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Context: The Game is included in the newspaper on Mondays, and details all the weekend's football activity (Premier League and Football League Championship, League One and League Two.) The Scottish edition of The Game also includes results and analysis from Scottish Premier League games.
Question: What sports activity is featured in The Times on Mondays?
Answer: football
Question: What kind of football game is featured in the Scottish edition of The Times?
Answer: Scottish Premier League
Question: What is the name of the section that features football on Mondays in The Times?
Answer: The Game |
Context: Arsenal's tally of 13 League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Manchester United (20) and Liverpool (18), and they were the first club to reach 8 League Championships. They hold the highest number of FA Cup trophies, 12. The club is one of only six clubs to have won the FA Cup twice in succession, in 2002 and 2003, and 2014 and 2015. Arsenal have achieved three League and FA Cup "Doubles" (in 1971, 1998 and 2002), a feat only previously achieved by Manchester United (in 1994, 1996 and 1999). They were the first side in English football to complete the FA Cup and League Cup double, in 1993. Arsenal were also the first London club to reach the final of the UEFA Champions League, in 2006, losing the final 2–1 to Barcelona.
Question: How many League Championships has Arsenal won?
Answer: 13
Question: Where does Arsenal's total League Championships place it as compared to other English teams?
Answer: third highest
Question: Of what type of trophies does Arsenal have the most?
Answer: FA Cup trophies
Question: In what competition was Arsenal the first to enter the finals?
Answer: UEFA Champions League
Question: What team beat Arsenal to win the 2006 UEFA Champions League?
Answer: Barcelona
Question: What is one of the other teams that has won the FA Cup twice in succession?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times has Barcelona won the UEFA Champions League?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Liverpool's last League Championship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Manchester United when its first League Championship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which team has the second most FA Cup trophies?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Battle for Mexico City was the series of engagements from September 8 to September 15, 1847, in the general vicinity of Mexico City during the Mexican–American War. Included are major actions at the battles of Molino del Rey and Chapultepec, culminating with the fall of Mexico City. The U.S. Army under Winfield Scott scored a major success that ended the war. The American invasion into the Federal District was first resisted during the Battle of Churubusco on August 8 where the Saint Patrick's Battalion, which was composed primarily of Catholic Irish and German immigrants, but also Canadians, English, French, Italians, Poles, Scots, Spaniards, Swiss, and Mexican people, fought for the Mexican cause repelling the American attacks. After defeating the Saint Patrick's Battalion, the Mexican–American War came to a close after the United States deployed combat units deep into Mexico resulting in the capture of Mexico City and Veracruz by the U.S. Army's 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Divisions. The invasion culminated with the storming of Chapultepec Castle in the city itself.
Question: Who commanded the U.S. Army in the battle against Mexico City?
Answer: Winfield Scott
Question: What war did America and Mexico fight in?
Answer: Mexican–American War
Question: When did the battle for Mexico City take place
Answer: September 8 to September 15, 1847
Question: What American divisions got into Mexico City?
Answer: U.S. Army's 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th |
Context: In 1899, a Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Thomas R. Steels, proposed in his union branch that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates. The motion was passed at all stages by the TUC, and the proposed conference was held at the Memorial Hall on Farringdon Street on 26 and 27 February 1900. The meeting was attended by a broad spectrum of working-class and left-wing organisations — trades unions represented about one third of the membership of the TUC delegates.
Question: What year did Thomas R. Steels propose the single body union branch?
Answer: 1899
Question: Where was Thomas R. Steels a member?
Answer: Doncaster
Question: WHere was the proposed conference held?
Answer: Memorial Hall
Question: Who proposed a special conference to bring all right-wing organisations together?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group did not pass the motion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the conference help before 1900?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was attended by only a narrow spectrum of organizations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What represented two thirds of the TUC delegates?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to Genius, the James Gleick-authored biography, Feynman tried LSD during his professorship at Caltech. Somewhat embarrassed by his actions, he largely sidestepped the issue when dictating his anecdotes; he mentions it in passing in the "O Americano, Outra Vez" section, while the "Altered States" chapter in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! describes only marijuana and ketamine experiences at John Lilly's famed sensory deprivation tanks, as a way of studying consciousness. Feynman gave up alcohol when he began to show vague, early signs of alcoholism, as he did not want to do anything that could damage his brain—the same reason given in "O Americano, Outra Vez" for his reluctance to experiment with LSD.
Question: Which illicit drug did Feynman try at Caltech?
Answer: LSD
Question: What substance did Feynman give up later in life?
Answer: alcohol
Question: Why did Feynman give up alcohol?
Answer: he did not want to do anything that could damage his brain
Question: In what book did he talk about his LSD use?
Answer: O Americano, Outra Vez
Question: Which illicit drug was Feynman caught with at Caltech?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What substance did Feynman die from later in life?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Feynman enjoy alcohol?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What book did Feynman talk about his DMT use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Feynman try heroin?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Around the 6th century, Slavs appeared on Byzantine borders in great numbers.[page needed] The Byzantine records note that grass would not regrow in places where the Slavs had marched through, so great were their numbers. After a military movement even the Peloponnese and Asia Minor were reported to have Slavic settlements. This southern movement has traditionally been seen as an invasive expansion. By the end of the 6th century, Slavs had settled the Eastern Alps regions.
Question: When did Slavs appear on Byzantine borders?
Answer: Around the 6th century
Question: The Slavs appeared on whose borders around the 6th century?
Answer: Byzantine borders
Question: Where else reported Slavic settlements?
Answer: Peloponnese and Asia Minor
Question: Where had the Slavs settled by the end of the 6th century?
Answer: the Eastern Alps
Question: When had the Slavs settled the Eastern Alps?
Answer: By the end of the 6th century
Question: When did the Peloponnese appear on Byzantine borders?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Slav records note could not grow after their presence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were Slave settled at the beginning of the 6th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How has the southern movement of the Byzantine empire been understood?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the Peloponnese appear at the beginning of the 6th c?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2008, the main media were owned by the government, but many more privately run forms of media were being created. There is one government-owned television station and around 10 small private television channels.
Question: Who controlled the media in the Congo in 2008
Answer: the government
Question: How many government TV stations exist?
Answer: one
Question: How many smaller stations exist that are not government-run?
Answer: 10
Question: When was the main media not owned by the government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were many privately run forms of media being destroyed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many large private television channels were there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many government owned radio stations were there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many privately owned radio stations were running?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Schwarzenegger's endorsement in the Republican primary of the 2008 U.S. presidential election was highly sought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator John McCain, Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani dropped out of the presidential race on January 30, 2008, largely because of a poor showing in Florida, and endorsed McCain. Later that night, Schwarzenegger was in the audience at a Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. The following day, he endorsed McCain, joking, "It's Rudy's fault!" (in reference to his friendships with both candidates and that he could not make up his mind). Schwarzenegger's endorsement was thought to be a boost for Senator McCain's campaign; both spoke about their concerns for the environment and economy.
Question: Who did Schwarzenegger finally endorse in the 2008 Republican primary?
Answer: John McCain
Question: Which candidate withdrew from the presidential race in January of 2008?
Answer: Rudy Giuliani
Question: On which two major issues did McCain and Schwarzenegger publicly agree?
Answer: the environment and economy |
Context: Medieval writers divided history into periods such as the "Six Ages" or the "Four Empires", and considered their time to be the last before the end of the world. When referring to their own times, they spoke of them as being "modern". In the 1330s, the humanist and poet Petrarch referred to pre-Christian times as antiqua (or "ancient") and to the Christian period as nova (or "new"). Leonardo Bruni was the first historian to use tripartite periodisation in his History of the Florentine People (1442). Bruni and later historians argued that Italy had recovered since Petrarch's time, and therefore added a third period to Petrarch's two. The "Middle Ages" first appears in Latin in 1469 as media tempestas or "middle season". In early usage, there were many variants, including medium aevum, or "middle age", first recorded in 1604, and media saecula, or "middle ages", first recorded in 1625. The alternative term "medieval" (or occasionally "mediaeval") derives from medium aevum. Tripartite periodisation became standard after the German 17th century historian Christoph Cellarius divided history into three periods: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern.
Question: Along with the Six Ages, what other scheme did writers in the Middle Ages use to divide history?
Answer: Four Empires
Question: What writer referred to the Christian period as new?
Answer: Petrarch
Question: Who wrote the History of the Florentine People?
Answer: Leonardo Bruni
Question: When was the History of the Florentine People published?
Answer: 1442
Question: Who first divided history into the ancient, medieval and modern periods?
Answer: Christoph Cellarius |
Context: From early in its development, ASCII was intended to be just one of several national variants of an international character code standard, ultimately published as ISO/IEC 646 (1972), which would share most characters in common but assign other locally useful characters to several code points reserved for "national use." However, the four years that elapsed between the publication of ASCII-1963 and ISO's first acceptance of an international recommendation during 1967 caused ASCII's choices for the national use characters to seem to be de facto standards for the world, causing confusion and incompatibility once other countries did begin to make their own assignments to these code points.
Question: When was ISO/IEC 646 published?
Answer: 1972
Question: What was ASCII inteded to be?
Answer: one of several national variants of an international character code standard
Question: When was ISO's first acceptance of an international recommendation?
Answer: 1967
Question: What was causing the confusion and incompatibility of the code points?
Answer: ASCII's choices for the national use characters to seem to be de facto standards for the world
Question: When was ISO's last acceptance at an international recommendation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was causing the confusion and incompatibility of the shared characters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were code points ultimately published as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the publication's choices cause confusion and incompatibility?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What shared no characters in common?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Sanskrit has also influenced Sino-Tibetan languages through the spread of Buddhist texts in translation. Buddhism was spread to China by Mahayana missionaries sent by Ashoka, mostly through translations of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. Many terms were transliterated directly and added to the Chinese vocabulary. Chinese words like 剎那 chànà (Devanagari: क्षण kṣaṇa 'instantaneous period') were borrowed from Sanskrit. Many Sanskrit texts survive only in Tibetan collections of commentaries to the Buddhist teachings, the Tengyur.
Question: What in the use of Sanskrit has influenced Sino-Tibetan languages?
Answer: Buddhist texts
Question: Who sent missionaries to China?
Answer: Ashoka
Question: What religion was spread to China through Sanskrit translations?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: What were transliterated and added to the Chinese language?
Answer: Many terms
Question: Where do many Sanskrit texts survive?
Answer: Tibetan collections
Question: What have Sino-Tibetan languages influenced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What languages have been influenced through the spread of Hindi texts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What missionaries spread Islam to China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who sent Mahayana missionaries to India?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Sanskrit texts survive in Egyptian collections?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are many art galleries in Utrecht. There are also several foundations to support art and artists. Training of artists is done at the Utrecht School of the Arts. The Centraal Museum has many exhibitions on the arts, including a permanent exhibition on the works of Utrecht resident illustrator Dick Bruna, who is best known for creating Miffy ("Nijntje", in Dutch). Although street art is illegal in Utrecht, the Utrechtse Kabouter, a picture of a gnome with a red hat, became a common sight in 2004. Utrecht also houses one of the landmarks of modern architecture, the 1924 Rietveld Schröder House, which is listed on UNESCO's world heritage sites.
Question: Where are young artist trained
Answer: Training of artists is done at the Utrecht School of the Arts
Question: Is street art legal
Answer: Although street art is illegal in Utrecht
Question: What is considered landmark Architecture
Answer: 1924 Rietveld Schröder House, which is listed on UNESCO's world heritage sites
Question: What form of art became legal in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What house was built in the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What illistrator is famouse for creating a gnome with a red hat?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The nation almost immediately fell into civil war that involved various factions fighting one another; these factions were often distinguished by clan loyalties. More than 500,000 residents fled during this time because of persecution, increased poverty and better economic opportunities in the West or in other former Soviet republics. Emomali Rahmon came to power in 1992, defeating former prime minister Abdumalik Abdullajanov in a November presidential election with 58% of the vote. The elections took place shortly after the end of the war, and Tajikistan was in a state of complete devastation. The estimated dead numbered over 100,000. Around 1.2 million people were refugees inside and outside of the country. In 1997, a ceasefire was reached between Rahmon and opposition parties under the guidance of Gerd D. Merrem, Special Representative to the Secretary General, a result widely praised as a successful United Nations peace keeping initiative. The ceasefire guaranteed 30% of ministerial positions would go to the opposition. Elections were held in 1999, though they were criticized by opposition parties and foreign observers as unfair and Rahmon was re-elected with 98% of the vote. Elections in 2006 were again won by Rahmon (with 79% of the vote) and he began his third term in office. Several opposition parties boycotted the 2006 election and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) criticized it, although observers from the Commonwealth of Independent States claimed the elections were legal and transparent. Rahmon's administration came under further criticism from the OSCE in October 2010 for its censorship and repression of the media. The OSCE claimed that the Tajik Government censored Tajik and foreign websites and instituted tax inspections on independent printing houses that led to the cessation of printing activities for a number of independent newspapers.
Question: How were the different factions distinguished from eachother?
Answer: by clan loyalties
Question: Why did more than half a million people flee?
Answer: because of persecution, increased poverty and better economic opportunities
Question: Who came into power in 1992?
Answer: Emomali Rahmon
Question: What did the ceasefire guaranteed?
Answer: 30% of ministerial positions would go to the opposition
Question: Fractions were often distinguished by what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who came to power in 1982?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Elections took place shortly before the beginning of the what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A ceasefire was reached between Rider and opposition parties in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The OSHA claimed that the Tajik government censored what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During its formative period, the term madrasah referred to a higher education institution, whose curriculum initially included only the "religious sciences", whilst philosophy and the secular sciences were often excluded. The curriculum slowly began to diversify, with many later madaris teaching both the religious and the "secular sciences", such as logic, mathematics and philosophy. Some madaris further extended their curriculum to history, politics, ethics, music, metaphysics, medicine, astronomy and chemistry. The curriculum of a madrasah was usually set by its founder, but most generally taught both the religious sciences and the physical sciences. Madaris were established throughout the Islamic world, examples being the 9th century University of al-Qarawiyyin, the 10th century al-Azhar University (the most famous), the 11th century Niẓāmīyah, as well as 75 madaris in Cairo, 51 in Damascus and up to 44 in Aleppo between 1155 and 1260. Many more were also established in the Andalusian cities of Córdoba, Seville, Toledo, Granada (Madrasah of Granada), Murcia, Almería, Valencia and Cádiz during the Caliphate of Córdoba.
Question: What discipline was studied in traditional madrasah?
Answer: religious sciences
Question: What was traditionally left out of the madrasah curriculum?
Answer: philosophy and the secular sciences
Question: Who decided the content that would be delivered in a particular madrasah?
Answer: its founder
Question: What is the most widely known madrasah?
Answer: al-Azhar University
Question: How many madaris have been founded in Cairo?
Answer: 75
Question: What discipline was rejected in traditional madrasah?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was recently rejected in madrasah?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who decided the content that would be rejected in a particular madrasah?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the least widely known madrasah?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many madaris have been founded outside of Cairo?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Kingdom Plantae belongs to Domain Eukarya and is broken down recursively until each species is separately classified. The order is: Kingdom; Phylum (or Division); Class; Order; Family; Genus (plural genera); Species. The scientific name of a plant represents its genus and its species within the genus, resulting in a single world-wide name for each organism. For example, the tiger lily is Lilium columbianum. Lilium is the genus, and columbianum the specific epithet. The combination is the name of the species. When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalise the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase. Additionally, the entire term is ordinarily italicised (or underlined when italics are not available).
Question: What is the main grouping of a plant know as?
Answer: Kingdom
Question: What is the most narrow grouping of a plant?
Answer: Species
Question: Do different countries refer to plants by different names?
Answer: single world-wide name
Question: What part of the name is always capitalized?
Answer: the genus
Question: How is the entire name usually presented in scientific texts?
Answer: italicised |
Context: The Masonic Lodge is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry. The Lodge meets regularly to conduct the usual formal business of any small organisation (pay bills, organise social and charitable events, elect new members, etc.). In addition to business, the meeting may perform a ceremony to confer a Masonic degree or receive a lecture, which is usually on some aspect of Masonic history or ritual. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Lodge might adjourn for a formal dinner, or festive board, sometimes involving toasting and song.
Question: What is the basic organizational unit of Freemasonry?
Answer: The Masonic Lodge
Question: Name examples of usual formal business that Freemasons have at their lodge.
Answer: pay bills, organise social and charitable events, elect new members
Question: What usually happens at the conclusion of a lodge meeting?
Answer: a formal dinner
Question: What is the complex organizational unit of Freemasonry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What always happens at the conclusion of a lodge meeting?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do Freemasons meet only on special occasion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization was not allowed to have ceremonies?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The development of New Imperialism saw the conquest of nearly all eastern hemisphere territories by colonial powers. The commercial colonization of India commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the British East India Company, in 1765, when the Company was granted the diwani, or the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar, or in 1772, when the Company established a capital in Calcutta, appointed its first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, and became directly involved in governance.
Question: What did the development of new imperialism cause?
Answer: the conquest of nearly all eastern hemisphere territories by colonial powers.
Question: When did the commercial colonization of India begin?
Answer: 1757
Question: What happened n the battle of Plassey?
Answer: Nawab of Bengal surrendered his dominions to the British East India Company
Question: When was the British East Company given the right to collect revenue?
Answer: 1765
Question: What is the term used to describe the "Right to collect revenue"?
Answer: diwani |
Context: In an interview published by Vogue in April 2013, Beyoncé was asked if she considers herself a feminist, to which she said, "that word can be very extreme... But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality". She would later align herself more publicly with the movement, sampling "We should all be feminists", a speech delivered by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at a TEDxEuston conference in April 2013, in her song "Flawless", released later that year. She has also contributed to the Ban Bossy campaign, which uses television and social media to encourage leadership in girls.
Question: Beyonce did an interview with which magazine and was asked about feminism?
Answer: Vogue
Question: Beyonce supported which campaign that encourages leadership in girls?
Answer: Ban Bossy campaign
Question: Where was Beyonce quoted as saying that she is a modern-day feminist?
Answer: Vogue
Question: When did she say the she is a feminist?
Answer: April 2013
Question: What campaign did she contribute to?
Answer: Ban Bossy
Question: What song did she release in 2013 in response to a speech?
Answer: Flawless
Question: What does Ban Bossy encourage?
Answer: leadership in girls
Question: Beyoncé used words from which Nigerian author in her song, Flawless?
Answer: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Question: Which campaign does Beyoncé contribute to that encourages leadership in females?
Answer: Ban Bossy |
Context: Various studies have arrived at diverging conclusions regarding both the degree and the sources of the non-Levantine admixture in Ashkenazim, particularly in respect to the extent of the non-Levantine genetic origin observed in Ashkenazi maternal lineages, which is in contrast to the predominant Levantine genetic origin observed in Ashkenazi paternal lineages. All studies nevertheless agree that genetic overlap with the Fertile Crescent exists in both lineages, albeit at differing rates. Collectively, Ashkenazi Jews are less genetically diverse than other Jewish ethnic divisions.
Question: All studies agree that genetic overlap with what location exists in both lineages?
Answer: Fertile Crescent |
Context: Albrecht von Roon, the Prussian Minister of War from 1859 to 1873, put into effect a series of reforms of the Prussian military system in the 1860s. Among these were two major reforms that substantially increased the military power of Germany. The first was a reorganization of the army that integrated the regular army and the Landwehr reserves. The second was the provision for the conscription of every male Prussian of military age in the event of mobilization. Thus, despite the population of France being greater than the population of all of the German states that participated in the war, the Germans mobilized more soldiers for battle.
Question: Who was the Prussian Minister of War?
Answer: Albrecht von Roon
Question: What was the time span that von Roon acted as minister?
Answer: 1859 to 1873
Question: He instituted a series of what regarding the Prussian military?
Answer: reforms
Question: What was the first step in the reforms?
Answer: a reorganization of the army
Question: What was the second reform?
Answer: the conscription of every male |
Context: A 2013 trans-genome study carried out by 30 geneticists, from 13 universities and academies, from 9 countries, assembling the largest data set available to date, for assessment of Ashkenazi Jewish genetic origins found no evidence of Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews. "Thus, analysis of Ashkenazi Jews together with a large sample from the region of the Khazar Khaganate corroborates the earlier results that Ashkenazi Jews derive their ancestry primarily from populations of the Middle East and Europe, that they possess considerable shared ancestry with other Jewish populations, and that there is no indication of a significant genetic contribution either from within or from north of the Caucasus region", the authors concluded.
Question: How many geneticists carried out the 2013 trans-genome study?
Answer: 30 geneticists
Question: How many universities and academies participated in the 2013 trans-genome study?
Answer: 13 universities and academies
Question: What did the 2013 trans-genome study find in regards to Ashkenazi Jews and Khazar origins?
Answer: found no evidence of Khazar origin among Ashkenazi Jews |
Context: A third type of solution to the problem of the direction of time, although much less represented, argues that the laws are not time-reversal symmetric. For example, certain processes in quantum mechanics, relating to the weak nuclear force, are not time-reversible, keeping in mind that when dealing with quantum mechanics time-reversibility comprises a more complex definition. But this type of solution is insufficient because 1) the time-asymmetric phenomena in quantum mechanics are too few to account for the uniformity of macroscopic time-asymmetry and 2) it relies on the assumption that quantum mechanics is the final or correct description of physical processes.[citation needed]
Question: What does the third type of solution to the problem of the direction of time argue?
Answer: the laws are not time-reversal symmetric
Question: What is are kind of nuclear force is not time-reversibile?
Answer: weak nuclear force
Question: Time asymmetric phenomena in quantum mechanics are to few to account what kind of time-asymmetry?
Answer: macroscopic
Question: What does the thirs solution argue is time-reversal symmetric?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What processes in quantum mechanics are reversable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What asymmetric phenomena are common in quantum mechanics?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Life with My Sister Madonna, a book by Madonna's brother Christopher, debuted at number two on The New York Times bestseller list. The book caused some friction between Madonna and her brother, because of the unsolicited publication. Problems also arose between Madonna and Ritchie, with the media reporting that they were on the verge of separation. Ultimately, Madonna filed for divorce from Ritchie, citing irreconcilable differences, which was finalized in December 2008. She decided to adopt from Malawi. The country's High Court initially approved the adoption of Chifundo "Mercy" James; however, the application was rejected because Madonna was not a resident of the country. Madonna appealed, and on June 12, 2009, the Supreme Court of Malawi granted Madonna the right to adopt Mercy James. She also released Celebration, her third greatest-hits album and final release with Warner. It contained the new songs "Celebration" and "Revolver" along with 34 hits spanning her career. Celebration reached number one in the UK, tying her with Elvis Presley as the solo act with most number one albums in the British chart history. She appeared at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, 2009, to speak in tribute to deceased pop star Michael Jackson.
Question: What is the title of the book by Madonna's brother?
Answer: Life with My Sister Madonna
Question: The book debuted at number two on which best seller's list?
Answer: The New York Times
Question: When was the divorce finalized between Madonna and Ritchie?
Answer: December 2008
Question: When did the High Court of Malawi gave the right for Madonna to adopt her second son?
Answer: June 12, 2009
Question: When did Madonna appear in MTV for the tribute to Michael Jackson?
Answer: September 13, 2009 |
Context: The largest opera houses of Paris are the 19th-century Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille; the former tends toward the more classic ballets and operas, and the latter provides a mixed repertoire of classic and modern. In middle of the 19th century, there were three other active and competing opera houses: the Opéra-Comique (which still exists), Théâtre-Italien, and Théâtre Lyrique (which in modern times changed its profile and name to Théâtre de la Ville). Philharmonie de Paris, the modern symphonic concert hall of Paris, opened in January 2015. Another musical landmark is the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, where the first performances of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes took place in 1913.
Question: When did Philharmonie de Paris open?
Answer: January 2015
Question: What are the two largest opera houses in Paris?
Answer: Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille;
Question: What does Opera Garnier specialize in?
Answer: classic ballets and operas
Question: In what year were the first performances of Diagheliv's Ballet Russes?
Answer: 1913
Question: Where di the first performances of Diagheliv's Ballets Russes take place?
Answer: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées |
Context: After the Communist Party of China took power in 1949, the flag of China became a red flag with a large star symbolizing the Communist Party, and smaller stars symbolizing workers, peasants, the urban middle class and rural middle class. The flag of the Communist Party of China became a red banner with a hammer and sickle, similar to that on the Soviet flag. In the 1950s and 1960s, other Communist regimes such as Vietnam and Laos also adopted red flags. Some Communist countries, such as Cuba, chose to keep their old flags; and other countries used red flags which had nothing to do with Communism or socialism; the red flag of Nepal, for instance, represents the national flower.
Question: What did the biggest star on the flag of China in 1949 represent?
Answer: the Communist Party
Question: In the mid 20th century the flag of Laos was primarily what color?
Answer: red
Question: What does the red color in the Nepalese flag represent?
Answer: the national flower
Question: In what year during the 20th century did the Chinese flag become red?
Answer: 1949
Question: Which group gained power in China in 1949?
Answer: the Communist Party of China
Question: Who took power in China in 1994?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What flag symbolizing China was displayed in 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 1950?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country decided to keep their old flag in 1960?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although almost all ancient sources relating to crucifixion are literary, the 1968 archeological discovery just northeast of Jerusalem of the body of a crucified man dated to the 1st century provided good confirmatory evidence that crucifixions occurred during the Roman period roughly according to the manner in which the crucifixion of Jesus is described in the gospels. The crucified man was identified as Yehohanan ben Hagkol and probably died about 70 AD, around the time of the Jewish revolt against Rome. The analyses at the Hadassah Medical School estimated that he died in his late 20s. Another relevant archaeological find, which also dates to the 1st century AD, is an unidentified heel bone with a spike discovered in a Jerusalem gravesite, now held by the Israel Antiquities Authority and displayed in the Israel Museum.
Question: Are all sources of the crucification literary?
Answer: almost all ancient sources relating to crucifixion are literary
Question: What evidence was found that Crucifixion did happen?
Answer: the 1968 archeological discovery
Question: Who was the crucified man discovered in an archaeological find?
Answer: ben Hagkol
Question: When was Ben Hagkol crucified?
Answer: about 70 AD
Question: What institution holds a heel bone with a spike inserted?
Answer: Israel Museum
Question: When did the Romans first take the city of Hagkol?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the Israel Museum established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What discovery was made northeast of the city of Hagkol?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the average age of Roman soldiers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Romans keep as a deterrent to others who would revolt?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The hydraulic crane was invented by Sir William Armstrong in 1846, primarily for use at the Tyneside docks for loading cargo. These quickly supplanted the earlier steam driven elevators: exploiting Pascal's law, they provided a much greater force. A water pump supplied a variable level of water pressure to a plunger encased inside a vertical cylinder, allowing the level of the platform (carrying a heavy load) to be raised and lowered. Counterweights and balances were also used to increase the lifting power of the apparatus.
Question: Who invented the hydraulic crane in 1846?
Answer: Sir William Armstrong
Question: Were was the hydraulic crane initially used?
Answer: Tyneside docks
Question: In what manner did hydraulic cranes employ Pascal's law?
Answer: they provided a much greater force
Question: The water pump supplied water pressure to a plunger located where?
Answer: encased inside a vertical cylinder
Question: besides water pressure, what else was used to increase the lifting power?
Answer: Counterweights and balances |
Context: An airbase, sometimes referred to as an air station or airfield, provides basing and support of military aircraft. Some airbases, known as military airports, provide facilities similar to their civilian counterparts. For example, RAF Brize Norton in the UK has a terminal which caters to passengers for the Royal Air Force's scheduled TriStar flights to the Falkland Islands. Some airbases are co-located with civilian airports, sharing the same ATC facilities, runways, taxiways and emergency services, but with separate terminals, parking areas and hangars. Bardufoss Airport , Bardufoss Air Station in Norway and Pune Airport in India are examples of this.
Question: An airfield is also referred to as what?
Answer: airbase
Question: What provides basing and support of military aircraft?
Answer: airbase
Question: Where is RAF Brize Norton located?
Answer: the UK
Question: Where is Bardufoss Air Station located?
Answer: Norway
Question: Where is Pune Airport located?
Answer: India
Question: What is a terminal also referred to as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a terminal provide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of passengers do the Pune Airport in the UK cater to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the RAF Brize Norton in India share with a civilian airport?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do Prune Airport's TriStar flights go to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From July to September 1989, Voyager 2 discovered six moons of Neptune. Of these, the irregularly shaped Proteus is notable for being as large as a body of its density can be without being pulled into a spherical shape by its own gravity. Although the second-most-massive Neptunian moon, it is only 0.25% the mass of Triton. Neptune's innermost four moons—Naiad, Thalassa, Despina and Galatea—orbit close enough to be within Neptune's rings. The next-farthest out, Larissa, was originally discovered in 1981 when it had occulted a star. This occultation had been attributed to ring arcs, but when Voyager 2 observed Neptune in 1989, Larissa was found to have caused it. Five new irregular moons discovered between 2002 and 2003 were announced in 2004. A new moon and the smallest yet, S/2004 N 1, was found in 2013. Because Neptune was the Roman god of the sea, Neptune's moons have been named after lesser sea gods.
Question: What discovered six moons of Neptune in 1989?
Answer: Voyager 2
Question: What is the second most massive Neptunian moon?
Answer: Proteus
Question: What is notable about the moon Proteus?
Answer: irregularly shaped
Question: Which are Neptune's four innermost moons?
Answer: Naiad, Thalassa, Despina and Galatea
Question: When was Neptune's moon Larissa discovered?
Answer: 1981
Question: What discovered five moons of Neptune in 1989?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the second least massive Neptunian moon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not notable about the moon Proteus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which are Neptune's four outermost moons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was discovered in 1984?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tito was interred in a mausoleum in Belgrade, which forms part of a memorial complex in the grounds of the Museum of Yugoslav History (formerly called "Museum 25 May" and "Museum of the Revolution"). The actual mausoleum is called House of Flowers (Kuća Cveća) and numerous people visit the place as a shrine to "better times". The museum keeps the gifts Tito received during his presidency. The collection also includes original prints of Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya, and many others. The Government of Serbia has planned to merge it into the Museum of the History of Serbia. At the time of his death, speculation began about whether his successors could continue to hold Yugoslavia together. Ethnic divisions and conflict grew and eventually erupted in a series of Yugoslav wars a decade after his death.
Question: In what city was Tito interred?
Answer: Belgrade
Question: What museum was formerly called "Museum 25 May"?
Answer: Museum of Yugoslav History
Question: What name was given to Tito's mausoleum?
Answer: House of Flowers
Question: Who made the original print of Los Caprichos?
Answer: Francisco Goya
Question: After whose death did speculation begin concerning whether his successors could continue to hold Yugoslavia together?
Answer: Tito |
Context: Leibniz describes a space that exists only as a relation between objects, and which has no existence apart from the existence of those objects. Motion exists only as a relation between those objects. Newtonian space provided the absolute frame of reference within which objects can have motion. In Newton's system, the frame of reference exists independently of the objects contained within it. These objects can be described as moving in relation to space itself. For many centuries, the evidence of a concave water surface held authority.
Question: Leibniz describes space as existing only as a relation between what?
Answer: objects
Question: According to Leibniz, what has no existence apart from the existence of objections?
Answer: space
Question: What provides the absolute frame of reference within which objects can have motion?
Answer: Newtonian space
Question: In Newton's system, how does the frame of reference exist between objects within it?
Answer: independently
Question: For how long did the evidence of a concave water surface hold authority in reference to space?
Answer: many centuries
Question: What does space exist independently from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What exists as a relationship between space and objects?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What provides the absolute frame of refrence for space?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is dependent on the frame of refrence in Newtonian space?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What evidence still holds authority?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As the initial punk movement dwindled, vibrant new scenes began to coalesce out of a variety of bands pursuing experimental sounds and wider conceptual territory in their work. Many of these artists drew on backgrounds in art and viewed their music as invested in particular political or aesthetic agendas. British music publications such as the NME and Sounds developed an influential part in this nascent post-punk culture, with writers like Jon Savage, Paul Morley and Ian Penman developing a dense (and often playful) style of criticism that drew on critical theory, radical politics and an eclectic variety of other sources.
Question: When the punk movement started shrinking, what began to fill the void left by their demise?
Answer: vibrant new scenes
Question: What territory did the post-punk bands pursue in their works?
Answer: wider conceptual
Question: What nationality's music magazines had an influential part of post-punk culture?
Answer: British
Question: What professional is Ian Penman known from?
Answer: writers
Question: What kind of background did many of the initial post-punk artists have?
Answer: art
Question: Who were well known authors covering the post-punk era?
Answer: Jon Savage, Paul Morley and Ian Penman
Question: What were popular post-punk culture media sources?
Answer: NME and Sounds
Question: What were the bands coming in on the heels of post-punk beginning to sound like?
Answer: experimental sounds and wider conceptual territory
Question: What was a common background of post-punk musicians?
Answer: backgrounds in art
Question: What was a common theme to post-punk music?
Answer: political or aesthetic agendas
Question: What happened as the pot-punk movement dwindled?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did American music magazines have an influence on? See later
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What fueled the many postpunk artists go into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What American writers developed a dense style of criticism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused the punk movement to increase in popularity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What career did Paul Morley avoid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nationality's music magazines did not have an influential part of post-punk culture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What styles of criticism were not used by writers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 941, Igor led another major Rus' attack on Constantinople, probably over trading rights again. A navy of 10,000 vessels, including Pecheneg allies, landed on the Bithynian coast and devastated the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus. The attack was well-timed, perhaps due to intelligence, as the Byzantine fleet was occupied with the Arabs in the Mediterranean, and the bulk of its army was stationed in the east. The Rus’ burned towns, churches, and monasteries, butchering the people and amassing booty. The emperor arranged for a small group of retired ships to be outfitted with Greek fire throwers and sent them out to meet the Rus’, luring them into surrounding the contingent before unleashing the Greek fire. Liutprand of Cremona wrote that "the Rus', seeing the flames, jumped overboard, preferring water to fire. Some sank, weighed down by the weight of their breastplates and helmets; others caught fire." Those captured were beheaded. The ploy dispelled the Rus’ fleet, but their attacks continued into the hinterland as far as Nicomedia, with many atrocities reported as victims were crucified and set up for use as targets. At last a Byzantine army arrived from the Balkans to drive the Rus' back, and a naval contingent reportedly destroyed much of the Rus' fleet on its return voyage (possibly an exaggeration since the Rus' soon mounted another attack). The outcome indicates increased military might by Byzantium since 911, suggesting a shift in the balance of power.
Question: What year did Igot led a Rus attack on Constantinople?
Answer: 941
Question: How large was the fleet that attacked the Bithynian coast along with the Pecheneg allies?
Answer: 10,000 vessels
Question: Why did the attack by the Rus go so well on the coast at the start?
Answer: Byzantine fleet was occupied with the Arabs
Question: What did the emperor of Byzatine do to some of the old retired ships to help fight the Rus?
Answer: outfitted with Greek fire throwers
Question: What year did Oleg make peace with Constantinople?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many sailing ships attacked the Bithyian coast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why id the attack by the Rus go so poorly on the coast at the start?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was the large group of retired ships outfitted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the Rus fleet defeated?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 8 June 1856, the next settlement began on Norfolk Island. These were the descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers, including those of Fletcher Christian. They resettled from the Pitcairn Islands, which had become too small for their growing population. On 3 May 1856, 193 persons left Pitcairn Islands aboard the "Morayshire". On 8 June 194 persons arrived, a baby having been born in transit. The Pitcairners occupied many of the buildings remaining from the penal settlements, and gradually established traditional farming and whaling industries on the island. Although some families decided to return to Pitcairn in 1858 and 1863, the island's population continued to grow. They accepted additional settlers, who often arrived with whaling fleets.
Question: Who were the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island descended from?
Answer: Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers
Question: Where did the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island settle from?
Answer: the Pitcairn Islands
Question: On May 3, 1856, how many Pitcairners left for Norfolk Island?
Answer: 193
Question: What was the name of the ship the Pitcairners traveled on to Norfolk Island?
Answer: Morayshire
Question: What trades did the Pitcairners establish while on Norfolk Island?
Answer: farming and whaling industries
Question: Who were the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island restricted from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the next settlement of people on Norfolk Island bomb?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many of the Pitcairners arrived at Norfolk Island on May 3, 1856?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the canoe the Pitcairners traveled on to Norfolk Island?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What trades did the Pitcairners punish while on Norfolk Island?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: One of the paper's best known front pages, published on 4 May 1982, commemorated the torpedoing of the Argentine ship the General Belgrano by running the story under the headline "GOTCHA". At MacKenzie's insistence, and against the wishes of Murdoch (the mogul was present because almost all the journalists were on strike), the headline was changed for later editions after the extent of Argentinian casualties became known. John Shirley, a reporter for The Sunday Times, witnessed copies of this edition of The Sun being thrown overboard by sailors and marines on HMS Fearless.
Question: What was the Sun's headline on 4 May 1982?
Answer: "GOTCHA"
Question: Which Argentine ship was torpedoed?
Answer: the General Belgrano
Question: Why did The Sun change the wording of the headline?
Answer: the extent of Argentinian casualties became known
Question: Which reporter saw copies of The Sun being thrown into the ocean?
Answer: John Shirley
Question: What ship were copies of The Sun thrown from?
Answer: HMS Fearless |
Context: As with bacterial classification, identification of bacteria is increasingly using molecular methods. Diagnostics using DNA-based tools, such as polymerase chain reaction, are increasingly popular due to their specificity and speed, compared to culture-based methods. These methods also allow the detection and identification of "viable but nonculturable" cells that are metabolically active but non-dividing. However, even using these improved methods, the total number of bacterial species is not known and cannot even be estimated with any certainty. Following present classification, there are a little less than 9,300 known species of prokaryotes, which includes bacteria and archaea; but attempts to estimate the true number of bacterial diversity have ranged from 107 to 109 total species – and even these diverse estimates may be off by many orders of magnitude.
Question: What technique has becoming more popular in classification of bacteria?
Answer: molecular methods
Question: What tool does DNA based diagnostics use?
Answer: polymerase chain reaction
Question: What else can molecular methods of classification reveal?
Answer: identification of "viable but nonculturable" cells
Question: Can new methods determine a total number of bacteria species?
Answer: cannot even be estimated with any certainty |
Context: Another theory describes its derivation from a non-Slavic warrior class,:42, 64–66 forming a distinct element known as the Lechici/Lekhi (Lechitów):430 :482 within the ancient Polonic tribal groupings (Indo-European caste systems). This hypothesis states this upper class was not of Slavonic extraction:482 and was of a different origin than the Slavonic peasants (kmiecie; Latin: cmethones):430 :118 over which they ruled.:482 The Szlachta were differentiated from the rural population. The nobleman's sense of distinction led to practices that in later periods would be characterized as racism.:233 The Szlachta were noble in the Aryan sense -- "noble" in contrast to the people over whom they ruled after coming into contact with them.:482 The szlachta traced their descent from Lech/Lekh, who probably founded the Polish kingdom in about the fifth century.:482 Lechia was the name of Poland in antiquity, and the szlachta's own name for themselves was Lechici/Lekhi.:482 An exact counterpart of Szlachta society was the Meerassee system of tenure of southern India—an aristocracy of equality—settled as conquerors among a separate race.:484 The Polish state paralleled the Roman Empire in that full rights of citizenship were limited to the szlachta. The szlachta were a caste, a military caste, as in Hindu society.
Question: WHat was the name of the distinct element from a nnon-Slavic warrior class?
Answer: Lechici/Lekhi (Lechitów):
Question: In this theory, what was the upper class?
Answer: was of a different origin than the Slavonic peasants
Question: WHen did they find the polish kingdom?
Answer: about the fifth century.
Question: WHat caste system does the hindu society have?
Answer: military caste
Question: Who shares the same caste system as Hindu?
Answer: The szlachta |
Context: Feynman's other work at Los Alamos included calculating neutron equations for the Los Alamos "Water Boiler", a small nuclear reactor, to measure how close an assembly of fissile material was to criticality. On completing this work he was transferred to the Oak Ridge facility, where he aided engineers in devising safety procedures for material storage so that criticality accidents (for example, due to sub-critical amounts of fissile material inadvertently stored in proximity on opposite sides of a wall) could be avoided. He also did theoretical work and calculations on the proposed uranium hydride bomb, which later proved not to be feasible.
Question: What was the Water Boiler that Feyman worked on?
Answer: nuclear reactor
Question: Where was Feyman sent after his work at Los Alamos?
Answer: Oak Ridge facility
Question: What did Feynman help produce at the Oak Ridge Facility?
Answer: safety procedures
Question: Which weapon did Feynman found to not be feasible?
Answer: uranium hydride bomb
Question: Where did Feynman work on the "Wateer Boiler"?
Answer: Los Alamos
Question: What was the Water Boiler that Feynman had no influence on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Feynman imprisoned after his work at Los Alamos?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Feynman help destroy at the Oak Ridge Facility?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which weapon did Feynman find to be feasible?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the "Water Boiler" worked on without Feynman?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Finally, hysteresis synchronous motors typically are (essentially) two-phase motors with a phase-shifting capacitor for one phase. They start like induction motors, but when slip rate decreases sufficiently, the rotor (a smooth cylinder) becomes temporarily magnetized. Its distributed poles make it act like a PMSM. The rotor material, like that of a common nail, will stay magnetized, but can also be demagnetized with little difficulty. Once running, the rotor poles stay in place; they do not drift.
Question: What do hysteresis synchronous motors' rotors do when slip rate decreases?
Answer: becomes temporarily magnetized
Question: When in operation, what do hysteresis synchronous motors poles do?
Answer: stay in place
Question: What do hysteresis synchronous motors resemble at startup?
Answer: induction motors
Question: How can a hysteresis synchronous motor's rotor be described?
Answer: a smooth cylinder
Question: What do the distributed poles of a hysteresis synchronous motor resemble?
Answer: PMSM
Question: What do hysteresis synchronous motors' rotors do when slip rate increases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When in operation, what don't hysteresis synchronous motors poles do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do hysteresis synchronous motors not resemble at startup?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How can't a hysteresis synchronous motor's rotor be described?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do the undistributed poles of a hysteresis synchronous motor resemble?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another civil war ensued after the death of Karim Khan in 1779, out of which Aqa Mohammad Khan emerged, founding the Qajar Dynasty in 1794. In 1795, following the disobedience of the Georgian subjects and their alliance with the Russians, the Qajars captured Tblisi by the Battle of Krtsanisi, and drove the Russians out of the entire Caucasus, reestablishing a short-lived Iranian suzerainty over the region. The Russo-Persian wars of 1804–1813 and 1826–1828 resulted in large irrevocable territorial losses for Iran in the Caucasus, comprising all of Transcaucasia and Dagestan, which made part of the very concept of Iran for centuries, and thus substantial gains for the neighboring Russian Empire.
Question: Whose death in 1779 led to a civil war in Iran?
Answer: Karim Khan
Question: Who founded the following Qajar Empire in 1794?
Answer: Aqa Mohammad Khan
Question: The Qajars defeated the Russians at what battle to take over Tblisi?
Answer: Battle of Krtsanisi
Question: The Qajars drove the Russians out of what entire region?
Answer: the entire Caucasus
Question: Iran lost territory in the Caucasus during what wars in the early 1800s?
Answer: Russo-Persian wars |
Context: On February 20, 1863, Kansas Governor Thomas Carney signed into law a bill creating the state university in Lawrence. The law was conditioned upon a gift from Lawrence of a $15,000 endowment fund and a site for the university, in or near the town, of not less than forty acres (16 ha) of land. If Lawrence failed to meet these conditions, Emporia instead of Lawrence would get the university.
Question: On what date was KU's Lawrence campus made official?
Answer: February 20, 1863
Question: How much money did Lawrence have to contribute to the University as terms of its charter?
Answer: $15,000
Question: What was the minimum size of the land that Lawrence could provide for the university?
Answer: forty acres
Question: What competing city was next in line if Lawrence would have been unable to meet the requirements necessary to get KU built in its city?
Answer: Emporia
Question: On what date was KU's Lawrence campus made unofficial?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much gold did Lawrence have to contribute to the University as terms of its charter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the maximum size of the land that Lawrence could provide for the university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What competing city was next in line if Lawrence would have been able to meet the requirements necessary to get KU built in its city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What out of state city was next in line if Lawrence would have been unable to meet the requirements necessary to get KU built in its city?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: While performing as a backup singer and dancer for the French disco artist Patrick Hernandez on his 1979 world tour, Madonna became romantically involved with musician Dan Gilroy. Together, they formed her first rock band, the Breakfast Club, for which Madonna sang and played drums and guitar. In 1980 or 1981 she left Breakfast Club and, with her former boyfriend Stephen Bray as drummer, formed the band Emmy. The two began writing songs together, and Madonna later decided to market herself as a solo act. Their music impressed DJ and record producer Mark Kamins who arranged a meeting between Madonna and Sire Records founder Seymour Stein.
Question: Which year was Patrick Hernandez's world tour held?
Answer: 1979
Question: Who did Madonna started seeing when she worked as a back up singer/dancer during Patrick Hernandez's tour?
Answer: Dan Gilroy
Question: What was the name of the band which Madonna and Dan Gilroy started?
Answer: Breakfast Club
Question: When did Madonna leave the Breakfast Club?
Answer: 1980 or 1981
Question: After leaving the Breakfast Club, who did she formed the band Emmy with?
Answer: Stephen Bray |
Context: The Chief Justice presides in the Senate during a president's impeachment trial. The rules of the Senate, however, generally do not grant much authority to the presiding officer. Thus, the Chief Justice's role in this regard is a limited one.
Question: Who presides over an impeachment trial?
Answer: The Chief Justice
Question: Where does the Chief Justice preside during a Senate impeachment trial?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which rules grant much authority to the presiding officer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has an unlimited role in this regard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does the president preside during the Chief Justice impeachment trial?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which rules do not grant authority to the President?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some of the theorists who advocate this "revisionist" critique imply that, because the "pure hunter-gatherer" disappeared not long after colonial (or even agricultural) contact began, nothing meaningful can be learned about prehistoric hunter-gatherers from studies of modern ones (Kelly, 24-29; see Wilmsen)
Question: What can be learned from the study of modern hunter-gatherers?
Answer: nothing meaningful
Question: Who thinks that it is useless to study modern foragers since the real ones are gone?
Answer: theorists
Question: What type of hunter-gatherer has disappeared ?
Answer: pure hunter-gatherer
Question: The "pure hunter-gatherer" appeared not long after what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Many meaningful things can be learned about prehistoric hunter-gatherers from what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Nothing meaningful can be learned about modern hunter gatherers from the studies of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who advocates this "reviled" critique?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do some theorists imply about modern hunter-gatherers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Pope John XXIII did not live to see the Vatican Council to completion. He died of stomach cancer on 3 June 1963, four and a half years after his election and two months after the completion of his final and famed encyclical, Pacem in terris. He was buried in the Vatican grottoes beneath Saint Peter's Basilica on 6 June 1963 and his cause for canonization was opened on 18 November 1965 by his successor, Pope Paul VI, who declared him a Servant of God. In addition to being named Venerable on 20 December 1999, he was beatified on 3 September 2000 by Pope John Paul II alongside Pope Pius IX and three others. Following his beatification, his body was moved on 3 June 2001 from its original place to the altar of Saint Jerome where it could be seen by the faithful. On 5 July 2013, Pope Francis – bypassing the traditionally required second miracle – declared John XXIII a saint, after unanimous agreement by a consistory, or meeting, of the College of Cardinals, based on the fact that he was considered to have lived a virtuous, model lifestyle, and because of the good for the Church which had come from his having opened the Second Vatican Council. He was canonised alongside Pope Saint John Paul II on 27 April 2014. John XXIII today is affectionately known as the "Good Pope" and in Italian, "il Papa buono".
Question: When did the pope die?
Answer: 3 June 1963
Question: What did the pope die of?
Answer: stomach cancer
Question: Where was he buried?
Answer: the Vatican grottoes beneath Saint Peter's Basilica
Question: When was he beatified?
Answer: 3 September 2000
Question: He is still known today as what?
Answer: the "Good Pope"
Question: When did Pope Francis die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long after he was elected did Pope Francis die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Pope Francis buried?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What illness did Pope Francis die of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Pope Francis beatified?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The economic structure of the Empire was defined by its geopolitical structure. The Ottoman Empire stood between the West and the East, thus blocking the land route eastward and forcing Spanish and Portuguese navigators to set sail in search of a new route to the Orient. The Empire controlled the spice route that Marco Polo once used. When Vasco da Gama bypassed Ottoman controlled routes and established direct trade links with India in 1498, and Christopher Columbus first journeyed to the Bahamas in 1492, the Ottoman Empire was at its zenith.
Question: What serviced as the foundation for the structure of the economy of the Ottoman empire?
Answer: its geopolitical structure
Question: The Ottoman Empire caused navigators from which two nations to find another route to the Orient?
Answer: Spanish and Portuguese
Question: Who once used the spice route that the Ottoman Empire controlled?
Answer: Marco Polo
Question: When were direct trade links established with India?
Answer: 1498
Question: When did Christopher Columbus sail to the Bahamas?
Answer: 1492 |
Context: Historical linguistics emerged as an independent field of study at the end of the 18th century. Sir William Jones proposed that Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Latin, Gothic, and Celtic languages all shared a common base. After Jones, an effort to catalog all languages of the world was made throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century. Publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale created the development of descriptive linguistics. Descriptive linguistics, and the related structuralism movement caused linguistics to focus on how language changes over time, instead of just describing the differences between languages. Noam Chomsky further diversified linguistics with the development of generative linguistics in the 1950s. His effort is based upon a mathematical model of language that allows for the description and prediction of valid syntax. Additional specialties such as sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and computational linguistics have emerged from collaboration between linguistics and other disciplines.
Question: What new subject surface at the end of the 18th century?
Answer: Historical linguistics
Question: Who realized that languages like Sanskrit, Persian, and Greek share the same foundation?
Answer: Sir William Jones
Question: What did Sir William Jones do to document his work?
Answer: catalog all languages of the world
Question: What did Noam Chomsky add to the study of linguistics?
Answer: the development of generative linguistics
Question: What method did Chomsky use to develop generative linguistics?
Answer: a mathematical model of language |
Context: Democracy, social-contract theory, separation of powers, religious freedom, separation of church and state – these achievements of the Reformation and early Protestantism were elaborated on and popularized by Enlightenment thinkers. Some of the philosophers of the English, Scottish, German, and Swiss Enlightenment - Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Toland, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau - had Protestant backgrounds. For example, John Locke, whose political thought was based on "a set of Protestant Christian assumptions", derived the equality of all humans, including the equality of the genders ("Adam and Eve"), from Genesis 1, 26-28. As all persons were created equally free, all governments needed "the consent of the governed." These Lockean ideas were fundamental to the United States Declaration of Independence, which also deduced human rights from the biblical belief in creation: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
Question: What group popularized early Protestant teachings about separation of church and state?
Answer: Enlightenment thinkers
Question: What did John Locke use as a basis for his political beliefs?
Answer: a set of Protestant Christian assumptions
Question: Whose ideas influenced the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: John Locke
Question: What Rights do the Declaration of Independence consider unalienable?
Answer: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
Question: What scripture did Locke use as a reference for equality?
Answer: Genesis 1, 26-28 |
Context: There is active research to make computers out of many promising new types of technology, such as optical computers, DNA computers, neural computers, and quantum computers. Most computers are universal, and are able to calculate any computable function, and are limited only by their memory capacity and operating speed. However different designs of computers can give very different performance for particular problems; for example quantum computers can potentially break some modern encryption algorithms (by quantum factoring) very quickly.
Question: What type of computer can break encryption algorithms quickly?
Answer: quantum computers
Question: By what method do quantum computers solve encryption algorithms quickly?
Answer: quantum factoring |
Context: The Marshall Islands was admitted to the United Nations based on the Security Council's recommendation on August 9, 1991, in Resolution 704 and the General Assembly's approval on September 17, 1991, in Resolution 46/3. In international politics within the United Nations, the Marshall Islands has often voted consistently with the United States with respect to General Assembly resolutions.
Question: When did the UN Security Council recommend that the Marshall Islands be allowed to join the UN?
Answer: August 9, 1991
Question: When did the UN General Assembly approve the Marshall Islands joining the UN?
Answer: September 17, 1991
Question: What nation does the Marshall Islands vote similarly to in the General Assembly?
Answer: the United States
Question: What Security Council Resolution recommended that the Marshall Islands be allowed to join the UN?
Answer: Resolution 704 |
Context: In the years that followed, Eisenhower increased the number of U.S. military advisors in South Vietnam to 900 men. This was due to North Vietnam's support of "uprisings" in the south and concern the nation would fall. In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days. President Eisenhower pledged his continued support, and a parade was held in Diem's honor in New York City. Although Diem was publicly praised, in private Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Diem had been selected because there were no better alternatives.
Question: How many soldiers did Eisenhower ultimately send to Vietnam?
Answer: 900
Question: How many days did the President of South Vietnam visit the US for in 1957?
Answer: ten
Question: Where was a parade held for the President of South Vietnam?
Answer: New York City
Question: Who was Secretary of State in 1957?
Answer: John Foster Dulles
Question: According to Dulles, why was Diem made president of Vietnam?
Answer: there were no better alternatives |
Context: The 2010 Human Development Report by the United Nations Development Program was released on November 4, 2010, and calculates HDI values based on estimates for 2010. Below is the list of the "very high human development" countries:
Question: On what date was the 2010 Human Development Report released?
Answer: November 4, 2010
Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2010 report?
Answer: 2010
Question: On what date was the 2012 Human Development Report released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was released on November 5, 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which year was used for estimates in the 2011 report?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Executions resumed on January 17, 1977, when Gary Gilmore went before a firing squad in Utah. But the pace was quite slow due to the use of litigation tactics which involved filing repeated writs of habeas corpus, which succeeded for many in delaying their actual execution for many years. Although hundreds of individuals were sentenced to death in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, only ten people besides Gilmore (who had waived all of his appeal rights) were actually executed prior to 1984.
Question: Who was executed on January 17, 1977?
Answer: Gary Gilmore
Question: By what method was Gary Gilmore executed?
Answer: firing squad
Question: Aside from Gary Gilmore, how many people were executed in the United States between January 17, 1977 and 1984?
Answer: ten
Question: What tactic did inmates on death row use to delay their executions?
Answer: filing repeated writs of habeas corpus
Question: Who was pardoned on January 17, 1977?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By what method was Gary Gilmore let go free?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Aside from Gary Gilmore, how many people were executed in the United States between January 17, 1987 and 1987?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What tactic did inmates on death row use to delay their release?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Switzerland's ecosystems can be particularly fragile, because the many delicate valleys separated by high mountains often form unique ecologies. The mountainous regions themselves are also vulnerable, with a rich range of plants not found at other altitudes, and experience some pressure from visitors and grazing. The climatic, geological and topographical conditions of the alpine region make for a very fragile ecosystem that is particularly sensitive to climate change. Nevertheless, according to the 2014 Environmental Performance Index, Switzerland ranks first among 132 nations in safeguarding the environment, due to its high scores on environmental public health, its heavy reliance on renewable sources of energy (hydropower and geothermal energy), and its control of greenhouse gas emissions.
Question: What rank was Switzerland in safeguarding the environment according to the 2014 Environmental Performance Index?
Answer: first among 132 nations
Question: What do mountainous regions have that make their ecosystems particularly fragile?
Answer: plants not found at other altitudes
Question: What is the ecosystem in the alpine region particularly sensitive to?
Answer: climate change
Question: What sources of energy does Switzerland heavily rely on?
Answer: renewable |
Context: Everything in between the far south and the far north is savannah (insignificant tree cover, with grasses and flowers located between trees). Rainfall is more limited, to between 500 and 1,500 millimetres (20 and 60 in) per year. The savannah zone's three categories are Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, Sudan savannah, and Sahel savannah. Guinean forest-savanna mosaic is plains of tall grass interrupted by trees. Sudan savannah is similar but with shorter grasses and shorter trees. Sahel savannah consists of patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast. In the Sahel region, rain is less than 500 millimetres (20 in) per year and the Sahara Desert is encroaching. In the dry north-east corner of the country lies Lake Chad, which Nigeria shares with Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
Question: What type of vegetation is in central Nigeria?
Answer: savannah
Question: How many inches of rain does central Nigeria get each year?
Answer: between 500 and 1,500 millimetres (20 and 60 in)
Question: How many subregions are there of Nigeria's savannah zone?
Answer: three
Question: How much rain does the Sahel savannah area get per year?
Answer: less than 500 millimetres (20 in)
Question: Which desert is encroaching into northeastern Nigeria?
Answer: Sahara |
Context: Some countries were not included for various reasons, such as being a non-UN member, unable, or unwilling to provide the necessary data at the time of publication. Besides the states with limited recognition, the following states were also not included.
Question: Why were all countries included?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are two methods of corruption of the judiciary: the state (through budget planning and various privileges), and the private. Budget of the judiciary in many transitional and developing countries is almost completely controlled by the executive. The latter undermines the separation of powers, as it creates a critical financial dependence of the judiciary. The proper national wealth distribution including the government spending on the judiciary is subject of the constitutional economics. Judicial corruption can be difficult to completely eradicate, even in developed countries.
Question: How many methods of judiciary corruption are there?
Answer: two
Question: What part of the government controls the judiciary budget in many developing countries?
Answer: executive
Question: What does executive branch control over judiciary money undermine?
Answer: separation of powers
Question: What type of corruption is hard to get rid of even in developed countries?
Answer: judiciary |
Context: Bermuda's modern black population contains more than one demographic group. Although the number of residents born in Africa is very small, it has tripled between 2000 and 2010 (this group also includes non-blacks). The majority of blacks in Bermuda can be termed "Bermudian blacks", whose ancestry dates back centuries between the 17th century and the end of slavery in 1834, Bermuda's black population was self-sustaining, with its growth resulting largely from natural expansion. This contrasts to the enslaved blacks of the plantation colonies, who were subjected to conditions so harsh as to drop their birth rate below the death rate, and slaveholders in the United States and the West Indies found it necessary to continue importing more enslaved blacks from Africa until the end of slavery (the same had been true for the Native Americans that the Africans had replaced on the New World plantations). The indigenous populations of many West Indian islands, and much of the South-East of what is now the United States that had survived the 16th- and 17th-century epidemics of European-introduced diseases then became the victims of large-scale slave raiding, with much of the region completely depopulated. When the supply of indigenous slaves ran out, the slaveholders looked to Africa). The ancestry of Bermuda's black population is distinguished from that of the British West Indian black population in two ways: firstly, the higher degree of European and Native American admixture; secondly, the source of the African ancestry.
Question: What term is used to refer to the majority of black people in Bermuda?
Answer: Bermudian blacks
Question: Why were so many blacks repeatedly being imported from Africa?
Answer: conditions so harsh as to drop their birth rate below the death rate
Question: Why can Bermudian blacks trace their ancestry back over centuries in Bermuda?
Answer: Bermuda's black population was self-sustaining, with its growth resulting largely from natural expansion
Question: What is one way that the ancestry of Bermudian black population differs from that of British West Indian black population?
Answer: the source of the African ancestry
Question: What modern population contains one demographic group?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What tripled in 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ended in 1843?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the ancestry of the British West Indian black population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 1843?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Maintaining continuity with his predecessors, John XXIII continued the gradual reform of the Roman liturgy, and published changes that resulted in the 1962 Roman Missal, the last typical edition containing the Tridentine Mass established in 1570 by Pope Pius V at the request of the Council of Trent and whose continued use Pope Benedict XVI authorized in 2007, under the conditions indicated in his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. In response to the directives of the Second Vatican Council, later editions of the Roman Missal present the 1970 form of the Roman Rite.
Question: John XXIII continued the gradual reform of what?
Answer: the Roman liturgy
Question: He published changes that resulted in what?
Answer: the 1962 Roman Missal
Question: What did Pope Pius V establish in 1570?
Answer: the Tridentine Mass
Question: Pope Benedict XVI authorized continued use of the Roman Missal in what year?
Answer: 2007
Question: When was the Roman Rite created?
Answer: 1970
Question: What did Pope Benedict XVI continue the gradual reform of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the changes published by Pope Benedict XVI cause?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pope John XXIII establish in 1570?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Pope John XXIII establish the Tridentine Mass?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pope Pius V continue to authorize the use of in 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 27 June, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and his brother-in-law Abdullah Senussi, head of state security, for charges concerning crimes against humanity. Libyan officials rejected the ICC, claiming that it had "no legitimacy whatsoever" and highlighting that "all of its activities are directed at African leaders". That month, Amnesty International published their findings, in which they asserted that many of the accusations of mass human rights abuses made against Gaddafist forces lacked credible evidence, and were instead fabrications of the rebel forces which had been readily adopted by the western media. Amnesty International did however still accuse Gaddafi forces of numerous war crimes. On 15 July 2011, at a meeting in Istanbul, over 30 governments recognised the NTC as the legitimate government of Libya. Gaddafi responded to the announcement with a speech on Libyan national television, in which he called on supporters to "Trample on those recognitions, trample on them under your feet ... They are worthless".
Question: What position was held by Gaddafi's brother-in-law?
Answer: head of state security
Question: About how many governments recognized the legitimacy of the NTC at a meeting on July 15, 2011?
Answer: 30
Question: Where did the July 15, 2011 meeting take place?
Answer: Istanbul
Question: Which child of Gaddafi did the ICC issue an arrest warrant for on June 27?
Answer: Saif al-Islam
Question: Who is Gaddafi's brother-in-law?
Answer: Abdullah Senussi |
Context: Thuringia generally accepted the Protestant Reformation, and Roman Catholicism was suppressed as early as 1520[citation needed]; priests who remained loyal to it were driven away and churches and monasteries were largely destroyed, especially during the German Peasants' War of 1525. In Mühlhausen and elsewhere, the Anabaptists found many adherents. Thomas Müntzer, a leader of some non-peaceful groups of this sect, was active in this city. Within the borders of modern Thuringia the Roman Catholic faith only survived in the Eichsfeld district, which was ruled by the Archbishop of Mainz, and to a small degree in Erfurt and its immediate vicinity.
Question: When did Roman Catholicism become suppressed?
Answer: as early as 1520
Question: What happened to loyal Roman Catholicism priests?
Answer: were driven away
Question: When were most churches and monasteries destroyed?
Answer: during the German Peasants' War of 1525
Question: Who was Thomas Muntzer?
Answer: a leader of some non-peaceful groups
Question: Which Thuringian district did the Roman Catholic faith survive in?
Answer: the Eichsfeld district
Question: When did Roman Catholicism become more popular?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to black Roman Catholicism priests?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were most churches and monasteries protected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Thomas Muntzer never able to become?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Thuringian district did the Roman Catholic faith die in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In brief, there is disagreement among historical analysts as to the exact time period when the minority leadership emerged officially as a party position. Nonetheless, it seems safe to conclude that the position emerged during the latter part of the 19th century, a period of strong party organization and professional politicians. This era was "marked by strong partisan attachments, resilient patronage-based party organizations, and...high levels of party voting in Congress." Plainly, these were conditions conducive to the establishment of a more highly differentiated House leadership structure.
Question: Is there a consensus about the time that minority leadership officially emerged as a position?
Answer: there is disagreement among historical analysts
Question: What party characteristics emerged in the house in late 19th century?
Answer: strong party organization and professional politicians
Question: What were these conditions effective for in the house?
Answer: establishment of a more highly differentiated House leadership structure.
Question: What do some voters not always agree with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was House leadership structure first established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the publc not agree about when Congress was formed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did professional organizations help establish for society?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what level was the public voting in the latter part of the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Spielberg's film Munich, about the events following the 1972 Munich Massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, was his second film essaying Jewish relations in the world (the first being Schindler's List). The film is based on Vengeance, a book by Canadian journalist George Jonas. It was previously adapted into the 1986 made-for-TV film Sword of Gideon. The film received strong critical praise, but underperformed at the U.S. and world box-office; it remains one of Spielberg's most controversial films to date. Munich received five Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture, Film Editing, Original Music Score (by John Williams), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director for Spielberg. It was Spielberg's sixth Best Director nomination and fifth Best Picture nomination.
Question: What was 'Munich' about?
Answer: the 1972 Munich Massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games
Question: What book was 'Munich' based on?
Answer: Vengeance
Question: Who wrote 'Vengeance'?
Answer: George Jonas
Question: How many Oscar nominations did 'Munich' get?
Answer: five
Question: Who composed music for 'Munich'?
Answer: John Williams
Question: In what year was the book Vengeance published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who directed Sword of Gideon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the score for Sword of Gideon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Israeli athletes died during the 1972 Munich Massacre?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was George Jonas' first novel to be published?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The USB Power Delivery revision 2.0 specification has been released as part of the USB 3.1 suite. It covers the Type-C cable and connector with four power/ground pairs and a separate configuration channel, which now hosts a DC coupled low-frequency BMC-coded data channel that reduces the possibilities for RF interference. Power Delivery protocols have been updated to facilitate Type-C features such as cable ID function, Alternate Mode negotiation, increased VBUS currents, and VCONN-powered accessories.
Question: The USB Power Delivery revision 2.0 specification has been released as part of what?
Answer: USB 3.1
Question: What does the USB Power Delivery revision 2.0 specification cover?
Answer: Type-C cable and connector with four power/ground pairs and a separate configuration channel
Question: Power delivery protocols have been updated to facilitate what?
Answer: Type-C features |
Context: Some recordings, such as books for the blind, were pressed at 16 2⁄3 rpm. Prestige Records released jazz records in this format in the late 1950s; for example, two of their Miles Davis albums were paired together in this format. Peter Goldmark, the man who developed the 33 1⁄3 rpm record, developed the Highway Hi-Fi 16 2⁄3 rpm record to be played in Chrysler automobiles, but poor performance of the system and weak implementation by Chrysler and Columbia led to the demise of the 16 2⁄3 rpm records. Subsequently, the 16 2⁄3 rpm speed was used for narrated publications for the blind and visually impaired, and were never widely commercially available, although it was common to see new turntable models with a 16 rpm speed setting produced as late as the 1970s.
Question: What was 16 2/3 rpm speed used for?
Answer: narrated publications
Question: Who developed the 33 1/3 rpm speed record?
Answer: Peter Goldmark
Question: What record format was created for use in Chrysler automobiles?
Answer: Highway Hi-Fi 16 2⁄3 rpm record
Question: Why did Chrysler discontinue use of the Hifi 16 2/3 rpm record?
Answer: poor performance
Question: To the end of which era could you find 16 rpm setting on record players?
Answer: 1970s |
Context: In March 2005, the Security Council formally referred the situation in Darfur to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, taking into account the Commission report but without mentioning any specific crimes. Two permanent members of the Security Council, the United States and China, abstained from the vote on the referral resolution. As of his fourth report to the Security Council, the Prosecutor has found "reasonable grounds to believe that the individuals identified [in the UN Security Council Resolution 1593] have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes," but did not find sufficient evidence to prosecute for genocide.
Question: To whom did the Security Council officially refer the situation in Darfur?
Answer: Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Question: What was taken into account, without mentioning specific crimes?
Answer: the Commission report
Question: China and what other permanent member of the Security Council abstained from the vote on the referral resolution?
Answer: the United States
Question: In which number report to the Council did the Prosecutor concede that crimes had been committed but evidence for prosecution was insufficient?
Answer: his fourth report
Question: To whom did the Security Council officially refer the situation in China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was taken into account without mentioning specific councils?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: China and what other permanent member of the Security Council abstained from the vote on crimes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which number report to the Council did the Prosecutor concede that crimes had been committed but evidence for prosecution was sufficient?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Security Council formally refer the situation in Darfur to China?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Most historians today, including John's recent biographers Ralph Turner and Lewis Warren, argue that John was an unsuccessful monarch, but note that his failings were exaggerated by 12th- and 13th-century chroniclers. Jim Bradbury notes the current consensus that John was a "hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general", albeit, as Turner suggests, with "distasteful, even dangerous personality traits", including pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty. John Gillingham, author of a major biography of Richard I, follows this line too, although he considers John a less effective general than do Turner or Warren, and describes him "one of the worst kings ever to rule England". Bradbury takes a moderate line, but suggests that in recent years modern historians have been overly lenient towards John's numerous faults. Popular historian Frank McLynn maintains a counter-revisionist perspective on John, arguing that the king's modern reputation amongst historians is "bizarre", and that as a monarch John "fails almost all those [tests] that can be legitimately set".
Question: What biographers argue that John was an unsuccessful monarch?
Answer: Ralph Turner and Lewis Warren
Question: Modern historians have been over lenient towards what?
Answer: John's numerous faults
Question: John Gillingham considers John what?
Answer: a less effective general |
Context: Each August, Turner Classic Movies suspends its regular schedule for a special month of film marathons called "Summer Under the Stars", which features entire daily schedules devoted to the work of a particular actor, with movies and specials that pertain to the star of the day. In the summer of 2007, the channel debuted "Funday Night at the Movies", a block hosted by actor Tom Kenny (best known as the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants). This summer block featured classic feature films (such as The Wizard of Oz, Sounder, Bringing Up Baby, Singin' in the Rain, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Adventures of Robin Hood and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) aimed at introducing these movies to new generations of children and their families.
Question: In what month does the Summer Under the Stars event take place?
Answer: August
Question: Who hosted Funday Night at the Movies?
Answer: Tom Kenny
Question: What character was Tom Kenny best known for portraying?
Answer: SpongeBob SquarePants
Question: In what year did Funday Night at the Movies first appear?
Answer: 2007
Question: In what month does the Funday Night at the Movies event take place?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who hosted Summer Under the Stars?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What character was Smith known for portraying?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Summer Under the Stars first appear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who suspends its regular schedule every night?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Solar water disinfection (SODIS) involves exposing water-filled plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles to sunlight for several hours. Exposure times vary depending on weather and climate from a minimum of six hours to two days during fully overcast conditions. It is recommended by the World Health Organization as a viable method for household water treatment and safe storage. Over two million people in developing countries use this method for their daily drinking water.
Question: Solar water disinfection is recommended by which organization?
Answer: the World Health Organization
Question: How long should the plastic bottles filled with water be exposed to sunlight during Solar water disinfection?
Answer: a minimum of six hours to two days during fully overcast conditions
Question: What does the World Health Organization say about Solar water disinfection?
Answer: a viable method for household water treatment and safe storage
Question: How many people use Solar water disinfection to disinfect their drinking water?
Answer: Over two million people in developing countries |
Context: Most prime ministers in parliamentary systems are not appointed for a specific term in office and in effect may remain in power through a number of elections and parliaments. For example, Margaret Thatcher was only ever appointed prime minister on one occasion, in 1979. She remained continuously in power until 1990, though she used the assembly of each House of Commons after a general election to reshuffle her cabinet.
Question: Which prime minister was appointed only one time?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher
Question: When was Thatcher appointed prime minister?
Answer: 1979
Question: When did Thatcher last hold power?
Answer: 1990
Question: What did Margaret Thatcher reconfigure following each general election?
Answer: cabinet
Question: What leader of the cabinet has a limeted term?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Prime Minister was appointed multiple times?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Despite the death of Queen Mary on 24 March, the coronation on 2 June 1953 went ahead as planned, as Mary had asked before she died. The ceremony in Westminster Abbey, with the exception of the anointing and communion, was televised for the first time.[d] Elizabeth's coronation gown was embroidered on her instructions with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries: English Tudor rose; Scots thistle; Welsh leek; Irish shamrock; Australian wattle; Canadian maple leaf; New Zealand silver fern; South African protea; lotus flowers for India and Ceylon; and Pakistan's wheat, cotton, and jute.
Question: When was the coronation of Elizabeth as Queen?
Answer: 2 June 1953
Question: How was much of the ceremony of Elizabeth's coronation presented to the public?
Answer: televised
Question: What Commonwealth symbols were embroidered on Elizabeth's gown?
Answer: floral emblems
Question: What is the emblem of England?
Answer: Tudor rose
Question: What people have a thistle for their Commonwealth emblem?
Answer: Scots
Question: When was the first ceremony at Westminster Abbey to be broadcast on the radio?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What floral emblem was highest on Elizabeth's coronation dress?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What floral emblem was lowest on Elizabeth's coronation dress?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What floral emblem was most prominent on Elizabeth's coronation dress?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What floral emblem was on the back of Elizabeth's coronation dress?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many historic and tourist sites lie in south central Hyderabad, such as the Charminar, the Mecca Masjid, the Salar Jung Museum, the Nizam's Museum, the Falaknuma Palace, and the traditional retail corridor comprising the Pearl Market, Laad Bazaar and Madina Circle. North of the river are hospitals, colleges, major railway stations and business areas such as Begum Bazaar, Koti, Abids, Sultan Bazaar and Moazzam Jahi Market, along with administrative and recreational establishments such as the Reserve Bank of India, the Telangana Secretariat, the Hyderabad Mint, the Telangana Legislature, the Public Gardens, the Nizam Club, the Ravindra Bharathi, the State Museum, the Birla Temple and the Birla Planetarium.
Question: In what region of Hyderabad is Mecca Masjid?
Answer: south central Hyderabad
Question: On what side of the river is Begum Bazaar?
Answer: North
Question: South central Hyderabad is generally the home to what attractions?
Answer: historic and tourist sites |
Context: As with other public schools, a scheme was devised towards the end of the 19th century to familiarize privileged schoolboys with social conditions in deprived areas. The project of establishing an 'Eton Mission' in the crowded district of Hackney Wick in east London was started at the beginning of 1880, and lasted until 1971 when it was decided that a more local project (at Dorney) would be more realistic. However over the years much money was raised for the Eton Mission, a fine church by G. F. Bodley was erected, many Etonians visited, and stimulated among other things the Eton Manor Boys' Club, a notable rowing club which has survived the Mission itself, and the 59 Club for motorcyclists.
Question: Which club at Eaton is for motorcyclists?
Answer: 59 Club
Question: What was the purpose for creating an Eton Mission?
Answer: familiarize privileged schoolboys with social conditions in deprived areas
Question: Why did construction of Eton Mission cease in 1971?
Answer: it was decided that a more local project (at Dorney) would be more realistic
Question: What is Eton's rowing club called?
Answer: Eton Manor Boys' Club
Question: Where was the Eton Mission originally to be located?
Answer: district of Hackney Wick in east London
Question: In what year was the Eton Manor Boys' Club established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the 59 Club started?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many students are in Eton's rowing club each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many children attended the Eton Mission each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was G.F. Bodley's church built?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Midway through the 19th century, the focus of geology shifted from description and classification to attempts to understand how the surface of the Earth had changed. The first comprehensive theories of mountain building were proposed during this period, as were the first modern theories of earthquakes and volcanoes. Louis Agassiz and others established the reality of continent-covering ice ages, and "fluvialists" like Andrew Crombie Ramsay argued that river valleys were formed, over millions of years by the rivers that flow through them. After the discovery of radioactivity, radiometric dating methods were developed, starting in the 20th century. Alfred Wegener's theory of "continental drift" was widely dismissed when he proposed it in the 1910s, but new data gathered in the 1950s and 1960s led to the theory of plate tectonics, which provided a plausible mechanism for it. Plate tectonics also provided a unified explanation for a wide range of seemingly unrelated geological phenomena. Since 1970 it has served as the unifying principle in geology.
Question: What changed about the way geology was implemented during the 19th century?
Answer: shifted from description and classification to attempts to understand how the surface of the Earth had changed
Question: The idea of an ice-age that completely covered a continent was suggested by whom?
Answer: Louis Agassiz
Question: What group did Andrew Crombie Ramsay belong to?
Answer: fluvialists
Question: What did Ramsay believe about river valleys?
Answer: were formed, over millions of years by the rivers that flow through them
Question: What happened after radioactivity was realized?
Answer: radiometric dating methods were developed |
Context: During a deposition filed for the 1887 trial, Italian inventor Antonio Meucci also claimed to have created the first working model of a telephone in Italy in 1834. In 1886, in the first of three cases in which he was involved, Meucci took the stand as a witness in the hopes of establishing his invention's priority. Meucci's evidence in this case was disputed due to a lack of material evidence for his inventions as his working models were purportedly lost at the laboratory of American District Telegraph (ADT) of New York, which was later incorporated as a subsidiary of Western Union in 1901. Meucci's work, like many other inventors of the period, was based on earlier acoustic principles and despite evidence of earlier experiments, the final case involving Meucci was eventually dropped upon Meucci's death. However, due to the efforts of Congressman Vito Fossella, the U.S. House of Representatives on June 11, 2002 stated that Meucci's "work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged", even though this did not put an end to a still contentious issue.[N 17] Some modern scholars do not agree with the claims that Bell's work on the telephone was influenced by Meucci's inventions.[N 18]
Question: Who claimed to have invented the in 1834?
Answer: Antonio Meucci
Question: How many court trials did Meucci participate in?
Answer: 3
Question: At what company were Meucci's prototypes supposedly lost?
Answer: American District Telegraph (ADT)
Question: In what year did Western Union absorb ADT?
Answer: 1901
Question: What event caused Meucci's trials to be dropped?
Answer: death |
Context: In Greece, there are 2 "Polytechnics" part of the public higher education in Greece and they confer a 5-year Diplom Uni (300E.C.T.S – I.S.C.E.D. 5A), the National Technical University of Athens and the Technical University of Crete. Also, there are Greek Higher Technological Educational Institutes (Ανώτατα Τεχνολογικά Εκπαιδευτικά Ιδρύματα – Α.T.E.I). After the N.1404/1983 Higher Education Reform Act (Ν.1404/1983 - 2916/2001 - Ν. 3549/2007 - N. 3685/2008 - N. 4009/2011) the Technological Educational Institute constitute, a parallel and equivalent with universities part of the public higher education in Greece. They confer 4-year bachelor's degree (Diplom FH) (240E.C.T.S – I.S.C.E.D. 5A).
Question: What's the name of the Act that changed how Greek public institutes of technology were designated?
Answer: Higher Education Reform Act |
Context: Hydrogen has three naturally occurring isotopes, denoted 1H, 2H and 3H. Other, highly unstable nuclei (4H to 7H) have been synthesized in the laboratory but not observed in nature.
Question: How many natural isotopes does hydrogen have>
Answer: 3H
Question: What are the names of these isotopes?
Answer: denoted 1H, 2H and 3H
Question: Which isotopes have unstable nuclei?
Answer: 4H to 7H |
Context: According to tradition, the Umayyad family (also known as the Banu Abd-Shams) and Muhammad both descended from a common ancestor, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, and they originally came from the city of Mecca. Muhammad descended from Abd Manāf via his son Hashim, while the Umayyads descended from Abd Manaf via a different son, Abd-Shams, whose son was Umayya. The two families are therefore considered to be different clans (those of Hashim and of Umayya, respectively) of the same tribe (that of the Quraish). However Muslim Shia historians suspect that Umayya was an adopted son of Abd Shams so he was not a blood relative of Abd Manaf ibn Qusai. Umayya was later discarded from the noble family. Sunni historians disagree with this and view Shia claims as nothing more than outright polemics due to their hostility to the Umayyad family in general. They point to the fact that the grand sons of Uthman, Zaid bin amr bin uthman bin affan and Abdullah bin Amr bin Uthman got married to the Sukaina and Fatima the daughters of Hussein son of Ali to show closeness of Banu hashem and Bani Ummayah.
Question: What is another term for the Umayyads?
Answer: Banu Abd-Shams
Question: Traditionally, who did the Umayyads and Muhammad both descend from?
Answer: Abd Manaf ibn Qusai
Question: From what city did the Umayyads originate?
Answer: Mecca
Question: What son of Abd-Shams was the ancestor of the Umayyads?
Answer: Umayya
Question: Who did Abd Manaf ibn Qusai descend from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who suspects that Muhammad was an adopted son?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which historians agree with the Muslim Shia historians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was married to the grandson of Abdullah bin Amr bin Uthman?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the grandson of Zaid bin amr bin uthman bin affan?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The last centuries of philosophy have seen vigorous questions regarding the arguments for God's existence raised by such philosophers as Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Antony Flew, although Kant held that the argument from morality was valid. The theist response has been either to contend, as does Alvin Plantinga, that faith is "properly basic", or to take, as does Richard Swinburne, the evidentialist position. Some theists agree that none of the arguments for God's existence are compelling, but argue that faith is not a product of reason, but requires risk. There would be no risk, they say, if the arguments for God's existence were as solid as the laws of logic, a position summed up by Pascal as "the heart has reasons of which reason does not know." A recent theory using concepts from physics and neurophysiology proposes that God can be conceptualized within the theory of integrative level.
Question: How does Alvin Plantinga describe faith?
Answer: "properly basic"
Question: Who stated "the heart has reasons of which reason does not know"?
Answer: Pascal
Question: Which philosopher takes the evidentialist position?
Answer: Richard Swinburne
Question: Name three philosophers of the last 100 years arguing for the existence of God?
Answer: Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Antony Flew
Question: What did David Hume think about the argument from morality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Pascal think about faith?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Antony Flew believe physics requires?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two areas are used to say the arguments for God's existence are solid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What three philosophers believed that God can be conceptualized in the integrative level theory?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Predatory animals often use their usual methods of attacking prey to inflict or to threaten grievous injury to their own predators. The electric eel uses the same electric current to kill prey and to defend itself against animals (anacondas, caimans, egrets, jaguars, mountain lions, giant otters, humans, dogs, and cats) that ordinarily prey upon fish similar to an electric eel in size; the electric eel thus remains an apex predator in a predator-rich environment. A predator small enough to be prey for others, the domestic cat uses its formidable teeth and claws as weapons against animals that might confuse a cat with easier prey. Many non-predatory prey animals, such as a zebra, can give a strong kick that can maim or kill, while others charge with tusks or horns.
Question: What are some predators of the electric eel?
Answer: (anacondas, caimans, egrets, jaguars, mountain lions, giant otters, humans, dogs, and cats
Question: What defense does a zebra have against predators?
Answer: strong kick that can maim or kill
Question: What defenses does a domestic cat have against predators?
Answer: formidable teeth and claws
Question: The electric eel uses electric shock for defense and what other purpose?
Answer: to kill prey
Question: What method is used by giant otters to prevent their prey from attacking them?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are a few predators of giant otters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What status does a giant otter keep among other predators?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a caiman use to defend itself agains a predator?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the favorite food of an electric eel?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Namibia (i/nəˈmɪbiə/, /næˈ-/), officially the Republic of Namibia (German: Republik Namibia (help·info); Afrikaans: Republiek van Namibië) is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, a part of less than 200 metres of the Zambezi River (essentially a small bulge in Botswana to achieve a Botswana/Zambia micro-border) separates it from that country. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek, and it is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
Question: What is the Afrikaans name for Namibia?
Answer: Namibië
Question: Where in Africa is Namibia?
Answer: southern
Question: What ocean borders Namibia?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: How far away is Namibia to the Zambezi River?
Answer: 200 metres
Question: When did Namibia gain independence from South Africa?
Answer: 21 March 1990
Question: What is the French word for the Republic of Namibia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With what country does Namibia share most of its northern border with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did the Namibian War of Independence start?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of border does Namibia share with Angola?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: "Race" is still sometimes used within forensic anthropology (when analyzing skeletal remains), biomedical research, and race-based medicine. Brace has criticized this, the practice of forensic anthropologists for using the controversial concept "race" out of convention when they in fact should be talking about regional ancestry. He argues that while forensic anthropologists can determine that a skeletal remain comes from a person with ancestors in a specific region of Africa, categorizing that skeletal as being "black" is a socially constructed category that is only meaningful in the particular context of the United States, and which is not itself scientifically valid.
Question: What type of anthropology is "race" sometimes still used within?
Answer: forensic
Question: What term would Brace prefer forensic anthropologists use?
Answer: regional ancestry
Question: What can forensic anthropologists determine about the ancestors of someone from their skeletal remains?
Answer: specific region
Question: What does Brace feel the term "black" in meaningful in?
Answer: particular context
Question: Why is it bad that a category is merely socially constructed?
Answer: is not itself scientifically valid |
Context: The town of Stalybridge in Cheshire is thought to have the pubs with both the longest and shortest names in the United Kingdom — The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn and the Q Inn.
Question: What town is the Q Inn located in?
Answer: Stalybridge
Question: What county is home to The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn?
Answer: Cheshire
Question: What pub has the shortest name in the United Kingdom?
Answer: the Q Inn
Question: What is the pub with the longest name in the UK?
Answer: The Old 13th Cheshire Rifleman Corps Inn
Question: What county is Stalybridge in?
Answer: Cheshire |
Context: In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense, idealism emphasizes how human ideas—especially beliefs and values—shape society. As an ontological doctrine, idealism goes further, asserting that all entities are composed of mind or spirit. Idealism thus rejects physicalist and dualist theories that fail to ascribe priority to the mind.
Question: What do idealist philosophies say is constructed in our minds?
Answer: reality
Question: What types of things are idealist philosophies skeptical about?
Answer: mind-independent
Question: Along with physicalist theories, what theories is idealism in conflict with?
Answer: dualist
Question: In sociology, what sorts of ideas does idealism focus on?
Answer: beliefs and values
Question: What processes do idealists say are constructed by reality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Mind-independent things are taken for granted in what philosophy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What theories does idealism crossover with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is dualism skeptical about?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which type of human ideas is idealism uninterested in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Widespread Roman interference in the Greek world was probably inevitable given the general manner of the ascendency of the Roman Republic. This Roman-Greek interaction began as a consequence of the Greek city-states located along the coast of southern Italy. Rome had come to dominate the Italian peninsula, and desired the submission of the Greek cities to its rule. Although they initially resisted, allying themselves with Pyrrhus of Epirus, and defeating the Romans at several battles, the Greek cities were unable to maintain this position and were absorbed by the Roman republic. Shortly afterwards, Rome became involved in Sicily, fighting against the Carthaginians in the First Punic War. The end result was the complete conquest of Sicily, including its previously powerful Greek cities, by the Romans.
Question: Rome dominated what peninsula?
Answer: Italian
Question: Greek cities were absorbed by what republic?
Answer: Roman
Question: Rome fought against the Carthaginians in what war?
Answer: First Punic War
Question: Sicily was won by whom in the First Punic war?
Answer: Romans |
Context: The trends of Hellenization were therefore accompanied by Greeks adopting native ways over time, but this was widely varied by place and by social class. The farther away from the Mediterranean and the lower in social status, the more likely that a colonist was to adopt local ways, while the Greco-Macedonian elites and Royal families, usually remained thoroughly Greek and viewed most non-Greeks with disdain. It is only until Cleopatra VII, that a Ptolemaic ruler bothered to learn the Egyptian language of their subjects.
Question: A colonist far from the Mediterranean and low in social rank would be more likely to do what?
Answer: adopt local ways
Question: Greco-Macedonian elites remained commited to what culture?
Answer: Greek
Question: Who did Greeks look down upon?
Answer: non-Greeks
Question: Who was the first Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language?
Answer: Cleopatra VII |
Context: Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953. In 1956, Conkling left Columbia, he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. Records, and Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company. In 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music.
Question: In what year was Epic Records created?
Answer: 1953
Question: What company created Epic Records?
Answer: Columbia
Question: Who was one of the creators of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences?
Answer: Conkling
Question: What did Conkling later go on to lead?
Answer: Warner Bros. Records
Question: What type of music was Date Records known for?
Answer: rockabilly
Question: Epic Records founded Columbia in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Lieberson helped establish the National Academy of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Columbia founded Daring Records in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Daring Records initially issued what kind of music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Lieberson left Columbia in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: When he became First Consul and later Emperor, Napoleon eschewed his general's uniform and habitually wore the simple green colonel uniform (non-Hussar) of a colonel of the Chasseur à Cheval of the Imperial Guard, the regiment that often served as his personal escort, with a large bicorne. He also habitually wore (usually on Sundays) the blue uniform of a colonel of the Imperial Guard Foot Grenadiers (blue with white facings and red cuffs). He also wore his Légion d'honneur star, medal and ribbon, and the Order of the Iron Crown decorations, white French-style culottes and white stockings. This was in contrast to the gorgeous and complex uniforms with many decorations of his marshals and those around him.
Question: After becoming First Consul, Napoleon typically wore the uniform of which rank, rather than general?
Answer: colonel
Question: What is the name of the regiment that frequently served as Napoleon's escort?
Answer: the Chasseur à Cheval of the Imperial Guard
Question: What color was the uniform that Napoleon usually wore on Sundays?
Answer: blue
Question: What color stockings did Napoleon usually wear?
Answer: white
Question: What color culottes did Napoleon typically wear?
Answer: white |
Context: There are 16 autonomous Indian Institutes of Technology in addition to 30 National Institutes of Technology which are Government Institutions. In addition to these there are many other Universities which offer higher technical courses. The Authority over technical education in India is the AICTE.
Question: How many private institutes of technology are there in India?
Answer: 16
Question: How many government-affiliated institutes of technology are there in India?
Answer: 30
Question: What organization oversees India's technical education institutions?
Answer: AICTE |
Context: The Aeneid appears to have been a great success. Virgil is said to have recited Books 2, 4, and 6 to Augustus; and Book 6 apparently caused Augustus' sister Octavia to faint. Although the truth of this claim is subject to scholarly scepticism, it has served as a basis for later art, such as Jean-Baptiste Wicar's Virgil Reading the Aeneid.
Question: Which book supposedly caused Augustus' sister to faint?
Answer: 6
Question: What was the title of Jean-Baptiste Wicar's artwork inspired by the Aeneid?
Answer: Virgil Reading the Aeneid
Question: Who did Virgil recite Books 2, 4, and 6 of the Aeneid to?
Answer: Augustus
Question: How many paintings did Jean-Baptiste Wicar base on Virgil's life?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Did critics call the painting "Virgil Reading the Aeneid" a great success or a failure?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many poems did Augustus commission from Virgil?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of a scholar that doubted claims that Augustus' sister fainted when Virgil recited the Aeneid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What book of the Aeneid is the longest?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 712, Arab Muslim general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered most of the Indus region in modern-day Pakistan for the Umayyad Empire, incorporating it as the "As-Sindh" province with its capital at Al-Mansurah, 72 km (45 mi) north of modern Hyderabad in Sindh, Pakistan. After several incursions, the Hindu kings east of Indus defeated the Arabs at the Battle of Rajasthan, halting their expansion and containing them at Sindh in Pakistan. The south Indian Chalukya empire under Vikramaditya II, Nagabhata I of the Pratihara dynasty and Bappa Rawal of the Guhilot dynasty repulsed the Arab invaders in the early 8th century.
Question: In what year did Muslim general Muhammad bin Qasim take over most of the Indus area?
Answer: 712
Question: Who eventually defeated the Arabs at Rajasthan?
Answer: Hindu kings
Question: In what area did the Indian Kings contain the Arabs?
Answer: Sindh in Pakistan
Question: When was the Arab invasion repulsed?
Answer: early 8th century
Question: Where did the Arabs establish as the capital of the newly conquered territory?
Answer: Al-Mansurah |
Context: The two main denominations of Islam are the Sunni and Shia sects. They differ primarily upon of how the life of the ummah ("faithful") should be governed, and the role of the imam. These two main differences stem from the understanding of which hadith are to interpret the Quran. Sunnis believe the true political successor of the Prophet in Sunnah is based on ٍShura (consultation) at the Saqifah which selected Abu Bakr, father of the Prophet's favourite wife, 'A'ishah, to lead the Islamic community while the religious succession ceased to exist on account of finality of Prophethood. Shia on the other hand believe that the true political as well as religious successor is Ali ibn Abi Talib, husband of the Prophet's daughter Fatimah (designated by the Prophet).
Question: Which Muslim denominations are the most dominant?
Answer: Sunni and Shia
Question: What are the two main things differentiating Sunni and Shia?
Answer: how the life of the ummah ("faithful") should be governed, and the role of the imam
Question: Who is believed, among Sunnis, to be the political successor of the Prophet?
Answer: Abu Bakr
Question: Who was Abu Bakr?
Answer: father of the Prophet's favourite wife
Question: Who was Ali ibn Abi Talib?
Answer: husband of the Prophet's daughter Fatimah
Question: What are two fringe denominations of Islam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What denominations agree on how the faithful should be governed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do the Sunni consider Ibn Abi Talib to the successor of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of sucessor do the Shia believe Abu Bakr was?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The answer to why there was so little assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe for so long would seem to lie in part in the probability that the alien surroundings in central and eastern Europe were not conducive, though contempt did not prevent some assimilation. Furthermore, Jews lived almost exclusively in shtetls, maintained a strong system of education for males, heeded rabbinic leadership, and scorned the life-style of their neighbors; and all of these tendencies increased with every outbreak of antisemitism.
Question: The lack of assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe lies in part to the fact that they lived almost exclusively in what?
Answer: shtetls
Question: A lack of assimilation of Jews in central and eastern Europe is also attributed to males taking part in what type of system?
Answer: a strong system of education
Question: In central and eastern Europe it is thought that Jewish scorn for the life-style of their neighbors increased due to what?
Answer: increased with every outbreak of antisemitism
Question: Besides living in shtetls, maintaining a strong system of education for males, and scorning the life-style of their neighbors, Jews in central and eastern Europe also did what?
Answer: heeded rabbinic leadership |
Context: Some evidence shows that alternatives to pesticides can be equally effective as the use of chemicals. For example, Sweden has halved its use of pesticides with hardly any reduction in crops.[unreliable source?] In Indonesia, farmers have reduced pesticide use on rice fields by 65% and experienced a 15% crop increase.[unreliable source?] A study of Maize fields in northern Florida found that the application of composted yard waste with high carbon to nitrogen ratio to agricultural fields was highly effective at reducing the population of plant-parasitic nematodes and increasing crop yield, with yield increases ranging from 10% to 212%; the observed effects were long-term, often not appearing until the third season of the study.
Question: How much was Sweden able to lower thier pesticide usage?
Answer: halved its use
Question: What other country has reduced its pesticide usage?
Answer: Indonesia
Question: What natural substance has been found to effectively increase crop yields
Answer: carbon to nitrogen
Question: What amount of gain in crops can be contributed to application of composted yard waste?
Answer: 10% to 212%
Question: What happened after Indonesia cut its pesticide use in half?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened when they reduced pesticide use by 65% in Sweden?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did it take to see a higher crop yield in Sweden when studied?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the range of yield increases in Sweden during the study?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of crops were studied in Sweden?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Drying involves using air and/or heat to remove water from the paper sheets; in the earliest days of paper making this was done by hanging the sheets like laundry; in more modern times various forms of heated drying mechanisms are used. On the paper machine the most common is the steam heated can dryer. These can reach temperatures above 200 °F (93 °C) and are used in long sequences of more than 40 cans; where the heat produced by these can easily dry the paper to less than 6% moisture.
Question: What is the main component of drying the paper?
Answer: air
Question: At what percentage moisture content is the papermaking process trying to achieve in the end?
Answer: 6
Question: What involves using air and heat to add water to the paper sheets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was drying done by laying the sheets on the floor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which is the least common on the paper machine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is used in short sequences of less than 40 cans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is able to dry the paper to less than 200% moisture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not the main component of drying the paper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what percentage moisture content is the papermaking process not trying to achieve in the end?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), Spain ceded the northern part of Catalonia to France, and soon thereafter the local Catalan varieties came under the influence of French, which in 1700 became the sole official language of the region.
Question: When was the Treaty of the Pyrenees?
Answer: 1659
Question: What part of Catalonia did Spain give to France?
Answer: northern part
Question: Why did Spain give part of Catalonia to France?
Answer: Treaty of the Pyrenees
Question: What language began to influence Catalan?
Answer: French
Question: When did French become the official language of that part of Catalonia?
Answer: 1700 |
Context: At the time of this entry, we were not able to identify any specific nutrition literacy studies in the U.S. at a national level. However, the findings of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) provide a basis upon which to frame the nutrition literacy problem in the U.S. NAAL introduced the first ever measure of "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions" – an objective of Healthy People 2010 and of which nutrition literacy might be considered an important subset. On a scale of below basic, basic, intermediate and proficient, NAAL found 13 percent of adult Americans have proficient health literacy, 44% have intermediate literacy, 29 percent have basic literacy and 14 percent have below basic health literacy. The study found that health literacy increases with education and people living below the level of poverty have lower health literacy than those above it.
Question: In which country were there no specific nutritional literacy studies on a national level that could be found?
Answer: U.S.
Question: What does the abbreviation NAAL represent?
Answer: National Assessment of Adult Literacy
Question: How many Americans were found to have intermediate health literacy?
Answer: 44%
Question: What percentage of Americans fell below the basics of health literacy?
Answer: 14
Question: People who had a lower health literacy rate were found to be living below what standard?
Answer: level of poverty |
Context: In coniferous or softwood species the wood cells are mostly of one kind, tracheids, and as a result the material is much more uniform in structure than that of most hardwoods. There are no vessels ("pores") in coniferous wood such as one sees so prominently in oak and ash, for example.
Question: What type of cells makes up most wood cells in coniferous trees?
Answer: tracheids
Question: Are hardwood or softwood species more uniform in structure?
Answer: softwood
Question: What are the visible vessels in hardwoods commonly called?
Answer: pores
Question: What hardwood that starts with the letter "O" would have pores?
Answer: oak
Question: Besides oak, what's an example of a hardwood with prominent pores?
Answer: ash |
Context: The constraints of constructing a flight deck affect the role of a given carrier strongly, as they influence the weight, type, and configuration of the aircraft that may be launched. For example, assisted launch mechanisms are used primarily for heavy aircraft, especially those loaded with air-to-ground weapons. CATOBAR is most commonly used on USN supercarriers as it allows the deployment of heavy jets with full loadouts, especially on ground-attack missions. STOVL is used by other navies because it is cheaper to operate and still provides good deployment capability for fighter aircraft.
Question: Why do the constraints of constructing a flight deck affect the role of a carrier?
Answer: they influence the weight, type, and configuration of the aircraft that may be launched
Question: What are assisted launch mechanisms primarily used for?
Answer: heavy aircraft
Question: What does CATOBAR allow for?
Answer: deployment of heavy jets with full loadouts
Question: Why is STOVL used by other navies?
Answer: it is cheaper to operate
Question: Why do the constraints of deconstructing a flight deck affect the role of a carrier?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are assisted launch mechanisms secondarily used for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What doesn't CATOBAR allow for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is STOVL not used by other navies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is more expensive to operate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In general, USB cables have only plugs on their ends, while hosts and devices have only receptacles. Hosts almost universally have Type-A receptacles, while devices have one or another Type-B variety. Type-A plugs mate only with Type-A receptacles, and the same applies to their Type-B counterparts; they are deliberately physically incompatible. However, an extension to the USB standard specification called USB On-The-Go (OTG) allows a single port to act as either a host or a device, which is selectable by the end of the cable that plugs into the receptacle on the OTG-enabled unit. Even after the cable is hooked up and the units are communicating, the two units may "swap" ends under program control. This capability is meant for units such as PDAs in which the USB link might connect to a PC's host port as a device in one instance, yet connect as a host itself to a keyboard and mouse device in another instance.
Question: USB cables and device have only what on their ends?
Answer: plugs
Question: Hosts and devices only have what in terms of connecting to a USB device?
Answer: receptacles
Question: Devices usually have what type of receptacle?
Answer: one or another Type-B variety
Question: Hosts almost always have what type of receptacle?
Answer: Type-A receptacles |
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