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Context: The most recognizable icon of Mexico City is the golden Angel of Independence on the wide, elegant avenue Paseo de la Reforma, modeled by the order of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico after the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This avenue was designed over the Americas' oldest known major roadway in the 19th century to connect the National Palace (seat of government) with the Castle of Chapultepec, the imperial residence. Today, this avenue is an important financial district in which the Mexican Stock Exchange and several corporate headquarters are located. Another important avenue is the Avenida de los Insurgentes, which extends 28.8 km (17.9 mi) and is one of the longest single avenues in the world. Question: What is the most popular icon of Mexico City? Answer: golden Angel of Independence Question: Who made the Angel of Independence? Answer: the order of the Emperor Maximilian Question: The angel of independence is over the roadway that connects what? Answer: National Palace (seat of government) with the Castle of Chapultepec Question: How long is the longest avenue in Mexico City? Answer: 28.8 km (17.9 mi) Question: What is the name of the longest avenue in Mexico City? Answer: Avenida de los Insurgentes
Context: Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic collection. Though it is not the only U.S. government agency specializing in HUMINT, CIA serves as the national manager for coordination and deconfliction of HUMINT activities across the entire intelligence community. Moreover, CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action on behalf of the President, unless the President determines that another agency is better suited for carrying out such action. It can, for example, exert foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division. Question: What is the CIA's main focus? Answer: overseas intelligence gathering Question: What does FBI stand for? Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation Question: What is the only agency that is authorized to carry out action on behalf of the president? Answer: CIA
Context: In 2009, IGN named the Xbox 360 the sixth-greatest video game console of all time, out of a field of 25. Although not the best-selling console of the seventh-generation, the Xbox 360 was deemed by TechRadar to be the most influential, by emphasizing digital media distribution and online gaming through Xbox Live, and by popularizing game achievement awards. PC Magazine considered the Xbox 360 the prototype for online gaming as it "proved that online gaming communities could thrive in the console space". Five years after the Xbox 360's original debut, the well-received Kinect motion capture camera was released, which set the record of being the fastest selling consumer electronic device in history, and extended the life of the console. Edge ranked Xbox 360 the second-best console of the 1993–2013 period, stating "It had its own social network, cross-game chat, new indie games every week, and the best version of just about every multiformat game...Killzone is no Halo and nowadays Gran Turismo is no Forza, but it's not about the exclusives—there's nothing to trump Naughty Dog's PS3 output, after all. Rather, it's about the choices Microsoft made back in the original Xbox's lifetime. The PC-like architecture meant those early EA Sports titles ran at 60fps compared to only 30 on PS3, Xbox Live meant every dedicated player had an existing friends list, and Halo meant Microsoft had the killer next-generation exclusive. And when developers demo games on PC now they do it with a 360 pad—another industry benchmark, and a critical one." Question: What online source called the 360 the 6th greatest console of all time in 2009? Answer: IGN Question: TechRadar honored the 360 by calling it what? Answer: most influential Question: What 360 peripheral was the fastest selling consumer electronic device in history? Answer: Kinect Question: According to PC Magazine, the 360 created the prototype for what? Answer: online gaming Question: What magazine ranked the 360 as the second best console of the 1993-2013 period? Answer: Edge Question: Who declared Kinect as the most influential console? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who ranked the PS3 as the second best console between 1993-2013? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did IGN compare Halo to? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who claimed the importance of the Xbox 360 was its exclusives? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How many consoles did Edge compare? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Tibetan sources say Deshin Shekpa also persuaded the Yongle Emperor not to impose his military might on Tibet as the Mongols had previously done. Thinley writes that before the Karmapa returned to Tibet, the Yongle Emperor began planning to send a military force into Tibet to forcibly give the Karmapa authority over all the Tibetan Buddhist schools but Deshin Shekpa dissuaded him. However, Hok-Lam Chan states that "there is little evidence that this was ever the emperor's intention" and that evidence indicates that Deshin Skekpa was invited strictly for religious purposes. Question: Who imposed on the military might on Tibet in the past? Answer: the Mongols Question: Hok-Lam Chan states that Deshin Skekpa was only invited for what purpose? Answer: religious purposes Question: What was said to be the Yongle Emperor plans? Answer: to send a military force into Tibet Question: Why was the Yongle Emperor said to have been planning to send military forces into Tibet? Answer: to forcibly give the Karmapa authority over all the Tibetan Buddhist schools Question: Who convinced the Yongle emperor not to send military forces into Tibet? Answer: Deshin Shekpa
Context: Westminster Abbey is a collegiate church governed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, as established by Royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I in 1560, which created it as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster and a Royal Peculiar under the personal jurisdiction of the Sovereign. The members of the Chapter are the Dean and four canons residentiary, assisted by the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk. One of the canons is also Rector of St Margaret's Church, Westminster, and often holds also the post of Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. Question: What kind of church is Westminster Abbey? Answer: collegiate church Question: Who created Westminster Abbey as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster? Answer: Queen Elizabeth I Question: Who governs the church? Answer: the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Question: Who are the members of the chapter of Westminster? Answer: the Dean and four canons residentiary Question: Who assist the chapter of Westminster? Answer: the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk Question: What kind of church isn't Westminster Abbey? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who hated Westminster Abbey as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who governs the school? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who aren't the members of the chapter of Westminster? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who rejects the chapter of Westminster? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Despite limited natural resources, intensive development of the agricultural and industrial sectors over the past decades has made Israel largely self-sufficient in food production, apart from grains and beef. Imports to Israel, totaling $77.59 billion in 2012, include raw materials, military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds, fuels, grain, consumer goods. Leading exports include electronics, software, computerized systems, communications technology, medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, fruits, chemicals, military technology, and cut diamonds; in 2012, Israeli exports reached $64.74 billion. Question: Imports to Israel totaled what in 2012? Answer: $77.59 billion Question: Israeli exports reached what in 2012? Answer: $64.74 billion Question: What are the leading exports in Israel? Answer: electronics, software, computerized systems
Context: The government planned to voluntarily evacuate four million people—mostly women and children—from urban areas, including 1.4 million from London. It expected about 90% of evacuees to stay in private homes, and conducted an extensive survey to determine available space. Detailed preparations for transporting them were developed. A trial blackout was held on 10 August 1939, and when Germany invaded Poland on 1 September a blackout began at sunset. Lights would not be allowed after dark for almost six years, and the blackout became by far the most unpopular aspect of the war for civilians, more than rationing.:51,106 The relocation of the government and the civil service was also planned, but would only have occurred if necessary so as not to damage civilian morale.:33 Question: The government planned to evacuate 1.4 million from which city? Answer: London Question: What trial took place on August 10 1939? Answer: a blackout Question: How long were lights not allowed on after dark? Answer: almost six years Question: What was most unpopular affect of the war with civilians ? Answer: the blackout Question: Why did the government and civil service not want to relocate during the war? Answer: damage civilian morale
Context: Myocardial infarction (MI) or acute myocardial infarction (AMI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow stops to a part of the heart causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may travel into the shoulder, arm, back, neck, or jaw. Often it is in the center or left side of the chest and lasts for more than a few minutes. The discomfort may occasionally feel like heartburn. Other symptoms may include shortness of breath, nausea, feeling faint, a cold sweat, or feeling tired. About 30% of people have atypical symptoms, with women more likely than men to present atypically. Among those over 75 years old, about 5% have had an MI with little or no history of symptoms. An MI may cause heart failure, an irregular heartbeat, or cardiac arrest. Question: What is the scientific name for blood flow? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What percentage of women have had a heart attack? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What percentage of people have chest pain when experiencing an MI? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is heartburn a commonly known as? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How long does heartburn last? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Eliot and her circle, who included her companion George Henry Lewes (the biographer of Goethe) and the abolitionist and social theorist Harriet Martineau, were much influenced by the positivism of Auguste Comte, whom Martineau had translated. Comte had proposed an atheistic culte founded on human principles – a secular Religion of Humanity (which worshiped the dead, since most humans who have ever lived are dead), complete with holidays and liturgy, modeled on the rituals of what was seen as a discredited and dilapidated Catholicism. Although Comte's English followers, like Eliot and Martineau, for the most part rejected the full gloomy panoply of his system, they liked the idea of a religion of humanity. Comte's austere vision of the universe, his injunction to "vivre pour altrui" ("live for others", from which comes the word "altruism"), and his idealisation of women inform the works of Victorian novelists and poets from George Eliot and Matthew Arnold to Thomas Hardy. Question: What abolitionist was greatly affected by the writings of Comte? Answer: Harriet Martineau Question: What type of idea did he pose which was focused on facets of humanism? Answer: atheistic Question: What main idea did the English believers of Comte's philosophy take from his writings? Answer: religion of humanity Question: What currently used word was based in ideas from this philosopher? Answer: altruism Question: What abolitionist was barely affected by the writings of Comte? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What type of idea did he reject which was focused on facets of humanism? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What main idea did the English believers of Comte's philosophy ban from his writings? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What formerly used word was based in ideas from this philosopher? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The island of Saint Helena has a total area of 122 km2 (47 sq mi), and is composed largely of rugged terrain of volcanic origin (the last volcanic eruptions occurred about 7 million years ago). Coastal areas are covered in volcanic rock and warmer and drier than the centre. The highest point of the island is Diana's Peak at 818 m (2,684 ft). In 1996 it became the island's first national park. Much of the island is covered by New Zealand flax, a legacy of former industry, but there are some original trees augmented by plantations, including those of the Millennium Forest project which was established in 2002 to replant part of the lost Great Wood and is now managed by the Saint Helena National Trust. When the island was discovered, it was covered with unique indigenous vegetation, including a remarkable cabbage tree species. The island's hinterland must have been a dense tropical forest but the coastal areas were probably also quite green. The modern landscape is very different, with widespread bare rock in the lower areas, although inland it is green, mainly due to introduced vegetation. There are no native land mammals, but cattle, cats, dogs, donkeys, goats, mice, rabbits, rats and sheep have been introduced, and native species have been adversely affected as a result. The dramatic change in landscape must be attributed to these introductions. As a result, the string tree (Acalypha rubrinervis) and the St Helena olive (Nesiota elliptica) are now extinct, and many of the other endemic plants are threatened with extinction. Question: How many square miles is Saint Helena? Answer: 47 Question: What kind of rock are coastal regions of Saint Helena covered with? Answer: volcanic Question: How many feet high is the highest peak of Saint Helena? Answer: 2,684 Question: What year did Diana's Peak officially become a state park? Answer: 1996 Question: What was formed in 2002 to replant parts of the great wood? Answer: Millennium Forest project
Context: Glass has the ability to refract, reflect, and transmit light following geometrical optics, without scattering it. It is used in the manufacture of lenses and windows. Common glass has a refraction index around 1.5. This may be modified by adding low-density materials such as boron, which lowers the index of refraction (see crown glass), or increased (to as much as 1.8) with high-density materials such as (classically) lead oxide (see flint glass and lead glass), or in modern uses, less toxic oxides of zirconium, titanium, or barium. These high-index glasses (inaccurately known as "crystal" when used in glass vessels) cause more chromatic dispersion of light, and are prized for their diamond-like optical properties. Question: What can be used to make glass less refractive? Answer: boron Question: What is the refraction index of typical glass? Answer: 1.5 Question: What is a toxic additive that increases refraction? Answer: lead oxide Question: What are high-index glasses erroneously called? Answer: crystal Question: Why are high-index glasses valued? Answer: for their diamond-like optical properties Question: What can be used to make glass less dense? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is the refraction index of diamond? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is a toxic additive that increases optics? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is another name for chromatic dispersions? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Why are high-index glasses modified? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The dismal results caused Gephardt to drop out and later endorse Kerry. Carol Moseley Braun also dropped out, endorsing Howard Dean. Besides the impact of coming in third, Dean was further hurt by a speech he gave at a post-caucus rally. Dean was shouting over the cheers of his enthusiastic audience, but the crowd noise was being filtered out by his unidirectional microphone, leaving only his full-throated exhortations audible to the television viewers. To those at home, he seemed to raise his voice out of sheer emotion. The incessant replaying of the "Dean Scream" by the press became a debate on the topic of whether Dean was the victim of media bias. The scream scene was shown approximately 633 times by cable and broadcast news networks in just four days following the incident, a number that does not include talk shows and local news broadcasts. However, those who were in the actual audience that day insist that they were not aware of the infamous "scream" until they returned to their hotel rooms and saw it on TV. Question: Which candidate, after dropping out, went on to endorse Kerry? Answer: Gephardt Question: Which troubled candidate did Carol Moseley Braun end up endorsing, after she dropped out? Answer: Howard Dean Question: The continual playing of Dean's post-rally speech by the media stirred what type of controversy? Answer: whether Dean was the victim of media bias Question: What tag did the media attach to Dean's post-rally speech? Answer: "Dean Scream" Question: Did those in attendance at Dean's speech know about the "Dean Scream"? Answer: they were not aware Question: Where did Carol Moseley Braun give a speech that hurt her campaign? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was Braun thought to be a victim of by the media? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How many times were their news reports that focused on negative events in Braun's campaign? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What place in the race was Braun? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was filtering the crowd noise when Braun was giving a speech? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The optimum format for a broadcast depends upon the type of videographic recording medium used and the image's characteristics. For best fidelity to the source the transmitted field ratio, lines, and frame rate should match those of the source. Question: A broadcasts optimum format depends on what two things? Answer: the type of videographic recording medium used and the image's characteristics Question: For best fidelity to the source, what three things should match the source? Answer: transmitted field ratio, lines, and frame rate Question: For best fidelity to the source, the transmitted field ratio, lines, and frame rate should match what? Answer: those of the source Question: The type of videographic recording medium used and the image's characteristics determine what? Answer: The optimum format for a broadcast Question: A broadcasts optimum format depends on what three things? Answer: Unanswerable Question: For best fidelity to the source, what five things should match the source? Answer: Unanswerable Question: For best fidelity to the source, the transmitted field ratio, lines, and frame rate should not match what? Answer: Unanswerable Question: The type of videographic recording medium didn't use and the image's characteristics determine what? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The first boardwalk was built in 1870 along a portion of the beach in an effort to help hotel owners keep sand out of their lobbies. Businesses were restricted and the boardwalk was removed each year at the end of the peak season. Because of its effectiveness and popularity, the boardwalk was expanded in length and width, and modified several times in subsequent years. The historic length of the boardwalk, before the destructive 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane, was about 7 miles (11 km) and it extended from Atlantic City to Longport, through Ventnor and Margate. Question: In what year was the first boardwalk built in Atlantic City? Answer: 1870 Question: Why was the first boardwalk built in Atlantic City? Answer: to help hotel owners keep sand out of their lobbies Question: What year was the Great Atlantic Hurricane? Answer: 1944 Question: What was the historic length of the boardwalk before the Great Atlantic Hurricane? Answer: about 7 miles Question: Before the Great Atlantic Hurricane the boardwalk extended from Atlantic City to what other city? Answer: Longport
Context: Fryderyk may have had some piano instruction from his mother, but his first professional music tutor, from 1816 to 1821, was the Czech pianist Wojciech Żywny. His elder sister Ludwika also took lessons from Żywny, and occasionally played duets with her brother. It quickly became apparent that he was a child prodigy. By the age of seven Fryderyk had begun giving public concerts, and in 1817 he composed two polonaises, in G minor and B-flat major. His next work, a polonaise in A-flat major of 1821, dedicated to Żywny, is his earliest surviving musical manuscript. Question: Who was Frédéric's first professional teacher in music? Answer: Wojciech Żywny Question: Which sister did Frédéric play duets with sometimes while being tutored at this time? Answer: Ludwika Question: At what age did Frédéric start giving public concerts? Answer: 7 Question: What did Frédéric compose during the year of 1817? Answer: two polonaises Question: What is the earliest surviving musical notation composed by Frédéric? Answer: a polonaise in A-flat major of 1821 Question: Who was Chopin's initial piano teacher? Answer: Wojciech Żywny Question: Which of his sisters did Chopin sometimes duet with? Answer: Ludwika Question: At what age did Chopin start playing publicly? Answer: 7 Question: What year did Chopin compose his first work? Answer: 1817 Question: During what years did Chopin receive instruction from Żywny? Answer: 1816 to 1821 Question: What is the name of Chopin's first music teacher that was not an amateur musician? Answer: Wojciech Żywny Question: Which of Chopin's sisters would play music with him? Answer: Ludwika Question: How old was Chopin when he began to perform for the public? Answer: 7 Question: Who was Chopin's earliest piece of music, that there is a record of, dedicated to? Answer: Wojciech Żywny
Context: Muslims have been living in Tibet since as early as the 8th or 9th century. In Tibetan cities, there are small communities of Muslims, known as Kachee (Kache), who trace their origin to immigrants from three main regions: Kashmir (Kachee Yul in ancient Tibetan), Ladakh and the Central Asian Turkic countries. Islamic influence in Tibet also came from Persia. After 1959 a group of Tibetan Muslims made a case for Indian nationality based on their historic roots to Kashmir and the Indian government declared all Tibetan Muslims Indian citizens later on that year. Other Muslim ethnic groups who have long inhabited Tibet include Hui, Salar, Dongxiang and Bonan. There is also a well established Chinese Muslim community (gya kachee), which traces its ancestry back to the Hui ethnic group of China. Question: What are Tibetan Muslims known as? Answer: Kachee Question: Where did Islamic influence in Tibet come from? Answer: Persia Question: In what year were all Tibetan Muslims declared Indiana citizens? Answer: 1959 Question: What is the Chinese Muslim community called? Answer: gya kachee Question: What group of people has been living in Tibet since 1959? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is an Indian term for Muslims? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is an Indian term for Chinese Muslims? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: His sister Ancilla would soon be diagnosed with stomach cancer in the early 1950s. Roncalli's last letter to her was dated on 8 November 1953 where he promised to visit her within the next week. He could not keep that promise, as Ancilla died on 11 November 1953 at the time when he was consecrating a new church in Venice. He attended her funeral back in his hometown. In his will around this time, he mentioned that he wished to be buried in the crypt of Saint Mark's in Venice with some of his predecessors rather than with the family in Sotto il Monte. Question: When was his sister Ancilla diagnosed with stomach cancer? Answer: the early 1950s Question: When did he send his last letter to his dying sister? Answer: 8 November 1953 Question: When did Ancilla die? Answer: 11 November 1953 Question: Where did he want to be buried? Answer: the crypt of Saint Mark's in Venice Question: What was Roncalli diagnosed with in the early 1950's? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where did Roncalli's sister want to be buried in her will? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where was Roncalli's funeral held? Answer: Unanswerable Question: When was one of Roncalli's predecessors buried? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Just over a quarter of the jobs available in the city are in the health and education sector. A further 19 per cent are property and other business and the third largest sector is wholesale and retail, which accounts for 16.2 percent. Between 1995 and 2004, the number of jobs in Southampton has increased by 18.5 per cent. Question: What sector provides about a quarter of Southampton's available jobs? Answer: health and education Question: What percentage of available jobs in Southampton are in the property/other business sector? Answer: 19 Question: What's the third largest sector providing jobs in Southampton? Answer: wholesale and retail Question: By what percentage did available jobs increase in Southampton between 1995 and 2004? Answer: 18.5 Question: What percentage of available jobs in Southampton are in wholesale and retail industries? Answer: 16.2
Context: Some historians and researchers argue that the emotional and affectionate activities associated with sexual-orientation terms such as "gay" and "heterosexual" change significantly over time and across cultural boundaries. For example, in many English-speaking nations, it is assumed that same-sex kissing, particularly between men, is a sign of homosexuality, whereas various types of same-sex kissing are common expressions of friendship in other nations. Also, many modern and historic cultures have formal ceremonies expressing long-term commitment between same-sex friends, even though homosexuality itself is taboo within the cultures. Question: What do historians and researches argue about concerning the emotional and affectionate activities? Answer: activities associated with sexual-orientation terms such as "gay" and "heterosexual" change significantly over time and across cultural boundaries. Question: What can be assumed in english speaking nations when two men kiss? Answer: is a sign of homosexuality Question: What do some cultures have formal ceremonies for? Answer: expressing long-term commitment between same-sex friends
Context: After Cassander's death in 298 BCE, however, Demetrius, who still maintained a sizable loyal army and fleet, invaded Macedon, seized the Macedonian throne (294) and conquered Thessaly and most of central Greece (293-291). He was defeated in 288 BC when Lysimachus of Thrace and Pyrrhus of Epirus invaded Macedon on two fronts, and quickly carved up the kingdom for themselves. Demetrius fled to central Greece with his mercenaries and began to build support there and in the northern Peloponnese. He once again laid siege to Athens after they turned on him, but then struck a treaty with the Athenians and Ptolemy, which allowed him to cross over to Asia minor and wage war on Lysimachus' holdings in Ionia, leaving his son Antigonus Gonatas in Greece. After initial successes, he was forced to surrender to Seleucus in 285 and later died in captivity. Lysimachus, who had seized Macedon and Thessaly for himself, was forced into war when Seleucus invaded his territories in Asia minor and was defeated and killed in 281 BCE at the Battle of Corupedium, near Sardis. Seleucus then attempted to conquer Lysimachus' European territories in Thrace and Macedon, but he was assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus ("the thunderbolt"), who had taken refuge at the Seleucid court and then had himself acclaimed as king of Macedon. Ptolemy was killed when Macedon was invaded by Gauls in 279, his head stuck on a spear and the country fell into anarchy. Antigonus II Gonatas invaded Thrace in the summer of 277 and defeated a large force of 18,000 Gauls. He was quickly hailed as king of Macedon and went on to rule for 35 years. Question: When did Cassander die? Answer: 298 BCE Question: When did Demetrius seize the Macedonian throne? Answer: 294 Question: Who captured Demetrius? Answer: Seleucus Question: What year was Seleucus killed? Answer: 281 BCE Question: At what battle was Seleucus killed ? Answer: Battle of Corupedium
Context: In August 2012, the AFL announced a new project into China, known as the China American Football League. The CAFL project is headed up by ESPN NFL analyst and Philadelphia Soul majority owner president Ron Jaworski. The plans were to establish a six-team league that would play a 10-week schedule that was slated to start in October 2014. The AFL coaches and trainers will travel to China to help teach the rules of the sport to squads made up of Chinese and American players with the goal of starting an official Chinese arena league. Ganlan Media International were given exclusive rights to the new Chinese league. Question: What league did the AFL found in China? Answer: the China American Football League Question: When was the AFL's China project announced? Answer: August 2012 Question: Who is leading the China American Football League? Answer: Ron Jaworski Question: What television network does Ron Jaworski work for? Answer: ESPN Question: What team is Ron Jaworski the majority owner of? Answer: Philadelphia Soul
Context: Puppetry and shadow plays were also a favoured form of entertainment in past centuries, a famous one being Wayang from Indonesia. The arts and literature in some of Southeast Asia is quite influenced by Hinduism, which was brought to them centuries ago. Indonesia, despite conversion to Islam which opposes certain forms of art, has retained many forms of Hindu-influenced practices, culture, art and literature. An example is the Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppet) and literature like the Ramayana. The wayang kulit show has been recognized by UNESCO on November 7, 2003, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Question: What were the favorite forms of entertainment in Southeast Asia? Answer: Puppetry and shadow plays Question: Art & literature in Southeast Asia is influenced by which religion? Answer: Hinduism Question: The UNESCO has recognized which show as a Masterpiece of Oral & Intangible Heritage of Humanity Answer: The wayang kulit Question: Which country despite converting to Islam has retained many forms of Hindu practices, culture, art & literature? Answer: Indonesia Question: What is currently a favorite form of entertainment? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is a famous shadow play from India? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Islam has influenced what in Southeast Asia? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did UNESCO regognize the 2003 play Wayang as? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Nigeria is divided into thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory, which are further sub-divided into 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs). The plethora of states, of which there were only three at independence, reflect the country's tumultuous history and the difficulties of managing such a heterogeneous national entity at all levels of government. In some contexts, the states are aggregated into six geopolitical zones: North West, North East, North Central, South East, South South, and South West. Question: How many states does Nigeria have? Answer: thirty-six Question: What non-state area does Nigeria have? Answer: Federal Capital Territory Question: How many smaller areas are the Nigerian states divided into? Answer: 774 Question: What are the Nigerian states' sub-divisions called? Answer: Local Government Areas Question: How many geopolitical zones do people consider the Nigerian states to be in? Answer: six
Context: Original master discs are created by lathe-cutting: a lathe is used to cut a modulated groove into a blank record. The blank records for cutting used to be cooked up, as needed, by the cutting engineer, using what Robert K. Morrison describes as a "metallic soap," containing lead litharge, ozokerite, barium sulfate, montan wax, stearin and paraffin, among other ingredients. Cut "wax" sound discs would be placed in a vacuum chamber and gold-sputtered to make them electrically conductive for use as mandrels in an electroforming bath, where pressing stamper parts were made. Later, the French company Pyral invented a ready-made blank disc having a thin nitro-cellulose lacquer coating (approximately 7 mils thickness on both sides) that was applied to an aluminum substrate. Lacquer cuts result in an immediately playable, or processable, master record. If vinyl pressings are wanted, the still-unplayed sound disc is used as a mandrel for electroforming nickel records that are used for manufacturing pressing stampers. The electroformed nickel records are mechanically separated from their respective mandrels. This is done with relative ease because no actual "plating" of the mandrel occurs in the type of electrodeposition known as electroforming, unlike with electroplating, in which the adhesion of the new phase of metal is chemical and relatively permanent. The one-molecule-thick coating of silver (that was sprayed onto the processed lacquer sound disc in order to make its surface electrically conductive) reverse-plates onto the nickel record's face. This negative impression disc (having ridges in place of grooves) is known as a nickel master, "matrix" or "father." The "father" is then used as a mandrel to electroform a positive disc known as a "mother". Many mothers can be grown on a single "father" before ridges deteriorate beyond effective use. The "mothers" are then used as mandrels for electroforming more negative discs known as "sons". Each "mother" can be used to make many "sons" before deteriorating. The "sons" are then converted into "stampers" by center-punching a spindle hole (which was lost from the lacquer sound disc during initial electroforming of the "father"), and by custom-forming the target pressing profile. This allows them to be placed in the dies of the target (make and model) record press and, by center-roughing, to facilitate the adhesion of the label, which gets stuck onto the vinyl pressing without any glue. In this way, several million vinyl discs can be produced from a single lacquer sound disc. When only a few hundred discs are required, instead of electroforming a "son" (for each side), the "father" is removed of its silver and converted into a stamper. Production by this latter method, known as the "two-step-process" (as it does not entail creation of "sons" but does involve creation of "mothers," which are used for test playing and kept as "safeties" for electroforming future "sons") is limited to a few hundred vinyl pressings. The pressing count can increase if the stamper holds out and the quality of the vinyl is high. The "sons" made during a "three-step" electroforming make better stampers since they don't require silver removal (which reduces some high fidelity because of etching erasing part of the smallest groove modulations) and also because they have a stronger metal structure than "fathers". Question: What is the two step process? Answer: "father" is removed of its silver and converted into a stamper Question: What is the limitation of the two step process? Answer: limited to a few hundred vinyl pressings Question: Which is preferred the two step or three step process? Answer: three-step Question: Which have stronger structures the father or son mold? Answer: sons Question: What can increase the output of a stamper mold? Answer: quality of the vinyl is high
Context: In 1896, Patrick and Gilbert observed that during a prolonged period of sleep deprivation, sleepiness increases and decreases with a period of approximately 24 hours. In 1918, J.S. Szymanski showed that animals are capable of maintaining 24-hour activity patterns in the absence of external cues such as light and changes in temperature. In the early 20th century, circadian rhythms were noticed in the rhythmic feeding times of bees. Extensive experiments were done by Auguste Forel, Ingeborg Beling, and Oskar Wahl to see whether this rhythm was due to an endogenous clock.[citation needed] Ron Konopka and Seymour Benzer isolated the first clock mutant in Drosophila in the early 1970s and mapped the "period" gene, the first discovered genetic determinant of behavioral rhythmicity. Joseph Takahashi discovered the first mammalian circadian clock mutation (clockΔ19) using mice in 1994. However, recent studies show that deletion of clock does not lead to a behavioral phenotype (the animals still have normal circadian rhythms), which questions its importance in rhythm generation. Question: Who noticed that sleepiness increases and decreases in a 24 hour period? Answer: Patrick and Gilbert Question: Who showed the animals could maintain activity in the absence of light and temperature changes? Answer: J.S. Szymanski Question: What animals rhythmic feeding times were studied in the early 20th century ? Answer: bees Question: What gene did Konopka and Benzer map in the early 1970 s? Answer: "period" Question: What mutation did Takahashi discover in 1994? Answer: circadian clock Question: Who observed that sleepiness remained steady over twenty-four hour period? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did Patrick and Gilbert show in 1918? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was noticed in the rhythmic feeding time of birds in the early twentieth century? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did Ingeborg Beling and Oskar Wahl isolate in the early 1970s? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The creation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 was through the unification of the western states (which were previously under American, British, and French administration) created in the aftermath of World War II. Initially, in 1949, the states of the Federal Republic were Baden, Bavaria (in German: Bayern), Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse (Hessen), Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), North Rhine Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Schleswig-Holstein, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern. West Berlin, while officially not part of the Federal Republic, was largely integrated and considered as a de facto state. Question: When was the Federal Republic of Germany created Answer: 1949 Question: Which countries administrations was the Federal Republic of Germany previously under? Answer: American, British, and French Question: Which city was originally not a part of the Federal Republic of Germany? Answer: West Berlin Question: What was the Federal Republic of Germany created in the aftermath of? Answer: World War II Question: When was the Federal Republic of France created? Answer: Unanswerable Question: After what event was France created in 1949? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which area was not officially a part of Bavaria? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who was in control of West Berlin before WWII? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What state was officially not a part of Britain? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was created in 1959 in Germany? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is one of the administrations of the eastern states? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was founded before World War II? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What area has always been a part of the Federal Republic of Germany? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which war was the Federal Republic of Germany created before? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: A number of modern movements or tendencies in Buddhism emerged during the second half of the 20th Century, including the Dalit Buddhist movement (also sometimes called 'neo-Buddhism'), Engaged Buddhism, and the further development of various Western Buddhist traditions. Question: When did a number of modern movement in Buddhism emerge? Answer: second half of the 20th Century Question: What is the Dalit buddhist movement sometimes called? Answer: neo-Buddhism
Context: If the British Empire was now going to side with the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire had no choice but to cultivate a relationship with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was supported by the German Empire. In a few years these alignments became the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance (already formed in 1882), which were in part a cause of World War I. By its end in 1918 three empires were gone, a fourth was about to fall to revolution, and two more, the British and French, were forced to yield in revolutions started under the aegis of their own ideologies. Question: The Ottoman Empire had no choice but to develop their relationship with what country? Answer: Austro-Hungarian Empire Question: Who supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Answer: the German Empire Question: Who did the British Empire side with? Answer: the Russian Empire Question: The formation of the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance partly caused what? Answer: World War I Question: By what year were three empires gone? Answer: 1918
Context: Unfortunately, requiring two characters to mark the end of a line introduces unnecessary complexity and questions as to how to interpret each character when encountered alone. To simplify matters plain text data streams, including files, on Multics used line feed (LF) alone as a line terminator. Unix and Unix-like systems, and Amiga systems, adopted this convention from Multics. The original Macintosh OS, Apple DOS, and ProDOS, on the other hand, used carriage return (CR) alone as a line terminator; however, since Apple replaced these operating systems with the Unix-based OS X operating system, they now use line feed (LF) as well. Question: Why is adding two characters at the ned of a line problemsome? Answer: introduces unnecessary complexity and questions as to how to interpret each character when encountered alone Question: What id Multics use to simplify plain text data? Answer: line feed (LF) alone as a line terminator Question: Who adopted this practice from Multics? Answer: Unix and Unix-like systems, and Amiga systems Question: What used carriage return(CR) alone as a line terminator? Answer: Macintosh OS, Apple DOS, and ProDOS Question: When did Apple replace their CR with line feed (LF)? Answer: since Apple replaced these operating systems with the Unix-based OS X operating system Question: Why is adding the Unix-based operating system at the end of a line problemsome? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did characters use to simplify plain text data? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who adopted this practice from Apple? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What used carriage return(CR) alone as a data stream? Answer: Unanswerable Question: When did Amiga stystems replace their CR with line feed (LF)? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: A plethora of anti-aircraft gun systems of smaller calibre were available to the German Wehrmacht combined forces, and among them the 1940-origin Flakvierling quadruple-20 mm-gun antiaircraft weapon system was one of the most often-seen weapons, seeing service on both land and sea. The similar Allied smaller-calibre air-defence weapons systems of the American forces were also quite capable, although they receive little attention. Their needs could cogently be met with smaller-calibre ordnance beyond using the usual singly-mounted M2 .50 caliber machine gun atop a tank's turret, as four of the ground-used "heavy barrel" (M2HB) guns were mounted together on the American Maxson firm's M45 Quadmount weapons system (as a direct answer to the Flakvierling),which were often mounted on the back of a half-track to form the Half Track, M16 GMC, Anti-Aircraft. Although of less power than Germany's 20 mm systems, the typical 4 or 5 combat batteries of an Army AAA battalion were often spread many kilometers apart from each other, rapidly attaching and detaching to larger ground combat units to provide welcome defence from enemy aircraft. Question: What was one of the most often seen weapons that was used both on land and sea? Answer: 1940-origin Flakvierling quadruple-20 mm-gun antiaircraft weapon system Question: What weapons system did American troops use but received minute attention? Answer: Allied smaller-calibre air-defence weapons systems Question: How many of the M2HB guns were mounted together on the M45 Quadmount weapons system? Answer: four Question: This system was a direct answer to what? Answer: the Flakvierling Question: The combat batteries of an Army AAA battalion were often spread how far apart from each other? Answer: many kilometers
Context: For various reasons, the new firm operated as a dual-listed company, whereby the merging companies maintained their legal existence, but operated as a single-unit partnership for business purposes. The terms of the merger gave 60 percent ownership of the new group to the Dutch arm and 40 percent to the British. National patriotic sensibilities would not permit a full-scale merger or takeover of either of the two companies. The Dutch company, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij, was in charge at The Hague of production and manufacture. A British company was formed, called the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, based in London, to direct the transport and storage of the products. Question: What percent of ownership did the merger award the Dutch branch? Answer: 60 Question: What prevented a full-scale merger of the two companies? Answer: National patriotic sensibilities Question: What was the primary function of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company? Answer: to direct the transport and storage of the products Question: The new firm operated as what type of company? Answer: a dual-listed company Question: What percent of ownership of the new company was awarded to the British? Answer: 40 Question: What encouraged a full-scale merger of the two companies? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What british company was in charge at The Hague? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What city were both branches of the new firm located in? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was the name of the Dutch company in charge of transportation and storage? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Why did the two companies function as a dual-unit partnership for business purposes? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Economists argue that one of the factors behind the differing economic development in Africa and Asia is that in Africa, corruption has primarily taken the form of rent extraction with the resulting financial capital moved overseas rather than invested at home (hence the stereotypical, but often accurate, image of African dictators having Swiss bank accounts). In Nigeria, for example, more than $400 billion was stolen from the treasury by Nigeria's leaders between 1960 and 1999. Question: African dictators often have what kind of bank accounts? Answer: Swiss Question: What form has corruption taken in Africa? Answer: rent extraction Question: In Africa, the finances are often moved where? Answer: overseas
Context: Law professor, writer and political activist Lawrence Lessig, along with many other copyleft and free software activists, has criticized the implied analogy with physical property (like land or an automobile). They argue such an analogy fails because physical property is generally rivalrous while intellectual works are non-rivalrous (that is, if one makes a copy of a work, the enjoyment of the copy does not prevent enjoyment of the original). Other arguments along these lines claim that unlike the situation with tangible property, there is no natural scarcity of a particular idea or information: once it exists at all, it can be re-used and duplicated indefinitely without such re-use diminishing the original. Stephan Kinsella has objected to intellectual property on the grounds that the word "property" implies scarcity, which may not be applicable to ideas. Question: Who is one advocate of copyleft? Answer: Lawrence Lessig Question: Who has objected to the idea of IP because "property" implies scarcity? Answer: Stephan Kinsella Question: Having no natural scarcity makes IP different from what kind of property? Answer: tangible Question: How much can IP be duplicated without diminishing the original? Answer: indefinitely Question: What Law proffessor suppoert copyright? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who says property does not imply scarcity? Answer: Unanswerable Question: IP is like what other kind of property? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What can not be duplicated without diminishing the original? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Some of the best-known traditions, including carnal parades and masquerade balls, were first recorded in medieval Italy. The carnival of Venice was, for a long time, the most famous carnival (although Napoleon abolished it in 1797 and only in 1979 was the tradition restored). From Italy, Carnival traditions spread to Spain, Portugal and France and from France to New France in North America. From Spain and Portugal it spread with colonization to the Caribbean and Latin America. In the early 19th century in the German Rhineland and Southern Netherlands, the weakened medieval tradition also revive. Continuously in the 18th and 19th centuries CE, as part of the annual Saturnalia abuse of the carnival in Rome, rabbis of the ghetto were forced to march through the city streets wearing foolish guise, jeered upon and pelted by a variety of missiles from the crowd. A petition of the Jewish community of Rome sent in 1836 to Pope Gregory XVI to stop the annual anti-semitic Saturnalia abuse got a negation: “It is not opportune to make any innovation.” Question: Where were some of the best-known traditions first recorded? Answer: Italy Question: What city's carnival was the most famous for a long time? Answer: Venice Question: What was the first place in North America with a Carnival tradition? Answer: New France Question: What were rabbis from the ghettos forced to march through the city streets wearing? Answer: foolish guise Question: Who dismissed the petition of the Jewish community to stop the abuse of them? Answer: Pope Gregory XVI
Context: In 1994, cinematographic production received a boost with the establishment of the Cinema Advisory Committee. As of the year 2000, the annual amount set aside in the national budget stands at Cy Pounds 500,000 (about 850,000 Euros). In addition to government grants, Cypriot co-productions are eligible for funding from the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund, which finances European film co-productions. To date, four feature-length films in which a Cypriot was executive producer have received funding from Eurimages. The first was I Sphagi tou Kokora (1992), completed in 1996, Hellados (And the Trains Fly to the Sky, 1995), which is currently in post-production, and Costas Demetriou's O Dromos gia tin Ithaki (The Road to Ithaka, 1997) which premiered in March 2000. The theme song to The Road to Ithaka was composed by Costas Cacoyannis and sung by Alexia Vassiliou. In September 1999, To Tama (The Promise) by Andreas Pantzis also received funding from the Eurimages Fund. In 2009 the Greek director, writer and producer Vassilis Mazomenos filmed in Cyprus Guilt. The film was awarded in 2012 with the Best Screenwriting and Best Photography award in London Greek Film Festival (UK) and was official selection in Montreal World Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival, India International Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Fantasporto and opening film in the Panorama of European Cinema in Athens. In 2010 the film was Nominated for the best film from the Hellenic Film Academy. Question: What is the amount in Euros of money set aside for the Cinema Advisory Committee? Answer: 850,000 Euros Question: Who finances European film co-productions? Answer: Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund Question: What was the first feature film to receive funding from Eurimages? Answer: I Sphagi tou Kokora Question: Which film was awarded the Best Screenwriting and Best Photography at the London Greek Film Festival? Answer: Cyprus Guilt
Context: Port of Nanjing is the largest inland port in China, with annual cargo tonnage reached 191,970,000 t in 2012. The port area is 98 kilometres (61 mi) in length and has 64 berths including 16 berths for ships with a tonnage of more than 10,000. Nanjing is also the biggest container port along the Yangtze River; in March 2004, the one million container-capacity base, Longtan Containers Port Area opened, further consolidating Nanjing as the leading port in the region. As of 2010, it operated six public ports and three industrial ports. Question: What is the largest inland port for China? Answer: Port of Nanjing Question: How long is the Port of Nanjing? Answer: 98 kilometres (61 mi) in length Question: How many berths does the Port contain? Answer: 64 Question: When did Longtan Containers Port Area open up? Answer: March 2004 Question: How many containers can Longtan Containers Port Area handle? Answer: one million container-capacity
Context: For 2016, U.S. News & World Report ranked BYU as tied for 66th for national universities in the United States. A 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics study of where the nation's top high school students choose to enroll ranked BYU No. 21 in its peer-reviewed study. The Princeton Review has ranked BYU the best value for college in 2007, and its library is consistently ranked in the nation's top ten — No. 1 in 2004 and No. 4 in 2007. BYU is also ranked No. 19 in the U.S. News and World Report's "Great Schools, Great Prices" lineup, and No. 12 in lowest student-incurred debt. Due in part to the school's emphasis on undergraduate research, in rankings for 2008-2009, BYU was ranked No. 10 nationally for the number of students who go on to earn PhDs, No. 1 nationally for students who go on to dental school, No. 6 nationally for students who go on to law school, and No. 10 nationally for students who go on to medical school. BYU is designated as a research university with high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.]] Forbes Magazine ranked it as the No. 1 "Top University to Work For in 2014" and as the best college in Utah. Question: Who ranked BYU as the best college in Utah? Answer: Forbes Magazine Question: Who designated BYU as having high research activity? Answer: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Question: Who ranked BYU the vest value for college in 2007? Answer: The Princeton Review Question: Where was BYU ranked No. 12 in schools with the lowest student-incurred debt? Answer: U.S. News and World Report's "Great Schools, Great Prices" lineup Question: In 2008-2009, how was BYU ranked nationally for the number of students who go on to earn PhDs? Answer: No. 10 Question: Where did BYU rank in 2013 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where did BYU rank in 2016 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics study? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where did Princeton Review rank BYU in 2004 for best value for college? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where was BYU ranked in 2014 for number of students who go on to earn PhDs? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where was BYU ranked in 2014 for students who go on to dental school? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Ingersoll added that, according to Anna Freud and Edward Glover, London civilians surprisingly did not suffer from widespread shell shock, unlike the soldiers in the Dunkirk evacuation.:114,117–118 The psychoanalysts were correct, and the special network of psychiatric clinics opened to receive mental casualties of the attacks closed due to lack of need. Although the stress of the war resulted in many anxiety attacks, eating disorders, fatigue, weeping, miscarriages, and other physical and mental ailments, society did not collapse. The number of suicides and drunkenness declined, and London recorded only about two cases of "bomb neuroses" per week in the first three months of bombing. Many civilians found that the best way to retain mental stability was to be with family, and after the first few weeks of bombing avoidance of the evacuation programs grew.:80–81 Glover speculated that the knowledge that the entire country was being attacked, that there was no way to escape the bombs, forced people to accept and deal with the situation.:118 Question: Anne Freud and Edward Glover said London civilians did not suffer from what? Answer: widespread shell shock Question: Why did the psychiatric clinics close? Answer: lack of need Question: What two things declined during the attacks in Britain? Answer: suicides and drunkenness Question: The entire country was being attack and Glover believe it help people to do what? Answer: accept and deal
Context: By the 1890s the profound effect of adrenal extracts on many different tissue types had been discovered, setting off a search both for the mechanism of chemical signalling and efforts to exploit these observations for the development of new drugs. The blood pressure raising and vasoconstrictive effects of adrenal extracts were of particular interest to surgeons as hemostatic agents and as treatment for shock, and a number of companies developed products based on adrenal extracts containing varying purities of the active substance. In 1897 John Abel of Johns Hopkins University identified the active principle as epinephrine, which he isolated in an impure state as the sulfate salt. Industrial chemist Jokichi Takamine later developed a method for obtaining epinephrine in a pure state, and licensed the technology to Parke Davis. Parke Davis marketed epinephrine under the trade name Adrenalin. Injected epinephrine proved to be especially efficacious for the acute treatment of asthma attacks, and an inhaled version was sold in the United States until 2011 (Primatene Mist). By 1929 epinephrine had been formulated into an inhaler for use in the treatment of nasal congestion. Question: Who identified the active substance? Answer: John Abel Question: Who marketed epinephrine? Answer: Parke Davis Question: As an inhaler, what was epinephrine used to treat? Answer: nasal congestion Question: Who developed the method to obtain epinephrine in a pure state? Answer: Jokichi Takamine Question: What could epinephrine treat? Answer: nasal congestion Question: When did epinephrine stop being available in the United States? Answer: 2011 Question: What trade name was epinephrine marketed under? Answer: Adrenalin Question: Who developed the method to get epinephrine in it's pure form? Answer: Jokichi Takamine Question: In what year was epinephrine discovered? Answer: 1897 Question: What was the trade name of epinephrine? Answer: Adrenalin Question: Who first discovered epinephrine? Answer: John Abel Question: What is epinephrine used to treat? Answer: asthma attacks Question: In what year was Primatene Mist no longer sold in the United States? Answer: 2011 Question: Who identified the inactive substance? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who marketed Primatene? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What trade name was Primatene marketed under? Answer: Unanswerable Question: As an inhaler, what was Primatene used to treat? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who developed the method to obtain Primatene in a pure state? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The British Mandate of Palestine, where an Arab majority lived alongside a Jewish minority, presented the British with a similar problem to that of India. The matter was complicated by large numbers of Jewish refugees seeking to be admitted to Palestine following the Holocaust, while Arabs were opposed to the creation of a Jewish state. Frustrated by the intractability of the problem, attacks by Jewish paramilitary organisations and the increasing cost of maintaining its military presence, Britain announced in 1947 that it would withdraw in 1948 and leave the matter to the United Nations to solve. The UN General Assembly subsequently voted for a plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. Question: What race was the majority in Palestine in the 1940s? Answer: Arab Question: When did Britain announce plans to withdraw from Palestine? Answer: 1947 Question: Which entity decided to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states? Answer: The UN General Assembly Question: Where did many Jewish refugees want to move because of the Holocaust? Answer: Palestine
Context: London's most popular sport is football and it has fourteen League football clubs, including five in the Premier League: Arsenal, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Ham United. Among other professional teams based in London include Fulham, Queens Park Rangers, Millwall and Charlton Athletic. In May 2012, Chelsea became the first London club to win the UEFA Champions League. Aside from Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham, none of the other London clubs have ever won the national league title. Question: What is London's most popular athletic sport? Answer: football Question: How many of the football clubs in the Premier League are based in London? Answer: five Question: When did the Chelsea Football Club win the UEFA Champions League title? Answer: May 2012 Question: How many professional football clubs call London their home? Answer: fourteen Question: Besides the Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham football clubs, how many London-based football club have won a national league titie? Answer: none
Context: Note: The green arrows (), red arrows (), and blue dashes () represent changes in rank when compared to the new 2012 data HDI for 2011 – published in the 2012 report. Question: What dashes do not represent changes in rank? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was published in 2001? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: A P-N junction can convert absorbed light energy into a proportional electric current. The same process is reversed here (i.e. the P-N junction emits light when electrical energy is applied to it). This phenomenon is generally called electroluminescence, which can be defined as the emission of light from a semi-conductor under the influence of an electric field. The charge carriers recombine in a forward-biased P-N junction as the electrons cross from the N-region and recombine with the holes existing in the P-region. Free electrons are in the conduction band of energy levels, while holes are in the valence energy band. Thus the energy level of the holes will be lesser than the energy levels of the electrons. Some portion of the energy must be dissipated in order to recombine the electrons and the holes. This energy is emitted in the form of heat and light. Question: What converts absorbed light energy into an electric current? Answer: P-N junction Question: What is the phenomenon where a P-N junction emits light when an electrical current is applied to it? Answer: electroluminescence Question: Where are the free electrons located in the production of electroluminescence? Answer: the conduction band Question: Whose energy levels are lower than the electrons in the electroluminescence process? Answer: holes existing in the P-region Question: Why is some energy in the electroluminescence process emitted as heat and light? Answer: to recombine the electrons and the holes Question: What converts absorbed light energy into an non-electric current? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is the phenomenon where a P-N junction emits light when a non-electrical current is applied to it? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where are the free electrons located in the production of non-electroluminescence? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Whose energy levels are lower than the non-electrons in the electroluminescence process? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Why is some energy in the electroluminescence process emitted as heat and darkness? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, the Viceroy of India, and the colonial governors, as well as on nominations from within the United Kingdom. As the Empire evolved into the Commonwealth, nominations continued to come from the Commonwealth realms, in which the monarch remained head of state. These overseas nominations have been discontinued in realms that have established their own Orders—such as the Order of Australia, the Order of Canada, and the New Zealand Order of Merit—but members of the Order are still appointed in the British Overseas Territories. Question: How were the appointments to the Order of the British Empire made? Answer: nomination of the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, the Viceroy of India, and the colonial governors Question: What evolved as the Commonwealth nominations continued? Answer: Empire Question: What remained the head of state of the British Empire? Answer: the monarch Question: Why did the oversea nominations discontinue? Answer: established their own Orders Question: What countries established new orders? Answer: Order of Australia, the Order of Canada, and the New Zealand Order of Merit
Context: Like most parts of the United States, government and laws are also run by a series of ballot initiatives (allowing citizens to pass or reject laws), referenda (allowing citizens to approve or reject legislation already passed), and propositions (allowing specific government agencies to propose new laws/tax increases directly to the people). Federally, Seattle is part of Washington's 7th congressional district, represented by Democrat Jim McDermott, elected in 1988 and one of Congress's liberal members. Ed Murray is currently serving as mayor. Question: Of what Congressional district is Seattle a part? Answer: 7th congressional district Question: Who is the representative for Seattle's district? Answer: Jim McDermott Question: When was McDermott elected to office? Answer: 1988 Question: Who is the present mayor of Seattle? Answer: Ed Murray Question: To which states' election laws are Seattle's law and ballots similar? Answer: Like most
Context: Due to the legitimate role that referees play in wrestling of serving as liaison between the bookers backstage and the wrestlers in the ring (the role of being a final arbitrator is merely kayfabe), the referee is present, even in matches that do not at first glance appear to require a referee (such as a ladder match, as it is no holds barred, and the criteria for victory could theoretically be assessed from afar). Although their actions are also frequently scripted for dramatic effect, referees are subject to certain general rules and requirements in order to maintain the theatrical appearance of unbiased authority. The most basic rule is that an action must be seen by a referee to be declared for a fall or disqualification. This allows for heel characters to gain a scripted advantage by distracting or disabling the referee in order to perform some ostensibly illegal maneuver on their opponent. Most referees are unnamed and essentially anonymous, though the WWE has let their officials reveal their names. Question: What determines how the referee acts? Answer: their actions are also frequently scripted for dramatic effect Question: What is a common rule about referees? Answer: The most basic rule is that an action must be seen by a referee to be declared for a fall or disqualification. Question: What are referees called? Answer: Most referees are unnamed and essentially anonymous, though the WWE has let their officials reveal their names. Question: How can a wrestler gain an advantage by using a referee? Answer: distracting or disabling the referee in order to perform some ostensibly illegal maneuver on their opponent.
Context: On Sentinel Peak (also known as "'A' Mountain"), just west of downtown, there is a giant "A" in honor of the University of Arizona. Starting in about 1916, a yearly tradition developed for freshmen to whitewash the "A", which was visible for miles. However, at the beginning of the Iraq War, anti-war activists painted it black. This was followed by a paint scuffle where the "A" was painted various colors until the city council intervened. It is now red, white and blue except when it is white or another color decided by a biennial election. Because of the three-color paint scheme often used, the shape of the A can be vague and indistinguishable from the rest of the peak. The top of Sentinel Peak, which is accessible by road, offers an outstanding scenic view of the city looking eastward. A parking lot located near the summit of Sentinel Peak was formerly a popular place to watch sunsets or view the city lights at night. Question: What else is Sentinel Peak also known as? Answer: 'A' Mountain Question: What is the giant letter downtown in honor of? Answer: University of Arizona Question: What year did the tradition of freshmen whitewashing the "A" begin? Answer: 1916 Question: during the Iraq war, what color did anti-war activists paint the "A"? Answer: black Question: Who intervened when the "A" was painted various colors? Answer: city council Question: Why is there a giant letter A on a Tucson mountain? Answer: in honor of the University of Arizona Question: Where is there a giant letter A on a Tucson mountain? Answer: On Sentinel Peak (also known as "'A' Mountain"), just west of downtown Question: What color did college freshmen paint the A? Answer: white Question: What color did Iraq War protesters paint the A? Answer: black Question: How did City Council decide to paint the A? Answer: red, white and blue
Context: Founded as the School of Commerce and Finance in 1917, the Olin Business School was named after entrepreneur John M. Olin in 1988. The school's academic programs include BSBA, MBA, Professional MBA (PMBA), Executive MBA (EMBA), MS in Finance, MS in Supply Chain Management, MS in Customer Analytics, Master of Accounting, Global Master of Finance Dual Degree program, and Doctorate programs, as well as non-degree executive education. In 2002, an Executive MBA program was established in Shanghai, in cooperation with Fudan University. Question: When was Olin Business School founded? Answer: 1917 Question: What was the original name of Olin Business School? Answer: the School of Commerce and Finance Question: After whom is Olin Business School named? Answer: John M. Olin Question: When was Olin Business School named? Answer: 1988 Question: Where was an Executive MBA program established by Washington University in 2002? Answer: Shanghai Question: When was John M. Olin born? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year was Fudan University established? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what field was John M. Olin an entrepreneur in? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year did the Olin Business School start offering its MS in Finance degree? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year did John M. Olin die? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Application of electric motors revolutionized industry. Industrial processes were no longer limited by power transmission using line shafts, belts, compressed air or hydraulic pressure. Instead every machine could be equipped with its own electric motor, providing easy control at the point of use, and improving power transmission efficiency. Electric motors applied in agriculture eliminated human and animal muscle power from such tasks as handling grain or pumping water. Household uses of electric motors reduced heavy labor in the home and made higher standards of convenience, comfort and safety possible. Today, electric motors stand for more than half of the electric energy consumption in the US. Question: How much energy do electric motors use in the modern United States? Answer: more than half Question: In what domain did electric motors reduce reliance on humans and animals? Answer: agriculture Question: Besides shafts, belts and compressed air, what did electric motors reduce the need for? Answer: hydraulic pressure Question: Where did electric motors improve convenience and safety? Answer: in the home Question: How much energy do electric motors use in the modern UK? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what domain did electric motors not reduce reliance on humans and animals? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Besides shafts, belts and compressed air, what didn't electric motors reduce the need for? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where didn't electric motors improve convenience and safety? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: In most computers, individual instructions are stored as machine code with each instruction being given a unique number (its operation code or opcode for short). The command to add two numbers together would have one opcode; the command to multiply them would have a different opcode, and so on. The simplest computers are able to perform any of a handful of different instructions; the more complex computers have several hundred to choose from, each with a unique numerical code. Since the computer's memory is able to store numbers, it can also store the instruction codes. This leads to the important fact that entire programs (which are just lists of these instructions) can be represented as lists of numbers and can themselves be manipulated inside the computer in the same way as numeric data. The fundamental concept of storing programs in the computer's memory alongside the data they operate on is the crux of the von Neumann, or stored program[citation needed], architecture. In some cases, a computer might store some or all of its program in memory that is kept separate from the data it operates on. This is called the Harvard architecture after the Harvard Mark I computer. Modern von Neumann computers display some traits of the Harvard architecture in their designs, such as in CPU caches. Question: Which computer is the Harvard architecture modeled after? Answer: Harvard Mark I computer Question: A computer that stores its program in memory and kept separate from the data is called what? Answer: the Harvard architecture
Context: Other city states formed federated states in self-defense, such as the Aetolian League (est. 370 BCE), the Achaean League (est. 280 BCE), the Boeotian league, the "Northern League" (Byzantium, Chalcedon, Heraclea Pontica and Tium) and the "Nesiotic League" of the Cyclades. These federations involved a central government which controlled foreign policy and military affairs, while leaving most of the local governing to the city states, a system termed sympoliteia. In states such as the Achaean league, this also involved the admission of other ethnic groups into the federation with equal rights, in this case, non-Achaeans. The Achean league was able to drive out the Macedonians from the Peloponnese and free Corinth, which duly joined the league. Question: When was the Aetolian League formed? Answer: 370 BCE Question: When was the Achaean League formed? Answer: 280 BCE Question: Byzantium, Chalcedon, Heraclea Pontica and Tium formed what league? Answer: Northern League Question: What system delegates military and foreign affairs to the central government and local affairs to the city states? Answer: sympoliteia Question: What league freed Corinth? Answer: Achean
Context: Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His mother, Leah (Adler) Posner (born 1920), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg (born 1917), was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine who settled in Cincinnati in the first decade of the 1900s. In 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona.:548 Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis. Question: Where was Steven Spielberg born? Answer: Cincinnati, Ohio Question: What religion was Steven Spielberg's family? Answer: Orthodox Jewish Question: Where were Steven Spielberg's granparents from? Answer: Ukraine Question: Where did Steven Spielberg's family move to in 1953? Answer: Phoenix, Arizona Question: What job did Steven Spielberg's father have? Answer: electrical engineer Question: Where was Spielberg born? Answer: Cincinnati, Ohio Question: What religion was Spielberg's family? Answer: Orthodox Jewish Question: What was Spielberg's mother's career? Answer: restaurateur and concert pianist Question: What was Spielberg's father's career? Answer: electrical engineer involved in the development of computers Question: Where did Spielberg's paternal grandparents immigrate from? Answer: Ukraine Question: What was Spielberg's paternal grandfather's first name? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was Spielberg's paternal grandmother's first name? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year did Rabbi Albert L. Lewis join Hebrew School in Phoenix, Arizona? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year did Spielberg's father become an electrical engineer? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year was RCA founded? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Originally known as Buckingham House, the building at the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 on a site that had been in private ownership for at least 150 years. It was acquired by King George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte and became known as "The Queen's House". During the 19th century it was enlarged, principally by architects John Nash and Edward Blore, who constructed three wings around a central courtyard. Buckingham Palace became the London residence of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. Question: What was Buckingham Palace orginally known as? Answer: Buckingham House Question: Who was Buckingham Palace was originally built for? Answer: Duke of Buckingham Question: Which king acquired the Buckingham House in 1761? Answer: King George III Question: What was Buckingham House known as when Queen Charlotte resided there? Answer: "The Queen's House" Question: Which two architects were commissioned to enlarge Buckingham in the 19th century? Answer: John Nash and Edward Blore Question: For whom was Buckingham house originally built? Answer: Duke of Buckingham Question: Who enlarged the house in the 19th century? Answer: John Nash and Edward Blore Question: When did the palace become the London residence for the monarchs? Answer: 1837 Question: What is Buckingham Palace currently known as? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who was Buckingham Palace originally built to oppose? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which king acquired the Buckingham House in 1751? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was Buckingham House known as when Queen Charlotte died there? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which two architects were commissioned to enlarge Buckingham in the 17th century? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The strides that the Johnson presidency made in ensuring equal opportunity in the workforce were further picked up by his successor Nixon. In 1969 the Nixon administration initiated the "Philadelphia Order". It was regarded as the most forceful plan thus far to guarantee fair hiring practices in construction jobs. Philadelphia was selected as the test case because, as Assistant Secretary of Labor Arthur Fletcher explained, "The craft unions and the construction industry are among the most egregious offenders against equal opportunity laws . . . openly hostile toward letting blacks into their closed circle." The order included definite "goals and timetables." As President Nixon asserted, "We would not impose quotas, but would require federal contractors to show 'affirmative action' to meet the goals of increasing minority employment." Question: Who followed in Johnson's footsteps in terms of ensuring equal opportunity? Answer: his successor Nixon Question: Which piece of legislation was begun in 1969? Answer: Philadelphia Order Question: Which industry of jobs did the legislation target? Answer: construction Question: Aside from the construction industry, which other group was one of the main offenders against equal opportunity laws? Answer: craft unions Question: Who held the position of Assistant Secretary of Labor? Answer: Arthur Fletcher Question: Who followed in Johnson's footsteps in terms of ensuring unequal opportunity? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which piece of legislation was ended in 1969? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which industry of jobs did the legislation not target? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Aside from the construction industry, which other group was one of the main offenders against unequal opportunity laws? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who held the position of Secretary of Labor? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: While outer space provides the most rarefied example of a naturally occurring partial vacuum, the heavens were originally thought to be seamlessly filled by a rigid indestructible material called aether. Borrowing somewhat from the pneuma of Stoic physics, aether came to be regarded as the rarefied air from which it took its name, (see Aether (mythology)). Early theories of light posited a ubiquitous terrestrial and celestial medium through which light propagated. Additionally, the concept informed Isaac Newton's explanations of both refraction and of radiant heat. 19th century experiments into this luminiferous aether attempted to detect a minute drag on the Earth's orbit. While the Earth does, in fact, move through a relatively dense medium in comparison to that of interstellar space, the drag is so minuscule that it could not be detected. In 1912, astronomer Henry Pickering commented: "While the interstellar absorbing medium may be simply the ether, [it] is characteristic of a gas, and free gaseous molecules are certainly there". Question: What was originally believed the heavens were filled with? Answer: aether Question: Why were experiments done on luminiferous aether in the 19 Century? Answer: "While the interstellar absorbing medium may be simply the ether, [it] is characteris Question: Who stated that the character of a gas and free molecule were in ether? Answer: Henry Pickering Question: Where are the highest amounts of naturally occurring partial vacuums? Answer: outer space Question: What was ether originally thought to be made of? Answer: rigid indestructible material Question: What did Issac Newton believe existed in space in 1912? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What were molecules originally thought to be made of? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is another name for mythology? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where did the ideas about the properties of molecules come from? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did experiments with molecules attempt to detect on the Earths orbit? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Music was a major part of everyday life.[citation needed] The word itself derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses". Many private and public events were accompanied by music, ranging from nightly dining to military parades and manoeuvres. In a discussion of any ancient music, however, non-specialists and even many musicians have to be reminded that much of what makes our modern music familiar to us is the result of developments only within the last 1,000 years; thus, our ideas of melody, scales, harmony, and even the instruments we use may not have been familiar to Romans who made and listened to music many centuries earlier.[citation needed] Question: What was considered to be dominant part of normal life? Answer: Music Question: What language does the word Music see it's origins in? Answer: Greek Question: Could events in the Roman Republic often include music? Answer: Many private and public events were accompanied by music Question: What do many people consider to be the source of our modern musics familiarity with us? Answer: developments only within the last 1,000 years
Context: The first commutator DC electric motor capable of turning machinery was invented by the British scientist William Sturgeon in 1832. Following Sturgeon's work, a commutator-type direct-current electric motor made with the intention of commercial use was built by the American inventor Thomas Davenport, which he patented in 1837. The motors ran at up to 600 revolutions per minute, and powered machine tools and a printing press. Due to the high cost of primary battery power, the motors were commercially unsuccessful and Davenport went bankrupt. Several inventors followed Sturgeon in the development of DC motors but all encountered the same battery power cost issues. No electricity distribution had been developed at the time. Like Sturgeon's motor, there was no practical commercial market for these motors. Question: Who developed the first mnotor capable of being used for machinery? Answer: William Sturgeon Question: Which inventor went bankrupt? Answer: Thomas Davenport Question: What was the main problem with applying early electric motors to industry? Answer: the high cost of primary battery power Question: What necessary technical development had yet to occur to make electric motors useful? Answer: electricity distribution Question: How fast did Sturgeon and Davenport's motors run? Answer: 600 revolutions per minute Question: Who developed the last motor capable of being used for machinery? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which inventor never went bankrupt? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What wasn't the main problem with applying early electric motors to industry? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What necessary technical development always occurred to make electric motors useful? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How slow did Sturgeon and Davenport's motors run? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Some of the species of moths and insects show evidence of having been indigenous to the area from as long ago as the Alpine orogeny. In Emosson in Valais, Switzerland, dinosaur tracks were found in the 1970s, dating probably from the Triassic Period. Question: Some species of moths and insects show evidence of what? Answer: having been indigenous to the area Question: How long ago does the evidence show moths and insects to have been indigenous? Answer: the Alpine orogeny Question: Where is Emosson located? Answer: Valais, Switzerland Question: When were dinosaur tracks found in Emosson? Answer: the 1970s
Context: The existence of a "global carrying capacity", limiting the amount of life that can live at once, is debated, as is the question of whether such a limit would also cap the number of species. While records of life in the sea shows a logistic pattern of growth, life on land (insects, plants and tetrapods)shows an exponential rise in diversity. As one author states, "Tetrapods have not yet invaded 64 per cent of potentially habitable modes, and it could be that without human influence the ecological and taxonomic diversity of tetrapods would continue to increase in an exponential fashion until most or all of the available ecospace is filled." Question: What limits the amount of life that can live at once on Earth? Answer: global carrying capacity Question: What type of animal shows a logistic pattern of growth? Answer: life in the sea Question: What type of animal shows an exponential rise in diversity? Answer: life on land Question: What percentage of potentially habitable modes have Tetrapods not yet invaded? Answer: 64 per cent Question: What limits the amount of habitable modes on Earth? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What type of animal shows a logistic pattern of diversity? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What type of animal shows an exponential pattern of growth? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What percentage potentially habitable modes has life in the sea not yet invaded? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Without whose influence would sea growth increase? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: In 1887, the British Empire celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee. Victoria marked the fiftieth anniversary of her accession on 20 June with a banquet to which 50 kings and princes were invited. The following day, she participated in a procession and attended a thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey. By this time, Victoria was once again extremely popular. Two days later on 23 June, she engaged two Indian Muslims as waiters, one of whom was Abdul Karim. He was soon promoted to "Munshi": teaching her Hindustani, and acting as a clerk. Her family and retainers were appalled, and accused Abdul Karim of spying for the Muslim Patriotic League, and biasing the Queen against the Hindus. Equerry Frederick Ponsonby (the son of Sir Henry) discovered that the Munshi had lied about his parentage, and reported to Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India, "the Munshi occupies very much the same position as John Brown used to do." Victoria dismissed their complaints as racial prejudice. Abdul Karim remained in her service until he returned to India with a pension on her death. Question: How many kings and princes were invited to the Golden Jubilee? Answer: 50 Question: What year anniversary does the Golden Jubilee celebrate? Answer: fiftieth anniversary Question: Who accused Karim of spying? Answer: Her family and retainers Question: What was Munshi lying about? Answer: his parentage Question: What year was Victoria's Golden Jubilee held? Answer: 1887 Question: What was the name of the waited that was promoted to Munshi? Answer: Abdul Karim Question: Whio was Equerry Frederick Ponsonby's father? Answer: Sir Henry Question: Who discovered that Victoria's new Munshi lied about his parentage? Answer: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby Question: Who did Ponsonby report the Munshis lies about his parentage to? Answer: Lord Elgin, Viceroy of India Question: When was Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee? Answer: 1887 Question: What was Abdul Karim teaching Queen Victoria after his promotion? Answer: Hindustani Question: Who was Karim accused of spying for by Victoria's family? Answer: Muslim Patriotic League Question: Who discovered that Karim had lied about his parentage to Victoria? Answer: Equerry Frederick Ponsonby Question: What day did Queen Victoria celebrate her Golden Jubilee at a dinner with kings and queens from other nations? Answer: 20 June Question: When was Victoria's Golden Jubilee? Answer: 1887 Question: What is the point of the Golden Jubilee? Answer: the fiftieth anniversary of her accession Question: Who was promoted from waiter to Munshi? Answer: Abdul Karim Question: Why did Victoria's family disapprove of Abdul Karim? Answer: spying for the Muslim Patriotic League, and biasing the Queen against the Hindus Question: How long was Karim in the Queen's employment? Answer: until he returned to India with a pension on her death Question: How many kings and princes weren't invited to the Golden Jubilee? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What year anniversary does the Silver Jubilee celebrate? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who accused Karim of not spying? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What wasn't Munshi lying about? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What year was Victoria's Silver Jubilee held? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The mascot of Northwestern Athletics is Willie the Wildcat. The first mascot, however, was a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo named Furpaw who was brought to the playing field on the day of a game to greet the fans. But after a losing season, the team, deciding that Furpaw was to blame for its misfortune, banished him from campus forever. Willie the Wildcat made his debut in 1933 first as a logo, and then in three dimensions in 1947, when members of the Alpha Delta fraternity dressed as wildcats during a Homecoming Parade. The Northwestern University Marching Band (NUMB) performs at all home football games and leads cheers in the student section and performs the Alma Mater at the end of the game. Question: Who is the mascot of Northwestern Athletics? Answer: Willie the Wildcat Question: What was the first mascot of Northwestern Athletics? Answer: a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo Question: What was the name of Northwestern Athletics's bear cub mascot? Answer: Furpaw Question: Who did the athletic team blame for it's first losing season? Answer: Furpaw Question: What did the athletic team do with Furpaw after they lost the first season? Answer: banished him from campus forever Question: Who is the mascot of Southwestern Athletics? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was the second mascot of Northwestern Athletics? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was the name of Southwestern Athletics's bear cub mascot? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who did the athletic team blame for it's first losing season? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did the athletic team do with Furpaw after they lost the third season? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The original town of San Diego was located at the foot of Presidio Hill, in the area which is now Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. The location was not ideal, being several miles away from navigable water. In 1850, William Heath Davis promoted a new development by the Bay shore called "New San Diego", several miles south of the original settlement; however, for several decades the new development consisted only a few houses, a pier and an Army depot. In the late 1860s, Alonzo Horton promoted a move to the bayside area, which he called "New Town" and which became Downtown San Diego. Horton promoted the area heavily, and people and businesses began to relocate to New Town because of its location on San Diego Bay convenient to shipping. New Town soon eclipsed the original settlement, known to this day as Old Town, and became the economic and governmental heart of the city. Still, San Diego remained a relative backwater town until the arrival of a railroad connection in 1878. Question: What was the main flaw of San Diego's original location? Answer: several miles away from navigable water Question: Who developed New San Diego that was south of the first location? Answer: William Heath Davis Question: Who was largely responsible for the population growth of Downtown San Diego? Answer: Alonzo Horton Question: What happened in 1878 that played a role in San Diego's economic growth? Answer: the arrival of a railroad connection Question: What was San Diego's downtown area originally called? Answer: New Town Question: What was the main flaw of San Francisco's original location? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who developed New San Diego that was north of the first location? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who was largely responsible for the population growth of Downtown San Francisco? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What happened in 1887 that played a role in San Diego's economic growth? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was San Francisco's downtown area originally called? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The U.S. War Department created the first antecedent of the U.S. Air Force in 1907, which through a succession of changes of organization, titles, and missions advanced toward eventual separation 40 years later. In World War II, almost 68,000 U.S airmen died helping to win the war; only the infantry suffered more enlisted casualties. In practice, the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) was virtually independent of the Army during World War II, but officials wanted formal independence. The National Security Act of 1947 was signed on on 26 July 1947 by President Harry S Truman, which established the Department of the Air Force, but it was not not until 18 September 1947, when the first secretary of the Air Force, W. Stuart Symington was sworn into office that the Air Force was officially formed. Question: Who created the first version of the US Air Force in 1907? Answer: U.S. War Department Question: When did the US Air Force separate from the War Department? Answer: 40 years later Question: How many causalities did the US Air Force suffer during WWII? Answer: 68,000 Question: What does the USAAF stand for? Answer: U.S. Army Air Forces Question: Who signed the National Security Act of 1947? Answer: President Harry S Truman
Context: Some Europeans living among Indigenous Americans were called "white Indians". They "lived in native communities for years, learned native languages fluently, attended native councils, and often fought alongside their native companions." More numerous and typical were traders and trappers, who married Indigenous American women from tribes on the frontier and had families with them. Some traders, who kept bases in the cities, had what ware called "country wives" among Indigenous Americans, with legal European-American wives and children at home in the city. Not all abandoned their "natural" mixed-race children. Some arranged for sons to be sent to European-American schools for their education. Question: Who were considered "white Indians"? Answer: Europeans living among Indigenous Americans Question: Who had Indigenous "Country wives"? Answer: Some traders Question: Who lived in native communities, speaking the language and participating in the affairs of tribes? Answer: "white Indians" Question: Why were some multiracial children sent to Europe? Answer: for their education Question: Where were legal wives usually kept? Answer: in the city Question: What were Indigenous Americans living among Europeans called? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who was less numerous than "white indians"? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who married Indigenous American men? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where did Indigenous Americans keep bases? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who was sent to Indigenous American schools for their education? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: In South Africa, the period of colonization resulted in many unions and marriages between European men and African women from various tribes, resulting in mixed-race children. As the Europeans acquired territory and imposed rule over the Africans, they generally pushed mixed-race and Africans into second-class status. During the first half of the 20th century, the Afrikaaner-dominated government classified the population according to four main racial groups: Black, White, Asian (mostly Indian), and Coloured. The Coloured group included people of mixed Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent (with some Malay ancestry, especially in the Western Cape). The Coloured definition occupied an intermediary political position between the Black and White definitions in South Africa. It imposed a system of legal racial segregation, a complex of laws known as apartheid. Question: What did the colonization of South Africa result in? Answer: many unions and marriages between European men and African women from various tribes Question: What was a result of these marriages? Answer: mixed-race children Question: What class were Africans and Mixed Race children considered? Answer: second-class Question: Who was included in the Coloured group? Answer: Bantu, Khoisan, and European descent Question: What does apartheid mean? Answer: a system of legal racial segregation
Context: On July 8, 2007 The Washington Post published excerpts from UCLA Professor Amy Zegart's book Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11. The Post reported from Zegart's book that government documents show the CIA and FBI missed 23 potential chances to disrupt the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The primary reasons for the failures included: agency cultures resistant to change and new ideas; inappropriate incentives for promotion; and a lack of cooperation between the FBI, CIA and the rest of the United States Intelligence Community. The book blamed the FBI's decentralized structure, which prevented effective communication and cooperation among different FBI offices. The book suggested that the FBI has not evolved into an effective counter-terrorism or counter-intelligence agency, due in large part to deeply ingrained agency cultural resistance to change. For example, FBI personnel practices continue to treat all staff other than special agents as support staff, classifying intelligence analysts alongside the FBI's auto mechanics and janitors. Question: When did the Washington Post publish excerpts from the book Spying Blind? Answer: July 8, 2007 Question: How many chances to disrupt the 9/11 attacks did the FBI dismiss? Answer: 23 Question: What two agencies had a lack of co-operation? Answer: FBI, CIA Question: What was to blame for the FBI's failure? Answer: FBI's decentralized structure Question: What did the FBI's decentralized structure prevent? Answer: effective communication Question: What book did the New York Times publish excerpts from? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How many times did the CIA and FBI disrupt the terrorist attacks of September 11th? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What two agencies cooperated well together? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What facilitated communication among different FBI offices? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did the FBI treat special agents as? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Easter was the Sunday after the 15th day of this moon, whose 14th day was allowed to precede the equinox. Where the two systems produced different dates there was generally a compromise so that both churches were able to celebrate on the same day. By the 10th century all churches (except some on the eastern border of the Byzantine Empire) had adopted the Alexandrian Easter, which still placed the vernal equinox on 21 March, although Bede had already noted its drift in 725—it had drifted even further by the 16th century. Question: When was Easter Sunday celebrated after the equinox? Answer: 15th day Question: What did churches do to settle the date if there was a difference? Answer: compromise Question: By what century had almost all churches begun celebrating Easter according to the Alexandrian Easter? Answer: 10th century Question: On what border of the Byzantine Empire were the last holdouts for celebrating according the Alexandrian Easter? Answer: eastern border Question: What date placement drifted increasingly off the true date on the calendar? Answer: vernal equinox Question: What was celebrated on the fifteenth day after the equinox? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what century did all the churches adopt the Alexandrian Easter? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who noticed the equinox drift in the seventh century? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did the Alexandrian Easter place on 25 March? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Some fans enjoy a pastime of collecting tapes of wrestling shows from specific companies, of certain wrestlers, or of specific genres. The Internet has given fans exposure to worldwide variations of wrestling they would be unable to see otherwise. Since the 1990s, many companies have been founded which deal primarily in wrestling footage. When the WWF purchased both WCW and ECW in 2001, they also obtained the entire past video libraries of both productions and have released many past matches online and on home video. Question: What do some fans like to do? Answer: collecting tapes of wrestling shows Question: What has the internet done for wrestling fans? Answer: exposure to worldwide variations of wrestling Question: Many companies who handle wrestling footage have been founded since what decade? Answer: 1990s Question: What companies did WWF purchase in 2001? Answer: WCW and ECW
Context: By 17 May, the main Austrian army under Charles had arrived on the Marchfeld. Charles kept the bulk of his troops several miles away from the river bank in hopes of concentrating them at the point where Napoleon decided to cross. On 21 May, the French made their first major effort to cross the Danube, precipitating the Battle of Aspern-Essling. The Austrians enjoyed a comfortable numerical superiority over the French throughout the battle; on the first day, Charles disposed of 110,000 soldiers against only 31,000 commanded by Napoleon. By the second day, reinforcements had boosted French numbers up to 70,000. The battle was characterized by a vicious back-and-forth struggle for the two villages of Aspern and Essling, the focal points of the French bridgehead. By the end of the fighting, the French had lost Aspern but still controlled Essling. A sustained Austrian artillery bombardment eventually convinced Napoleon to withdraw his forces back onto Lobau Island. Both sides inflicted about 23,000 casualties on each other. It was the first defeat Napoleon suffered in a major set-piece battle, and it caused excitement throughout many parts of Europe because it proved that he could be beaten on the battlefield. Question: On what date did the main Austrian army arrive at the Marchfield? Answer: 17 May Question: Who led the main Austrian army? Answer: Charles Question: On what date did French forces make their first significant attempt to cross the Danube? Answer: 21 May Question: How many soldiers did Charles initially lead against the French at the Battle of Aspern-Essling? Answer: 110,000 Question: Around how many casualties did the French experience at the Battle of Aspern-Essling? Answer: 23,000
Context: While the Suez Crisis caused British power in the Middle East to weaken, it did not collapse. Britain again deployed its armed forces to the region, intervening in Oman (1957), Jordan (1958) and Kuwait (1961), though on these occasions with American approval, as the new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's foreign policy was to remain firmly aligned with the United States. Britain maintained a military presence in the Middle East for another decade. In January 1968, a few weeks after the devaluation of the pound, Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his Defence Secretary Denis Healey announced that British troops would be withdrawn from major military bases East of Suez, which included the ones in the Middle East, and primarily from Malaysia and Singapore. The British withdrew from Aden in 1967, Bahrain in 1971, and Maldives in 1976. Question: When did Britain withdraw from Aden? Answer: 1967 Question: When did Britain withdraw from Bahrain? Answer: 1971 Question: When did Britain withdraw from the Maldives? Answer: 1976 Question: Who was Harold Wilson's Defense Secretary? Answer: Denis Healey Question: Where did Britain's army attack in 1961? Answer: Kuwait
Context: In 2012, President Rachide Sambu-balde Malam Bacai Sanhá died. He belonged to PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), one of the two major political parties in Guinea-Bissau, along with the PRS (Party for Social Renewal). There are more than 20 minor parties. Question: When did President Sanha die? Answer: 2012 Question: What party did Sanha belong to? Answer: PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) Question: Besides the PAIGC, what is the other major political party? Answer: PRS (Party for Social Renewal) Question: How many minor political parties are there? Answer: more than 20 Question: What office did Sanha hold in 2012? Answer: President
Context: The west end of these streets is Bowery and Third Avenue, except for 3rd Street (formerly Amity Place; to Sixth Avenue) and 4th Street (to 13th Street), which extend west and north, respectively, into Greenwich Village. Great Jones Street connects East 3rd to West 3rd. Question: What name did 3rd Street previously hold? Answer: Amity Place Question: Which village do 3rd and 4th Street extend into? Answer: Greenwich Question: Which street connects East 3rd to West 3rd? Answer: Great Jones Question: The west end of these streets is Third Avenue and where? Answer: Bowery
Context: During 1976, Queen played one of their most famous gigs, a free concert in Hyde Park, London. A concert organised by the entrepreneur Richard Branson, it set an attendance record with 150,000 people confirmed in the audience. On 1 December 1976, Queen were the intended guests on London's early evening Today programme, but they pulled out at the last-minute, which saw their late replacement on the show, EMI labelmate the Sex Pistols, give their seminal interview. During the A Day at the Races Tour in 1977, Queen performed sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden, New York, in February, and Earls Court, London, in June. Question: Where did Queen host a free concert in 1976? Answer: Hyde Park, London Question: Who organized a free concert by Queen in 1976? Answer: Richard Branson Question: How many people helped Queen set a 1976 attendance record? Answer: 150,000 Question: Which US venue did Queen sell out in 1977? Answer: Madison Square Garden Question: Which British venue did Queen sell out in 1977? Answer: Earls Court
Context: After the expulsion of the German population ethnic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians were settled in the northern part. In the Soviet part of the region, a policy of eliminating all remnants of German history was pursued. All German place names were replaced by new Russian names. The exclave was a military zone, which was closed to foreigners; Soviet citizens could only enter with special permission. In 1967 the remnants of Königsberg Castle were demolished on the orders of Leonid Brezhnev to make way for a new "House of the Soviets". Question: Once the German populations was removed, what three groups settled into the nothern area? Answer: ethnic Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians Question: In the Soviet section to the north, what did they want to expel from their land? Answer: eliminating all remnants of German history Question: What else happened in the northern part of East Prussia in the now Russian area? Answer: names were replaced by new Russian names Question: In what year was the military zone created? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year did Leonid Brezhnev come to power? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year did Russia star settling ethnic Russians in the northern part? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year was the new "House of the Soviets" completed? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The Pala Empire (Bengali: পাল সাম্রাজ্য Pal Samrajyô) flourished during the Classical period of India, and may be dated during 750–1174 CE. Founded by Gopala I, it was ruled by a Buddhist dynasty from Bengal in the eastern region of the Indian subcontinent. Though the Palas were followers of the Mahayana and Tantric schools of Buddhism, they also patronised Shaivism and Vaishnavism. The morpheme Pala, meaning "protector", was used as an ending for the names of all the Pala monarchs. The empire reached its peak under Dharmapala and Devapala. Dharmapala is believed to have conquered Kanauj and extended his sway up to the farthest limits of India in the northwest. The Pala Empire can be considered as the golden era of Bengal in many ways. Dharmapala founded the Vikramashila and revived Nalanda, considered one of the first great universities in recorded history. Nalanda reached its height under the patronage of the Pala Empire. The Palas also built many viharas. They maintained close cultural and commercial ties with countries of Southeast Asia and Tibet. Sea trade added greatly to the prosperity of the Pala kingdom. The Arab merchant Suleiman notes the enormity of the Pala army in his memoirs. Question: During what span of time did the Pala Empire thrive? Answer: 750–1174 CE Question: What style of belief system did the Pala Empire favor? Answer: Buddhist Question: What is the term used to describe the Pala Empire? Answer: golden era of Bengal Question: What educational center reached it height during the Pala rule? Answer: Nalanda Question: What ruler founded the Pala dynasty? Answer: Gopala I
Context: Slobodan Milošević, as the former President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia, was the most senior political figure to stand trial at the ICTY. He died on 11 March 2006 during his trial where he was accused of genocide or complicity in genocide in territories within Bosnia and Herzegovina, so no verdict was returned. In 1995, the ICTY issued a warrant for the arrest of Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić on several charges including genocide. On 21 July 2008, Karadžić was arrested in Belgrade, and he is currently in The Hague on trial accused of genocide among other crimes. Ratko Mladić was arrested on 26 May 2011 by Serbian special police in Lazarevo, Serbia. Karadzic was convicted of ten of the eleven charges laid against him and sentenced to 40 years in prison on March 24 2016. Question: Which former president was by far the most senior politician to be accused of genocidal crimes by the ICTY? Answer: Slobodan Milošević Question: What event occurred in March 2006 that essentially ended Milosevic's trial? Answer: He died Question: Had Milosevic not died, what charges might he have been convicted of? Answer: genocide or complicity in genocide Question: With Milosevic dead, who did the ICTY next charge with crimes of genocide in 1995? Answer: Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić Question: Where was Karadzic when he was finally arrested? Answer: Belgrade Question: What event occurred in 1995 that essentially ended Milosevic's trial? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where was Karadzic when he was sentenced? Answer: Unanswerable Question: With Milosevic dead, who did Karadzic next charge with grimes of genocide in 1995? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Had Karadzic not died, what charges might he have been convicted of? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Which former president was by far the most senior politician to be accused of genocidal crimes by Karadzic? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The biographical tradition asserts that Virgil began the hexameter Eclogues (or Bucolics) in 42 BC and it is thought that the collection was published around 39–38 BC, although this is controversial. The Eclogues (from the Greek for "selections") are a group of ten poems roughly modeled on the bucolic hexameter poetry ("pastoral poetry") of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus. After his victory in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, fought against the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar, Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, supposedly including, according to the tradition, an estate near Mantua belonging to Virgil. The loss of his family farm and the attempt through poetic petitions to regain his property have traditionally been seen as Virgil's motives in the composition of the Eclogues. This is now thought to be an unsupported inference from interpretations of the Eclogues. In Eclogues 1 and 9, Virgil indeed dramatizes the contrasting feelings caused by the brutality of the land expropriations through pastoral idiom, but offers no indisputable evidence of the supposed biographic incident. While some readers have identified the poet himself with various characters and their vicissitudes, whether gratitude by an old rustic to a new god (Ecl. 1), frustrated love by a rustic singer for a distant boy (his master's pet, Ecl. 2), or a master singer's claim to have composed several eclogues (Ecl. 5), modern scholars largely reject such efforts to garner biographical details from works of fiction, preferring to interpret an author's characters and themes as illustrations of contemporary life and thought. The ten Eclogues present traditional pastoral themes with a fresh perspective. Eclogues 1 and 9 address the land confiscations and their effects on the Italian countryside. 2 and 3 are pastoral and erotic, discussing both homosexual love (Ecl. 2) and attraction toward people of any gender (Ecl. 3). Eclogue 4, addressed to Asinius Pollio, the so-called "Messianic Eclogue" uses the imagery of the golden age in connection with the birth of a child (who the child was meant to be has been subject to debate). 5 and 8 describe the myth of Daphnis in a song contest, 6, the cosmic and mythological song of Silenus; 7, a heated poetic contest, and 10 the sufferings of the contemporary elegiac poet Cornelius Gallus. Virgil is credited[by whom?] in the Eclogues with establishing Arcadia as a poetic ideal that still resonates in Western literature and visual arts and setting the stage for the development of Latin pastoral by Calpurnius Siculus, Nemesianus, and later writers. Question: Which Hellenistic poet was known for bucolic hexameter poetry? Answer: Theocritus Question: Who tried to pay off veterans with land, some of which possibly belonged to Virgil? Answer: Octavian Question: Virgil's loss of his famiyl farm and the attempt to regain his property though poetry was the inferred motive for which work? Answer: Eclogues Question: To whom was Eclogue 4 addressed to? Answer: Asinius Pollio Question: Which Eclogues discusses homosexual love? Answer: Ecl. 2 Question: What language was Virgil's work written in? Answer: Unanswerable Question: When did Theocritus publish his last work? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What theme did Virgil write about the most often? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where did Octavian live? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How many books of poetry did Cornelius Gallus write? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: By 1847, the couple had found the palace too small for court life and their growing family, and consequently the new wing, designed by Edward Blore, was built by Thomas Cubitt, enclosing the central quadrangle. The large East Front, facing The Mall, is today the "public face" of Buckingham Palace, and contains the balcony from which the royal family acknowledge the crowds on momentous occasions and after the annual Trooping the Colour. The ballroom wing and a further suite of state rooms were also built in this period, designed by Nash's student Sir James Pennethorne. Question: Who designed the new wing for the palace in 1847? Answer: Edward Blore Question: The new wing was built by whom? Answer: Thomas Cubitt Question: What is the East front of the palace known as? Answer: "public face" of Buckingham Palace Question: The East Front contains what famous feature? Answer: the balcony Question: Who was the student of Nash that designed the ballroom wing? Answer: Sir James Pennethorne. Question: Who designed a new wing for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert when they felt they needed more space? Answer: Edward Blore Question: Who built the new wing? Answer: Thomas Cubitt Question: What is considered the public face of the palace? Answer: The large East Front Question: What other wing was built during this time? Answer: The ballroom wing Question: Which of Nash's students designed The Ballroom? Answer: Sir James Pennethorne Question: Who designed the blue wing for the palace in 1837? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is the West front of the palace described as? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who was the teacher of Nash that destroyed the ballroom wing? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is considered the private nose of the palace? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What other wing was removed during this time? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: This position was carried by the D.C. Statehood Party, a political party; it has since merged with the local Green Party affiliate to form the D.C. Statehood Green Party. The nearest this movement ever came to success was in 1978, when Congress passed the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment. Two years later in 1980, local citizens passed an initiative calling for a constitutional convention for a new state. In 1982, voters ratified the constitution of the state, which was to be called New Columbia. The drive for statehood stalled in 1985, however, when the Washington, D.C. Voting Rights Amendment failed because not enough states ratified the amendment within the seven-year span specified. Question: What party carried the position of D.C. Statehood? Answer: D.C. Statehood Party Question: What party did the D.C. Statehood Party merge when? Answer: the local Green Party affiliate Question: When did the movement get closest to success? Answer: 1978 Question: What would be the new name of the D.C. State? Answer: New Columbia Question: When did the drive for statehood falter? Answer: 1985 Question: What party carried the position of Columbia statehood? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What party did the Washington Party merge with? Answer: Unanswerable Question: When did Columbia get closest to success? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What would be the new name of the Columbia state? Answer: Unanswerable Question: When did the drive for Columbian statehood falter? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: National and regional variations also occur within the BBC One and BBC Two schedules. England's BBC One output is split up into fifteen regions (such as South West and East), which exist mainly to produce local news programming, but also occasionally opt out of the network to show programmes of local importance (such as major local events). The other nations of the United Kingdom (Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) have been granted more autonomy from the English network; for example, programmes are mostly introduced by local announcers, rather than by those in London. BBC One and BBC Two schedules in the other UK nations can vary immensely from BBC One and BBC Two in England. Question: How many different areas does BBC One accommodate with customized broadcasting? Answer: fifteen Question: Which parts of the UK have more control over their BBC broadcasts? Answer: Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland Question: Who hosts shows on BBC broadcasts outside of England? Answer: local announcers Question: What kind of coverage might take precedence over standard BBC programming? Answer: major local events Question: How many regions is BBC Two's output split up into? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What city are the announcers of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland mostly from? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What occurs between national and local BBC schedules? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The major time divisions of classical music up to 1900 are the early music period, which includes Medieval (500–1400) and Renaissance (1400–1600) eras, and the Common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600–1750), Classical (1750–1830) and Romantic (1804–1910) eras. Since 1900, classical periods have been reckoned more by calendar century than by particular stylistic movements that have become fragmented and difficult to define. The 20th century calendar period (1901–2000) includes most of the early modern musical era (1890–1930), the entire high modern (mid 20th-century), and the first 25 years of the contemporary or postmodern musical era (1975–current). The 21st century has so far been characterized by a continuation of the contemporary/postmodern musical era. Question: What period was from 500-1400? Answer: Medieval Question: What years dictate the Baroque period? Answer: 1600–1750 Question: How have periods been reckoned Since 1900? Answer: by calendar century Question: What era has the 21st century has been characterized by? Answer: the contemporary/postmodern musical era Question: The years 1804-1910 marked what era? Answer: Romantic
Context: The Philippines has had small grassroots movements for U.S. statehood. Originally part of the platform of the Progressive Party, then known as the Federalista Party, the party dropped it in 1907, which coincided with the name change. As recently as 2004, the concept of the Philippines becoming a U.S. state has been part of a political platform in the Philippines. Supporters of this movement include Filipinos who believe that the quality of life in the Philippines would be higher and that there would be less poverty there if the Philippines were an American state or territory. Supporters also include Filipinos that had fought as members of the United States Armed Forces in various wars during the Commonwealth period. Question: What country had small grassroots movement for US Statehood? Answer: The Philippines Question: What party used to be known as the Federalista Party? Answer: Federalista Party Question: What was the most recent year of the Phillipines pushing for statehood? Answer: 2004 Question: What country had small grassroots movement for Commonwealth statehoods Answer: Unanswerable Question: What party used to be known as the Armed Forces Party? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What was the most recent year of the Commonwealth pushing for statehood? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What has been part of a political platform in the Fillipinos Party? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What does supporters of the movement to make the Commonwealth a state include? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The island had a monocrop economy until 1966, based on the cultivation and processing of New Zealand flax for rope and string. St Helena's economy is now weak, and is almost entirely sustained by aid from the British government. The public sector dominates the economy, accounting for about 50% of gross domestic product. Inflation was running at 4% in 2005. There have been increases in the cost of fuel, power and all imported goods. Question: What kind of crop economy did the Island originally have? Answer: monocrop Question: What year did the crop economy change? Answer: 1966 Question: What was produced during the time the Island was monocrop? Answer: flax Question: Saint Helena's economy is now almost completely sustained by what? Answer: aid from the British government Question: How much % of production does the public sector cover? Answer: 50%
Context: On 10 October, hostilities began between German and French republican forces near Orléans. At first, the Germans were victorious but the French drew reinforcements and defeated the Germans at the Battle of Coulmiers on 9 November. After the surrender of Metz, more than 100,000 well-trained and experienced German troops joined the German 'Southern Army'. The French were forced to abandon Orléans on 4 December, and were finally defeated at the Battle of Le Mans (10–12 January). A second French army which operated north of Paris was turned back at the Battle of Amiens (27 November), the Battle of Bapaume (3 January 1871) and the Battle of St. Quentin (13 January). Question: On which date did hostilities between the German and French troops begin near Orleans? Answer: 10 October Question: Which side was initially successful at the Battle of Coulmiers? Answer: the Germans Question: On which date did the French triump over the Germans at the Battle of Coulmiers? Answer: 9 November Question: On which date were the French forced to abandon Orleans? Answer: 4 December Question: Of the three battles that occured north of Paris, which was the first that forced the French army to retreat? Answer: Battle of Amiens
Context: A major consideration was the possible Soviet reaction in the event that the US intervened. The Truman administration was fretful that a war in Korea was a diversionary assault that would escalate to a general war in Europe once the United States committed in Korea. At the same time, "[t]here was no suggestion from anyone that the United Nations or the United States could back away from [the conflict]". Yugoslavia–a possible Soviet target because of the Tito-Stalin Split—was vital to the defense of Italy and Greece, and the country was first on the list of the National Security Council's post-North Korea invasion list of "chief danger spots". Truman believed if aggression went unchecked a chain reaction would be initiated that would marginalize the United Nations and encourage Communist aggression elsewhere. The UN Security Council approved the use of force to help the South Koreans and the US immediately began using what air and naval forces that were in the area to that end. The Administration still refrained from committing on the ground because some advisers believed the North Koreans could be stopped by air and naval power alone. Question: What was the Truman administration concerned about that was preventing them from getting involved in the Korean conflict? Answer: Soviet reaction Question: What agency approved the use of force in South Korea? Answer: The UN Security Council Question: Why did the US not send in ground troops after the United Nations approved the use of force? Answer: advisers believed the North Koreans could be stopped by air and naval power Question: Who believed that if the issues in Korea were not dealt with the communist aggression would spread? Answer: Truman Question: What resources did the US devote to South Korea after the Security Council approved engaging in an armed conflict? Answer: air and naval forces
Context: The instrument was primarily used in an ensemble setting well into the 1930s, and although the fad died out at the beginning of the 1930s, the instruments that were developed for the orchestra found a new home in bluegrass. The famous Lloyd Loar Master Model from Gibson (1923) was designed to boost the flagging interest in mandolin ensembles, with little success. However, The "Loar" became the defining instrument of bluegrass music when Bill Monroe purchased F-5 S/N 73987 in a Florida barbershop in 1943 and popularized it as his main instrument. Question: The setting the mandolin was used in until the 1930's was? Answer: ensemble setting Question: Where did the mandolins find a new home? Answer: bluegrass Question: What mandolin was designed to boost interest in the mandolin? Answer: Lloyd Loar Master Model from Gibson Question: What mandolin became the face of bluegrass music? Answer: Loar Question: What instrument did artist Bill Monroe use? Answer: F-5 S/N 73987 Question: The setting the mandolin was used in until the 1940's was? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Where did the mandolins never find a new job? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What mandolin wasn't designed to boost interest in the mandolin? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What mandolin didn't become the face of bluegrass music? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What instrument didn't artist Bill Monroe use? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Because the actions involved in the "war on terrorism" are diffuse, and the criteria for inclusion are unclear, political theorist Richard Jackson has argued that "the 'war on terrorism' therefore, is simultaneously a set of actual practices—wars, covert operations, agencies, and institutions—and an accompanying series of assumptions, beliefs, justifications, and narratives—it is an entire language or discourse." Jackson cites among many examples a statement by John Ashcroft that "the attacks of September 11 drew a bright line of demarcation between the civil and the savage". Administration officials also described "terrorists" as hateful, treacherous, barbarous, mad, twisted, perverted, without faith, parasitical, inhuman, and, most commonly, evil. Americans, in contrast, were described as brave, loving, generous, strong, resourceful, heroic, and respectful of human rights. Question: Who said the 'war on terrorism' is 'an entire language of discourse'? Answer: Richard Jackson Question: Who said that 9/11 drew a line between 'the civil and the savage'? Answer: John Ashcroft Question: What did the Bush administration describe as parasitical? Answer: terrorists Question: What did the Bush administration describe as heroic? Answer: Americans Question: What job title does Richard Ashcroft hold? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What statement did John Jackson give? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What has Richard Ashcroft argued about the "war on terrorism?" Answer: Unanswerable Question: Of whom does Richard Jackson cite many examples? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who said the actions involved in war on terrorism are diffuse? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is John Ashcroft's job? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who did Jackson say was treacherous? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who did Ashcroft say was brave? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What has clear criteria? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: In some modern day nations and regions in which Sharia law is ostensibly practiced, heresy remains an offense punishable by death. One example is the 1989 fatwa issued by the government of Iran, offering a substantial bounty for anyone who succeeds in the assassination of author Salman Rushdie, whose writings were declared as heretical. Question: What type of law is still in practice in which heresy results in execution? Answer: Sharia law Question: What author was declared a heretic and had a bounty placed on his head by the government of Iran? Answer: Salman Rushdie Question: What did Salman Rushdie say was heretical? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is only punisable by death where Sharia law is practiced? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What country declare Sharia law in 1989? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Part of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and Disneyland in Paris, France, takes place on an elevator. The "stretching room" on the ride is actually an elevator that travels downwards, giving access to a short underground tunnel which leads to the rest of the attraction. The elevator has no ceiling and its shaft is decorated to look like walls of a mansion. Because there is no roof, passengers are able to see the walls of the shaft by looking up, which gives the illusion of the room stretching. Question: The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in California and the one in Paris, France sharewhat attribute? Answer: takes place on an elevator Question: What is the name of area that is really an elevator? Answer: The "stretching room" Question: What is included in the elevator's design? Answer: The elevator has no ceiling and its shaft is decorated to look like walls of a mansion Question: What is the illusion given by these effects? Answer: the illusion of the room stretching
Context: Corruption is often most evident in countries with the smallest per capita incomes, relying on foreign aid for health services. Local political interception of donated money from overseas is especially prevalent in Sub-Saharan African nations, where it was reported in the 2006 World Bank Report that about half of the funds that were donated for health usages were never invested into the health sectors or given to those needing medical attention. Question: Where is corruption most noticeable? Answer: countries with the smallest per capita incomes Question: These countries rely on foreign aid for what? Answer: health services Question: In Sub-Saharan African countries, what level of government is corruption especially prevalent at? Answer: Local Question: Which report described this corruption? Answer: the 2006 World Bank Report Question: How many funds did not reach their intended recipients who needed medical attention? Answer: about half
Context: Many organisms (of which humans are prime examples) eat from multiple levels of the food chain and, thus, make this classification problematic. A carnivore may eat both secondary and tertiary consumers, and its prey may itself be difficult to classify for similar reasons. Organisms showing both carnivory and herbivory are known as omnivores. Even herbivores such as the giant panda may supplement their diet with meat. Scavenging of carrion provides a significant part of the diet of some of the most fearsome predators. Carnivorous plants would be very difficult to fit into this classification, producing their own food but also digesting anything that they may trap. Organisms that eat detritivores or parasites would also be difficult to classify by such a scheme. Question: Dead animals that died as a result of natural causes or non-fatal injuries are called? Answer: carrion Question: Why are species can be difficult to classify because they? Answer: eat from multiple levels of the food chain Question: What are plants that eat both living species and consume sunlight for energy called? Answer: Carnivorous plants Question: What are organisms called that show carnivory and herbivory? Answer: omnivores Question: What can make classification of predators problematic when using a food pyramid? Answer: Many organisms (of which humans are prime examples) eat from multiple levels of the food chain Question: Why would carnivourous plants be difficult to classify into a food pyramid? Answer: producing their own food but also digesting anything that they may trap Question: Would it be easy or difficult to classify organims that eat parasites in a food pyramid? Answer: difficult Question: From how many levels of the food chain do parasites usually eat? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is difficult because parasites eat from more than one food pyramid level? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What are parasites also known as since they eat from more than one level? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is the nature of the giant panda when its cornered? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is one thing that giant pandas usually like to eat daily? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Domestic dogs inherited complex behaviors, such as bite inhibition, from their wolf ancestors, which would have been pack hunters with complex body language. These sophisticated forms of social cognition and communication may account for their trainability, playfulness, and ability to fit into human households and social situations, and these attributes have given dogs a relationship with humans that has enabled them to become one of the most successful species on the planet today.:pages95-136 Question: What is one of the complex behaviors pet dogs have gotten from wolves? Answer: bite inhibition Question: What may make dogs have the ability to be trained by, play with and fit in with people? Answer: sophisticated forms of social cognition and communication Question: Higher social attributes and human relationships may have caused dogs to reach what as a species? Answer: one of the most successful species on the planet today. Question: What is a complex behavior that dogs inherited from wolves? Answer: bite inhibition
Context: Hydrogen is highly soluble in many rare earth and transition metals and is soluble in both nanocrystalline and amorphous metals. Hydrogen solubility in metals is influenced by local distortions or impurities in the crystal lattice. These properties may be useful when hydrogen is purified by passage through hot palladium disks, but the gas's high solubility is a metallurgical problem, contributing to the embrittlement of many metals, complicating the design of pipelines and storage tanks. Question: Where is hydrogen highly soluble? Answer: rare earth and transition metals Question: Where can you find soluble hydrogen? Answer: nanocrystalline and amorphous metals Question: What influences hydrogens solubility in metals? Answer: local distortions or impurities in the crystal lattice Question: When are these useful? Answer: when hydrogen is purified by passage through hot palladium disks Question: When is it damaging? Answer: gas's high solubility is a metallurgical problem, contributing to the embrittlement of many metals, complicating the design of pipelines and storage tanks
Context: Snapshots usually become available more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later; it can take twenty-four months or longer. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked web site updates are recorded. Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. Question: What are the saved versions of a site called? Answer: Snapshots Question: What is the minimum amount of time that elapses before most snapshots are released for viewing? Answer: six months Question: What term characterizes the rate at which snapshots are made of websites? Answer: variable Question: What are the saved versions of an update called? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What is the minimum amount of time that elapses before most snapshots are released for recording? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What term characterizes the rate at which intervals of websites are made? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How many months can it take for intervals to become available? Answer: Unanswerable Question: How long are intervals between cases? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: The state has the 12th-largest state economy in Mexico, accounting for 2.7% of the country’s GDP. Chihuahua has the fifth highest manufacturing GDP in Mexico and ranks second for the most factories funded by foreign investment in the country. As of 2011[update], the state had an estimated 396 billion pesos (31.1 billion dollars) of annual GDP. According to official federal statistical studies, the service sector accounted for the largest portion of the state economy at 59.28%; the manufacturing and industrial sector is estimated to account for 34.36% of the state's GDP, with the agricultural sector accounting for 6.36% of the state's GDP. Manufacturing sector was the principal foreign investment in the state followed by the mining sector. In 2011, the state received approximately 884 million dollars in remittances from the United States, which was 4.5% of all remittances from the United States to Mexico. Question: The state's economy ranks in what place in the country Mexico Answer: 12th-largest Question: What was the GDP of the state as of 2011? Answer: 396 billion pesos Question: Which sector was the largest portion of the economy? Answer: service sector Question: Which sector was the second largest? Answer: the manufacturing and industrial sector Question: The state received how much in remittances from the U.S. in 2011? Answer: 884 million dollars
Context: While the number of cardinals was small from the times of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance, and frequently smaller than the number of recognized churches entitled to a cardinal priest, in the 16th century the College expanded markedly. In 1587, Pope Sixtus V sought to arrest this growth by fixing the maximum size of the College at 70, including 50 cardinal priests, about twice the historical number. This limit was respected until 1958, and the list of titular churches modified only on rare occasions, generally when a building fell into disrepair. When Pope John XXIII abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and John Paul II continued to do. Today there are close to 150 titular churches, out of over 300 churches in Rome. Question: In what year did Pope Sixtus V put a cap on the number of cardinals in the College of Cardinals? Answer: 1587 Question: What was the maximum number allowed per Pope Sixtus V? Answer: 70 Question: Who removed the cap on cardinals in the College of the Cardinals? Answer: Pope John XXIII Question: Who had a large number from the times of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What happened to the College of the Cardinals in the 3rd century? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who sought to cap the number of the College at 50? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who upheld the cap on cardinals in the College of the Cardinals? Answer: Unanswerable
Context: Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots share a lot in common in their culture but also have differences. Several traditional food (such as souvla and halloumi) and beverages are similar, as well as expressions and ways of life. Hospitality and buying or offering food and drinks for guests or others are common among both. In both communities, music, dance and art are integral parts of social life and many artistic, verbal and nonverbal expressions, traditional dances such as tsifteteli, similarities in dance costumes and importance placed on social activities are shared between the communities. However, the two communities have distinct religions and religious cultures, with the Greek Cypriots traditionally being Greek Orthodox and Turkish Cypriots traditionally being Sunni Muslims, which has partly hindered cultural exchange. Greek Cypriots have influences from Greece and Christianity, while Turkish Cypriots have influences from Turkey and Islam. Question: Which foods do Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have in common? Answer: souvla and halloumi Question: Which art forms are integral parts of everyday life? Answer: music, dance and art Question: What is something that Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots do not have in common? Answer: religions and religious Question: What religion do Greek Cypriots usually practice? Answer: Sunni Muslims
Context: Locke is known for his statement that individuals have a right to "Life, Liberty and Property", and his belief that the natural right to property is derived from labor. Tutored by Locke, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury wrote in 1706: "There is a mighty Light which spreads its self over the world especially in those two free Nations of England and Holland; on whom the Affairs of Europe now turn". Locke's theory of natural rights has influenced many political documents, including the United States Declaration of Independence and the French National Constituent Assembly's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Question: Who is known for his statement that individuals have a right to "Life, Liberty and Property"? Answer: Locke Question: Locke believed that the natural right to property is derived from what? Answer: labor Question: Locke's theory of natural rights influenced what French document? Answer: French National Constituent Assembly's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Context: Burma continues to be used in English by the governments of many countries, such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Official United States policy retains Burma as the country's name, although the State Department's website lists the country as "Burma (Myanmar)" and Barack Obama has referred to the country by both names. The Czech Republic uses officially Myanmar, although its Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentions both Myanmar and Burma on its website. The United Nations uses Myanmar, as do the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Russia, Germany, China, India, Norway, and Japan. Question: By which name is the country called by most English speaking countries? Answer: Burma continues to be used in English by the governments of many countries, such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom Question: How is Burma officially identified in the United States Answer: Burma (Myanmar) Question: What is the country called in sessions of the United Nations? Answer: United Nations uses Myanmar Question: What does the current president of the United States call the country in official settings? Answer: Burma (Myanmar)" and Barack Obama has referred to the country by both names
Context: At the end of the Late Middle Ages, professional actors began to appear in England and Europe. Richard III and Henry VII both maintained small companies of professional actors. Their plays were performed in the Great Hall of a nobleman's residence, often with a raised platform at one end for the audience and a "screen" at the other for the actors. Also important were Mummers' plays, performed during the Christmas season, and court masques. These masques were especially popular during the reign of Henry VIII who had a House of Revels built and an Office of Revels established in 1545. Question: Which Late Middle Age English kings kept their own troupes of professional actors? Answer: Richard III and Henry VII Question: Who performed the seasonal Christmas plays? Answer: Mummers Question: In what year did Henry VIII establish an Office of Revels? Answer: 1545 Question: What did Henry VIII build in 1545 for the benefit of the theatrical arts? Answer: House of Revels Question: In what part of a nobleman's house were plays performed? Answer: the Great Hall Question: Which Early Middle Age English kings kept their own troupes of professional actors? Answer: Unanswerable Question: Who performed the seasonal non-Christmas plays? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what year did Henry VII establish an Office of Revels? Answer: Unanswerable Question: What did Henry VIII build in 1554 for the benefit of the theatrical arts? Answer: Unanswerable Question: In what part of a nobleman's house weren't plays performed? Answer: Unanswerable