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Context: Rome had no separate priestly caste or class. The highest authority within a community usually sponsored its cults and sacrifices, officiated as its priest and promoted its assistants and acolytes. Specialists from the religious colleges and professionals such as haruspices and oracles were available for consultation. In household cult, the paterfamilias functioned as priest, and members of his familia as acolytes and assistants. Public cults required greater knowledge and expertise. The earliest public priesthoods were probably the flamines (the singular is flamen), attributed to king Numa: the major flamines, dedicated to Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus, were traditionally drawn from patrician families. Twelve lesser flamines were each dedicated to a single deity, whose archaic nature is indicated by the relative obscurity of some. Flamines were constrained by the requirements of ritual purity; Jupiter's flamen in particular had virtually no simultaneous capacity for a political or military career.
Question: What was lacking as to the profession of a priest class in Rome?
Answer: separate priestly caste
Question: What authority in a community sponsored religious rites?
Answer: highest
Question: What type of religious participants were available for consultation?
Answer: Specialists
Question: Which member of a family functioned as priest?
Answer: paterfamilias
Question: What were the earliest priesthoods?
Answer: flamines |
Context: Francis Hutcheson, a moral philosopher, described the utilitarian and consequentialist principle that virtue is that which provides, in his words, "the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers". Much of what is incorporated in the scientific method (the nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation) and some modern attitudes towards the relationship between science and religion were developed by his protégés David Hume and Adam Smith. Hume became a major figure in the skeptical philosophical and empiricist traditions of philosophy.
Question: Which moral philosopher said "the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers"?
Answer: Francis Hutcheson
Question: Which two men were Francis Hutecheson's proteges?
Answer: David Hume and Adam Smith
Question: The nature of knowledge, evidence, experience, and causation together are called what?
Answer: the scientific method
Question: What type of philosopher was Francis Hutcheson?
Answer: moral
Question: In what areas of philosophy did Hume become a major figure?
Answer: skeptical philosophical and empiricist traditions |
Context: All of the executions which have taken place since the 1936 hanging of Bethea in Owensboro have been conducted within a wall or enclosure. For example, Fred Adams was legally hanged in Kennett, Missouri, on April 2, 1937, within a 10-foot (3 m) wooden stockade. Roscoe "Red" Jackson was hanged within a stockade in Galena, Missouri, on May 26, 1937. Two Kentucky hangings were conducted after Galena in which numerous persons were present within a wooden stockade, that of John "Peter" Montjoy in Covington, Kentucky on December 17, 1937, and that of Harold Van Venison in Covington on June 3, 1938. An estimated 400 witnesses were present for the hanging of Lee Simpson in Ryegate, Montana, on December 30, 1939. The execution of Timothy McVeigh on June 11, 2001 was witnessed by some 300 people, some by closed-circuit television.
Question: Where was Bethea hanged?
Answer: Owensboro
Question: On what date was Fred Adams hanged?
Answer: April 2, 1937
Question: In what state did the hanging of Adams take place?
Answer: Missouri
Question: What was Roscoe Jackson's nickname?
Answer: Red
Question: How many people witnessed Timothy McVeigh's execution?
Answer: 300
Question: Where was Bethea freed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date was Fred Adams freed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what state did the freedom of Adams take place?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Roscoe Jackson's birthdate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people refused Timothy McVeigh's execution?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: It established a colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Two years later, a flotilla of seven ships left England under the Company's Admiral, Sir George Somers, and the new Governor of Jamestown, Sir Thomas Gates, with several hundred settlers, food and supplies to relieve the colony of Jamestown. Somers had previous experience sailing with both Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh. The flotilla was broken up by a storm. As the flagship, the Sea Venture, was taking on water, Somers drove it onto Bermuda's reef and gained the shores safely with smaller boats – all 150 passengers and a dog survived. (William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, in which the character Ariel refers to the "still-vex'd Bermoothes" (I.ii.229), is thought to have been inspired by William Strachey's account of this shipwreck.) They stayed 10 months, starting a new settlement and building two small ships to sail to Jamestown. The island was claimed for the English Crown, and the charter of the Virginia Company was later extended to include it.
Question: Sir George Somers embarked on a mission to do what?
Answer: relieve the colony of Jamestown
Question: The devastating wreck of the flotilla is said to have inspired what playwrite?
Answer: William Shakespeare
Question: How long did Sommer's settlers stay in Bermuda?
Answer: 10 months
Question: Who did Sommer's claim the island for?
Answer: the English Crown
Question: What was established in 1706?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was a colony established in 1706?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Sir Thomas Somers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Sir George Gates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did 229 passengers and a dog survive?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: along with two inequality systems expressing economic efficiency. In this model, the (transposed) probability vector p represents the prices of the goods while the probability vector q represents the "intensity" at which the production process would run. The unique solution λ represents the growth factor which is 1 plus the rate of growth of the economy; the rate of growth equals the interest rate. Proving the existence of a positive growth rate and proving that the growth rate equals the interest rate were remarkable achievements, even for von Neumann.
Question: In von Neumann's model what does p represent?
Answer: p represents the prices of the goods
Question: In von Neumann's model what does q represent?
Answer: q represents the "intensity" at which the production process would run
Question: What is the rate of qrowth equal to?
Answer: rate of growth equals the interest rate
Question: Was the economic model successful?
Answer: proving that the growth rate equals the interest rate were remarkable achievements, even for von Neumann |
Context: The Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, assisted by the Vice-Camerlengo and the other prelates of the office known as the Apostolic Camera, has functions that in essence are limited to a period of sede vacante of the papacy. He is to collate information about the financial situation of all administrations dependent on the Holy See and present the results to the College of Cardinals, as they gather for the papal conclave.
Question: In the time between electing new popes, what is the duty of the cardinal?
Answer: collate information about the financial situation of all administrations dependent on the Holy See and present the results to the College of Cardinals
Question: What four entities make up the Apostolic Camera?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has functions that are not limited to a period of sede vacante of the papacy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does nor collate information about the financial situation of all dependent administrations of the Holy See?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does not have the responsibility of presenting results to the College of Cardinals?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A series of international crises strained the League to its limits, the earliest being the invasion of Manchuria by Japan and the Abyssinian crisis of 1935/36 in which Italy invaded Abyssinia, one of the only free African nations at that time. The League tried to enforce economic sanctions upon Italy, but to no avail. The incident highlighted French and British weakness, exemplified by their reluctance to alienate Italy and lose her as their ally. The limited actions taken by the Western powers pushed Mussolini's Italy towards alliance with Hitler's Germany anyway. The Abyssinian war showed Hitler how weak the League was and encouraged the remilitarization of the Rhineland in flagrant disregard of the Treaty of Versailles. This was the first in a series of provocative acts culminating in the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the beginning of the Second World War.
Question: Who was first to invade Manchuria?
Answer: Japan
Question: What is the Abyssinian crisis?
Answer: Italy invaded Abyssinia
Question: What is Abyssinia?
Answer: one of the only free African nations at that time
Question: When did the Abyssinian crisis occur?
Answer: 1935/36
Question: Who did The League try to force economic sanctions on?
Answer: Italy |
Context: After the consulship had been opened to the plebeians, the plebeians were able to hold both the dictatorship and the censorship. Plebiscites of 342 BC placed limits on political offices; an individual could hold only one office at a time, and ten years must elapse between the end of his official term and his re-election. Further laws attempted to relieve the burden of debt from plebeians by banning interest on loans. In 337 BC, the first plebeian praetor was elected. During these years, the tribunes and the senators grew increasingly close. The senate realised the need to use plebeian officials to accomplish desired goals. To win over the tribunes, the senators gave the tribunes a great deal of power and the tribunes began to feel obligated to the senate. As the tribunes and the senators grew closer, plebeian senators were often able to secure the tribunate for members of their own families. In time, the tribunate became a stepping stone to higher office.
Question: What year were limits placed upon plebeians that prevented them from holding more than one office concurrently?
Answer: 342 BC
Question: What could no longer be associated with debt after laws were passed preventing it?
Answer: interest
Question: What year saw the election of a plebeian to the office of praetor?
Answer: 337 BC
Question: How did senators attempt to gain the favor of the tribunes?
Answer: gave the tribunes a great deal of power
Question: What was considered a pathway to holding a higher office?
Answer: the tribunate |
Context: Panels are individual images containing a segment of action, often surrounded by a border. Prime moments in a narrative are broken down into panels via a process called encapsulation. The reader puts the pieces together via the process of closure by using background knowledge and an understanding of panel relations to combine panels mentally into events. The size, shape, and arrangement of panels each affect the timing and pacing of the narrative. The contents of a panel may be asynchronous, with events depicted in the same image not necessarily occurring at the same time.
Question: What are the individual images with action called in comics?
Answer: Panels
Question: Narrative is placed into panels using what?
Answer: encapsulation
Question: Who puts the panels together using closure?
Answer: The reader
Question: Timing and pace of comics is made by adjusting size, shape and what of panels?
Answer: arrangement
Question: When a comic panel has events that are not at the same time the panel is considered to be what?
Answer: asynchronous
Question: What are the multiple images with action called in comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Narrative isn't placed into panels using what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who takes the panels apart using closure?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Timing and pace of comics is made by not adjusting size, shape and what of panels?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When a comic panel has events that are at the same time the panel is considered to be what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Floodlights can be used to illuminate outdoor playing fields or work zones during nighttime hours. The most common type of floodlights are metal halide and high pressure sodium lights.
Question: What kind of light is used to illuminate outdoor playing fields at night?
Answer: Floodlights |
Context: Ethnically and linguistically the population of the Republic of the Congo is diverse—Ethnologue recognises 62 spoken languages in the country—but can be grouped into three categories. The Kongo are the largest ethnic group and form roughly half of the population. The most significant subgroups of the Kongo are Laari in Brazzaville and Pool regions and Vili around Pointe-Noire and along the Atlantic coast. The second largest group are the Teke who live to the north of Brazzaville with 17% of the population. Boulangui (M’Boshi) live in the northwest and in Brazzaville and form 12% of the population. Pygmies make up 2% of Congo's population.
Question: How many languages are used in the Congo?
Answer: 62
Question: What is the most populous ethnicity in the Congo?
Answer: Kongo
Question: How much of the population is constituted by Pygmies?
Answer: 2%
Question: What percentage of the population of the Congo is Boulangui?
Answer: 12%
Question: What country has a narrow range of languages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many languages are spoken outside of the Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What amount of the Kongo are Laari?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group lives on the Pacific coast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many groups can the Teke be categorized into?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Company's headquarters in London, from which much of India was governed, was East India House in Leadenhall Street. After occupying premises in Philpot Lane from 1600 to 1621; in Crosby House, Bishopsgate, from 1621 to 1638; and in Leadenhall Street from 1638 to 1648, the Company moved into Craven House, an Elizabethan mansion in Leadenhall Street. The building had become known as East India House by 1661. It was completely rebuilt and enlarged in 1726–9; and further significantly remodelled and expanded in 1796–1800. It was finally vacated in 1860 and demolished in 1861–62. The site is now occupied by the Lloyd's building.
Question: Where were the EIC headquarters located?
Answer: London
Question: What was the name of EIC headquartes?
Answer: East India House
Question: between 1638 and 1648 what street was EIC headquarters on?
Answer: Leadenhall Street
Question: Where was the EIC headquarters moved to after 1648?
Answer: Craven House
Question: What building now sits where the EIC headquarters last sat?
Answer: the Lloyd's building
Question: Where were the EIC headquarters hidden?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the former name of EIC headquarters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What street was EIC headquarters on when it was vacated between 1628 and 1643?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the EIC headquarters abandoned after 1648?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What hospital now sits where the EIC headquarters last sat?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1983, the International Telecommunication Union's radio telecommunications sector (ITU-R) set up a working party (IWP11/6) with the aim of setting a single international HDTV standard. One of the thornier issues concerned a suitable frame/field refresh rate, the world already having split into two camps, 25/50 Hz and 30/60 Hz, largely due to the differences in mains frequency. The IWP11/6 working party considered many views and throughout the 1980s served to encourage development in a number of video digital processing areas, not least conversion between the two main frame/field rates using motion vectors, which led to further developments in other areas. While a comprehensive HDTV standard was not in the end established, agreement on the aspect ratio was achieved.
Question: When did ITU-R start trying to work towards setting a single international HDTV standard?
Answer: 1983
Question: What did ITU-R start trying to do in 1983?
Answer: setting a single international HDTV standard
Question: What was one of the issues with setting a single HDTV standard?
Answer: a suitable frame/field refresh rate
Question: What was used as a conversion between the two main frame/field rates?
Answer: motion vectors
Question: How many frame/field rates were primarily being used in 1983?
Answer: two
Question: When did ITU-R start trying to work towards setting a single international DVD standard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did ITU-R start trying to do in 1981?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was one of the issues with setting a single DVD standard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was used as a conversion between the three main frame/field rates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many frame/field rates were primarily being used in 1981?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Much of YouTube's revenue goes to the copyright holders of the videos. In 2010 it was reported that nearly a third of the videos with advertisements were uploaded without permission of the copyright holders. YouTube gives an option for copyright holders to locate and remove their videos or to have them continue running for revenue. In May 2013, Nintendo began enforcing its copyright ownership and claiming the advertising revenue from video creators who posted screenshots of its games. In February 2015, Nintendo agreed to share the revenue with the video creators.
Question: Where does the majority of youtube's revenue go?
Answer: to the copyright holders
Question: In 2010 what were the estimates for the amount of videos with advertisements uploaded without the copywriter's consent?
Answer: nearly a third
Question: Which major gaming company claimed copyright ad revenue rights against uploaders?
Answer: Nintendo
Question: When did Nintendo finally agree to share ad profits with the original uploaders?
Answer: February 2015
Question: What option besides removing the video does youtube grant copyright holders?
Answer: have them continue running for revenue
Question: What did Nintendo start enforcing in 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Nintendo agree to share in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many videos with advertisements were uploaded without the copyright holder's permission in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Florida was 20,271,272 on July 1, 2015, a 7.82% increase since the 2010 United States Census. The population of Florida in the 2010 census was 18,801,310. Florida was the seventh fastest-growing state in the U.S. in the 12-month period ending July 1, 2012. In 2010, the center of population of Florida was located between Fort Meade and Frostproof. The center of population has moved less than 5 miles (8 km) to the east and approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north between 1980 and 2010 and has been located in Polk County since the 1960 census. The population exceeded 19.7 million by December 2014, surpassing the population of the state of New York for the first time.
Question: What is the population of Florida
Answer: The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Florida was 20,271,272 on July 1, 2015
Question: Where did florida rank in population growth
Answer: Florida was the seventh fastest-growing state
Question: What is the center of the Florida population
Answer: Polk County since the 1960 census
Question: What state did Florida pass in population recently
Answer: surpassing the population of the state of New York
Question: What was the population of Florida in 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did the population decrease in 5 years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the population of Florida in 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the population in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Middle Persian (Pahlavi) was the official language under the Sasanian dynasty in Iran. It was in use from the 3rd century CE until the beginning of the 10th century. The script used for Middle Persian in this era underwent significant maturity. Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian were also used as literary languages by the Manichaeans, whose texts also survive in various non-Iranian languages, from Latin to Chinese. Manichaean texts were written in a script closely akin to the Syriac script.
Question: What is another term for Middle Persian?
Answer: Pahlavi
Question: When did Middle Persian start being u sed?
Answer: 3rd century CE
Question: What are three languages employed by the Manichaeans?
Answer: Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian
Question: What was the writing of Manichaean documents similar to?
Answer: Syriac script
Question: Underwood dynasty was old Persian the official language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language was in use in Iran before the third century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are three spoken languages use by the Manchaeans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Latin and Chinese writing were similar to what texts?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Dominican Order was affected by a number of elemental influences. Its early members imbued the order with a mysticism and learning. The Europeans of the order embraced ecstatic mysticism on a grand scale and looked to a union with the Creator. The English Dominicans looked for this complete unity as well, but were not so focused on ecstatic experiences. Instead, their goal was to emulate the moral life of Christ more completely. The Dartford nuns were surrounded by all of these legacies, and used them to create something unique. Though they are not called mystics, they are known for their piety toward God and their determination to live lives devoted to, and in emulation of, Him.
Question: What did the Europeans of the Dominican Order bring to the group?
Answer: ecstatic mysticism
Question: What did the English Dominicans hope to do within the Order?
Answer: to emulate the moral life of Christ more completely
Question: What group of nuns are used all aspects of the Dominican Order for their work?
Answer: Dartford
Question: The Dartford Nuns are similar to what group?
Answer: mystics
Question: What do ecstatic mystics hope to achieve?
Answer: a union with the Creator
Question: What was not affected by a number of elemental influences?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did later members imbue the order with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Europeans of the order not embrace?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What of type of experiences were English Dominicans entirely focused on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the English Dominicans not hope to do within the order?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Generally, American civil procedure has several notable features, including extensive pretrial discovery, heavy reliance on live testimony obtained at deposition or elicited in front of a jury, and aggressive pretrial "law and motion" practice designed to result in a pretrial disposition (that is, summary judgment) or a settlement. U.S. courts pioneered the concept of the opt-out class action, by which the burden falls on class members to notify the court that they do not wish to be bound by the judgment, as opposed to opt-in class actions, where class members must join into the class. Another unique feature is the so-called American Rule under which parties generally bear their own attorneys' fees (as opposed to the English Rule of "loser pays"), though American legislators and courts have carved out numerous exceptions.
Question: What is extensive pretrial discovery a part of?
Answer: American civil procedure
Question: What is a pretrial deposition?
Answer: summary judgment
Question: What is an opt-out class action?
Answer: the burden falls on class members to notify the court that they do not wish to be bound by the judgment
Question: What is an opt-in class action?
Answer: class members must join into the class
Question: What is the American Rule?
Answer: parties generally bear their own attorneys' fees
Question: What does not place much weight on live testimony?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country's courts have opt-in class actions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the opt-out class action?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are pretrial dispositions designed to result in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: American legislators do not provide exceptions for what rule?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as The Adventures of Tintin. American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning (manga) propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. Comics has had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia.
Question: When did Rodolphe Töpffer create cartoons?
Answer: 1830s
Question: Which superhero appeared in comics in 1938?
Answer: Superman
Question: What is Japanese cartooning known as?
Answer: manga
Question: When did Rodolphe Töpffer create news?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which superhero appeared in comics in 1983?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which antihero appeared in comics in 1938?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Chinese cartooning known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Japanese cartooning not known as?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the Islamic tradition, Mary and Jesus were the only children who could not be touched by Satan at the moment of their birth, for God imposed a veil between them and Satan. According to author Shabbir Akhtar, the Islamic perspective on Mary's Immaculate Conception is compatible with the Catholic doctrine of the same topic. "O People of the Book! Do not go beyond the bounds in your religion, and do not say anything of Allah but the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was but a Messenger of God, and a Word of His (Power) which He conveyed to Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah (as the One, Unique God), and His Messengers (including Jesus, as Messenger); and do not say: (Allah is one of) a trinity. Give up (this assertion) â€" (it is) for your own good (to do so). Allah is but One Allah ; All-Glorified He is in that He is absolutely above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And Allah suffices as the One to be relied on, to Whom affairs should be referred." Quran 4/171
Question: Which religion believes that God put a veil between Satan and Mary?
Answer: Islamic
Question: According to Shabbir Akhtar, what role does Islam believe Jesus to hold?
Answer: a Messenger of God
Question: Who does the Islamic religion hold to be the One, Unique God?
Answer: Allah
Question: What term is used to refer to Christains by author Shabbir Akhtar?
Answer: People of the Book
Question: Who were the only children that could touch Satan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did God remove the veil imposed between them (Mary and Jesus) and Satan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote that Allah is not above having a son?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the Catholic perspective on Mary's Immaculate Conception?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1976, contemporaneously with Woodson and Roberts, the Court decided Gregg v. Georgia and upheld a procedure in which the trial of capital crimes was bifurcated into guilt-innocence and sentencing phases. At the first proceeding, the jury decides the defendant's guilt; if the defendant is innocent or otherwise not convicted of first-degree murder, the death penalty will not be imposed. At the second hearing, the jury determines whether certain statutory aggravating factors exist, whether any mitigating factors exist, and, in many jurisdictions, weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors in assessing the ultimate penalty – either death or life in prison, either with or without parole.
Question: In what year was Gregg v. Georgia decided?
Answer: 1976
Question: Along with the guilt-innocence phase, what is the other phase of a death penalty trial under Gregg v. Georgia?
Answer: sentencing
Question: What is the only conviction that can lead to the death penalty?
Answer: first-degree murder
Question: Along with aggravating factors, what other factors are considered at the second hearing?
Answer: mitigating
Question: What is decided at the first proceeding?
Answer: the defendant's guilt
Question: In what year was Gregg v. Georgia undecided?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Along with the innocence phase, what is the other phase of a death penalty trial under Gregg v. Georgia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the only conviction that can lead to the death penalty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Along with aggravating factors, what other factors are considered at the third hearing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is decided at the second proceeding?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Founded by free settlers from the British Crown colony of Van Diemen's Land on 30 August 1835, in what was then the colony of New South Wales, it was incorporated as a Crown settlement in 1837. It was named "Melbourne" by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847, after which it became the capital of the newly founded colony of Victoria in 1851. During the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the world's largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the nation's interim seat of government until 1927.
Question: Who was Melbourne named by?
Answer: the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke
Question: Who was Melbourne named in honor of?
Answer: the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Question: What year was Melbourne officially declared a city?
Answer: 1847
Question: What year did Melbourne cease in serving as the nations interim seat of government?
Answer: 1927
Question: Melbourne became the capital of what colony in 1851?
Answer: Victoria |
Context: Montevideo has over 50 hotels, mostly located within the downtown area or along the beachfront of the Rambla de Montevideo. Many of the hotels are in the modern, western style, such as the Sheraton Montevideo, the Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel located on the central Plaza Independencia, and the Plaza Fuerte Hotel on the waterfront. The Sheraton has 207 guest rooms and 10 suites and is luxuriously furnished with imported furniture. The Radisson Montevideo has 232 rooms and contains a casino and is served by the Restaurante Arcadia.
Question: How many guest rooms does the Sheraton have?
Answer: 207
Question: How many suites does the Sheraton have?
Answer: 10
Question: How many rooms does The Radisson Montevideo have?
Answer: 232 |
Context: The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the base form of programming for TCM upon the network's launch. Before the creation of Turner Classic Movies, films from Turner's library of movies aired on the Turner Broadcasting System's advertiser-supported cable network TNT – along with colorized versions of black-and-white classics such as The Maltese Falcon. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release (the rest of the library went to Turner Home Entertainment).
Question: On what network did Turner Entertainment's film library air prior to the creation of TCM?
Answer: TNT
Question: What was a notable film that Turner colorized?
Answer: The Maltese Falcon
Question: Who did Turner ink a deal with to distribute Warner Bros. films from before 1950?
Answer: MGM/UA
Question: The MGM/UA-Turner deal concerned MGM films released prior to what date?
Answer: May 1986
Question: On what network did Turner Entertainment's film library air prior to the creation of MGM/UA?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was a notable film that Warner Bros. colorized?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Warner Bros. ink a deal with to distribute Warner Bros. films from before 1950?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The MGM/UA-Turner deal concerned TCM films released prior to what date?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What would serve as the base form of programming for MGM?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the early Heian period, the late 8th and early 9th centuries, Emperor Kammu sought to consolidate and expand his rule in northern Honshū, but the armies he sent to conquer the rebellious Emishi people lacked motivation and discipline, and failed in their task.[citation needed] Emperor Kammu introduced the title of sei'i-taishōgun (征夷大将軍) or Shogun, and began to rely on the powerful regional clans to conquer the Emishi. Skilled in mounted combat and archery (kyūdō), these clan warriors became the Emperor's preferred tool for putting down rebellions.[citation needed] Though this is the first known use of the "Shogun" title, it was a temporary title, and was not imbued with political power until the 13th century. At this time (the 7th to 9th century) the Imperial Court officials considered them merely a military section under the control of the Imperial Court.
Question: In what period did Emperor Kammu rule?
Answer: early Heian period
Question: When was the early Heian?
Answer: the late 8th and early 9th centuries
Question: Who did Kammu fail to conquer?
Answer: Emishi
Question: What was the full title for Shogun?
Answer: sei'i-taishōgun
Question: Who introduced the Shogun concept?
Answer: Emperor Kammu |
Context: The strategy behind the formation of the Warsaw Pact was driven by the desire of the Soviet Union to dominate Central and Eastern Europe. This policy was driven by ideological and geostrategic reasons. Ideologically, the Soviet Union arrogated the right to define socialism and communism and act as the leader of the global socialist movement. A corollary to this idea was the necessity of intervention if a country appeared to be violating core socialist ideas and Communist Party functions, which was explicitly stated in the Brezhnev Doctrine. Geostrategic principles also drove the Soviet Union to prevent invasion of its territory by Western European powers.
Question: Which ideologies did the Soviet Union aspire to lead around the globe?
Answer: socialism and communism
Question: Which Soviet leader formed doctrine aimed at keeping socialist satellite nations in line?
Answer: Brezhnev
Question: The Soviet Union feared invasion from which potential enemy?
Answer: Western Europe
Question: Who wanted to dominate Western and Eastern Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which country wanted to define socialism and liberalism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who feared invasion from Eastern Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which doctrine aimed against keeping socialist satellite nations in line?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Non-cinematic HDTV video recordings intended for broadcast are typically recorded either in 720p or 1080i format as determined by the broadcaster. 720p is commonly used for Internet distribution of high-definition video, because most computer monitors operate in progressive-scan mode. 720p also imposes less strenuous storage and decoding requirements compared to both 1080i and 1080p. 1080p/24, 1080i/30, 1080i/25, and 720p/30 is most often used on Blu-ray Disc.
Question: What two formats are typically used to recorde non-cinematic HDTV video intended for broadcast?
Answer: 720p or 1080i
Question: Which format is typically used for internet distribution of HD video?
Answer: 720p
Question: Most computer monitors operate in what mode?
Answer: progressive-scan
Question: 1080i, 1080p, and 720p are often used on what kind of disc.
Answer: Blu-ray
Question: What two formats are typically used to record cinematic HDTV video intended for broadcast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which format is typically used for internet distribution of SD video?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: No computer monitors operate in what mode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: 1080i, 1080p, and 720p are never used on what kind of disc.
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1941, the General Anaya borough was merged to the Central Department, which was then renamed "Mexico City" (thus reviving the name, but not the autonomous municipality). From 1941 to 1970, the Federal District comprised twelve delegaciones and Mexico City. In 1970 Mexico City was split into four different delegaciones: Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Venustiano Carranza and Benito Juárez, increasing the number of delegaciones to sixteen. Since then, in a de facto manner, the whole Federal District, whose delegaciones had by then almost formed a single urban area, began to be considered a synonym of Mexico City.
Question: When was the General Anaya borough officially merged into Mexico City?
Answer: 1941
Question: How man boroughs was the borough of Mexico City split into in 1970?
Answer: four
Question: How many districts does the federal government control in 1970?
Answer: sixteen
Question: Which boroughs was the Mexico City borough split into?
Answer: Cuauhtémoc, Miguel Hidalgo, Venustiano Carranza and Benito Juárez |
Context: Gain is a parameter which measures the degree of directivity of the antenna's radiation pattern. A high-gain antenna will radiate most of its power in a particular direction, while a low-gain antenna will radiate over a wider angle. The antenna gain, or power gain of an antenna is defined as the ratio of the intensity (power per unit surface area) radiated by the antenna in the direction of its maximum output, at an arbitrary distance, divided by the intensity radiated at the same distance by a hypothetical isotropic antenna which radiates equal power in all directions. This dimensionless ratio is usually expressed logarithmically in decibels, these units are called "decibels-isotropic" (dBi)
Question: What is an acknowledgement of the range of possible direction for and antenna?
Answer: gain
Question: What is another way to refer to an antennas gain?
Answer: power gain
Question: What is the meaning of intensity?
Answer: power per unit surface area
Question: What type of an antenna would offer the same level of power to each possible destination?
Answer: isotropic |
Context: At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, downtown Tucson underwent a revitalization effort by city planners and the business community. The primary project was Rio Nuevo, a large retail and community center that has been stalled in planning for more than ten years. Downtown is generally regarded as the area bordered by 17th Street to the south, I-10 to the west, and 6th Street to the north, and Toole Avenue and the Union Pacific (formerly Southern Pacific) railroad tracks, site of the historic train depot and "Locomotive #1673", built in 1900. Downtown is divided into the Presidio District, the Barrio Viejo, and the Congress Street Arts and Entertainment District. Some authorities include the 4th Avenue shopping district, which is set just northeast of the rest of downtown and connected by an underpass beneath the UPRR tracks.
Question: What was the Union Pacific once known as?
Answer: Southern Pacific
Question: What year was Locomotive #1673 made in?
Answer: 1900
Question: What was the name of the retail and community center that took longer than a decade to build?
Answer: Rio Nuevo
Question: When did a revitalization of downtown Tucson begin?
Answer: At the end of the first decade of the 21st century
Question: What is Rio Nuevo?
Answer: a large retail and community center
Question: What is the southern edge of Tucson's downtown?
Answer: 17th Street
Question: What is the western edge of Tucson's downtown?
Answer: I-10
Question: What is the northern edge of Tucson's downtown?
Answer: 6th Street |
Context: Much of Richmond's early architecture was destroyed by the Evacuation Fire in 1865. It is estimated that 25% of all buildings in Richmond were destroyed during this fire. Even fewer now remain due to construction and demolition that has taken place since Reconstruction. In spite of this, Richmond contains many historically significant buildings and districts. Buildings remain from Richmond's colonial period, such as the Patteson-Schutte House and the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia), both built before 1750.
Question: What disaster destroyed many of the early buildings in Richmond?
Answer: Evacuation Fire
Question: What percentage of Richmond's buildings were burned in a single fire in 1865?
Answer: 25
Question: Prior to what year was the Patterson-Schutte House built?
Answer: 1750
Question: What is the name of the era from which the building housing the Edgar Allan Poe Museum dates?
Answer: colonial |
Context: New Haven was the host of the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games; then-President Bill Clinton spoke at the opening ceremonies. The city is home to the Pilot Pen International tennis event, which takes place every August at the Connecticut Tennis Center, one of the largest tennis venues in the world. New Haven biannually hosts "The Game" between Yale and Harvard, the country's second-oldest college football rivalry. Numerous road races take place in New Haven, including the USA 20K Championship during the New Haven Road Race.
Question: In what year did New Haven host the Special Olympic Summer World Games?
Answer: 1995
Question: What major tennis event take place annually every August in New Haven?
Answer: Pilot Pen International
Question: What is the name of the tennis complex, cited as one of the largest worldwide, located in New Haven?
Answer: Connecticut Tennis Center
Question: What is the nickname of the historic football rivalry between Yale and Harvard hosted annually in New Haven?
Answer: "The Game"
Question: What year did New Haven became a host for the Specials Olympics?
Answer: 1995
Question: The city also host a large international tennis event, when does it usually take place?
Answer: every August
Question: "The Game" is a special event that focus on what sort of rivalry between the colleges?
Answer: college football
Question: What is the name of major road race that places within the city?
Answer: USA 20K Championship |
Context: According to the Framework Law (3549/2007), Public higher education "Highest Educational Institutions" (Ανώτατα Εκπαιδευτικά Ιδρύματα, Anótata Ekpaideytiká Idrýmata, "ΑΕΙ") consists of two parallel sectors:the University sector (Universities, Polytechnics, Fine Arts Schools, the Open University) and the Technological sector (Technological Education Institutions (TEI) and the School of Pedagogic and Technological Education). There are also State Non-University Tertiary Institutes offering vocationally oriented courses of shorter duration (2 to 3 years) which operate under the authority of other Ministries. Students are admitted to these Institutes according to their performance at national level examinations taking place after completion of the third grade of Lykeio. Additionally, students over twenty-two years old may be admitted to the Hellenic Open University through a form of lottery. The Capodistrian University of Athens is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean.
Question: What is one of the education sectors according to the Framework Law?
Answer: University sector
Question: How long do the Tertiary institute courses last?
Answer: 2 to 3 years
Question: Examinations for Tertiary institutes are given at what grade level?
Answer: third grade
Question: At what age may students be admitted to Hellenic university through lottery?
Answer: over twenty-two years old
Question: What is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean?
Answer: The Capodistrian University of Athens |
Context: The port of Palermo, founded by the Phoenicians over 2,700 years ago, is, together with the port of Messina, the main port of Sicily. From here ferries link Palermo to Cagliari, Genoa, Livorno, Naples, Tunis and other cities and carry a total of almost 2 million passengers annually. It is also an important port for cruise ships. Traffic includes also almost 5 million tonnes of cargo and 80.000 TEU yearly. The port also has links to minor sicilian islands such as Ustica and the Aeolian Islands (via Cefalù in summer). Inside the Port of Palermo there is a section known as "tourist marina" for sailing yachts and catamarans.
Question: Which port is Sicily's primary port?
Answer: The port of Palermo
Question: How many passengers travel by Palermo ferry annually?
Answer: 2 million
Question: How many passengers do Palermo's ferries carry each year?
Answer: 2 million
Question: For what is the "tourist marina" dedicated?
Answer: sailing yachts and catamarans
Question: What cities do the ferries of Palermo travel to?
Answer: Cagliari, Genoa, Livorno, Naples, Tunis
Question: What is the main port of Italy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cities are linked by roads?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does traffic include 80tons of cargo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What section of the port is for the mafia?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Training programs vary in length; for example, 3M0X1 (Services) has 31 days of tech school training, while 3E8X1 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) is one year of training with a preliminary school and a main school consisting of over 10 separate divisions, sometimes taking students close to two years to complete. Officer technical training conducted by Second Air Force can also vary by AFSC, while flight training for aeronautically-rated officers conducted by AETC's Nineteenth Air Force can last well in excess of one year.
Question: What USAF tech school has 31 days of training?
Answer: 3M0X1 (Services)
Question: How long is the training for Explosive Ordnance Disposal in the USAF?
Answer: one year of training with a preliminary school
Question: Who conducts the training for Technical Officers in the USAF?
Answer: Second Air Force
Question: How long does the flight training for the AETC's Nineteenth Air Force last?
Answer: excess of one year |
Context: The Soviet regime first came to power on November 7, 1917, immediately after the Russian Provisional Government, which governed the Russian Republic, was overthrown in the October Revolution. The state it governed, which did not have an official name, would be unrecognized by neighboring countries for another five months.
Question: When did the Soviet regime first become powerful?
Answer: November 7, 1917
Question: Which government was in power before the Soviet regime?
Answer: the Russian Provisional Government
Question: Which revolution led to the Soviet regime's rise to power?
Answer: the October Revolution
Question: How long was the state of the Soviet regime unrecognized by other countries?
Answer: five months
Question: What was the name of the republic the Russian Provisional Goverment ruled?
Answer: the Russian Republic
Question: When did the Soviet government assume power?
Answer: November 7, 1917
Question: What event led to the assumption of power by the Soviet government?
Answer: the October Revolution
Question: What body governed Russia prior to the Soviet government?
Answer: the Russian Provisional Government
Question: In months, for how long was the new Soviet state unrecognized?
Answer: five
Question: When did the Soviet regime first lose power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which government was in power after the Soviet regime?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which revolution led to the Soviet regime's fall from power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long was the state of the Soviet regime recognized by other countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasn't the name of the republic the Russian Provisional Goverment ruled?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Theoretical analyses show that detours that increase flight distance by up to 20% will often be adaptive on aerodynamic grounds - a bird that loads itself with food to cross a long barrier flies less efficiently. However some species show circuitous migratory routes that reflect historical range expansions and are far from optimal in ecological terms. An example is the migration of continental populations of Swainson's thrush Catharus ustulatus, which fly far east across North America before turning south via Florida to reach northern South America; this route is believed to be the consequence of a range expansion that occurred about 10,000 years ago. Detours may also be caused by differential wind conditions, predation risk, or other factors.
Question: What percentage increase in flight distance will often be adaptive?
Answer: 20%
Question: What kind of bird flies less efficiently?
Answer: a bird that loads itself with food
Question: What type of bird show circuitous migratory routes?
Answer: Swainson's thrush
Question: Where do Swainson's thrush fly from?
Answer: far east across North America |
Context: Rufinus relates a story that as Bishop Alexander stood by a window, he watched boys playing on the seashore below, imitating the ritual of Christian baptism. He sent for the children and discovered that one of the boys (Athanasius) had acted as bishop. After questioning Athanasius, Bishop Alexander informed him that the baptisms were genuine, as both the form and matter of the sacrament had been performed through the recitation of the correct words and the administration of water, and that he must not continue to do this as those baptized had not been properly catechized. He invited Athanasius and his playfellows to prepare for clerical careers.
Question: As a child, Athanasius imitated what ritual?
Answer: ritual of Christian baptism
Question: Were the pretend baptisms real?
Answer: the baptisms were genuine
Question: Why was Athanasius instructed to stop pretend baptising?
Answer: not been properly catechized
Question: What work did the Bishop suggest for Athanasius?
Answer: clerical careers
Question: When Rufinus stood by a window what did he witness?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Bishop Alexander baptize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who told Rufinus that the baptisms were genuine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Rufinus' career?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: As an adult, Athanasius imitated what ritual?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was Athanasius ordered to continue baptising?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What school did the Bishop suggest for Athanasius?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Washington, D.C. is often mentioned as a candidate for statehood. In Federalist No. 43 of The Federalist Papers, James Madison considered the implications of the definition of the "seat of government" found in the United States Constitution. Although he noted potential conflicts of interest, and the need for a "municipal legislature for local purposes," Madison did not address the district's role in national voting. Legal scholars disagree on whether a simple act of Congress can admit the District as a state, due to its status as the seat of government of the United States, which Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution requires to be under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress; depending on the interpretation of this text, admission of the full District as a state may require a Constitutional amendment, which is much more difficult to enact. However, the Constitution does not set a minimum size for the District. Its size has already changed once before, when Virginia reclaimed the portion of the District south of the Potomac. So the constitutional requirement for a federal district can be satisfied by reducing its size to the small central core of government buildings and monuments, giving the rest of the territory to the new state.
Question: Who considered the implications of the definition of the seat of government in the Constitution?
Answer: James Madison
Question: Where are these ideas located in the Federalist Papers?
Answer: Federalist No. 43
Question: What limits does the constitution have for the size of Washington, D.C.?
Answer: the Constitution does not set a minimum size for the District
Question: What caused the size of Washington, D.C. to change?
Answer: Virginia reclaimed the portion of the District south of the Potomac
Question: Who considered the implications of the definition of the seat of government south of the Potomac?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are these ideas located south of the Potomac?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What limits does the constitution have for the size of Virginia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused the Federalist No. 43 to change?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can admit the District as a Federalist No. 43?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As a result of these initiatives northeastern Florida prospered economically in a way it never did under Spanish rule. Furthermore, the British governors were directed to call general assemblies as soon as possible in order to make laws for the Floridas and in the meantime they were, with the advice of councils, to establish courts. This would be the first introduction of much of the English-derived legal system which Florida still has today including trial by jury, habeas corpus and county-based government. Neither East Florida nor West Florida would send any representatives to Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence. Florida would remain a Loyalist stronghold for the duration of the American Revolution.
Question: What legal system was introduced by the British in Florida
Answer: British governors were directed to call general assemblies
Question: Did Florida send Representatives to Philadelphia for the Declaration of Independence
Answer: Neither East Florida nor West Florida would send any representatives to Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence
Question: Who did Florida side with during the revolution
Answer: Florida would remain a Loyalist stronghold for the duration of the American Revolution.
Question: What legal system is still used by florida
Answer: English-derived legal system which Florida still has today including trial by jury, habeas corpus and county-based government
Question: What legal system was not introduced by the British in Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Florida oppose during the revolution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What legal system has never been used by Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did East and West Florida send representatives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did representatives draft in Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Instead, he argues, this development has been artificially frozen in an "intermediate" state by the standardisation of Dutch pronunciation in the 16th century, where lowered diphthongs found in rural dialects were perceived as ugly by the educated classes and accordingly declared substandard. Now, however, in his opinion, the newly affluent and independent women can afford to let that natural development take place in their speech. Stroop compares the role of Polder Dutch with the urban variety of British English pronunciation called Estuary English.
Question: What word did Stroop use to describe the static stage of diphthong pronunciation?
Answer: "intermediate"
Question: What classes in the 16th century sneered at the pronunciation of Dutch by rural people?
Answer: educated classes
Question: What distinct kind of British English does Stroop say has a similar function to Polder Dutch?
Answer: Estuary English
Question: What phenomenon of Dutch pronunciation was brought about by the attitudes of the elite in the 16th century?
Answer: standardisation
Question: What specific type of diphthongs were the less educated Dutch speakers in the countryside using in the 16th century?
Answer: lowered diphthongs |
Context: ASCII was incorporated into the Unicode character set as the first 128 symbols, so the 7-bit ASCII characters have the same numeric codes in both sets. This allows UTF-8 to be backward compatible with 7-bit ASCII, as a UTF-8 file containing only ASCII characters is identical to an ASCII file containing the same sequence of characters. Even more importantly, forward compatibility is ensured as software that recognizes only 7-bit ASCII characters as special and does not alter bytes with the highest bit set (as is often done to support 8-bit ASCII extensions such as ISO-8859-1) will preserve UTF-8 data unchanged.
Question: ASCII was incorporated into what other character set?
Answer: Unicode
Question: How many of the symbols are the same in the beginning of the ASCII and Unicode?
Answer: 128 symbols
Question: What set is backward compatible with 7-bit ASCII?
Answer: UTF-8
Question: ASCII was incorporated into what other extensions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many of the symbols are the same in the end of the ASCII and Unicode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What set is backward with 128 symbols?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was incorporated into the Unicode extensions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a UTF-8 file containing ISO-8859-1 identical to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: To pay for his military campaigns and colonial expansion, Emperor Wu nationalized several private industries. He created central government monopolies administered largely by former merchants. These monopolies included salt, iron, and liquor production, as well as bronze-coin currency. The liquor monopoly lasted only from 98 to 81 BC, and the salt and iron monopolies were eventually abolished in early Eastern Han. The issuing of coinage remained a central government monopoly throughout the rest of the Han dynasty. The government monopolies were eventually repealed when a political faction known as the Reformists gained greater influence in the court. The Reformists opposed the Modernist faction that had dominated court politics in Emperor Wu's reign and during the subsequent regency of Huo Guang (d. 68 BC). The Modernists argued for an aggressive and expansionary foreign policy supported by revenues from heavy government intervention in the private economy. The Reformists, however, overturned these policies, favoring a cautious, non-expansionary approach to foreign policy, frugal budget reform, and lower tax-rates imposed on private entrepreneurs.
Question: Who made up the bulk of the administrators of the new government monopolies?
Answer: former merchants
Question: When was the liquor monopoly abolished?
Answer: 81 BC
Question: Which faction did the Reformists oppose?
Answer: Modernist
Question: Which political faction favored budgetary reform?
Answer: The Reformists
Question: In what year did Huo Guang die?
Answer: 68 BC |
Context: These events and the disagreements that arose from them within the Whig Party, led to its break-up and to the rupture of Burke's friendship with Fox. In debate in Parliament on Britain's relations with Russia, Fox praised the principles of the revolution, although Burke was not able to reply at this time as he was "overpowered by continued cries of question from his own side of the House". When Parliament was debating the Quebec Bill for a constitution for Canada, Fox praised the revolution and criticised some of Burke's arguments, such as hereditary power. On 6 May 1791, during another debate in Parliament on the Quebec Bill, Burke used the opportunity to answer Fox, and to condemn the new French Constitution and "the horrible consequences flowing from the French idea of the Rights of Man". Burke asserted that those ideas were the antithesis of both the British and the American constitutions. Burke was interrupted, and Fox intervened, saying that Burke should be allowed to carry on with his speech. A vote of censure was moved against Burke, however, for noticing the affairs of France, which was moved by Lord Sheffield and seconded by Fox. Pitt made a speech praising Burke, and Fox made a speech—both rebuking and complimenting Burke. He questioned the sincerity of Burke, who seemed to have forgotten the lessons he had learned from him, quoting from Burke's own speeches of fourteen and fifteen years before.
Question: Fox praised revolutionary principles in a debate about which country?
Answer: Russia
Question: What type of power did Fox think Burke was wrong about?
Answer: hereditary
Question: Which constitution did Burke condemn on May 6, 1791?
Answer: French
Question: Fox quoted Burke's speeches from how long ago?
Answer: fourteen and fifteen years
Question: When did Parliament debate the Quebec bill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who interrupted Burke?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of speech did Lord Sheffield give in regards to Burke?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Fox quoted his own speeches from how long ago?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who condemned the Canadian constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the early 5th century, the deep crisis suffered by the Roman Empire allowed different tribes of Central Europe (Suebi, Vandals and Alani) to cross the Rhine and penetrate into the rule on 31 December 406. Its progress towards the Iberian Peninsula forced the Roman authorities to establish a treaty (foedus) by which the Suebi would settle peacefully and govern Galicia as imperial allies. So, from 409 Galicia was taken by the Suebi, forming the first medieval kingdom to be created in Europe, in 411, even before the fall of the Roman Empire, being also the first Germanic kingdom to mint coinage in Roman lands. During this period a Briton colony and bishopric (see Mailoc) was established in Northern Galicia (Britonia), probably as foederati and allies of the Suebi. In 585, the Visigothic King Leovigild invaded the Suebic kingdom of Galicia and defeated it, bringing it under Visigoth control.
Question: At the end of which year did Central Europe tribes invade the Roman Empire?
Answer: 406
Question: Which tribe did the Romans subsequently make a treaty with?
Answer: Suebi
Question: What was the name of the Briton colony formed in Northern Galicia?
Answer: Britonia
Question: Which Visigothic king took over control of Galicia from the Suebi?
Answer: Leovigild
Question: In which year did this happen?
Answer: 585 |
Context: Before the French and Indian War, the Appalachian Mountains laid on the indeterminate boundary between Britain's colonies along the Atlantic and French areas centered in the Mississippi basin. After the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement for Great Britain's thirteen original colonies in North America to east of the summit line of the mountains (except in the northern regions where the Great Lakes formed the boundary). Although the line was adjusted several times to take frontier settlements into account and was impossible to enforce as law, it was strongly resented by backcountry settlers throughout the Appalachians. The Proclamation Line can be seen as one of the grievances which led to the American Revolutionary War. Many frontier settlers held that the defeat of the French opened the land west of the mountains to English settlement, only to find settlement barred by the British King's proclamation. The backcountry settlers who fought in the Illinois campaign of George Rogers Clark were motivated to secure their settlement of Kentucky.
Question: Where did the mountains lay before the French and Indian War?
Answer: on the indeterminate boundary between Britain's colonies along the Atlantic and French areas centered in the Mississippi basin
Question: What happened after the French and Indian War?
Answer: the Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement for Great Britain's thirteen original colonies in North America to east of the summit line of the mountains
Question: What was the general opinion of the law?
Answer: it was strongly resented by backcountry settlers throughout the Appalachians
Question: What did the law likely lead to?
Answer: the American Revolutionary War
Question: What did the backcountry settlers want to secure?
Answer: their settlement of Kentucky
Question: When did the French and Indian war begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who were the staunchest supporters of the Proclamation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What law did the Revolutionary War lead to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was George Rogers Clark from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the British King?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The era of manufactured fibers began with the development of rayon in France in the 1890s. Rayon is derived from a natural cellulose and cannot be considered synthetic, but requires extensive processing in a manufacturing process, and led the less expensive replacement of more naturally derived materials. A succession of new synthetic fibers were introduced by the chemicals industry in the following decades. Acetate in fiber form was developed in 1924. Nylon, the first fiber synthesized entirely from petrochemicals, was introduced as a sewing thread by DuPont in 1936, followed by DuPont's acrylic in 1944. Some garments were created from fabrics based on these fibers, such as women's hosiery from nylon, but it was not until the introduction of polyester into the fiber marketplace in the early 1950s that the market for cotton came under threat. The rapid uptake of polyester garments in the 1960s caused economic hardship in cotton-exporting economies, especially in Central American countries, such as Nicaragua, where cotton production had boomed tenfold between 1950 and 1965 with the advent of cheap chemical pesticides. Cotton production recovered in the 1970s, but crashed to pre-1960 levels in the early 1990s.
Question: What was the first manufactured fiber?
Answer: rayon
Question: When was rayon first made in France?
Answer: 1890s
Question: What type of industry produced a growing chain of synthetic fibers?
Answer: chemicals industry
Question: What was manufactured completely from petrochemicals?
Answer: Nylon
Question: What company produced nylon and acrylic in the 1930s and 1940s?
Answer: DuPont
Question: What was the first polyester fiber?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was polyester first made in France?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of industry produced a growing chain of DuPont?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was manufactured completely from DuPont?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company produced polyester and nylon in the 1930s and 1940s?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The official language of the Republic is Modern Standard Arabic. Arabic was adopted by the Egyptians after the Arab invasion of Egypt. The spoken languages are: Egyptian Arabic (68%), Sa'idi Arabic (29%), Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic (1.6%), Sudanese Arabic (0.6%), Domari (0.3%), Nobiin (0.3%), Beja (0.1%), Siwi and others. Additionally, Greek, Armenian and Italian are the main languages of immigrants. In Alexandria in the 19th century there was a large community of Italian Egyptians and Italian was the "lingua franca" of the city.
Question: What is official language of Egypt?
Answer: Modern Standard Arabic
Question: What are main laguages of immigrants?
Answer: Greek, Armenian and Italian
Question: In the 19th century, what city of Egypt was a large community of Italian Egyptians?
Answer: Alexandria
Question: What are the three most spoken languages in Egypt?
Answer: Egyptian Arabic (68%), Sa'idi Arabic (29%), Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic (1.6%) |
Context: In Burma the British, under intense pressure, made a fighting retreat from Rangoon to the Indo-Burmese border. This cut the Burma Road which was the western Allies' supply line to the Chinese Nationalists. In March 1942, Chinese Expeditionary Force started to attack Japanese forces in northern Burma. On 16 April, 7,000 British soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division led by Sun Li-jen. Cooperation between the Chinese Nationalists and the Communists had waned from its zenith at the Battle of Wuhan, and the relationship between the two had gone sour as both attempted to expand their area of operations in occupied territories. Most of the Nationalist guerrilla areas were eventually overtaken by the Communists. On the other hand, some Nationalist units were deployed to blockade the Communists and not the Japanese. Furthermore, many of the forces of the Chinese Nationalists were warlords allied to Chiang Kai-Shek, but not directly under his command. "Of the 1,200,000 troops under Chiang's control, only 650,000 were directly controlled by his generals, and another 550,000 controlled by warlords who claimed loyalty to his government; the strongest force was the Szechuan army of 320,000 men. The defeat of this army would do much to end Chiang's power." The Japanese exploited this lack of unity to press ahead in their offensives.
Question: When did the Chinese attack Burma?
Answer: March 1942
Question: How many British soldiers were rescued by the Chinese 38th Division on April 16??
Answer: 7,000
Question: Who led the rescue of British forces during the Battle of Yenangyaung?
Answer: Sun Li-jen
Question: How many of Chiang Kai-Shek's troops were controlled by warlords?
Answer: 550,000
Question: What was Chiang Kai-Shek's strongest army?
Answer: Szechuan army |
Context: Neville Southall holds the record for the most Everton appearances, having played 751 first-team matches between 1981 and 1997, and previously held the record for the most league clean sheets during a season (15). During the 2008–09 season, this record was beaten by American goalkeeper Tim Howard (17). The late centre half and former captain Brian Labone comes second, having played 534 times. The longest serving player is Goalkeeper Ted Sagar who played for 23 years between 1929 and 1953, both sides of the Second World War, making a total of 495 appearances. The club's top goalscorer, with 383 goals in all competitions, is Dixie Dean; the second-highest goalscorer is Graeme Sharp with 159. Dean still holds the English national record of most goals in a season, with 60.
Question: What player holds the Everton Football Club record for most appearances?
Answer: Neville Southall
Question: Who currently holds the record for the most league clean sheets during a season?
Answer: Tim Howard
Question: Which former captain made 534 appearances with the Everton Football Club?
Answer: Brian Labone
Question: Who was the longest serving goalkeeper for the Everton FC?
Answer: Ted Sagar
Question: How many years did Ted Sagar play for the Everton Football Club?
Answer: 23
Question: What nationality is Neville Southall?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Neville Southall get the record for the most league clean sheets during a season?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Brian LaBone join Everton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many appearances did the American goalkeeper Tim Howard have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Dixie Dean join Everton?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The "Radical Enlightenment" promoted the concept of separating church and state, an idea that often credited to English philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). According to his principle of the social contract, Locke said that the government lacked authority in the realm of individual conscience, as this was something rational people could not cede to the government for it or others to control. For Locke, this created a natural right in the liberty of conscience, which he said must therefore remain protected from any government authority.
Question: Who is credited with the concept of separating church and state?
Answer: John Locke
Question: Which term describes John Locke's movement to seperate church and state?
Answer: The "Radical Enlightenment"
Question: In what year was John Locke born?
Answer: 1632
Question: In what realm did John Locke feel the government lacked authority?
Answer: the realm of individual conscience |
Context: Distinguishing motifs of Islamic architecture have always been ordered repetition, radiating structures, and rhythmic, metric patterns. In this respect, fractal geometry has been a key utility, especially for mosques and palaces. Other features employed as motifs include columns, piers and arches, organized and interwoven with alternating sequences of niches and colonnettes. The role of domes in Islamic architecture has been considerable. Its usage spans centuries, first appearing in 691 with the construction of the Dome of the Rock mosque, and recurring even up until the 17th century with the Taj Mahal. And as late as the 19th century, Islamic domes had been incorporated into European architecture.
Question: What are the main distinctive features of Islamic architecture?
Answer: ordered repetition, radiating structures, and rhythmic, metric patterns
Question: What physical characteristics are common in Islamic architecture?
Answer: columns, piers and arches
Question: When did domes first appear in the architecture of the Muslim World?
Answer: 691
Question: Which mosque is believed to be the first with a dome?
Answer: Dome of the Rock mosque
Question: When was the Taj Mahal constructed?
Answer: 17th century
Question: What first appeared in Muslim architecture in the 6th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mosque was built with a dome in the 6th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What structure was built using domes in the 1700's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were Islamic domes used iin the 1900's?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: "Data on ethnic groups are important for putting into effect a number of federal statutes (i.e., enforcing bilingual election rules under the Voting Rights Act; monitoring and enforcing equal employment opportunities under the Civil Rights Act). Data on Ethnic Groups are also needed by local governments to run programs and meet legislative requirements (i.e., identifying segments of the population who may not be receiving medical services under the Public Health Act; evaluating whether financial institutions are meeting the credit needs of minority populations under the Community Reinvestment Act)."
Question: What act has rules and regulations for bilingual election?
Answer: the Voting Rights Act
Question: What act has rules and regulations for meeting the credit needs of minority populations?
Answer: the Community Reinvestment Act
Question: What act has laws about equal employment opportunities for ethnic groups?
Answer: the Civil Rights Act |
Context: Despite these crises, the 14th century was also a time of great progress in the arts and sciences. Following a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman texts that took root in the High Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance began. The absorption of Latin texts had started before the Renaissance of the 12th century through contact with Arabs during the Crusades, but the availability of important Greek texts accelerated with the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks, when many Byzantine scholars had to seek refuge in the West, particularly Italy.
Question: An interest in texts from which two ancient civilizations sparked the Italian Renaissance?
Answer: Greek and Roman
Question: Which conflicts brought Europeans into contact with Arabs prior to the 12th century?
Answer: the Crusades
Question: Which city was captured by the Ottoman Turks, resulting in the fleeing of scholars to Western Europe?
Answer: Constantinople
Question: Who captured Constantinople?
Answer: Ottoman Turks
Question: What kind of texts did Byzantine scholars take with them when they fled Constantinople?
Answer: Greek
Question: An interest in texts from which two modern civilizations sparked the Italian Renaissance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which conflicts brought Europeans into contact with Arabs prior to the 11th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which city was captured by the Ottoman Turks, resulting in the fleeing of scholars to Eastern Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who released Constantinople?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of texts didn't Byzantine scholars take with them when they fled Constantinople?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Madonna's initial music videos reflected her American and Hispanic mixed street style combined with a flamboyant glamor. She was able to transmit her avant-garde downtown New York fashion sense to the American audience. The imagery and incorporation of Hispanic culture and Catholic symbolism continued with the music videos from the True Blue era. Author Douglas Kellner noted, "such 'multiculturalism' and her culturally transgressive moves turned out to be highly successful moves that endeared her to large and varied youth audiences." Madonna's Spanish look in the videos became the fashion trend of that time, in the form of boleros and layered skirts, accessorizing with rosary beads and a crucifix as in the video of "La Isla Bonita".
Question: What influence did Madonna music video reflects?
Answer: American and Hispanic mixed street style
Question: She transmit her avant garde style to which audience?
Answer: American audience
Question: Which look of Madonna became a fashion trend?
Answer: Spanish look
Question: What type of Spanish clothings were worn for the video La Ista Bonita?
Answer: boleros and layered skirts |
Context: The design architecture of USB is asymmetrical in its topology, consisting of a host, a multitude of downstream USB ports, and multiple peripheral devices connected in a tiered-star topology. Additional USB hubs may be included in the tiers, allowing branching into a tree structure with up to five tier levels. A USB host may implement multiple host controllers and each host controller may provide one or more USB ports. Up to 127 devices, including hub devices if present, may be connected to a single host controller. USB devices are linked in series through hubs. One hub—built into the host controller—is the root hub.
Question: The design of USB is asymmetrical in what?
Answer: its topology
Question: How many devices may be connected to a host controller?
Answer: 127 devices
Question: How are USB devices linked?
Answer: in series through hubs
Question: What HUB is built into the host controller?
Answer: the root hub
Question: The design of the USB is asymmetrical in its what?
Answer: topology
Question: How many devices can be connected to a host controller?
Answer: Up to 127 devices
Question: What hub is built into the host controller?
Answer: the root hub
Question: A USB host may implement how many host controllers?
Answer: multiple
Question: How many USB ports may a host controller provide?
Answer: one or more USB ports |
Context: The Church Fathers identified Jews and Judaism with heresy. They saw deviations from Orthodox Christianity as heresies that were essentially Jewish in spirit. Tertullian implied that it was the Jews who most inspired heresy in Christianity: "From the Jew the heretic has accepted guidance in this discussion [that Jesus was not the Christ.]" Saint Peter of Antioch referred to Christians that refused to venerate religious images as having "Jewish minds".
Question: What culture and religion did Fathers of the Church correlate with heresy?
Answer: Jews and Judaism
Question: What religion were these Fathers of the Church?
Answer: Orthodox Christianity
Question: Who suggested that it were the Jews that brought dissension into Christianity?
Answer: Tertullian
Question: Who identified Christians with heresey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who dit Saint Peter refer to as Jews?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Tertullian say were the most heretical people?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who offered guidence to early Christians?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The ISO standard ISO 12232:2006 gives digital still camera manufacturers a choice of five different techniques for determining the exposure index rating at each sensitivity setting provided by a particular camera model. Three of the techniques in ISO 12232:2006 are carried over from the 1998 version of the standard, while two new techniques allowing for measurement of JPEG output files are introduced from CIPA DC-004. Depending on the technique selected, the exposure index rating can depend on the sensor sensitivity, the sensor noise, and the appearance of the resulting image. The standard specifies the measurement of light sensitivity of the entire digital camera system and not of individual components such as digital sensors, although Kodak has reported using a variation to characterize the sensitivity of two of their sensors in 2001.
Question: How many techniques are available because of ISO 12232:2006?
Answer: five
Question: What techniques did CIPA DC-004 provide?
Answer: two new techniques allowing for measurement of JPEG output files
Question: What factors affect the exposure index rating?
Answer: the sensor sensitivity, the sensor noise, and the appearance of the resulting image
Question: What does the standard of ISO 12232:2006 specify?
Answer: the measurement of light sensitivity of the entire digital camera system and not of individual components
Question: In what year did Kodak start using a different way of characterizing two sensors?
Answer: 2001
Question: When was ISO 12232:2006 made public?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many JPEG techniques were introduced in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the three techniques that affect ISO?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many techniques depend on sensor sensitivity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Kodak stop using variations of sensitivity?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The People's Republic of China constitution set a premier just one place below the National People's Congress in China. Premier read as (Simplified Chinese: 总理; pinyin: Zŏnglĭ) in Chinese.
Question: What is directly above the premier in the People's Republic of China?
Answer: the National People's Congress
Question: What is the pinyin form of premier?
Answer: Zŏnglĭ
Question: Who is directly below the premier in the People's Republic of China?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: IBM has constantly evolved since its inception. Over the past decade, it has steadily shifted its business mix by exiting commoditizing markets such as PCs, hard disk drives and DRAMs and focusing on higher-value, more profitable markets such as business intelligence, data analytics, business continuity, security, cloud computing, virtualization and green solutions, resulting in a higher quality revenue stream and higher profit margins. IBM's operating margin expanded from 16.8% in 2004 to 24.3% in 2013, and net profit margins expanded from 9.0% in 2004 to 16.5% in 2013.
Question: What was IBM's operating margin in 2004?
Answer: 16.8%
Question: What were the net profit margins of IBM in 2004?
Answer: 9.0%
Question: IBM's net profit margins were 16.5% in what year?
Answer: 2013
Question: IBM's operating margin in 2013 was what?
Answer: 24.3%
Question: IBM focusing on markets like business continuity, business intelligence, security, and cloud computing is an example of IBM doing what?
Answer: exiting commoditizing markets
Question: What has happened to DRAM's since they were created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did IBM's profitability get better when it got out of the data analytics market?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the average operating margin for hard disk drive producers in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the operating margin for hard disk drive producers expand to in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much net profit did the average hard disk drive producer make in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After many other more or less successful attempts with relatively weak rotating and reciprocating apparatus the Prussian Moritz von Jacobi created the first real rotating electric motor in May 1834 that actually developed a remarkable mechanical output power. His motor set a world record which was improved only four years later in September 1838 by Jacobi himself. His second motor was powerful enough to drive a boat with 14 people across a wide river. It was not until 1839/40 that other developers worldwide managed to build motors of similar and later also of higher performance.
Question: When were developers competing with Jacobi able to match his accomplishments?
Answer: 1839/40
Question: What was Jacobi's improved motor used to propel?
Answer: boat
Question: Who created the first real electric motor?
Answer: Moritz von Jacobi
Question: Who broke the world record set by Jacobi's first motor?
Answer: Jacobi himself
Question: How long did it take for Jacobi's first world record to be broken?
Answer: four years
Question: When were developers competing with Jacobi able to not match his accomplishments?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Jacobi's improved motor used to not propel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who created the first fake electric motor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who broke the world record set by Jacobi's second motor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did it take for Jacobi's second world record to be broken?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At about this time the surrounding areas experienced recurring fragmentation and reincorporations among a number of feudal secular and ecclesiastical lordships, a common process in the Holy Roman Empire. Alsace experienced great prosperity during the 12th and 13th centuries under Hohenstaufen emperors. Frederick I set up Alsace as a province (a procuratio, not a provincia) to be ruled by ministeriales, a non-noble class of civil servants. The idea was that such men would be more tractable and less likely to alienate the fief from the crown out of their own greed. The province had a single provincial court (Landgericht) and a central administration with its seat at Hagenau. Frederick II designated the Bishop of Strasbourg to administer Alsace, but the authority of the bishop was challenged by Count Rudolf of Habsburg, who received his rights from Frederick II's son Conrad IV. Strasbourg began to grow to become the most populous and commercially important town in the region. In 1262, after a long struggle with the ruling bishops, its citizens gained the status of free imperial city. A stop on the Paris-Vienna-Orient trade route, as well as a port on the Rhine route linking southern Germany and Switzerland to the Netherlands, England and Scandinavia, it became the political and economic center of the region. Cities such as Colmar and Hagenau also began to grow in economic importance and gained a kind of autonomy within the "Decapole" or "Dekapolis", a federation of ten free towns.
Question: What was considered a common practice in during the Holy Roman Empire?
Answer: fragmentation and reincorporations among a number of feudal secular and ecclesiastical lordships
Question: Under who's rule did Alsace thrive under?
Answer: Hohenstaufen emperors
Question: Was was the name given to the Alsace provincinal court?
Answer: Landgericht
Question: What was the name of the route that linked Germany,Switzerland , Netherlands, and England
Answer: Paris-Vienna-Orient trade route
Question: Which other two cities also started to grow economically?
Answer: Colmar and Hagenau
Question: What emperors were responsible for the increased fragmentation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During which century did Frederick I make Alsace a province?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What noble class ruled Alsace?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the central administration at Hagenau?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who questioned the authority of Count Rudolf?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Philosophy of space and time is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology, epistemology, and character of space and time. While such ideas have been central to philosophy from its inception, the philosophy of space and time was both an inspiration for and a central aspect of early analytic philosophy. The subject focuses on a number of basic issues, including whether or not time and space exist independently of the mind, whether they exist independently of one another, what accounts for time's apparently unidirectional flow, whether times other than the present moment exist, and questions about the nature of identity (particularly the nature of identity over time).
Question: Which philosophy branch is concerned with issues surrounding ontology?
Answer: Philosophy of space and time
Question: The philosophy of space and time was inspired by what kind of philosophy?
Answer: early analytic philosophy
Question: The philosophy of space and time focuses on whether or not time and space exist independently of what?
Answer: the mind
Question: The philosophy of space and time focuses what kind of flow within time?
Answer: unidirectional
Question: What philosophy does ontology concern?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the study of space and time inspired by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does not change over time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The flow within what is multidirectional?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From the start of the 20th century through the 1970s, the American tuna fishing fleet and tuna canning industry were based in San Diego, "the tuna capital of the world". San Diego's first tuna cannery was founded in 1911, and by the mid-1930s the canneries employed more than 1,000 people. A large fishing fleet supported the canneries, mostly staffed by immigrant fishermen from Japan, and later from the Portuguese Azores and Italy whose influence is still felt in neighborhoods like Little Italy and Point Loma. Due to rising costs and foreign competition, the last of the canneries closed in the early 1980s.
Question: What nickname was San Diego given by the tuna canning industry in the 1970s?
Answer: the tuna capital of the world
Question: How many jobs were created by the mid-1930s thanks to San Diego's tuna cannery that was developed in 1911?
Answer: more than 1,000
Question: Why were the canneries ultimately closed by the early 1980s?
Answer: rising costs and foreign competition
Question: Immigrants from what country were primarily hired by the fishing fleets that supported the canneries??
Answer: Japan
Question: From what region in Portugal did immigrants come from to work in San Diego's fishing industry?
Answer: Portuguese Azores
Question: What nickname was San Diego given by the tuna canning industry in the 1960s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many jobs were created by the mid-1930s thanks to San Diego's tuna cannery that was developed in 1921?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were the canneries ultimately closed by the early 1970s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Immigrants from what country were primarily fired by the fishing fleets that supported the canneries??
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: From what region in Portugal did immigrants come from to work in San Francisco's fishing industry?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Only scant remains prove that mosaics were still used in the Early Middle Ages. The Abbey of Saint-Martial in Limoges, originally an important place of pilgrimage, was totally demolished during the French Revolution except its crypt which was rediscovered in the 1960s. A mosaic panel was unearthed which was dated to the 9th century. It somewhat incongruously uses cubes of gilded glass and deep green marble, probably taken from antique pavements. This could also be the case with the early 9th century mosaic found under the Basilica of Saint-Quentin in Picardy, where antique motifs are copied but using only simple colors. The mosaics in the Cathedral of Saint-Jean at Lyon have been dated to the 11th century because they employ the same non-antique simple colors. More fragments were found on the site of Saint-Croix at Poitiers which might be from the 6th or 9th century.
Question: What proves mosaics were used in the early middle ages?
Answer: scant remains
Question: Where is the Abbey of Saint-Martial?
Answer: Limoges
Question: When was the crypt of the Abbey of Saint-Martial re-discovered?
Answer: the 1960s
Question: What was found under the Basilica of Saint-Quentin?
Answer: 9th century mosaic
Question: What common element do mosaic panels from the 11th century have?
Answer: simple colors |
Context: Israel is a leading country in the development of solar energy. Israel is a global leader in water conservation and geothermal energy, and its development of cutting-edge technologies in software, communications and the life sciences have evoked comparisons with Silicon Valley. According to the OECD, Israel is also ranked 1st in the world in expenditure on Research and Development (R&D) as a percentage of GDP. Intel and Microsoft built their first overseas research and development centers in Israel, and other high-tech multi-national corporations, such as IBM, Google, Apple, HP, Cisco Systems, and Motorola, have opened R&D facilities in the country.
Question: Israel is a leading country of what development?
Answer: solar energy
Question: Israel is ranked 1st in the world in what?
Answer: expenditure on Research and Development
Question: What companies built their first overseas research and development centers in Israel?
Answer: Intel and Microsoft |
Context: One challenge to the traditional concept of matter as tangible "stuff" came with the rise of field physics in the 19th century. Relativity shows that matter and energy (including the spatially distributed energy of fields) are interchangeable. This enables the ontological view that energy is prima materia and matter is one of its forms. On the other hand, the Standard Model of Particle physics uses quantum field theory to describe all interactions. On this view it could be said that fields are prima materia and the energy is a property of the field.
Question: Relativity illustrates that what is interchangeable?
Answer: matter and energy
Question: Ontological theory suggests that what is the main substance?
Answer: energy
Question: Quantum field theory suggest what is the main substance?
Answer: fields
Question: Relativity says that what is not interchangeable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Ontological theory determines what is not the main substance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Quantum field theory determines what is not the main substance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the field of physics stop being taught?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the 1980s, audiences had an appetite for action films, with both Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone becoming international stars. Schwarzenegger's roles reflected his sense of humor, separating him from more serious action hero films, such as the alternative universe poster for Terminator 2: Judgment Day starring Stallone in the comedy thriller Last Action Hero. He made a number of successful films, such as Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), and Red Heat (1988).
Question: What other action star was an international hit in the 1980s?
Answer: Sylvester Stallone
Question: What year was Schwarzenegger's film The Running Man released?
Answer: 1987 |
Context: Although they did not fix their schedules to the clock in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer. For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome's latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes. After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some Mount Athos monasteries and all Jewish ceremonies.
Question: What kind of clocks did the Romans use?
Answer: water clocks
Question: What did the Romans call the third hour before sunrise?
Answer: hora tertia
Question: During the summer solstice, for how many minutes did hora tertia last for the Romans?
Answer: 75
Question: What type of religious ceremonies are still observed according to the traditional, unequal time settings?
Answer: Jewish |
Context: In addition there are two service bells, cast by Robert Mot, in 1585 and 1598 respectively, a Sanctus bell cast in 1738 by Richard Phelps and Thomas Lester and two unused bells—one cast about 1320, by the successor to R de Wymbish, and a second cast in 1742, by Thomas Lester. The two service bells and the 1320 bell, along with a fourth small silver "dish bell", kept in the refectory, have been noted as being of historical importance by the Church Buildings Council of the Church of England.
Question: Who cast the two service bells?
Answer: Robert Mot
Question: When were the two service bells cast?
Answer: 1585 and 1598
Question: When was the Sanctus bell cast?
Answer: 1738
Question: Who cast the Sanctus bell?
Answer: Richard Phelps and Thomas Lester
Question: Where is the "dish bell" kept?
Answer: in the refectory
Question: Who cast the three service bells?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the three service bells cast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Sanctus bell ruined?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who destroyed the Sanctus bell?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where isn't the "dish bell" kept?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Comics are a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information. Comics frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences of panels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. Size and arrangement of panels contribute to narrative pacing. Cartooning and similar forms of illustration are the most common image-making means in comics; fumetti is a form which uses photographic images. Common forms of comics include comic strips, editorial and gag cartoons, and comic books. Since the late 20th century, bound volumes such as graphic novels, comics albums, and tankōbon have become increasingly common, and online webcomics have proliferated in the 21st century.
Question: Which form of comics entails the use of photographic images?
Answer: fumetti
Question: In addition to onomatopoeia and captions, what can be used to show the dialogue in comics?
Answer: speech balloons
Question: What type of comic has taken off in the 21st century?
Answer: online webcomics
Question: The various sizes as well as how panels are arranged help with what aspect of comics?
Answer: narrative pacing
Question: Which form of comics entails the use of autographic images?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In addition to onomatopoeia and captions, what can't be used to show the dialogue in comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In addition to onomatopoeia and captions, what can be used to show the non-dialogue in comics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of comic has taken off in the 20th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The various sizes as well as how panels are arranged don't help with what aspect of comics?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: German beacons operated on the medium-frequency band and the signals involved a two-letter Morse identifier followed by a lengthy time-lapse which enabled the Luftwaffe crews to determine the signal's bearing. The Meacon system involved separate locations for a receiver with a directional aerial and a transmitter. The receipt of the German signal by the receiver was duly passed to the transmitter, the signal to be repeated. The action did not guarantee automatic success. If the German bomber flew closer to its own beam than the Meacon then the former signal would come through the stronger on the direction finder. The reverse would apply only if the meacon were closer.
Question: The German beacons used what frequency band?
Answer: medium
Question: What two letter identifier did the signal have?
Answer: Morse
Question: What system used a separate locations for a receiver and a directional aerial?
Answer: Meacon
Question: When a German bomber flew to close to its own beam what happened to the signal?
Answer: stronger on the direction finder |
Context: In the second half of '90s, MP3 files began to spread on the Internet. The popularity of MP3s began to rise rapidly with the advent of Nullsoft's audio player Winamp, released in 1997. In 1998, the first portable solid state digital audio player MPMan, developed by SaeHan Information Systems which is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, was released and the Rio PMP300 was sold afterwards in 1998, despite legal suppression efforts by the RIAA.
Question: Where did MP3s begin to spread?
Answer: the Internet
Question: Which audio player was released in 1997?
Answer: Winamp
Question: Who released the audio player?
Answer: Nullsoft
Question: What was the name of the first portable solid state digital audio player?
Answer: MPMan
Question: In which country was the first portable audio player developed?
Answer: South Korea |
Context: The quail is a small to medium-sized, cryptically coloured bird. In its natural environment, it is found in bushy places, in rough grassland, among agricultural crops, and in other places with dense cover. It feeds on seeds, insects, and other small invertebrates. Being a largely ground-dwelling, gregarious bird, domestication of the quail was not difficult, although many of its wild instincts are retained in captivity. It was known to the Egyptians long before the arrival of chickens and was depicted in hieroglyphs from 2575 BC. It migrated across Egypt in vast flocks and the birds could sometimes be picked up off the ground by hand. These were the common quail (Coturnix coturnix), but modern domesticated flocks are mostly of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) which was probably domesticated as early as the 11th century AD in Japan. They were originally kept as songbirds, and they are thought to have been regularly used in song contests.
Question: Have quails ever been used for entertainment purposes ?
Answer: They were originally kept as songbirds, and they are thought to have been regularly used in song contests.
Question: Where can quails typically be found in the wild?
Answer: it is found in bushy places, in rough grassland, among agricultural crops, and in other places with dense cover.
Question: What is the typical diet consist of for qails ?
Answer: seeds, insects, and other small invertebrates.
Question: From what country do most domesticated quails today descend from ?
Answer: modern domesticated flocks are mostly of Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
Question: Why are quails always silent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are quails typically invisible in the wild?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a rare diet always consist of for quails?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country do all domesticated quails descend from?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hayek never produced the book-length treatment of "the dynamics of capital" that he had promised in the Pure Theory of Capital. After 1941, he continued to publish works on the economics of information, political philosophy, the theory of law, and psychology, but seldom on macroeconomics. At the University of Chicago, Hayek was not part of the economics department and did not influence the rebirth of neoclassical theory which took place there (see Chicago school of economics). When, in 1974, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal, the latter complained about being paired with an "ideologue". Milton Friedman declared himself "an enormous admirer of Hayek, but not for his economics. I think Prices and Production is a very flawed book. I think his [Pure Theory of Capital] is unreadable. On the other hand, The Road to Serfdom is one of the great books of our time."
Question: What topic did Hayek never write a book about as he said he would?
Answer: the dynamics of capital
Question: What topic did Hayek shy away from following Pure Theory of Capital?
Answer: macroeconomics
Question: What did Gunnar Myrdal call Hayek?
Answer: an "ideologue"
Question: Which of Hayeks books did Milton Friedman praise most?
Answer: The Road to Serfdom
Question: Which whom did Hayek share a Nobel prize?
Answer: Gunnar Myrdal |
Context: Claiming the right to name his discovery, Le Verrier quickly proposed the name Neptune for this new planet, though falsely stating that this had been officially approved by the French Bureau des Longitudes. In October, he sought to name the planet Le Verrier, after himself, and he had loyal support in this from the observatory director, François Arago. This suggestion met with stiff resistance outside France. French almanacs quickly reintroduced the name Herschel for Uranus, after that planet's discoverer Sir William Herschel, and Leverrier for the new planet.
Question: Who claimed the right to name Neptune?
Answer: Le Verrier
Question: What did the discoverer want to name Neptune first?
Answer: Le Verrier
Question: What country approved Neptune's first name?
Answer: France
Question: What first introduced Neptune and Uranus's names?
Answer: French almanacs
Question: Who did not approve of the first name for Neptune?
Answer: French Bureau des Longitudes
Question: What name was opposed by the french?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What name did the French Bureau des Longitudes approve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Le Verrier want to name Uranus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who refused the right to name Neptune?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the discoverer want to name Uranus first?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country disapproved Neptune's first name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What first introduced Jupiter and Uranus's names?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: An album entitled Take Me Out to a Cubs Game was released in 2008. It is a collection of 17 songs and other recordings related to the team, including Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" on September 21, 1997, the Steve Goodman song mentioned above, and a newly recorded rendition of "Talkin' Baseball" (subtitled "Baseball and the Cubs") by Terry Cashman. The album was produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Cubs' 1908 World Series victory and contains sounds and songs of the Cubs and Wrigley Field.
Question: When was Take Me Out to a Cubs game released?
Answer: 2008
Question: How many songs are on the Take Me Out to a Cubs Game album?
Answer: 17 songs
Question: When was Harry Caray's final performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"?
Answer: September 21, 1997 |
Context: The percentage of students attending a Gesamtschule varies by Bundesland. In the State of Brandenburg more than 50% of all students attended a Gesamtschule in 2007, while in the State of Bavaria less than 1% did.
Question: What percentage of Brandenburg students went to a Gesamtschule in 2007?
Answer: 50%
Question: What percentage of Bavarian students went to a Gesamtschule in 2007?
Answer: less than 1%
Question: What percentage of Brandenburg teachers went to a Gesamtschule in 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Brandenburg students went to a Gesamtschule in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Brandenburg students never went to a Gesamtschule in 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Bavarian teachers went to a Gesamtschule in 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of Bavarian students went to a Gesamtschule in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Bantu-speaking peoples who founded tribes during the Bantu expansions largely displaced and absorbed the earliest inhabitants of the region, the Pygmy people, about 1500 BC. The Bakongo, a Bantu ethnic group that also occupied parts of present-day Angola, Gabon, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, formed the basis for ethnic affinities and rivalries among those countries. Several Bantu kingdoms—notably those of the Kongo, the Loango, and the Teke—built trade links leading into the Congo River basin.
Question: What group of people were living in the area that would become the Congo prior to the arrival of Bantu tribes?
Answer: Pygmy
Question: When did Bantu tribes arrive in the area formerly populated by the Pygmy people?
Answer: 1500 BC
Question: The Bakongo were a group derived from which tribes?
Answer: Bantu
Question: What language did the Pygmy people speak?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Pygmy people displace the Bantu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Pygmy people form a basis for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Bantu kingdom never traded with the Congo River basin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Pygmy kingdom built trade links with the Congo River basin?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After a trend of declining population density since World War II, the city has seen increased density in the inner and western suburbs, aided in part by Victorian Government planning, such as Postcode 3000 and Melbourne 2030 which have aimed to curtail urban sprawl. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics as of June 2013, inner city Melbourne had the highest population density with 12,400 people per km2. Surrounding inner city suburbs experienced an increase in population density between 2012 and 2013; Carlton (9,000 people per km2) and Fitzroy (7,900).
Question: What have Postcode 3000 and Melbourne 2030 aimed to do?
Answer: curtail urban sprawl
Question: How many people did Carlton have per km2 between 2012 and 2013?
Answer: 9,000
Question: How many people did Fitzroy have per km2 between 2012 and 2013?
Answer: 7,900
Question: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics as of June 2013, inner city Melbourne had a population density of how many people per km2?
Answer: 12,400 |
Context: PlayStation Home is a virtual 3D social networking service for the PlayStation Network. Home allows users to create a custom avatar, which can be groomed realistically. Users can edit and decorate their personal apartments, avatars or club houses with free, premium or won content. Users can shop for new items or win prizes from PS3 games, or Home activities. Users interact and connect with friends and customise content in a virtual world. Home also acts as a meeting place for users that want to play multiplayer games with others.
Question: What does Sony call their social network?
Answer: PlayStation Home
Question: What is the customizable representation of a user in PS Home called?
Answer: avatar
Question: Home has free, won, and what third type of content?
Answer: premium
Question: Users employ the content to decorate club houses, their avatars, or what virtual dwelling space?
Answer: apartments
Question: What type of games can users find participants for in Home?
Answer: multiplayer
Question: What doesn't Sony call their social network?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the uncustomizable representation of a user in PS Home called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Home has pay, won, and what third type of content?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Users don't employ the content to decorate club houses, their avatars, or what virtual dwelling space?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of games can't users find participants for in Home?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The area between Belvidere Street, Interstate 195, Interstate 95, and the river, which includes Virginia Commonwealth University, is socioeconomically and architecturally diverse. North of Broad Street, the Carver and Newtowne West neighborhoods are demographically similar to neighboring Jackson Ward, with Carver experiencing some gentrification due to its proximity to VCU. The affluent area between the Boulevard, Main Street, Broad Street, and VCU, known as the Fan, is home to Monument Avenue, an outstanding collection of Victorian architecture, and many students. West of the Boulevard is the Museum District, the location of the Virginia Historical Society and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. South of the Downtown Expressway are Byrd Park, Maymont, Hollywood Cemetery, the predominantly black working class Randolph neighborhood, and white working class Oregon Hill. Cary Street between Interstate 195 and the Boulevard is a popular commercial area called Carytown.
Question: The neighborhood of Newtowne West is north of what street?
Answer: Broad
Question: Along with Newtowne West, to what neighborhood is Carver regarded as having comparable demographics?
Answer: Jackson Ward
Question: What Richmond street contains a notable amount of Victorian buildings?
Answer: Monument Avenue
Question: In what part of Richmond is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts found?
Answer: Museum District
Question: What is the primary race of the population of the Randolph neighborhood?
Answer: black |
Context: The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, "From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale". Hip Hop first emerged in the South Bronx in the early 1970s. The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue "an otherwise unremarkable high-rise just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway" as a starting point, where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the community room.
Question: When did a PBS documentary air about the Bronx's music history?
Answer: 2006
Question: What PBS documentary covered the Bronx's music history?
Answer: "From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale"
Question: Where did DJ Kool Herc hold parties?
Answer: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue
Question: Who produced 'From Mambo To Hip Hop'?
Answer: City Lore
Question: Where is 1520 Sedgwick?
Answer: just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway |
Context: Instructions are also embedded in fonts to tell the operating system how to properly output different character sequences. A simple solution to the placement of combining marks or diacritics is assigning the marks a width of zero and placing the glyph itself to the left or right of the left sidebearing (depending on the direction of the script they are intended to be used with). A mark handled this way will appear over whatever character precedes it, but will not adjust its position relative to the width or height of the base glyph; it may be visually awkward and it may overlap some glyphs. Real stacking is impossible, but can be approximated in limited cases (for example, Thai top-combining vowels and tone marks can just be at different heights to start with). Generally this approach is only effective in monospaced fonts, but may be used as a fallback rendering method when more complex methods fail.
Question: where are instructions embedded to tell fonts how to output sequences?
Answer: in fonts
Question: Can real stacking be accomplished?
Answer: Real stacking is impossible
Question: what is a solution to the placement of combining marks?
Answer: assigning the marks a width of zero and placing the glyph itself to the left or right of the left sidebearing
Question: What type of stacking is required?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Approximated stacking is not possible with what kinds of fonts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the operating system tell what to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What numerical value is assigned to the glyph?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a mark adjust its position relative to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There are 17 universities of technology in Germany with about 290,000 students enrolled. The four states of Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein are not operating a Technische Universität. Saxony and Lower Saxony have the highest counts of TUs, while in Saxony three out of four universities are universities of technology.
Question: How many institutes of technology are there in Germany?
Answer: 17
Question: What's the approximate number of students in Germany who are enrolled in a university of technology?
Answer: 290,000
Question: Which German state has the highest ratio of universities of technology to standard universities?
Answer: Saxony |
Context: In January 1938, Milt Gabler started recording for his new label, Commodore Records, and to allow for longer continuous performances, he recorded some 12-inch records. Eddie Condon explained: "Gabler realized that a jam session needs room for development." The first two 12-inch recordings did not take advantage of the extra length: "Carnegie Drag" was 3:15; "Carnegie Jump", 2:41. But at the second session, on April 30, the two 12-inch recordings were longer: "Embraceable You" was 4:05; "Serenade to a Shylock", 4:32. Another way around the time limitation was to issue a selection on both sides of a single record. Vaudeville stars Gallagher and Shean recorded "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean", written by Irving and Jack Kaufman, as two sides of a 10-inch 78 in 1922 for Cameo. An obvious workaround for longer recordings was to release a set of records. An early multi-record release was in 1903, when HMV in England made the first complete recording of an opera, Verdi's Ernani, on 40 single-sided discs. In 1940, Commodore released Eddie Condon and his Band's recording of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" in four parts, issued on both sides of two 12-inch 78s. This limitation on the duration of recordings persisted from 1910 until the invention of the LP record, in 1948. In popular music, this time limitation of about 3:30 on a 10-inch 78 rpm record meant that singers usually did not release long pieces on record. One exception is Frank Sinatra's recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Soliloquy", from Carousel, made on May 28, 1946. Because it ran 7:57, longer than both sides of a standard 78 rpm 10-inch record, it was released on Columbia's Masterwork label (the classical division) as two sides of a 12-inch record. The same was true of John Raitt's performance of the song on the original cast album of Carousel, which had been issued on a 78-rpm album set by American Decca in 1945.
Question: On which label did Frank Sinatra release his recording of Soliloquy?
Answer: Columbia's Masterwork label
Question: What was a typical recording time of a song in 1948?
Answer: about 3:30
Question: What was a way musicians got sounds such short recording times?
Answer: release a set of records
Question: How many sides of a disc commonly held a recording?
Answer: two sides |
Context: As of 2008[update], geothermal power development was under way in more than 40 countries, partially attributable to the development of new technologies, such as Enhanced Geothermal Systems. The development of binary cycle power plants and improvements in drilling and extraction technology may enable enhanced geothermal systems over a much greater geographical range than "traditional" Geothermal systems. Demonstration EGS projects are operational in the USA, Australia, Germany, France, and The United Kingdom.
Question: As of 2008, geothermal power development was underway in more than how many countries?
Answer: 40
Question: What is one new technology attributed to the growth of geothermal power?
Answer: Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Question: What is operational in the USA, Australia, Germany, France and The United Kingdom?
Answer: Demonstration EGS projects
Question: As of 2008, geothermal power development wasn't underway in more than how many countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: As of 2008, geothermal power development was underway in less than how many countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one old technology attributed to the growth of geothermal power?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not operational in the USA, Australia, Germany, France and The United Kingdom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are demonstration eggs taking place?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Bronx has also become home to a peculiar poetic tribute, in the form of the Heinrich Heine Memorial, better known as the Lorelei Fountain from one of Heine's best-known works (1838). After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet (1797–1856), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. However, this intention was thwarted by a combination of ethnic antagonism, aesthetic controversy and political struggles over the institutional control of public art.
Question: When was the Lorelei Fountain written about?
Answer: 1838
Question: Where was Heinrich Heine born?
Answer: Düsseldorf
Question: When was Heine born?
Answer: 1797
Question: When did Heine die?
Answer: 1856
Question: What ethnicity is Carl Schurz?
Answer: German-American |
Context: In May 2013, Thein Sein became the first Myanmar president to visit the White House in 47 years; the last Burmese leader to visit the White House was Ne Win in September 1966. President Barack Obama praised the former general for political and economic reforms, and the cessation of tensions between Myanmar and the United States. Political activists objected to the visit due to concerns over human rights abuses in Myanmar but Obama assured Thein Sein that Myanmar will receive US support. The two leaders discussed to release more political prisoners, the institutionalisation of political reform and rule of law, and ending ethnic conflict in Myanmar—the two governments agreed to sign a bilateral trade and investment framework agreement on 21 May 2013.
Question: Who is the first official Burmese delegate to visit the white house following the 2010 elections in Burma ?
Answer: Thein Sein became the first Myanmar president to visit the White House in 47 years
Question: When was the most prior visit from a Burmese representative to the United States prior to 2010 ?
Answer: the last Burmese leader to visit the White House was Ne Win in September 1966
Question: Was the visit from the Burmese delegate welcome in the United States in 2010?
Answer: Political activists objected to the visit due to concerns over human rights abuses in Myanmar
Question: Did the visit to the United States result in the release of political prisoners in Burma ?
Answer: leaders discussed to release more political prisoners
Question: What agreements were made in the visit to the United States by the Burmese in the 21 century ?
Answer: to sign a bilateral trade and investment framework agreement on 21 May 2013. |
Context: Following the death of Freddie Gray, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, among other notable figures, met with his family. After the imprisonment of protesters of Gray's death, Beyoncé and Jay-Z donated thousands of dollars to bail them out.
Question: Beyonce along with Jay Z met with whom's family after their death?
Answer: Freddie Gray
Question: Beyonce with Jay Z gave lots of money to bail who out of prison?
Answer: protesters
Question: Who's death caused this protest?
Answer: Freddie Gray
Question: How much bail money did they spend?
Answer: thousands of dollars |
Context: Many groups continued their hunter-gatherer ways of life, although their numbers have continually declined, partly as a result of pressure from growing agricultural and pastoral communities. Many of them reside in the developing world, either in arid regions or tropical forests. Areas that were formerly available to hunter-gatherers were—and continue to be—encroached upon by the settlements of agriculturalists. In the resulting competition for land use, hunter-gatherer societies either adopted these practices or moved to other areas. In addition, Jared Diamond has blamed a decline in the availability of wild foods, particularly animal resources. In North and South America, for example, most large mammal species had gone extinct by the end of the Pleistocene—according to Diamond, because of overexploitation by humans, although the overkill hypothesis he advocates is strongly contested.[by whom?]
Question: Where do many modern day hunter-gatherers live?
Answer: in the developing world
Question: In what type of climate do hunter-gatherers live?
Answer: arid regions or tropical forests
Question: What kind of human life-style is pushing hunter-gatherers out of their environment?
Answer: settlements of agriculturalists
Question: What has Jared Diamond blamed the decline of gatherers on?
Answer: availability of wild foods
Question: What type of food animal went extict by the end of the Pleistocene era?
Answer: large mammal species
Question: What groups have continually increased in numbers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: All large mammal species have gone extinct in what countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Because of overpopulation, most large mammal species have what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: All hunter-gatherer groups reside where?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Competition for land use results in which societies remaining where they are?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Computer software can often adjust clocks automatically, but policy changes by various jurisdictions of the dates and timings of DST may be confusing.
Question: What can be affected by DST that might disrupt plans for a vacation?
Answer: travel
Question: When the clock on your laptop adjusts to DST without you resetting the clock, what is controlling the change?
Answer: Computer software
Question: What do jurisdictions sometimes change that mixes up DST dates and times?
Answer: policy
Question: What important part of daily life might be disturbed because of DST changing what time you go to bed?
Answer: sleep patterns |
Context: The fighting within the town had become extremely intense, becoming a door to door battle of survival. Despite a never-ending attack of Prussian infantry, the soldiers of the 2nd Division kept to their positions. The people of the town of Wissembourg finally surrendered to the Germans. The French troops who did not surrender retreated westward, leaving behind 1,000 dead and wounded and another 1,000 prisoners and all of their remaining ammunition. The final attack by the Prussian troops also cost c. 1,000 casualties. The German cavalry then failed to pursue the French and lost touch with them. The attackers had an initial superiority of numbers, a broad deployment which made envelopment highly likely but the effectiveness of French Chassepot rifle-fire inflicted costly repulses on infantry attacks, until the French infantry had been extensively bombarded by the Prussian artillery.
Question: Which town's people surrendered to the Germans?
Answer: Wissembourg
Question: In which direction did the French troops who did not surrender head?
Answer: westward
Question: How many dead troops leave behind?
Answer: 1,000 dead
Question: How many prisoners did the French leave behind?
Answer: 1,000 prisoners
Question: What weapon once again increased the effectiveness of the infantry attacks?
Answer: French Chassepot |
Context: The city of Jerusalem is of special importance to Jews, Muslims and Christians as it is the home of sites that are pivotal to their religious beliefs, such as the Old City that incorporates the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Other locations of religious importance in Israel are Nazareth (holy in Christianity as the site of the Annunciation of Mary), Tiberias and Safed (two of the Four Holy Cities in Judaism), the White Mosque in Ramla (holy in Islam as the shrine of the prophet Saleh), and the Church of Saint George in Lod (holy in Christianity and Islam as the tomb of Saint George or Al Khidr). A number of other religious landmarks are located in the West Bank, among them Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, the birthplace of Jesus and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The administrative center of the Bahá'í Faith and the Shrine of the Báb are located at the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa; the leader of the faith is buried in Acre. Apart from maintenance staff, there is no Bahá'í community in Israel, although it is a destination for pilgrimages. Bahá'í staff in Israel do not teach their faith to Israelis following strict policy. A few miles south of the Bahá'í World Centre is the Middle East centre of the reformist Ahmadiyya movement. Its mixed neighbourhood of Jews and Ahmadi Arabs is the only one of its kind in the country.
Question: What incorporates the Western Wall and the Temple Mount?
Answer: Old City
Question: Where is Rachel's Tomb?
Answer: Bethlehem
Question: Who do not teach their faith to Israelis?
Answer: Bahá'í staff |
Context: The Bamar form an estimated 68% of the population. 10% of the population are Shan. The Kayin make up 7% of the population. The Rakhine people constitute 4% of the population. Overseas Chinese form approximately 3% of the population. Myanmar's ethnic minority groups prefer the term "ethnic nationality" over "ethnic minority" as the term "minority" furthers their sense of insecurity in the face of what is often described as "Burmanisation"—the proliferation and domination of the dominant Bamar culture over minority cultures.
Question: What is the largest percentage of the Burmese populace ?
Answer: Bamar form an estimated 68% of the population
Question: What is the smallest percentage of the Burmese populace ?
Answer: Overseas Chinese form approximately 3% of the population
Question: What is the preferential term for those in Burma that are not a part of the racial majority ?
Answer: ethnic nationality
Question: What does the term Burmanisation make people feel ?
Answer: the proliferation and domination of the dominant Bamar culture over minority cultures.
Question: What percentage of the population is of the Rakhine descendant line ?
Answer: Rakhine people constitute 4% of the population |
Context: In 1966, Shmuel Yosef Agnon shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with German Jewish author Nelly Sachs. Leading Israeli poets have been Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Alterman and Rachel Bluwstein. Internationally famous contemporary Israeli novelists include Amos Oz, Etgar Keret and David Grossman. The Israeli-Arab satirist Sayed Kashua (who writes in Hebrew) is also internationally known.[citation needed] Israel has also been the home of two leading Palestinian poets and writers: Emile Habibi, whose novel The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, and other writings, won him the Israel prize for Arabic literature; and Mahmoud Darwish, considered by many to be "the Palestinian national poet." Darwish was born and raised in northern Israel, but lived his adult life abroad after joining the Palestine Liberation Organization.[citation needed]
Question: Shmuel Yosef Agnon shared the Nobel Prize with who in 1966?
Answer: Nelly Sachs
Question: What Israel-Arab satirist is internationally known?
Answer: Sayed Kashua
Question: Who wrote the novel The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist?
Answer: Emile Habibi |
Context: The legal process to change the definition of the kilogram is already underway, but it had been decided that no final decision would be made before the next meeting of the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 2011. (For more detailed information, see kilogram definitions.) The Planck constant is a leading contender to form the basis of the new definition, although not the only one. Possible new definitions include "the mass of a body at rest whose equivalent energy equals the energy of photons whose frequencies sum to 7050135639273999999♠135639274×1042 Hz", or simply "the kilogram is defined so that the Planck constant equals 6966662606895999999♠6.62606896×10−34 J⋅s".
Question: Where would the decision to change the definition of the kilogram have occured at the earliest?
Answer: the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 2011
Question: Was the Planck constant the only option for redefining the kilogram?
Answer: The Planck constant is a leading contender to form the basis of the new definition, although not the only one
Question: The mass of a resting body with what energy would be equal to a kilogram?
Answer: 7050135639273999999♠135639274×1042 Hz
Question: A kilogram could be definined as having a Planck constant of what value?
Answer: 6966662606895999999♠6.62606896×10−34 J⋅s
Question: Where would the decision to change the definition of the kilometer have occured latest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only thing that can form the basis of the new definition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the legal process to change the definition of the kilogram end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What definition has never had anyone attempt to change it?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Due to geographical proximity of the Central American countries to the U.S. which has powerful military, economic, and political influences, there were several movements and proposals by the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries to annex some or all of the Central American republics (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras with the formerly British-ruled Bay Islands, Nicaragua, Panama which had the U.S.-ruled Canal Zone territory from 1903 to 1979, and formerly British Honduras or Belize since 1981). However, the U.S. never acted on these proposals from some U.S. politicians; some of which were never delivered or considered seriously. In 2001, El Salvador adopted the U.S. dollar as its currency, while Panama has used it for decades due to its ties to the Canal Zone.
Question: When did Panama have the US-ruled Canal Zone Territory?
Answer: from 1903 to 1979
Question: When did the British Honduras become Belize?
Answer: since 1981
Question: When did El Salvador adopt the US Dollar as its currency?
Answer: 2001
Question: When did the British have the US-ruled Canal Zone Territory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the United States Honduras become Belize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Panama adopt the US Dollar as its currency?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were proposals made to annex some or all of Panama with Britain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has used British currency for decades?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During this time, Atlantic City was under the mayoral reign of Edward L. Bader, known for his contributions to the construction, athletics and aviation of Atlantic City. Despite the opposition of many others, he purchased land that became the city's municipal airport and high school football stadium, both of which were later named Bader Field in his honor. He led the initiative, in 1923, to construct the Atlantic City High School at Albany and Atlantic Avenues. Bader, in November 1923, initiated a public referendum, during the general election, at which time residents approved the construction of a Convention Center. The city passed an ordinance approving a bond issue for $1.5 million to be used for the purchase of land for Convention Hall, now known as the Boardwalk Hall, finalized September 30, 1924. Bader was also a driving force behind the creation of the Miss America competition.
Question: During the 1920s, who was the mayor of Atlantic City?
Answer: Edward L. Bader
Question: What three contributions to Atlantic City was Edward L. Bader known for?
Answer: construction, athletics and aviation
Question: What year did Edward L. Bader lead the initiative to construct the Atlantic City High School?
Answer: 1923
Question: How much was the bond for that was to be used to purchase land for a Convention Center?
Answer: $1.5 million
Question: What year was Boardwalk Hall finished?
Answer: 1924 |
Context: At the Battle of Pulo Aura, which was probably the company's most notable naval victory, Nathaniel Dance, Commodore of a convoy of Indiamen and sailing aboard the Warley, led several Indiamen in a skirmish with a French squadron, driving them off. Some six years earlier, on 28 January 1797, five Indiamen, the Woodford, under Captain Charles Lennox, the Taunton-Castle, Captain Edward Studd, Canton, Captain Abel Vyvyan, and Boddam, Captain George Palmer, and Ocean, Captain John Christian Lochner, had encountered Admiral de Sercey and his squadron of frigates. On this occasion the Indiamen also succeeded in bluffing their way to safety, and without any shots even being fired. Lastly, on 15 June 1795, the General Goddard played a large role in the capture of seven Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena.
Question: What was the most notable naval victory EIC had?
Answer: Battle of Pulo Aura
Question: what general played the biggest role in the capture of the seven Dutch East Indiamen?
Answer: General Goddard
Question: Where were the 7 Dutch Easteast indiamen capture?
Answer: off St Helena
Question: In 1797 how did the Woodford get to safety without firing one bullet?
Answer: bluffing
Question: in 1797 who was the captian of the Woodford that is first listed of the 5 captians?
Answer: Captain Charles Lennox
Question: What was the only naval defeat EIC had?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What policeman played the largest role in the capture of the seven Dutch East Indiamen?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the 6 Dutch East Indiamen captured?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did the Indiamen get to safety by firing just one bullet in 1797?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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