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Context: Each of Rome's legendary or semi-legendary kings was associated with one or more religious institutions still known to the later Republic. Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Marcius instituted the fetial priests. The first "outsider" Etruscan king, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, founded a Capitoline temple to the triad Jupiter, Juno and Minerva which served as the model for the highest official cult throughout the Roman world. The benevolent, divinely fathered Servius Tullius established the Latin League, its Aventine Temple to Diana, and the Compitalia to mark his social reforms. Servius Tullius was murdered and succeeded by the arrogant Tarquinius Superbus, whose expulsion marked the beginning of Rome as a republic with annually elected magistrates.
Question: To what were the first kings of Rome associated?
Answer: religious institutions
Question: To what group of deities did Lucius Tarquinius Priscus establish a temple?
Answer: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva
Question: Where was the temple to the triad gods established?
Answer: Capitoline
Question: What organization did Servius Tullius found?
Answer: Latin League,
Question: The removal of whom marked the beginning of the Roman Republic?
Answer: Tarquinius Superbus |
Context: Structural material that resembles ordinary, "dicot" or conifer wood in its gross handling characteristics is produced by a number of monocot plants, and these also are colloquially called wood. Of these, bamboo, botanically a member of the grass family, has considerable economic importance, larger culms being widely used as a building and construction material in their own right and, these days, in the manufacture of engineered flooring, panels and veneer. Another major plant group that produce material that often is called wood are the palms. Of much less importance are plants such as Pandanus, Dracaena and Cordyline. With all this material, the structure and composition of the structural material is quite different from ordinary wood.
Question: What's another term used for "conifer" wood?
Answer: dicot
Question: What type of plants produce material that is referred to as "wood" even though it is technically not?
Answer: monocot
Question: What monocot plant produces "wood" by the same name that's often used for flooring and veneer?
Answer: bamboo
Question: While we call bamboo "wood," what botanical family does it belong to?
Answer: grass
Question: Along with bamboo, what's the other monocot that's a major source of so-called "wood"?
Answer: palms |
Context: Anxious to expand the company's broadcast and cable presence, longtime MCA head Lew Wasserman sought a rich partner. He located Japanese electronics manufacturer Matsushita Electric (now known as Panasonic), which agreed to acquire MCA for $6.6 billion in 1990. Meanwhile, around this time, the production subsidiary was renamed Universal Studios Inc., and (in 1990) MCA created MCA/Universal Home Video Inc. for the VHS video cassette (later DVD) sales industry.
Question: Who was the head of MCA in 1990?
Answer: Lew Wasserman
Question: What is the current name of the company that was called Matsushita Electric in 1990?
Answer: Panasonic
Question: How much did Matsushita Electric pay for MCA?
Answer: $6.6 billion
Question: In what year was MCA/Universal Home Video Inc. created?
Answer: 1990
Question: What was the nationality of Matsushita Electric?
Answer: Japanese
Question: What company acquired MAC for $6.6 billion in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Panasonic renamed in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Matsushita Electric renamed in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company created the VHS cassette?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Bern was a candidate to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, but withdrew its bid in September 2002 after a referendum was passed that showed that the bid was not supported by locals. Those games were eventually awarded to Vancouver, Canada.
Question: What year did Bern want to host the Winter Olympics?
Answer: 2010
Question: What year did they withdraw their bid?
Answer: 2002
Question: Where were the 2010 Winter Olympics held?
Answer: Vancouver, Canada |
Context: Clinton returned in 1780 with 14,000 soldiers. American General Benjamin Lincoln was trapped and surrendered his entire 5,400-man force after a long fight, and the Siege of Charles Towne was the greatest American defeat of the war. Several Americans who escaped the carnage joined other militias, including those of Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox"; and Andrew Pickens. The British retained control of the city until December 1782. After the British left, the city's name was officially changed to Charleston in 1783.
Question: What was the greatest American defeat of the American Revolution?
Answer: Siege of Charles Towne
Question: How many soldiers did General Clinton return with?
Answer: 14,000
Question: In what year did General Clinton return to Charles Towne?
Answer: 1780
Question: Who was the leader of the American forces defending Charles Towne?
Answer: General Benjamin Lincoln
Question: How many soldiers did General Lincoln lead?
Answer: 5,400
Question: What was the worst American defeat of the American Revolution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many soldiers didb't General Clinton return with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year didn't General Clinton return to Charles Towne?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the leader of the American forces attacking Charles Towne?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many soldiers didn't General Lincoln lead?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Sicily was handed over to the Savoia, but by 1734 it was again a Bourbon possession. Charles III chose Palermo for his coronation as King of Sicily. Charles had new houses built for the growing population, while trade and industry grew as well. However, by now Palermo was now just another provincial city as the Royal Court resided in Naples. Charles' son Ferdinand, though disliked by the population, took refuge in Palermo after the French Revolution in 1798. His son Alberto died on the way to Palermo and is buried in the city. When the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was founded, the original capital city was Palermo (1816) but a year later moved to Naples.
Question: After what treaty did Savoia gain control of Italy?
Answer: Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
Question: For what event did Charles III choose Sicily as the location?
Answer: his coronation
Question: Where did the Royal Court reside?
Answer: Naples
Question: Where did the capital city move in 1817?
Answer: Naples
Question: Whose son died on the way to Palermo and is buried there?
Answer: Charles III
Question: What treaty caused the Savoy to loose Sicily?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Charles the II crowned King of Sicily?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What court resided in Palermo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who took refuge in Palermo in the 17th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What became the capital of the Two Sicilies after Naples?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Calvary as an English name for the place is derived from the Latin word for skull (calvaria), which is used in the Vulgate translation of "place of a skull", the explanation given in all four Gospels of the Aramaic word Gûlgaltâ which was the name of the place where Jesus was crucified. The text does not indicate why it was so designated, but several theories have been put forward. One is that as a place of public execution, Calvary may have been strewn with the skulls of abandoned victims (which would be contrary to Jewish burial traditions, but not Roman). Another is that Calvary is named after a nearby cemetery (which is consistent with both of the proposed modern sites). A third is that the name was derived from the physical contour, which would be more consistent with the singular use of the word, i.e., the place of "a skull". While often referred to as "Mount Calvary", it was more likely a small hill or rocky knoll.
Question: Where was Jesus Crucified?
Answer: Calvary
Question: Where was the location of the Crucifixion detailed?
Answer: all four Gospels
Question: What was one reason Calvary was chosen?
Answer: a place of public execution
Question: What is rumored to be found in Calvary?
Answer: skulls of abandoned victims
Question: What is a reason the place was called Calvary?
Answer: the name was derived from the physical contour
Question: What language did most Romans know how to speak?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the Romans usually speak Aramaic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Romans do with Aramaic after they began speaking Latin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On top of what formation was the Roman empire located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of punishment did most people suffer who were buried in a nearby cemetery?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Transparency International, an anti-corruption NGO, pioneered this field with the CPI, first released in 1995. This work is often credited with breaking a taboo and forcing the issue of corruption into high level development policy discourse. Transparency International currently publishes three measures, updated annually: a CPI (based on aggregating third-party polling of public perceptions of how corrupt different countries are); a Global Corruption Barometer (based on a survey of general public attitudes toward and experience of corruption); and a Bribe Payers Index, looking at the willingness of foreign firms to pay bribes. The Corruption Perceptions Index is the best known of these metrics, though it has drawn much criticism and may be declining in influence. In 2013 Transparency International published a report on the "Government Defence Anti-corruption Index". This index evaluates the risk of corruption in countries' military sector.
Question: How many measures does Transparency International publish right now?
Answer: three
Question: What is the measure that Transparency International publishes that looks at the willingness of a foreign company to pay a bribe?
Answer: Bribe Payers Index
Question: What is the measure that it publishes that involves polling to determine the public's take on how corrupt various countries are?
Answer: CPI
Question: When was the CPI first released?
Answer: 1995
Question: Which index studies the correlation of corruption and military in a country?
Answer: Government Defence Anti-corruption Index |
Context: Malaysia-based Yazhou Zhoukan conducted an interview with former researcher at the China Seismological Bureau Geng Qingguo (耿庆国), in which Geng claimed that a confidential written report was sent to the State Seismological Bureau on April 30, 2008, warning about the possible occurrence of a significant earthquake in Ngawa Prefecture region of Sichuan around May 8, with a range of 10 days before or after the quake. Geng, while acknowledging that earthquake prediction was broadly considered problematic by the scientific community, believed that "the bigger the earthquake, the easier it is to predict." Geng had long attempted to establish a correlation between the occurrence of droughts and earthquakes; Premier Zhou Enlai reportedly took an interest in Geng's work. Geng's drought-earthquake correlation theory was first released in 1972, and said to have successfully predicted the 1975 Haicheng and 1976 Tangshan earthquakes. The same Yazhou Zhoukan article pointed out the inherent difficulties associated with predicting earthquakes. In response, an official with the Seismological Bureau stated that "earthquake prediction is widely acknowledged around the world to be difficult from a scientific standpoint." The official also denied that the Seismological Bureau had received reports predicting the earthquake.
Question: When was the confidential written report sent to the State Seismological Bureau?
Answer: April 30, 2008
Question: When was Geng's drought-earthquake correlation theory released?
Answer: 1972
Question: What did researcher Geng Qingguo say was sent to the State Seismological Bureau?
Answer: written report
Question: What did this report warn about?
Answer: significant earthquake in Ngawa Prefecture
Question: What was the predicted time of the quake?
Answer: around May 8
Question: What did Geng long try to establish as a relationship with earthquakes?
Answer: droughts
Question: What did an official with the Seismological Bureau deny receiving?
Answer: reports predicting the earthquake |
Context: Wood has a long history of being used as fuel, which continues to this day, mostly in rural areas of the world. Hardwood is preferred over softwood because it creates less smoke and burns longer. Adding a woodstove or fireplace to a home is often felt to add ambiance and warmth.
Question: What type of wood is preferred as fuel?
Answer: Hardwood
Question: What type of wood burns quickly and makes more smoke than hardwood?
Answer: softwood
Question: What type of areas use more wood for fuel?
Answer: rural
Question: What benefit besides the cozy atmosphere would a wood-burning fireplace add to a home?
Answer: warmth |
Context: The modern literary language is usually considered to date from the time of Alexander Pushkin (Алекса́ндр Пу́шкин) in the first third of the 19th century. Pushkin revolutionized Russian literature by rejecting archaic grammar and vocabulary (so-called "высо́кий стиль" — "high style") in favor of grammar and vocabulary found in the spoken language of the time. Even modern readers of younger age may only experience slight difficulties understanding some words in Pushkin's texts, since relatively few words used by Pushkin have become archaic or changed meaning. In fact, many expressions used by Russian writers of the early 19th century, in particular Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov (Михаи́л Ле́рмонтов), Nikolai Gogol (Никола́й Го́голь), Aleksander Griboyedov (Алекса́ндр Грибое́дов), became proverbs or sayings which can be frequently found even in modern Russian colloquial speech.
Question: Who revolutionized modern Russian?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin
Question: What did Pushkin reject from older Russian?
Answer: archaic grammar and vocabulary
Question: What was 'high style'?
Answer: archaic grammar and vocabulary
Question: What happened to some expressions in Pushkin's writing?
Answer: became proverbs or sayings which can be frequently found even in modern Russian colloquial speech
Question: What dates from the time of Lermontov?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Lermontov revolutionize Russian literature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Lermontov favor instead of archaic grammar and vocabulary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of difficulties did Gogol have when reading Lermontov's texts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many words used by Lermontov have become archaic?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Expansion caused controversy about Yale's new roles. Noah Porter, moral philosopher, was president from 1871 to 1886. During an age of tremendous expansion in higher education, Porter resisted the rise of the new research university, claiming that an eager embrace of its ideals would corrupt undergraduate education. Many of Porter's contemporaries criticized his administration, and historians since have disparaged his leadership. Levesque argues Porter was not a simple-minded reactionary, uncritically committed to tradition, but a principled and selective conservative. He did not endorse everything old or reject everything new; rather, he sought to apply long-established ethical and pedagogical principles to a rapidly changing culture. He may have misunderstood some of the challenges of his time, but he correctly anticipated the enduring tensions that have accompanied the emergence and growth of the modern university.
Question: When was Noah Porter president of Yale?
Answer: 1871 to 1886
Question: What idea did Noah Porter strike down?
Answer: new research university
Question: What did many historians think of Noah Porter?
Answer: simple-minded reactionary, uncritically committed to tradition
Question: What was Porter's reason for striking down the research university?
Answer: an eager embrace of its ideals would corrupt undergraduate education
Question: What caused disagreement about Yale's new position?
Answer: Expansion
Question: When was Noah Porter vice president of Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What idea did Noah Porter approve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did no historians think of Noah Porter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Porter's reason for approving the research university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused agreement about Yale's new position?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The issue of the parentage of Jesus in the Talmud affects also the view of his mother. However the Talmud does not mention Mary by name and is considerate rather than only polemic. The story about Panthera is also found in the Toledot Yeshu, the literary origins of which can not be traced with any certainty and given that it is unlikely to go before the 4th century, it is far too late to include authentic remembrances of Jesus. The Blackwell Companion to Jesus states that the Toledot Yeshu has no historical facts as such, and was perhaps created as a tool for warding off conversions to Christianity. The name Panthera may be a distortion of the term parthenos (virgin) and Raymond E. Brown considers the story of Panthera a fanciful explanation of the birth of Jesus which includes very little historical evidence. Robert Van Voorst states that given that Toledot Yeshu is a medieval document and due to its lack of a fixed form and orientation towards a popular audience, it is "most unlikely" to have reliable historical information.
Question: Where in Jewish literature is the story about Panthera found?
Answer: the Toledot Yeshu
Question: According to the Blackwell Companion to Jesus, for what purpose was the Toledot Yeshu written?
Answer: warding off conversions to Christianity
Question: What is the meaning of the term "parthenos?"
Answer: virgin
Question: During what historical period was the Toledot Yeshu written?
Answer: medieval
Question: What event does Raymond E. Brown believe the Toledot Yeshu describes?
Answer: the birth of Jesus
Question: Who wrote the medieval document the Toledot Yeshu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the story of Panthera?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What affects how Jesus views his mother?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what century was The Blackwell Companion written?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote The Blackwell Companion?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Material transport elevators generally consist of an inclined plane on which a conveyor belt runs. The conveyor often includes partitions to ensure that the material moves forward. These elevators are often used in industrial and agricultural applications. When such mechanisms (or spiral screws or pneumatic transport) are used to elevate grain for storage in large vertical silos, the entire structure is called a grain elevator. Belt elevators are often used in docks for loading loose materials such as coal, iron ore and grain into the holds of bulk carriers
Question: An inclined plane with a conveyor belt describes what type of elevator?
Answer: Material transport elevators
Question: What do the partians do on the conveyor?
Answer: ensure that the material moves forward
Question: What industries are these types of elevators generally used in?
Answer: industrial and agricultural applications
Question: What are spiral screws used for?
Answer: to elevate grain for storage in large vertical silos
Question: What type of elevators are used for loading loose materials into bulk carriers?
Answer: Belt elevators |
Context: Melbourne's live performance institutions date from the foundation of the city, with the first theatre, the Pavilion, opening in 1841. The city's East End Theatre District includes theatres that similarly date from 1850s to the 1920s, including the Princess Theatre, Regent Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre, Forum Theatre, Comedy Theatre, and the Athenaeum Theatre. The Melbourne Arts Precinct in Southbank is home to Arts Centre Melbourne, which includes the State Theatre, Hamer Hall, the Playhouse and the Fairfax Studio. The Melbourne Recital Centre and Southbank Theatre (principal home of the MTC, which includes the Sumner and Lawler performance spaces) are also located in Southbank. The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, which dates from 1955, is located in the gardens of Kings Domain; and the Palais Theatre is a feature of the St Kilda Beach foreshore.
Question: Which theatre was Melbourne's first live performance institution?
Answer: Pavilion
Question: In what year did the Pavilion open?
Answer: 1841
Question: The Princess Theatre, Regent Theatre, and Forum Theatre are members of which of Melbourne's theater districts?
Answer: East End Theatre District
Question: Where are the Melbourne Recital Centre and Southbank Theatre located?
Answer: Southbank
Question: From what year does the Sidney Myer Music Bowl date?
Answer: 1955 |
Context: Although testing can determine the correctness of software under the assumption of some specific hypotheses (see hierarchy of testing difficulty below), testing cannot identify all the defects within software. Instead, it furnishes a criticism or comparison that compares the state and behavior of the product against oracles—principles or mechanisms by which someone might recognize a problem. These oracles may include (but are not limited to) specifications, contracts, comparable products, past versions of the same product, inferences about intended or expected purpose, user or customer expectations, relevant standards, applicable laws, or other criteria.
Question: What can testing not completely find?
Answer: all the defects
Question: While looking for bugs, what else can testing do?
Answer: furnishes a criticism or comparison
Question: What does the software compare during testing against?
Answer: oracles—principles or mechanisms
Question: What make up the oracle during testing?
Answer: specifications, contracts, comparable products, past versions
Question: Testing can identify all the defects within what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: While looking for bug, what can testing not do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some things oracles include and are limited to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the software contrast during testing against?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Under the Köppen climate classification, using the 0 °C (32 °F) coldest month (January) isotherm, New York City itself experiences a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) and is thus the northernmost major city on the North American continent with this categorization. The suburbs to the immediate north and west lie in the transition zone from a humid subtropical (Cfa) to a humid continental climate (Dfa). The area averages 234 days with at least some sunshine annually, and averages 57% of possible sunshine annually, accumulating 2,535 hours of sunshine per annum. The city falls under USDA 7b Plant Hardiness zone.
Question: What is the name of New York City's climate using the Köppen climate classification?
Answer: humid subtropical
Question: How many sunny days does New York average each year?
Answer: 234
Question: How many hours of sunshine does New York receive every year?
Answer: 2,535
Question: The suburbs of the city lie between the humid subtropical and what other climate zone?
Answer: humid continental
Question: What month in New York City is the coldest?
Answer: January
Question: What type of climate does NYC possess?
Answer: humid subtropical
Question: How many days on average does NYC get sunshine annually?
Answer: 234
Question: What planting zone does the city land in?
Answer: USDA 7b |
Context: In 2008, Houston received top ranking on Kiplinger's Personal Finance Best Cities of 2008 list, which ranks cities on their local economy, employment opportunities, reasonable living costs, and quality of life. The city ranked fourth for highest increase in the local technological innovation over the preceding 15 years, according to Forbes magazine. In the same year, the city ranked second on the annual Fortune 500 list of company headquarters, first for Forbes magazine's Best Cities for College Graduates, and first on their list of Best Cities to Buy a Home. In 2010, the city was rated the best city for shopping, according to Forbes.
Question: How did Kiplinger's Personal Finance Best Cities rate Houston?
Answer: top ranking
Question: When did Houston receive a ranking in the top of Kiplinger's Best cities list?
Answer: 2008
Question: Where did Forbes magazine place Houston for technological innovation?
Answer: fourth
Question: Where did Houston place for Fortune 500 companies?
Answer: second
Question: When was Houston ranked the best city for shopping?
Answer: 2010
Question: How did Kiplinger's Personal Finance Best Cities rate Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Texas receive a ranking in the top of Kiplinger's Best cities list?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Forbes magazine place Texas for technological innovation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Texas place for Fortune 500 companies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Texas ranked the best city for shopping?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the American Revolutionary War, the number and proportion of free people of color increased markedly in the North and the South as slaves were freed. Most northern states abolished slavery, sometimes, like New York, in programs of gradual emancipation that took more than two decades to be completed. The last slaves in New York were not freed until 1827. In connection with the Second Great Awakening, Quaker and Methodist preachers in the South urged slaveholders to free their slaves. Revolutionary ideals led many men to free their slaves, some by deed and others by will, so that from 1782 to 1810, the percentage of free people of color rose from less than one percent to nearly 10 percent of blacks in the South.
Question: When did the numbers of free people of color increase dramatically?
Answer: After the American Revolutionary War
Question: How were the laws in New York abolished?
Answer: in programs of gradual emancipation
Question: How long did it take for states like New York to abolish all slave laws?
Answer: more than two decades to be completed
Question: Who in the south were urging their churches to free their slaves in the south?
Answer: Quaker and Methodist preachers
Question: When were the last slaves freed in New York state?
Answer: The last slaves in New York were not freed until 1827.
Question: Who implored slaveholders to free their slaves?
Answer: Quaker and Methodist preachers in the South urged slaveholders to free their slaves
Question: What caused many slaveholder to free their slaves?
Answer: Revolutionary ideals led many men to free their slaves
Question: How much did the percentage of free people in the South change from 1782 to 1810?
Answer: the percentage of free people of color rose from less than one percent to nearly 10 percent of blacks in the South.
Question: When did the number of free people of color begin to increase in the North and South?
Answer: After the American Revolutionary War
Question: What is it called when it takes several years for slaves to be freed in a program?
Answer: gradual emancipation
Question: The last slave in New York was freed when?
Answer: 1827
Question: What caused Quaker and Methodist preachers to want to free slaves?
Answer: Second Great Awakening
Question: In 1810, how many black people were considered free?
Answer: nearly 10 percent
Question: What caused many men to free slaves from 1782 to 1810?
Answer: Revolutionary ideals
Question: What happened to the number of free people of color before the Revolutionary War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did only a few northern states do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the first slaves in New York freed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who urged slaveholders in the South not to free their slaves?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of blacks in the south were free people of color after 1810?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: This contrasts with the presidential system, in which the president (or equivalent) is both the head of state and the head of the government. In some presidential or semi-presidential systems, such as those of France, Russia or South Korea, the prime minister is an official generally appointed by the president but usually approved by the legislature and responsible for carrying out the directives of the president and managing the civil service. The head of government of the People's Republic of China is referred to as the Premier of the State Council and the premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is also appointed by the president, but requires no approval by the legislature.
Question: What is the term for the head of China's government?
Answer: Premier of the State Council
Question: What is another name for the Republic of China?
Answer: Taiwan
Question: Whose consent is not required for the Taiwanese premier to take office?
Answer: legislature
Question: Who is both head of state and the head of government in France?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is appointed by the president and approved by the legislature in Taiwan?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following Kammu's death in 806 and a succession struggle among his sons, two new offices were established in an effort to adjust the Taika-Taihō administrative structure. Through the new Emperor's Private Office, the emperor could issue administrative edicts more directly and with more self-assurance than before. The new Metropolitan Police Board replaced the largely ceremonial imperial guard units. While these two offices strengthened the emperor's position temporarily, soon they and other Chinese-style structures were bypassed in the developing state. In 838 the end of the imperial-sanctioned missions to Tang China, which had begun in 630, marked the effective end of Chinese influence. Tang China was in a state of decline, and Chinese Buddhists were severely persecuted, undermining Japanese respect for Chinese institutions. Japan began to turn inward.
Question: In what year did Emperor Kanmu die?
Answer: 806
Question: What office replaced the imperial guards?
Answer: Metropolitan Police Board
Question: What new office allowed government to issue administrative orders faster?
Answer: Emperor's Private Office
Question: Tang China's influence over Japan ended in what year?
Answer: 838
Question: who's sons died in 806?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What administative structure was abolished in 806?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What office eliminatedthe need for the emorer to issue administrative edicts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the imperial guard replace
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's influence began to increase in 630?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Sentient beings always suffer throughout saṃsāra until they free themselves from this suffering (dukkha) by attaining Nirvana. Then the absence of the first Nidāna—ignorance—leads to the absence of the others.
Question: How are sentient beings freed from suffering?
Answer: by attaining Nirvana
Question: What is the first Nidāna?
Answer: ignorance
Question: The absence of ignorance leads to what?
Answer: the absence of the others
Question: Who always suffers throughout samsara?
Answer: Sentient beings
Question: What is suffering also called?
Answer: dukkha
Question: How do you free yourself of dukkha?
Answer: attaining Nirvana
Question: What is the first Nidana?
Answer: ignorance |
Context: This is not surprising, though: While the greatest number of slaves imported from Africa were sent to Brazil, totalizing roughly 3.5 million people, they lived in such miserable conditions that male African Y-DNA there is significantly rare due to the lack of resources and time involved with raising of children, so that most African descent originarily came from relations between white masters and female slaves. From the last decades of the Empire until the 1950s, the proportion of the white population increased significantly while Brazil welcomed 5.5 million immigrants between 1821 and 1932, not much behind its neighbor Argentina with 6.4 million, and it received more European immigrants in its colonial history than the United States. Between 1500 and 1760, 700.000 Europeans settled in Brazil, while 530.000 Europeans settled in the United States for the same given time. Thus, the historical construction of race in Brazilian society dealt primarily with gradations between persons of majoritarily European ancestry and little minority groups with otherwise lower quantity therefrom in recent times.
Question: What is roughly the amount of African slaves imported to Brazil?
Answer: 3.5 million
Question: What conditions did the African slaves in Brazil live in?
Answer: miserable
Question: Most African descent in Brazil came from what sort of congress?
Answer: relations between white masters and female slaves
Question: Between what years did Brazil welcome 5.5 million immigrants?
Answer: 1821 and 1932
Question: Between 1500 and 1760, how many Europeans settled in Brazil?
Answer: 700.000 |
Context: The World Health Organization declared TB a "global health emergency" in 1993, and in 2006, the Stop TB Partnership developed a Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis that aims to save 14 million lives between its launch and 2015. A number of targets they have set are not likely to be achieved by 2015, mostly due to the increase in HIV-associated tuberculosis and the emergence of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis. A tuberculosis classification system developed by the American Thoracic Society is used primarily in public health programs.
Question: What group heads up the Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis?
Answer: Stop TB Partnership
Question: In what year did the WHO say tuberculosis was a "global health emergency"?
Answer: 1993
Question: How many lives did the Stop TB Partnership vow to save in the nine years between its start and 2015?
Answer: 14 million
Question: Drug-resistant TB is one of the barriers to success of the Stop TB Partnership's initiative; what's the other other?
Answer: HIV-associated tuberculosis
Question: What organization created a system to classify various types of TB?
Answer: American Thoracic Society
Question: What did the World Health Organization create in 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many lives has Stop TB Partnership saved?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the World Health Organization founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who developed the classification of HIV-associated TB?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the tuberculosis classification system created?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: New Delhi is a major junction in the Indian railway network and is the headquarters of the Northern Railway. The five main railway stations are New Delhi railway station, Old Delhi, Nizamuddin Railway Station, Anand Vihar Railway Terminal and Sarai Rohilla. The Delhi Metro, a mass rapid transit system built and operated by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), serves many parts of Delhi and the neighbouring cities Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad. As of August 2011, the metro consists of six operational lines with a total length of 189 km (117 mi) and 146 stations, and several other lines are under construction. It carries millions of passengers every day. In addition to the Delhi Metro, a suburban railway, the Delhi Suburban Railway exists.
Question: What Indian city is the headquarters of the Northern Railway?
Answer: New Delhi
Question: How many main stations of the Northern Railway serve the New Delhi area?
Answer: five
Question: The Delhi Metro consists of how many stations?
Answer: 146
Question: What organization is responsible for building and operating the Delhi Metro system?
Answer: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation |
Context: Since the late 18th century, Paris has been famous for its restaurants and haute cuisine, food meticulously prepared and artfully presented. A luxury restaurant, La Taverne Anglaise, opened in 1786 in the arcades of the Palais-Royal by Antoine Beauvilliers; it featured an elegant dining room, an extensive menu, linen tablecloths, a large wine list and well-trained waiters; it became a model for future Paris restaurants. The restaurant Le Grand Véfour in the Palais-Royal dates from the same period. The famous Paris restaurants of the 19th century, including the Café de Paris, the Rocher de Cancale, the Café Anglais, Maison Dorée and the Café Riche, were mostly located near the theatres on the Boulevard des Italiens; they were immortalised in the novels of Balzac and Émile Zola. Several of the best-known restaurants in Paris today appeared during the Belle Epoque, including Maxim's on Rue Royale, Ledoyen in the gardens of the Champs-Élysées, and the Tour d'Argent on the Quai de la Tournelle.
Question: What is the model for luxury Parisian restaurants?
Answer: La Taverne Anglaise
Question: When did La Taverne Angaise open?
Answer: 1786
Question: In what century was Cafe Anglais, Cafe de Paris and Rocher de Cancale opened?
Answer: 19th
Question: Near what were most restaurants opened?
Answer: theatres |
Context: The Punjabi kingdom, ruled by members of the Sikh religion, was a political entity that governed the region of modern-day Punjab. The empire, based around the Punjab region, existed from 1799 to 1849. It was forged, on the foundations of the Khalsa, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839) from an array of autonomous Punjabi Misls. He consolidated many parts of northern India into a kingdom. He primarily used his highly disciplined Sikh army that he trained and equipped to be the equal of a European force. Ranjit Singh proved himself to be a master strategist and selected well qualified generals for his army. In stages, he added the central Punjab, the provinces of Multan and Kashmir, the Peshawar Valley, and the Derajat to his kingdom. This came in the face of the powerful British East India Company. At its peak, in the 19th century, the empire extended from the Khyber Pass in the west, to Kashmir in the north, to Sindh in the south, running along Sutlej river to Himachal in the east. This was among the last areas of the subcontinent to be conquered by the British. The first Anglo-Sikh war and second Anglo-Sikh war marked the downfall of the Sikh Empire.
Question: Followers what religion were the rulers of the Punjabi Kingdom?
Answer: Sikh religion
Question: What was the time span of the Punjabi Kingdom?
Answer: 1799 to 1849
Question: Who was the leader of the Punjabis?
Answer: Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Question: On what was the disciplined force Singh relied?
Answer: Sikh army
Question: Who finally was able to conquer the Sikh Empire?
Answer: British |
Context: Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Frank Bickerton both lived in the city. Artists include Beryl Cook whose paintings depict the culture of Plymouth and Robert Lenkiewicz, whose paintings investigated themes of vagrancy, sexual behaviour and suicide, lived in the city from the 1960s until his death in 2002. Illustrator and creator of children's series Mr Benn and King Rollo, David McKee, was born and brought up in South Devon and trained at Plymouth College of Art. Jazz musician John Surman, born in nearby Tavistock, has close connections to the area, evidenced by his 2012 album Saltash Bells. The avant garde prepared guitarist Keith Rowe was born in the city before establishing the jazz free improvisation band AMM in London in 1965 and MIMEO in 1997. The musician and film director Cosmo Jarvis has lived in several towns in South Devon and has filmed videos in and around Plymouth. In addition, actors Sir Donald Sinden and Judi Trott. George Passmore of Turner Prize winning duo Gilbert and George was born in the city, as was Labour politician Michael Foot whose family reside at nearby Trematon Castle.
Question: What artist died in Plymouth in 2002?
Answer: Robert Lenkiewicz
Question: Where did the creator of Mr Benn and King Rollo study?
Answer: Plymouth College of Art
Question: What genre of music does John Surman play?
Answer: Jazz
Question: What local figure played in the bands AMM and MIMEO?
Answer: Keith Rowe
Question: Where do the family of Michael Foot live?
Answer: Trematon Castle |
Context: Mutual exchange and sharing of resources (i.e., meat gained from hunting) are important in the economic systems of hunter-gatherer societies. Therefore, these societies can be described as based on a "gift economy."
Question: What other characteristic of group behavior is needed in a hunter-gatherer society?
Answer: sharing
Question: What is the basis of a hunting an gathering economy?
Answer: gift economy
Question: Hoarding of resources are important in what societies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What societies can be described as a "hoarding economy"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is important in the numerical systems of hunter-gatherer societies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Not exchanging resources is important in which societies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which societies can be described as a "mutual economy"?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Videoconferencing provides students with the opportunity to learn by participating in two-way communication forums. Furthermore, teachers and lecturers worldwide can be brought to remote or otherwise isolated educational facilities. Students from diverse communities and backgrounds can come together to learn about one another, although language barriers will continue to persist. Such students are able to explore, communicate, analyze and share information and ideas with one another. Through videoconferencing, students can visit other parts of the world to speak with their peers, and visit museums and educational facilities. Such virtual field trips can provide enriched learning opportunities to students, especially those in geographically isolated locations, and to the economically disadvantaged. Small schools can use these technologies to pool resources and provide courses, such as in foreign languages, which could not otherwise be offered.
Question: What can videoconferencing offer students?
Answer: participating in two-way communication forums
Question: Who can benefit from two-way communication forums?
Answer: students
Question: What is a major barrier to videoconferencing between some communities?
Answer: language
Question: What is one example of how students can benefit from videoconferencing?
Answer: virtual field trips
Question: What is one experience that students using videoconferencing can achieve?
Answer: visit museums
Question: What do geographically isolated areas provide to students?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can be brought to small schools to help students learn?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What will persist when teachers and lecturers are brought together?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can students do through geographically isolated locations
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can learn from foreign language forums?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Fresh vegetables and fruits are common ingredients. Frequently used vegetables include courgettes, green peppers, okra, green beans, artichokes, carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and grape leaves, and pulses such as beans, broad beans, peas, black-eyed beans, chick-peas and lentils. The most common fruits and nuts are pears, apples, grapes, oranges, mandarines, nectarines, medlar, blackberries, cherry, strawberries, figs, watermelon, melon, avocado, lemon, pistachio, almond, chestnut, walnut, and hazelnut.
Question: Can you name some common vegetables used in Cyprus?
Answer: courgettes, green peppers, okra, green beans
Question: Can you name some common fruits used in Cyprus?
Answer: pears, apples, grapes, oranges, mandarines
Question: Can you name some common pulses used in Cyprus?
Answer: beans, broad beans, peas, black-eyed beans |
Context: The legions of the late Republic were, structurally, almost entirely heavy infantry. The legion's main sub-unit was called a cohort and consisted of approximately 480 infantrymen. The cohort was therefore a much larger unit than the earlier maniple sub-unit, and was divided into six centuries of 80 men each. Each century was separated further into 10 "tent groups" of 8 men each. The cavalry troops were used as scouts and dispatch riders rather than battlefield cavalry. Legions also contained a dedicated group of artillery crew of perhaps 60 men. Each legion was normally partnered with an approximately equal number of allied (non-Roman) troops.
Question: Around how many units could be expected to be contained within a cohort?
Answer: 480 infantrymen
Question: How many troops were placed into each tent group?
Answer: 8 men
Question: Who would now be used as scouts instead of fighting alongside the army in the battlefield?
Answer: cavalry troops
Question: What designation of troops was considered to make up the majority of a legion?
Answer: cohort |
Context: In 1565, the powerful Rinbung princes were overthrown by one of their own ministers, Karma Tseten who styled himself as the Tsangpa, "the one of Tsang", and established his base of power at Shigatse. The second successor of this first Tsang king, Karma Phuntsok Namgyal, took control of the whole of Central Tibet (Ü-Tsang), reigning from 1611–1621. Despite this, the leaders of Lhasa still claimed their allegiance to the Phagmodru as well as the Gelug, while the Ü-Tsang king allied with the Karmapa. Tensions rose between the nationalistic Ü-Tsang ruler and the Mongols who safeguarded their Mongol Dalai Lama in Lhasa. The fourth Dalai Lama refused to give an audience to the Ü-Tsang king, which sparked a conflict as the latter began assaulting Gelug monasteries. Chen writes of the speculation over the fourth Dalai Lama's mysterious death and the plot of the Ü-Tsang king to have him murdered for "cursing" him with illness, although Chen writes that the murder was most likely the result of a feudal power struggle. In 1618, only two years after Yonten Gyatso died, the Gelug and the Karma Kargyu went to war, the Karma Kargyu supported by the secular Ü-Tsang king. The Ü-Tsang ruler had a large number of Gelugpa lamas killed, occupied their monasteries at Drepung and Sera, and outlawed any attempts to find another Dalai Lama. In 1621, the Ü-Tsang king died and was succeeded by his young son Karma Tenkyong, an event which stymied the war effort as the latter accepted the six-year-old Lozang Gyatso as the new Dalai Lama. Despite the new Dalai Lama's diplomatic efforts to maintain friendly relations with the new Ü-Tsang ruler, Sonam Rapten (1595–1657), the Dalai Lama's chief steward and treasurer at Drepung, made efforts to overthrow the Ü-Tsang king, which led to another conflict. In 1633, the Gelugpas and several thousand Mongol adherents defeated the Ü-Tsang king's troops near Lhasa before a peaceful negotiation was settled. Goldstein writes that in this the "Mongols were again playing a significant role in Tibetan affairs, this time as the military arm of the Dalai Lama."
Question: When were the Rinbung princes overthrown?
Answer: 1565
Question: Who took control of the whole of Central Tibet?
Answer: Karma Phuntsok Namgyal
Question: When did Karma Phuntsok Namgyal reign?
Answer: 1611–1621
Question: Who did Ü-Tsang king have an alliance with?
Answer: the Karmapa
Question: Who refused an audience with the Ü-Tsang king?
Answer: The fourth Dalai Lama |
Context: Starting in 1940 (18 months before Pearl Harbor), the nation mobilized, giving high priority to air power. American involvement in World War II in 1940–41 was limited to providing war material and financial support to Britain, the Soviet Union, and the Republic of China. The U.S. entered officially on 8 December 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese forces soon seized American, Dutch, and British possessions across the Pacific and Southeast Asia, except for Australia, which became a main American forward base along with Hawaii.
Question: What was the American priority in mobilization prior to entering World War II?
Answer: air power
Question: When did the US officially enter World War II?
Answer: 8 December 1941
Question: What event led to America entering the war?
Answer: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Question: At the start of the conflict with the Allies, what did Japan do?
Answer: seized American, Dutch, and British possessions across the Pacific and Southeast Asia
Question: What country served as an American forward base to wage war with Japan?
Answer: Australia
Question: What was the American priority in mobilization prior to entering World War I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the US officially enter World War I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What event led to Africa entering the war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At the start of the conflict with the Allies, what did England do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country served as an African forward base to wage war with Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The name evolved during the Middle Ages from Gallaecia, sometimes written Galletia, to Gallicia. In the 13th century, with the written emergence of the Galician language, Galiza became the most usual written form of the name of the country, being replaced during the 15th and 16th centuries by the current form, Galicia, which coincides with the Castilian Spanish name. The historical denomination Galiza became popular again during the end of the 19th and the first three-quarters of the 20th century, being still used with some frequency today, although not by the Xunta de Galicia, the local devolved government. The Royal Galician Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Galician language, whilst recognizing it as a legitimate current denomination, has stated that the only official name of the country is Galicia.
Question: What is one variation of Gallicia's name used during the Middle Ages?
Answer: Galletia
Question: Which spelling was the most common spelling during the 13th century?
Answer: Galiza
Question: When did it get its modern spelling?
Answer: 15th and 16th centuries
Question: What is the name of the local government?
Answer: Xunta de Galicia
Question: Which group regulates the Galician language?
Answer: The Royal Galician Academy |
Context: The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts takes place most years in Pilton, near Shepton Mallet, attracting over 170,000 music and culture lovers from around the world to see world-famous entertainers. The Big Green Gathering which grew out of the Green fields at the Glastonbury Festival is held in the Mendip Hills between Charterhouse and Compton Martin each summer. The annual Bath Literature Festival is one of several local festivals in the county; others include the Frome Festival and the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, which, despite its name, is held at Farleigh Hungerford in Somerset. The annual circuit of West Country Carnivals is held in a variety of Somerset towns during the autumn, forming a major regional festival, and the largest Festival of Lights in Europe.
Question: Where does the Glastonbury Music festival take place
Answer: takes place most years in Pilton, near Shepton Mallet
Question: who holds a literature festival each summer
Answer: The annual Bath Literature Festival is one of several local festivals in the county
Question: The annual Carnival is held when and where
Answer: The annual circuit of West Country Carnivals is held in a variety of Somerset towns during the autumn
Question: How many people attend the Bath Literature Festival each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people live in Pilton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the largest annual music festival in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Festival is held in Trowbridge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people attend the Festival of Lights each year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Even though, both Kashmir Shaivism and Advaita Vedanta are non-dual philosophies which give primacy to Universal Consciousness (Chit or Brahman), in Kashmir Shavisim, as opposed to Advaita, all things are a manifestation of this Consciousness. This implies that from the point of view of Kashmir Shavisim, the phenomenal world (Śakti) is real, and it exists and has its being in Consciousness (Chit). Whereas, Advaita holds that Brahman is inactive (niṣkriya) and the phenomenal world is an illusion (māyā). The objective of human life, according to Kashmir Shaivism, is to merge in Shiva or Universal Consciousness, or to realize one's already existing identity with Shiva, by means of wisdom, yoga and grace.
Question: What type of philosophy does both Kasmir Shaivism and Advaita Vedanta share?
Answer: non-dual
Question: What aspect do non-dual philosophies give to the highest order of worship?
Answer: Universal Consciousness
Question: As what does Kashmir Shaivism view the conscious world?
Answer: real
Question: Which group sees the world as illusion?
Answer: Advaita
Question: According to Kashmir Shaivism, what is the goal in belief?
Answer: merge in Shiva
Question: What are dual philosophies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the opposite of Shiva?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the means of understanding maya according to Kashmir Shaivism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Advaita says all things are a manifestation of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do believers of Advaita believe is the point of human life?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In more recent years, however, many country pubs have either closed down, or have been converted to establishments intent on providing seating facilities for the consumption of food, rather than a venue for members of the local community meeting and convivially drinking.
Question: What is a frequent modern function of country pubs?
Answer: providing seating facilities for the consumption of food
Question: Along with community meetings, what was the traditional purpose of country pubs?
Answer: drinking |
Context: In 121 BC, Han forces expelled the Xiongnu from a vast territory spanning the Hexi Corridor to Lop Nur. They repelled a joint Xiongnu-Qiang invasion of this northwestern territory in 111 BC. In that year, the Han court established four new frontier commanderies in this region: Jiuquan, Zhangyi, Dunhuang, and Wuwei. The majority of people on the frontier were soldiers. On occasion, the court forcibly moved peasant farmers to new frontier settlements, along with government-owned slaves and convicts who performed hard labor. The court also encouraged commoners, such as farmers, merchants, landowners, and hired laborers, to voluntarily migrate to the frontier.
Question: Who made up a majority of the people on the frontier?
Answer: soldiers
Question: Who forced peasant farmers to move to new settlements?
Answer: the court
Question: In what year did Han forces stop a joint Xiongnu-Qiang invasion?
Answer: 111 BC
Question: Where were landowners encouraged to migrate willingly to?
Answer: the frontier
Question: How many commanderies in the new frontier were created by the Han court in the year 111 BC?
Answer: four |
Context: Royal assent is the final stage in the legislative process for acts of the Scottish parliament. The process is governed by sections 28, 32, and 33 of the Scotland Act 1998. After a bill has been passed, the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament submits it to the monarch for royal assent after a four-week period, during which the Advocate General for Scotland, the Lord Advocate, the Attorney General or the Secretary of State for Scotland may refer the bill to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (prior to 1 October 2009, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council) for review of its legality. Royal assent is signified by letters patent under the Great Seal of Scotland in the following form which is set out in The Scottish Parliament (Letters Patent and Proclamations) Order 1999 (SI 1999/737) and of which notice is published in the London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes:
Question: In Scotland, who is responsible for submitting a bill for royal assent?
Answer: Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Question: Which three publications are used to signify royal assent?
Answer: London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes
Question: Under which Scotland Act sections is the royal assent governed?
Answer: 28, 32, and 33
Question: How many weeks pass before the monarch receives a bill from the Presiding Officer?
Answer: four-week period
Question: Which entities have the capability to refer a bill to the Supreme Court?
Answer: Advocate General for Scotland, the Lord Advocate, the Attorney General or the Secretary of State
Question: For what would a bill be submitted to the Supreme Court of Scotland?
Answer: review of its legality
Question: Royal assent is the first stage in what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What process is governed by sections 18, 32, and 33 of the Scotland Act 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Before a bill is passed, the Presiding Officer of the Sottish Parliament does what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Royal dissent is signified by what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Charleston is known for its unique culture, which blends traditional Southern U.S., English, French, and West African elements. The downtown peninsula has gained a reputation for its art, music, local cuisine, and fashion. Spoleto Festival USA, held annually in late spring, has become one of the world's major performing arts festivals. It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi (the Festival of Two Worlds) in Spoleto, Italy.
Question: What season is Spoleto Festival USA held?
Answer: spring
Question: What year was Spoleto Festival USA founded?
Answer: 1977
Question: What the profession of Gian Carlo Menotti?
Answer: composer
Question: Spoleto Festival USA is a counterpart to what Italian festival?
Answer: Festival dei Due Mondi
Question: What major award did Gian Carlo Menotti win?
Answer: Pulitzer Prize
Question: What season isn't Spoleto Festival USA held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was Spoleto Festival UK founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Spoleto Festival Uk is a counterpart to what Italian festival?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What minor award did Gian Carlo Menotti win?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As the centre of Australia's "rust belt", Melbourne experienced an economic downturn between 1989 to 1992, following the collapse of several local financial institutions. In 1992 the newly elected Kennett government began a campaign to revive the economy with an aggressive development campaign of public works coupled with the promotion of the city as a tourist destination with a focus on major events and sports tourism. During this period the Australian Grand Prix moved to Melbourne from Adelaide. Major projects included the construction of a new facility for the Melbourne Museum, Federation Square, the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, Crown Casino and the CityLink tollway. Other strategies included the privatisation of some of Melbourne's services, including power and public transport, and a reduction in funding to public services such as health, education and public transport infrastructure.
Question: During which years did Melbourne experience an economic downturn?
Answer: 1989 to 1992
Question: Which city is the center of Australia's "rust belt"?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: The Australian Grand Prix moved to Melbourne from where?
Answer: Adelaide
Question: Which government in 1992 began a campaign to revive the economy?
Answer: Kennett |
Context: The Ming dynasty granted titles to lamas of schools such as the Karmapa Kargyu, but the latter had previously declined Mongol invitations to receive titles. When the Ming Yongle Emperor invited Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), founder of the Gelug school, to come to the Ming court and pay tribute, the latter declined. Wang and Nyima write that this was due to old age and physical weakness, and also because of efforts being made to build three major monasteries. Chen Qingying states that Tsongkhapa wrote a letter to decline the Emperor's invitation, and in this reply, Tsongkhapa wrote:
Question: The Ming Dynasty granted what titles to lamas of schools?
Answer: the Karmapa Kargyu
Question: Who did the Ming Dynasty decline titles from after receiving invitations?
Answer: Mongol
Question: Who was the founder of the Gelug school?
Answer: Je Tsongkhapa
Question: Who invited Je Tsongkhapa to come pay tribute?
Answer: the Ming Yongle Emperor
Question: Who wrote the letter declining the Emperor's invitation?
Answer: Tsongkhapa |
Context: In late 1994, Marvel acquired the comic book distributor Heroes World Distribution to use as its own exclusive distributor. As the industry's other major publishers made exclusive distribution deals with other companies, the ripple effect resulted in the survival of only one other major distributor in North America, Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. In early 1997, when Marvel's Heroes World endeavor failed, Diamond also forged an exclusive deal with Marvel—giving the company its own section of its comics catalog Previews.
Question: What channel did Marvel buy to self-distribute its own comics in the 1990s?
Answer: Heroes World Distribution
Question: When did Marvel purchase this distribution network?
Answer: 1994
Question: Exclusive deals for distributing comics during the 1990s left this company as the only unaffiliated one.
Answer: Diamond Comic Distributors Inc
Question: What year did Diamond Comic Distributors team up with Marvel?
Answer: 1997
Question: The failure of what high profile business initiative caused Marvel to approach Diamond?
Answer: Marvel's Heroes World
Question: What was the only North American distribution company to go under?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Diamond Comic Distributors part ways with Marvel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused distributors to thrive in the mid-90s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Marvel's Heroes World declared a financial success?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Diamond Comic Distributors Inc. founded?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS, simplified Chinese: 北斗卫星导航系统; traditional Chinese: 北斗衛星導航系統; pinyin: Běidǒu wèixīng dǎoháng xìtǒng) is a Chinese satellite navigation system. It consists of two separate satellite constellations – a limited test system that has been operating since 2000, and a full-scale global navigation system that is currently under construction.
Question: What is the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System?
Answer: a Chinese satellite navigation system
Question: How many satellite constellations does the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System have?
Answer: two separate satellite constellations
Question: What are the two satellite constellations?
Answer: a limited test system that has been operating since 2000, and a full-scale global navigation system
Question: How long has the limited test system been operating?
Answer: since 2000
Question: How is the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System written in traditional Chinese?
Answer: 北斗衛星導航系統
Question: What is the Limited Navigation Satellite System?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System consists of 3 separate what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of system has been operating since 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which system is no longer under construction?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following the ceasefire agreement that suspended hostilities (but not officially ended) in the 1991 Gulf War, the United States and its allies instituted and began patrolling Iraqi no-fly zones, to protect Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'a Arab population—both of which suffered attacks from the Hussein regime before and after the Gulf War—in Iraq's northern and southern regions, respectively. U.S. forces continued in combat zone deployments through November 1995 and launched Operation Desert Fox against Iraq in 1998 after it failed to meet U.S. demands of "unconditional cooperation" in weapons inspections.
Question: When did the first Gulf War begin?
Answer: 1991
Question: How did the first Gulf War end?
Answer: ceasefire agreement that suspended hostilities (but not officially ended)
Question: Who did the US try to protect in Iraq after the first Gulf War?
Answer: Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'a Arab population
Question: Which region of Iraq do the Kurds live in?
Answer: northern
Question: Which region of Iraq do the Shi'a live in?
Answer: southern
Question: What was instituted to protect Iraq's Arab and Shi'a Kurdish population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who suffered attacks from the Hussein regime before the Gulf War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What operation was launched against Iraq in November 1995?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Iraq fail to meet in 1995?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did the first Gulf War end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the US and its allies do once the hostilities were officially over?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was launched in 1995?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was trying to protect the Hussein regime?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Iraqi populations attacked the Hussein regime?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The number of entrants has increased greatly in recent years. In the 2004–05 season, 660 clubs entered the competition, beating the long-standing record of 656 from the 1921–22 season. In 2005–06 this increased to 674 entrants, in 2006–07 to 687, in 2007–08 to 731 clubs, and for the 2008–09 and 2009–10 competitions it reached 762. The number has varied slightly but remained roughly stable since then, with 759 clubs participating in 2010–11, a record 763 in 2011–12, 758 for 2012–13, 737 for 2013–14 and 736 for 2014–15. By comparison, the other major English domestic cup, the League Cup, involves only the 92 members of the Premier League and Football League.
Question: Has the number of entrants stayed the same?
Answer: The number of entrants has increased greatly in recent years
Question: How many clubs entered in 2004-05?
Answer: 660 clubs entered the competition
Question: How many clubs entered in 2005-06?
Answer: 674
Question: How many clubs entered in 2006-07?
Answer: 687
Question: How many clubs entered in 2007-08?
Answer: 731
Question: How much has the number of entrants decreased in recent years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How has the number of entrants changed in the League Cup?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How has the amount of members in the Premier League and Football League changed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what season did the League Cup beat its long standing record?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: YouTube is a global video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, and comment on videos, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. Available content includes video clips, TV clips, music videos, movie trailers, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
Question: Where is Youtube headquartered?
Answer: San Bruno, California, United States
Question: When was Youtube created?
Answer: February 2005
Question: How much did Google pay for Youtube in 2006?
Answer: US$1.65 billion
Question: Other than video blogging and and educational videos, what content is available on youtube?
Answer: short original videos
Question: How does youtube now operate as a business?
Answer: as one of Google's subsidiaries
Question: What company did the three employees that started YouTube in 2006 used to work for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who bought YouTube in 2005 for US$1.65 billion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's subsidiary does Google now operate under?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other technology does YouTube use besides WebM and H.642/MPEG-4 VAC?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Eastern Christianity heresy most commonly refers to those beliefs declared heretical by the first seven Ecumenical Councils.[citation needed] Since the Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation, various Christian churches have also used the concept in proceedings against individuals and groups those churches deemed heretical. The Orthodox Church also rejects the early Christian heresies such as Arianism, Gnosticism, Origenism, Montanism, Judaizers, Marcionism, Docetism, Adoptionism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Monothelitism and Iconoclasm.
Question: What area of Christianity commonly cited the first seven Ecumenical Councils in regards to heresy?
Answer: Eastern Christianity
Question: After what two events did various Christian churches also begin using the first seven Ecumenical Councils to identify heresy?
Answer: Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation
Question: What beginning Christian heresies did the Orthodox Church also reject during this time?
Answer: Arianism, Gnosticism, Origenism, Montanism, Judaizers, Marcionism, Docetism, Adoptionism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Monothelitism and Iconoclasm
Question: Who decides if a belief is heretical in the Eastern Church?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What reformation was caused by various heretical groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What early Christian beliefs does the Orthodox church not see as heresies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused the Great Schism?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The major soap operas on British television each feature a pub, and these pubs have become household names. The Rovers Return is the pub in Coronation Street, the British soap broadcast on ITV. The Queen Vic (short for the Queen Victoria) is the pub in EastEnders, the major soap on BBC One and the Woolpack in ITV's Emmerdale. The sets of each of the three major television soap operas have been visited by some of the members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II. The centrepiece of each visit was a trip into the Rovers, the Queen Vic, or the Woolpack to be offered a drink. The Bull in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers is an important meeting point.
Question: What pub is feature on the British soap opera Coronation Street?
Answer: The Rovers Return
Question: What pub is featured on EastEnders?
Answer: The Queen Vic
Question: What channel is EastEnders broadcast on?
Answer: BBC One
Question: What channel is home to the soap opera Emmerdale?
Answer: ITV
Question: What pub is featured on Emmerdale?
Answer: the Woolpack |
Context: The University of the Republic is the country's largest and most important university, with a student body of 81,774, according to the census of 2007. It was founded on 18 July 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current Rector is Dr. Rodrigo Arocena. The university houses 14 faculties (departments) and various institutes and schools. Many eminent Uruguayans have graduated from this university, including Carlos Vaz Ferreira, José Luis Massera, Gabriel Paternain, Mario Wschebor, Roman Fresnedo Siri, Carlos Ott and Eladio Dieste
Question: What is the country's largest university?
Answer: The University of the Republic
Question: In 2007 the University of the Republic had a student body of how many people?
Answer: 81,774
Question: When was the University of the Republic founded?
Answer: 18 July 1849
Question: Who is the current rector of The University of the Republic?
Answer: Dr. Rodrigo Arocena |
Context: The curious location on Catalina Island stemmed from Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr.'s then-majority interest in the island in 1919. Wrigley constructed a ballpark on the island to house the Cubs in spring training: it was built to the same dimensions as Wrigley Field. (The ballpark is long gone, but a clubhouse built by Wrigley to house the Cubs exists as the Catalina County Club.) However, by 1951 the team chose to leave Catalina Island and spring training was shifted to Mesa, Arizona. The Cubs' 30-year association with Catalina is chronicled in the book, The Cubs on Catalina, by Jim Vitti . . . which was named International 'Book of the Year' by The Sporting News.
Question: Who had a majority interest in Cataline island in 1919?
Answer: William Wrigley Jr
Question: What did Wrigley construct on the island to house the Cubs in Spring training?
Answer: a ballpark
Question: When did the Cubs choose to leave Catalina Island?
Answer: 1951 |
Context: Southampton Airport is a regional airport located in the town of Eastleigh, just north of the city. It offers flights to UK and near European destinations, and is connected to the city by a frequent rail service from Southampton Airport (Parkway) railway station, and by bus services.
Question: In what town is Southampton Airport located?
Answer: Eastleigh
Question: What direction would one travel from Southampton to get to the airport in Eastleigh?
Answer: north
Question: If passengers don't want to take a train to the airport, what other transport is available?
Answer: bus
Question: To take a train to Southampton Airport, what railway station would you need to go through?
Answer: Southampton Airport (Parkway) |
Context: The success of the show's alumni however has led to a more positive assessment of the show, and the show was described as having "proven it has a valid way to pick talent and a proven way to sell records". While the industry is divided on the show success, its impact is felt particularly strongly in the country music format. According to a CMT exec, reflecting on the success of Idol alumni in the country genre, "if you want to try and get famous fast by going to a cattle call audition on TV, Idol reasonably remains the first choice for anyone," and that country music and Idol "go together well".
Question: Which music genre has had the most success from American Idol?
Answer: country
Question: Which genre has felt the impact of Idol the most?
Answer: country music |
Context: Around 66 BC, a movement to use constitutional, or at least peaceful, means to address the plight of various classes began. After several failures, the movement's leaders decided to use any means that were necessary to accomplish their goals. The movement coalesced under an aristocrat named Lucius Sergius Catilina. The movement was based in the town of Faesulae, which was a natural hotbed of agrarian agitation. The rural malcontents were to advance on Rome, and be aided by an uprising within the city. After assassinating the consuls and most of the senators, Catiline would be free to enact his reforms. The conspiracy was set in motion in 63 BC. The consul for the year, Marcus Tullius Cicero, intercepted messages that Catiline had sent in an attempt to recruit more members. As a result, the top conspirators in Rome (including at least one former consul) were executed by authorisation (of dubious constitutionality) of the senate, and the planned uprising was disrupted. Cicero then sent an army, which cut Catiline's forces to pieces.
Question: When did the movement that considered the use of peaceful means to solve the plight of lesser classes begin?
Answer: Around 66 BC
Question: How many former consuls in Rome were executed as a result of a conspiracy?
Answer: one former consul
Question: What town was a common site of agitation within the area?
Answer: Faesulae
Question: Who can lay claim to the destruction of Lucius Sergius Catilina's forces?
Answer: Cicero
Question: Which individual had planned an uprising that ideally would see the death of most of the Roman senators?
Answer: Lucius Sergius Catilina |
Context: The onset of symptoms in myocardial infarction (MI) is usually gradual, over several minutes, and rarely instantaneous. Chest pain is the most common symptom of acute MI and is often described as a sensation of tightness, pressure, or squeezing. Chest pain due to ischemia (a lack of blood and hence oxygen supply) of the heart muscle is termed angina pectoris. Pain radiates most often to the left arm, but may also radiate to the lower jaw, neck, right arm, back, and upper abdomen, where it may mimic heartburn. Levine's sign, in which a person localizes the chest pain by clenching their fists over their sternum, has classically been thought to be predictive of cardiac chest pain, although a prospective observational study showed it had a poor positive predictive value.
Question: What type of heart problem has a typically instantaneous onset?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is pain in the left arm often described?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a good way to predict a heart attack?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the term for pain in the left arm?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a lack of oxygen supply cause?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Asthma is the result of chronic inflammation of the conducting zone of the airways (most especially the bronchi and bronchioles), which subsequently results in increased contractability of the surrounding smooth muscles. This among other factors leads to bouts of narrowing of the airway and the classic symptoms of wheezing. The narrowing is typically reversible with or without treatment. Occasionally the airways themselves change. Typical changes in the airways include an increase in eosinophils and thickening of the lamina reticularis. Chronically the airways' smooth muscle may increase in size along with an increase in the numbers of mucous glands. Other cell types involved include: T lymphocytes, macrophages, and neutrophils. There may also be involvement of other components of the immune system including: cytokines, chemokines, histamine, and leukotrienes among others.
Question: What is asthma the result of?
Answer: chronic inflammation of the conducting zone of the airways
Question: What two airways are most effected by asthma?
Answer: the bronchi and bronchioles
Question: In what ways do airways change?
Answer: an increase in eosinophils and thickening of the lamina reticularis
Question: What other cell types are involced with the changing of airways?
Answer: T lymphocytes, macrophages, and neutrophils
Question: What other components of the immune systems are included?
Answer: cytokines, chemokines, histamine, and leukotrienes among others
Question: What is neutrophils the result of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What part of the airway is especially effected by neutrophils?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do macrophages change?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What chronic changes happen to the macrophages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other parts of the immune system are changed due to thickening of the neutrophils?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: London contains four World Heritage Sites: the Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret's Church; and the historic settlement of Greenwich (in which the Royal Observatory, Greenwich marks the Prime Meridian, 0° longitude, and GMT). Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. London is home to numerous museums, galleries, libraries, sporting events and other cultural institutions, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, British Library and 40 West End theatres. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world.
Question: How many theaters does London's West End have?
Answer: 40
Question: Where does Greenwich Mean Time marked?
Answer: the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Question: What famous palace is located in London?
Answer: Buckingham Palace
Question: What is the name of the world's oldest underground railway?
Answer: The London Underground
Question: How many World Heritage Sites can be found in London?
Answer: four |
Context: In 2003, the season expanded to 16 games. There were also several rule changes in this period. In 2005, players were no longer allowed to run out of bounds. The only way for a player to go out of bounds presently is if he is tackled into or deliberately contacts the side boards. This was also the first year the ArenaBowl was played at a neutral site. In 2007, free substitution was allowed, ending the "iron man" era of one-platoon football. And in 2008, the "jack" linebacker was allowed to go sideboard to sideboard without being penalized for "illegal defense".
Question: How many games made up the AFL season in 2003?
Answer: 16
Question: In what year did the rules first forbid players running out of bounds?
Answer: 2005
Question: In what year was the ArenaBowl first played at a neutral location?
Answer: 2005
Question: What year introduced the free substitution rule?
Answer: 2007
Question: What year saw a rules change that had an impact on the role of the "jack" linebacker?
Answer: 2008 |
Context: The franchise was first created in 1997 as a series of virtual pets, akin to—and influenced in style by—the contemporary Tamagotchi or nano Giga Pet toys. The creatures were first designed to look cute and iconic even on the devices' small screens; later developments had them created with a harder-edged style influenced by American comics. The franchise gained momentum with its first anime incarnation, Digimon Adventure, and an early video game, Digimon World, both released in 1999. Several seasons of the anime and films based on them have aired, and the video game series has expanded into genres such as role-playing, racing, fighting, and MMORPGs. Other media forms have also been released.
Question: When did Digimon first appear?
Answer: 1997
Question: Name the original Digimon anime.
Answer: Digimon Adventure
Question: Name the Digimon video game that was released in 1999.
Answer: Digimon World
Question: Name two types of toys the original Digimon bore a close resemblence to.
Answer: Tamagotchi or nano Giga Pet toys
Question: When was the Digimon series created?
Answer: 1997
Question: What influenced the look of the Digimons?
Answer: Tamagotchi or nano Giga Pet toys
Question: In what year was the Digimon video game released?
Answer: 1999
Question: What started with a series of real pets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cause the franchise to lose momentum?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was released in 1990
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is aired for several seasons based on the films?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What American media for the original did you mom based on?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1358, the Sakya viceregal regime installed by the Mongols in Tibet was overthrown in a rebellion by the Phagmodru myriarch Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen (1302–1364). The Mongol Yuan court was forced to accept him as the new viceroy, and Changchub Gyaltsen and his successors, the Phagmodrupa Dynasty, gained de facto rule over Tibet.
Question: What year was the Sakya viceregal regime eradicated?
Answer: 1358
Question: Who placed the Sakya viceregal regime position of authority?
Answer: the Mongols in Tibet
Question: Who eradicated the Sakya viceregal regime?
Answer: the Phagmodru myriarch Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen
Question: Which dynasty became ruler of Tibet?
Answer: the Phagmodrupa Dynasty |
Context: After the rupture of the wars with Portugal and Catalonia, the Junta changed its attitude, this time due to the exhaustion of Galicia, now involved not just in naval or oversea operations, but also in an exhausting war with the Portuguese, war which produced thousands of casualties and refugees and was heavily disturbing to the local economy and commerce. So, in the second half of the 17th century the Junta frequently denied or considerably reduced the initial petitions of the monarch, and though the tension didn't rise to the levels experienced in Portugal or Catalonia, there were frequent urban mutinies and some voices even asked for the secession of the Kingdom of Galicia.
Question: War broke out with which other countries?
Answer: Portugal and Catalonia
Question: When did the Galician Junta more often stand up to requests from the monarch?
Answer: second half of the 17th century
Question: In what way was the tension between the monarch and Galicia similar to the wars it was fighting?
Answer: there were frequent urban mutinies |
Context: The London Gazette of 17 March 1691 published a patent in favour of John Lofting for a fire engine, but remarked upon and recommended another invention of his, for a beer pump:
Question: In what newspaper did John Lofting mention his beer pump?
Answer: London Gazette
Question: On what day was Lofting's fire engine patent published?
Answer: 17 March 1691 |
Context: Although Mali has enjoyed a reasonably good inter-ethnic relationships based on the long history of coexistence, some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship exist, as well as ethnic tension between settled Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north. Due to a backlash against the northern population after independence, Mali is now in a situation where both groups complain about discrimination on the part of the other group. This conflict also plays a role in the continuing Northern Mali conflict where there is a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government, and the Tuaregs and radical Islamists who are trying to establish sharia law.
Question: Ethnic tension are between what two groups of people?
Answer: Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs
Question: Radical Islam and the Tuaregs are both considered problematic according to whom?
Answer: Malian government
Question: What group of people are trying to establish sharia law?
Answer: radical Islamists
Question: What type of hereditary relationships still exist today?
Answer: servitude and bondage
Question: Songhai and Tuaregs both complain about what same issue towards each other?
Answer: discrimination
Question: What does Mali not have a long history of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of relationships no longer exist in Mali?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What exists between the settled Tuaregs and the nomadic Songhai?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What plays a role in the tension between the Soanghai and the government?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, to serve the remainder of Davis's term. Schwarzenegger was then re-elected on November 7, 2006, in California's 2006 gubernatorial election, to serve a full term as governor, defeating Democrat Phil Angelides, who was California State Treasurer at the time. Schwarzenegger was sworn in for his second term on January 5, 2007. In 2011, Schwarzenegger completed his second term as governor.
Question: What year marked the end of Schwarzenegger's second term in the governor's office?
Answer: 2011
Question: What political party did Schwarzenegger belong to?
Answer: Republican
Question: What governor did Schwarzenegger replace?
Answer: Gray Davis
Question: What date marked the start of Schwarzenegger's second gubernatorial term?
Answer: January 5, 2007 |
Context: According to this school of Vedanta, all reality is Brahman, and there exists nothing whatsoever which is not Brahman. Its metaphysics includes the concept of māyā and ātman. Māyā connotes "that which exists, but is constantly changing and thus is spiritually unreal". The empirical reality is considered as always changing and therefore "transitory, incomplete, misleading and not what it appears to be". The concept of ātman is of soul, self within each person, each living being. Advaita Vedantins assert that ātman is same as Brahman, and this Brahman is within each human being and all life, all living beings are spiritually interconnected, and there is oneness in all of existence. They hold that dualities and misunderstanding of māyā as the spiritual reality that matters is caused by ignorance, and are the cause of sorrow, suffering. Jīvanmukti (liberation during life) can be achieved through Self-knowledge, the understanding that ātman within is same as ātman in another person and all of Brahman – the eternal, unchanging, entirety of cosmic principles and true reality.
Question: According to a school of Vedanta, what is all reality?
Answer: Brahman
Question: What concepts of metaphysics are included in Vedanta?
Answer: māyā and ātman
Question: How is the reality of maya viewed in Vedanta?
Answer: always changing
Question: To what does the concept of atman refer?
Answer: soul
Question: To what do Advaita Vedantins view atman as the same?
Answer: Brahman
Question: Which metaphysic concept is never changing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not within human beings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the opposite of Brahman?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do non-Advaita Vedantins say about atman and Brahman?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is unchanging and what it appears to be?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Private CBC affiliates are not as common as they were in the past, as many such stations have been purchased either by the CBC itself or by Canwest Global or CHUM Limited, respectively becoming E! or A-Channel (later A, now CTV Two) stations. One private CBC affiliate, CHBC-TV in Kelowna, joined E! (then known as CH) on February 27, 2006. When a private CBC affiliate reaffiliates with another network, the CBC has normally added a retransmitter of its nearest O&O station to ensure that CBC service is continued. However, due to an agreement between CHBC and CFJC-TV in Kamloops, CFJC also disaffiliated from the CBC on February 27, 2006, but no retransmitters were installed in the licence area. Former private CBC affiliates CKPG-TV Prince George and CHAT-TV Medicine Hat disaffiliated on August 31, 2008 and joined E!, but the CBC announced it will not add new retransmitters to these areas. Incidentally, CFJC, CKPG and CHAT are all owned by an independent media company, Jim Pattison Group. With the closure of E! and other changes in the media landscape, several former CBC affiliates have since joined City or Global, or closed altogether.
Question: Which CBC affiliate joined E! in February 2006?
Answer: CHBC-TV in Kelowna
Question: Which affiliate left CBC due to an agreement with CHBC?
Answer: CFJC-TV in Kamloops
Question: What two affiliates joined E! in late August, 2008 after which transmitters were not replaced?
Answer: CKPG-TV Prince George and CHAT-TV Medicine Hat
Question: CJFC, CHAT, and CKPG are owned by whom?
Answer: Jim Pattison Group
Question: The CBC is losing influence to what to broadcasting groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what day in 2006, did the CBC lose a large percentage of their private affiliates due to the CHBC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: CHBC is the only broadcaster licensed in British Columbia after the CBC experienced a CRTC disagreement with what station?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What independent media company has attempted to merge with the CBC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the CBC's largest challenge with retaining viewers?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The population of the province in 1900 was 1,996,626 people, with a religious makeup of 1,698,465 Protestants, 269,196 Roman Catholics, and 13,877 Jews. The Low Prussian dialect predominated in East Prussia, although High Prussian was spoken in Warmia. The numbers of Masurians, Kursenieki and Prussian Lithuanians decreased over time due to the process of Germanization. The Polish-speaking population concentrated in the south of the province (Masuria and Warmia) and all German geographic atlases at the start of 20th century showed the southern part of East Prussia as Polish with the number of Poles estimated at the time to be 300,000. Kursenieki inhabited the areas around the Curonian lagoon, while Lithuanian-speaking Prussians concentrated in the northeast in (Lithuania Minor). The Old Prussian ethnic group became completely Germanized over time and the Old Prussian language died out in the 18th century.
Question: Was the population of the Prussian province in 1900?
Answer: 1,996,626 people
Question: Which religious group made up the majority of the population in Prussia?
Answer: Protestants
Question: Due to Germanization which three groups saw a decrease in Prussia?
Answer: Masurians, Kursenieki and Prussian Lithuanians
Question: How many people spoke the Low Prussian dialect in East Prussia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion were most Prussian Lithuanians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Kursenieki were there in the areas around the Curonian lagoon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language did most of the Jews speak?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religion were the Kursenieki?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Japan conscripted many soldiers from its colonies of Korea and Formosa (Taiwan). To a small extent, some Vichy French, Indian National Army, and Burmese National Army forces were active in the area of the Pacific War. Collaborationist units from Hong Kong (reformed ex-colonial police), Philippines, Dutch East Indies (the PETA) and Dutch Guinea, British Malaya and British Borneo, Inner Mongolia and former French Indochina (after the overthrow of Vichy French regime) as well as Timorese militia also assisted Japanese war efforts.
Question: Where did many of Japan's soldiers come from?
Answer: Korea and Formosa
Question: What type of soldiers came from Hong Kong?
Answer: Collaborationist units
Question: What other Asian country, a group of islands, helped the Japanese?
Answer: Philippines
Question: What colonies did Japan conscript soldiers from?
Answer: Korea and Formosa
Question: What French forces assisted Japan?
Answer: Vichy
Question: Who were the collaborators assisting Japan in Hong King?
Answer: ex-colonial police |
Context: There has been extensive use of antibiotics in animal husbandry. In the United States, the question of emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains due to use of antibiotics in livestock was raised by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1977. In March 2012, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruling in an action brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and others, ordered the FDA to revoke approvals for the use of antibiotics in livestock, which violated FDA regulations.
Question: What besides sick people are antibiotics used for?
Answer: animal husbandry
Question: When was resistance first discussed as a problem in the raising of farm animals?
Answer: 1977
Question: When did a district court order the FDA to stop approving antibiotics in animals?
Answer: March 2012
Question: What besides sick people are bacterial strains used for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was resistance first discussed as a problem in the raising of the United States?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did a district court order the FDA to stop approving animals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What violated Natural Resources Defense Council regulations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ordered the FDA to use antibiotics?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the death of Lysimachus, one of his officers, Philetaerus, took control of the city of Pergamum in 282 BC along with Lysimachus' war chest of 9,000 talents and declared himself loyal to Seleucus I while remaining de facto independent. His descendant, Attalus I, defeated the invading Galatians and proclaimed himself an independent king. Attalus I (241–197BC), was a staunch ally of Rome against Philip V of Macedon during the first and second Macedonian Wars. For his support against the Seleucids in 190 BCE, Eumenes II was rewarded with all the former Seleucid domains in Asia Minor. Eumenes II turned Pergamon into a centre of culture and science by establishing the library of Pergamum which was said to be second only to the library of Alexandria with 200,000 volumes according to Plutarch. It included a reading room and a collection of paintings. Eumenes II also constructed the Pergamum Altar with friezes depicting the Gigantomachy on the acropolis of the city. Pergamum was also a center of parchment (charta pergamena) production. The Attalids ruled Pergamon until Attalus III bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic in 133 BC to avoid a likely succession crisis.
Question: Which officer took control of Pergamum in 282 BC?
Answer: Philetaerus
Question: Who did Philetaerus declare himself loyal to?
Answer: Seleucus I
Question: Attalus I was a strong ally of Rome and which ruler?
Answer: Philip V of Macedon
Question: Where was the library of Pergamum located?
Answer: Pergamon
Question: What depicts the Gigantomachy on the acropolis of the city?
Answer: Pergamum Altar |
Context: Records of bird migration were made as much as 3,000 years ago by the Ancient Greek writers Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus and Aristotle. The Bible also notes migrations, as in the Book of Job (39:26), where the inquiry is made: "Is it by your insight that the hawk hovers, spreads its wings southward?" The author of Jeremiah (8:7) wrote: "Even the stork in the heavens knows its seasons, and the turtle dove, the swift and the crane keep the time of their arrival."
Question: Who recorded early records of migration?
Answer: Ancient Greek writers
Question: Where in the bible does it mention migration?
Answer: the Book of Job (39:26)
Question: What bird is mentioned in the book of Job?
Answer: hawk |
Context: In 1820-1830’s the Ottoman Empire endured a number of strikes which challenged the existence of the country. The Greek Uprising (began in the spring of 1821) evidenced internal and military weakness of Ottoman Empire and caused severe atrocities by Ottoman military forces (see Chios massacre). The disbandment of the centuries-old Janissary corps by Sultan Mahmud II on 15 June 1826 (Auspicious Incident) was a good deed for the country in the longer term, but it has deprived the country from its army forces for the nearest future. In 1827 the allied Anglo-Franco-Russian fleet destroyed almost all the Ottoman naval forces during the Battle of Navarino. In 1830 Greece becomes an independent state after 10 years of independence war and the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829. According to the Treaty of Adrianople (1829) Russian and European commercial ships were authorized to freely pass through Black Sea straits, Serbia received autonomy, and Danubian Principalities (Moldavia and Walachia) became the territories under Russian protection.
Question: In what year did The Greek Uprising take place?
Answer: 1821
Question: Who disbanded the Janissary corps?
Answer: Sultan Mahmud II
Question: In what year was the Janissary corp disbanded?
Answer: 1826
Question: Who destroyed most of the Ottoman's naval forces during the Battle of Navarino?
Answer: the allied Anglo-Franco-Russian fleet
Question: In what year did Greece finally become an independent state?
Answer: 1830 |
Context: The "soft" AC format has reinvented in the late 2000s/early 2010s as a result of its declining relevance, adopting a more upmarket, middle-of-the-road approach, with a selection of "oldies" (usually from the 1960s/70s onwards), primarily rock, jazz, R&B and pop music. Newer songs are more often (but not limited to) "easy listening" fare, this amount varying depending on the age of the station's target demographic.
Question: Generally speaking, what is the earliest decade represented by the "oldies" on soft AC stations?
Answer: 1960s
Question: Along with R&B, pop and rock, what genre of music is represented on modern soft AC stations?
Answer: jazz
Question: What genre of music do new songs on soft AC stations often belong to?
Answer: "easy listening"
Question: During what period did soft AC stations attempt to reinvent themselves?
Answer: the late 2000s/early 2010s |
Context: The most recent major entrant to the browser market is Chrome, first released in September 2008. Chrome's take-up has increased significantly year by year, by doubling its usage share from 8% to 16% by August 2011. This increase seems largely to be at the expense of Internet Explorer, whose share has tended to decrease from month to month. In December 2011, Chrome overtook Internet Explorer 8 as the most widely used web browser but still had lower usage than all versions of Internet Explorer combined. Chrome's user-base continued to grow and in May 2012, Chrome's usage passed the usage of all versions of Internet Explorer combined. By April 2014, Chrome's usage had hit 45%.
Question: Which browser is the newest to enter the field?
Answer: Chrome
Question: When was Chrome released?
Answer: September 2008
Question: As Chrome usage increases, which browser usage has continued to decrease?
Answer: Internet Explorer
Question: When did Chrome become more used than all versions of Internet Explorer?
Answer: May 2012
Question: In what year was Internet Explorer released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By how much did IE double its usage share?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Internet Explorer 8 overtake Chrome as the more popular browser?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was IE's increase in usage percentage in August 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the usage of IE surpass all versions of Chrome combined?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The men's basketball team has over 1,600 wins, one of only 12 schools who have reached that mark, and have appeared in 28 NCAA tournaments. Former player Austin Carr holds the record for most points scored in a single game of the tournament with 61. Although the team has never won the NCAA Tournament, they were named by the Helms Athletic Foundation as national champions twice. The team has orchestrated a number of upsets of number one ranked teams, the most notable of which was ending UCLA's record 88-game winning streak in 1974. The team has beaten an additional eight number-one teams, and those nine wins rank second, to UCLA's 10, all-time in wins against the top team. The team plays in newly renovated Purcell Pavilion (within the Edmund P. Joyce Center), which reopened for the beginning of the 2009–2010 season. The team is coached by Mike Brey, who, as of the 2014–15 season, his fifteenth at Notre Dame, has achieved a 332-165 record. In 2009 they were invited to the NIT, where they advanced to the semifinals but were beaten by Penn State who went on and beat Baylor in the championship. The 2010–11 team concluded its regular season ranked number seven in the country, with a record of 25–5, Brey's fifth straight 20-win season, and a second-place finish in the Big East. During the 2014-15 season, the team went 32-6 and won the ACC conference tournament, later advancing to the Elite 8, where the Fighting Irish lost on a missed buzzer-beater against then undefeated Kentucky. Led by NBA draft picks Jerian Grant and Pat Connaughton, the Fighting Irish beat the eventual national champion Duke Blue Devils twice during the season. The 32 wins were the most by the Fighting Irish team since 1908-09.
Question: How many wins does the Notre Dame men's basketball team have?
Answer: over 1,600
Question: How many schools have a similar men's basketball record to Notre Dame in terms of wins?
Answer: 12
Question: How many NCAA tournaments did the Notre Dame men's basketball team take part in?
Answer: 28
Question: Which Notre Dame men's basketball player has the record for more points in one game?
Answer: Austin Carr
Question: Who was the Notre Dame men's basketball coach in 2014?
Answer: Mike Brey |
Context: Enlightenment historiography began in the period itself, from what Enlightenment figures said about their work. A dominant element was the intellectual angle they took. D'Alembert's Preliminary Discourse of l'Encyclopédie provides a history of the Enlightenment which comprises a chronological list of developments in the realm of knowledge – of which the Encyclopédie forms the pinnacle. In 1783, Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn referred to Enlightenment as a process by which man was educated in the use of reason. Immanuel Kant called Enlightenment "man's release from his self-incurred tutelage", tutelage being "man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another". "For Kant, Enlightenment was mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance." The German scholar Ernst Cassirer called the Enlightenment "a part and a special phase of that whole intellectual development through which modern philosophic thought gained its characteristic self-confidence and self-consciousness". According to historian Roy Porter, the liberation of the human mind from a dogmatic state of ignorance is the epitome of what the Age of Enlightenment was trying to capture.
Question: Which Jewish philosopher referred to Enlightenment as a process by which man was educated in the use of reason?
Answer: Moses Mendelssohn
Question: How did Immanuel Kant describe the Enlightenment?
Answer: "man's release from his self-incurred tutelage"
Question: For whom was Enlightenment mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance?"
Answer: Immanuel Kant
Question: According to historian Roy Porter, what was the Age of Enlightenment trying to capture?
Answer: the liberation of the human mind from a dogmatic state of ignorance |
Context: Major state highways include SR 94, which connects downtown with I-805, I-15 and East County; SR 163, which connects downtown with the northeast part of the city, intersects I-805 and merges with I-15 at Miramar; SR 52, which connects La Jolla with East County through Santee and SR 125; SR 56, which connects I-5 with I-15 through Carmel Valley and Rancho Peñasquitos; SR 75, which spans San Diego Bay as the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, and also passes through South San Diego as Palm Avenue; and SR 905, which connects I-5 and I-805 to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.
Question: What highway connects the I-805 with the downtown area?
Answer: SR 94
Question: Where does SR 94 merge with I-15?
Answer: at Miramar
Question: Where does SR 75 flow primarily through?
Answer: San Diego Bay
Question: What highway connects the I-905 with the downtown area?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What highway connects the I-805 with the uptown area?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does SR 49 merge with I-15?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does SR 94 merge with I-51?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does SR 57 flow primarily through?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Crimean War was a military conflict fought between October 1853 – March 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Christians. The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the unwillingness of the United Kingdom and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense. It has widely been noted that the causes, in one case involving an argument over a key, have never revealed a "greater confusion of purpose", yet led to a war noted for its "notoriously incompetent international butchery."
Question: What year did the Crimean War begin?
Answer: 1853
Question: What year did the Crimean War end?
Answer: 1856
Question: Who controlled the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land?
Answer: Ottoman Empire
Question: Who promoted the rights of the Catholic people?
Answer: The French
Question: Who promoted the rights of the Eastern Orthodox Christians?
Answer: Russia |
Context: The Homestead Act of 1862 provided free land to settlers who could claim and "prove-up" 160 acres (0.65 km2) of federal land in the midwest and western United States. Montana did not see a large influx of immigrants from this act because 160 acres was usually insufficient to support a family in the arid territory. The first homestead claim under the act in Montana was made by David Carpenter near Helena in 1868. The first claim by a woman was made near Warm Springs Creek by Miss Gwenllian Evans, the daughter of Deer Lodge Montana Pioneer, Morgan Evans. By 1880, there were farms in the more verdant valleys of central and western Montana, but few on the eastern plains.
Question: What year did the Homestead Act provide land to settlers?
Answer: 1862
Question: How much land did the Homestead Act allow?
Answer: 160 acres
Question: What year was the first homestead claim claimed?
Answer: 1868 |
Context: Written Japanese also includes a pair of syllabaries known as kana, derived by simplifying Chinese characters selected to represent syllables of Japanese. The syllabaries differ because they sometimes selected different characters for a syllable, and because they used different strategies to reduce these characters for easy writing: the angular katakana were obtained by selecting a part of each character, while hiragana were derived from the cursive forms of whole characters. Modern Japanese writing uses a composite system, using kanji for word stems, hiragana for inflexional endings and grammatical words, and katakana to transcribe non-Chinese loanwords as well as serve as a method to emphasize native words (similar to how italics are used in Romance languages).
Question: What also includes a pair of syllabaries?
Answer: Written Japanese
Question: Why do the syllabaries differ?
Answer: they sometimes selected different characters for a syllable
Question: What uses a composite system?
Answer: Modern Japanese writing |
Context: On July 11, 2008, citing liquidity concerns, the FDIC put IndyMac Bank into conservatorship. A bridge bank, IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB, was established to assume control of IndyMac Bank's assets, its secured liabilities, and its insured deposit accounts. The FDIC announced plans to open IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB on July 14, 2008. Until then, depositors would have access their insured deposits through ATMs, their existing checks, and their existing debit cards. Telephone and Internet account access was restored when the bank reopened. The FDIC guarantees the funds of all insured accounts up to US$100,000, and has declared a special advance dividend to the roughly 10,000 depositors with funds in excess of the insured amount, guaranteeing 50% of any amounts in excess of $100,000. Yet, even with the pending sale of Indymac to IMB Management Holdings, an estimated 10,000 uninsured depositors of Indymac are still at a loss of over $270 million.
Question: On what date did the FDIC put IndyMac Bank into conservatorship?
Answer: July 11, 2008
Question: What was the name of the bridge bank established to assume control of IndyMac Bank's assets, liabilities and deposit accounts?
Answer: IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB
Question: On what date did the FDIC plan to open IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB?
Answer: July 14, 2008
Question: What is the maximum amount of funds the FDIC guarantees in insured accounts?
Answer: US$100,000
Question: How many IndyMac account holders held funds in excess of the FDIC's insured amount of US$100,000?
Answer: roughly 10,000 depositors |
Context: Within the City of Westminster in London the entertainment district of the West End has its focus around Leicester Square, where London and world film premieres are held, and Piccadilly Circus, with its giant electronic advertisements. London's theatre district is here, as are many cinemas, bars, clubs and restaurants, including the city's Chinatown district (in Soho), and just to the east is Covent Garden, an area housing speciality shops. The city is the home of Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose musicals have dominated the West End theatre since the late 20th century. The United Kingdom's Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Royal Opera and English National Opera are based in London and perform at the Royal Opera House, the London Coliseum, Sadler's Wells Theatre and the Royal Albert Hall as well as touring the country.
Question: What is the entertainment center of London known as?
Answer: the West End
Question: What is a prominent feature of Picadilly Circus?
Answer: giant electronic advertisements
Question: London's Chinatown district is located in what area?
Answer: Soho
Question: Where is London's West End located geographically?
Answer: the City of Westminster
Question: What prolific composer and producer of musicals has been a major force in the West End theater district?
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Context: Until the 20th century, there was no clear record of the number of Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States. Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were many European immigrants who went to Venezuela, only to later migrate to the United States along with their children and grandchildren who born and/or grew up in Venezuela speaking Spanish. From 1910 to 1930, it is estimated that over 4,000 South Americans each year emigrated to the United States; however, there are few specific figures indicating these statistics. Many Venezuelans settled in the United States with hopes of receiving a better education, only to remain in there following graduation. They are frequently joined by relatives. However, since the early 1980s, the reasons for Venezuelan emigration have changed to include hopes of earning a higher salary and due to the economic fluctuations in Venezuela which also promoted an important migration of Venezuelan professionals to the US.
Question: When did the Venezuelans emigrate to the united states?
Answer: Until the 20th century, there was no clear record of the number of Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States.
Question: Does Venezuela have immigrates from other countries?
Answer: Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were many European immigrants who went to Venezuela
Question: Why did Venezuelans come to America?
Answer: Many Venezuelans settled in the United States with hopes of receiving a better education, only to remain in there following graduation.
Question: Do Venezuelans still come to America for the same reasons as they did before?
Answer: since the early 1980s, the reasons for Venezuelan emigration have changed to include hopes of earning a higher salary
Question: When did the Venezuelans emmigrate to Mexico?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Europeans come to America?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Since when has European immigration included hopes of a higher salary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many South Americans emigrated to Mexico from 1910 to 1930?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Europenan immigrants go to Venezuela and later to Mexico?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Genome-wide association studies have found 27 genetic variants that are associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction. Strongest association of MI has been found with the 9p21 genomic locus, which contains genes CDKN2A & 2B, although the single nucleotide polymorphisms that are implicated are within a non-coding region. The majority of these variants are in regions that have not been previously implicated in coronary artery disease. The following genes have an association with MI: PCSK9, SORT1, MIA3, WDR12, MRAS, PHACTR1, LPA, TCF21, MTHFDSL, ZC3HC1, CDKN2A, 2B, ABO, PDGF0, APOA5, MNF1ASM283, COL4A1, HHIPC1, SMAD3, ADAMTS7, RAS1, SMG6, SNF8, LDLR, SLC5A3, MRPS6, KCNE2.
Question: How many genetic variants are shown to decrease risk of an MI?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: PCSK9 is found in what locus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many genetic variants are in the 9p21 genomic locus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was implicated in the coding region of 9p21?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: SORT1 is associated with decreasing risk of what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On May 11, 2000, Glenallen Hill, facing Brewers starter Steve Woodard, became the first, and thus far only player, to hit a pitched ball onto the roof of a five-story residential building across Waveland Ave, beyond Wrigley Field's left field wall. The shot was estimated at well over 500 feet (150 m), but the Cubs fell to Milwaukee 12–8. No batted ball has ever hit the center field scoreboard, although the original "Slammin' Sammy", golfer Sam Snead, hit it with a golf ball in an exhibition in the 1950s. In 1948, Bill Nicholson barely missed the scoreboard when he launched a home run ball onto Sheffield Avenue and in 1959, Roberto Clemente came even closer with a home run ball hit onto Waveland Avenue. In 2001, a Sammy Sosa shot landed across Waveland and bounced a block down Kenmore Avenue. Dave Kingman hit a shot in 1979 that hit the third porch roof on the east side of Kenmore, estimated at 555 feet (169 m), and is regarded as the longest home run in Wrigley Field history. On May 26, 2015, the Cubs rookie third baseman, Kris Bryant, hit a homerun that traveled an estimated 477 feet (145 m) off the park's new videoboard in left field. Later the same year, he hit a homer that traveled 495 feet (151 m) that also ricocheted off of the videoboard On October 13, 2015, Kyle Schwarber's 438-foot home run landed on the equally new right field videoboard.
Question: Who was the first and only player to hit a pitched ball onto the roof of a five-story building across Waveland Ave?
Answer: Glenallen Hill
Question: When did the first and only player to hit a pitched ball onto the roof of a five-story building across Waveland Ave?
Answer: May 11, 2000
Question: Who barely missed the scoreboard when he launched a home run ball onto Sheffield Avenue?
Answer: Bill Nicholson |
Context: Each species of pathogen has a characteristic spectrum of interactions with its human hosts. Some organisms, such as Staphylococcus or Streptococcus, can cause skin infections, pneumonia, meningitis and even overwhelming sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response producing shock, massive vasodilation and death. Yet these organisms are also part of the normal human flora and usually exist on the skin or in the nose without causing any disease at all. Other organisms invariably cause disease in humans, such as the Rickettsia, which are obligate intracellular parasites able to grow and reproduce only within the cells of other organisms. One species of Rickettsia causes typhus, while another causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Chlamydia, another phylum of obligate intracellular parasites, contains species that can cause pneumonia, or urinary tract infection and may be involved in coronary heart disease. Finally, some species, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia cenocepacia, and Mycobacterium avium, are opportunistic pathogens and cause disease mainly in people suffering from immunosuppression or cystic fibrosis.
Question: How pathogenes interact with it's human host?
Answer: pathogen has a characteristic spectrum of interactions
Question: Can all bacteria in human body be harmful?
Answer: exist on the skin or in the nose without causing any disease
Question: Which bacteria cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever disiease?
Answer: species of Rickettsia |
Context: Matches are held within a wrestling ring, an elevated square canvas mat with posts on each corner. A cloth apron hangs over the edges of the ring. Three horizontal ropes or cables surround the ring, suspended with turnbuckles which are connected to the posts. For safety, the ropes are padded at the turnbuckles and cushioned mats surround the floor outside the ring. Guardrails or a similar barrier enclose this area from the audience. Wrestlers are generally expected to stay within the confines of the ring, though matches sometimes end up outside the ring, and even in the audience, to add excitement.
Question: What material is within a wrestling ring?
Answer: an elevated square canvas mat with posts on each corner.
Question: What is used for protection in the ring?
Answer: For safety, the ropes are padded at the turnbuckles and cushioned mats surround the floor outside the ring.
Question: What is around the ring?
Answer: Three horizontal ropes or cables surround the ring, |
Context: Among all 17 railway stations in Nanjing, passenger rail service is mainly provided by Nanjing Railway Station and Nanjing South Railway Station, while other stations like Nanjing West Railway Station, Zhonghuamen Railway Station and Xianlin Railway Station serve minor roles. Nanjing Railway Station was first built in 1968. In 1999, On November 12, 1999, the station was burnt in a serious fire. Reconstruction of the station was finished on September 1, 2005. Nanjing South Railway Station, which is one of the 5 hub stations on Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway, has officially been claimed as the largest railway station in Asia and the second largest in the world in terms of GFA (Gross Floor Area). Construction of Nanjing South Station began on 10 January 2008. The station was opened for public service in 2011.
Question: How many railway stations are there in Nanjing?
Answer: 17
Question: Which are the two most prominent railway stations?
Answer: Nanjing Railway Station and Nanjing South Railway Station
Question: When was the Nanjing Railway Station originally constructed?
Answer: 1968
Question: In what year was the Nanjing Railway Station re-built?
Answer: 2005
Question: Which station is one of the 5 hub stations on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway line?
Answer: Nanjing South Railway Station |
Context: Following the catastrophic events in Asia Minor, the monarchy was abolished via a referendum in 1924 and the Second Hellenic Republic was declared. Premier Georgios Kondylis took power in 1935 and effectively abolished the republic by bringing back the monarchy via a referendum in 1935. A coup d'état followed in 1936 and installed Ioannis Metaxas as the head of a dictatorial regime known as the 4th of August Regime. Although a dictatorship, Greece remained on good terms with Britain and was not allied with the Axis.
Question: The Greek Monarchy was abolished when?
Answer: 1924
Question: In 1924, what was established?
Answer: Second Hellenic Republic
Question: Who became the Greek leader in 1935?
Answer: Premier Georgios Kondylis
Question: The Greek monarchy was reestablished by who?
Answer: Premier Georgios Kondylis
Question: In what year did a coup take place and new dictatorship form?
Answer: 1936 |
Context: RIBA is based at 66 Portland Place, London—a 1930s Grade II* listed building designed by architect George Grey Wornum with sculptures by Edward Bainbridge Copnall and James Woodford. Parts of the London building are open to the public, including the Library. It has a large architectural bookshop, a café, restaurant and lecture theatres. Rooms are hired out for events.
Question: What is the Royal Institute of British Architects' street address?
Answer: 66 Portland Place
Question: Who designed RIBA's headquarters?
Answer: George Grey Wornum
Question: What is one room in RIBA's headquarters that can be visited by the public?
Answer: the Library
Question: For what purpose can rooms be rented at the Royal Institute's building?
Answer: events
Question: What is the former Royal Institute of British Architects' street address?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who destroyed RIBA's headquarters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one room in RIBA's headquarters that can no longer be visited by the public?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What purpose can rooms not be rented at the Royal Institute's building?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Paris' most popular sport clubs are the association football club Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and the rugby union club Stade Français. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. It is used for football, rugby union and track and field athletics. It hosts the French national football team for friendlies and major tournaments qualifiers, annually hosts the French national rugby team's home matches of the Six Nations Championship, and hosts several important matches of the Stade Français rugby team. In addition to Paris Saint-Germain FC, the city has a number of other amateur football clubs: Paris FC, Red Star, RCF Paris and Stade Français Paris.
Question: How many seats are in the State de France?
Answer: 80,000
Question: What was the State de France built for?
Answer: 1998 FIFA World Cup
Question: What is the most popular football club in Paris?
Answer: Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
Question: What is the rugby club in Paris?
Answer: Stade Français |
Context: The remaining group, people born in foreign countries with no French citizenship at birth, are those defined as immigrants under French law. According to the 2012 census, 135,853 residents of the city of Paris were immigrants from Europe, 112,369 were immigrants from the Maghreb, 70,852 from sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt, 5,059 from Turkey, 91,297 from Asia (outside Turkey), 38,858 from the Americas, and 1,365 from the South Pacific. Note that the immigrants from the Americas and the South Pacific in Paris are vastly outnumbered by migrants from French overseas regions and territories located in these regions of the world.
Question: How many immigrants were in Paris in 2012 from Europe?
Answer: 135,853
Question: How many immigrants to Paris in 2012 were from the Maghreb?
Answer: 112,369
Question: How many immigrants in Paris in 2012 were from sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt?
Answer: 70,852
Question: How many Asians immigrated to Paris in 2012?
Answer: 91,297 |
Context: Traditionally, major college basketball teams began their seasons with a few exhibition games. They played travelling teams made up of former college players on teams such as Athletes in Action or a team sponsored by Marathon Oil. On occasion before 1992, when FIBA allowed professional players on foreign national teams, colleges played those teams in exhibitions. However, in 2003, the National Collegiate Athletic Association banned games with non-college teams. Some teams have begun scheduling exhibition games against teams in NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III, or even against colleges and universities located in Canada. Major college basketball teams still travel to other countries during the summer to play in exhibition games, although a college team is allowed one foreign tour every four years, and a maximum of ten games in each tour.
Question: What is an example of a corporate sponsor of a basketball team?
Answer: Marathon Oil
Question: What is an example of a team of former college players?
Answer: Athletes in Action
Question: When did the FIBA stop allowing pros on foreign national teams?
Answer: 1992
Question: When did the NCAA decide college teams could only play other college teams?
Answer: 2003
Question: How often does the NCAA allow college teams to go overseas?
Answer: one foreign tour every four years
Question: How did minor college basketball teams begin their season?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of teams were made up of college players?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the FIBA allow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who allowed games between non-college teams in 2003?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do minor basketball teams still travel to.
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Zinc is included in most single tablet over-the-counter daily vitamin and mineral supplements. Preparations include zinc oxide, zinc acetate, and zinc gluconate. It is believed to possess antioxidant properties, which may protect against accelerated aging of the skin and muscles of the body; studies differ as to its effectiveness. Zinc also helps speed up the healing process after an injury. It is also suspected of being beneficial to the body's immune system. Indeed, zinc deficiency may have effects on virtually all parts of the human immune system.
Question: What consumable product is zinc included in?
Answer: vitamin and mineral supplements
Question: What property of zinc is believed to protect against skin aging?
Answer: antioxidant
Question: What is the benefit of zinc after injury?
Answer: speed up the healing
Question: What consumable product is zinc forbidden in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What property of zinc is believed to reverse aging?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the danger of zinc after injury?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only preparation form that zinc is available in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Eisenhower did provide France with bombers and non-combat personnel. After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft to drop napalm for clearing purposes. Further requests for assistance from the French were agreed to but only on conditions Eisenhower knew were impossible to meet – allied participation and congressional approval. When the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu fell to the Vietnamese Communists in May 1954, Eisenhower refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.
Question: Aside from bombers, what aid did Eisenhower provide to the French?
Answer: non-combat personnel
Question: What did American bombers drop on Vietnam?
Answer: napalm
Question: When did Dien Bien Phu fall to the communists?
Answer: May 1954
Question: Along with the Vice President and NCS head, who urged Eisenhower to intervene after the fall of Dien Bien Phu?
Answer: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Question: What arguably impossible conditions did Eisenhower set for further intervention on behalf of the French?
Answer: allied participation and congressional approval |
Context: Leading up to the American Civil War, Baptists became embroiled in the controversy over slavery in the United States. Whereas in the First Great Awakening, Methodist and Baptist preachers had opposed slavery and urged manumission, over the decades they made more of an accommodation with the institution. They worked with slaveholders in the South to urge a paternalistic institution. Both denominations made direct appeals to slaves and free blacks for conversion. The Baptists particularly allowed them active roles in congregations. By the mid-19th century, northern Baptists tended to oppose slavery. As tensions increased, in 1844 the Home Mission Society refused to appoint a slaveholder as a missionary who had been proposed by Georgia. It noted that missionaries could not take servants with them, and also that the Board did not want to appear to condone slavery.
Question: When did Baptists become embroiled in the controversy over slavery in the United States?
Answer: Leading up to the American Civil War
Question: When did Methodist and Baptist preachers oppose slavery and urge manumission?
Answer: the First Great Awakening
Question: They worked with slaveholders in the South to urge what?
Answer: paternalistic institution
Question: What denomination allowed blacks active roles in the congregation?
Answer: The Baptists
Question: What refused to appoint a slaveholder as a missionary?
Answer: the Home Mission Society
Question: When did Baptists become excluded from the controversy over slavery in the United States?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Methodist and Baptist preachers promote slavery and urge manumission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was urged by Baptists working with slaveholders in the North?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What denomination disallowed blacks active roles in the congregation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Home Mission Society appoint a slaveholder as a missionary?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the higher education sector, there are seven designated Universities of Technology in Australia (though, note, not all use the phrase "university of technology", such as the Universities of Canberra and South Australia, which used to be Colleges of Advanced Education before transitioning into fully-fledged universities with the ability - most important of all - to confer doctorates):
Question: In Australia, how many universities are recognized as Universities of Technology?
Answer: seven |
Context: As early as 1934, Popper wrote of the search for truth as "one of the strongest motives for scientific discovery." Still, he describes in Objective Knowledge (1972) early concerns about the much-criticised notion of truth as correspondence. Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logician Alfred Tarski and published in 1933. Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequences of Tarski's theory, to his intense joy. The theory met critical objections to truth as correspondence and thereby rehabilitated it. The theory also seemed, in Popper's eyes, to support metaphysical realism and the regulative idea of a search for truth.
Question: Whose theory of truth did Popper read with intense interest in 1935?
Answer: Alfred Tarski
Question: What theory of interest to Popper did Alfred Tarski publish in 1933?
Answer: semantic theory of truth
Question: Tarski's theory overcame certain objections to what conception of truth?
Answer: truth as correspondence
Question: What kind of realism did Popper believe Tarski's theory supported?
Answer: metaphysical
Question: What did Popper write about before 1934?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose theory of truth did Alfred Tarski read in 1935?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What seemed to disprove metaphysical realism and the regulative idea of a search for truth to Popper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Tarski write about the search for truth in 1934?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What book by Alfred Tarski was published in 1972?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The First Intifada, a Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule, broke out in 1987, with waves of uncoordinated demonstrations and violence occurring in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Over the following six years, the Intifada became more organised and included economic and cultural measures aimed at disrupting the Israeli occupation. More than a thousand people were killed in the violence. During the 1991 Gulf War, the PLO supported Saddam Hussein and Iraqi Scud missile attacks against Israel. Despite public outrage, Israel heeded US calls to refrain from hitting back and did not participate in that war.
Question: When did the First Intifada break out?
Answer: 1987
Question: How many people were killed in the violence?
Answer: More than a thousand people
Question: PLO supported who during the Gulf War?
Answer: Saddam Hussein |
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