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Context: Other researchers point out that finding a difference in disease prevalence between two socially defined groups does not necessarily imply genetic causation of the difference. They suggest that medical practices should maintain their focus on the individual rather than an individual's membership to any group. They argue that overemphasizing genetic contributions to health disparities carries various risks such as reinforcing stereotypes, promoting racism or ignoring the contribution of non-genetic factors to health disparities. International epidemiological data show that living conditions rather than race make the biggest difference in health outcomes even for diseases that have "race-specific" treatments. Some studies have found that patients are reluctant to accept racial categorization in medical practice.
Question: What does finding a difference in disease prevalence between two socially defined groups not necessarily imply?
Answer: genetic causation of the difference
Question: What do some research suggest medical practices should maintain their focus on?
Answer: the individual
Question: What is a risk of overemphasizing genetic contributions to health issues?
Answer: reinforcing stereotypes
Question: What is makes more of a difference than race in health outcomes for "race specific" diseases?
Answer: living conditions
Question: What have some studies found patients reluctant to accept in medical practice?
Answer: racial categorization |
Context: People of all ages attend, and many often move on to becoming imams.[citation needed] The certificate of an ʻālim, for example, requires approximately twelve years of study.[citation needed] A good number of the ḥuffāẓ (plural of ḥāfiẓ) are the product of the madaris. The madaris also resemble colleges, where people take evening classes and reside in dormitories. An important function of the madaris is to admit orphans and poor children in order to provide them with education and training. Madaris may enroll female students; however, they study separately from the men.[citation needed]
Question: What age groups are usually enrolled in madaris?
Answer: all ages
Question: How long does someone have to be enrolled in alim courses to earn a certificate or graduate?
Answer: approximately twelve years
Question: In what ways are madaris similar to western colleges?
Answer: people take evening classes and reside in dormitories
Question: Why do madaris extend enrollment to children of less fortunate circumstances?
Answer: provide them with education and training
Question: What is the format for co-education for women in madaris?
Answer: they study separately from the men
Question: What age groups are never enrolled in madaris?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long does someone have to be enrolled in alim courses before they can drop out?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what ways are madaris similar to eastern colleges?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do madaris extend enrollment to rich children?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the format for co-education for adults in madaris?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Van Praag states that the Ming court established diplomatic delegations with Tibet merely to secure urgently needed horses. Wang and Nyima argue that these were not diplomatic delegations at all, that Tibetan areas were ruled by the Ming since Tibetan leaders were granted positions as Ming officials, that horses were collected from Tibet as a mandatory "corvée" tax, and therefore Tibetans were "undertaking domestic affairs, not foreign diplomacy". Sperling writes that the Ming simultaneously bought horses in the Kham region while fighting Tibetan tribes in Amdo and receiving Tibetan embassies in Nanjing. He also argues that the embassies of Tibetan lamas visiting the Ming court were for the most part efforts to promote commercial transactions between the lamas' large, wealthy entourage and Ming Chinese merchants and officials. Kolmaš writes that while the Ming maintained a laissez-faire policy towards Tibet and limited the numbers of the Tibetan retinues, the Tibetans sought to maintain a tributary relationship with the Ming because imperial patronage provided them with wealth and power. Laird writes that Tibetans eagerly sought Ming court invitations since the gifts the Tibetans received for bringing tribute were much greater in value than the latter. As for the Yongle Emperor's gifts to his Tibetan and Nepalese vassals such as silver wares, Buddha relics, utensils for Buddhist temples and religious ceremonies, and gowns and robes for monks, Tsai writes "in his effort to draw neighboring states to the Ming orbit so that he could bask in glory, the Yongle Emperor was quite willing to pay a small price". The Information Office of the State Council of the PRC lists the Tibetan tribute items as oxen, horses, camels, sheep, fur products, medical herbs, Tibetan incenses, thangkas (painted scrolls), and handicrafts; while the Ming awarded Tibetan tribute-bearers an equal value of gold, silver, satin and brocade, bolts of cloth, grains, and tea leaves. Silk workshops during the Ming also catered specifically to the Tibetan market with silk clothes and furnishings featuring Tibetan Buddhist iconography.
Question: Why does Van Praag believe the Ming court set up a diplomatic delegation with Tibet?
Answer: to secure urgently needed horses
Question: What shops were catered to the Tibetan market?
Answer: Silk workshops
Question: What visual images and symbols were on furnishings from the silk workshops?
Answer: Tibetan Buddhist
Question: who were the Tibetan areas were ruled by?
Answer: the Ming
Question: Wang and Nyima believed horses were collected from Tibet as what kind of tax?
Answer: a mandatory "corvée" tax |
Context: Each republican magistrate held certain constitutional powers. Only the People of Rome (both plebeians and patricians) had the right to confer these powers on any individual magistrate. The most powerful constitutional power was imperium. Imperium was held by both consuls and praetors. Imperium gave a magistrate the authority to command a military force. All magistrates also had the power of coercion. This was used by magistrates to maintain public order. While in Rome, all citizens had a judgement against coercion. This protection was called provocatio (see below). Magistrates also had both the power and the duty to look for omens. This power would often be used to obstruct political opponents.
Question: Who had the right to grant powers to a magistrate?
Answer: People of Rome
Question: What is considered to be the most authoritative constitutional power?
Answer: imperium
Question: What did the constitutional power of imperium grant a magistrate?
Answer: authority to command a military force
Question: What would be one of the duties that a newly elected magistrate could expect to perform?
Answer: to look for omens
Question: What power was in possession of every single magistrate in Rome?
Answer: power of coercion |
Context: The San Diego Symphony at Symphony Towers performs on a regular basis and is directed by Jahja Ling. The San Diego Opera at Civic Center Plaza, directed by Ian Campbell, was ranked by Opera America as one of the top 10 opera companies in the United States. Old Globe Theatre at Balboa Park produces about 15 plays and musicals annually. The La Jolla Playhouse at UCSD is directed by Christopher Ashley. Both the Old Globe Theatre and the La Jolla Playhouse have produced the world premieres of plays and musicals that have gone on to win Tony Awards or nominations on Broadway. The Joan B. Kroc Theatre at Kroc Center's Performing Arts Center is a 600-seat state-of-the-art theatre that hosts music, dance, and theatre performances. The San Diego Repertory Theatre at the Lyceum Theatres in Horton Plaza produces a variety of plays and musicals. Hundreds of movies and a dozen TV shows have been filmed in San Diego, a tradition going back as far as 1898.
Question: Who is the director of the San Diego Symphony?
Answer: Jahja Ling
Question: Where can one enjoy a performance directed by Christopher Ashley?
Answer: La Jolla Playhouse at UCSD
Question: Which theater is known for hosting a variety of musicals and plays?
Answer: San Diego Repertory Theatre at the Lyceum Theatres
Question: How far back to San Diego's roots in the arts and theater sector go?
Answer: 1898
Question: What did Opera America call the San Diego Opera at the Civic Center Plaza?
Answer: one of the top 10 opera companies in the United States
Question: Who is the director of the San Francisco Symphony?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can one enjoy a performance acted by Christopher Ashley?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which theater is unknown for hosting a variety of musicals and plays?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far back to San Francisco's roots in the arts and theater sector go?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Opera America call the San Francisco Opera at the Civic Center Plaza?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With over 90 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in North Africa and the Arab World, the third-most populous in Africa (after Nigeria and Ethiopia), and the fifteenth-most populous in the world. The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 40,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large regions of the Sahara desert, which constitute most of Egypt's territory, are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
Question: How many inhabitants does Egypt have?
Answer: over 90 million
Question: What is the rank of Egypt popultaion among African nations?
Answer: third-most populous in Africa
Question: Majority of Egypt people live near what river?
Answer: Nile River
Question: What desert constitutes most of Egypt territory?
Answer: Sahara desert |
Context: A scientific study in the journal, Biological Conservation, states that trophy hunting is of "major importance to conservation in Africa by creating economic incentives for conservation over vast areas, including areas which may be unsuitable for alternative wildlife-based land uses such as photographic ecotourism." However, another study states that less than 3% of a trophy hunters' expenditures reach the local level, meaning that the economic incentive and benefit is "minimal, particularly when we consider the vast areas of land that hunting concessions occupy."
Question: What Continent did the biological Conservation state trophy hunting is of major importance to the conservation of?
Answer: Africa
Question: What does hunting create economic incentives for?
Answer: conservation
Question: What did another study show that less than 3% of reached the local level?
Answer: expenditures
Question: What type of studies does the Biological Conservation journal publish?
Answer: scientific
Question: Why is trophy hunting important to conservation in Africa?
Answer: creating economic incentives for conservation over vast areas
Question: Trophy hunting can include areas which would likely be unsuitable for what other types of ecotourism?
Answer: photographic
Question: How much of a trophy hunters' expenditures actually reach the local level, according to another study?
Answer: less than 3%
Question: What thus is the level of economic incentive and benefit?
Answer: minimal
Question: What is of major importance in Africa?
Answer: trophy hunting
Question: What does trophy hunting create in Africa?
Answer: economic incentives for conservation
Question: How much of trophy hunters expenditures actually reach the local level?
Answer: less than 3%
Question: What percentage of people read the journal Biological Conservation each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is photographic ecotourism of major importance to in Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does photographic ecotourism help preserve wildlife in Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group funded the Biological Conservation study?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did another study show that less than 3% of was used to mount trophies?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Catholicism arrived 400 years ago in the province and Protestantism 150 years ago. Zhejiang is one of the provinces of China with the largest concentrations of Protestants, especially notable in the city of Wenzhou. In 1999 Zhejiang's Protestant population comprised 2.8% of the provincial population, a small percentage but higher than the national average.
Question: How many years ago did Catholicism arrive in the province?
Answer: 400
Question: How many years ago did Protestantism arrive in the province?
Answer: 150
Question: Where are Protestants especially notable in Zhejiang?
Answer: Wenzhou
Question: What percent of Zhejiang was Protestant in 1999?
Answer: 2.8%
Question: Which religion came to Zhejiang 400 years ago?
Answer: Catholicism
Question: How many years ago did Catholicism leave the province?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many years ago did Protestantism leave in the province?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are Protestants not notable in Zhejiang?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of Zhejiang was Protestant in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which religion came to Zhejiang 500 years ago?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In spring 1987, a protest movement arose against new phosphate mines in Estonia. Signatures were collected in Tartu, and students assembled in the university's main hall to express lack of confidence in the government. At a demonstration on May 1, 1987, young people showed up with banners and slogans despite an official ban. On August 15, 1987, former political prisoners formed the MRP-AEG group (Estonians for the Public Disclosure of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), which was headed by Tiit Madisson. In September 1987, the Edasi newspaper published a proposal by Edgar Savisaar, Siim Kallas, Tiit Made, and Mikk Titma calling for Estonia's transition to autonomy. Initially geared toward economic independence, then toward a certain amount of political autonomy, the project, Isemajandav Eesti ("A Self-Managing Estonia") became known according to its Estonian acronym, IME, which means "miracle". On October 21, a demonstration dedicated to those who gave their lives in the 1918–1920 Estonian War of Independence took place in Võru, which culminated in a conflict with the militia. For the first time in years, the blue, black, and white national tricolor was publicly displayed.
Question: What was being protested in Estonia?
Answer: new phosphate mines
Question: When did the phosphate mine protests begin?
Answer: spring 1987
Question: What group was started by ex-political prisoners?
Answer: MRP-AEG group
Question: Who was in charge of the MRP-AEG group?
Answer: Tiit Madisson
Question: What was requested for Estonia in the proposal printed by the Edasi newspaper in 1987?
Answer: autonomy |
Context: Paper waste accounts for up to 40% of total waste produced in the United States each year, which adds up to 71.6 million tons of paper waste per year in the United States alone. The average office worker in the US prints 31 pages every day. Americans also use on the order of 16 billion paper cups per year.
Question: What percentage of total waste can be attributed to paper?
Answer: 40%
Question: How many millions of tons of paper are wasted in the US each year?
Answer: 71.6 million
Question: How many paper cups are used by Americans each year?
Answer: 16 billion
Question: How many pages are printed by the average office worker in the US each day?
Answer: 31
Question: How much percent of total waste does paper waste account for in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many tons of paper are wasted per year in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many pages of paper does the average worker in Europe print per day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many paper cups per year do Europeans use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what country does an average office worker print 71.6 million pages of paper every day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of total waste can not be attributed to paper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many hundreds of tons of paper are wasted in the US each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many paper bags are used by Americans each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many pages are printed by the average office worker in the UK each day?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Interspersed repeats mainly come from transposable elements (TEs), but they also include some protein coding gene families and pseudogenes. Transposable elements are able to integrate into the genome at another site within the cell. It is believed that TEs are an important driving force on genome evolution of higher eukaryotes. TEs can be classified into two categories, Class 1 (retrotransposons) and Class 2 (DNA transposons).
Question: What is the main source of interspersed repeats?
Answer: Transposable elements
Question: What do researchers think transposable elements are key factors in when considering higher eukaryotes?
Answer: genome evolution
Question: What are the constituents of Class 1 transposable elements?
Answer: retrotransposons
Question: What are the constituents of Class 2 transposable elements?
Answer: DNA transposons
Question: How are pseudogenes classified?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two categories are pseudogenes classified into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do cells mainly come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do cells also include?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are pseudogenes able to do within the cell?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Its services include RIBA Insight, RIBA Appointments, and RIBA Publishing. It publishes the RIBA Product Selector and RIBA Journal. In Newcastle is the NBS, the National Building Specification, which has 130 staff and deals with the building regulations and the Construction Information Service. RIBA Bookshops, which operates online and at 66 Portland Place, is also part of RIBA Enterprises.
Question: What are three divisions of RIBA Enterprises?
Answer: RIBA Insight, RIBA Appointments, and RIBA Publishing
Question: What are two publications produced by RIBA Publishing?
Answer: RIBA Product Selector and RIBA Journal
Question: What does NBS stand for?
Answer: National Building Specification
Question: How many people work for the NBS?
Answer: 130
Question: Where is the NBS located?
Answer: Newcastle
Question: What are three divisions not involved with RIBA Enterprises?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people support the NBS?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the NBS banned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are two publications avoided by RIBA Publishing?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After the Baltic states were forced to accept treaties, Stalin turned his sights on Finland, confident that Finnish capitulation could be attained without great effort. The Soviets demanded territories on the Karelian Isthmus, the islands of the Gulf of Finland and a military base near the Finnish capital Helsinki, which Finland rejected. The Soviets staged the shelling of Mainila and used it as a pretext to withdraw from the non-aggression pact. The Red Army attacked in November 1939. Simultaneously, Stalin set up a puppet government in the Finnish Democratic Republic.[clarification needed] The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled "Suite on Finnish Themes" to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki. After Finnish defenses surprisingly held out for over three months while inflicting stiff losses on Soviet forces, the Soviets settled for an interim peace. Finland ceded southeastern areas of Karelia (10% of Finnish territory), which resulted in approximately 422,000 Karelians (12% of Finland's population) losing their homes. Soviet official casualty counts in the war exceeded 200,000, although Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev later claimed the casualties may have been one million.
Question: The Soviets took over and setup a fake government in what country?
Answer: Finnish Democratic Republic
Question: How long did the Finnish military last during the invasion by the soviets?
Answer: over three months
Question: Although officially, the number of soviets wounded during the invasion of finland was around 200,000, who said the real numbers may have been closer to a million?
Answer: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
Question: How many Finnish people lost their homes?
Answer: 422,000
Question: The Soviets took over and setup a real government in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did the Finnish military last before the invasion by the soviets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long didn't the Finnish military last during the invasion by the soviets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Although unofficially, the number of soviets wounded during the invasion of finland was around 200,000, who said the real numbers may have been closer to a million?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Finnish people kept their homes?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following the death of Pope Pius XII on 9 October 1958, Roncalli watched the live funeral on his last full day in Venice on 11 October. His journal was specifically concerned with the funeral and the abused state of the late pontiff's corpse. Roncalli left Venice for the conclave in Rome well aware that he was papabile,[b] and after eleven ballots, was elected to succeed the late Pius XII, so it came as no surprise to him, though he had arrived at the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice.[citation needed]
Question: When did Pope Pius XII die?
Answer: 9 October 1958
Question: When was his last full day in Venice?
Answer: 11 October
Question: Why did Roncalli leave Venice?
Answer: for the conclave in Rome
Question: He was elected pope after how many ballots?
Answer: eleven ballots
Question: When did Roncalli die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pope Piux XII do on October 11?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Pope Pius XII concerned about so that he wrote it down?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When Pope Pius XII left Venice, where was he going?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many ballots did Pope Pius XII have when he was elected as Pope?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The expansion of mandolin use continued after World War II through the late 1960s, and Japan still maintains a strong classical music tradition using mandolins, with active orchestras and university music programs. New orchestras were founded and new orchestral compositions composed. Japanese mandolin orchestras today may consist of up to 40 or 50 members, and can include woodwind, percussion, and brass sections. Japan also maintains an extensive collection of 20th Century mandolin music from Europe and one of the most complete collections of mandolin magazines from mandolin's golden age, purchased by Morishige Takei.
Question: What country still maintains strong classic music tradition with mandolin?
Answer: Japan
Question: How many people compose the Japanese mandolin orchestras?
Answer: 40 or 50 members
Question: What other instruments do the Japanese madnolin orchestras play?
Answer: include woodwind, percussion, and brass sections.
Question: Japan hold and extensive collection of what?
Answer: 20th Century mandolin music from Europe and one of the most complete collections of mandolin magazines from mandolin's golden age
Question: Who purhcased one of the collections of mandolin magazines?
Answer: Morishige Takei.
Question: What country doesn't maintain strong classic music tradition with mandolin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people compose the Chinese mandolin orchestras?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other instruments do the Chinese mandolin orchestras play?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Japan doesn't hold an extensive collection of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who sold one of the collections of mandolin magazines?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the early 1980s, Downtown Manhattan's no wave scene transitioned from its abrasive origins into a more dance-oriented sound, with compilations such as ZE's Mutant Disco (1981) highlighting a newly playful sensibility borne out of the city's clash of hip hop, disco and punk styles, as well as dub reggae and world music influences. Artists such as Liquid Liquid, the B-52s, Cristina, Arthur Russell, James White and the Blacks and Lizzy Mercier Descloux pursued a formula described by Luc Sante as "anything at all + disco bottom". The decadent parties and art installations of venues such as Club 57 and the Mudd Club became cultural hubs for musicians and visual artists alike, with figures such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Michael Holman frequenting the scene. Other no wave-indebted groups such as Swans, Glenn Branca, the Lounge Lizards, Bush Tetras and Sonic Youth instead continued exploring the early scene's forays into noise and more abrasive territory.
Question: When did Manhattan's no wave scene start becoming more dance-oriented?
Answer: early 1980s
Question: What formula did a lot of the artists emerging from the scene adhere to?
Answer: "anything at all + disco bottom"
Question: What type of party could be found at venues like Club 57?
Answer: decadent
Question: Who did the venues because cultural hubs for?
Answer: musicians and visual artists alike
Question: What movement was the group the Lounge Lizards indebted to?
Answer: no wave
Question: What did Downtown Manhattan's no wave scene transition into?
Answer: dance-oriented sound
Question: What type of sound did no wave have before it began to transition to a more dance oriented sound?
Answer: abrasive
Question: When was ZE's Mutant Disco released?
Answer: 1981
Question: What clubs were frequented by artists in the emerging dance scene?
Answer: Club 57 and the Mudd Club
Question: When did the no wave scene decide not to transition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which venues avoided parties?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was rarely on the scene?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups were not influenced by no wave?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups enjoyed calm territory?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Because of Oklahoma's position between zones of differing prevailing temperature and winds, weather patterns within the state can vary widely over relatively short distances and can change drastically in a short time. As an example, on November 11, 1911, the temperature at Oklahoma City reached 83 °F (28 °C) in the afternoon (the record high for that date), then an Arctic cold front of unprecedented intensity slammed across the state, causing the temperature to crash 66 degrees, down to 17 °F (−8 °C) at midnight (the record low for that date); thus, both the record high and record low for November 11 were set on the same date. This type of phenomenon is also responsible for many of the tornadoes in the area, such as the 1912 Oklahoma tornado outbreak, when a warm front traveled along a stalled cold front, resulting in an average of about one tornado per hour over the course of a day.
Question: What is Oklahoma's record high temperature for Nov 11?
Answer: 83 °F
Question: What is Oklahoma's record low temperature for Nov 11?
Answer: 17 °F
Question: What caused Oklahoma's temperature to plummet 66 degrees on Nov 11, 1911?
Answer: an Arctic cold front
Question: How fast did the 1912 tornado outbreak make tornadoes?
Answer: one tornado per hour
Question: How long did the 1912 tornado outbreak last?
Answer: a day |
Context: The population of Paris today is lower than its historical peak of 2.9 million in 1921. The principal reasons were a significant decline in household size, and a dramatic migration of residents to the suburbs between 1962 and 1975. Factors in the migration included de-industrialisation, high rent, the gentrification of many inner quarters, the transformation of living space into offices, and greater affluence among working families. The city's population loss came to an end in the 21st century; the population estimate of July 2004 showed a population increase for the first time since 1954, and the population reached 2,234,000 by 2009.
Question: What is Paris' peak population?
Answer: 2.9 million
Question: When was Paris' population peak?
Answer: 1921
Question: What year was the first population increase since 1954?
Answer: 2004
Question: What was the population in 2009?
Answer: 2,234,000 |
Context: Improved aircraft designs were in the offing with the Bristol Beaufighter, then under development. It would prove formidable, but its development was slow. The Beaufighter had a maximum speed of 320 mph (510 km/h), an operational ceiling of 26,000 ft (7,900 m) and a climb rate of 2,500 ft (760 m) per minute. Its armament of four 20 mm (0.79 in) Hispano cannon and six .303 in Browning machine guns offered a serious threat to German bombers. On 19 November, John Cunningham of No. 604 Squadron RAF shot down a bomber flying an AI-equipped Beaufighter. It was the first air victory for the airborne radar.
Question: What was the max speed of a Beaufighter?
Answer: 320 mph (510 km/h)
Question: What is the operational ceiling of the Beaufighter?
Answer: 26,000 ft (7,900 m)
Question: how many machine guns did the Beaufighter include?
Answer: six .303 in Browning machine guns
Question: What day was the first victory the RAF had with airborne radar?
Answer: 19 November |
Context: Ahom Kingdom (1228–1826) was a kingdom and tribe which rose to prominence in present-day Assam early in the thirteenth century. They ruled much of Assam from the 13th century until the establishment of British rule in 1838. The Ahoms brought with them a tribal religion and a language of their own, however they later merged with the Hindu religion. From thirteenth till seventeenth century, repeated attempts were made by the Muslim rulers of Delhi to invade and subdue Ahoms, however the Ahoms managed to maintain their independence and ruled themselves for nearly 600 years.
Question: What kingdom came to power in Assam?
Answer: Ahom Kingdom
Question: What was the span of time fro the Ahom Kingdom?
Answer: 1228–1826
Question: What event caused the end of Ahom rule in Assam?
Answer: British rule
Question: With what religion did the Ahom merge?
Answer: Hindu
Question: What group repeatedly tried and failed to conquer the Ahom?
Answer: Muslim rulers of Delhi |
Context: In 1926 Joseph P. Maxwell and Henry C. Harrison from Bell Telephone Laboratories disclosed that the recording pattern of the Western Electric "rubber line" magnetic disc cutter had a constant velocity characteristic. This meant that as frequency increased in the treble, recording amplitude decreased. Conversely, in the bass as frequency decreased, recording amplitude increased. Therefore, it was necessary to attenuate the bass frequencies below about 250 Hz, the bass turnover point, in the amplified microphone signal fed to the recording head. Otherwise, bass modulation became excessive and overcutting took place into the next record groove. When played back electrically with a magnetic pickup having a smooth response in the bass region, a complementary boost in amplitude at the bass turnover point was necessary. G. H. Miller in 1934 reported that when complementary boost at the turnover point was used in radio broadcasts of records, the reproduction was more realistic and many of the musical instruments stood out in their true form.
Question: Whom found that they can make musical instruments sound more natural with an amplifier boost at the turnover point?
Answer: G. H. Miller
Question: What is found when a complementary boost is used at the bass turnover point?
Answer: reproduction was more realistic
Question: When frequency in the treble increases what happens to the recording amplitude?
Answer: recording amplitude decreased
Question: What happens when frequency decreases in the bass?
Answer: recording amplitude increased |
Context: Winners receive the FA Cup trophy, of which there have been two designs and five actual cups; the latest is a 2014 replica of the second design, introduced in 1911. Winners also qualify for European football and a place in the FA Community Shield match. Arsenal are the current holders, having beaten Aston Villa 4–0 in the 2015 final to win the cup for the second year in a row. It was their 12th FA Cup title overall, making Arsenal the FA Cup's most successful club ahead of Manchester United on 11.
Question: What do winners receive?
Answer: the FA Cup trophy
Question: How many FA cup designs have there been?
Answer: two
Question: How many FA cups have there been?
Answer: five actual cups
Question: When was the latest design intoduced?
Answer: 2014 replica of the second design, introduced in 1911
Question: What do the losers receive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the earliest design introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the least successful club?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Arsenal's score against Manchester United in the 2015 final?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many FA Cup Trophy replicas have been made?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the 1772 First Partition of Poland, the Prussian king Frederick the Great annexed neighboring Royal Prussia, i.e. the Polish voivodeships of Pomerania (Gdańsk Pomerania or Pomerelia), Malbork, Chełmno and the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, thereby bridging the "Polish Corridor" between his Prussian and Farther Pomeranian lands and cutting remaining Poland off the Baltic Coast. The territory of Warmia was incorporated into the lands of former Ducal Prussia, which, by administrative deed of 31 January 1773 were named East Prussia. The former Polish Pomerelian lands beyond the Vistula River together with Malbork and Chełmno Land formed the Province of West Prussia with its capital at Marienwerder (Kwidzyn). The Polish Partition Sejm ratified the cession on 30 September 1773, whereafter Frederick officially went on to call himself a King "of" Prussia.
Question: In what year was Royal Prussia annexed?
Answer: 1772
Question: In what year was the territory of Warmia incorporated?
Answer: 31 January 1773
Question: What was ratified in 1773 in Prussia?
Answer: The Polish Partition Sejm
Question: In what year was Marienwerder founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the capital of Royal Prussia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was capital of Poland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the king of Poland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Ducal Prussia cease to exist?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Kathmandu is home to a number of museums and art galleries, including the National Museum of Nepal and the Natural History Museum of Nepal. Nepal's art and architecture is an amalgamation of two ancient religions, Hinduism and Buddhhism. These are amply reflected in the many temples, shrines, stupas, monasteries, and palaces in the seven well-defined Monument Zones of the Kathmandu valley are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This amalgamation is also reflected in the planning and exhibitions in museums and art galleries throughout Kathmandu and its sister cities of Patan and Bhaktapur. The museums display unique artifacts and paintings from the 5th century CE to the present day, including archeological exportation.
Question: Along with the National Museum of Nepal, what notable Nepalese museum is present in Kathmandu?
Answer: Natural History Museum of Nepal
Question: From what time period are the oldest artifacts in Kathmandu museums?
Answer: 5th century
Question: Along with Buddhism, what religion has had a significant influence on Nepal?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: What Kathmandu valley area was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
Answer: Monument Zones
Question: How many Monument Zones are present in the Kathmandu valley?
Answer: seven |
Context: Work is undertaken from an early age by vast numbers of children in the world and may have a natural place in growing up. Work can contribute to the well-being of children in a variety of ways; children often choose to work to improve their lives, both in the short- and long-term. At the material level, children’s work often contributes to producing food or earning income that benefits themselves and their families; and such income is especially important when the families are poor. Work can provide an escape from debilitating poverty, sometimes by allowing a young person to move away from an impoverished environment. Young people often enjoy their work, especially paid work, or when work involves the company of peers. Even when work is intensive and enforced, children often find ways to combine their work with play.
Question: What is a natural process of child development?
Answer: Work
Question: What is an escape for the young that live in poverty?
Answer: Work
Question: What are children able to do during intense work situations?
Answer: children often find ways to combine their work with play |
Context: Rocket-propelled grenades can be—and often are—used against hovering helicopters (e.g., by Somali militiamen during the Battle of Mogadishu (1993)). Firing an RPG at steep angles poses a danger to the user, because the backblast from firing reflects off the ground. In Somalia, militia members sometimes welded a steel plate in the exhaust end of an RPG's tube to deflect pressure away from the shooter when shooting up at US helicopters. RPGs are used in this role only when more effective weapons are not available.
Question: What type of weapon can be used against hovering helicopters?
Answer: Rocket-propelled grenades
Question: When an RPG is fired at a steep angle, who is in danger?
Answer: the user
Question: An RPG fired at a steep angle has what reflecting off the ground?
Answer: the backblast
Question: What did some militia members in Somalia weld in the exhaust of the RPG tube to protect the shooter?
Answer: a steel plate
Question: What were the Somalian militia members firing RPGs at?
Answer: US helicopters |
Context: Daniel L. Magruder, Jr defines USAF culture as a combination of the rigorous application of advanced technology, individualism and progressive airpower theory. Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. adds that the U.S. Air Force's culture also includes an egalitarianism bred from officers perceiving themselves as their service's principal "warriors" working with small groups of enlisted airmen either as the service crew or the onboard crew of their aircraft. Air Force officers have never felt they needed the formal social "distance" from their enlisted force that is common in the other U.S. armed services. Although the paradigm is changing, for most of its history, the Air Force, completely unlike its sister services, has been an organization in which mostly its officers fought, not its enlisted force, the latter being primarily a rear echelon support force. When the enlisted force did go into harm's way, such as members of multi-crewed aircraft, the close comradeship of shared risk in tight quarters created traditions that shaped a somewhat different kind of officer/enlisted relationship than exists elsewhere in the military.
Question: What author wrote about the US Air Force egalitarian culture?
Answer: Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
Question: How does the US Air Force differ from other branches of the military?
Answer: an organization in which mostly its officers fought
Question: How have the enlisted forces of the US Air Force been seen?
Answer: primarily a rear echelon support force |
Context: Wound colonization refers to nonreplicating microorganisms within the wound, while in infected wounds, replicating organisms exist and tissue is injured. All multicellular organisms are colonized to some degree by extrinsic organisms, and the vast majority of these exist in either a mutualistic or commensal relationship with the host. An example of the former is the anaerobic bacteria species, which colonizes the mammalian colon, and an example of the latter is various species of staphylococcus that exist on human skin. Neither of these colonizations are considered infections. The difference between an infection and a colonization is often only a matter of circumstance. Non-pathogenic organisms can become pathogenic given specific conditions, and even the most virulent organism requires certain circumstances to cause a compromising infection. Some colonizing bacteria, such as Corynebacteria sp. and viridans streptococci, prevent the adhesion and colonization of pathogenic bacteria and thus have a symbiotic relationship with the host, preventing infection and speeding wound healing.
Question: What does wound colonization refer to?
Answer: nonreplicating microorganisms within the wound
Question: What type of organisms exist and injure tissue in infected wounds?
Answer: replicating
Question: What are all multcellular organisms colonized to some degree by?
Answer: extrinsic organisms
Question: What species colonizes the mammalian colon?
Answer: anaerobic bacteria
Question: What's the difference between an infection and a colonization?
Answer: only a matter of circumstance
Question: What does wound colonization mean to avoid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are few multicellular organisms colonized to some degree by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of organisms tickle and heal tissue in infected wounds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's the only similarity between an infection and a colonization?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What rodent colonizes the mammalian colon?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: As with the minerals discussed above, some vitamins are recognized as organic essential nutrients, necessary in the diet for good health. (Vitamin D is the exception: it can be synthesized in the skin, in the presence of UVB radiation.) Certain vitamin-like compounds that are recommended in the diet, such as carnitine, are thought useful for survival and health, but these are not "essential" dietary nutrients because the human body has some capacity to produce them from other compounds. Moreover, thousands of different phytochemicals have recently been discovered in food (particularly in fresh vegetables), which may have desirable properties including antioxidant activity (see below); however, experimental demonstration has been suggestive but inconclusive. Other essential nutrients that are not classified as vitamins include essential amino acids (see above), choline, essential fatty acids (see above), and the minerals discussed in the preceding section.
Question: Which vitamin can be synthesized in the skin?
Answer: Vitamin D
Question: What is required for vitamin D to be synthesized?
Answer: UVB radiation
Question: What is an example of a vitamin - like compound that is not considered an essential dietary nutrient?
Answer: carnitine
Question: What has recently been discovered in the thousands, especially from examining fresh vegetables?
Answer: phytochemicals
Question: What is choline not an example of?
Answer: vitamins |
Context: Caesar became consul in 59 BC. His colleague, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, was an extreme aristocrat. Caesar submitted the laws that he had promised Pompey to the assemblies. Bibulus attempted to obstruct the enactment of these laws, and so Caesar used violent means to ensure their passage. Caesar was then made governor of three provinces. He facilitated the election of the former patrician Publius Clodius Pulcher to the tribunate for 58 BC. Clodius set about depriving Caesar's senatorial enemies of two of their more obstinate leaders in Cato and Cicero. Clodius was a bitter opponent of Cicero because Cicero had testified against him in a sacrilege case. Clodius attempted to try Cicero for executing citizens without a trial during the Catiline conspiracy, resulting in Cicero going into self-imposed exile and his house in Rome being burnt down. Clodius also passed a bill that forced Cato to lead the invasion of Cyprus which would keep him away from Rome for some years. Clodius also passed a law to expand the previous partial grain subsidy to a fully free grain dole for citizens.
Question: Who had tried to prevent the enactment of the laws that Caesar had proposed?
Answer: Bibulus
Question: What type of case saw Cicero testify against Clodius?
Answer: sacrilege case
Question: Who enacted a law that would increase the partial grain subsidy?
Answer: Clodius
Question: Which individual lost his home to a fire?
Answer: Cicero
Question: Who was elected to the tribunate in 58 BC?
Answer: Publius Clodius Pulcher |
Context: During the Middle Ages, the Eastern Roman Empire survived, though modern historians refer to this state as the Byzantine Empire. In Western Europe, Germanic peoples moved into positions of power in the remnants of the former Western Roman Empire and established kingdoms and empires of their own.
Question: What is the Eastern Roman Empire in the Middle Ages called by contemporary scholars?
Answer: the Byzantine Empire
Question: Who took over the remains of the Western Roman Empire?
Answer: Germanic peoples
Question: What did Germanic people create in place of the Western Roman Empire?
Answer: kingdoms and empires of their own
Question: What is the Western Roman Empire in the Middle ages called by contemporary scholars?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who took over the remains of the Eastern Roman Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Roman people create in place of the Western Roman Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Empire was located in Western Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What empire doubled in size during the middle ages?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Axons transmit signals to other neurons by means of specialized junctions called synapses. A single axon may make as many as several thousand synaptic connections with other cells. When an action potential, traveling along an axon, arrives at a synapse, it causes a chemical called a neurotransmitter to be released. The neurotransmitter binds to receptor molecules in the membrane of the target cell.
Question: Axons send signals to other neurons by junctions known as what?
Answer: synapses
Question: The neurotansmitter binds to what of a target cell?
Answer: receptor molecules
Question: An axon can connect to how many other cells?
Answer: several thousand |
Context: Phytogeographically, Greece belongs to the Boreal Kingdom and is shared between the East Mediterranean province of the Mediterranean Region and the Illyrian province of the Circumboreal Region. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature and the European Environment Agency, the territory of Greece can be subdivided into six ecoregions: the Illyrian deciduous forests, Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rhodope montane mixed forests, Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests and Crete Mediterranean forests.
Question: Greece's plant distribution belongs to what?
Answer: the Boreal Kingdom
Question: How many ecoregions occupies Greece?
Answer: six
Question: The Pindus and Balkan ecoregions are known as what?
Answer: mixed forests
Question: The Crete ecoregion is known as what?
Answer: Mediterranean forests
Question: The Illyrian ecoregion is known as what?
Answer: deciduous forests |
Context: The Premier League is broadcast in the United States through NBC Sports. Premier League viewership has increased rapidly, with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season, up 118% from 2012–13 when coverage still aired on Fox Soccer and ESPN/ESPN2 (220,000 viewers), and NBC Sports has been widely praised for its coverage. NBC Sports reached a six-year extension with the Premier League in 2015 to broadcast the league through the 2021–22 season in a deal valued at $1 billion (£640 million).
Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in the United States?
Answer: The Premier League is broadcast in the United States through NBC Sports.
Question: What was the average viewership in the United States during the 2014-15 season?
Answer: with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season
Question: How many years did NBC Sports receive an extension for with the Premier League in 2015?
Answer: NBC Sports reached a six-year extension with the Premier League in 2015
Question: What was the value of this extension?
Answer: in a deal valued at $1 billion (£640 million).
Question: When will this extension end?
Answer: through the 2021–22 season
Question: Which American broadcaster shows the Premier League currently?
Answer: NBC Sports
Question: By what percentage has viewership in the US risen from 2012 to 2015?
Answer: 118%
Question: How many viewers on average watched the Premier League 2014-15 season in the US?
Answer: 479,000
Question: In which year did NBC Sports secure an extension of six years with the Premier League?
Answer: 2015
Question: How much was the NBC broadcasting deal with the Premier League worth in 2015?
Answer: $1 billion
Question: Through which channel is the Fox Sports league broadcast in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Fox Sports and the Premier League come to a six year extension?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much was the seven year deal between NBC Sports and the Premier League valued at?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which country is the Premier League broadcast through ESPN Sports?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For how many years was the extension between ESPN and Fox Soccer?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the last years of the nineteenth century, Planck was investigating the problem of black-body radiation first posed by Kirchhoff some forty years earlier. It is well known that hot objects glow, and that hotter objects glow brighter than cooler ones. The electromagnetic field obeys laws of motion similarly to a mass on a spring, and can come to thermal equilibrium with hot atoms. The hot object in equilibrium with light absorbs just as much light as it emits. If the object is black, meaning it absorbs all the light that hits it, then its thermal light emission is maximized.
Question: What was Planck studying in the last part of the nineteenth century?
Answer: the problem of black-body radiation
Question: Who posed the problem of black-body radiation?
Answer: Kirchhoff
Question: Cooler objects glow less than objects that are what?
Answer: hotter
Question: What does a black object do to any of the light that hits it?
Answer: it absorbs all the light
Question: What is maximized as a result of a black object absorbing all the light that hits it?
Answer: thermal light emission
Question: Planck studied what problem posed originally by Kirchhoff?
Answer: black-body radiation
Question: If an object is black, what is known about its thermal light emission?
Answer: its thermal light emission is maximized.
Question: What is known about the light absorption of a hot object in equilibrium with light?
Answer: absorbs just as much light as it emits
Question: Electromagnetic fields obey what laws?
Answer: laws of motion
Question: What type of radiation was Planck studying in the late 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many years prior to Planck's study had the scientific community first avoided black body radiation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What scientist never studied black body radiation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is required for the electromagnetic field to come to thermal differences?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a hot object in equilibrium reflect as much as it emits?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Democrats gained a majority in both houses in the 1954 election. Eisenhower had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (later U.S. president) in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both from Texas. Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1955, wrote that Eisenhower "never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill. There were exceptions, Leonard W. Hall, for example, who as chairman of the Republican National Committee tried to open the administration's eyes to the political facts of life, with occasional success. However, these exceptions were not enough to right the balance."
Question: Who won a Senate majority in 1954?
Answer: Democrats
Question: After the 1954 election, who was the Speaker of the House?
Answer: Sam Rayburn
Question: Who was made Senate Majority Leader after the 1954 election?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson
Question: What state were Johnson and Rayburn from?
Answer: Texas
Question: Who was Speaker of the House between 1953 and 1955?
Answer: Joe Martin |
Context: In 1916, he entered the seminary to become a Roman Catholic priest. He was ordained priest on 29 May 1920 in Brescia and celebrated his first Holy Mass in Brescia in the Basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Montini concluded his studies in Milan with a doctorate in Canon Law in the same year. Afterwards he studied at the Gregorian University, the University of Rome La Sapienza and, at the request of Giuseppe Pizzardo at the Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici. At the age of twenty-five, again at the request of Giuseppe Pizzardo, Montini entered the Secretariat of State in 1922, where he worked under Pizzardo together with Francesco Borgongini-Duca, Alfredo Ottaviani, Carlo Grano, Domenico Tardini and Francis Spellman. Consequently, he spent not a day as a parish priest. In 1925 he helped found the publishing house Morcelliana in Brescia, focused on promoting a 'Christian inspired culture'.
Question: In what year did Montini enter the Catholic seminary to become a priest?
Answer: 1916
Question: In what field did Montini obtain a doctorate in?
Answer: Canon Law
Question: In what city did Montini finish his doctoral studies?
Answer: Milan
Question: At what age did Montini enter the Secretariat of state?
Answer: twenty-five
Question: Where did Montini continue to study at the request of Giuseppe Pizzardo?
Answer: Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici |
Context: The ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Empire survived the movements and invasions in the west mostly intact, but the papacy was little regarded, and few of the western bishops looked to the bishop of Rome for religious or political leadership. Many of the popes prior to 750 were more concerned with Byzantine affairs and eastern theological controversies. The register, or archived copies of the letters, of Pope Gregory the Great (pope 590–604) survived, and of those more than 850 letters, the vast majority were concerned with affairs in Italy or Constantinople. The only part of Western Europe where the papacy had influence was Britain, where Gregory had sent the Gregorian mission in 597 to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Irish missionaries were most active in Western Europe between the 5th and the 7th centuries, going first to England and Scotland and then on to the continent. Under such monks as Columba (d. 597) and Columbanus (d. 615), they founded monasteries, taught in Latin and Greek, and authored secular and religious works.
Question: When did Gregory the Great become pope?
Answer: 590
Question: About how many of Gregory's letters were concerned with Constantinople or Italy?
Answer: 850
Question: In what region of Western Europe did the pope have influence?
Answer: Britain
Question: When did the Gregorian mission travel to Britain?
Answer: 597
Question: When did Columbanus die?
Answer: 615 |
Context: Since 2009, the Tucson Festival of Books has been held annually over a two-day period in March at the University of Arizona. By 2010 it had become the fourth largest book festival in the United States, with 450 authors and 80,000 attendees. In addition to readings and lectures, it features a science fair, varied entertainment, food, and exhibitors ranging from local retailers and publishers to regional and national nonprofit organizations. In 2011, the Festival began presenting a Founder's Award; recipients include Elmore Leonard and R.L. Stine.
Question: When did the Tucson Festival of Books begin?
Answer: 2009
Question: When is the Tucson Festival of Books held?
Answer: a two-day period in March
Question: How many people came to the Tucson Festival of Books in 2010?
Answer: 80,000
Question: What award did the Tucson Festival of Books give to R. L. Stine?
Answer: Founder's Award |
Context: The Constitution provides that "a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time". That provision of the Constitution is made specific by Section 331 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The sums of money reported in the "Statements" are currently being expressed in U.S. dollars (for example, see the 2009 Financial Report of the United States Government). The U.S. dollar may therefore be described as the unit of account of the United States.
Question: What dictates that a receipt for expenditures of all public money must be published?
Answer: The Constitution
Question: Which section specifically states that receipts for public money must be published?
Answer: Section 331
Question: Which currency are the sums of money in the "Statements" displayed in?
Answer: U.S. dollars
Question: What is the unit of account of the United States?
Answer: U.S. dollar
Question: What dictates that a receipt for expenditures of all public codes must be published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which section specifically states that receipts for provisions must be published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which currency are the sums of provisions in the "Statements" displayed in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the unit of report provisions of the United States?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What shall not be published?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Between 2005 and 2006, Queen + Paul Rodgers embarked on a world tour, which was the first time Queen toured since their last tour with Freddie Mercury in 1986. The band's drummer Roger Taylor commented; "We never thought we would tour again, Paul [Rodgers] came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry. Paul is just such a great singer. He's not trying to be Freddie." The first leg was in Europe, the second in Japan, and the third in the US in 2006. Queen received the inaugural VH1 Rock Honors at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 25 May 2006. The Foo Fighters paid homage to the band in performing "Tie Your Mother Down" to open the ceremony before being joined on stage by May, Taylor, and Paul Rodgers, who played a selection of Queen hits.
Question: Between what years did Queen and Paul Rodgers first embark on a world tour?
Answer: Between 2005 and 2006
Question: Where was the first leg of Queen's mid 2000s tour with Paul Rodgers?
Answer: Europe
Question: What is the name of Queen's drummer?
Answer: Roger Taylor
Question: Where did Queen receive the inaugural VH1 Rock Honors?
Answer: Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas |
Context: Tito's visits to the United States avoided most of the Northeast due to large minorities of Yugoslav emigrants bitter about communism in Yugoslavia. Security for the state visits was usually high to keep him away from protesters, who would frequently burn the Yugoslav flag. During a visit to the United Nations in the late 1970s emigrants shouted "Tito murderer" outside his New York hotel, for which he protested to United States authorities.
Question: What flag did protesters of Tito often burn?
Answer: Yugoslav
Question: What did protesters scream during Tito's visit to the United Nations in the late 1970's?
Answer: Tito murderer
Question: Which authorities fielded complaints from TIto about protesters?
Answer: United States authorities.
Question: What American state did Tito visit when he saw the U.N.?
Answer: New York
Question: Security for Tito's visit was unusually high to keep Tito away from what individuals?
Answer: protesters |
Context: Other important criteria throughout history are that great powers should have enough influence to be included in discussions of political and diplomatic questions of the day, and have influence on the final outcome and resolution. Historically, when major political questions were addressed, several great powers met to discuss them. Before the era of groups like the United Nations, participants of such meetings were not officially named, but were decided based on their great power status. These were conferences which settled important questions based on major historical events. This might mean deciding the political resolution of various geographical and nationalist claims following a major conflict, or other contexts.
Question: What discussion should great powers be included on?
Answer: political and diplomatic questions of the day
Question: Historically, when would great powers meet?
Answer: when major political questions were addressed
Question: What types of decisions would great powers reach?
Answer: political resolution of various geographical and nationalist claims following a major conflict, or other contexts
Question: What criteria should groups like the UN have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the past when would officially named participants meet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of something United Nations did to settle an issue?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What should geographical and nationalist claims have influence on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did criteria throughout history settle?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Similarly, the federal constitutional initiative allows citizens to put a constitutional amendment to a national vote, if 100,000 voters sign the proposed amendment within 18 months.[note 8] Parliament can supplement the proposed amendment with a counter-proposal, and then voters must indicate a preference on the ballot in case both proposals are accepted. Constitutional amendments, whether introduced by initiative or in Parliament, must be accepted by a double majority of the national popular vote and the cantonal popular votes.[note 9]
Question: How many voters are needed to put a constitutional amendment to a national vote?
Answer: 100,000
Question: How long do citizens have to collect enough votes for a national vote on a constitutional amendment?
Answer: 18 months
Question: What can Parliament supplement the amendment proposed by the citizens with?
Answer: a counter-proposal
Question: What must voters do on the ballot when Parliament adds a supplement?
Answer: indicate a preference
Question: How much of the national popular vote and the cantonal popular vote is needed to pass a constitutional amendment?
Answer: a double majority |
Context: After Napoleon imposed the Convention of Artlenburg (Convention of the Elbe) on July 5, 1803, about 30,000 French soldiers occupied Hanover. The Convention also required disbanding the army of Hanover. However, George III did not recognize the Convention of the Elbe. This resulted in a great number of soldiers from Hanover eventually emigrating to Great Britain, where the King's German Legion was formed. It was the only German army to fight against France throughout the entire Napoleonic wars. The Legion later played an important role in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 elevated the electorate to the Kingdom of Hanover. The capital town Hanover expanded to the western bank of the Leine and since then has grown considerably.
Question: Who imposed the Convention of Artlenburg?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: How many French soldiers occupied Hanover?
Answer: 30,000
Question: Where did many soldiers from Hanover emigrate to?
Answer: Great Britain
Question: What did the soldiers who emigrated form?
Answer: King's German Legion
Question: Who elevated Hanover to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1815?
Answer: The Congress of Vienna
Question: What convention did Napoleon suggest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many soldiers from Hanover occupied France?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did many of Hanover soldiers immigrate from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first German army to fight against France during the Napoleonic wars
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who elevated Hanover to a kingdom in 1850?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Estonian language planners such as Ado Grenzstein (a journalist active in Estonia in the 1870s–90s) tried to use formation ex nihilo, Urschöpfung; i.e. they created new words out of nothing.
Question: Who was the journalist who was also a language planner?
Answer: Ado Grenzstein
Question: In what years did Ado Grenzstein do journalism work in Estonia?
Answer: 1870s–90s
Question: What is another term for making up words from nothing?
Answer: formation ex nihilo
Question: Who in the course of their language planning attempted to use the formation ex nihilo technique?
Answer: Ado Grenzstein
Question: Who was the journalist refused to be a language planner?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what years did Ado Grenzstein do journalism work in Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Ado Grenzstein born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Ado Grenzstein die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the word for creating new words out of old words?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the reign of Mithridates I of Parthia, Arsacid control expanded to include Herat (in 167 BC), Babylonia (in 144 BC), Media (in 141 BC), Persia (in 139 BC), and large parts of Syria (in the 110s BC). The Seleucid–Parthian wars continued as the Seleucids invaded Mesopotamia under Antiochus VII Sidetes (r. 138–129 BC), but he was eventually killed by a Parthian counterattack. After the fall of the Seleucid dynasty, the Parthians fought frequently against neighbouring Rome in the Roman–Parthian Wars (66 BC – 217 AD). Abundant traces of Hellenism continued under the Parthian empire. The Parthians used Greek as well as their own Parthian language (though lesser than Greek) as languages of administration and also used Greek drachmas as coinage. They enjoyed Greek theater and Greek art influenced Parthian art. The Parthians continued worhipping Greek gods syncretized together with Iranian deities. Their rulers established ruler cults in the manner of Hellenistic kings and often used Hellenistic royal epithets.
Question: The Seleucids invaded Mesopotamia under whose guidance?
Answer: Antiochus VII Sidetes
Question: Who was Antiochus VII Sidetes killed by which army?
Answer: Parthian
Question: What years were the Roman–Parthian Wars?
Answer: 66 BC – 217 AD
Question: What was the currency in the Parthian Empire?
Answer: Greek drachmas
Question: The Parthian Empire worshipped Greek Gods and what other cultures deities?
Answer: Iranian |
Context: In 1955, DC Sinclair and G Weddell developed peripheral pattern theory, based on a 1934 suggestion by John Paul Nafe. They proposed that all skin fiber endings (with the exception of those innervating hair cells) are identical, and that pain is produced by intense stimulation of these fibers. Another 20th-century theory was gate control theory, introduced by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall in the 1965 Science article "Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory". The authors proposed that both thin (pain) and large diameter (touch, pressure, vibration) nerve fibers carry information from the site of injury to two destinations in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, and that the more large fiber activity relative to thin fiber activity at the inhibitory cell, the less pain is felt. Both peripheral pattern theory and gate control theory have been superseded by more modern theories of pain[citation needed].
Question: What year was peripheral pattern theory developed?
Answer: 1955
Question: Whose suggestion prompted the development of peripheral pattern theory?
Answer: John Paul Nafe
Question: What did DC Sinclair and G Weddell propose a property of all skin fiber endings is?
Answer: identical
Question: What does the gate control theory specify the diameter of which is responsible for the amount of pain sensation?
Answer: nerve fibers
Question: Why were peripheral pattern theory and gate control theory left behind?
Answer: superseded by more modern theories of pain
Question: What did DC Sinclair develop in 1934?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did DC Weddell and G Sinclair develop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the 1934 peripheral pattern theory based on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What article was introduced in 1956?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Ronald Wall and Patrick Melzack introduce?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The primary objective of the European Central Bank, as laid down in Article 127(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, is to maintain price stability within the Eurozone. The Governing Council in October 1998 defined price stability as inflation of under 2%, “a year-on-year increase in the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) for the euro area of below 2%” and added that price stability ”was to be maintained over the medium term”. (Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices) Unlike for example the United States Federal Reserve Bank, the ECB has only one primary objective but this objective has never been defined in statutory law, and the HICP target can be termed ad-hoc.
Question: What is price stability defined as?
Answer: inflation of under 2%
Question: What did the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices state that price stability had to be maintained at?
Answer: over the medium term
Question: When did the Governing Council define price stability?
Answer: October 1998
Question: What is the primary goal of the ECB?
Answer: maintain price stability within the Eurozone
Question: Where is the primary mission of the European Central Bank listed?
Answer: Article 127(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Question: What is price stability incorrectly defined as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices state that price stability had to be decreased from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Governing Council forbid price stability?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the third goal of the ECB?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the secondary mission of the European Central Bank banned?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Like other newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, Armenia's economy suffers from the breakdown of former Soviet trading patterns. Soviet investment in and support of Armenian industry has virtually disappeared, so that few major enterprises are still able to function. In addition, the effects of the 1988 Spitak earthquake, which killed more than 25,000 people and made 500,000 homeless, are still being felt. The conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh has not been resolved. The closure of Azerbaijani and Turkish borders has devastated the economy, because Armenia depends on outside supplies of energy and most raw materials. Land routes through Georgia and Iran are inadequate or unreliable. The GDP fell nearly 60% between 1989 and 1993, but then resumed robust growth. The national currency, the dram, suffered hyperinflation for the first years after its introduction in 1993.
Question: How many people died because of the Spitak earthquake?
Answer: more than 25,000
Question: When was the Spitak earthquake?
Answer: 1988
Question: How much did the Armenian GDP decrease from 1989-1993
Answer: 60%
Question: What is the national currency of Armenia?
Answer: the dram |
Context: The Fujiwara controlled the throne until the reign of Emperor Go-Sanjō (1068-1073), the first emperor not born of a Fujiwara mother since the ninth century. Go-Sanjo, determined to restore imperial control through strong personal rule, implemented reforms to curb Fujiwara influence. He also established an office to compile and validate estate records with the aim of reasserting central control. Many shōen were not properly certified, and large landholders, like the Fujiwara, felt threatened with the loss of their lands. Go-Sanjo also established the In-no-cho (ja:院庁 Office of the Cloistered Emperor), which was held by a succession of emperors who abdicated to devote themselves to behind-the-scenes governance, or insei.
Question: Who was the first non-Fujiwara emperor since the ninth century?
Answer: Go-Sanjō
Question: Who implemented reforms to reduce the Fujiwara's influence on government?
Answer: Go-Sanjō
Question: What term was used for behind the scenes governance?
Answer: insei
Question: Who was the last emperor born to a Fujiwara mother?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's influence grew under Go-Sanjo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Fjiware try to compile and validate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who felt threatened by the Fujiware attempt to validate estate records?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What office did the emperor rule through?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1203, Dominic joined Prior Diego de Acebo on an embassy to Denmark for the monarchy of Spain, to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark. At that time the south of France was the stronghold of the Cathar or Albigensian heresy, named after the Duke of Albi, a Cathar sympathiser and opponent to the subsequent Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229). Dominic was fired by a reforming zeal after they encountered Albigensian Christians at Toulouse.
Question: With whom did Dominic travel with to Denmark?
Answer: Prior Diego de Acebo
Question: Who requested that Dominic travel to Denmark?
Answer: monarchy of Spain
Question: In 1203, what area was a stronghold of the Cathar?
Answer: south of France
Question: During what time period did the Albigensian Crusade occur?
Answer: 1209–1229
Question: Why did Dominic travel to Denmark in 1203?
Answer: to arrange the marriage between the son of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and a niece of King Valdemar II of Denmark |
Context: Nick Fradiani won the season, defeating Clark Beckham. By winning, Fradiani became the first winner from the Northeast region. Fradiani released "Beautiful Life" as his coronation single while Beckham released "Champion". Jax, the third place finalist, also released a single called "Forcefield".
Question: Who won American Idols fourteenth season?
Answer: Nick Fradiani
Question: Who came in second on American Idol in season 14?
Answer: Clark Beckham
Question: Who came in third on American Idol in season 14?
Answer: Jax
Question: What was the name of Nick Fradianis victory song?
Answer: Beautiful Life
Question: What song did Jax release after coming in third on American Idol?
Answer: Forcefield
Question: Who won this season of Idol?
Answer: Nick Fradiani
Question: Who was the runner up of Idol?
Answer: Clark Beckham
Question: What was Nick's coronation song?
Answer: Beautiful Life
Question: What was Beckham's first release?
Answer: Champion
Question: Which contestant came in third place?
Answer: Jax |
Context: For most of the Soviet Union's existence, it was commonly referred to as "Russia," even though technically "Russia" was only one republic within the larger union—albeit by far the largest, most powerful and most highly developed.
Question: What was the common name of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Russia
Question: Technically, what type of state was Russia?
Answer: republic
Question: What was the largest republic in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Russia
Question: What was the uncommon name of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Technically, what type of state wasn't Russia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the smallest republic in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which republic was the least developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which republic was the least powerful?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Traditional English ale was made solely from fermented malt. The practice of adding hops to produce beer was introduced from the Netherlands in the early 15th century. Alehouses would each brew their own distinctive ale, but independent breweries began to appear in the late 17th century. By the end of the century almost all beer was brewed by commercial breweries.
Question: What was the one ingredient of traditional English ale?
Answer: fermented malt
Question: What country pioneered the introduction of hops for beer production?
Answer: the Netherlands
Question: In what century was the process of using hops to produce beer introduced to England?
Answer: 15th
Question: In what century did the first independent breweries appear in England?
Answer: 17th
Question: What businesses were the dominant brewers of beer in England by the close of the 17th century?
Answer: commercial breweries |
Context: With the defeat of Marshal Bazaine's Army of the Rhine at Gravelotte, the French were forced to retire to Metz, where they were besieged by over 150,000 Prussian troops of the First and Second Armies. Napoleon III and MacMahon formed the new French Army of Châlons, to march on to Metz to rescue Bazaine. Napoleon III personally led the army with Marshal MacMahon in attendance. The Army of Châlons marched northeast towards the Belgian border to avoid the Prussians before striking south to link up with Bazaine. The Prussians, under the command of Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke, took advantage of this maneuver to catch the French in a pincer grip. He left the Prussian First and Second Armies besieging Metz, except three corps detached to form the Army of the Meuse under the Crown Prince of Saxony. With this army and the Prussian Third Army, Moltke marched northward and caught up with the French at Beaumont on 30 August. After a sharp fight in which they lost 5,000 men and 40 cannons, the French withdrew toward Sedan. Having reformed in the town, the Army of Châlons was immediately isolated by the converging Prussian armies. Napoleon III ordered the army to break out of the encirclement immediately. With MacMahon wounded on the previous day, General Auguste Ducrot took command of the French troops in the field.
Question: What factor forced the French to retreat to Metz?
Answer: the defeat of Marshal Bazaine's Army
Question: At Metz, what was the approximate number of Prussian troops?
Answer: over 150,000
Question: Who formed the new French Army of Chalons?
Answer: Napoleon III and MacMahon
Question: Along with the Army of the Meuse, what other army did Moltke march north with?
Answer: the Prussian Third Army
Question: How many casualties did Moltke suffer at Beaumont?
Answer: 5,000 men |
Context: In some fields Hellenistic culture thrived, particularly in its preservation of the past. The states of the Hellenistic period were deeply fixated with the past and its seemingly lost glories. The preservation of many classical and archaic works of art and literature (including the works of the three great classical tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) are due to the efforts of the Hellenistic Greeks. The museum and library of Alexandria was the center of this conservationist activity. With the support of royal stipends, Alexandrian scholars collected, translated, copied, classified and critiqued every book they could find. Most of the great literary figures of the Hellenistic period studied at Alexandria and conducted research there. They were scholar poets, writing not only poetry but treatises on Homer and other archaic and classical Greek literature.
Question: Who is most responsible for the preservation of Hellenistic culture?
Answer: Hellenistic Greeks
Question: What museum and ilbrary was the center of Hellenistic culture conservation?
Answer: Alexandria
Question: Where did most of the great literary figures of the Hellenistic period study?
Answer: Alexandria |
Context: Usually, a federation is formed at two levels: the central government and the regions (states, provinces, territories), and little to nothing is said about second or third level administrative political entities. Brazil is an exception, because the 1988 Constitution included the municipalities as autonomous political entities making the federation tripartite, encompassing the Union, the States, and the municipalities. Each state is divided into municipalities (municípios) with their own legislative council (câmara de vereadores) and a mayor (prefeito), which are partly autonomous from both Federal and State Government. Each municipality has a "little constitution", called "organic law" (lei orgânica). Mexico is an intermediate case, in that municipalities are granted full-autonomy by the federal constitution and their existence as autonomous entities (municipio libre, "free municipality") is established by the federal government and cannot be revoked by the states' constitutions. Moreover, the federal constitution determines which powers and competencies belong exclusively to the municipalities and not to the constituent states. However, municipalities do not have an elected legislative assembly.
Question: When is a federation formed?
Answer: two levels
Question: What two levels equal a federation?
Answer: the central government and the regions
Question: Why is Brazil an exception?
Answer: because the 1988 Constitution included the municipalities as autonomous political entities making the federation tripartite
Question: What is each state divided into?
Answer: municipalities
Question: What does each state have their own of?
Answer: with their own legislative council (câmara de vereadores) and a mayor (prefeito
Question: When is a federation dissolved?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two levels don't equal a federation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is Brazil not an exception?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is each city divided into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What doesn't each state have their own of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At the 2012 census, 59.5% of jobs in the Paris Region were in market services (12.0% in wholesale and retail trade, 9.7% in professional, scientific, and technical services, 6.5% in information and communication, 6.5% in transportation and warehousing, 5.9% in finance and insurance, 5.8% in administrative and support services, 4.6% in accommodation and food services, and 8.5% in various other market services), 26.9% in non-market services (10.4% in human health and social work activities, 9.6% in public administration and defence, and 6.9% in education), 8.2% in manufacturing and utilities (6.6% in manufacturing and 1.5% in utilities), 5.2% in construction, and 0.2% in agriculture.
Question: What percentage of jobs were market services in 2012?
Answer: 59.5
Question: What industry had the lowest percentage of jobs in Paris of 2012?
Answer: agriculture
Question: What percentage of people worked in agriculture?
Answer: 0.2
Question: What percentage of people worked in finance and insurance?
Answer: 5.9 |
Context: John treated the interdict as "the equivalent of a papal declaration of war". He responded by attempting to punish Innocent personally and to drive a wedge between those English clergy that might support him and those allying themselves firmly with the authorities in Rome. John seized the lands of those clergy unwilling to conduct services, as well as those estates linked to Innocent himself; he arrested the illicit concubines that many clerics kept during the period, only releasing them after the payment of fines; he seized the lands of members of the church who had fled England, and he promised protection for those clergy willing to remain loyal to him. In many cases, individual institutions were able to negotiate terms for managing their own properties and keeping the produce of their estates. By 1209 the situation showed no signs of resolution, and Innocent threatened to excommunicate John if he did not acquiesce to Langton's appointment. When this threat failed, Innocent excommunicated the king in November 1209. Although theoretically a significant blow to John's legitimacy, this did not appear to greatly worry the king. Two of John's close allies, Emperor Otto IV and Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, had already suffered the same punishment themselves, and the significance of excommunication had been somewhat devalued. John simply tightened his existing measures and accrued significant sums from the income of vacant sees and abbeys: one 1213 estimate, for example, suggested the church had lost an estimated 100,000 marks (equivalent to £66,666 at the time) to John. Official figures suggest that around 14% of annual income from the English church was being appropriated by John each year.
Question: John treated the interdict as what?
Answer: the equivalent of a papal declaration of war
Question: John seized the lands of who?
Answer: those clergy unwilling to conduct services
Question: When did Innocent excommunicate the king?
Answer: November 1209
Question: How many marks did the church lose?
Answer: 100,000 |
Context: The Tibetan Empire emerged in the 7th century, but with the fall of the empire the region soon divided into a variety of territories. The bulk of western and central Tibet (Ü-Tsang) was often at least nominally unified under a series of Tibetan governments in Lhasa, Shigatse, or nearby locations; these governments were at various times under Mongol and Chinese overlordship. The eastern regions of Kham and Amdo often maintained a more decentralized indigenous political structure, being divided among a number of small principalities and tribal groups, while also often falling more directly under Chinese rule after the Battle of Chamdo; most of this area was eventually incorporated into the Chinese provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai. The current borders of Tibet were generally established in the 18th century.
Question: When were the current borders of Tibet established?
Answer: 18th century
Question: When did the Tibetan empire emerge?
Answer: 7th century
Question: Which Chinese provinces used to be the eastern part of Tibet?
Answer: Sichuan and Qinghai
Question: Which battle left parts of Tibet under Chinese rule?
Answer: Battle of Chamdo
Question: What empire emerged in the 18th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What central regions maintained a more decentralized indigenous political structure?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After what battle did Tibet fall under Mongol leadership?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What current feature was established in the 7th century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Many writers compare their perceptions of To Kill a Mockingbird as adults with when they first read it as children. Mary McDonagh Murphy interviewed celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Rosanne Cash, Tom Brokaw, and Harper's sister Alice Lee, who read the novel and compiled their impressions of it as children and adults into a book titled Scout, Atticus, and Boo.
Question: Public figure's impressions of the novel were formed into a book called what?
Answer: Scout, Atticus, and Boo
Question: Who was Harper Lee's sister?
Answer: Alice Lee
Question: What book compiled Adults' impressions and their impressions as children about the novel?
Answer: Scout, Atticus, and Boo |
Context: A special tribute to Simon Cowell was presented in the finale for his final season with the show. Many figures from the show's past, including Paula Abdul, made an appearance.
Question: Who had their final season in the show in season nine?
Answer: Simon Cowell
Question: Why did Paula Abdul appear on the season nine finale of American Idol?
Answer: tribute to Simon Cowell
Question: Who had a special tribute at the finale?
Answer: Simon Cowell
Question: Which former Idol star made an appearance for Cowell's tribute?
Answer: Paula Abdul |
Context: Oklahoma City is on the I-35 Corridor and is one of the primary travel corridors into neighboring Texas and Mexico. Located in the Frontier Country region of the state, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889, and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. The city was the scene of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died. It was the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United States until the attacks of September 11, 2001, and remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Question: What corridor is Oklahoma City situated in?
Answer: I-35 Corridor
Question: When was the city founded?
Answer: 1889
Question: When was the Oklahoma City bombing?
Answer: 1995
Question: What was the name of the building involved in the bombing?
Answer: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building |
Context: No archaeological evidence that indicates a settlement on the site of today′s city centre prior to the 12th century has been found so far. In antiquity, a Celtic oppidum stood on the Engehalbinsel (peninsula) north of Bern, fortified since the 2nd century BC (late La Tène period), thought to be one of the twelve oppida of the Helvetii mentioned by Caesar. During the Roman era, there was a Gallo-Roman vicus on the same site. The Bern zinc tablet has the name Brenodor ("dwelling of Breno"). In the Early Middle Ages, there was a settlement in Bümpliz, now a city district of Bern, some 4 km (2 mi) from the medieval city.
Question: When was the earliest evidnce of settlement in the city centre?
Answer: 12th century
Question: What era was there a Gallo-Roman vicus on the same site?
Answer: Roman era
Question: What is the name of the Bern zinc tablet?
Answer: Brenodor
Question: When was the settlement in Bumpliz close to the medieval city?
Answer: Early Middle Ages |
Context: At this point, Fox whispered that there was "no loss of friendship". "I regret to say there is", Burke replied, "I have indeed made a great sacrifice; I have done my duty though I have lost my friend. There is something in the detested French constitution that envenoms every thing it touches". This provoked a reply from Fox, yet he was unable to give his speech for some time since he was overcome with tears and emotion, he appealed to Burke to remember their inalienable friendship, but also repeated his criticisms of Burke and uttered "unusually bitter sarcasms". This only aggravated the rupture between the two men. Burke demonstrated his separation from the party on 5 June 1791 by writing to Fitzwilliam, declining money from him.
Question: When did Burke leave the Whig party?
Answer: 5 June 1791
Question: Who did Burke turn down money from?
Answer: Fitzwilliam
Question: What did Burke say 'envenoms everything it touches'?
Answer: French constitution
Question: Who thought that Fox and Burke could still be friends?
Answer: Fox
Question: Who thought that Fox and Burke's friendship was lost?
Answer: Burke
Question: Who declined taking money from Burke?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Burke leave the party?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who kept their friend at the cost of their duty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Fox say about the French constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who overcame his emotions in order to finish his speech?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Overall, however, Whitehead's influence is very difficult to characterize. In English-speaking countries, his primary works are little-studied outside of Claremont and a select number of liberal graduate-level theology and philosophy programs. Outside of these circles his influence is relatively small and diffuse, and has tended to come chiefly through the work of his students and admirers rather than Whitehead himself. For instance, Whitehead was a teacher and long-time friend and collaborator of Bertrand Russell, and he also taught and supervised the dissertation of Willard Van Orman Quine, both of whom are important figures in analytic philosophy – the dominant strain of philosophy in English-speaking countries in the 20th century. Whitehead has also had high-profile admirers in the continental tradition, such as French post-structuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who once dryly remarked of Whitehead that "he stands provisionally as the last great Anglo-American philosopher before Wittgenstein's disciples spread their misty confusion, sufficiency, and terror." French sociologist and anthropologist Bruno Latour even went so far as to call Whitehead "the greatest philosopher of the 20th century."
Question: Where are Whitehead's works primarily studied in English-speaking countries?
Answer: Claremont and a select number of liberal graduate-level theology and philosophy programs
Question: Where has interest outside of those areas mainly come from?
Answer: through the work of his students and admirers rather
Question: Who are two of Whitehead's students that have gone on to become renowned in the field of analytic philosophy?
Answer: Bertrand Russell, and he also taught and supervised the dissertation of Willard Van Orman Quine
Question: What did Gilles Deleuze say about Whitehead?
Answer: "he stands provisionally as the last great Anglo-American philosopher before Wittgenstein's disciples spread their misty confusion, sufficiency, and terror."
Question: What French sociologist and anthropologist stated that Whitehead was "the greatest philosopher of the 20th century"?
Answer: Bruno Latour
Question: Where are Whitehead's works was not primarily studied in English-speaking countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where has no interest outside of those areas mainly come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who are two of Whitehead's students that have not gone on to become renowned in the field of analytic philosophy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Gilles Deleuze hate about Whitehead?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Japanese (Famicom) cartridges are shaped slightly differently. While the NES used a 72-pin interface, the Famicom system used a 60-pin design. Unlike NES games, official Famicom cartridges were produced in many colors of plastic. Adapters, similar in design to the popular accessory Game Genie, are available that allow Famicom games to be played on an NES. In Japan, several companies manufactured the cartridges for the Famicom. This allowed these companies to develop their own customized chips designed for specific purposes, such as chips that increased the quality of sound in their games.
Question: Which cartridges were shaped slightly differently?
Answer: Japanese (Famicom)
Question: Which interface did the NES use?
Answer: 72-pin
Question: Which interface did Famicom use?
Answer: 60-pin
Question: Various companies in Japan did what to their games for certain specifics?
Answer: develop their own customized chips
Question: Which cartridges weren't shaped slightly differently?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which interface did the SNES use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which interface did Famicom not use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Various companies in China did what to their games for certain specifics?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Rome, state cult to a living emperor acknowledged his rule as divinely approved and constitutional. As princeps (first citizen) he must respect traditional Republican mores; given virtually monarchic powers, he must restrain them. He was not a living divus but father of his country (pater patriae), its pontifex maximus (greatest priest) and at least notionally, its leading Republican. When he died, his ascent to heaven, or his descent to join the dii manes was decided by a vote in the Senate. As a divus, he could receive much the same honours as any other state deity – libations of wine, garlands, incense, hymns and sacrificial oxen at games and festivals. What he did in return for these favours is unknown, but literary hints and the later adoption of divus as a title for Christian Saints suggest him as a heavenly intercessor. In Rome, official cult to a living emperor was directed to his genius; a small number refused this honour and there is no evidence of any emperor receiving more than that. In the crises leading up to the Dominate, Imperial titles and honours multiplied, reaching a peak under Diocletian. Emperors before him had attempted to guarantee traditional cults as the core of Roman identity and well-being; refusal of cult undermined the state and was treasonous.
Question: What was the emperor's rule in Rome?
Answer: divinely approved
Question: As first citizen, what must the emperor's mores represent?
Answer: traditional
Question: As a living divus, what was the emperor to Rome?
Answer: father of his country
Question: After his death, how was the emperor's afterlife decided?
Answer: vote in the Senate
Question: What did emperors before Diocletian try to guarantee in religion?
Answer: traditional cults |
Context: The situation in Switzerland and Liechtenstein is different from the rest of the German-speaking countries. The Swiss German dialects are the default everyday language in virtually every situation, whereas standard German is seldom spoken. Some Swiss German speakers perceive standard German to be a foreign language.
Question: What dialect of German is spoken in Switzerland?
Answer: Swiss German
Question: What dialect of German is rarely heard in Switzerland?
Answer: standard German
Question: Aside from Switzerland, what country speaks a dialect related to Swiss German?
Answer: Liechtenstein
Question: In which country is there a situation identical to the rest of the German speaking countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is seldom spoken where German is used as a default everyday language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which language do some standard German speakers perceive to be foreign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Swiss German dialect is rarely spoken in which two countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which two countries is standard German used everyday?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Muslim population of the region consisted mainly of native Iberian converts to Islam (the so-called Muwallad or Muladi) and to a lesser extent Berbers and Arabs. The Arabs were principally noblemen from Oman; and though few in numbers, they constituted the elite of the population. The Berbers were originally from the Atlas mountains and Rif mountains of North Africa and were essentially nomads. In Portugal, the Muslim population (or "Moors"), relatively small in numbers, stayed in the Algarve region, and south of the Tagus. Today, there are approximately 800 words in the Portuguese language of Arabic origin. The Muslims were expelled from Portugal 300 years earlier than in neighbouring Spain, which is reflected both in Portuguese culture and the language, which is mostly Celtiberian and Vulgar Latin.
Question: What are converts to Islam called?
Answer: Muwallad or Muladi
Question: Who did the Arabs principally consist of?
Answer: noblemen from Oman
Question: Where were the Berbers originally from?
Answer: Atlas mountains and Rif mountains of North Africa
Question: In which region of Portugal did the Muslim population stay?
Answer: Algarve region, and south of the Tagus
Question: How many modern Portugese words have Arabic origins?
Answer: 800 |
Context: Despite repeated efforts by the Tajik government to improve and expand health care, the system remains extremely underdeveloped and poor, with severe shortages of medical supplies. The state's Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare reported that 104,272 disabled people are registered in Tajikistan (2000). This group of people suffers most from poverty in Tajikistan. The government of Tajikistan and the World Bank considered activities to support this part of the population described in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Public expenditure on health was at 1% of the GDP in 2004.
Question: What is wrong with the health care system in Tajikistan?
Answer: , the system remains extremely underdeveloped and poor, with severe shortages of medical supplies
Question: How many disabled people are registered in Tajikistan?
Answer: 104,272
Question: What percent of the GDP was spent on health?
Answer: 1%
Question: What was the name of the paper that the World Bank and Tajikistan came up with?
Answer: World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
Question: What system is very developed and rich?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many disabled people are unregistered in Tajikistan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group suffers the least from poverty in Tajikistan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A shortage of office supplies exists in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of the GDP was spent on health in 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: However, as stealth technology grows, so does anti-stealth technology. Multiple transmitter radars such as those from bistatic radars and low-frequency radars are said to have the capabilities to detect stealth aircraft. Advanced forms of thermographic cameras such as those that incorporate QWIPs would be able to optically see a Stealth aircraft regardless of the aircraft's RCS. In addition, Side looking radars, High-powered optical satellites, and sky-scanning, high-aperture, high sensitivity radars such as radio telescopes, would all be able to narrow down the location of a stealth aircraft under certain parameters. The newest SAM's have a claimed ability to be able to detect and engage stealth targets, with the most notable being the S-400, which is claimed to be able to detect a target with a 0.05 meter squared RCS from 90 km away.
Question: What continues to grow along with stealth technology?
Answer: anti-stealth technology
Question: What can detect stealth aircraft?
Answer: Multiple transmitter radars
Question: What can see stealth aircraft even with RCS?
Answer: Advanced forms of thermographic cameras
Question: What is the most notable SAM that can detect a stealth target?
Answer: the S-400
Question: How far away can the S-400 detect a target?
Answer: 90 km away |
Context: The concept of a gene continues to be refined as new phenomena are discovered. For example, regulatory regions of a gene can be far removed from its coding regions, and coding regions can be split into several exons. Some viruses store their genome in RNA instead of DNA and some gene products are functional non-coding RNAs. Therefore, a broad, modern working definition of a gene is any discrete locus of heritable, genomic sequence which affect an organism's traits by being expressed as a functional product or by regulation of gene expression.
Question: What can regulatory regions of a gene be far removed from?
Answer: its coding regions
Question: What can coding regions be split into?
Answer: several exons
Question: What do some viruses store their genome in instead of DNA?
Answer: RNA
Question: What are some gene products?
Answer: functional non-coding RNAs
Question: What is a broad, modern working definition of a gene?
Answer: any discrete locus of heritable, genomic sequence which affect an organism's traits by being expressed as a functional product |
Context: Martin Luther, a German monk, started the German Reformation by posting 95 theses on the castle church of Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. The immediate provocation spurring this act was Pope Leo X’s renewal of the indulgence for the building of the new St. Peter's Basilica in 1514. Luther was challenged to recant his heresy at the Diet of Worms in 1521. When he refused, he was placed under the ban of the Empire by Charles V. Receiving the protection of Frederick the Wise, he was then able to translate the Bible into German.
Question: Into what language did Martin Luther translate the Bible?
Answer: German
Question: What did Martin Luther post on the castle church of Wittenberg?
Answer: 95 theses
Question: In what year did Martin Luther post his 95 theses?
Answer: 1517
Question: What was Martin Luther's response when challenged to recant his heresy?
Answer: he refused
Question: Who acted as protector to Martin Luther when he was under the ban of the Empire?
Answer: Frederick the Wise
Question: Into what language didn't Martin Luther translate the Bible?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What didn't Martin Luther post on the castle church of Wittenberg?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Martin Luther post his 59 theses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasn't Martin Luther's response when challenged to recant his heresy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who acted as protector to Martin Luther when he wasn't under the ban of the Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Brazilian federal constitution does not have a supremacy clause with the same effects as the one on the U.S. constitution, a fact that is of interest to the discussion on the relation between treaties and state legislation.
Question: What kind of clause does the United States constitution have that the Brazilian constitution does not have with the same effects?
Answer: supremacy clause
Question: A supremacy clause in a federal constitution is relevant to the discussion on the relation between treaties and what other type of legislation?
Answer: state legislation
Question: What clause of the United States Constitution is relevant to the discussion of the relation between treaties and U.S. legislation?
Answer: supremacy clause
Question: The Brazilian constitution does not have a supremacy clause that would be of interest to the relation between state legislation and what other legal agreements?
Answer: treaties |
Context: Charleston's oldest community theater group, the Footlight Players, has provided theatrical productions since 1931. A variety of performing arts venues includes the historic Dock Street Theatre. The annual Charleston Fashion Week held each spring in Marion Square brings in designers, journalists, and clients from across the nation. Charleston is known for its local seafood, which plays a key role in the city's renowned cuisine, comprising staple dishes such as gumbo, she-crab soup, fried oysters, Lowcountry boil, deviled crab cakes, red rice, and shrimp and grits. Rice is the staple in many dishes, reflecting the rice culture of the Low Country. The cuisine in Charleston is also strongly influenced by British and French elements.
Question: What is Charleston's oldest community theater group?
Answer: the Footlight Players
Question: The Footlight Players started creating theatrical productions in what year?
Answer: 1931
Question: Where is the annual Charleston Fashion week held?
Answer: Marion Square
Question: Charleston is known for what type of food?
Answer: seafood
Question: Charleston cuisine is influenced by what two cultures?
Answer: British and French
Question: What is Charleston's newest community theater group?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Footlight Players stopped creating theatrical productions in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the annual Charleston Fashion month held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Charleston is unknown for what type of food?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Charleston cuisine is uninfluenced by what two cultures?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Changes to DST rules cause problems in existing computer installations. For example, the 2007 change to DST rules in North America required many computer systems to be upgraded, with the greatest impact on email and calendaring programs; the upgrades consumed a significant effort by corporate information technologists.
Question: What can cause issues with installed computer systems?
Answer: Changes to DST rules
Question: What year did DST rules change in North America?
Answer: 2007
Question: What did many existing computer systems that relied on time zones need because of the DST rule changes?
Answer: upgrades
Question: In addition to calendaring programs, what kind of programs were most impacted by the changes?
Answer: email
Question: Which professionals bore the brunt of the effort to upgrade systems affected by time changes?
Answer: corporate information technologists |
Context: The pointed arch, one of the defining attributes of Gothic, was earlier incorporated into Islamic architecture following the Islamic conquests of Roman Syria and the Sassanid Empire in the Seventh Century. The pointed arch and its precursors had been employed in Late Roman and Sassanian architecture; within the Roman context, evidenced in early church building in Syria and occasional secular structures, like the Roman Karamagara Bridge; in Sassanid architecture, in the parabolic and pointed arches employed in palace and sacred construction.
Question: What is one defining characteristic of the Gothic architectural style?
Answer: The pointed arch
Question: Which type of architecture first used the pointed arch during the seventh century?
Answer: Islamic architecture
Question: What other type of architecture also made use of the pointed arch?
Answer: Sassanian architecture
Question: The Roman Karamagara Bridge is an example of what type of structure?
Answer: secular structures
Question: Parabolic and pointed arches were used in what type of constrcution?
Answer: palace and sacred construction
Question: What is the only defining characteristic of the Gothic architectural style?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which type of architecture first used the pointed arch during the fifth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other type of architecture also made use of the curved arch?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of construction involved many twisted arches?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although initially the Germans were welcomed by most Estonians as liberators from the USSR and its oppressions, and hopes were raised for the restoration of the country's independence, it was soon realised that the Nazis were but another occupying power. The Germans used Estonia's resources for their war effort; for the duration of the occupation Estonia was incorporated into the German province of Ostland. The Germans and their collaborators also carried out The Holocaust in Estonia in which they established a network of concentration camps and murdered thousands of Estonian Jews and Estonian Gypsies, other Estonians, non-Estonian Jews, and Soviet prisoners of war.
Question: What did the majority of Estonians view the Germans as?
Answer: liberators
Question: Who was in control of Estonia before the Germans?
Answer: the USSR
Question: What did Estonia hope to restore after the removal of the USSR?
Answer: the country's independence
Question: What did Germany take from Estonia for their war strategy?
Answer: Estonia's resources |
Context: During the turbulent reign of Wang Mang, Han lost control over the Tarim Basin, which was conquered by the Northern Xiongnu in AD 63 and used as a base to invade Han's Hexi Corridor in Gansu. Dou Gu (d. 88 AD) defeated the Northern Xiongnu at the Battle of Yiwulu in AD 73, evicting them from Turpan and chasing them as far as Lake Barkol before establishing a garrison at Hami. After the new Protector General of the Western Regions Chen Mu (d. AD 75) was killed by allies of the Xiongnu in Karasahr and Kucha, the garrison at Hami was withdrawn. At the Battle of Ikh Bayan in AD 89, Dou Xian (d. AD 92) defeated the Northern Xiongnu chanyu who then retreated into the Altai Mountains. After the Northern Xiongnu fled into the Ili River valley in AD 91, the nomadic Xianbei occupied the area from the borders of the Buyeo Kingdom in Manchuria to the Ili River of the Wusun people. The Xianbei reached their apogee under Tanshihuai (檀石槐) (d. AD 180), who consistently defeated Chinese armies. However, Tanshihuai's confederation disintegrated after his death.
Question: Which Basin did the Han lose authority of?
Answer: Tarim
Question: When did Chen Mu die?
Answer: AD 75
Question: Where did the Northern Xiongnu flee to in AD 91?
Answer: Ili River valley
Question: Who was the Protector General of the Western Regions?
Answer: Chen Mu
Question: Who conquered the Tarim Basin in AD 63?
Answer: the Northern Xiongnu |
Context: Council estates are in the Weston, Thornhill and Townhill Park districts. The city is ranked 96th most deprived out of all 354 Local Authorities in England.
Question: How many Local Authorities are there in England?
Answer: 354
Question: In addition to the Thornhill and Townhill Park districts, what other district has a council estate?
Answer: Weston
Question: What's Southampton's ranking on the list of most deprived Local Authorities in England?
Answer: 96th |
Context: Comcast Corporation, formerly registered as Comcast Holdings,[note 1] is an American multinational mass media company and is the largest broadcasting and largest cable company in the world by revenue. It is the second largest pay-TV company after the AT&T-DirecTV acquisition, largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The company's headquarters are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Question: What is the largest cable company in the world by revenue?
Answer: Comcast Corporation
Question: What merged companies are the largest pay TV entity in the world?
Answer: AT&T-DirecTV
Question: Comcast is also the largest media company in the United States in what broadband area?
Answer: Internet service provider
Question: In what areas of the US does Comcast operate?
Answer: 40 states and the District of Columbia
Question: Where is Comcast company headquarters?
Answer: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Question: What did Comcast Corporation change its name to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many states does AT&T serve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the AT&T headquarters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company merged with Comcast, making it the largest TV company?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the largest home internet provider in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action." They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons). It may be used to protect naval, ground, and air forces in any location. However, for most countries the main effort has tended to be 'homeland defence'. NATO refers to airborne air defence as counter-air and naval air defence as anti-aircraft warfare. Missile defence is an extension of air defence as are initiatives to adapt air defence to the task of intercepting any projectile in flight.
Question: What is another term for anti-aircraft warfare?
Answer: counter-air defence
Question: NATO defines anti-aircraft warfare as measures to reduce what?
Answer: the effectiveness of hostile air action
Question: Barrage balloons are an example of what type of weapons system?
Answer: passive measures
Question: What is the primary effort been for most countries when it comes to anti-aircraft warfare?
Answer: homeland defence
Question: What does NATO ascribe naval air defence as?
Answer: anti-aircraft warfare |
Context: As an adolescent, he had a particular love of theology and the Scriptures became the foundation of his spirituality. During his studies in Palencia, Spain, he experienced a dreadful famine, prompting Dominic to sell all of his beloved books and other equipment to help his neighbors. After he completed his studies, Bishop Martin Bazan and Prior Diego d'Achebes appointed Dominic to the cathedral chapter and he became a regular canon under the Rule of St. Augustine and the Constitutions for the cathedral church of Osma. At the age of twenty-four or twenty-five, he was ordained to the priesthood.
Question: What subject did Dominic particularly love?
Answer: theology
Question: Why did Dominic sell his books?
Answer: to help his neighbors
Question: In what country did Dominic experience a great famine?
Answer: Spain
Question: At around what age was Dominic ordained as a Priest?
Answer: twenty-five
Question: After completing his studies, under whose rule did he become a regular canon?
Answer: St. Augustine
Question: What subject did Dominic particularly hate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to Dominic during his studies in Paris, France?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Dominic refuse to sell his beloved books?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Bishop Martin Bazan and Prior Diego d'Achebes refuse to appoint Dominic to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who entered the priesthood at the age of 30?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The doctrine of the last day and eschatology (the final fate of the universe) may be reckoned as the second great doctrine of the Quran. It is estimated that approximately one-third of the Quran is eschatological, dealing with the afterlife in the next world and with the day of judgment at the end of time. There is a reference to the afterlife on most pages of the Quran and belief in the afterlife is often referred to in conjunction with belief in God as in the common expression: "Believe in God and the last day". A number of suras such as 44, 56, 75, 78, 81 and 101 are directly related to the afterlife and its preparations. Some suras indicate the closeness of the event and warn people to be prepared for the imminent day. For instance, the first verses of Sura 22, which deal with the mighty earthquake and the situations of people on that day, represent this style of divine address: "O People! Be respectful to your Lord. The earthquake of the Hour is a mighty thing."
Question: What fraction of the Quran deals with eschatology?
Answer: one-third
Question: What general topic is eschatology about?
Answer: the final fate of the universe
Question: Which natural disaster features in Sura 22?
Answer: earthquake
Question: What topic do suras 44, 56, 75, and 101 have in common?
Answer: afterlife
Question: What fraction of the Quran deals with emmatology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What general topic isn't eschatology about?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which unnatural disaster features in Sura 22?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which natural disaster features in Sura 32?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What topic do suras 44, 65, 75, and 101 have in common?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2014 artist Jack White sold 40,000 copies of his second solo release, Lazaretto, on vinyl. The sales of the record beat the largest sales in one week on vinyl since 1991. The sales record was previously held by Pearl Jam's, Vitalogy, which sold 34,000 copies in one week in 1994. In 2014, the sale of vinyl records was the only physical music medium with increasing sales with relation to the previous year. Sales of other mediums including individual digital tracks, digital albums and compact discs have fallen, the latter having the greatest drop-in-sales rate.
Question: Whom set the most recent sales record of vinyl records since 1991?
Answer: Jack White
Question: What medium has seen the biggest fall in sales as of late?
Answer: compact discs
Question: What was unique to vinyl sales in 2014?
Answer: was the only physical music medium with increasing sales with relation to the previous year
Question: Who sold 34,000 vinyl records in 1994?
Answer: Pearl Jam
Question: Prior to 2014 when was the most recent large sale of vinyl records?
Answer: 1991 |
Context: Labour went on to win the 1950 general election, but with a much reduced majority of five seats. Soon afterwards, defence became a divisive issue within the party, especially defence spending (which reached a peak of 14% of GDP in 1951 during the Korean War), straining public finances and forcing savings elsewhere. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell, introduced charges for NHS dentures and spectacles, causing Bevan, along with Harold Wilson (then President of the Board of Trade), to resign over the dilution of the principle of free treatment on which the NHS had been established.
Question: In what year did Labour lose the general election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was a uniting issue in the party?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did defense spending reach its lowest point in Britain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who made dentures and spectacles free of charge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was not a principle the NHS was based on?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Viking raids from 840 onwards contributed to the decline of Hamwic in the 9th century, and by the 10th century a fortified settlement, which became medieval Southampton, had been established.
Question: What kind of raids disturbed Hamwic in the 9th century?
Answer: Viking
Question: What year did the Vikings start attacking Hamwic?
Answer: 840
Question: In what century was a new settlement set up at the site of Hamwic?
Answer: 10th
Question: What was the name of the 10th-century fortified settlement that took Hamwic's place?
Answer: Southampton |
Context: Other subjects that lent themselves to visual depiction included the name of battles (e.g. Trafalgar), explorers, local notables, discoveries, sporting heroes and members of the royal family. Some pub signs are in the form of a pictorial pun or rebus. For example, a pub in Crowborough, East Sussex called The Crow and Gate has an image of a crow with gates as wings.
Question: What was an example of a battle that might lend itself to a pub name?
Answer: Trafalgar
Question: What town is The Crow and Gate located in?
Answer: Crowborough
Question: What county is home to The Crow and Gate?
Answer: East Sussex
Question: Members of what family were sometimes used as pub names?
Answer: royal |
Context: Madonna is dedicated to Kabbalah, and in 2004 she adopted the name Esther which in Persian means "star". She has donated millions of dollars to New York and London schools teaching the subject. She faced opposition from rabbis who felt Madonna's adoption of the Kabbalah was sacrilegious and a case of celebrity dilettantism. Madonna defended her studies, saying: "It would be less controversial if I joined the Nazi Party", and that her involvement with the Kabbalah is "not hurting anybody". The influence of the Kabbalah was subsequently observed in Madonna's music, especially albums like Ray of Light and Music. During the Re-Invention World Tour, at one point in the show, Madonna and her dancers wore T-shirts that read "Kabbalists Do It Better". Her 2012 MDNA album has also drawn many influences from her Catholic upbringing, and since 2011 she has been attending meetings and services at an Opus Dei center, a Catholic institution that encourages spirituality through every day life.
Question: Which religion was Madonna dedicated to?
Answer: Kabbalah
Question: Which year did she adopt the name Esther?
Answer: 2004
Question: The influence of Kabbalah is seen in which album?
Answer: Ray of Light
Question: Where did Madonna attend Catholic services in 2011?
Answer: Opus Dei center |
Context: The changes included a new corporate color palette, small modifications to the GE logo, a new customized font (GE Inspira) and a new slogan, "Imagination at work", composed by David Lucas, to replace the slogan "We Bring Good Things to Life" used since 1979. The standard requires many headlines to be lowercased and adds visual "white space" to documents and advertising. The changes were designed by Wolff Olins and are used on GE's marketing, literature and website. In 2014, a second typeface family was introduced: GE Sans and Serif by Bold Monday created under art direction by Wolff Olins.
Question: Who composed GE's slogan "Imagination at work?"?
Answer: David Lucas
Question: What was GE's slogan prior to "Imagination at work?"
Answer: We Bring Good Things to Life
Question: In what year was the slogan "We Bring Good Things to Life" first used?
Answer: 1979
Question: Which company designed the standard format for GE's marketing literature and website?
Answer: Wolff Olins
Question: What is the name of the typeface family created for GE in 2014?
Answer: GE Sans and Serif by Bold Monday
Question: In what year did GE start using the slogan, "Imagination at work"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the first typeface family use by GE?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who composed the slogan, "We Bring Good Things to Life"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the typeface used for, "We Bring Good Things to Life"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who created the GE Inspira font?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Xbox 360's original graphical user interface was the Xbox 360 Dashboard; a tabbed interface that featured five "Blades" (formerly four blades), and was designed by AKQA and Audiobrain. It could be launched automatically when the console booted without a disc in it, or when the disc tray was ejected, but the user had the option to select what the console does if a game is in the tray on start up, or if inserted when already on. A simplified version of it was also accessible at any time via the Xbox Guide button on the gamepad. This simplified version showed the user's gamercard, Xbox Live messages and friends list. It also allowed for personal and music settings, in addition to voice or video chats, or returning to the Xbox Dashboard from the game.
Question: What was the original user interface for the 360 called?
Answer: Xbox 360 Dashboard
Question: Who designed this user interface?
Answer: AKQA and Audiobrain
Question: The simple dashboard could be accessed by pressing what controller button?
Answer: the Xbox Guide button on the gamepad
Question: How many tabs were on the 360 dashboard interface?
Answer: five
Question: The tabs on the user interface were called what?
Answer: Blades
Question: How many blades did the simplified version on the guide have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who designed Xbox Live messaging?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the five Blades on the main dashboard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the stylized name for the gamercard called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What could not be launched if the console had a disc in it?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2010, a leaked cable revealed that Shell claims to have inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government and know "everything that was being done in those ministries", according to Shell's top executive in Nigeria. The same executive also boasted that the Nigerian government had forgotten about the extent of Shell's infiltration. Documents released in 2009 (but not used in the court case) reveal that Shell regularly made payments to the Nigerian military in order to prevent protests.
Question: A 2010 leaked communication revealed that Shell claimed to have inserted what into which entities?
Answer: staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government
Question: The same leaked communication revealed Shell claimed to know what?
Answer: "everything that was being done in those ministries"
Question: About what did the Shell executive boast in relation to the leaked communication?
Answer: the Nigerian government had forgotten about the extent of Shell's infiltration
Question: Documents released in 2009 showed that Shell made regular payments to which entity?
Answer: the Nigerian military
Question: For what purpose did Shell make regular payments to the entity cited in the documents released in 2009?
Answer: to prevent protests
Question: When did Shell place informants in the Nigerian government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who boasted that Shell had forgotten about the invasion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did the documents used in the court case come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What source of information from 2010 was not used in the court case?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the Nigerian military regularly make payments to Shell?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The ability of birds to navigate during migrations cannot be fully explained by endogenous programming, even with the help of responses to environmental cues. The ability to successfully perform long-distance migrations can probably only be fully explained with an accounting for the cognitive ability of the birds to recognize habitats and form mental maps. Satellite tracking of day migrating raptors such as ospreys and honey buzzards has shown that older individuals are better at making corrections for wind drift.
Question: What are older migrating birds better at?
Answer: making corrections for wind drift
Question: How was the migrating of ospretys and honey buzzards tracked?
Answer: Satellite
Question: What do the birds do to successfully perform long distance migration?
Answer: recognize habitats and form mental maps
Question: What are examples of day migrating raptors?
Answer: ospreys and honey buzzards |
Context: The first U.S. Army post established in Montana was Camp Cooke on the Missouri River in 1866 to protect steamboat traffic going to Fort Benton, Montana. More than a dozen additional military outposts were established in the state. Pressure over land ownership and control increased due to discoveries of gold in various parts of Montana and surrounding states. Major battles occurred in Montana during Red Cloud's War, the Great Sioux War of 1876, the Nez Perce War and in conflicts with Piegan Blackfeet. The most notable of these were the Marias Massacre (1870), Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), Battle of the Big Hole (1877) and Battle of Bear Paw (1877). The last recorded conflict in Montana between the U.S. Army and Native Americans occurred in 1887 during the Battle of Crow Agency in the Big Horn country. Indian survivors who had signed treaties were generally required to move onto reservations.
Question: What was the name of the first US Army post?
Answer: Camp Cooke
Question: Where was Camp Cooke situated?
Answer: on the Missouri River
Question: What year was the Great Sioux War?
Answer: 1876
Question: What year did the Battle of Bear Paw happen?
Answer: 1877 |
Context: Bateman was responsible for the building of 36 new buildings for the university both on and off campus, including the expansion of the Harold B. Lee Library. He was also one of several key college leaders who brought about the creation of the Mountain West Conference, which BYU's athletics program joined — BYU previously participated in the Western Athletic Conference. A BYU satellite TV network also opened in 2000 under his leadership. Bateman was also president during the September 11th attacks in 2001. The planes crashed on a Tuesday, hours before the weekly devotional normally held at BYU. Previous plans for the devotional were altered, as Bateman led the student body in a prayer for peace. Bateman was followed by Cecil O. Samuelson in 2003. Samuelson was succeeded by Kevin J Worthen in 2014.
Question: What infamous event occurred during Bateman's term as president?
Answer: the September 11th attacks
Question: What was the name of the event the athletic program was involved with prior to the Mountain West Conference?
Answer: the Western Athletic Conference
Question: In what year did the school begin a BYU television network?
Answer: 2000
Question: Who replaced Bateman's successor?
Answer: Kevin J Worthen
Question: What type of BYU TV network opened in 2000 under Pres. Merrill J. Bateman?
Answer: satellite
Question: What did Pres. Bateman replace a scheduled devotial to do following the Sept. 11th, 2001 attacks?
Answer: led the student body in a prayer for peace
Question: What library was Pres. Bateman responsible for expanding?
Answer: Harold B. Lee Library
Question: What did BYU's athletic program join under Pres. Bateman?
Answer: the Mountain West Conference
Question: Which did BYU's athletic program belong to before joining the Mountain West Conference?
Answer: the Western Athletic Conference
Question: Who was responsible for building 63 new buildings for the university?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was one of the leaders who brought about the creation of the West Mountain Conference?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What program joined the West Mountain Conference?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of TV network opened in 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who immediately followed Bateman in 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the financial year ended 31 July 2013, Imperial had a total net income of £822.0 million (2011/12 – £765.2 million) and total expenditure of £754.9 million (2011/12 – £702.0 million). Key sources of income included £329.5 million from research grants and contracts (2011/12 – £313.9 million), £186.3 million from academic fees and support grants (2011/12 – £163.1 million), £168.9 million from Funding Council grants (2011/12 – £172.4 million) and £12.5 million from endowment and investment income (2011/12 – £8.1 million). During the 2012/13 financial year Imperial had a capital expenditure of £124 million (2011/12 – £152 million).
Question: What was Imperial's net income for the financial year that ended on 31 July 2013?
Answer: £822.0 million
Question: What was Imperial's total expenditure for the financial year that ended on the 31 July 2013?
Answer: £754.9 million
Question: How much income was generated from research grants and contracts for 2013?
Answer: £329.5 million
Question: Who granted Imperial close to 170 million pounds in grants?
Answer: Funding Council
Question: What was Imperial's capital expenditure for the 2012/2013 financial year?
Answer: £124 million
Question: What college ended the fiscal year 2013 with an income of 822 thousand pounds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Imperial's expenditures 124 thousand pounds?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Saint Helena was first settled by the English in 1659, and the island has a population of about 4,250 inhabitants, mainly descended from people from Britain – settlers ("planters") and soldiers – and slaves who were brought there from the beginning of settlement – initially from Africa (the Cape Verde Islands, Gold Coast and west coast of Africa are mentioned in early records), then India and Madagascar. Eventually the planters felt there were too many slaves and no more were imported after 1792.
Question: When was Saint Helena first settled?
Answer: 1659
Question: What was the population of the island in 1659
Answer: 4,250
Question: Where were slaves initially brought from to the island?
Answer: Africa
Question: Later on, what two locations were slaves brought from?
Answer: India and Madagascar
Question: Which year did the inhabitants decide there were too many slaves?
Answer: 1792 |
Context: The complete list of ten precepts may be observed by laypeople for short periods. For the complete list, the seventh precept is partitioned into two, and a tenth added:
Question: How many precepts are on the list?
Answer: ten
Question: In the complete list of precepts, which one is partitioned into two?
Answer: seventh |
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