat with goose-bump-inducing whispers or full-bore diva-roars."
Question: Beyonce's range in singing is how many octaves?
Answer: four
Question: who talked about Beyonce's tone and timbre as distinctive?
Answer: Jody Rosen
Question: Which critic called Beyonce's voice "versatile"?
Answer: The Daily Mail
Question: Which era was credited to have influenced Beyonce's singing style by Jody Rosen?
Answer: hip hop
Question: How many octaves does Beyonce have?
Answer: four octaves
Question: What did the Daily Mail say about Beyonce's voice?
Answer: versatile
Question: What does Rosen claim influenced Beyonce's style?
Answer: hip hop
Question: What do other critics claim?
Answer: praise her range and power
Question: How many octaves does Beyoncé's voice span?
Answer: four
Question: Why is Beyoncé known as the centerpiece of Destiny's Child?
Answer: Her vocal abilities
Question: New York Times' Jon Pareles calls Beyoncé's voice velvety yet what?
Answer: tart
Question: What does Jody Rosen say influenced Beyoncé's vocal style?
Answer: the hip hop era |
Context: Just days before the relay supporters of Falun Gong demonstrated in front of the Chinese embassy in the Malaysian capital. As many as 1,000 personnel from the special police unit were expected to be deployed on the day of the relay. A Japanese family with Malaysian citizenship and their 5-year-old child who unfurled a Tibetan flag were hit by a group of Chinese nationals with plastic air-filled batons and heckled by a crowd of Chinese citizens during the confrontation at Independence Square where the relay began, and the Chinese group shouted: "Taiwan and Tibet belong to China." Later during the day, the Chinese volunteers forcefully took away placards from two other Malaysians protesting at the relay. One of the protesting Malaysian was hit in the head.
Question: Which supporters protested near the Chinese embassy in Malaysia?
Answer: Falun Gong
Question: Supporters of what demonstrated at the Chinese embassy in Malaysia?
Answer: Falun Gong
Question: What were a Japanese family who unveiled a Tibetan flag hit with?
Answer: plastic air-filled batons
Question: What did the Chinese group yell?
Answer: Taiwan and Tibet belong to China.
Question: What did Chinese volunteers take from two Malaysian demonstrators?
Answer: placards |
Context: Erik Erikson (1902-1994) became one of the earliest psychologists to take an explicit interest in identity. The Eriksonian framework rests upon a distinction among the psychological sense of continuity, known as the ego identity (sometimes identified simply as "the self"); the personal idiosyncrasies that separate one person from the next, known as the personal identity; and the collection of social roles that a person might play, known as either the social identity or the cultural identity. Erikson's work, in the psychodynamic tradition, aimed to investigate the process of identity formation across a lifespan. Progressive strength in the ego identity, for example, can be charted in terms of a series of stages in which identity is formed in response to increasingly sophisticated challenges. The process of forming a viable sense of identity for the culture is conceptualized as an adolescent task, and those who do not manage a resynthesis of childhood identifications are seen as being in a state of 'identity diffusion' whereas those who retain their initially given identities unquestioned have 'foreclosed' identities (Weinreich & Saunderson 2003 p7-8). On some readings of Erikson, the development of a strong ego identity, along with the proper integration into a stable society and culture, lead to a stronger sense of identity in general. Accordingly, a deficiency in either of these factors may increase the chance of an identity crisis or confusion (Cote & Levine 2002, p. 22).
Question: Who was one of the earliest psychologists to take an explicit interest in identity?
Answer: Erik Erikson
Question: What distinction is sometimes referred to as the self?
Answer: ego identity
Question: The personal idiosyncrasies that separate individuals are called what?
Answer: the personal identity
Question: What are the 3 names for the collection of a person's social roles?
Answer: the social identity or the cultural identity
Question: In what tradition is Erikson's work to track identity formation throughout a lifetime?
Answer: the psychodynamic tradition |
Context: The State of the Union Addresses and other presidential speeches are translated to Spanish, following the precedent set by the Bill Clinton administration. Official Spanish translations are available at WhiteHouse.gov. Moreover, non-Hispanic American origin politicians fluent in Spanish-speak in Spanish to Hispanic majority constituencies. There are 500 Spanish newspapers, 152 magazines, and 205 publishers in the United States; magazine and local television advertising expenditures for the Hispanic market have increased much from 1999 to 2003, with growth of 58 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
Question: What political speaches are delivered in English and Spanish?
Answer: The State of the Union Addresses and other presidential speeches are translated to Spanish
Question: Was this always the case in American political addresses?
Answer: following the precedent set by the Bill Clinton administration. Official Spanish translations are available at WhiteHouse.gov.
Question: Does Washington (government) operate in both languages (bilingual-Spanish?)
Answer: politicians fluent in Spanish-speak in Spanish to Hispanic majority constituencies
Question: If someone is not bilingual and only speaks Spanish, how do they learn about current events?
Answer: There are 500 Spanish newspapers, 152 magazines, and 205 publishers in the United States; magazine and local television
Question: Is the Hispanic population relevant to the American media?
Answer: local television advertising expenditures for the Hispanic market have increased much from 1999 to 2003, with growth of 58 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
Question: What speech is delivered only in English?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many newspapers are there in Spain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did advertising for the English market increase?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did advertising for the English market increase from 1999 to 2000.
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language is used in the State of the Union?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Other historians find incongruity in the proposition that the very place where the vast number of the scholars that influenced the scientific revolution received their education should also be the place that inhibits their research and the advancement of science. In fact, more than 80% of the European scientists between 1450–1650 included in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography were university trained, of which approximately 45% held university posts. It was the case that the academic foundations remaining from the Middle Ages were stable, and they did provide for an environment that fostered considerable growth and development. There was considerable reluctance on the part of universities to relinquish the symmetry and comprehensiveness provided by the Aristotelian system, which was effective as a coherent system for understanding and interpreting the world. However, university professors still utilized some autonomy, at least in the sciences, to choose epistemological foundations and methods. For instance, Melanchthon and his disciples at University of Wittenberg were instrumental for integrating Copernican mathematical constructs into astronomical debate and instruction. Another example was the short-lived but fairly rapid adoption of Cartesian epistemology and methodology in European universities, and the debates surrounding that adoption, which led to more mechanistic approaches to scientific problems as well as demonstrated an openness to change. There are many examples which belie the commonly perceived intransigence of universities. Although universities may have been slow to accept new sciences and methodologies as they emerged, when they did accept new ideas it helped to convey legitimacy and respectability, and supported the scientific changes through providing a stable environment for instruction and material resources.
Question: What percentage of scientists from 1450–1650 in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography were taught in a university?
Answer: more than 80%
Question: On the part of universities what was their reaction to giving up the Aristotelian system?
Answer: considerable reluctance
Question: What university was Melancthon from?
Answer: University of Wittenberg
Question: What type of epistemology was adopted for a short period of time in European universities?
Answer: Cartesian
Question: The acceptance of new concepts and sciences by universities brought these ideas what?
Answer: legitimacy and respectability
Question: What percentage of students from 1450-1650 in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography were taught at a university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What university was Cartesia from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of epistemology was adopted for a short period of time in MIddle Eastern universities?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Raleigh's industrial base includes banking/financial services; electrical, medical, electronic and telecommunications equipment; clothing and apparel; food processing; paper products; and pharmaceuticals. Raleigh is part of North Carolina's Research Triangle, one of the country's largest and most successful research parks, and a major center in the United States for high-tech and biotech research, as well as advanced textile development. The city is a major retail shipping point for eastern North Carolina and a wholesale distributing point for the grocery industry.
Question: What is the main industrial area of Raleigh?
Answer: banking/financial services;
Question: What is Raleigh part of?
Answer: North Carolina's Research Triangle
Question: What does the Research Triangle do?
Answer: high-tech and biotech research
Question: Is the city concerned with shipping?
Answer: The city is a major retail shipping point
Question: What industry is Raleigh a major wholesaler for?
Answer: grocery
Question: What is not the main industrial area of Raleigh?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Raleigh not part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Research Square do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is on the west coast of North Carolina?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the country's largest medical research in North Carolina?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: "Funday Night at the Movies" was replaced in 2008 by "Essentials Jr.", a youth-oriented version of its weekly series The Essentials (originally hosted by actors Abigail Breslin and Chris O'Donnell, then by John Lithgow from 2009 to 2011, and then by Bill Hader starting with the 2011 season), which included such family-themed films as National Velvet, Captains Courageous and Yours, Mine and Ours, as well as more eclectic selections as Sherlock, Jr., The Music Box, Harvey, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Question: What series replaced Funday Night at the Movies?
Answer: Essentials Jr.
Question: Along with Chris O'Donnell, who was the original host of Essentials Jr.?
Answer: Abigail Breslin
Question: Who hosted Essentials Jr. between 2009 and 2011?
Answer: John Lithgow
Question: Who began to host Essentials Jr. in 2011?
Answer: Bill Hader
Question: In what year did Essentials Jr. replace Funday Night at the Movies?
Answer: 2008
Question: What series replaced Sherlock Jr. at the Movies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who along with Chris O'Donnell was the original host of Sherlock Jr.?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who hosted Sherlock Jr. between 2009 and 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who began to host Sherlock Jr. in 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Sherlock Jr. replace Funday Night at the Movies?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Native Americans in the United States make up 0.97% to 2% of the population. In the 2010 census, 2.9 million people self-identified as Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native alone, and 5.2 million people identified as U.S. Native Americans, either alone or in combination with one or more ethnicity or other races. 1.8 million are recognized as enrolled tribal members.[citation needed] Tribes have established their own criteria for membership, which are often based on blood quantum, lineal descent, or residency. A minority of US Native Americans live in land units called Indian reservations. Some California and Southwestern tribes, such as the Kumeyaay, Cocopa, Pascua Yaqui and Apache span both sides of the US–Mexican border. Haudenosaunee people have the legal right to freely cross the US–Canadian border. Athabascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Iñupiat, Blackfeet, Nakota, Cree, Anishinaabe, Huron, Lenape, Mi'kmaq, Penobscot, and Haudenosaunee, among others live in both Canada and the US.
Question: What amoun of the United States population is compromised of Native Americans?
Answer: 0.97% to 2%
Question: How many people identified as Native American in the 2010 census?
Answer: 5.2 million
Question: How many of the self-identified Native Americans are recognized as enrolled tribal members?
Answer: 1.8 million
Question: Where do a minority of US Native Americans live?
Answer: Indian reservations
Question: What tribe has the legal right to freely cross the US-Canadian border?
Answer: Haudenosaunee |
Context: After having declined in size following the subjugation of the Mediterranean, the Roman navy underwent short-term upgrading and revitalisation in the late Republic to meet several new demands. Under Caesar, an invasion fleet was assembled in the English Channel to allow the invasion of Britannia; under Pompey, a large fleet was raised in the Mediterranean Sea to clear the sea of Cilician pirates. During the civil war that followed, as many as a thousand ships were either constructed or pressed into service from Greek cities.
Question: In which sea was a large amount of naval vessels sent in order to remove Cilician pirates?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
Question: Around how many ships were sent into service from Greek cities?
Answer: as many as a thousand ships
Question: Who was ultimately responsible for the naval ships that were sent to the English Channel?
Answer: Caesar
Question: What was the driving force behind the revitalization of the Roman naval forces?
Answer: to meet several new demands
Question: What aspect of the Roman military saw a decline in size after the subjugation of the Mediterranean?
Answer: Roman navy |
Context: Worldwide, more chickens are kept than any other type of poultry, with over 50 billion birds being raised each year as a source of meat and eggs. Traditionally, such birds would have been kept extensively in small flocks, foraging during the day and housed at night. This is still the case in developing countries, where the women often make important contributions to family livelihoods through keeping poultry. However, rising world populations and urbanization have led to the bulk of production being in larger, more intensive specialist units. These are often situated close to where the feed is grown or near to where the meat is needed, and result in cheap, safe food being made available for urban communities. Profitability of production depends very much on the price of feed, which has been rising. High feed costs could limit further development of poultry production.
Question: What is the most popular type of poulty that is farmed?
Answer: Worldwide, more chickens are kept than any other type of poultry
Question: How many birds are routinely raised in the world for the consumption process?
Answer: 50 billion birds being raised each year as a source of meat and eggs.
Question: How is the cost of the price for animal feed related to the poulty cost for consumers?
Answer: High feed costs could limit further development of poultry production
Question: Before industrialization how were chickens normally cared for?
Answer: birds would have been kept extensively in small flocks, foraging during the day and housed at night.
Question: What is the major significance of chickens to women in underdeveloped countries?
Answer: the women often make important contributions to family livelihoods through keeping poultry
Question: What is the worst type of poultry that is farmed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many birds are ritualistically sacrificed in the world for the consumption process?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is the cost of the price for animal feed unrelated to the poultry cost for consumers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the major danger of chickens to women in underdeveloped countries?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although the same basic components are present in all vertebrate brains, some branches of vertebrate evolution have led to substantial distortions of brain geometry, especially in the forebrain area. The brain of a shark shows the basic components in a straightforward way, but in teleost fishes (the great majority of existing fish species), the forebrain has become "everted", like a sock turned inside out. In birds, there are also major changes in forebrain structure. These distortions can make it difficult to match brain components from one species with those of another species.
Question: The forebrain is everted in what type of fishes?
Answer: teleost fishes
Question: Which part of the brain has led to many distortions among different species?
Answer: forebrain area |
Context: The biggest Presbyterian church is the National Presbyterian Church in Mexico (Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de México), which has around 2,500,000 members and associates and 3000 congregations, but there are other small denominations like the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Mexico which was founded in 1875 by the Associate Reformed Church in North America. The Independent Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Reformed Church in Mexico, the National Conservative Presbyterian Church in Mexico are existing churches in the Reformed tradition.
Question: What is the name of the largest Presbyterian church in Mexico?
Answer: National Presbyterian Church in Mexico (Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de México)
Question: How many members are in the National Presbyterian Church in Mexico?
Answer: 2,500,000
Question: When was the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Mexico formed?
Answer: 1875
Question: Which is the smallest Presbyterian church in Mexico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The National Presbyterian Church had 3000 members and how many congregations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The National Presbyterian Church had 2,500,000 congregations and how many members?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Associate Reformed National Church formed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the smallest Presbyterian church located?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Office buildings in Shanghai's financial district, including the Jin Mao Tower and the Hong Kong New World Tower, were evacuated. A receptionist at the Tibet Hotel in Chengdu said things were "calm" after the hotel evacuated its guests. Meanwhile, workers at a Ford plant in Sichuan were evacuated for about 10 minutes. Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport was shut down, and the control tower and regional radar control evacuated. One SilkAir flight was diverted and landed in Kunming as a result. Cathay Pacific delayed both legs of its quadruple daily Hong Kong to London route due to this disruption in air traffic services. Chengdu Shuangliu Airport reopened later on the evening of May 12, offering limited service as the airport began to be used as a staging area for relief operations.
Question: Where were office buildings evacuated?
Answer: Shanghai's financial district
Question: How did a receptionist describe the atmosphere after the evacuation?
Answer: calm
Question: How long were workers in Ford Plant evacuated for?
Answer: 10 minutes
Question: Which airport was shut down?
Answer: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
Question: When did the airport re-open?
Answer: May 12
Question: What happened to office buildings in Shanghai?
Answer: evacuated
Question: Which airport was shut down?
Answer: Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
Question: Why were flights delayed and diverted?
Answer: disruption in air traffic services
Question: What were they using the airport to stage for?
Answer: relief operations |
Context: At birth, Victoria was fifth in the line of succession after her father and his three older brothers: the Prince Regent, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Clarence (later William IV). The Prince Regent and the Duke of York were estranged from their wives, who were both past child-bearing age, so the two eldest brothers were unlikely to have any further children. The Dukes of Kent and Clarence married on the same day 12 months before Victoria's birth, but both of Clarence's daughters (born in 1819 and 1820 respectively) died as infants. Victoria's grandfather and father died in 1820, within a week of each other, and the Duke of York died in 1827. On the death of her uncle George IV in 1830, Victoria became heiress presumptive to her next surviving uncle, William IV. The Regency Act 1830 made special provision for the Duchess of Kent to act as regent in case William died while Victoria was still a minor. King William distrusted the Duchess's capacity to be regent, and in 1836 declared in her presence that he wanted to live until Victoria's 18th birthday, so that a regency could be avoided.
Question: What was Victorias place in line of succession to the throne when she was born?
Answer: fifth
Question: What year did Victoria's father and grandfather die?
Answer: 1820
Question: What was th elength of time between the deaths of Victoria's father and grandfather?
Answer: within a week of each other
Question: What year did the Duke of York die?
Answer: 1827
Question: What year did Victorias Uncle George IV die?
Answer: 1830
Question: What place was Victoria in the line of succession after her birth?
Answer: fifth
Question: Whose infant daugheters both died, leaving him without an heir to the throne of England?
Answer: Duke of Clarence
Question: When did George IV die?
Answer: 1830
Question: What was the Regency Act of 1830?
Answer: made special provision for the Duchess of Kent to act as regent in case William died while Victoria was still a minor.
Question: Who distrusted the Duchesses capability to reign in Victoria's place until she became of age?
Answer: King William
Question: Where did Victoria fall in the line of succession?
Answer: fifth
Question: Who came in line for the throne before Victoria?
Answer: her father and his three older brothers
Question: What happened when Victoria's Uncle George IV died?
Answer: became heiress presumptive to her next surviving uncle
Question: Who was Victoria's last surviving uncle?
Answer: William IV
Question: Who was to act as regent if George died while Victoria was still a minor?
Answer: Duchess of Kent
Question: What was Victorias place in line of succession to the throne when she died?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Victoria's father and grandfather survive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the length of time between the deaths of Victoria's father and brother?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did the Duke of York survive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Victorias Uncle George V die?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The largest producers of cotton, currently (2009), are China and India, with annual production of about 34 million bales and 33.4 million bales, respectively; most of this production is consumed by their respective textile industries. The largest exporters of raw cotton are the United States, with sales of $4.9 billion, and Africa, with sales of $2.1 billion. The total international trade is estimated to be $12 billion. Africa's share of the cotton trade has doubled since 1980. Neither area has a significant domestic textile industry, textile manufacturing having moved to developing nations in Eastern and South Asia such as India and China. In Africa, cotton is grown by numerous small holders. Dunavant Enterprises, based in Memphis, Tennessee, is the leading cotton broker in Africa, with hundreds of purchasing agents. It operates cotton gins in Uganda, Mozambique, and Zambia. In Zambia, it often offers loans for seed and expenses to the 180,000 small farmers who grow cotton for it, as well as advice on farming methods. Cargill also purchases cotton in Africa for export.
Question: In 2009 what were the largest producers of cotton?
Answer: China and India
Question: How do the US and Africa rank as exporters of cotton?
Answer: largest exporters
Question: What is the combined international trade in cotton?
Answer: $12 billion
Question: What company is the top cotton broker in Africa?
Answer: Dunavant Enterprises
Question: Where is Dunavant Enterprises based?
Answer: Memphis, Tennessee
Question: In 2009 what were the largest importers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do the US and Africa rank as exporters of rice?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the combined international trade in rice?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company is the top cotton broker in India?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Cargill based?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From the 1880s to 1914, the European powers expanded their control across the African continent, competing with each other for Africa’s land and resources. Great Britain controlled various colonial holdings in East Africa that spanned the length of the African continent from Egypt in the north to South Africa. The French gained major ground in West Africa, and the Portuguese held colonies in southern Africa. Germany, Italy, and Spain established a small number of colonies at various points throughout the continent, which included German East Africa (Tanganyika) and German Southwest Africa for Germany, Eritrea and Libya for Italy, and the Canary Islands and Rio de Oro in northwestern Africa for Spain. Finally, for King Leopold (ruled from 1865–1909), there was the large “piece of that great African cake” known as the Congo, which, unfortunately for the native Congolese, became his personal fiefdom to do with as he pleased in Central Africa. By 1914, almost the entire continent was under European control. Liberia, which was settled by freed American slaves in the 1820s, and Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in eastern Africa were the last remaining independent African states. (John Merriman, A History of Modern Europe, Volume Two: From the French Revolution to the Present, Third Edition (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010), pp. 819–859).
Question: Through what period did European powers expand control in Africa?
Answer: 1880s to 1914
Question: What was Europe competing for?
Answer: Africa’s land and resources.
Question: What did Great Britain control?
Answer: various colonial holdings in East Africa
Question: Where in Africa did the French have control?
Answer: West Africa
Question: Where in Africa did Portuguese have control?
Answer: southern Africa |
Context: A HDI of 0.8 or more is considered to represent "high development". This includes all developed countries, such as those in North America, Western Europe, Oceania, and Eastern Asia, as well as some developing countries in Eastern Europe, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula. Seven countries were promoted to this category this year, leaving the "medium development" group: Albania, Belarus, Brazil, Libya, Macedonia, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Question: What number indicates the minimum score for a country to be considered a "high development" country?
Answer: 0.8
Question: Which South American country was included among the seven promoted countries?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What is the largest country that was included among the seven promoted countries?
Answer: Russia
Question: What number indicates the minimum score for a country to be considered a "low development" country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which North American country was included among the seven promoted countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the smallest country that was included among the seven promoted countries?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Defensive Counterair (DCA) is defined as "all the defensive measures designed to detect, identify, intercept, and destroy or negate enemy forces attempting to penetrate or attack through friendly airspace" (JP 1-02). A major goal of DCA operations, in concert with OCA operations, is to provide an area from which forces can operate, secure from air and missile threats. The DCA mission comprises both active and passive defense measures. Active defense is "the employment of limited offensive action and counterattacks to deny a contested area or position to the enemy" (JP 1-02). It includes both ballistic missile defense and air breathing threat defense, and encompasses point defense, area defense, and high value airborne asset defense. Passive defense is "measures taken to reduce the probability of and to minimize the effects of damage caused by hostile action without the intention of taking the initiative" (JP 1-02). It includes detection and warning; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense; camouflage, concealment, and deception; hardening; reconstitution; dispersion; redundancy; and mobility, counter-measures, and stealth.
Question: What does the abbreviation DCA stand for?
Answer: Defensive Counterair
Question: What sort of airspace is the DCA designed to protect?
Answer: friendly
Question: What is active defense, according to the functions of the DCA?
Answer: employment of limited offensive action and counterattacks
Question: What kind of missile defense does active defense protect against, according to the DCA?
Answer: ballistic
Question: What is one of the many ways the DCA utilizes passive defense to protect from enemy attacks?
Answer: counter-measures |
Context: Of the approximately 850 municipalities of Thuringia, 126 are classed as towns (within a district) or cities (forming their own urban district). Most of the towns are small with a population of less than 10,000; only the ten biggest ones have a population greater than 30,000. The first towns emerged during the 12th century, whereas the latest ones received town status only in the 20th century. Today, all municipalities within districts are equal in law, whether they are towns or villages. Independent cities (i.e. urban districts) have greater powers (the same as any district) than towns within a district.
Question: How many municipalities are in Thuringia?
Answer: 850
Question: How many municipalities in Thuringia are classified as towns?
Answer: 126
Question: How many towns have populations greater than 30,000?
Answer: ten
Question: What was the latest a town was established in Thuringia?
Answer: the 20th century
Question: Which regions of Thuringia have the most political power?
Answer: Independent cities (i.e. urban districts) have greater powers (the same as any district) than towns within a district.
Question: How many municipalities are destroyed in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many municipalities in Thuringia are classified as hostile?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many towns have populations greater than 300,000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the latest a town was demolished in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which regions of Thuringia have no political power?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Arsenal began winning silverware again with the surprise appointment of club physiotherapist Bertie Mee as manager in 1966. After losing two League Cup finals, they won their first European trophy, the 1969–70 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. This was followed by an even greater triumph: their first League and FA Cup double in 1970–71. This marked a premature high point of the decade; the Double-winning side was soon broken up and the following decade was characterised by a series of near misses, starting with Arsenal finishing as FA Cup runners up in 1972, and First Division runners-up in 1972–73.
Question: When was Bertie Mee become manager of Arsenal?
Answer: 1966
Question: What position did Mee hold in the Arsenal club prior to becoming manager?
Answer: physiotherapist
Question: In which season did Arsenal win its first European trophy?
Answer: 1969–70
Question: For how long after Arsenal's first trophy win the team do poorly competitions?
Answer: decade
Question: In what season did Arsenal win their first League and FA Cup double?
Answer: 1970–71
Question: Who was Arsenal's manager in 1965?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the first European trophy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the FA Cup in 1972?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who owned the Arsenal's in 1966?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long was Arsenal's losing streak prior to 1966?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Congress often enacts statutes that grant broad rulemaking authority to federal agencies. Often, Congress is simply too gridlocked to draft detailed statutes that explain how the agency should react to every possible situation, or Congress believes the agency's technical specialists are best equipped to deal with particular fact situations as they arise. Therefore, federal agencies are authorized to promulgate regulations. Under the principle of Chevron deference, regulations normally carry the force of law as long as they are based on a reasonable interpretation of the relevant statutes.
Question: What does congress often grant to give rulemaking authority to federal agencies?
Answer: statutes
Question: Federal agencies are authorized to make what public?
Answer: regulations
Question: Regulations normally carry the force of what?
Answer: law
Question: Regualtions carry force of law when based on reasonable interpretation of what?
Answer: relevant statutes
Question: What power is granted to federal agencies by Congress?
Answer: broad rulemaking authority
Question: Why does Congress give generalized powers to federal agencies?
Answer: too gridlocked to draft detailed statutes that explain how the agency should react to every possible situation
Question: What gives regulations imposed by federal agencies the right to enforce their regulations?
Answer: the principle of Chevron
Question: What does the Principle of Chevron provide for?
Answer: regulations normally carry the force of law as long as they are based on a reasonable interpretation of the relevant statutes
Question: What do federal agencies enact for rulemaking purposes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Gridlock allows Congress to draft what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Congress believe hampers an agency's ability to deal with situations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Congress's state of gridlock is referred to as what principle?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Chevron deference prevents regulations from interpreting what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Midway proved to be the last great naval battle for two years. The United States used the ensuing period to turn its vast industrial potential into increased numbers of ships, planes, and trained aircrew. At the same time, Japan, lacking an adequate industrial base or technological strategy, a good aircrew training program, or adequate naval resources and commerce defense, fell further and further behind. In strategic terms the Allies began a long movement across the Pacific, seizing one island base after another. Not every Japanese stronghold had to be captured; some, like Truk, Rabaul, and Formosa, were neutralized by air attack and bypassed. The goal was to get close to Japan itself, then launch massive strategic air attacks, improve the submarine blockade, and finally (only if necessary) execute an invasion.
Question: What did the United States turn it's industry to in the two years folloing the Battle of Midway?
Answer: increased numbers of ships, planes, and trained aircrew
Question: How were the bypassed Japanese strongholds neutralized?
Answer: air attack
Question: What blockade against Japan was to be improved on?
Answer: submarine blockade |
Context: Treaties may be seen as 'self-executing', in that merely becoming a party puts the treaty and all of its obligations in action. Other treaties may be non-self-executing and require 'implementing legislation'—a change in the domestic law of a state party that will direct or enable it to fulfill treaty obligations. An example of a treaty requiring such legislation would be one mandating local prosecution by a party for particular crimes.
Question: A treaty that puts all of its obligations in action simply by becoming a party to it is known as what?
Answer: self-executing
Question: What do non-self-executing treaties typically require from a party to enable it to fulfill its obligations?
Answer: implementing legislation
Question: What is "implementing legislation" that is required by a party to a treaty to enable it to fulfill its obligations under the treaty?
Answer: a change in the domestic law of a state party
Question: A treaty requiring local prosecution by a party for particular crimes is an example of which type of treaty?
Answer: non-self-executing
Question: Signing a self-executing treaty automatically does what for a party?
Answer: puts the treaty and all of its obligations in action |
Context: During the 1950s the rivalry was exacerbated further when there was a controversy surrounding the transfer of Alfredo di Stéfano, who finally played for Real Madrid and was key to their subsequent success. The 1960s saw the rivalry reach the European stage when they met twice in a controversial knock-out round of the European Cup, with Madrid receiving unfavourable treatment from the referee. In 2002, the European encounter between the clubs was dubbed the "Match of The Century" by Spanish media, and Madrid's win was watched by more than 500 million people.
Question: In 1950 what player was successful for Real Madrid?
Answer: Alfredo di Stéfano
Question: When did Barcelona meet Real Madrid twice in Europe?
Answer: 1960s
Question: What was a match between Real Madrid and Barcelona called in 2002?
Answer: Match of The Century
Question: How many people watched the Match of the Century?
Answer: 500 million
Question: Which team won the 2002 match between Real Madrid and Barcelona?
Answer: Madrid |
Context: On April 26, 1986, Schwarzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President John F. Kennedy, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the ceremony at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. They have four children: Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger (born December 13, 1989 in Los Angeles); Christina Maria Aurelia Schwarzenegger (born July 23, 1991 in Los Angeles); Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger (born September 18, 1993 in Los Angeles); and Christopher Sargent Shriver Schwarzenegger (born September 27, 1997 in Los Angeles). Schwarzenegger lives in a 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m2) home in Brentwood. The divorcing couple currently own vacation homes in Sun Valley, Idaho and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. They attended St. Monica's Catholic Church. Following their separation, it is reported that Schwarzenegger is dating physical therapist Heather Milligan.
Question: What is Maria Shriver's relation to President John F. Kennedy
Answer: niece
Question: What Massachusetts town was the setting for the wedding between Shriver and Schwarzenegger?
Answer: Hyannis
Question: How many children did Schwarzenegger and Shriver have together?
Answer: four
Question: Who did Schwarzenegger reportedly begin dating shortly after his separation?
Answer: Heather Milligan |
Context: The process of founding the country's public university began on 11 June 1833 with the passage of a law proposed by Senator Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga. It called for the creation of nine academic departments; the President of the Republic would pass a decree formally creating the departments once the majority of them were in operation. In 1836, the House of General Studies was formed, housing the departments of Latin, philosophy, mathematics, theology and jurisprudence. On 27 May 1838, Manuel Oribe passed a decree establishing the Greater University of the Republic. That decree had few practical effects, given the institutional instability of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay at that time.
Question: When did the process of funding the country's public university begin?
Answer: 11 June 1833
Question: Who proposed the law that began the process of funding the country's public university?
Answer: Senator Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga
Question: When was the House of General Studies formed?
Answer: 1836
Question: When did Manuel Oribe pass a decree establishing the Greater University of the Republic?
Answer: 27 May 1838 |
Context: The official published membership statistics, such as those mentioned above, include only those who submit reports for their personal ministry; official statistics do not include inactive and disfellowshipped individuals or others who might attend their meetings. As a result, only about half of those who self-identified as Jehovah's Witnesses in independent demographic studies are considered active by the faith itself. The 2008 US Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey found a low retention rate among members of the religion: about 37% of people raised in the religion continued to identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Question: Where do the officially published membership statistics come from?
Answer: those who submit reports for their personal ministry
Question: Only about half all Jehovah's Witnesses are actually considered what in the faith itself?
Answer: active
Question: What did a 2008 US Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey discover about Jehovah's Witnesses' retention rate?
Answer: low
Question: Only about what percentage of the people raised in the religion continue to identify themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses?
Answer: 37%
Question: According to a 2008 US Pew Forum report how many Protestants identify as still active in the faith they grew up in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of people who join the Jehovah's Witnesses as an adult end up being considered as inactive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Jehovah's Witnesses end up getting disfellowshipped?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did US Pew Forum issue their first Religion & Public Life survey?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The United States Army is made up of three components: the active component, the Regular Army; and two reserve components, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve. Both reserve components are primarily composed of part-time soldiers who train once a month, known as battle assemblies or unit training assemblies (UTAs), and conduct two to three weeks of annual training each year. Both the Regular Army and the Army Reserve are organized under Title 10 of the United States Code, while the National Guard is organized under Title 32. While the Army National Guard is organized, trained and equipped as a component of the U.S. Army, when it is not in federal service it is under the command of individual state and territorial governors; the District of Columbia National Guard, however, reports to the U.S. President, not the district's mayor, even when not federalized. Any or all of the National Guard can be federalized by presidential order and against the governor's wishes.
Question: What is the active component of the U.S. Army?
Answer: Regular Army
Question: What are the two reserve components of the U.S. Army?
Answer: Army National Guard and the Army Reserve
Question: What are UTAs?
Answer: unit training assemblies
Question: The U.S. Army is organized under what title of the United States Code?
Answer: 10
Question: Who does the D.C. National Guard report to?
Answer: the U.S. President
Question: What is the inactive component of the U.S. Army?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the two reserve components of the U.S. Navy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The U.S. Army is organized under what title of the United Nations Code?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does the D.C. National Navy report to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the wake of the racially-motivated" church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, Yale was under criticism again in the summer of 2015 for Calhoun College, one of 12 residential colleges, which was named after John C. Calhoun, a slave-owner and strong slavery supporter in the nineteenth century. In July 2015 students signed a petition calling for the name change. They argued in the petition that—while Calhoun was respected in the 19th century as an "extraordinary American statesman"—he was "one of the most prolific defenders of slavery and white supremacy" in the history of the United States. In August 2015 Yale President Peter Salovey addressed the Freshman Class of 2019 in which he responded to the racial tensions but explained why the college would not be renamed. He described Calhoun as a "a notable political theorist, a vice president to two different U.S. presidents, a secretary of war and of state, and a congressman and senator representing South Carolina." He acknowledged that Calhoun also "believed that the highest forms of civilization depend on involuntary servitude. Not only that, but he also believed that the races he thought to be inferior, black people in particular, ought to be subjected to it for the sake of their own best interests." Racial tensions increased in the fall of 2015 centering on comments by Nicholas A. Christakis and his wife Erika regarding freedom of speech. In April 2016 Salovey announced that "despite decades of vigorous alumni and student protests," Calhoun's name will remain on the Yale residential college explaining that it is preferable for Yale students to live in Calhoun's "shadow" so they will be "better prepared to rise to the challenges of the present and the future." He claimed that if they removed Calhoun's name, it would "obscure" his "legacy of slavery rather than addressing it." "Yale is part of that history" and "We cannot erase American history, but we can confront it, teach it and learn from it." One change that will be issued is the title of “master” for faculty members who serve as residential college leaders will be renamed to “head of college” due to its connotation of slavery.
Question: Who was Calhoun college named for?
Answer: John C. Calhoun
Question: Why did people dislike the college being named after John C. Calhoun?
Answer: a slave-owner and strong slavery supporter in the nineteenth century
Question: What title change will be happening to reduce racial tensions?
Answer: the title of “master” for faculty members who serve as residential college leaders will be renamed to “head of college”
Question: What did President Salovey believe would happen if Calhoun's name was removed from the college?
Answer: it would "obscure" his "legacy of slavery rather than addressing it."
Question: Whose comments increased racial tension in the Fall of 2015?
Answer: Nicholas A. Christakis and his wife Erika
Question: Who was Calhoun college not named for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did people like the college being named after John C. Calhoun?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What title change will be happening to increase racial tensions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did President Salovey believe wouldn't happen if Calhoun's name was removed from the college?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose comments increased racial tension in the Fall of 2016?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Historical narratives of manga tend to focus either on its recent, post-WWII history, or on attempts to demonstrates deep roots in the past, such as to the Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga picture scroll of the 12th and 13th centuries, or the early 19th-century Hokusai Manga. The first historical overview of Japanese comics was Seiki Hosokibara's Nihon Manga-Shi[i] in 1924. Early post-war Japanese criticism was mostly of a left-wing political nature until the 1986 publication for Tomofusa Kure's Modern Manga: The Complete Picture,[j] which de-emphasized politics in favour of formal aspects, such as structure and a "grammar" of comics. The field of manga studies increased rapidly, with numerous books on the subject appearing in the 1990s. Formal theories of manga have focused on developing a "manga expression theory",[k] with emphasis on spatial relationships in the structure of images on the page, distinguishing the medium from film or literature, in which the flow of time is the basic organizing element. Comics studies courses have proliferated at Japanese universities, and Japan Society for Studies in Cartoon and Comics (ja)[l] was established in 2001 to promote comics scholarship. The publication of Frederik L. Schodt's Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics in 1983 led to the spread of use of the word manga outside Japan to mean "Japanese comics" or "Japanese-style comics".
Question: Which historical overview did Seiki Hosokibara create?
Answer: Nihon Manga-Shi
Question: When did Hosokibara create Nihon Manga-Shi?
Answer: 1924
Question: What was created in 2001 to give students comic scholarships?
Answer: Japan Society for Studies in Cartoon and Comics
Question: Who helped the rest of the world use the word manga outside of Japan's borders?
Answer: Frederik L. Schodt
Question: What publication is Schodt responsible for?
Answer: Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics
Question: Which historical overview did Seiki Hosokibara reject?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Hosokibara reject Nihon Manga-Shi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was abolished in 2001 to give students comic scholarships?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who helped the rest of the world use the word manga inside of Japan's borders?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What publication is Schodt not responsible for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Internal courtyards became more rare, except beside the stables, and the functional parts of the building were placed at the sides, or in separate buildings nearby hidden by trees. The views to and from the front and rear of the main block were concentrated on, with the side approaches usually much less important. The roof was typically invisible from the ground, though domes were sometimes visible in grander buildings. The roofline was generally clear of ornament except for a balustrade or the top of a pediment. Columns or pilasters, often topped by a pediment, were popular for ornament inside and out, and other ornament was generally geometrical or plant-based, rather than using the human figure.
Question: What was often used to hide functional parts of buildings?
Answer: trees
Question: What was occasionally visible in grander buildings?
Answer: domes
Question: What often topped pilasters of columns?
Answer: pediment
Question: What designs did ornament use to avoid using the human figure?
Answer: geometrical or plant-based
Question: What aspect of buildings became very rare?
Answer: Internal courtyards
Question: What was often used too accentuate functional parts of buildings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of courtyard became more popular at this time
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was typically visible from the ground?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of ornament was popular outside but not inside?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the human figure often used for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Marvel counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America, Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, such teams as the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Fantastic Four, the Inhumans and the X-Men, and antagonists such as Doctor Doom, The Enchantress, Green Goblin, Ultron, Doctor Octopus, Thanos, Magneto and Loki. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with locations that mirror real-life cities. Characters such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Daredevil and Doctor Strange are based in New York City, whereas the X-Men have historically been based in Salem Center, New York and Hulk's stories often have been set in the American Southwest.
Question: Captain America, Thor and Ultron all inhabit what fictional milieu?
Answer: Marvel Universe
Question: Fictional placements within this setting are modeled off what?
Answer: real-life cities
Question: Spiderman's fictional city is based off what real American location?
Answer: New York
Question: What Marvel character's stories are set in an area resembling the American Southwest?
Answer: Hulk
Question: Which two groups of Marvel crimefighters are based in a fictional version of New York City?
Answer: the Fantastic Four, the Avengers
Question: Where is the character of Ant-Man based?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Marvel located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which super villain lives in the American southwest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were many real-life locations based off of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which group fought the Fantastic Four in New York City?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Influences also came to her from the art world, most notably through the works of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The music video of the song "Bedtime Story" featured images inspired by the paintings of Kahlo and Remedios Varo. Madonna is also a collector of Tamara de Lempicka's Art Deco paintings and has included them in her music videos and tours. Her video for "Hollywood" (2003) was an homage to the work of photographer Guy Bourdin; Bourdin's son subsequently filed a lawsuit for unauthorised use of his father's work. Pop artist Andy Warhol's use of sadomasochistic imagery in his underground films were reflected in the music videos for "Erotica" and "Deeper and Deeper".
Question: Whose art influence Madonna?
Answer: Frida Kahlo
Question: Which video featured art from Kahlo and Remedios Varo?
Answer: Bedtime Story
Question: Madonna collects whose painting?
Answer: Tamara de Lempicka
Question: Her video Hollywood was a homage to which photographer?
Answer: Guy Bourdin |
Context: Rutherford centralized organizational control of the Watch Tower Society. In 1919, he instituted the appointment of a director in each congregation, and a year later all members were instructed to report their weekly preaching activity to the Brooklyn headquarters. At an international convention held at Cedar Point, Ohio, in September 1922, a new emphasis was made on house-to-house preaching. Significant changes in doctrine and administration were regularly introduced during Rutherford's twenty-five years as president, including the 1920 announcement that the Jewish patriarchs (such as Abraham and Isaac) would be resurrected in 1925, marking the beginning of Christ's thousand-year Kingdom. Disappointed by the changes, tens of thousands of defections occurred during the first half of Rutherford's tenure, leading to the formation of several Bible Student organizations independent of the Watch Tower Society, most of which still exist. By mid-1919, as many as one in seven of Russell-era Bible Students had ceased their association with the Society, and as many as two-thirds by the end of the 1920s.
Question: What did Rutherford institute the appointment of in each congregation in 1919?
Answer: a director
Question: What were all members instructed to report weekly to the Brooklyn headquarters?
Answer: preaching activity
Question: Where as an international convention held in September of 1922?
Answer: Cedar Point, Ohio
Question: What was a new emphasis made on at the international convention?
Answer: house-to-house preaching
Question: How long was Rutherford's tenure as president of the Society?
Answer: twenty-five years
Question: In what month in 1920 did Rutherford claim that some Jewish patriarchs would be resurrected in 1925?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people attended the Cedar Point, Ohio, convention of the Watch Tower Society?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the first Bible Student organizations split from the Watch Tower Society?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Muslims believe the Quran was verbally revealed by God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel (Jibril), gradually over a period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death. Muslims regard the Quran as the most important miracle of Muhammad, a proof of his prophethood, and the culmination of a series of divine messages that started with the messages revealed to Adam and ended with Muhammad. The word "Quran" occurs some 70 times in the text of the Quran, although different names and words are also said to be references to the Quran.
Question: Which angel is believed to have communicated the Quran to Muhammad?
Answer: Gabriel
Question: On which date did Muhammad begin receiving the Quran?
Answer: 22 December 609 CE
Question: In which year CE did Muhammad die?
Answer: 632
Question: What is the Arabic variant of Gabriel?
Answer: Jibril
Question: How many times is the word "Quran" used in the Quran?
Answer: 70
Question: Which devil is believed to have communicated the Quran to Muhammad?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On which date did Muhammad stop receiving the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which year CE did Muhammad get sick?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Jewish variant of Gabriel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times isn't the word "Quran" used in the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Beginning his second effort that fall, West would invest two million dollars and take over a year to craft his second album. West was significantly inspired by Roseland NYC Live, a 1998 live album by English trip hop group Portishead, produced with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Early in his career, the live album had inspired him to incorporate string arrangements into his hip-hop production. Though West had not been able to afford many live instruments around the time of his debut album, the money from his commercial success enabled him to hire a string orchestra for his second album Late Registration. West collaborated with American film score composer Jon Brion, who served as the album's co-executive producer for several tracks. Although Brion had no prior experience in creating hip-hop records, he and West found that they could productively work together after their first afternoon in the studio where they discovered that neither confined his musical knowledge and vision to one specific genre. Late Registration sold over 2.3 million units in the United States alone by the end of 2005 and was considered by industry observers as the only successful major album release of the fall season, which had been plagued by steadily declining CD sales.
Question: What kind of ensemble did Kanye hire to work on his second album?
Answer: string orchestra
Question: What composer worked alongside Kanye on the album's production?
Answer: Jon Brion
Question: What was the name of Kanye's second studio album?
Answer: Late Registration
Question: How many copies of Late Registration sold in its first year?
Answer: 2.3 million
Question: What English music group was an inspiration for Kanye West on his second album?
Answer: Portishead
Question: What was the name of West's second album?
Answer: Late Registration
Question: How many copies of Late Registration were sold in the United States?
Answer: 2.3 million |
Context: Rescue operations involving sovereign debt have included temporarily moving bad or weak assets off the balance sheets of the weak member banks into the balance sheets of the European Central Bank. Such action is viewed as monetisation and can be seen as an inflationary threat, whereby the strong member countries of the ECB shoulder the burden of monetary expansion (and potential inflation) to save the weak member countries. Most central banks prefer to move weak assets off their balance sheets with some kind of agreement as to how the debt will continue to be serviced. This preference has typically led the ECB to argue that the weaker member countries must:
Question: What can be shuffeled around during a soverign debt crisis to mitigate the damage?
Answer: temporarily moving bad or weak assets
Question: Where do bad and weak assets get moved in times of soverign debt crisis?
Answer: the balance sheets of the European Central Bank
Question: What is shuffling around bad or weak debts from a weaker eurozone member to the ECB known as?
Answer: monetisation
Question: What is monetisation usually viewed as?
Answer: inflationary threat
Question: If the central banks can come to an agreement with the eurozone member about the continued repayment of the debt, what happens to the bad or weak debt?
Answer: move weak assets off their balance sheets
Question: What can never be shuffled around during a sovereign debt crisis to mitigate the damage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do bad and weak assets become restricted in times of sovereign debt crisis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is shuffling around good or strong debts from a weaker eurozone member to the ECB known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is monetisation rarely viewed as?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many bacterial species exist simply as single cells, others associate in characteristic patterns: Neisseria form diploids (pairs), Streptococcus form chains, and Staphylococcus group together in "bunch of grapes" clusters. Bacteria can also be elongated to form filaments, for example the Actinobacteria. Filamentous bacteria are often surrounded by a sheath that contains many individual cells. Certain types, such as species of the genus Nocardia, even form complex, branched filaments, similar in appearance to fungal mycelia.
Question: What is the usual form for Neiserria bacteria?
Answer: diploids (pairs)
Question: What well known bacteria structure chains?
Answer: Streptococcus
Question: What does typically Staphylococcus look like?
Answer: clusters
Question: What type of bacteria is surrounded by a capsule?
Answer: Filamentous bacteria
Question: Formation of what can be related to fungal mycelia?
Answer: branched filaments |
Context: Many pubs were drinking establishments, and little emphasis was placed on the serving of food, other than sandwiches and "bar snacks", such as pork scratchings, pickled eggs, salted crisps and peanuts which helped to increase beer sales. In South East England (especially London) it was common until recent times for vendors selling cockles, whelks, mussels, and other shellfish to sell to customers during the evening and at closing time. Many mobile shellfish stalls would set up near pubs, a practice that continues in London's East End. Otherwise, pickled cockles and mussels may be offered by the pub in jars or packets.
Question: Pork scratchings, pickled eggs and salted crisps are examples of what type of food?
Answer: bar snacks
Question: In London, what food vendors could often be found near pubs?
Answer: mobile shellfish stalls
Question: In what section of London can mobile shellfish stalls still be found today?
Answer: East End
Question: What seafood can often be purchased in jars at pubs?
Answer: pickled cockles and mussels |
Context: When a person is non-verbal and cannot self-report pain, observation becomes critical, and specific behaviors can be monitored as pain indicators. Behaviors such as facial grimacing and guarding indicate pain, as well as an increase or decrease in vocalizations, changes in routine behavior patterns and mental status changes. Patients experiencing pain may exhibit withdrawn social behavior and possibly experience a decreased appetite and decreased nutritional intake. A change in condition that deviates from baseline such as moaning with movement or when manipulating a body part, and limited range of motion are also potential pain indicators. In patients who possess language but are incapable of expressing themselves effectively, such as those with dementia, an increase in confusion or display of aggressive behaviors or agitation may signal that discomfort exists, and further assessment is necessary.
Question: What become critical when a person is non-verbal?
Answer: observation
Question: What can be monitored as pain indicators?
Answer: specific behaviors
Question: Facial grimacing and guarding indicate what?
Answer: pain
Question: What type of social behavior might patients experiencing pain exhibit?
Answer: withdrawn
Question: How can patients with dementia indicate discomfort exists?
Answer: signal
Question: When does grimacing become critical?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what patients does a decrease in confusion signal pain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an increased range of motion a sign of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can a change in baseline that deviates from the condition be a sign of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some types of energy are a varying mix of both potential and kinetic energy. An example is mechanical energy which is the sum of (usually macroscopic) kinetic and potential energy in a system. Elastic energy in materials is also dependent upon electrical potential energy (among atoms and molecules), as is chemical energy, which is stored and released from a reservoir of electrical potential energy between electrons, and the molecules or atomic nuclei that attract them.[need quotation to verify].The list is also not necessarily complete. Whenever physical scientists discover that a certain phenomenon appears to violate the law of energy conservation, new forms are typically added that account for the discrepancy.
Question: What is dependent upon electrical potential energy?
Answer: Elastic energy in materials
Question: Where is chemical energy stored and released?
Answer: from a reservoir of electrical potential energy between electrons
Question: Some types of energy are a varying mix of potential and what other kind of energy?
Answer: kinetic
Question: What is dependent upon hydro potential energy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is biological energy stored and released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: All types of energy are a varying mix of potential and what other kind of energy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: what do chemical scientists discover about certain phenomenon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: old forms are typically added that account for what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Capacitors may catastrophically fail when subjected to voltages or currents beyond their rating, or as they reach their normal end of life. Dielectric or metal interconnection failures may create arcing that vaporizes the dielectric fluid, resulting in case bulging, rupture, or even an explosion. Capacitors used in RF or sustained high-current applications can overheat, especially in the center of the capacitor rolls. Capacitors used within high-energy capacitor banks can violently explode when a short in one capacitor causes sudden dumping of energy stored in the rest of the bank into the failing unit. High voltage vacuum capacitors can generate soft X-rays even during normal operation. Proper containment, fusing, and preventive maintenance can help to minimize these hazards.
Question: What could cause the failure of a capacitor?
Answer: when subjected to voltages or currents beyond their rating
Question: What can happen to capacitors used in high current applications?
Answer: overheat
Question: What can happen to capacitors used in high energy capacitor banks?
Answer: violently explode
Question: What type of capacitors can generate soft x-rays?
Answer: High voltage vacuum capacitors
Question: What is one way to help minimize capacitor dangers?
Answer: preventive maintenance
Question: What couldn't cause the failure of a capacitor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can't happen to capacitors used in high current applications?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can happen to capacitors used in low energy capacitor banks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of capacitors can generate hard x-rays?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one way to help maximize capacitor dangers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Melbourne is also an important financial centre. Two of the big four banks, NAB and ANZ, are headquartered in Melbourne. The city has carved out a niche as Australia's leading centre for superannuation (pension) funds, with 40% of the total, and 65% of industry super-funds including the $109 billion-dollar Federal Government Future Fund. The city was rated 41st within the top 50 financial cities as surveyed by the MasterCard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index (2008), second only to Sydney (12th) in Australia. Melbourne is Australia's second-largest industrial centre. It is the Australian base for a number of significant manufacturers including Boeing, truck-makers Kenworth and Iveco, Cadbury as well as Bombardier Transportation and Jayco, among many others. It is also home to a wide variety of other manufacturers, ranging from petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals to fashion garments, paper manufacturing and food processing. The south-eastern suburb of Scoresby is home to Nintendo's Australian headquarters. The city also boasts a research and development hub for Ford Australia, as well as a global design studio and technical centre for General Motors and Toyota respectively.
Question: How many of the big four banks are headquartered in Melbourne?
Answer: Two
Question: Which two of the big four banks are headquartered in Melbourne?
Answer: NAB and ANZ
Question: Which city is Australia's second-largest industrial centre?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Which south-eastern suburb is home to Nintendo's Australian headquarters?
Answer: Scoresby
Question: Melbourne is home to a research and development hub for which auto manufacturer?
Answer: Ford Australia |
Context: When Richard was five years old, his mother gave birth to a younger brother, but this brother died at four weeks of age. Four years later, Richard gained a sister, Joan, and the family moved to Far Rockaway, Queens. Though separated by nine years, Joan and Richard were close, as they both shared a natural curiosity about the world. Their mother thought that women did not have the cranial capacity to comprehend such things. Despite their mother's disapproval of Joan's desire to study astronomy, Richard encouraged his sister to explore the universe. Joan eventually became an astrophysicist specializing in interactions between the Earth and the solar wind.
Question: What happened to Feyman's younger brother?
Answer: died at four weeks of age
Question: What is Feynman's sister's name?
Answer: Joan
Question: What science displicine did Feyman encourage his sister to study?
Answer: astronomy
Question: Who was the one that pushed Joan to explore the universe?
Answer: Richard
Question: What career did Joan hold?
Answer: astrophysicist
Question: What happened to Feyman's younger parent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Feynman's estranged sister's name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What scientific discipline did Feynman discourage his sister from studying?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the one that pushed Richard to explore the universe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What career did Joan lose?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first telephone lines were installed in 1882 and electric street lights took the place of the gas operated ones in 1886. The Hipódromo de Maroñas started operating in 1888, and the neighbourhoods of Reus del Sur, Reus del Norte and Conciliación were inaugurated in 1889. The new building of the School of Arts and Trades, as well as Zabala Square in Ciudad Vieja were inaugurated in 1890, followed by the Italian Hospital in 1891. In the same year, the village of Peñarol was founded. Other neighbourhoods that were founded were Belgrano and Belvedere in 1892, Jacinto Vera in 1895 and Trouville in 1897. In 1894 the new port was constructed, and in 1897, the Central Railway Station of Montevideo was inaugurated.
Question: When were the first telephone lines installed?
Answer: 1882
Question: When did electric street lights replace the gas operated lights?
Answer: 1886
Question: When did the Hipodromo de Maronas start operating?
Answer: 1888
Question: When was the Central Railway Station of Montevideo inaugurated?
Answer: 1897 |
Context: From 1989 through 1996, the total area of the US was listed as 9,372,610 km2 (3,618,780 sq mi) (land + inland water only). The listed total area changed to 9,629,091 km2 (3,717,813 sq mi) in 1997 (Great Lakes area and coastal waters added), to 9,631,418 km2 (3,718,711 sq mi) in 2004, to 9,631,420 km2 (3,718,710 sq mi) in 2006, and to 9,826,630 km2 (3,794,080 sq mi) in 2007 (territorial waters added). Currently, the CIA World Factbook gives 9,826,675 km2 (3,794,100 sq mi), the United Nations Statistics Division gives 9,629,091 km2 (3,717,813 sq mi), and the Encyclopædia Britannica gives 9,522,055 km2 (3,676,486 sq mi)(Great Lakes area included but not coastal waters). These source consider only the 50 states and the Federal District, and exclude overseas territories.
Question: During the period from 1989 - 1996, what was the total are of the US in miles?
Answer: 3,618,780 sq mi
Question: According to the CIA World Factbook, what is the total area of the US in miles?
Answer: 3,794,100 sq mi
Question: According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, what is the total area of the US in miles?
Answer: 3,676,486 sq mi
Question: The total square miles of land only in the United States was 9,372,610 km² during what time period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Currently the World encyclopedia mileage of the United States is what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What encyclopedia includes both the Great Lakes and coastal waters in the United States square mileage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: These sources consider overseas territories all fifty states and what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Population has outstripped the supply of freshwater, usually from rainfall. The northern atolls get 50 inches (1,300 mm) of rainfall annually; the southern atolls about twice that. The threat of drought is commonplace throughout the island chains.
Question: How many millimeters of rain do the northern atolls of the Marshall Islands receive?
Answer: 1,300
Question: What is the main source of fresh water for the Marshall Islands?
Answer: rainfall
Question: What is the Marshall Islands often threatened with?
Answer: drought
Question: How much more rain do the southern atolls get compared to the northern?
Answer: twice |
Context: There were two distinct lines of Enlightenment thought: the radical enlightenment, inspired by the philosophy of Spinoza, advocating democracy, individual liberty, freedom of expression, and eradication of religious authority; and a second, more moderate variety, supported by René Descartes, John Locke, Christian Wolff, Isaac Newton and others, which sought accommodation between reform and the traditional systems of power and faith. Both lines of thought were opposed by the conservative Counter-Enlightenment.
Question: What was the name of the conservative group opposing the Enlightenment?
Answer: Counter-Enlightenment.
Question: The radical enlightenment was inspired by the philosophy of whom?
Answer: Spinoza
Question: Which Enlightenment philosopher advocated democracy, individual liberty, freedom of expression, and eradication of religious authority?
Answer: Spinoza
Question: Which Enlightenment philosophers sought accomodatin between reform and the traditional systems of power and faith?
Answer: René Descartes, John Locke, Christian Wolff, Isaac Newton and others |
Context: It has been revealed that Southampton has the worst behaved secondary schools within the UK. With suspension rates three times the national average, the suspension rate is approximately 1 in every 14 children, the highest in the country for physical or verbal assaults against staff.
Question: Which level of schools in Southampton are the worst behaved in the UK?
Answer: secondary
Question: How many times the national average are the suspension rates at Southampton's secondary schools?
Answer: three
Question: Out of about every 14 students, how many will be suspended from school?
Answer: 1
Question: In addition to physical attacks, what other kind of assault do Southampton's students commit against staff more than anywhere else in the country?
Answer: verbal |
Context: Other major television series Spielberg produced were Band of Brothers, Taken and The Pacific. He was an executive producer on the critically acclaimed 2005 TV miniseries Into the West which won two Emmy awards, including one for Geoff Zanelli's score. For his 2010 miniseries The Pacific he teamed up once again with co-producer Tom Hanks, with Gary Goetzman also co-producing'. The miniseries is believed to have cost $250 million and is a 10-part war miniseries centered on the battles in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Writer Bruce McKenna, who penned several installments of (Band of Brothers), was the head writer.
Question: When did 'Into the West' air?
Answer: 2005
Question: How many Emmys did 'Into the West' win?
Answer: two
Question: Who wrote the music for 'Into the West'?
Answer: Geoff Zanelli
Question: When was 'The Pacific' released?
Answer: 2010
Question: How much did 'The Pacific' cost?
Answer: $250 million
Question: In what year did Band of Brother debut on tv?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Geoff Zanelli start to score movies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first tv show Gary Goetzman co-produced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first tv shows writer Bruce McKenna has worked on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Bruce McKenna become a writer?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some Christian writers considered the possibility that pagan commentators may have mentioned this event, mistaking it for a solar eclipse - although this would have been impossible during the Passover, which takes place at the full moon. Christian traveller and historian Sextus Julius Africanus and Christian theologian Origen refer to Greek historian Phlegon, who lived in the 2nd century AD, as having written "with regard to the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and the great earthquakes which then took place"
Question: As what was the event mistaken by some pagans?
Answer: a solar eclipse
Question: Why was a solar eclipse impossible?
Answer: the full moon
Question: Which Greek historian wrote about these natural occurrences?
Answer: Greek historian Phlegon
Question: Who reigned Rome during the Crucifixion of Jesus?
Answer: Tiberius Caesar
Question: What other event supposedly took place that shook people?
Answer: earthquakes
Question: In what year was the first known solar eclipse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what event was Phlegon born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Jewish feast day was first celebrated in the 2nd century AD?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Origen believe he witnessed when he wrote about it in the 2nd century AD?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During who's rule did Origen write about an eclipse?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Astronomers like Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC) built upon the measurements of the Babylonian astronomers before him, to measure the precession of the Earth. Pliny reports that Hipparchus produced the first systematic star catalog after he observed a new star (it is uncertain whether this was a nova or a comet) and wished to preserve astronomical record of the stars, so that other new stars could be discovered. It has recently been claimed that a celestial globe based on Hipparchus's star catalog sits atop the broad shoulders of a large 2nd-century Roman statue known as the Farnese Atlas. Another astronomer, Aristarchos of Samos developed a heliocentric system.
Question: When was Hipparchus born?
Answer: 190
Question: Hipparchus measured the precession of what?
Answer: Earth
Question: Who stated that Hipparchus created the first systematic star map?
Answer: Pliny
Question: Hipparchus' star may be depicted in a statue called what?
Answer: Farnese Atlas
Question: Whch astronomer developed a heliocentric system?
Answer: Aristarchos of Samos |
Context: Gaddafi's earliest education was of a religious nature, imparted by a local Islamic teacher. Subsequently moving to nearby Sirte to attend elementary school, he progressed through six grades in four years. Education in Libya was not free, but his father thought it would greatly benefit his son despite the financial strain. During the week Gaddafi slept in a mosque, and at weekends walked 20 miles to visit his parents. Bullied for being a Bedouin, he was proud of his identity and encouraged pride in other Bedouin children. From Sirte, he and his family moved to the market town of Sabha in Fezzan, south-central Libya, where his father worked as a caretaker for a tribal leader while Muammar attended secondary school, something neither parent had done. Gaddafi was popular at school; some friends made there received significant jobs in his later administration, most notably his best friend Abdul Salam Jalloud.
Question: Describe Gaddafi's first experience with education.
Answer: a religious nature, imparted by a local Islamic teacher
Question: In addition to gaining an education, describe how Gaddafi managed to attend school 20 miles from his family.
Answer: During the week Gaddafi slept in a mosque, and at weekends walked 20 miles to visit his parents
Question: How did Gaddafi deal with peer pressure regarding his cultural background?
Answer: Bullied for being a Bedouin, he was proud of his identity and encouraged pride in other Bedouin children.
Question: When Gaddafi's family moved to Sabha, describe his educational experiences in secondary school.
Answer: Gaddafi was popular at school; some friends made there received significant jobs in his later administration, most notably his best friend Abdul Salam Jalloud.
Question: Describe Gaddafi's parents' educational backgrounds.
Answer: where his father worked as a caretaker for a tribal leader while Muammar attended secondary school, something neither parent had done.
Question: Why was Gaddafi made fun of in elementary school?
Answer: Bullied for being a Bedouin, he was proud of his identity and encouraged pride in other Bedouin children.
Question: How did Gaddafi manage to attend elementary school so far from home?
Answer: During the week Gaddafi slept in a mosque, and at weekends walked 20 miles to visit his parents.
Question: Were Gaddafi's parents educated?
Answer: while Muammar attended secondary school, something neither parent had done.
Question: How did his early relationships play a role later when Gaddafi became a ruler?
Answer: Gaddafi was popular at school; some friends made there received significant jobs in his later administration, most notably his best friend Abdul Salam Jalloud.
Question: Was Gaddafi's education free?
Answer: Education in Libya was not free, but his father thought it would greatly benefit his son despite the financial strain.
Question: In what religion was Gaddafi educated?
Answer: Islamic
Question: What town did Gaddafi's family move to after they left Sirte?
Answer: Sabha
Question: What geographical portion of Libya is Fezzan located in?
Answer: south-central
Question: Who was Gaddafi's closest friend in secondary school?
Answer: Abdul Salam Jalloud
Question: In what town did Gaddafi first attend primary school?
Answer: Sirte |
Context: The prognosis for asthma is generally good, especially for children with mild disease. Mortality has decreased over the last few decades due to better recognition and improvement in care. Globally it causes moderate or severe disability in 19.4 million people as of 2004 (16 million of which are in low and middle income countries). Of asthma diagnosed during childhood, half of cases will no longer carry the diagnosis after a decade. Airway remodeling is observed, but it is unknown whether these represent harmful or beneficial changes. Early treatment with corticosteroids seems to prevent or ameliorates a decline in lung function.
Question: What is the prognosis for asthma?
Answer: generally good
Question: What has caused the mortality rate to decrease?
Answer: due to better recognition and improvement in care
Question: Worldwide, how many people suffer from asthma?
Answer: 19.4 million people as of 2004
Question: How many cases that are diagnosed in childhood make it past 10 years with asthma?
Answer: half of cases will no longer carry the diagnosis after a decade
Question: What is the prognosis after treating airway remodeling?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why has airway remodeling decreased in children over the last few decades?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people will no longer be diagnosed with decline in lung function after 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Is treatment with corticosteroids harmful or beneficial?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is used to treat airway remodeling?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From September 1823 to 1826 Chopin attended the Warsaw Lyceum, where he received organ lessons from the Czech musician Wilhelm Würfel during his first year. In the autumn of 1826 he began a three-year course under the Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, studying music theory, figured bass and composition.[n 3] Throughout this period he continued to compose and to give recitals in concerts and salons in Warsaw. He was engaged by the inventors of a mechanical organ, the "eolomelodicon", and on this instrument in May 1825 he performed his own improvisation and part of a concerto by Moscheles. The success of this concert led to an invitation to give a similar recital on the instrument before Tsar Alexander I, who was visiting Warsaw; the Tsar presented him with a diamond ring. At a subsequent eolomelodicon concert on 10 June 1825, Chopin performed his Rondo Op. 1. This was the first of his works to be commercially published and earned him his first mention in the foreign press, when the Leipzig Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung praised his "wealth of musical ideas".
Question: During what years did Frédéric visit the Warsaw Lyceum for lessons?
Answer: 1823 to 1826
Question: Who was Frédéric a student of involving music theory starting in 1826?
Answer: Józef Elsner
Question: What was the name of the mechanical organ Frédéric performed on during 1825?
Answer: eolomelodicon
Question: Which tsar did Frédéric perform for due to his success in previous concerts?
Answer: Alexander I
Question: On what date was Frédéric's first performance that earned international esteem?
Answer: 10 June 1825
Question: Who taught Chopin to play the organ?
Answer: Wilhelm Würfel
Question: Chopin had three years of lessons with whom?
Answer: Józef Elsner
Question: What instrument did Chopin play in front of Tsar Alexander I?
Answer: eolomelodicon
Question: What gift did Tsar Alexander I give to Chopin?
Answer: diamond ring
Question: What was the first of Chopin's works to gain international renown?
Answer: Rondo Op. 1
Question: Who gave Chopin instruction on how to play the organ?
Answer: Wilhelm Würfel
Question: What was the name of the teacher of Chopin's three year course that began in the fall of 1826?
Answer: Józef Elsner
Question: What is th ename of the mechanical organ Chopin played in 1825?
Answer: eolomelodicon
Question: What did Tsar Alexander I give to Chopin?
Answer: a diamond ring.
Question: What is the title of his first commercially successful work?
Answer: Rondo Op. 1. |
Context: The United States launched the orbital workstation Skylab 1 on May 14, 1973. It weighed 169,950 pounds (77,090 kg), was 58 feet (18 m) long by 21.7 feet (6.6 m) in diameter, with a habitable volume of 10,000 cubic feet (280 m3). Skylab was damaged during the ascent to orbit, losing one of its solar panels and a meteoroid thermal shield. Subsequent manned missions repaired the station, and the final mission's crew, Skylab 4, set the Space Race endurance record with 84 days in orbit when the mission ended on February 8, 1974. Skylab stayed in orbit another five years before reentering the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on July 11, 1979.
Question: The Skylab 1 was launched on which date?
Answer: May 14, 1973
Question: How much did the Skylab 1 weigh?
Answer: 169,950 pounds
Question: When did the Skylab 1 finally come back to Earth?
Answer: July 11, 1979 |
Context: In gender inflection, the most notable feature is (compared to Portuguese, Spanish or Italian), the loss of the typical masculine suffix -o. Thus, the alternance of -o/-a, has been replaced by ø/-a. There are only a few exceptions, like minso/minsa ("scarce"). Many not completely predictable morphological alternations may occur, such as:
Question: What is the usual masculine suffix?
Answer: -o |
Context: During his tour on the guided missile frigate USS Gridley, Kerry requested duty in South Vietnam, listing as his first preference a position as the commander of a Fast Patrol Craft (PCF), also known as a "Swift boat." These 50-foot (15 m) boats have aluminum hulls and have little or no armor, but are heavily armed and rely on speed. "I didn't really want to get involved in the war", Kerry said in a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing." However, his second choice of billet was on a river patrol boat, or "PBR", which at the time was serving a more dangerous duty on the rivers of Vietnam.
Question: When did Kerry publish his memories of Vietnam?
Answer: 1986
Question: What kind of ship was the USS Gridley?
Answer: guided missile frigate
Question: What was the formal name of 'swift boats'?
Answer: Fast Patrol Craft
Question: How long were swift boats?
Answer: 50-foot
Question: What had Kerry expected the 'swift boats' to do?
Answer: coastal patrolling |
Context: Nearly two billion people in the developing world are deficient in zinc. In children it causes an increase in infection and diarrhea, contributing to the death of about 800,000 children worldwide per year. The World Health Organization advocates zinc supplementation for severe malnutrition and diarrhea. Zinc supplements help prevent disease and reduce mortality, especially among children with low birth weight or stunted growth. However, zinc supplements should not be administered alone, because many in the developing world have several deficiencies, and zinc interacts with other micronutrients.
Question: What are two billion people in the world deficient in?
Answer: zinc
Question: 800,000 children worldwide die each year due to what?
Answer: deficient in zinc
Question: What is recommended by the WHO for malnutrition and diarrhea?
Answer: zinc supplementation
Question: Why shouldn't zinc be given alone to those with several deficiencies?
Answer: zinc interacts with other micronutrients.
Question: What are five billion people in the world deficient in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many children are born each year due to zinc?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is recommended by the WHO for malnutrition and fever?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why shouldn't zinc be given alone to those with no deficiencies?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Setting national renewable energy targets can be an important part of a renewable energy policy and these targets are usually defined as a percentage of the primary energy and/or electricity generation mix. For example, the European Union has prescribed an indicative renewable energy target of 12 per cent of the total EU energy mix and 22 per cent of electricity consumption by 2010. National targets for individual EU Member States have also been set to meet the overall target. Other developed countries with defined national or regional targets include Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, and some US States.
Question: Setting national renewable energy targets can be an important part of what?
Answer: renewable energy policy
Question: The European Union has prescribed an indicative renewable energy target of what percent?
Answer: 12 per cent of the total EU energy mix
Question: Name one outher country with defined national or regional target?
Answer: Australia
Question: Setting national renewable energy targets can be an unimportant part of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Setting national renewable energy targets is never an important part of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The European Union has not prescribed an indicative renewable energy target of what percent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Name one other country without defined national or regional target?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following Anwar Sadat's ascension to the Egyptian presidency, Libya's relations with Egypt deteriorated. Sadat was perturbed by Gaddafi's unpredictability and insistence that Egypt required a cultural revolution. In February 1973, Israeli forces shot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114, which had strayed from Egyptian airspace into Israeli-held territory during a sandstorm. Gaddafi was infuriated that Egypt had not done more to prevent the incident, and in retaliation planned to destroy the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, a British ship chartered by American Jews to sail to Haifa for Israel's 25th anniversary. Gaddafi ordered an Egyptian submarine to target the ship, but Sadat cancelled the order, fearing a military escalation.
Question: Whose rise to the presidency of Egypt led to the decline in relations between Egypt and Libya?
Answer: Sadat
Question: What nation's military destroyed Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114?
Answer: Israeli
Question: Why did Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 accidentally fly into Israel's airspace?
Answer: sandstorm
Question: What city was the destination of RMS Queen Elizabeth 2?
Answer: Haifa
Question: Jews from what nation chartered the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2?
Answer: American |
Context: The Quranic content is concerned with basic Islamic beliefs including the existence of God and the resurrection. Narratives of the early prophets, ethical and legal subjects, historical events of Muhammad's time, charity and prayer also appear in the Quran. The Quranic verses contain general exhortations regarding right and wrong and historical events are related to outline general moral lessons. Verses pertaining to natural phenomena have been interpreted by Muslims as an indication of the authenticity of the Quranic message.
Question: Quranic verses concerning which phenomena are thought by Muslims to authenticate its contents?
Answer: natural
Question: What types of events are related in the Quran in support of its moral teachings?
Answer: historical
Question: Historical narratives from whose time period are unique to the Quran among holy books?
Answer: Muhammad's
Question: Quranic verses concerning which phenomena are thought by Muslims to unauthenticate its contents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Quranic verses concerning which phenomena are thought by Jews to authenticate its contents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of events aren't related in the Quran in support of its moral teachings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of events are unrelated in the Quran in support of its moral teachings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Historical narratives from whose time period aren't unique to the Quran among holy books?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The discovery of gold in Victoria in mid 1851 led to the Victorian gold rush, and Melbourne, which served as the major port and provided most services for the region, experienced rapid growth. Within months, the city's population had increased by nearly three-quarters, from 25,000 to 40,000 inhabitants. Thereafter, growth was exponential and by 1865, Melbourne had overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populous city. Additionally, Melbourne along with the Victorian regional cities of Ballarat and Geelong became the wealthiest cities in the world during the Gold Rush era.
Question: Melbourne experienced rapid growth after 1851 due to the discovery of what?
Answer: gold
Question: Melbourne and which other regional cities became the wealthiest cities in the world during the Gold Rush era?
Answer: Ballarat and Geelong
Question: How much did Melbourne's population increase within months of the gold rush?
Answer: three-quarters, from 25,000 to 40,000 inhabitants
Question: By what year had Melbourne overtaken Sydney as Australia's most populous city?
Answer: 1865 |
Context: Under anaerobic conditions, iron and steel alloys are slowly oxidized by the protons of water concomitantly reduced in molecular hydrogen (H
2). The anaerobic corrosion of iron leads first to the formation of ferrous hydroxide (green rust) and can be described by the following reaction:
Question: What condition is iron and steel alloys slowly oxidized?
Answer: anaerobic
Question: What does the anaerobic corrosion of iron lead to?
Answer: formation of ferrous hydroxide
Question: What is another name for formation of ferrous hydroxide?
Answer: green rust |
Context: According to Milton Friedman, before the Industrial Revolution virtually all children worked in agriculture. During the Industrial Revolution many of these children moved from farm work to factory work. Over time, as real wages rose, parents became able to afford to send their children to school instead of work and as a result child labour declined, both before and after legislation. Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard said that British and American children of the pre- and post-Industrial Revolution lived and suffered in infinitely worse conditions where jobs were not available for them and went "voluntarily and gladly" to work in factories.
Question: Where did children work prior to the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: agriculture
Question: How many children worked?
Answer: virtually all
Question: Where did children go to work after doing farm work for so long?
Answer: factory work
Question: What did parents do when the wages were finally raised?
Answer: send their children to school instead of work |
Context: Fraser maintained some of the social reforms of the Whitlam era, while seeking increased fiscal restraint. His government included the first Aboriginal federal parliamentarian, Neville Bonner, and in 1976, Parliament passed the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, which, while limited to the Northern Territory, affirmed "inalienable" freehold title to some traditional lands. Fraser established the multicultural broadcaster SBS, accepted Vietnamese refugees, opposed minority white rule in Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia and opposed Soviet expansionism. A significant program of economic reform however was not pursued. By 1983, the Australian economy was suffering with the early 1980s recession and amidst the effects of a severe drought. Fraser had promoted "states' rights" and his government refused to use Commonwealth powers to stop the construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania in 1982. Liberal minister, Don Chipp split off from the party to form a new social liberal party, the Australian Democrats in 1977. Fraser won further substantial majorities at the 1977 and 1980 elections, before losing to the Bob Hawke led Australian Labor Party in the 1983 election.
Question: Which document allowed Indigenous peoples the right to some traditional lands?
Answer: Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976
Question: What environmental consequence affected the Australian economy by 1983?
Answer: a severe drought
Question: Which party did Don Chipp seperate to form in 1977?
Answer: Australian Democrats
Question: Who did Frazer eventually lose to in 1983?
Answer: Bob Hawke
Question: Which document allowed for Indigenous peoples the right to Tasmania?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What environmental consequence affected the Australian economy by 1976?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which party did Neville Bonner separate to form in 1977?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Frazer eventually lose to in 1976?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who opposed Aboriginal rule in Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Analog tape recorders with bandwidth capable of recording analog HD signals, such as W-VHS recorders, are no longer produced for the consumer market and are both expensive and scarce in the secondary market.
Question: W-VHS recorders are capable of recording what kinds of signals?
Answer: analog HD
Question: What kind of recorder is no longer produced for the consumer market?
Answer: Analog tape
Question: In the secondary market, analog tape recorders are considered what?
Answer: expensive and scarce
Question: W-VHS recorders aren't capable of recording what kinds of signals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of recorder is still produced for the consumer market?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the secondary market, analog tape recorders arent considered what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The traditional New York area accent is characterized as non-rhotic, so that the sound [ɹ] does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant; hence the pronunciation of the city name as "New Yawk." There is no [ɹ] in words like park [pɑək] or [pɒək] (with vowel backed and diphthongized due to the low-back chain shift), butter [bʌɾə], or here [hiə]. In another feature called the low back chain shift, the [ɔ] vowel sound of words like talk, law, cross, chocolate, and coffee and the often homophonous [ɔr] in core and more are tensed and usually raised more than in General American. In the most old-fashioned and extreme versions of the New York dialect, the vowel sounds of words like "girl" and of words like "oil" became a diphthong [ɜɪ]. This would often be misperceived by speakers of other accents as a reversal of the er and oy sounds, so that girl is pronounced "goil" and oil is pronounced "erl"; this leads to the caricature of New Yorkers saying things like "Joizey" (Jersey), "Toidy-Toid Street" (33rd St.) and "terlet" (toilet). The character Archie Bunker from the 1970s sitcom All in the Family (played by Carroll O'Connor) was a notable example of having used this pattern of speech, which continues to fade in its overall presence.
Question: What sitcom did the Archie Bunker character feature in?
Answer: All in the Family
Question: What actor performed the role of Archie Bunker?
Answer: Carroll O'Connor
Question: What is the transliteration of the way in which New Yorkers are perceived to pronounce the name of their city?
Answer: New Yawk |
Context: Ann Arbor was founded in 1824 by land speculators John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey. On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as "Annarbour;" this represents the earliest known use of the town's name. Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of Bur Oak in the 640 acres (260 ha) of land they purchased for $800 from the federal government at $1.25 per acre. The local Ojibwa named the settlement kaw-goosh-kaw-nick, after the sound of Allen's sawmill.
Question: Who founded Ann Arbor?
Answer: John Allen and Elisha Walker Rumsey
Question: What was the profession of the founders of Ann arbor?
Answer: land speculators
Question: Which tribe named the settlement as kaw-goosh-kaw-nick?
Answer: Ojibwa
Question: For how much money did the founders purchase the land from the federal government?
Answer: $800
Question: What were the names of the founders wives?
Answer: Ann
Question: Ann Arbor was registered with Wayne County on May 24th of what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who founded Ann Arbor in 1842?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What name did the Ojibwa give the settlement because of the sound of Rumsey's sawmill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did the founder's wives pay for the settlement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many acres did the founders buy at $1.52 per acre?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As a child, young Bell displayed a natural curiosity about his world, resulting in gathering botanical specimens as well as experimenting even at an early age. His best friend was Ben Herdman, a neighbor whose family operated a flour mill, the scene of many forays. Young Bell asked what needed to be done at the mill. He was told wheat had to be dehusked through a laborious process and at the age of 12, Bell built a homemade device that combined rotating paddles with sets of nail brushes, creating a simple dehusking machine that was put into operation and used steadily for a number of years. In return, John Herdman gave both boys the run of a small workshop in which to "invent".
Question: What sort of things did Bell collect as a child?
Answer: botanical specimens
Question: Who was Bell's closest friend as a child?
Answer: Ben Herdman
Question: What sort of mill did Bell's neighbors run?
Answer: flour
Question: Bell's dehusking machine combined what with nail brushes?
Answer: rotating paddles
Question: What was Bell's reward for his dehusking machine?
Answer: small workshop |
Context: From April 20–23, 1989, pre-election meetings were held in Lviv for four consecutive days, drawing crowds of up to 25,000. The action included an one-hour warning strike at eight local factories and institutions. It was the first labor strike in Lviv since 1944. On May 3, a pre-election rally attracted 30,000 in Lviv. On May 7, The Memorial Society organized a mass meeting at Bykivnia, site of a mass grave of Ukrainian and Polish victims of Stalinist terror. After a march from Kiev to the site, a memorial service was staged.
Question: How many people attended the Lviv pre-election meetings?
Answer: 25,000
Question: How long did the warning strike last?
Answer: one-hour
Question: Where did the strike take place?
Answer: eight local factories and institutions
Question: Prior to the warning strike when was the last labor strike in Lviv?
Answer: 1944
Question: At what sight was the Bykivnia meeting held?
Answer: mass grave |
Context: Stretching west from the Blue Ridge for approximately 55 miles (89 km) is the Ridge and Valley region, in which numerous tributaries join to form the Tennessee River in the Tennessee Valley. This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. The western section of the Tennessee Valley, where the depressions become broader and the ridges become lower, is called the Great Valley. In this valley are numerous towns and two of the region's three urban areas, Knoxville, the 3rd largest city in the state, and Chattanooga, the 4th largest city in the state. The third urban area, the Tri-Cities, comprising Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport and their environs, is located to the northeast of Knoxville.
Question: Approximately how many miles long is Tennessee's Ridge and Valley region?
Answer: 55
Question: What is the western part of the Tennessee Valley called?
Answer: the Great Valley
Question: Which city is Tennessee's fourth largest?
Answer: Chattanooga
Question: Together, Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport are known by what name?
Answer: the Tri-Cities
Question: What river forms in the Tennessee Valley?
Answer: Tennessee River |
Context: After 1800, cotton and tobacco became important export crops. The eastern half of the state, especially the Tidewater region, developed a slave society based on a plantation system and slave labor. Many free people of color migrated to the frontier along with their European-American neighbors, where the social system was looser. By 1810, nearly 3 percent of the free population consisted of free people of color, who numbered slightly more than 10,000. The western areas were dominated by white families, especially Scots-Irish, who operated small subsistence farms. In the early national period, the state became a center of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, with a strong Whig presence, especially in the West. After Nat Turner's slave uprising in 1831, North Carolina and other southern states reduced the rights of free blacks. In 1835 the legislature withdrew their right to vote.
Question: After what year did cotton and tobacco become important crops in North Carolina?
Answer: After 1800
Question: The Tidewater region was in what half of North Carolina?
Answer: eastern
Question: What region of North Carolina used slave labor and developed a slave society?
Answer: the Tidewater region
Question: Where did free black people migrate to because of the looser social system?
Answer: the frontier
Question: By 1810, what percentage of the free population was black?
Answer: 3 |
Context: The UAP had been formed as a new conservative alliance in 1931, with Labor defector Joseph Lyons as its leader. The stance of Lyons and other Labor rebels against the more radical proposals of the Labor movement to deal the Great Depression had attracted the support of prominent Australian conservatives. With Australia still suffering the effects of the Great Depression, the newly formed party won a landslide victory at the 1931 Election, and the Lyons Government went on to win three consecutive elections. It largely avoided Keynesian pump-priming and pursued a more conservative fiscal policy of debt reduction and balanced budgets as a means of stewarding Australia out of the Depression. Lyons' death in 1939 saw Robert Menzies assume the Prime Ministership on the eve of war. Menzies served as Prime Minister from 1939 to 1941 but resigned as leader of the minority World War II government amidst an unworkable parliamentary majority. The UAP, led by Billy Hughes, disintegrated after suffering a heavy defeat in the 1943 election.
Question: What economic event influenced the 1931 Election?
Answer: the Great Depression
Question: How many consecutive elections did the Lyons Government win?
Answer: three
Question: What event caused Robert Menzies to become Prime Minister?
Answer: Lyons' death in 1939
Question: What years did Robert Menzies serve as Prime Minister?
Answer: 1939 to 1941
Question: What economic event influenced the 1943 election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many conservative elections did Robert Menzies win?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What event caused Billy Hughes to become Prime Minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What years did Billy Hughes serve as Prime Minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was used to bring the UAP out of the Depression?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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