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Context: In 1981, large sections of the SEPTA Regional Rail service to the far suburbs of Philadelphia were discontinued due to lack of funding. Several projects have been proposed to extend rail service back to these areas, but lack of funding has again been the chief obstacle to implementation. These projects include the proposed Schuylkill Valley Metro to Wyomissing, PA, and extension of the Media/Elwyn line back to Wawa, PA. SEPTA's Airport Regional Rail Line Regional Rail offers direct service to the Philadelphia International Airport.
Question: When did SEPTA service get cut?
Answer: 1981
Question: Why did SEPTA rail service get cut?
Answer: lack of funding
Question: Has service ever been restored?
Answer: but lack of funding has again been the chief obstacle to implementation
Question: Name a proposed project to repalce it?
Answer: Schuylkill Valley Metro to Wyomissing, PA, and extension of the Media/Elwyn line back to Wawa, PA. SEPTA's Airport Regional Rail Line Regional Rail |
Context: French cuisine, West Indian cuisine, Creole cuisine, Italian cuisine and Asian cuisine are common in St. Barthélemy. The island has over 70 restaurants serving many dishes and others are a significant number of gourmet restaurants; many of the finest restaurants are located in the hotels. There are also a number of snack restaurants which the French call "les snacks" or "les petits creux" which include sandwiches, pizzas and salads. West Indian cuisine, steamed vegetables with fresh fish is common; Creole dishes tend to be spicier. The island hosts gastronomic events throughout the year, with dishes such as spring roll of shrimp and bacon, fresh grilled lobster, Chinese noodle salad with coconut milk, and grilled beef fillet etc.
Question: How many restaurants does the island have?
Answer: over 70
Question: Where are most of the nice restaurants located?
Answer: in the hotels
Question: What do the French call snack restaurants besides les snacks?
Answer: les petits creux
Question: Creole food is often what?
Answer: spicier
Question: What type of cuisine related events does the island host each year?
Answer: gastronomic
Question: How many restaurants in St. Barthelemy serve Creole cuisine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many hotels are there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is common in Italian cuisine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cuisine is fresh grilled lobster an example of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many West Indian cuisine restaurants are there?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1949, France started its transmissions with an 819 lines system (with 737 active lines). The system was monochrome only, and was used only on VHF for the first French TV channel. It was discontinued in 1983.
Question: In what year did France start transmissions using and 819 line system?
Answer: 1949
Question: What country started transmissions using and 819 line system in 1949?
Answer: France
Question: What did France start transmissions with in 1949?
Answer: an 819 lines system
Question: Was France's 819 line system in color?
Answer: monochrome only
Question: When was France's 819 line system discontinued?
Answer: 1983
Question: In what year did England start transmissions using and 819 line system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country started transmissions using and 819 line system in 1959?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did France start transmissions with in 1939?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Was Englands 819 line system in color?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was France's 811 line system discontinued?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By the late 1960s, many of the resort's once great hotels were suffering from embarrassing vacancy rates. Most of them were either shut down, converted to cheap apartments, or converted to nursing home facilities by the end of the decade. Prior to and during the advent of legalized gaming, many of these hotels were demolished. The Breakers, the Chelsea, the Brighton, the Shelburne, the Mayflower, the Traymore, and the Marlborough-Blenheim were demolished in the 1970s and 1980s. Of the many pre-casino resorts that bordered the boardwalk, only the Claridge, the Dennis, the Ritz-Carlton, and the Haddon Hall survive to this day as parts of Bally's Atlantic City, a condo complex, and Resorts Atlantic City. The old Ambassador Hotel was purchased by Ramada in 1978 and was gutted to become the Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City, only reusing the steelwork of the original building. Smaller hotels off the boardwalk, such as the Madison also survived.
Question: By what years were many of the great hotels suffering from high vacancy rates?
Answer: the late 1960s
Question: Prior to and during the advent of legalized gaming, what happened to many of the hotels in Atlantic City?
Answer: demolished
Question: When were many of the large hotels demolished?
Answer: 1970s and 1980s
Question: After the Ambassador Hotel was gutted what did it become?
Answer: Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City
Question: Who purchased the old Ambassador Hotel in 1978?
Answer: Ramada |
Context: On 6 September 2007, Belgian-based International Polar Foundation unveiled the Princess Elisabeth station, the world's first zero-emissions polar science station in Antarctica to research climate change. Costing $16.3 million, the prefabricated station, which is part of the International Polar Year, was shipped to the South Pole from Belgium by the end of 2008 to monitor the health of the polar regions. Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert stated: "This base will be the first of its kind to produce zero emissions, making it a unique model of how energy should be used in the Antarctic." Johan Berte is the leader of the station design team and manager of the project which conducts research in climatology, glaciology and microbiology.
Question: What type of research was Princess Elizabeth station built to study?
Answer: climate change
Question: How much did the Princess Elizabeth station cost?
Answer: $16.3 million
Question: What unique characteristic does the Princess Elizabeth station feature?
Answer: zero-emissions
Question: From what country was the Princess Elizabeth station shipped?
Answer: Belgium
Question: Who is the leader of the station design team?
Answer: Johan Berte
Question: What happened on 7 September 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was unveiled on 7 September 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who unveiled the Princess Elisabeth on 7 September 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cost $13.6 million?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is Alain Berte?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Six games were initially available in Japan, while eagerly anticipated titles such as Dead or Alive 4 and Enchanted Arms were released in the weeks following the console's launch. Games targeted specifically for the region, such as Chromehounds, Ninety-Nine Nights, and Phantasy Star Universe, were also released in the console's first year. Microsoft also had the support of Japanese developer Mistwalker, founded by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. Mistwalker's first game, Blue Dragon, was released in 2006 and had a limited-edition bundle which sold out quickly with over 10,000 pre-orders. Blue Dragon is one of three Xbox 360 games to surpass 200,000 units in Japan, along with Tales of Vesperia and Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Mistwalker's second game, Lost Odyssey also sold over 100,000 copies.
Question: How many launch titles did the 360 have in Japan?
Answer: Six
Question: What was the name of the Japanese developer that strongly supported the 360?
Answer: Mistwalker
Question: What was Mistwalker's first title for the 360?
Answer: Blue Dragon
Question: Blue Dragon surpassed this sales figure in Japan?
Answer: 200,000 units
Question: What was Mistwalker's second 360 title to be released?
Answer: Lost Odyssey
Question: Which developer created Chromehounds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many game pre-orders did the console have in its first year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many copies of the Phantasy Star Universe sold?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many of the original six games available in Japan surpassed 200,000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Mistwalker's second game released?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has been the largest police force in the United States by a significant margin, with over 35,000 sworn officers. Members of the NYPD are frequently referred to by politicians, the media, and their own police cars by the nickname, New York's Finest.
Question: The largest police presence in the US is NYPD with how many people?
Answer: 35,000
Question: NYPD officers have a nickname that is known as what?
Answer: New York's Finest
Question: What does the acronym NYPD stand for?
Answer: New York City Police Department
Question: About how many police work for the NYPD?
Answer: 35,000
Question: What is the nickname given to New York City Police Department officers?
Answer: New York's Finest |
Context: The term British Isles is controversial in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British with Ireland. The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term and its embassy in London discourages its use. As a result, Britain and Ireland is used as an alternative description, and Atlantic Archipelago has had limited use among a minority in academia, although British Isles is still commonly employed. Within them, they are also sometimes referred to as these islands.
Question: Why is the name the British Isles disputed in Ireland?
Answer: association of the word British
Question: Does the Government of Ireland use the British Isle term?
Answer: does not recognise or use the term
Question: What is the alternative name that Government of Ireland uses instead of British Isles?
Answer: Atlantic Archipelago
Question: Does the Government of Ireland's London embassy use the name British Isles?
Answer: its embassy in London discourages its use
Question: Why does Britian dispute the name British Isles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term does the British government not recognize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What name does the government of Britian use instead of the British Isles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Britian prefer to refer to as the Atlantic Archipelago?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The term Atlantic Archipelago is considered controversial in which country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which term does the Atlantic government not recognize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The embassy in Paris discourages the use of what term?lon
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which country names are used as an alternative to the phrase Atlantic Archipelago?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the Mahayana, the Buddha tends not to be viewed as merely human, but as the earthly projection of a beginningless and endless, omnipresent being (see Dharmakaya) beyond the range and reach of thought. Moreover, in certain Mahayana sutras, the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha are viewed essentially as One: all three are seen as the eternal Buddha himself.
Question: In the Mahayana, who is thought to be an omnipresent being?
Answer: Buddha
Question: Who is thought to be beyond the range and reach of thought?
Answer: Buddha
Question: In what sutras are the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha viewed as One?
Answer: Mahayana |
Context: In the US Air Force, the distinction between bombers, fighters that are actually fighter-bombers, and attack aircraft has become blurred. Many attack aircraft, even ones that look like fighters, are optimized to drop bombs, with very little ability to engage in aerial combat. Many fighter aircraft, such as the F-16, are often used as 'bomb trucks', despite being designed for aerial combat. Perhaps the one meaningful distinction at present is the question of range: a bomber is generally a long-range aircraft capable of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited to 'theater' missions in and around the immediate area of battlefield combat. Even that distinction is muddied by the availability of aerial refueling, which greatly increases the potential radius of combat operations. The US, Russia, and the People's Republic of China operate strategic bombers.
Question: What are most attack aircraft in the US Air Force designed to do?
Answer: drop bombs
Question: What type of USAF aircraft is designed for long range airstrike attacks?
Answer: bomber
Question: What types of aircraft are typically limited to close proximity of battlefield conflict by the USAF?
Answer: fighter bombers and attack aircraft
Question: What increases the radius of combat missions by the US Air Force?
Answer: aerial refueling
Question: What countries utilize strategic bomber aircraft in their missions?
Answer: US, Russia, and the People's Republic of China |
Context: Domesticated birds raised for meat and eggs, called poultry, are the largest source of animal protein eaten by humans; in 2003, 76 million tons of poultry and 61 million tons of eggs were produced worldwide. Chickens account for much of human poultry consumption, though domesticated turkeys, ducks, and geese are also relatively common. Many species of birds are also hunted for meat. Bird hunting is primarily a recreational activity except in extremely undeveloped areas. The most important birds hunted in North and South America are waterfowl; other widely hunted birds include pheasants, wild turkeys, quail, doves, partridge, grouse, snipe, and woodcock. Muttonbirding is also popular in Australia and New Zealand. Though some hunting, such as that of muttonbirds, may be sustainable, hunting has led to the extinction or endangerment of dozens of species.
Question: What are domesticated birds raised for meat and eggs?
Answer: poultry
Question: What is the largest source of animal protein eaten by humans?
Answer: poultry
Question: In 2003, how many tons of poultry were produced worldwide?
Answer: 76 million tons
Question: What is primarily a recreational activity except in extremely underdeveloped areas?
Answer: Bird hunting |
Context: Another view, advanced by Richard Dawkins, is that the existence of God is an empirical question, on the grounds that "a universe with a god would be a completely different kind of universe from one without, and it would be a scientific difference." Carl Sagan argued that the doctrine of a Creator of the Universe was difficult to prove or disprove and that the only conceivable scientific discovery that could disprove the existence of a Creator would be the discovery that the universe is infinitely old.
Question: What did Sagan argue was the only was to prove the existence of God?
Answer: the discovery that the universe is infinitely old
Question: What is Richard Dawkins belief about the existence of God?
Answer: "a universe with a god would be a completely different kind of universe from one without, and it would be a scientific difference."
Question: What kind of difference does Dawkins believe would come from the existence of God?
Answer: a scientific difference
Question: Who argued that the existence of God is an empirical question?
Answer: Richard Dawkins
Question: Who stated that God was difficult both to prove or disprove?
Answer: Carl Sagan
Question: How could science discover if there was not a creator?
Answer: the universe is infinitely old.
Question: How would the universe be different according to Carl Sagan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What grounds did Carl Sagan use to explain God's existence and how it would change the universe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Richard Dawkins believe was difficult to prove?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Richard Dawkins believe could disprove the existence of a Creator?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What view did Carl Sagan have about the question of the existence of God?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Economic growth in Swaziland has lagged behind that of its neighbours. Real GDP growth since 2001 has averaged 2.8%, nearly 2 percentage points lower than growth in other Southern African Customs Union (SACU) member countries. Low agricultural productivity in the SNLs, repeated droughts, the devastating effect of HIV/AIDS and an overly large and inefficient government sector are likely contributing factors. Swaziland's public finances deteriorated in the late 1990s following sizeable surpluses a decade earlier. A combination of declining revenues and increased spending led to significant budget deficits.
Question: What has the Real growth in GDP since 2001 in Swaziland in percentage?
Answer: 2.8%
Question: How much lower is the Swazi Real GDP growth in comparison to other Southern African Customs Union members is Swaziland?
Answer: nearly 2 percentage points
Question: When did the public finances in Swaziland decline?
Answer: the late 1990s
Question: What led to Swazi budget cuts?
Answer: declining revenues and increased spending
Question: What have Swaziland's neighbors lagged behind in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the average GDP of SACU member countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much higher is the Swazi GDP growth compared to the rest of the SACU?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Swaziland have a surplus of in the 1990's?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In soil, microorganisms that reside in the rhizosphere (a zone that includes the root surface and the soil that adheres to the root after gentle shaking) carry out nitrogen fixation, converting nitrogen gas to nitrogenous compounds. This serves to provide an easily absorbable form of nitrogen for many plants, which cannot fix nitrogen themselves. Many other bacteria are found as symbionts in humans and other organisms. For example, the presence of over 1,000 bacterial species in the normal human gut flora of the intestines can contribute to gut immunity, synthesise vitamins, such as folic acid, vitamin K and biotin, convert sugars to lactic acid (see Lactobacillus), as well as fermenting complex undigestible carbohydrates. The presence of this gut flora also inhibits the growth of potentially pathogenic bacteria (usually through competitive exclusion) and these beneficial bacteria are consequently sold as probiotic dietary supplements.
Question: Where do bacteria stay in soil?
Answer: rhizosphere
Question: What do bacteria do in soil?
Answer: converting nitrogen gas to nitrogenous compounds
Question: How does the conversion help the vegetation?
Answer: provide an easily absorbable form of nitrogen
Question: What is the amount of bacteria in human intestines?
Answer: over 1,000 bacterial species
Question: How does gut flora prevent growth of pathogenic bacteria?
Answer: through competitive exclusion |
Context: Gagarin's flight changed this; now Kennedy sensed the humiliation and fear on the part of the American public over the Soviet lead. He sent a memo dated April 20, 1961, to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, asking him to look into the state of America's space program, and into programs that could offer NASA the opportunity to catch up. The two major options at the time seemed to be, either establishment of an Earth orbital space station, or a manned landing on the Moon. Johnson in turn consulted with von Braun, who answered Kennedy's questions based on his estimates of US and Soviet rocket lifting capability. Based on this, Johnson responded to Kennedy, concluding that much more was needed to reach a position of leadership, and recommending that the manned Moon landing was far enough in the future that the US had a fighting chance to achieve it first.
Question: President Kennedy sent a letter on April 20, 1961 to who about the US's space program?
Answer: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson |
Context: In soccer, New York City is represented by New York City FC of Major League Soccer, who play their home games at Yankee Stadium. The New York Red Bulls play their home games at Red Bull Arena in nearby Harrison, New Jersey. Historically, the city is known for the New York Cosmos, the highly successful former professional soccer team which was the American home of Pelé, one of the world's most famous soccer players. A new version of the New York Cosmos was formed in 2010, and began play in the second division North American Soccer League in 2013. The Cosmos play their home games at James M. Shuart Stadium on the campus of Hofstra University, just outside the New York City limits in Hempstead, New York.
Question: What Major League Soccer franchise is based in New York?
Answer: New York City FC
Question: What stadium does the New York City FC call home?
Answer: Yankee Stadium
Question: In what city are the New York Red Bulls based?
Answer: Harrison, New Jersey
Question: What famous soccer player played for the New York Cosmos?
Answer: Pelé
Question: At what institution of higher education is James M. Shuart Stadium located?
Answer: Hofstra University |
Context: The Warnerke Standard Sensitometer consisted of a frame holding an opaque screen with an array of typically 25 numbered, gradually pigmented squares brought into contact with the photographic plate during a timed test exposure under a phosphorescent tablet excited before by the light of a burning Magnesium ribbon. The speed of the emulsion was then expressed in 'degrees' Warnerke (sometimes seen as Warn. or °W.) corresponding with the last number visible on the exposed plate after development and fixation. Each number represented an increase of 1/3 in speed, typical plate speeds were between 10° and 25° Warnerke at the time.
Question: What consists of 25 pigmented squares touching a plate below a phosphorescent tablet under the light of a burning Magnesium ribbon?
Answer: The Warnerke Standard Sensitometer
Question: What do degrees Warnerke measure?
Answer: The speed of the emulsion
Question: How much speed is associated with each degree Warnerke?
Answer: an increase of 1/3 in speed
Question: What were usual ranges of Warnerke speeds?
Answer: between 10° and 25° Warnerke
Question: What does the last exposed number on the plate represent?
Answer: 'degrees' Warnerke
Question: The Warnerke Standard Sensitometer has 25 opaque what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What measures the number of pigmented squares on the photographic plate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Degrees Warneke represented the first what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the range of the number of squares in a Sensitometer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Each number represented a decrease of what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the 16th century locally produced wool was the major export commodity. Plymouth was the home port for successful maritime traders, among them Sir John Hawkins, who led England's first foray into the Atlantic slave trade, as well as Sir Francis Drake, Mayor of Plymouth in 1581 and 1593. According to legend, Drake insisted on completing his game of bowls on the Hoe before engaging the Spanish Armada in 1588. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World from Plymouth, establishing Plymouth Colony – the second English colony in what is now the United States of America.
Question: What notable slave trader was based out of Plymouth?
Answer: Sir John Hawkins
Question: Who served as Plymouth's mayor in 1593?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake
Question: In what year did Drake battle the Spanish Armada?
Answer: 1588
Question: When did the Pilgrim Fathers depart Plymouth?
Answer: 1620
Question: What was the name of the settlement founded by the Pilgrim Fathers?
Answer: Plymouth Colony |
Context: During Mubarak's presidency, Nasserist political parties began to emerge in Egypt, the first being the Arab Democratic Nasserist Party (ADNP). The party carried minor political influence, and splits between its members beginning in 1995 resulted in the gradual establishment of splinter parties, including Hamdeen Sabahi's 1997 founding of Al-Karama. Sabahi came in third place during the 2012 presidential election. Nasserist activists were among the founders of Kefaya, a major opposition force during Mubarak's rule. On 19 September 2012, four Nasserist parties (the ADNP, Karama, the National Conciliation Party, and the Popular Nasserist Congress Party) merged to form the United Nasserist Party.
Question: What type of political parties came about when Mubarek was president?
Answer: Nasserist
Question: What was the first Nasserist political party?
Answer: Arab Democratic Nasserist Party
Question: What party came in third in the 2013 election?
Answer: Sabahi
Question: What consolated party was formed from several Nasserist groups?
Answer: United Nasserist Party |
Context: Blair announced in September 2006 that he would quit as leader within the year, though he had been under pressure to quit earlier than May 2007 in order to get a new leader in place before the May elections which were expected to be disastrous for Labour. In the event, the party did lose power in Scotland to a minority Scottish National Party government at the 2007 elections and, shortly after this, Blair resigned as Prime Minister and was replaced by his Chancellor, Gordon Brown. Although the party experienced a brief rise in the polls after this, its popularity soon slumped to its lowest level since the days of Michael Foot. During May 2008, Labour suffered heavy defeats in the London mayoral election, local elections and the loss in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, culminating in the party registering its worst ever opinion poll result since records began in 1943, of 23%, with many citing Brown's leadership as a key factor. Membership of the party also reached a low ebb, falling to 156,205 by the end of 2009: over 40 per cent of the 405,000 peak reached in 1997 and thought to be the lowest total since the party was founded.
Question: When did Blair announce he was quitting?
Answer: September 2006
Question: When were the next elections?
Answer: May 2007
Question: Who did Labour lose power in the election to?
Answer: Scottish National Party
Question: Who was Blair replaced by?
Answer: his Chancellor, Gordon Brown
Question: What was the party membership at the end of 2009?
Answer: 156,205
Question: When was Blair not under pressure to quit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What event did people want Blair to be in power during?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the party gain power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who replaced Gordon Brown?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Labour win in May 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Plymouth lies between the River Plym to the east and the River Tamar to the west; both rivers flow into the natural harbour of Plymouth Sound. Since 1967, the unitary authority of Plymouth has included the, once independent, towns of Plympton and Plymstock which lie along the east of the River Plym. The River Tamar forms the county boundary between Devon and Cornwall and its estuary forms the Hamoaze on which is sited Devonport Dockyard.
Question: What river is to the west of Plymouth?
Answer: River Tamar
Question: To the east of Plymouth lies which river?
Answer: River Plym
Question: The River Tamar is the boundary between Devon and what other county?
Answer: Cornwall
Question: In what body of water do the rivers Plym and Tamar meet?
Answer: Plymouth Sound
Question: When did Plymstock join the unitary authority of Plymouth?
Answer: 1967 |
Context: The term is usually used to refer to violations of important religious teachings, but is used also of views strongly opposed to any generally accepted ideas. It is used in particular in reference to Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Marxism.
Question: What religions and idea of thought is heresy cited as being used frequently in?
Answer: Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Marxism
Question: Blasphemy is the acceptance of what teachings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religions no longer recognize blasphamy?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Parisian examples of European architecture date back more than a millennium; including the Romanesque church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1014-1163); the early Gothic Architecture of the Basilica of Saint-Denis (1144), the Notre Dame Cathedral (1163-1345), the Flamboyant Gothic of Saint Chapelle (1239-1248), the Baroque churches of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis (1627-1641) and Les Invalides (1670-1708). The 19th century produced the neoclassical church of La Madeleine (1808-1842); the Palais Garnier Opera House (1875); the neo-Byzantine Basilica of Sacré-Cœur (1875-1919), and the exuberant Belle Époque modernism of the Eiffel Tower (1889). Striking examples of 20th century architecture include the Centre Georges Pompidou by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano (1977), and the Louvre Pyramid by I.M. Pei (1989). Contemporary architecture includes the Musée du Quai Branly by Jean Nouvel (2006) and the new contemporary art museum of the Louis Vuitton Foundation by Frank Gehry (2014).
Question: When was La Madeleine built?
Answer: 1808-1842
Question: When was teh Palais Garnier Opera House built?
Answer: 1875
Question: When was the Eiffel Tower built?
Answer: 1889
Question: Who built the art museum of the Louis Vuitton Foundation?
Answer: Frank Gehry
Question: Who built the Louvre Pyramid?
Answer: I.M. Pei |
Context: On September 9, 2007, West suggested that his race had something to do with his being overlooked for opening the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in favor of Britney Spears; he claimed, "Maybe my skin’s not right." West was performing at the event; that night, he lost all five awards that he was nominated for, including Best Male Artist and Video of the Year. After the show, he was visibly upset that he had lost at the VMAs two years in a row, stating that he would not come back to MTV ever again. He also appeared on several radio stations saying that when he made the song "Stronger" that it was his dream to open the VMAs with it. He has also stated that Spears has not had a hit in a long period of time and that MTV exploited her for ratings.
Question: What did Kanye believe was a contributing factor in him not opening for the 2007 MTV VMAs?
Answer: race
Question: With what song did Kanye aspire to open the VMAs with?
Answer: Stronger
Question: What factor did Kanye West accuse of being the reason for his being excluded for the opening of the 2007 VMAs?
Answer: his race
Question: What song was Kanye's dream to perform on the VMAs?
Answer: "Stronger" |
Context: Several other professional sports leagues have had former franchises (now defunct) in Raleigh, including the Raleigh IceCaps of the ECHL (1991–1998); Carolina Cobras of the Arena Football League (2000–2004); the Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football (1991); the Raleigh Bullfrogs of the Global Basketball Association (1991–1992); the Raleigh Cougars of the United States Basketball League (1997–1999); and most recently, the Carolina Courage of the Women's United Soccer Association (2000–2001 in Chapel Hill, 2001–2003 in suburban Cary), which won that league's championship Founders Cup in 2002.
Question: What sports teams have been in Raleigh?
Answer: Raleigh IceCaps of the ECHL (1991–1998); Carolina Cobras of the Arena Football
Question: What was the name of the GBA team in Raleigh?
Answer: Raleigh Bullfrogs
Question: When did the Raleigh Cougars play?
Answer: 1997–1999
Question: What type of team was the Carolina Courage?
Answer: Women's United Soccer
Question: What year did the Carolina Courage win the Founders Cup?
Answer: 2002
Question: What league did the Raleigh Bulldogs play in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What team quit the ECHL in 1991?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What arena football team started in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What team lost the soccer championship in 2002?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What team played soccer in Chapel hill in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Downtown Boston's streets grew organically, so they do not form a planned grid, unlike those in later-developed Back Bay, East Boston, the South End, and South Boston. Boston is the eastern terminus of I-90, which in Massachusetts runs along the Massachusetts Turnpike. The elevated portion of the Central Artery, which carried most of the through traffic in downtown Boston, was replaced with the O'Neill Tunnel during the Big Dig, substantially completed in early 2006.
Question: How did the streets of downtown Boston grow?
Answer: organically
Question: Boston is at the East end of what Interstate?
Answer: I-90
Question: What year was the O'neill tunnel put in place?
Answer: 2006
Question: The streets of Back bay grew into a what?
Answer: planned grid |
Context: In 1979, the U.S. placed Libya on its list of "State Sponsors of Terrorism", while at the end of the year a demonstration torched the U.S. embassy in Tripoli in solidarity with the perpetrators of the Iran hostage crisis. The following year, Libyan fighters began intercepting U.S. fighter jets flying over the Mediterranean, signalling the collapse of relations between the two countries. Libyan relations with Lebanon and Shi'ite communities across the world also deteriorated due to the August 1978 disappearance of imam Musa al-Sadr when visiting Libya; the Lebanese accused Gaddafi of having him killed or imprisoned, a charge he denied. Relations with Syria improved, as Gaddafi and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad shared an enmity with Israel and Egypt's Sadat. In 1980, they proposed a political union, with Libya paying off Syria's £1 billion debt to the Soviet Union; although pressures led Assad to pull out, they remained allies. Another key ally was Uganda, and in 1979, Gaddafi sent 2,500 troops into Uganda to defend the regime of President Idi Amin from Tanzanian invaders. The mission failed; 400 Libyans were killed and they were forced to retreat. Gaddafi later came to regret his alliance with Amin, openly criticising him.
Question: What list did the United States add Libya to in 1979?
Answer: State Sponsors of Terrorism
Question: In what Libyan city was the United States embassy burned in 1979?
Answer: Tripoli
Question: What event prompted the burning of the US embassy in Libya?
Answer: Iran hostage crisis
Question: How much money did Syria owe to the Soviets as of 1980?
Answer: £1 billion
Question: What country's military was attacking Uganda in 1979?
Answer: Tanzanian |
Context: The International Development Law Organization (IDLO) is an intergovernmental organization with a joint focus on the promotion of rule of law and development. It works to empower people and communities to claim their rights, and provides governments with the know-how to realize them. It supports emerging economies and middle-income countries to strengthen their legal capacity and rule of law framework for sustainable development and economic opportunity. It is the only intergovernmental organization with an exclusive mandate to promote the rule of law and has experience working in more than 170 countries around the world.
Question: What organization works to further the understanding and adherence to the rule of law?
Answer: The International Development Law Organization
Question: What types of economies does the IDLO focus on helping?
Answer: emerging economies and middle-income
Question: With how many countries does the IDLO work?
Answer: more than 170
Question: What organization focuses on studying rule of law?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who focuses on empowering governments to establish laws?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are Third World countries encouraged to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only terminal organization with a mandate to enforce rule of law?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musegetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.
Question: Who was described at the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle?
Answer: Apollo
Question: What is the name of Apollo's son?
Answer: Asclepius
Question: Who created the lyre for Apollo?
Answer: Hermes
Question: What was the term for hymns sung to Apollo?
Answer: paeans |
Context: Its knowledge and uses spread from China through the Middle East to medieval Europe in the 13th century, where the first water powered paper mills were built. Because of paper's introduction to the West through the city of Baghdad, it was first called bagdatikos. In the 19th century, industrial manufacture greatly lowered its cost, enabling mass exchange of information and contributing to significant cultural shifts. In 1844, the Canadian inventor Charles Fenerty and the German F. G. Keller independently developed processes for pulping wood fibres.
Question: In what century did the papermaking process spread from China to Europe?
Answer: 13th
Question: Which middle eastern city did the papermaking process to Europe from?
Answer: Baghdad
Question: What name did the process take on in Baghdad?
Answer: bagdatikos
Question: In which century did the process become much cheaper than before?
Answer: 19th
Question: Which Canadian inventor helped F.G. Keller to develop their own process?
Answer: Charles Fenerty
Question: In which century were the first oil powered paper mills built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The knowledge and use of what traveled from the Middle East to China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What greatly increased the cost of paper in the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Charles Fenerty and FG Keller work together to develop in 1844?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was developed by China in 1844?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what century did the papermaking process spread from France to Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which middle eastern city did the papermaking process to China from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What name did the process take on in China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which century did the process become less cheaper than before?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which French inventor helped F.G. Keller to develop their own process?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After a debate, the 129 delegates passed Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour." This created an association called the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meant to coordinate attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions and represent the working-class population. It had no single leader, and in the absence of one, the Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald was elected as Secretary. He had the difficult task of keeping the various strands of opinions in the LRC united. The October 1900 "Khaki election" came too soon for the new party to campaign effectively; total expenses for the election only came to £33. Only 15 candidatures were sponsored, but two were successful; Keir Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil and Richard Bell in Derby.
Question: How many delegates passed the motion?
Answer: 129
Question: Who was elected Secretary?
Answer: Ramsay MacDonald
Question: How many candidates were sponsored in the 1900 electrion?
Answer: 15
Question: What did the 129 delegates do before a debate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What association was meant to disorganize attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization had a single leader?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was an unsuccessful candidate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was an easy task for Ramsay MacDonald?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Daphne was a nymph, daughter of the river god Peneus, who had scorned Apollo. The myth explains the connection of Apollo with δάφνη (daphnē), the laurel whose leaves his priestess employed at Delphi. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo. Following a spirited chase by Apollo, Daphne prays to her father, Peneus, for help, and he changes her into the laurel tree, sacred to Apollo.
Question: Who was the daughter of Peneus?
Answer: Daphne
Question: Who is Daphne's father?
Answer: Peneus
Question: Who shot Daphne with a leaden arrow?
Answer: Cupid |
Context: One of the common definitions for "Islamic philosophy" is "the style of philosophy produced within the framework of Islamic culture." Islamic philosophy, in this definition is neither necessarily concerned with religious issues, nor is exclusively produced by Muslims. The Persian scholar Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037) had more than 450 books attributed to him. His writings were concerned with various subjects, most notably philosophy and medicine. His medical textbook The Canon of Medicine was used as the standard text in European universities for centuries. He also wrote The Book of Healing, an influential scientific and philosophical encyclopedia.
Question: What was the life span of Ibn Sina?
Answer: 980–1037
Question: How many books were said to have been written by Ibn Sina?
Answer: 450
Question: What subjects did Ibn Sina mainly write about?
Answer: philosophy and medicine
Question: What medical book is Ibn Sina most noted for in European universities?
Answer: The Canon of Medicine
Question: What philosophical encyclopedia is Ibn Sina known for writing?
Answer: The Book of Healing
Question: What is defined as a philosopy influenced by Islam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What philosophy is strictly produced by Muslims?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What scholar lived from the 9th to the 10th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What book was used in Universities around the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was The Book of Healing the standard test?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Computer security, also known as cybersecurity or IT security, is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and to the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. It includes controlling physical access to the hardware, as well as protecting against harm that may come via network access, data and code injection, and due to malpractice by operators, whether intentional, accidental, or due to them being tricked into deviating from secure procedures.
Question: What must an operator deviate from to harm the computer?
Answer: secure procedures
Question: What is computer security also known as?
Answer: cybersecurity or IT security
Question: What is the protection of information systems?
Answer: Computer security
Question: What are the ways an operator can malpractice?
Answer: intentional, accidental, or due to them being tricked
Question: What is the practice that includes controlling physical access to hardware?
Answer: Computer security
Question: What is the necessity of having an IT?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can be caused by neglecting a computer security system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the IT security protect?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How can a computer be attacked?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does IT security work?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the theft or damage to hardware or software?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Protecting a device from harm requires deviating from what procedures?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does computer security misdirect?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of harm can come through network access?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why would IT security partake in malpractice?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Scottish traveler James Bruce reported in 1770 that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia, noting that the two territories were frequently in conflict. The Bahre-Nagassi ("Kings of the Sea") alternately fought with or against the Abyssinians and the neighbouring Muslim Adal Sultanate depending on the geopolitical circumstances. Medri Bahri was thus part of the Christian resistance against Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of Adal's forces, but later joined the Adalite states and the Ottoman Empire front against Abyssinia in 1572. That 16th century also marked the arrival of the Ottomans, who began making inroads in the Red Sea area.
Question: Who was James Bruce?
Answer: Scottish traveler
Question: In 1770, who reported that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia?
Answer: James Bruce
Question: How is The Bahre-Nagassi translated?
Answer: "Kings of the Sea"
Question: What determined whether The Bahre-Nagassi fought with or against the Abyssinians?
Answer: geopolitical circumstances
Question: Which century marked the arrival of the Ottomans?
Answer: 16th
Question: Where did the Ottomans come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was James Bruce born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the ruler of Bahre-Nagassi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Abyssinia collapse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of Adal die?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: USB connections also come in five data transfer modes, in ascending order: Low Speed (1.0), Full Speed (1.0), High Speed (2.0), SuperSpeed (3.0), and SuperSpeed+ (3.1). High Speed is supported only by specifically designed USB 2.0 High Speed interfaces (that is, USB 2.0 controllers without the High Speed designation do not support it), as well as by USB 3.0 and newer interfaces. SuperSpeed is supported only by USB 3.0 and newer interfaces, and requires a connector and cable with extra pins and wires, usually distinguishable by the blue inserts in connectors.
Question: USB connections come in what?
Answer: five data transfer modes
Question: What is High Speed only supported by?
Answer: specifically designed USB 2.0 High Speed interfaces
Question: SuperSpeed is only supported by?
Answer: USB 3.0 and newer interfaces |
Context: The simplest model capacitor consists of two thin parallel conductive plates separated by a dielectric with permittivity ε . This model may also be used to make qualitative predictions for other device geometries. The plates are considered to extend uniformly over an area A and a charge density ±ρ = ±Q/A exists on their surface. Assuming that the length and width of the plates are much greater than their separation d, the electric field near the centre of the device will be uniform with the magnitude E = ρ/ε. The voltage is defined as the line integral of the electric field between the plates
Question: In an ideal model of a capacitor, what is the value that describes the permittivity of the dielectric?
Answer: permittivity ε
Question: What equation describes the charge density for an ideal model of a capacitor?
Answer: ±ρ = ±Q/A
Question: In an ideal model of a capacitor, what must be assumed about the size of the plates?
Answer: much greater than their separation d
Question: Close to the middle of the capacitor, what equation describes the magnitude of the electric field?
Answer: E = ρ/ε
Question: What does the line integral of the electric field between the plates of a capacitor represent?
Answer: The voltage
Question: In an ideal model of a capacitor, what is the value that does not describe the permittivity of the dielectric?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What equation describes the charge density for an unideal model of a capacitor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In an ideal model of a capacitor, what must never be assumed about the size of the plates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Close to the outside of the capacitor, what equation describes the magnitude of the electric field?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the line integral of the electric field between the plates of a capacitor fail to represent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Albert Wendt is a significant Samoan writer whose novels and stories tell the Samoan experience. In 1989, his novel Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree was made into a feature film in New Zealand, directed by Martyn Sanderson. Another novel Sons for the Return Home had also been made into a feature film in 1979, directed by Paul Maunder. The late John Kneubuhl, born in American Samoa, was an accomplished playwright and screenwriter and writer. Sia Figiel won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for fiction in the south-east Asia/South Pacific region with her novel "Where We Once Belonged". Momoe Von Reiche is an internationally recognised poet and artist. Tusiata Avia is a performance poet. Her first book of poetry Wild Dogs Under My Skirt was published by Victoria University Press in 2004. Dan Taulapapa McMullin is an artist and writer. Other Samoan poets and writers include Sapa'u Ruperake Petaia, Eti Sa'aga and Savea Sano Malifa, the editor of the Samoa Observer.
Question: What Samoan author write Flying Fox in Freedom Tree?
Answer: Albert Wendt
Question: In what country was Flying Fox in Freedom Tree made into a feature film?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Which Wendt novel was made into a film directed by Paul Maunder?
Answer: Sons for the Return Home
Question: Who won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for fiction for her book "Where We Once Belonged"?
Answer: Sia Figiel
Question: What type of literature does Tusiata Avia write?
Answer: poetry
Question: What novel was written by Martyn Sanderson?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to Martyn Sanderson's novel in 1989?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Paul Maunder win in 1997?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What novel was written by Paul Maunder?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What book of poetry was published by John Kneubuhl in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: J. M. E. McTaggart of Cambridge University, argued that minds alone exist and only relate to each other through love. Space, time and material objects are unreal. In The Unreality of Time he argued that time is an illusion because it is impossible to produce a coherent account of a sequence of events. The Nature of Existence (1927) contained his arguments that space, time, and matter cannot possibly be real. In his Studies in Hegelian Cosmology (Cambridge, 1901, p196) he declared that metaphysics are not relevant to social and political action. McTaggart "thought that Hegel was wrong in supposing that metaphysics could show that the state is more than a means to the good of the individuals who compose it". For McTaggart "philosophy can give us very little, if any, guidance in action... Why should a Hegelian citizen be surprised that his belief as to the organic nature of the Absolute does not help him in deciding how to vote? Would a Hegelian engineer be reasonable in expecting that his belief that all matter is spirit should help him in planning a bridge?
Question: With what university is J.M.E. McTaggart affiliated?
Answer: Cambridge
Question: In what year was The Nature of Existence published?
Answer: 1927
Question: According to McTaggart, what are the only things that have real existence?
Answer: minds
Question: How does McTaggart believe minds relate to one another?
Answer: love
Question: What does McTaggart believe space and time to be?
Answer: unreal
Question: When was The Unreality of Time published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what publication did McTaggart argue space, time, and matter were real?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said minds can only relate through time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did McTaggart say metaphysics was relevant for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did McTaggart say was best prepared to use their philosophy to decide how to vote?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Photometric studies (also sometimes referred to as "layouts" or "point by points") are often used to simulate lighting designs for projects before they are built or renovated. This enables architects, lighting designers, and engineers to determine whether a proposed lighting setup will deliver the amount of light intended. They will also be able to determine the contrast ratio between light and dark areas. In many cases these studies are referenced against IESNA or CIBSE recommended lighting practices for the type of application. Depending on the type of area, different design aspects may be emphasized for safety or practicality (i.e. such as maintaining uniform light levels, avoiding glare or highlighting certain areas). Specialized software is often used to create these, which typically combine the use of two-dimensional digital CAD drawings and lighting calculation software (i.e. AGi32or Dialux).
Question: What type of study is used to simulate lighting designs?
Answer: Photometric studies |
Context: Another aspect of anti-aircraft defence was the use of barrage balloons to act as physical obstacle initially to bomber aircraft over cities and later for ground attack aircraft over the Normandy invasion fleets. The balloon, a simple blimp tethered to the ground, worked in two ways. Firstly, it and the steel cable were a danger to any aircraft that tried to fly among them. Secondly, to avoid the balloons, bombers had to fly at a higher altitude, which was more favorable for the guns. Barrage balloons were limited in application, and had minimal success at bringing down aircraft, being largely immobile and passive defences.
Question: What acted as a physical obstacle to anti-aircraft defence?
Answer: barrage balloons
Question: What were barrage balloons initially used as an obstacle to?
Answer: bomber aircraft over cities
Question: How was a barrage balloon tethered to the ground?
Answer: steel cable
Question: What did pilots have to do to avoid the barrage balloons?
Answer: fly at a higher altitude
Question: What kind of success did barrage balloons have as far as bringing down aircraft?
Answer: minimal |
Context: In February 1981, Queen travelled to South America as part of The Game Tour, and became the first major rock band to play in Latin American stadiums. The tour included five shows in Argentina, one of which drew the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history with an audience of 300,000 in Buenos Aires and two concerts at the Morumbi Stadium in São Paulo, Brazil, where they played to an audience of more than 131,000 people in the first night (then the largest paying audience for a single band anywhere in the world) and more than 120,000 people the following night. In October of the same year, Queen performed for more than 150,000 fans on 9 October at Monterrey (Estadio Universitario) and 17 and 18 at Puebla (Estadio Zaragoza), Mexico. On 24 and 25 November, Queen played two sell out nights at the Montreal Forum, Quebec, Canada. One of Mercury's most notable performances of The Game's final track, "Save Me", took place in Montreal, and the concert is recorded in the live album, Queen Rock Montreal.
Question: What band was the first major band to play in Latin American stadiums?
Answer: Queen
Question: The Game Tour of the band Queen included how many shows in Argentina?
Answer: five
Question: How large was Queen's record audience in Argentina?
Answer: 300,000
Question: What was the final track on Queen's The Game?
Answer: Save Me
Question: What sold out venue did Queen play in Canada?
Answer: Montreal Forum |
Context: The devotio was the most extreme offering a Roman general could make, promising to offer his own life in battle along with the enemy as an offering to the underworld gods. Livy offers a detailed account of the devotio carried out by Decius Mus; family tradition maintained that his son and grandson, all bearing the same name, also devoted themselves. Before the battle, Decius is granted a prescient dream that reveals his fate. When he offers sacrifice, the victim's liver appears "damaged where it refers to his own fortunes". Otherwise, the haruspex tells him, the sacrifice is entirely acceptable to the gods. In a prayer recorded by Livy, Decius commits himself and the enemy to the dii Manes and Tellus, charges alone and headlong into the enemy ranks, and is killed; his action cleanses the sacrificial offering. Had he failed to die, his sacrificial offering would have been tainted and therefore void, with possibly disastrous consequences. The act of devotio is a link between military ethics and those of the Roman gladiator.
Question: What was a Roman general's most extreme offering?
Answer: devotio
Question: What Roman general had a dream of his fate in battle?
Answer: Decius Mus
Question: With what does the devotio link to military ethics?
Answer: Roman gladiator
Question: By dying what did Decius avoid for the battle?
Answer: disastrous consequences
Question: Who wrote a detailed account of the demise of Decius Mus?
Answer: Livy |
Context: More complex inflection is still found in certain lexicalized expressions like de heer des huizes (literally, the man of the house), etc. These are usually remnants of cases (in this instance, the genitive case which is still used in German, cf. Der Herr des Hauses) and other inflections no longer in general use today. In such lexicalized expressions remnants of strong and weak nouns can be found too, e.g. in het jaar des Heren (Anno Domini), where "-en" is actually the genitive ending of the weak noun. Also in this case, German retains this feature. Though the genitive is widely avoided in speech.
Question: What case no longer used in Dutch is still present in German phrases like "Der Herr des Hauses"?
Answer: genitive
Question: How would you say "the man of the house" in Dutch?
Answer: de heer des huizes
Question: What word described standalone expressions that retain some outdated convention as an exception?
Answer: lexicalized
Question: Which word in the phrase "het jaar des Heren" is a weak noun with a genitive ending added?
Answer: Heren |
Context: Josip Broz was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Croatia. Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest Sergeant Major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by the Imperial Russians during World War I, Josip was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains. He participated in the October Revolution, and later joined a Red Guard unit in Omsk. Upon his return home, Broz found himself in the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).
Question: What ethnicity was Tito's mother?
Answer: Slovene
Question: What ethnicity was Tito's father?
Answer: Croat
Question: Who captured him during World War I?
Answer: the Imperial Russians
Question: Tito joined which unit in Omsk?
Answer: Red Guard
Question: What party in Yugoslavia did he join?
Answer: Communist Party |
Context: During World War II, the development of the anti-aircraft proximity fuse required an electronic circuit that could withstand being fired from a gun, and could be produced in quantity. The Centralab Division of Globe Union submitted a proposal which met the requirements: a ceramic plate would be screenprinted with metallic paint for conductors and carbon material for resistors, with ceramic disc capacitors and subminiature vacuum tubes soldered in place. The technique proved viable, and the resulting patent on the process, which was classified by the U.S. Army, was assigned to Globe Union. It was not until 1984 that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) awarded Mr. Harry W. Rubinstein, the former head of Globe Union's Centralab Division, its coveted Cledo Brunetti Award for early key contributions to the development of printed components and conductors on a common insulating substrate. As well, Mr. Rubinstein was honored in 1984 by his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for his innovations in the technology of printed electronic circuits and the fabrication of capacitors.
Question: What company developed the first electronic circuit that could be mass produced and was durable enough to be fired from a gun?
Answer: Globe Union
Question: What was the plate used for anti-aircraft proximity fuses in World War II made out of?
Answer: ceramic
Question: Who was in charge of the Centralab Division of Globe Union when the PCB used in anti-aircraft fuses was invented?
Answer: Harry W. Rubinstein
Question: What award did Rubinstein win in 1984 for his contributions?
Answer: Cledo Brunetti Award
Question: Where did Harry Rubinstein attend college?
Answer: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Question: During World War I, the development of the anti-aircraft proximity fuse required what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1994, the IEEE awarded whom the Cledo Brunetti Award?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Ms. Harriet W. Rubenstein was the former head of which division?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Mr. Rubenstein was honored in 1994 by which university?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the Rus' attack on Constantinople in 860, the Byzantine Patriarch Photius sent missionaries north to convert the Rus' and the Slavs. Prince Rastislav of Moravia had requested the Emperor to provide teachers to interpret the holy scriptures, so in 863 the brothers Cyril and Methodius were sent as missionaries, due to their knowledge of the Slavonic language. The Slavs had no written language, so the brothers devised the Glagolitic alphabet, later developed into Cyrillic, and standardized the language of the Slavs, later known as Old Church Slavonic. They translated portions of the Bible and drafted the first Slavic civil code and other documents, and the language and texts spread throughout Slavic territories, including Kievan Rus’. The mission of Cyril and Methodius served both evangelical and diplomatic purposes, spreading Byzantine cultural influence in support of imperial foreign policy. In 867 the Patriarch announced that the Rus' had accepted a bishop, and in 874 he speaks of an "Archbishop of the Rus'."
Question: In what year did the Rus attack Constantinople?
Answer: 860
Question: What had Prince Rastislav requested?
Answer: provide teachers
Question: What did Cyril and Mehodius come up with to help with the issue of the Slaves not having a written language?
Answer: devised the Glagolitic alphabet
Question: In what year did the Rus accept a bishop?
Answer: 867
Question: Who sent missionaries south?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who had a written language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the Glagolitic alphabet in 863?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the Byzantine cultural influence spread?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Rus accept a pope?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There were several other kingdoms which ruled over parts of India in the later medieval period prior to the British occupation. However, most of them were bound to pay regular tribute to the Marathas. The rule of Wodeyar dynasty which established the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India in around 1400 CE by was interrupted by Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan in the later half of the 18th century. Under their rule, Mysore fought a series of wars sometimes against the combined forces of the British and Marathas, but mostly against the British, with Mysore receiving some aid or promise of aid from the French.
Question: To what Kingdom did many small kingdoms pay tribute?
Answer: Marathas
Question: What kingdom was founded in Mysore in 1400 CE?
Answer: Wodeyar
Question: What groups was Mysore fighting in the later half of the 18th century?
Answer: British and Marathas
Question: What country promised aid to Mysore to fight the British?
Answer: the French
Question: Who took over rule of Mysore in the 18th century?
Answer: Hyder Ali |
Context: Tensions over rising Polish nationalism and the economic effects of the Continental System led to renewed confrontation with Russia. To enforce his blockade, Napoleon launched an invasion of Russia in the summer of 1812. The resulting campaign witnessed the catastrophic collapse of the Grand Army, forcing the French to retreat, as well as leading to the widespread destruction of Russian lands and cities. In 1813, Prussia and Austria joined Russian forces in a Sixth Coalition against France. A chaotic military campaign in Central Europe eventually culminated in a large Allied army defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in October. The next year, the Allies invaded France and captured Paris, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April 1814. He was exiled to the island of Elba. The Bourbons were restored to power and the French lost most of the territories that they had conquered since the Revolution. However, Napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815 and took control of the government once again. The Allies responded by forming a Seventh Coalition, which ultimately defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in June. The Royal Navy then thwarted his planned escape to the United States in July, so he surrendered to the British after running out of other options. The British exiled him to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. His death in 1821 at the age of 51 was received with shock and grief throughout Europe. In 1840, a million people witnessed his remains returning to Paris, where they still reside at Les Invalides.
Question: What nation did Napoleon invade in 1812 to enforce his blockade?
Answer: Russia
Question: The 1812 invasion of Russia resulted in the collapse of which military unit?
Answer: the Grand Army
Question: In what year was the Sixth Coalition formed?
Answer: 1813
Question: In addition to Russia, the Sixth Coalition consisted of forces from which two nations?
Answer: Prussia and Austria
Question: In what year did the Allies capture Paris and force Napoleon's abdication?
Answer: 1814 |
Context: The observation that old windows are sometimes found to be thicker at the bottom than at the top is often offered as supporting evidence for the view that glass flows over a timescale of centuries, the assumption being that the glass has exhibited the liquid property of flowing from one shape to another. This assumption is incorrect, as once solidified, glass stops flowing. The reason for the observation is that in the past, when panes of glass were commonly made by glassblowers, the technique used was to spin molten glass so as to create a round, mostly flat and even plate (the crown glass process, described above). This plate was then cut to fit a window. The pieces were not absolutely flat; the edges of the disk became a different thickness as the glass spun. When installed in a window frame, the glass would be placed with the thicker side down both for the sake of stability and to prevent water accumulating in the lead cames at the bottom of the window. Occasionally such glass has been found installed with the thicker side at the top, left or right.
Question: What was the benefit of installing glass with the thick side at the bottom, in addition to avoiding water accumulation?
Answer: stability
Question: Who used to make window panes?
Answer: glassblowers
Question: What is the name for the glassmaking method that involved spinning it into sheets?
Answer: crown glass process
Question: The thickness at the bottom of glass panes was once taken as evidence that glass had features of what state of matter?
Answer: liquid
Question: When does glass stop moving like a liquid?
Answer: once solidified
Question: What was the benefit of installing glass with the thick side at the top?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who used to make water?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name for the glassmaking method that involved centuries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The crown glass process was once taken as evidence that glass had features of what state of matter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When does glass stop moving like the bottom of the window?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Developed countries have people with more resources (housing, food, transportation, water and sewage treatment, hospitals, health care, libraries, books, media, schools, the internet, education, etc.) than most of the world's population. One merely needs to see through travel or the media how many people in the undeveloped countries live to sense this. However, one can also use economic data to gain some insight into this. Yet criticism and blame are common among people in the developed countries.
Question: What is the discrepancy between Developed and less developed countries?
Answer: Developed countries have people with more resources
Question: What resources do developed countries have better access to?
Answer: housing, food, transportation
Question: What is common in developed countries?
Answer: criticism and blame
Question: What is not a discrepancy between Developed and less developed countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not an example of a resource?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What resources do undeveloped countries have better access to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is common in undeveloped countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How can people see developed countries?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1990 religion and politics intersected to impact the outcome of the Eighth District election in South Richmond. With the endorsements of black power brokers, black clergy and the Richmond Crusade for Voters, South Richmond residents made history, electing Reverend A. Carl Prince to the Richmond City Council. As the first African American Baptist Minister elected to the Richmond City Council, Prince's election paved the way for a political paradigm shift in politics that persist today. Following Prince's election, Reverend Gwendolyn Hedgepeth and the Reverend Leonidas Young, former Richmond Mayor were elected to public office. Prior to Prince's election black clergy made political endorsements and served as appointees to the Richmond School Board and other boards throughout the city. Today religion and politics continues to thrive in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Honorable Dwight C. Jones, a prominent Baptist pastor and former Chairman of the Richmond School Board and Member of the Virginia House of Delegates serves as Mayor of the City of Richmond.
Question: What is A. Carl Prince's religious affiliation?
Answer: Baptist
Question: What is the current mayor of Richmond?
Answer: Dwight C. Jones
Question: In what year was the first black Baptist minister elected to the city council?
Answer: 1990
Question: In what district did A. Carl Prince win election to the city council?
Answer: Eighth
Question: What political organization supported the city council candidacy of A. Carl Prince?
Answer: Richmond Crusade for Voters |
Context: FBI records show that 85% of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed "subversive", including communist and socialist organizations; organizations and individuals associated with the Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations; black nationalist groups; the American Indian Movement; a broad range of organizations labeled "New Left", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; the National Lawyers Guild; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement. The remaining 15% of COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert white hate groups, including the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party.
Question: What percentage of COINTELPRO resources were targeted at FBI labeled subversive groups?
Answer: 85%
Question: Did the FBI target MLK?
Answer: including Martin Luther King, Jr.
Question: What percentage of COINTELPRO resources were used to target white hate groups?
Answer: 15%
Question: What were the key white hate groups targeted?
Answer: Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party
Question: What was the term for the liberal groups appearing at this time?
Answer: New Left
Question: How much of COINTELPRO resources were dedicated to targeting libertarian organizations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is a Civil Rights leader that the CIA targeted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of COINTELPRO resources were used to help white hate groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group did the FBI not target?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a group that the CIA targeted?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Albert spent the first six months of 1913 on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September 1913, and spent three months in the Mediterranean. His fellow officers gave him the nickname "Mr. Johnson". One year after his commission, he began service in the First World War. He was mentioned in despatches for his action as a turret officer aboard Collingwood in the Battle of Jutland (31 May – 1 June 1916), an indecisive engagement with the German navy that was the largest naval action of the war. He did not see further combat, largely because of ill health caused by a duodenal ulcer, for which he had an operation in November 1917.
Question: Which ship did Alber train on in 1913?
Answer: HMS Cumberland
Question: How many months did Albert spend in the Mediterranean in 1913?
Answer: three months
Question: Which war did Albert serve in?
Answer: First World War
Question: Who gave Albert the nickname of "Mr Johnson"?
Answer: fellow officers
Question: What was the cause of Albert's ill health in 1917?
Answer: duodenal ulcer
Question: In what year did Albert leave the military?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was one of the months Albert served in the Mediterranean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which month in 1913 did Albert start serving on the HMS Cumberland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Albert start serving on the Collingwood?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What rank did Albert have while serving on the HMS Cumberland?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to the Mahāsaccakasutta,[note 33] from the fourth jhana the Buddha gained bodhi. Yet, it is not clear what he was awakened to.[page needed] "Liberating insight" is a later addition to this text, and reflects a later development and understanding in early Buddhism.[page needed][page needed] The mentioning of the four truths as constituting "liberating insight" introduces a logical problem, since the four truths depict a linear path of practice, the knowledge of which is in itself not depicted as being liberating.[note 34]
Question: From which jhana did Buddha gain bodhi?
Answer: fourth
Question: A logic problem arises when noting that the four truths constitute what?
Answer: liberating insight
Question: The four truths depict what type of path of practice?
Answer: linear |
Context: Since the MAPS projects' completion, the downtown area has seen continued development. Several downtown buildings are undergoing renovation/restoration. Notable among these was the restoration of the Skirvin Hotel in 2007. The famed First National Center is being renovated.
Question: When was the Skirvin Hotel Renovated?
Answer: 2007 |
Context: The first streetcars appeared in 1889 and were instrumental in the creation of a relatively well-defined downtown and strong neighborhoods at the end of their lines. The advent of the automobile sounded the death knell for rail in Seattle. Tacoma–Seattle railway service ended in 1929 and the Everett–Seattle service came to an end in 1939, replaced by inexpensive automobiles running on the recently developed highway system. Rails on city streets were paved over or removed, and the opening of the Seattle trolleybus system brought the end of streetcars in Seattle in 1941. This left an extensive network of privately owned buses (later public) as the only mass transit within the city and throughout the region.
Question: In what year were the first streetcars used in Seattle?
Answer: 1889
Question: What machine caused the end of city rail lines in Seattle?
Answer: automobile
Question: When did the Tacoma-Seattle rail service end?
Answer: 1929
Question: In what year did the Everett-Seattle rail lines cease?
Answer: 1939
Question: The use of what caused the end of the use of streetcars in 1941?
Answer: trolleybus |
Context: The legal status of Roman citizenship was limited and was a vital prerequisite to possessing many important legal rights such as the right to trial and appeal, to marry, to vote, to hold office, to enter binding contracts, and to special tax exemptions. An adult male citizen with the full complement of legal and political rights was called "optimo jure." The optimo jure elected their assemblies, whereupon the assemblies elected magistrates, enacted legislation, presided over trials in capital cases, declared war and peace, and forged or dissolved treaties. There were two types of legislative assemblies. The first was the comitia ("committees"), which were assemblies of all optimo jure. The second was the concilia ("councils"), which were assemblies of specific groups of optimo jure.
Question: What was the main requirement of seeking a trial in the Roman courts?
Answer: legal status of Roman citizenship
Question: Who would be expected to oversee a capital case in the Roman courts?
Answer: assemblies
Question: Which designation of people made up the entirety of the members of a comitia?
Answer: optimo jure
Question: Who did the assemblies elected by the optimo jure elect?
Answer: magistrates
Question: What type of assembly could specific groupings of optimo jure be found in?
Answer: concilia |
Context: Theoretical obligations between a samurai and his lord (usually a daimyo) increased from the Genpei era to the Edo era. They were strongly emphasized by the teachings of Confucius and Mencius (ca 550 BC), which were required reading for the educated samurai class. Bushido was formalized by several influential leaders and families before the Edo Period. Bushido was an ideal, and it remained fairly uniform from the 13th century to the 19th century — the ideals of Bushido transcended social class, time and geographic location of the warrior class.
Question: Who were most samurais' lords?
Answer: daimyo
Question: Whose teachings did all samurai read?
Answer: Confucius and Mencius
Question: What did Bushido transcend?
Answer: social class, time and geographic location
Question: When was Bushido formalized?
Answer: before the Edo Period
Question: Who formalized Bushido?
Answer: several influential leaders and families |
Context: Characteristics of the "I" signals on E2 and E5B are generally similar to the civilian codes of GPS (L1-CA and L2C), but Compass signals have somewhat greater power. The notation of Compass signals used in this page follows the naming of the frequency bands and agrees with the notation used in the American literature on the subject, but the notation used by the Chinese seems to be different and is quoted in the first row of the table.
Question: What is the difference between the "I" signals on E2 and E5B and the civilian codes of GPS (L1-CA and L2C)?
Answer: Compass signals have somewhat greater power
Question: Which signals characteristics are usually similar to private military codes of GPS?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Compass signals are known to have lesser what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Japanese notation can be found in which row on the table?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Even though the Chinese notation is the same, it can be found on which row of the table?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following his triumph, Napoleon imposed the first elements of the Continental System through the Berlin Decree issued in November 1806. The Continental System, which prohibited European nations from trading with Britain, was widely violated throughout his reign. In the next few months, Napoleon marched against the advancing Russian armies through Poland and was involved in the bloody stalemate at the Battle of Eylau in February 1807. After a period of rest and consolidation on both sides, the war restarted in June with an initial struggle at Heilsberg that proved indecisive. On 14 June, however, Napoleon finally obtained an overwhelming victory over the Russians at the Battle of Friedland, wiping out the majority of the Russian army in a very bloody struggle. The scale of their defeat convinced the Russians to make peace with the French. On 19 June, Czar Alexander sent an envoy to seek an armistice with Napoleon. The latter assured the envoy that the Vistula River represented the natural borders between French and Russian influence in Europe. On that basis, the two emperors began peace negotiations at the town of Tilsit after meeting on an iconic raft on the River Niemen. The very first thing Alexander said to Napoleon was probably well-calibrated: "I hate the English as much as you do."
Question: In what 1806 proclamation did Napoleon begin to impose the Continental System?
Answer: the Berlin Decree
Question: What was the system Napoleon imposed though the Berlin Decree?
Answer: The Continental System
Question: When was the Berlin Decree issued?
Answer: November 1806
Question: In what year was the Battle of Eylau?
Answer: 1807
Question: In what 14 June conflict did Napoleon win a decisive victory over the Russians?
Answer: the Battle of Friedland |
Context: The Federation of International Gymnastics (FIG) was founded in Liege in 1881. By the end of the nineteenth century, men's gymnastics competition was popular enough to be included in the first "modern" Olympic Games in 1896. From then on until the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved a changing variety of exercises gathered under the rubric, gymnastics, that would seem strange to today's audiences and that included for example, synchronized team floor calisthenics, rope climbing, high jumping, running, and horizontal ladder. During the 1920s, women organized and participated in gymnastics events. The first women's Olympic competition was primitive, only involving synchronized calisthenics and track and field. These games were held in 1928, in Amsterdam.
Question: Where was the FIG founded?
Answer: Liege
Question: What year was FIG founded?
Answer: 1881
Question: When was gymnastics included in the Olympics?
Answer: 1896
Question: When were the first women's Olympic competitions held?
Answer: 1928
Question: Where were the first women's Olympic competitions held?
Answer: in Amsterdam
Question: What year was the BIT founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the first Olympic Games held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What events were in the first men's gymnastics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did athletes start getting medals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the first South American country compete in the Olympic Games?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The decade began with the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880, held in the large purpose-built Exhibition Building. In 1880 a telephone exchange was established and in the same year the foundations of St Paul's, were laid; in 1881 electric light was installed in the Eastern Market, and in the following year a generating station capable of supplying 2,000 incandescent lamps was in operation. In 1885 the first line of the Melbourne cable tramway system was built, becoming one of the worlds most extensive systems by 1890.
Question: In what year was a telephone exchange established in Melbourne?
Answer: 1880
Question: When was the first electric light installed in the Eastern Market?
Answer: 1881
Question: In what year was the first line of the Melbourne cable tramway system built?
Answer: 1885
Question: In what building was the Melbourne Internation Exhibition of 1880 held?
Answer: Exhibition Building |
Context: On 10 January 1941, Germany and the Soviet Union signed an agreement settling several ongoing issues. Secret protocols in the new agreement modified the "Secret Additional Protocols" of the German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty, ceding the Lithuanian Strip to the Soviet Union in exchange for 7.5 million dollars (31.5 million Reichsmark). The agreement formally set the border between Germany and the Soviet Union between the Igorka river and the Baltic Sea. It also extended trade regulation of the 1940 German–Soviet Commercial Agreement until August 1, 1942, increased deliveries above the levels of year one of that agreement, settled trading rights in the Baltics and Bessarabia, calculated the compensation for German property interests in the Baltic States now occupied by the Soviets and other issues. It also covered the migration to Germany within two and a half months of ethnic Germans and German citizens in Soviet-held Baltic territories, and the migration to the Soviet Union of Baltic and "White Russian" "nationals" in German-held territories.
Question: How much did the transfer of the Lithuanian Strip cost the Soviet Union?
Answer: 7.5 million dollars (31.5 million Reichsmark)
Question: How long did germans have to relocate from the baltic states after the amendment of secret protocols?
Answer: two and a half months
Question: How long did the Russians have to relocate from the german occupied regions?
Answer: two and a half months
Question: How long did the amendment extend the trade agreements?
Answer: until August 1, 1942
Question: How much didn't the transfer of the Lithuanian Strip cost the Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long didn't germans have to relocate from the baltic states after the amendment of secret protocols?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did germans have to relocate from the baltic states before the amendment of secret protocols?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long didn't the Russians have to relocate from the german occupied regions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did the amendment reject the trade agreements?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1661 another Jesuit, Johann Grueber, crossed Tibet from Sining to Lhasa (where he spent a month), before heading on to Nepal. He was followed by others who actually built a church in Lhasa. These included the Jesuit Father Ippolito Desideri, 1716–1721, who gained a deep knowledge of Tibetan culture, language and Buddhism, and various Capuchins in 1707–1711, 1716–1733 and 1741–1745, Christianity was used by some Tibetan monarchs and their courts and the Karmapa sect lamas to counterbalance the influence of the Gelugpa sect in the 17th century until in 1745 when all the missionaries were expelled at the lama's insistence.
Question: When did Johann Grueber cross Tibet on the way to Nepal?
Answer: 1661
Question: When did Jesuit Father Ippolito Desideri spend time in Tibet?
Answer: 1716–1721
Question: How was Christianity used by some Tibetan monarchs?
Answer: counterbalance the influence of the Gelugpa sect
Question: Who crossed Nepal before heading to Tibet in 1661?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who remained in Tibet after building a church in Sining from 1716-1721?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 1754?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who expelled the missionaries in 1754?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the late 6th century BC, the first geographical entity that was called Armenia by neighboring populations was established under the Orontid Dynasty within the Achaemenid Empire, as part of the latters' territories. The kingdom became fully sovereign from the sphere of influence of the Seleucid Empire in 190 BC under King Artaxias I and begun the rule of the Artaxiad dynasty. Armenia reached its height between 95 and 66 BC under Tigranes the Great, becoming the most powerful kingdom of its time east of the Roman Republic.
Question: Under who did Areminia become fully sovereign?
Answer: King Artaxias I
Question: What Empire did the Orontid Dynasty belong to?
Answer: Achaemenid Empire
Question: When did Armenia reach it's peak?
Answer: between 95 and 66 BC
Question: Which ruler is responsible for Armenias prosperity?
Answer: Tigranes the Great |
Context: Śuddhodana was determined to see his son become a king, so he prevented him from leaving the palace grounds. But at age 29, despite his father's efforts, Gautama ventured beyond the palace several times. In a series of encounters—known in Buddhist literature as the four sights—he learned of the suffering of ordinary people, encountering an old man, a sick man, a corpse and, finally, an ascetic holy man, apparently content and at peace with the world. These experiences prompted Gautama to abandon royal life and take up a spiritual quest.
Question: What did Śuddhodana do to ensure that his son became a king instead of a holy man?
Answer: prevented him from leaving the palace grounds
Question: How old was Gautama when he first left the palace grounds?
Answer: 29
Question: What happened when Gautama left the palace grounds?
Answer: he learned of the suffering of ordinary people
Question: What are the four sights in Buddhism?
Answer: encountering an old man, a sick man, a corpse and, finally, an ascetic holy man
Question: What did Buddha's father want him to become?
Answer: a king
Question: By what age was he venturing outside?
Answer: 29
Question: What were his first four encounters called?
Answer: the four sights
Question: What did Gautama do after learning about the outside world?
Answer: abandon royal life
Question: Suddhodana wanted his son to become what?
Answer: a king
Question: At what age did Gautama venture out from the palace area?
Answer: 29
Question: How many "sights" did Gautama have that are well known?
Answer: four
Question: Gautama encountered an old man, a sick man, a holy man, and a what?
Answer: corpse |
Context: During the 1890s, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, commonly known as Dashnaktsutyun, became active within the Ottoman Empire with the aim of unifying the various small groups in the empire that were advocating for reform and defending Armenian villages from massacres that were widespread in some of the Armenian-populated areas of the empire. Dashnaktsutyun members also formed fedayi groups that defended Armenian civilians through armed resistance. The Dashnaks also worked for the wider goal of creating a "free, independent and unified" Armenia, although they sometimes set aside this goal in favor of a more realistic approach, such as advocating autonomy.
Question: What is another name for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation?
Answer: Dashnaktsutyun
Question: What was the Dashnaks objective?
Answer: creating a "free, independent and unified" Armenia
Question: When did the Dashnaktsutyun originate?
Answer: 1890s
Question: Which Dashnak groups helped protect Armenian citizens?
Answer: fedayi |
Context: In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the IFAB experimented with ways of creating a winner without requiring a penalty shootout, which was often seen as an undesirable way to end a match. These involved rules ending a game in extra time early, either when the first goal in extra time was scored (golden goal), or if one team held a lead at the end of the first period of extra time (silver goal). Golden goal was used at the World Cup in 1998 and 2002. The first World Cup game decided by a golden goal was France's victory over Paraguay in 1998. Germany was the first nation to score a golden goal in a major competition, beating Czech Republic in the final of Euro 1996. Silver goal was used in Euro 2004. Both these experiments have been discontinued by IFAB.
Question: Who experimented with creating winners without requiring penalty shootouts?
Answer: the IFAB
Question: What is the golden goal?
Answer: the first goal in extra time
Question: Who was the first team to win using the golden goal to their advantage?
Answer: France
Question: What team did France beat in 1998?
Answer: Paraguay
Question: What year did the Czech Republic lose in the final of Euro?
Answer: 1996
Question: Who experimented with creating losers by requiring penalty shootouts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the golden goat?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the last team to win using the golden goal to their advantage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What team did France beat in 1995?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did the Czech Republic win in the final of Euro?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Infectious diseases are sometimes called contagious disease when they are easily transmitted by contact with an ill person or their secretions (e.g., influenza). Thus, a contagious disease is a subset of infectious disease that is especially infective or easily transmitted. Other types of infectious/transmissible/communicable diseases with more specialized routes of infection, such as vector transmission or sexual transmission, are usually not regarded as "contagious", and often do not require medical isolation (sometimes loosely called quarantine) of victims. However, this specialized connotation of the word "contagious" and "contagious disease" (easy transmissibility) is not always respected in popular use.
Question: When are infectious diseases called contagious diseases?
Answer: when they are easily transmitted by contact with an ill person
Question: What is a contagious disease a subset of?
Answer: infectious disease
Question: What sets a contagious disease after from a standard infectious disease?
Answer: especially infective or easily transmitted
Question: Diseases with vector transmission or sexual transmission don't often require what type of isolation?
Answer: medical
Question: What is not always respected in popular use?
Answer: specialized connotation of the word "contagious"
Question: When are infectious diseases called impossible diseases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a contagious disease more important than?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sets a contagious disease equal to a standard infectious disease?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is always respected in popular use?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The office of Borough President was created in the consolidation of 1898 to balance centralization with local authority. Each borough president had a powerful administrative role derived from having a vote on the New York City Board of Estimate, which was responsible for creating and approving the city's budget and proposals for land use. In 1989 the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional on the grounds that Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 "one man, one vote" decision.
Question: When was the 'one man, one vote' decision?
Answer: 1964
Question: Which amendment contains the Equal Protection Clause?
Answer: Fourteenth
Question: When were Borough Presidents created?
Answer: 1898
Question: When was the Board of Estimate found unconstitutional?
Answer: 1989
Question: Why was the Board of Estimate found unconstitutional?
Answer: Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough |
Context: The unemployment rate reached its peak of 20% in 2005. Since then, it has decreased to 7% in 2013, which is only slightly above the national average. The decrease is caused on the one hand by the emergence of new jobs and on the other by a marked decrease in the working-age population, caused by emigration and low birth rates for decades. The wages in Thuringia are low compared to rich bordering Lands like Hesse and Bavaria. Therefore, many Thuringians are working in other German Lands and even in Austria and Switzerland as weekly commuters. Nevertheless, the demographic transition in Thuringia leads to a lack of workers in some sectors. External immigration into Thuringia has been encouraged by the government since about 2010 to counter this problem.
Question: When did the unemployment rate of Thuringia peak?
Answer: 20% in 2005
Question: What is the current state of unemployment in Thuringia?
Answer: it has decreased to 7%
Question: How do wages in Thuringia compare to their neighbors?
Answer: The wages in Thuringia are low compared to rich bordering Lands like Hesse and Bavaria.
Question: What do many Thuringian workers do to earn better wages?
Answer: working in other German Lands and even in Austria and Switzerland as weekly commuters
Question: What has lead to a lack of workers in some sectors?
Answer: demographic transition
Question: When did the unemployment rate of Thuringia crash?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the current state of employment in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do wages in Thuringia sadden their neighbors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do many Thuringian workers do to earn lower wages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has lead to a surplus of workers in some sectors?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Classical music has often incorporated elements or material from popular music of the composer's time. Examples include occasional music such as Brahms' use of student drinking songs in his Academic Festival Overture, genres exemplified by Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera, and the influence of jazz on early- and mid-20th-century composers including Maurice Ravel, exemplified by the movement entitled "Blues" in his sonata for violin and piano. Certain postmodern, minimalist and postminimalist classical composers acknowledge a debt to popular music.
Question: Popular music from the composer's time was incorporation into what?
Answer: Classical music
Question: What did Brahms sometimes use in his Academic Festival Overture?
Answer: student drinking songs
Question: What type of music was Maurice Ravel influenced by?
Answer: jazz
Question: Who wrote The Threepenny Opera?
Answer: Kurt Weill
Question: What type of music do certain composers acknowledge a debt to?
Answer: popular |
Context: In the past, people at Eton have occasionally been guilty of antisemitism. For a time, new admissions were called 'Jews' by their fellow Collegers. In 1945, the school introduced a nationality statute conditioning entry on the applicant's father being British by birth. The statute was removed after the intervention of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the 1960s after it came to the attention of Oxford's Wykeham Professor of Logic, A. J. Ayer, himself Jewish and an Old Etonian, who "suspected a whiff of anti-semitism".
Question: What were new students once called by others?
Answer: 'Jews'
Question: What stipulation did the school base entrance on in 1945?
Answer: applicant's father being British by birth
Question: For what reason as the 1945 entrance stipulation removed?
Answer: "suspected a whiff of anti-semitism"
Question: Who decided to remove the 1945 entrance stipulation?
Answer: A. J. Ayer
Question: In what year did A.J. Ayer become a Professor of Logic at Oxford's Wykeham?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Harold Macmillan become the British Prime Minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Eton remove the rule where a student's father had to be British by birth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did A.J. Ayer graduate from Eton?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first record of the existence of a settlement at Plymouth was in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Sudtone, Saxon for south farm, located at the present day Barbican. From Saxon times, it was in the hundred of Roborough. In 1254 it gained status as a town and in 1439, became the first town in England to be granted a Charter by Parliament. Between 1439 and 1934, Plymouth had a Mayor. In 1914 the county boroughs of Plymouth and Devonport, and the urban district of East Stonehouse merged to form a single county borough of Plymouth. Collectively they were referred to as "The Three Towns".
Question: In what text was the presence of a settlement in the Plymouth area first recorded?
Answer: Domesday Book
Question: In what year was the Domesday Book compiled?
Answer: 1086
Question: What was the name of the Plymouth-area settlement recorded in the Domesday Book?
Answer: Sudtone
Question: In what year was Plymouth recognized as a town?
Answer: 1254
Question: In what year did Parliament bestow a Charter on Plymouth?
Answer: 1439 |
Context: The Sumerians were one of the first known beer drinking societies. Cereals were plentiful and were the key ingredient in their early brew. They brewed multiple kinds of beer consisting of wheat, barley, and mixed grain beers. Beer brewing was very important to the Sumerians. It was referenced in the Epic of Gilgamesh when Enkidu was introduced to the food and beer of Gilgamesh's people: "Drink the beer, as is the custom of the land... He drank the beer-seven jugs! and became expansive and sang with joy!"
Question: What was Sumerians one of the first societies known to consume?
Answer: beer
Question: What was the key ingredient in early Sumerian brews?
Answer: Cereals
Question: What kinds of beer did the Sumerians brew?
Answer: wheat, barley, and mixed grain
Question: How important was beer brewing to Sumerians?
Answer: very important
Question: What did Enkidu become and do after consuming seven jugs of beer?
Answer: expansive and sang with joy
Question: Who invented beer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Epic tells how to make beer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What hero refused to drink beer?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A person from Ann Arbor is called an "Ann Arborite", and many long-time residents call themselves "townies". The city itself is often called "A²" ("A-squared") or "A2" ("A two") or "AA", "The Deuce" (mainly by Chicagoans), and "Tree Town". With tongue-in-cheek reference to the city's liberal political leanings, some occasionally refer to Ann Arbor as "The People's Republic of Ann Arbor" or "25 square miles surrounded by reality", the latter phrase being adapted from Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus's description of Madison, Wisconsin. In A Prairie Home Companion broadcast from Ann Arbor, Garrison Keillor described Ann Arbor as "a city where people discuss socialism, but only in the fanciest restaurants." Ann Arbor sometimes appears on citation indexes as an author, instead of a location, often with the academic degree MI, a misunderstanding of the abbreviation for Michigan. Ann Arbor has become increasingly gentrified in recent years.
Question: What is a person from Ann Arbor called?
Answer: Ann Arborite
Question: In recent years what has Ann Arbor become?
Answer: gentrified
Question: Which city is referred to as the "People's Republic of Ann Arbor"?
Answer: Ann Arbor
Question: What city is known as 52 square miles surrounded by reality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What phrase did Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus use to describe Ann Arbor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the academic degree MI stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do they sometimes refer to Ann Arbor as because of the city's conservative political leanings?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Nearly two-thirds of all murders in Michigan in 2011 occurred in Detroit. Although the rate of violent crime dropped 11 percent in 2008, violent crime in Detroit has not declined as much as the national average from 2007 to 2011. The violent crime rate is one of the highest in the United States. Neighborhoodscout.com reported a crime rate of 62.18 per 1,000 residents for property crimes, and 16.73 per 1,000 for violent crimes (compared to national figures of 32 per 1,000 for property crimes and 5 per 1,000 for violent crime in 2008).
Question: What fraction of Michigan's homicides occurred in Detroit?
Answer: two-thirds
Question: What is Detroit's rate of property crime?
Answer: 62.18 per 1,000
Question: What was the national rate of violent crimes in 2008?
Answer: 5 per 1,000
Question: What was Detroit's rate of violent crimes in 2008?
Answer: 16.73 per 1,000 |
Context: On 11 October 1962, the first session of the Second Vatican Council was held in the Vatican. He gave the Gaudet Mater Ecclesia speech, which served as the opening address for the council. The day was basically electing members for several council commissions that would work on the issues presented in the council. On that same night following the conclusion of the first session, the people in Saint Peter's Square chanted and yelled with the sole objective of getting John XXIII to appear at the window to address them.
Question: Where was the first session of the Second Vatican Council held?
Answer: in the Vatican
Question: When was the first session of the Second Vatican Council held?
Answer: 11 October 1962
Question: What speech did he give?
Answer: Gaudet Mater Ecclesia speech
Question: Why were the people in Saint Peter's Square chanting and yelling?
Answer: the sole objective of getting John XXIII to appear at the window to address them
Question: Who did Gaudet Mater Eclessia want to see when he was in St Peter's Square?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Gaudet Mater Ecclesia elected to the Second Vatican Council?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Gaudet Mater Ecclesia work on that day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What speech was given by several council commissions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the public want Gaudet Mater Ecclesia to do when he appeared at the window?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With the union of the crowns of Castille and Aragon (1479), the use of Spanish gradually became more prestigious. Starting in the 16th century, Catalan literature experienced a decline, the language came under the influence of Spanish, and the urban and literary classes became bilingual.
Question: When were Castille and Aragon united?
Answer: 1479
Question: After 1479, what language became more valued?
Answer: Spanish
Question: When did Catalan literature begin a downward trend?
Answer: 16th century
Question: What language began to supersede Catalan?
Answer: Spanish
Question: At this time what classes became bilingual?
Answer: urban and literary |
Context: Between 2000 and 2004 an average of 478 crimes were reported each day in Mexico City; however, the actual crime rate is thought to be much higher "since most people are reluctant to report crime". Under policies enacted by Mayor Marcelo Ebrard between 2009 and 2011, Mexico City underwent a major security upgrade with violent and petty crime rates both falling significantly despite the rise in violent crime in other parts of the country. Some of the policies enacted included the installation of 11,000 security cameras around the city and a very large expansion of the police force. Mexico City has one of the world's highest police officer-to-resident ratios, with one uniformed officer per 100 citizens.
Question: How many crimes occurred around the turn of the latest century?
Answer: average of 478 crimes were reported each day
Question: Why might more than 500 crimes have occurred each day at the turn of the century instead of the officially reported number?
Answer: most people are reluctant to report crime
Question: What Mexican mayor tried to crack down on crime immensely?
Answer: Marcelo Ebrard
Question: What is one way the city tried to combat crime?
Answer: installation of 11,000 security cameras
Question: What is the ratio of cops to citizens in Mexico City?
Answer: one uniformed officer per 100 citizens |
Context: Apollo 11 was prepared with the goal of a July landing in the Sea of Tranquility. The crew, selected in January 1969, consisted of commander (CDR) Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. They trained for the mission until just before the actual launch day. On July 16, 1969, at exactly 9:32 am EDT, the Saturn V rocket, AS-506, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 in Florida.
Question: Apollo 11 mission was to land where on the Moon?
Answer: Sea of Tranquility
Question: When did the Apollo 11 mission launch?
Answer: July 16, 1969
Question: What state did the Saturn V rocket launch from?
Answer: Florida
Question: When was the crew chosen to participate on the Apollo 11 mission?
Answer: January 1969 |
Context: Emperor Zhang's (r. 75–88 AD) reign came to be viewed by later Eastern Han scholars as the high point of the dynastic house. Subsequent reigns were increasingly marked by eunuch intervention in court politics and their involvement in the violent power struggles of the imperial consort clans. With the aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong (d. 107 AD), Emperor He (r. 88–105 AD) had Empress Dowager Dou (d. 97 AD) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power. This was in revenge for Dou's purging of the clan of his natural mother—Consort Liang—and then concealing her identity from him. After Emperor He's death, his wife Empress Deng Sui (d. 121 AD) managed state affairs as the regent empress dowager during a turbulent financial crisis and widespread Qiang rebellion that lasted from 107 to 118 AD.
Question: Who was prevented from leaving their house?
Answer: Empress Dowager Dou
Question: When did Emperor He's reign end?
Answer: 105 AD
Question: Who managed the state after the death of Emperor He?
Answer: Empress Deng Sui
Question: When did the Qiang rebellion end?
Answer: 118 AD
Question: Who concealed the identity of Emperor He's mother?
Answer: Empress Dowager Dou |
Context: From 1889, when Guangxu began to rule in his own right, to 1898, the Empress Dowager lived in semi-retirement, spending the majority of the year at the Summer Palace. On November 1, 1897, two German Roman Catholic missionaries were murdered in the southern part of Shandong Province (the Juye Incident). In response, Germany used the murders as a pretext for a naval occupation of Jiaozhou Bay. The occupation prompted a "scramble for concessions" in 1898, which included the German lease of Jiazhou Bay, the Russian acquisition of Liaodong, and the British lease of the New Territories of Hong Kong.
Question: Where did the Empress Dowager spend most of her time?
Answer: Summer Palace
Question: When were two missionaries killed?
Answer: November 1, 1897,
Question: Where were the missionaries killed?
Answer: Shandong Province
Question: What was the murders of the missionaries called?
Answer: Juye Incident |
Context: In fact, process theology is difficult to define because process theologians are so diverse and transdisciplinary in their views and interests. John B. Cobb, Jr. is a process theologian who has also written books on biology and economics. Roland Faber and Catherine Keller integrate Whitehead with poststructuralist, postcolonialist, and feminist theory. Charles Birch was both a theologian and a geneticist. Franklin I. Gamwell writes on theology and political theory. In Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age, futurologists Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist repeatedly credit Whitehead for the process theology they see rising out of the participatory culture expected to dominate the digital era.
Question: Why is there difficulty in defining process theology ?
Answer: process theologians are so diverse and transdisciplinary in their views and interests
Question: What subjects has John B. Cobb, Jr. written books on other than process theology?
Answer: biology and economics
Question: What theories do Roland Faber and Catherine Keller combine with Whitehead's ideas?
Answer: poststructuralist, postcolonialist, and feminist theory
Question: What was Charles Birch's profession besides theologian?
Answer: geneticist
Question: Who authored "Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age"?
Answer: Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist
Question: Why is there no difficulty in defining process theology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What subjects has John B. Cobb, Jr. burned books on other than process theology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What theories do Roland Faber and Catherine Keller not combine with Whitehead's ideas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasnt Charles Birch's profession besides theologian?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the beginning of 1996, several human rights groups brought cases to hold Shell accountable for alleged human rights violations in Nigeria, including summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, inhumane treatment and arbitrary arrest and detention. In particular, Shell stood accused of collaborating in the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders of the Ogoni tribe of southern Nigeria, who were hanged in 1995 by Nigeria's then military rulers. The lawsuits were brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Brian Anderson, the head of its Nigerian operation. In 2009, Shell agreed to pay $15.5m in a legal settlement. Shell has not accepted any liability over the allegations against it.
Question: In 1996, multiple groups filed lawsuits to hold Shell accountable for what?
Answer: alleged human rights violations in Nigeria
Question: Shell was accused of participating in the execution of which southern Nigerian tribal leader?
Answer: Ken Saro-Wiwa
Question: In what year did Shell agree to settle the lawsuits filed in 1996?
Answer: 2009
Question: For what amount did Shell agree to settle the 1996 lawsuits?
Answer: $15.5m
Question: In contrast to its agreement to settle the 1996 lawsuits, Shell refused to do what?
Answer: accepted any liability over the allegations against it
Question: When was Brian Anderson hanged?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Brian Anderson was the leader of what tribe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Ken Saro-Wiwa accused of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did Shell pay to the Ogoni tribe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Shell sue Nigeria?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In addition, the minority leader has a number of other institutional functions. For instance, the minority leader is sometimes statutorily authorized to appoint individuals to certain federal entities; he or she and the majority leader each name three Members to serve as Private Calendar objectors; he or she is consulted with respect to reconvening the House per the usual formulation of conditional concurrent adjournment resolutions; he or she is a traditional member of the House Office Building Commission; he or she is a member of the United States Capitol Preservation Commission; and he or she may, after consultation with the Speaker, convene an early organizational party caucus or conference. Informally, the minority leader maintains ties with majority party leaders to learn about the schedule and other House matters and forges agreements or understandings with them insofar as feasible.
Question: How many private calendar objector members does minority leader appoint?
Answer: three
Question: What 2 commissions is the minority leader a member of?
Answer: House Office Building Commission; he or she is a member of the United States Capitol Preservation Commission
Question: Who does minority leader have informal ties with for scheduling house matters?
Answer: majority party leaders
Question: How many institutional functions does the House office Building Commission have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can the House Office Building Commission appoint individuals to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Members can the House Office Building Commission name to serve as Private Calendar objectors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other group is overseen by the House Office Building Commission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the House Office Building Commission able to convene?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: While the cardinalate has long been expanded beyond the Roman pastoral clergy and Roman Curia, every cardinal priest has a titular church in Rome, though they may be bishops or archbishops elsewhere, just as cardinal bishops are given one of the suburbicarian dioceses around Rome. Pope Paul VI abolished all administrative rights cardinals had with regard to their titular churches, though the cardinal's name and coat of arms are still posted in the church, and they are expected to celebrate mass and preach there if convenient when they are in Rome.
Question: Each cardinal priest has what?
Answer: a titular church in Rome
Question: What does every cardinal priest not have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has not been expanded beyond the Roman pastoral clergy and Roman Curia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pope Paul V abolish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not still posted in the church after Pope Paul VI abolished all administrative rights?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are cardinals not expected to do?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Since genomes are very complex, one research strategy is to reduce the number of genes in a genome to the bare minimum and still have the organism in question survive. There is experimental work being done on minimal genomes for single cell organisms as well as minimal genomes for multi-cellular organisms (see Developmental biology). The work is both in vivo and in silico.
Question: What is a name for the reduced complement of genetic material necessary for an organism to live?
Answer: minimal genomes
Question: In what experimental contexts are experiments being carried out on minimal genomes?
Answer: in vivo and in silico
Question: What is a research strategy to understand silico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is being done on single cell silico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what two ways are experiments being carried out to understand how genes survive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do scientists want a silico to do in the experiment?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are scientists studying to understand how they survive a reduction in silico?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The result was a sequence of innovative but unpopular financial measures.[nb 10] John levied scutage payments eleven times in his seventeen years as king, as compared to eleven times in total during the reign of the preceding three monarchs. In many cases these were levied in the absence of any actual military campaign, which ran counter to the original idea that scutage was an alternative to actual military service. John maximised his right to demand relief payments when estates and castles were inherited, sometimes charging enormous sums, beyond barons' abilities to pay. Building on the successful sale of sheriff appointments in 1194, John initiated a new round of appointments, with the new incumbents making back their investment through increased fines and penalties, particularly in the forests. Another innovation of Richard's, increased charges levied on widows who wished to remain single, was expanded under John. John continued to sell charters for new towns, including the planned town of Liverpool, and charters were sold for markets across the kingdom and in Gascony.[nb 11] The king introduced new taxes and extended existing ones. The Jews, who held a vulnerable position in medieval England, protected only by the king, were subject to huge taxes; £44,000 was extracted from the community by the tallage of 1210; much of it was passed on to the Christian debtors of Jewish moneylenders.[nb 12] John created a new tax on income and movable goods in 1207 – effectively a version of a modern income tax – that produced £60,000; he created a new set of import and export duties payable directly to the crown. John found that these measures enabled him to raise further resources through the confiscation of the lands of barons who could not pay or refused to pay.
Question: How many times did John levi scutage payments?
Answer: eleven
Question: When did John initiate a new round of appointments?
Answer: 1194
Question: Who were subject to huge taxes?
Answer: The Jews
Question: When did John create a new tax on income and movable goods?
Answer: 1207 |
Context: Statistics from late 2003 indicate that Apple had 2.06 percent of the desktop share in the United States that had increased to 2.88 percent by Q4 2004. As of October 2006, research firms IDC and Gartner reported that Apple's market share in the U.S. had increased to about 6 percent. Figures from December 2006, showing a market share around 6 percent (IDC) and 6.1 percent (Gartner) are based on a more than 30 percent increase in unit sale from 2005 to 2006. The installed base of Mac computers is hard to determine, with numbers ranging from 5% (estimated in 2009) to 16% (estimated in 2005).
Question: What percent of the desktop share in the U.S. did Apple have in 2003?
Answer: 2.06
Question: Who are IDC and Gartner?
Answer: research firms
Question: What was Apple's market share in the U.S. by 2006?
Answer: 6.1 percent
Question: What percentage of unit sale increase did Apple see from 2005 to 2006?
Answer: 30
Question: What was the estimated installed base of Mac computers in 2009?
Answer: 16%
Question: What percent of the desktop share in the U.S. did Apple have in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who are CID and Gartner?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Apple's market share in the U.S. by 2005?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of unit sale increase did Apple see from 2005 to 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the estimated installed base of Mac computers in 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Appalachians are also home to two species of fir, the boreal balsam fir (Abies balsamea), and the southern high elevation endemic, Fraser fir (Abies fraseri). Fraser fir is confined to the highest parts of the southern Appalachian Mountains, where along with red spruce it forms a fragile ecosystem known as the Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest. Fraser fir rarely occurs below 5,500 ft (1,700 m), and becomes the dominant tree type at 6,200 ft (1,900 m). By contrast, balsam fir is found from near sea level to the tree line in the northern Appalachians, but ranges only as far south as Virginia and West Virginia in the central Appalachians, where it is usually confined above 3,900 ft (1,200 m) asl, except in cold valleys. Curiously, it is associated with oaks in Virginia. The balsam fir of Virginia and West Virginia is thought by some to be a natural hybrid between the more northern variety and Fraser fir. While red spruce is common in both upland and bog habitats, balsam fir, as well as black spruce and tamarack, are more characteristic of the latter. However balsam fir also does well in soils with a pH as high as 6.
Question: How many species of oaks are found in the Appalachians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of tree is found most often below 5,500 ft?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the scientific name of the oak tree?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the lowest asl oaks are usually found at?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what state are Fraser firs associated with oaks?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Typically, the warmest day of the year (1971–2000) will achieve a temperature of 26.6 °C (80 °F), although in June 1976 the temperature reached 31.6 °C (89 °F), the site record. On average, 4.25 days of the year will report a maximum temperature of 25.1 °C (77 °F) or above. During the winter half of the year, the coldest night will typically fall to −4.1 °C (25 °F) although in January 1979 the temperature fell to −8.8 °C (16 °F). Typically, 18.6 nights of the year will register an air frost.
Question: In degrees Fahrenheit, what was the highest temperature achieved in Plymouth between 1971 and 2000?
Answer: 89
Question: In what month and year did Plymouth see its highest temperature between 1971 and 2000?
Answer: June 1976
Question: About how many days a year in Plymouth are over 77 °F?
Answer: 4.25
Question: In degrees Celsius, what was the coldest temperature recorded at Plymouth between 1971 and 2000?
Answer: −8.8 °C
Question: In what month and year did Plymouth see its lowest temperature between 1971 and 2000?
Answer: January 1979 |
Context: In 1968, Reprise planned to release a series of 78 rpm singles from their artists on their label at the time, called the Reprise Speed Series. Only one disc actually saw release, Randy Newman's I Think It's Going to Rain Today, a track from his self-titled debut album (with The Beehive State on the flipside). Reprise did not proceed further with the series due to a lack of sales for the single, and a lack of general interest in the concept. Guitarist & vocalist Leon Redbone released a promotional 78 rpm record in 1978 featuring two songs (Alabama Jubilee and Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone) from his Champagne Charlie album. In 1980 Stiff Records in the United Kingdom issued a 78 by Joe "King" Carrasco containing the songs Buena (Spanish for "good," with the alternate spelling "Bueno" on the label) and Tuff Enuff. Underground comic cartoonist and 78 rpm record collector Robert Crumb released three discs with his Cheap Suit Serenaders in the 1980s.
Question: In what year did Reprise plan to release a series of 78 rpm singles?
Answer: 1968
Question: Which disc did Reprise release in 78 rpm format?
Answer: Think It's Going to Rain Today
Question: What two songs were featured on the 1978 release by Leon Redbone in 78 rpm format?
Answer: Alabama Jubilee and Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
Question: What record company released recordings of 'Buena' and 'Tuff Enuff' in 1980?
Answer: Stiff Records
Question: Why did Reprise only release one 78 rpm vinyl?
Answer: lack of sales for the single, and a lack of general interest |
Context: Series of lower mountain ranges run parallel to the main chain of the Alps, including the French Prealps in France and the Jura Mountains in Switzerland and France. The secondary chain of the Alps follows the watershed from the Mediterranean Sea to the Wienerwald, passing over many of the highest and most well-known peaks in the Alps. From the Colle di Cadibona to Col de Tende it runs westwards, before turning to the northwest and then, near the Colle della Maddalena, to the north. Upon reaching the Swiss border, the line of the main chain heads approximately east-northeast, a heading it follows until its end near Vienna.
Question: Where are the French Prealps located?
Answer: France
Question: What mountains are located in Switzerland and France?
Answer: the Jura Mountains
Question: What follows the watershed from the Mediterranean Sea to the Wienerwald?
Answer: The secondary chain of the Alps
Question: What heads approximately east-northeast once at the Swiss bored?
Answer: the line of the main chain |
Context: Israel has 18,096 kilometers (11,244 mi) of paved roads, and 2.4 million motor vehicles. The number of motor vehicles per 1,000 persons was 324, relatively low with respect to developed countries. Israel has 5,715 buses on scheduled routes, operated by several carriers, the largest of which is Egged, serving most of the country. Railways stretch across 949 kilometers (590 mi) and are operated solely by government-owned Israel Railways (All figures are for 2008). Following major investments beginning in the early to mid-1990s, the number of train passengers per year has grown from 2.5 million in 1990, to 35 million in 2008; railways are also used to transport 6.8 million tons of cargo, per year.
Question: How many kilometers of paved roads does Israel have?
Answer: 18,096
Question: How many buses have scheduled routes in Israel?
Answer: 5,715
Question: How much cargo do railways transport per year?
Answer: 6.8 million tons |
Context: A computer will solve problems in exactly the way it is programmed to, without regard to efficiency, alternative solutions, possible shortcuts, or possible errors in the code. Computer programs that learn and adapt are part of the emerging field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Question: Computer programs that can learn are studied in what field?
Answer: artificial intelligence |
Context: During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was a multinational, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states. Some of these were later absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.[dn 4]
Question: Under the reign of who did the Ottoman empire control much of Southeastern Europe?
Answer: Suleiman the Magnificent
Question: During what centuries was the Ottoman empire in control of much of Southeast Europe?
Answer: 16th and 17th centuries
Question: How many provinces did the Ottoman empire control at the start of the 17th century?
Answer: 32 provinces
Question: Along with provinces what type of states did the Ottoman empire have control over?
Answer: vassal states
Question: What regions of Africa were under control of the Ottoman empire?
Answer: North Africa, and the Horn of Africa |
Context: Like other languages, Catalan has a large list of learned words from Greek and Latin. This process started very early, and one can find such examples in Ramon Llull's work. On the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Catalan had a number of Greco-Latin learned words much superior to other Romance languages, as it can be attested for example in Roís de Corella's writings.
Question: Where does Catalan get a lot of its learned words?
Answer: Greek and Latin
Question: When did the process of acquiring words from Latin and Greek begin?
Answer: very early
Question: In whose work can you find examples of acquired words?
Answer: Ramon Llull
Question: When did Catalan have a greater number of Greco-Latin words than other Romance languages?
Answer: fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Question: Whose writings are a good example of learned words in Catalan?
Answer: Roís de Corella |
Context: The Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar. A regular Gregorian year consists of 365 days, but as in the Julian calendar, in a leap year, a leap day is added to February. In the Julian calendar a leap year occurs every 4 years, but the Gregorian calendar omits 3 leap days every 400 years. In the Julian calendar, this leap day was inserted by doubling 24 February, and the Gregorian reform did not change the date of the leap day. In the modern period, it has become customary to number the days from the beginning of the month, and February 29th is often considered as the leap day. Some churches, notably the Roman Catholic Church, delay February festivals after the 23rd by one day in leap years.
Question: What kind of calendar is the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: solar
Question: How many days are in the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: 365
Question: How often is a leap day added to the Julian calendar year?
Answer: every 4 years
Question: When does the Gregorian calendar omit 3 leap days?
Answer: every 400 years
Question: On what day did both the Julian and Gregorian calendars add leap day?
Answer: 24 February
Question: What calendar is a lunar calendar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When does the Julian calendar omit three leap days?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which church still host festivals on the twenty-third in leap years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Julian reform not change about leap year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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