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Context: W 122nd Street Seminary Row runs three blocks (1,500 feet (460 m)) west from the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue (Tenth Avenue) and terminates at the intersection of Riverside Drive. East of Amsterdam, Seminary Row bends south along Morningside Park and is resigned as Morningside Drive (Ninth Avenue). Seminary row runs in Morningside Heights, the district surrounding Columbia University, and crosses portions of Broadway and Claremont Avenue.
Question: What is another name for Tenth Avenue?
Answer: Amsterdam Avenue
Question: At which intersection does W 122nd Street end?
Answer: Riverside Drive
Question: What is another name for Ninth Avenue?
Answer: Morningside Drive
Question: Which district surrounds Columbia University?
Answer: Morningside Heights |
Context: Another recent environmental issue in Melbourne was the Victorian government project of channel deepening Melbourne Ports by dredging Port Phillip Bay—the Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project. It was subject to controversy and strict regulations among fears that beaches and marine wildlife could be affected by the disturbance of heavy metals and other industrial sediments. Other major pollution problems in Melbourne include levels of bacteria including E. coli in the Yarra River and its tributaries caused by septic systems, as well as litter. Up to 350,000 cigarette butts enter the storm water runoff every day. Several programs are being implemented to minimise beach and river pollution. In February 2010, The Transition Decade, an initiative to transition human society, economics and environment towards sustainability, was launched in Melbourne.
Question: Which government project aimed to deepen Melbourne ports by dredging?
Answer: the Port Phillip Channel Deepening Project
Question: Why was the Port Phillip Channel Deppening Project subject to controversy and strict regulations?
Answer: fears that beaches and marine wildlife could be affected
Question: Up to how many cigarette butts enter the storm water runoff every day in Melbourne?
Answer: 350,000
Question: What initiative was launched in Melbourne in February 2010 as an effort to transition human society towards sustainability?
Answer: The Transition Decade
Question: What causes increased pollution and levels of bacteria such as E. coli to rise in the Yarra River and its tributaries?
Answer: septic systems, as well as litter |
Context: Thuringia became a landgraviate in 1130 AD. After the extinction of the reigning Ludowingian line of counts and landgraves in 1247 and the War of the Thuringian Succession (1247–1264), the western half became independent under the name of "Hesse", never to become a part of Thuringia again. Most of the remaining Thuringia came under the rule of the Wettin dynasty of the nearby Margraviate of Meissen, the nucleus of the later Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony. With the division of the house of Wettin in 1485, Thuringia went to the senior Ernestine branch of the family, which subsequently subdivided the area into a number of smaller states, according to the Saxon tradition of dividing inheritance amongst male heirs. These were the "Saxon duchies", consisting, among others, of the states of Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Jena, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg, and Saxe-Gotha; Thuringia became merely a geographical concept.
Question: When did Thuringia become a landgraviate?
Answer: in 1130 AD
Question: Which years were the War of the Thuringian Succession fought?
Answer: 1247–1264
Question: When did the western half of the state become Hesse?
Answer: 1247
Question: Where was the Wettin dynasty from?
Answer: Margraviate of Meissen
Question: Who did the Saxon Duchies consist of?
Answer: the states of Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Jena, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg, and Saxe-Gotha
Question: When did Thuringia lose status as a landgraviate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which years were the War of the Thuringian Succession in peace?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the eastern half of the state become Hesse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the Wettin dynasty forbidden?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the Saxon Duchies imprison?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Lossy data compression is the converse of lossless data compression. In these schemes, some loss of information is acceptable. Dropping nonessential detail from the data source can save storage space. Lossy data compression schemes are designed by research on how people perceive the data in question. For example, the human eye is more sensitive to subtle variations in luminance than it is to the variations in color. JPEG image compression works in part by rounding off nonessential bits of information. There is a corresponding trade-off between preserving information and reducing size. A number of popular compression formats exploit these perceptual differences, including those used in music files, images, and video.
Question: What type of data compression is the converse of lossless date data compression?
Answer: Lossy
Question: What can save storage space?
Answer: Dropping nonessential detail from the data source
Question: What helps by eliminating off nonessential bits of information?
Answer: JPEG image compression
Question: What type of data compression is the converse of subtle variations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What helps by eliminating off nonessential bits of perceptual differences?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is more sensitive to reducing size in luminance than variations in color?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are Lossy data compression music files designed by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is there a corresponding compression scheme between?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the Roman era, copper was principally mined on Cyprus, the origin of the name of the metal from aes сyprium (metal of Cyprus), later corrupted to сuprum, from which the words copper (English), cuivre (French), Koper (Dutch) and Kupfer (German) are all derived. Its compounds are commonly encountered as copper(II) salts, which often impart blue or green colors to minerals such as azurite, malachite and turquoise and have been widely used historically as pigments. Architectural structures built with copper corrode to give green verdigris (or patina). Decorative art prominently features copper, both by itself and in the form of pigments.
Question: Where was copper mostly mined at in the Roman era?
Answer: Cyprus
Question: What term does the name copper originate from?
Answer: сuprum
Question: What componds are common in copper?
Answer: copper(II) salts
Question: What is one color common in copper salts?
Answer: blue
Question: What is the name of the color pigment on building structures that are made using copper.
Answer: green verdigris
Question: Where was copper glowing at in the Roman era?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What compounds are radioactive in copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the color pigment on water that is made using copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term means that copper is an imaginary substance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color is most rare in copper salts?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Later Indian materialist Jayaraashi Bhatta (6th century) in his work Tattvopaplavasimha ("The upsetting of all principles") refuted the Nyaya Sutra epistemology. The materialistic Cārvāka philosophy appears to have died out some time after 1400. When Madhavacharya compiled Sarva-darśana-samgraha (a digest of all philosophies) in the 14th century, he had no Cārvāka/Lokāyata text to quote from, or even refer to.
Question: Name the title of the work by Jayaraashi Bhatta.
Answer: Tattvopaplavasimha ("The upsetting of all principles")
Question: Which type of philosphy did not continue after 1400?
Answer: materialistic Cārvāka philosophy
Question: What is Sarva-darśana-samgraha?
Answer: a digest of all philosophies
Question: Who wrote the Sarva-darśana-samgraha?
Answer: Madhavacharya
Question: What does Jayaraashi Bhatta mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Jayaraashi Bhatta die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What philosphy continued after 1400?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What text did Madhavacharya quote from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Jayaraashi Bhatta born?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Christian missions established Western educational institutions in the Protectorates. Under Britain's policy of indirect rule and validation of Islamic tradition, the Crown did not encourage the operation of Christian missions in the northern, Islamic part of the country. Some children of the southern elite went to Great Britain to pursue higher education. By independence in 1960, regional differences in modern educational access were marked. The legacy, though less pronounced, continues to the present-day. Imbalances between North and South were expressed in Nigeria's political life as well. For instance, northern Nigeria did not outlaw slavery until 1936 whilst in other parts of Nigeria slavery was abolished soon after colonialism.
Question: What religion built Western schools in Nigeria?
Answer: Christian
Question: Britain discouraged building Christian missions in which part of Nigeria?
Answer: northern
Question: What religion was the majority in the northern part of Nigeria?
Answer: Islamic
Question: When did Nigeria receive independence?
Answer: 1960
Question: When did northern Nigeria ban slavery?
Answer: 1936 |
Context: One boarding house, College, is reserved for seventy King's Scholars, who attend Eton on scholarships provided by the original foundation and awarded by examination each year; King's Scholars pay up to 90% of full fees, depending on their means. Of the other pupils, up to a third receive some kind of bursary or scholarship. The name "King's Scholars" is because the school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440. The original School consisted of the seventy Scholars (together with some Commensals) and the Scholars were educated and boarded at the foundation's expense.
Question: The College boarding house is reserved for whom?
Answer: King's Scholars
Question: Where do "King's Scholars" get their name?
Answer: the school was founded by King Henry VI
Question: How many original Scholars were there in the original School?
Answer: seventy
Question: How many students receive some form of financial aid?
Answer: up to a third
Question: In what year was King Henry VI deposed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many commoners attended Eton in 1440?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1440 where did commoners attending Eton stay?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many regular students at Eton receive a scholarship but not a bursary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did King Henry VI's reign begin?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Al-Azhar University, founded in Cairo, Egypt in 975 by the Ismaʻīlī Shīʻī Fatimid dynasty as a jāmiʻah, had individual faculties for a theological seminary, Islamic law and jurisprudence, Arabic grammar, Islamic astronomy, early Islamic philosophy and logic in Islamic philosophy. The postgraduate doctorate in law was only obtained after "an oral examination to determine the originality of the candidate's theses", and to test the student's "ability to defend them against all objections, in disputations set up for the purpose." ‘Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī also delivered lectures on Islamic medicine at al-Azhar, while Maimonides delivered lectures on medicine and astronomy there during the time of Saladin. Another early jāmiʻah was the Niẓāmīyah of Baghdād (founded 1091), which has been called the "largest university of the Medieval world." Mustansiriya University, established by the ʻAbbāsid caliph al-Mustanṣir in 1233, in addition to teaching the religious subjects, offered courses dealing with philosophy, mathematics and the natural sciences.
Question: When was Al-Azhar University founded?
Answer: 975
Question: Where is Al-Azhar University located?
Answer: Cairo, Egypt
Question: What was required to earn a law degree at Al-Azhar University?
Answer: an oral examination
Question: Who was an astronomy professor at Al-Azhar University?
Answer: Maimonides
Question: What is Nizamiyah of Baghdad most known for?
Answer: largest university of the Medieval world |
Context: The Gregorian calendar was a reform of the Julian calendar instituted in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by papal bull Inter gravissimas dated 24 February 1582. The motivation for the adjustment was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of year in which it was celebrated when it was introduced by the early Church. Although a recommendation of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 specified that all Christians should celebrate Easter on the same day, it took almost five centuries before virtually all Christians achieved that objective by adopting the rules of the Church of Alexandria (see Easter for the issues which arose).
Question: Who revised the Julian calendar?
Answer: Pope Gregory XIII
Question: When was the Gregorian Calendar introduced?
Answer: 1582
Question: What calendar was used in the reform to create the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: Julian calendar
Question: What holiday was the inducement to revise the Julian calendar?
Answer: Easter
Question: When did the First Council of Nicaea rule that Easter be celebrated by all Christians?
Answer: on the same day
Question: What was the Julian calendar a reform of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What calendar was started in the fifteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Pope started the Julian calendar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What holiday led to the revision of the Gregorian calendar
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who suggested that all Christians celebrate Easter on the same day during the third century?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The USB standard specifies relatively loose tolerances for compliant USB connectors to minimize physical incompatibilities in connectors from different vendors. To address a weakness present in some other connector standards, the USB specification also defines limits to the size of a connecting device in the area around its plug. This was done to prevent a device from blocking adjacent ports due to the size of the cable strain relief mechanism (usually molding integral with the cable outer insulation) at the connector. Compliant devices must either fit within the size restrictions or support a compliant extension cable that does.
Question: What type of tolerances does the USB standard specify for compliant USB connectors?
Answer: loose tolerances
Question: Why were loose tolerances allowed for compliant USB connectors?
Answer: to minimize physical incompatibilities in connectors from different vendors
Question: How is a weakness addressed in some other connector standards?
Answer: the USB specification also defines limits to the size of a connecting device
Question: Due to size restrictions compliant devices must what?
Answer: fit within the size restrictions or support a compliant extension cable that does |
Context: The service's B-2A aircraft entered service in the 1990s, its B-1B aircraft in the 1980s and its current B-52H aircraft in the early 1960s. The B-52 Stratofortress airframe design is over 60 years old and the B-52H aircraft currently in the active inventory were all built between 1960 and 1962. The B-52H is scheduled to remain in service for another 30 years, which would keep the airframe in service for nearly 90 years, an unprecedented length of service for any aircraft. The B-21 is projected to replace the B-52 and parts of the B-1B force by the mid-2020s.
Question: When did the B-2A aircraft enter into service of the US Air Force?
Answer: 1990s
Question: When did the USAF introduce the B-1B aircraft?
Answer: 1980s
Question: What aircraft in the USAF was introduced in the 1960s?
Answer: B-52H
Question: How long is the B-52H scheduled to remain in service of the USAF?
Answer: 30 years
Question: What aircraft is scheduled to replace the B-52 in the USAF?
Answer: B-21 |
Context: Football is the most popular national sport of Egypt. The Cairo Derby is one of the fiercest derbies in Africa, and the BBC picked it as one of the 7 toughest derbies in the world. Al Ahly is the most successful club of the 20th century in the African continent according to CAF, closely followed by their rivals Zamalek SC. Al Ahly was named in 2000 by the Confederation of African Football as the "African Club of the Century". With twenty titles, Al Ahly is currently the world's most successful club in terms of international trophies, surpassing Italy's A.C. Milan and Argentina's Boca Juniors, both having eighteen.
Question: What is the most popular sport in Egypt?
Answer: Football
Question: What is one of the toughest derbies in the world, run in Egypt?
Answer: The Cairo Derby
Question: In terms of international trophies, whos is the most successful club?
Answer: Al Ahly |
Context: The "Lophotrochozoa" hypothesis is also supported by the fact that many phyla within this group, including annelids, molluscs, nemerteans and flatworms, follow a similar pattern in the fertilized egg's development. When their cells divide after the 4-cell stage, descendants of these 4 cells form a spiral pattern. In these phyla the "fates" of the embryo's cells, in other words the roles their descendants will play in the adult animal, are the same and can be predicted from a very early stage. Hence this development pattern is often described as "spiral determinate cleavage".
Question: Which Lophotrochozoa phyla have similar egg development?
Answer: annelids, molluscs, nemerteans and flatworms
Question: How do the cells of Lophotrochozoa eggs arrange themselves?
Answer: after the 4-cell stage, descendants of these 4 cells form a spiral pattern
Question: What is the Lophotrochozoa spiral egg-cell pattern sometimes called?
Answer: spiral determinate cleavage
Question: Which Lophotrochozoa phyla have no egg development?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do the cells of Lophotrochozoa eggs destroy themselves?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Lophotrochozoa spiral egg-cell pattern required to be called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What animal contains no cells?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What phyla is no longer able to make eggs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The official policy of the U.S. Government is that Thailand was not an ally of the Axis, and that the United States was not at war with Thailand. The policy of the U.S. Government ever since 1945 has been to treat Thailand not as a former enemy, but rather as a country which had been forced into certain actions by Japanese blackmail, before being occupied by Japanese troops. Thailand has been treated by the United States in the same way as such other Axis-occupied countries as Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands.
Question: Did the U.S. believe that Thailand was an Axis ally?
Answer: not an ally
Question: What does the U.S. believe caused Thailand to help Japan?
Answer: blackmail
Question: Is Thailand treated differently than other Axis countries?
Answer: the same way
Question: According to the USA, what country did Japan blackmail?
Answer: Thailand
Question: What nations were occupied by the Axis?
Answer: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands
Question: After 1945, how did the USA treat Thailand?
Answer: not as a former enemy
Question: Who occupied Thailand according to the USA?
Answer: Japanese troops |
Context: Rome had a semi-divine ancestor in the Trojan refugee Aeneas, son of Venus, who was said to have established the nucleus of Roman religion when he brought the Palladium, Lares and Penates from Troy to Italy. These objects were believed in historical times to remain in the keeping of the Vestals, Rome's female priesthood. Aeneas had been given refuge by King Evander, a Greek exile from Arcadia, to whom were attributed other religious foundations: he established the Ara Maxima, "Greatest Altar," to Hercules at the site that would become the Forum Boarium, and he was the first to celebrate the Lupercalia, an archaic festival in February that was celebrated as late as the 5th century of the Christian era.
Question: What mythical figure did the Romans consider to be semi-divine?
Answer: Aeneas
Question: Of what did Aeneas establish the central feature?
Answer: Roman religion
Question: Who were the keepers of Aeneas's sacred objects?
Answer: Vestals
Question: What ancient festival was celebrated until the 5th century?
Answer: Lupercalia
Question: To whom did Aeneas set up an alter in Rome?
Answer: Hercules |
Context: In January 2009, the European Commission announced it would investigate the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows operating systems from Microsoft, saying "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice." Microsoft Corp v Commission
Question: Who investigated the bundling of the IE browser with Windows OS?
Answer: the European Commission
Question: When did the European Commission say they would investigate the bundling?
Answer: January 2009
Question: The Commission felt that bundling the browser with Windows computers harmed what?
Answer: competition between web browsers
Question: The Commission felt that the bundling undermined what?
Answer: product innovation
Question: What would Microsoft investigate in January 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Microsoft investigating the European Commission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Commission undermine according to Microsoft?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was reduced by the Commission according to Microsoft?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What action is harmed by the Commision according to Microsoft?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The idea of the decline and gradual disappearance of the teaching has been influential in East Asian Buddhism. Pure Land Buddhism holds that it has declined to the point where few are capable of following the path, so it may be best to rely on the power of Amitābha.
Question: What form of Buddhism has declined to the point where few are capable of following the path?
Answer: Pure Land |
Context: In March 1971, the residential office of an FBI agent in Media, Pennsylvania was burglarized by a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. Numerous files were taken and distributed to a range of newspapers, including The Harvard Crimson. The files detailed the FBI's extensive COINTELPRO program, which included investigations into lives of ordinary citizens—including a black student group at a Pennsylvania military college and the daughter of Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin. The country was "jolted" by the revelations, which included assassinations of political activists, and the actions were denounced by members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Hale Boggs. The phones of some members of Congress, including Boggs, had allegedly been tapped.
Question: Which group broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania?
Answer: Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI
Question: Did the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI take files?
Answer: Numerous files were taken
Question: What files was the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI's raid mainly focused on?
Answer: COINTELPRO program
Question: What did the files about COINTELPRO reveal?
Answer: investigations into lives of ordinary citizens
Question: How did the US react to these discoveries?
Answer: The country was "jolted"
Question: When was the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the residential office of a CIA agent burglarized?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was a paper that did not receive any FBI files?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which congressman had his son investigated by the FBI?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What member of Congress expressed support for the actions of the FBI?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The micro plug design is rated for at least 10,000 connect-disconnect cycles, which is more than the mini plug design. The micro connector is also designed to reduce the mechanical wear on the device; instead the easier-to-replace cable is designed to bear the mechanical wear of connection and disconnection. The Universal Serial Bus Micro-USB Cables and Connectors Specification details the mechanical characteristics of micro-A plugs, micro-AB receptacles (which accept both micro-A and micro-B plugs), and micro-B plugs and receptacles, along with a standard-A receptacle to micro-A plug adapter.
Question: What is the micro connector designed for?
Answer: to reduce the mechanical wear on the device
Question: What is the easier-to-replace cable designed for?
Answer: to bear the mechanical wear of connection and disconnection
Question: What is the micro-plug rated for?
Answer: 10,000 connect-disconnect cycles |
Context: Every fall the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce hosts The Taste of Santa Monica on the Santa Monica Pier. Visitors can sample food and drinks from Santa Monica restaurants. Other annual events include the Business and Consumer Expo, Sustainable Quality Awards, Santa Monica Cares Health and Wellness Festival, and the State of the City. The swanky Shutters on the Beach Hotel offers a trip to the famous Santa Monica Farmers Market to select and influence the materials that will become that evening's special "Market Dinner."
Question: What event does the Chamber of commerce host in the fall?
Answer: The Taste of Santa Monica
Question: Where is the Taste of Santa Monica held each year?
Answer: Santa Monica Pier
Question: What can visitors do at the Taste of Santa Monica?
Answer: sample food and drinks
Question: Who provides the guests with these samples at the event?
Answer: Santa Monica restaurants
Question: What hotel offers a trip to the famer's market to influence dinner?
Answer: The swanky Shutters
Question: In what season is the Business and Consumer Expo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what season is the State of the City held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Sustainable Quality Awards is held in what season?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's one of the restaurants that is part of The Taste of Santa Monica?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the Santa Monica Cares Health and Wellness Festival held?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Established acts benefited from the new commercial climate, with Whitesnake's self-titled album (1987) selling over 17 million copies, outperforming anything in Coverdale's or Deep Purple's catalogue before or since. It featured the rock anthem "Here I Go Again '87" as one of 4 UK top 20 singles. The follow-up Slip of the Tongue (1989) went platinum, but according to critics Steve Erlwine and Greg Prato, "it was a considerable disappointment after the across-the-board success of Whitesnake". Aerosmith's comeback album Permanent Vacation (1987) would begin a decade long revival of their popularity. Crazy Nights (1987) by Kiss was the band's highest charting release in the US since 1979 and the highest of their career in the UK. Mötley Crüe with Girls, Girls, Girls (1987) continued their commercial success and Def Leppard with Hysteria (1987) hit their commercial peak, the latter producing seven hit singles (a record for a hard rock act). Guns N' Roses released the best-selling début of all time, Appetite for Destruction (1987). With a "grittier" and "rawer" sound than most glam metal, it produced three top 10 hits, including the number one "Sweet Child O' Mine". Some of the glam rock bands that formed in the mid-1980s, such as White Lion and Cinderella experienced their biggest success during this period with their respective albums Pride (1987) and Long Cold Winter (1988) both going multi-platinum and launching a series of hit singles. In the last years of the decade, the most notable successes were New Jersey (1988) by Bon Jovi, OU812 (1988) by Van Halen, Open Up and Say... Ahh! (1988) by Poison, Pump (1989) by Aerosmith, and Mötley Crüe's most commercially successful album Dr. Feelgood (1989). New Jersey spawned five Top 10 singles, a record for a hard rock act. In 1988 from 25 June to 5 November, the number one spot on the Billboard 200 album chart was held by a hard rock album for 18 out of 20 consecutive weeks; the albums were OU812, Hysteria, Appetite for Destruction, and New Jersey. A final wave of glam rock bands arrived in the late 1980s, and experienced success with multi-platinum albums and hit singles from 1989 until the early 1990s, among them Extreme, Warrant Slaughter and FireHouse. Skid Row also released their eponymous début (1989), reaching number six on the Billboard 200, but they were to be one of the last major bands that emerged in the glam rock era.
Question: How many copies did Whitesnake's 1987 self title album sell?
Answer: 17 million
Question: What was the title of Aerosmith's 1987 comeback album?
Answer: Permanent Vacation
Question: Def Leppard's album Hysteria churned out how many hit singles?
Answer: seven
Question: What Guns N Roses album was the second best selling debut of all time?
Answer: Appetite for Destruction
Question: What Guns N Roses song became a number one single?
Answer: "Sweet Child O' Mine"
Question: What was benefited by the established acts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By how many albums did Deep Purple outsell Witesnake's self-titled album?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Steve Erlwine and Greg Prato call the performance of Deep Purples' song Here I Go Again?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With what song did Motley Crue reach their commercial peak?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was number one on the Billboard 200 album charts for 20 consecutive weeks in 1988?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although Bell was, and still is, accused of stealing the telephone from Gray, Bell used Gray's water transmitter design only after Bell's patent had been granted, and only as a proof of concept scientific experiment, to prove to his own satisfaction that intelligible "articulate speech" (Bell's words) could be electrically transmitted. After March 1876, Bell focused on improving the electromagnetic telephone and never used Gray's liquid transmitter in public demonstrations or commercial use.
Question: Bell implemented Gray's design as a what?
Answer: proof of concept
Question: Bell stopped using the liquid-based method after what month?
Answer: March
Question: Bell used his own design in all public demonstrations and what?
Answer: commercial use |
Context: Catalan bears varying degrees of similarity to the linguistic varieties subsumed under the cover term Occitan language (see also differences between Occitan and Catalan and Gallo-Romance languages). Thus, as it should be expected from closely related languages, Catalan today shares many traits with other Romance languages.
Question: What is Catalan a variety of?
Answer: Occitan language
Question: What are the degrees of similarity with Occitan and Gallo-Romance languages?
Answer: varying degrees
Question: What are there besides degrees of similarity with Occitan?
Answer: differences
Question: What does Catalan share with other Romance languages?
Answer: many traits
Question: Why does Catalan share many traits with other Romance languages?
Answer: closely related |
Context: Many newer control systems are using wireless mesh open standards (such as ZigBee), which provides benefits including easier installation (no need to run control wires) and interoperability with other standards-based building control systems (e.g. security).
Question: What type of standard do newer control systems use?
Answer: wireless mesh open standards
Question: What is the name of one type of control system used?
Answer: ZigBee
Question: Does a wireless mesh open standard make installation harder?
Answer: no |
Context: Many Sanskrit dramas also indicate that the language coexisted with Prakrits, spoken by multilingual speakers with a more extensive education. Sanskrit speakers were almost always multilingual. In the medieval era, Sanskrit continued to be spoken and written, particularly by learned Brahmins for scholarly communication. This was a thin layer of Indian society, but covered a wide geography. Centres like Varanasi, Paithan, Pune and Kanchipuram had a strong presence of teaching and debating institutions, and high classical Sanskrit was maintained until British times.
Question: What form of speech shows that Sanskrit and Prakrits existed together?
Answer: Sanskrit dramas
Question: What type of speakers spoke Sanskrit?
Answer: multilingual
Question: For what did Brahmins use Sanskrit?
Answer: scholarly communication
Question: Until what period was high Sanskrit used?
Answer: British times
Question: How large of a group in society use Sanskrit?
Answer: thin layer
Question: What kind of dramas used exclusively the Sanskrit language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language was spoken by the less educated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What trait in the enlightened era did most Sanskrit speakers pocess?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who used Sanskrit for common communication?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what single location was Sanskrit centralized and maintained?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Mahayana sutras often claim to articulate the Buddha's deeper, more advanced doctrines, reserved for those who follow the bodhisattva path. That path is explained as being built upon the motivation to liberate all living beings from unhappiness. Hence the name Mahāyāna (lit., the Great Vehicle).
Question: What sutras are reserved for those who follow the bodhisattva path?
Answer: Mahayana
Question: What does Mahayana mean?
Answer: the Great Vehicle
Question: What path is described as being built upon the motivation to liberate all living beings?
Answer: bodhisattva path |
Context: As a result of the three Carnatic Wars, the British East India Company gained exclusive control over the entire Carnatic region of India. The Company soon expanded its territories around its bases in Bombay and Madras; the Anglo-Mysore Wars (1766–1799) and later the Anglo-Maratha Wars (1772–1818) led to control of the vast regions of India. Ahom Kingdom of North-east India first fell to Burmese invasion and then to British after Treaty of Yandabo in 1826. Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir were annexed after the Second Anglo-Sikh War in 1849; however, Kashmir was immediately sold under the Treaty of Amritsar to the Dogra Dynasty of Jammu and thereby became a princely state. The border dispute between Nepal and British India, which sharpened after 1801, had caused the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814–16 and brought the defeated Gurkhas under British influence. In 1854, Berar was annexed, and the state of Oudh was added two years later.
Question: What whole region did the East India company get control over after the Carnatic Wars?
Answer: Carnatic
Question: During what time were the Anglo-Mysore Wars?
Answer: 1766–1799
Question: When were the Anglo-Maratha Wars fought?
Answer: 1772–1818
Question: To what dynasty was Kashmir sold in 1849?
Answer: Dogra Dynasty of Jammu
Question: After the sale of Kashmir, what did the area become?
Answer: princely state |
Context: Buddhism first entered China during the Eastern Han and was first mentioned in 65 AD. Liu Ying (d. 71 AD), a half-brother to Emperor Ming of Han (r. 57–75 AD), was one of its earliest Chinese adherents, although Chinese Buddhism at this point was heavily associated with Huang-Lao Daoism. China's first known Buddhist temple, the White Horse Temple, was erected during Ming's reign. Important Buddhist canons were translated into Chinese during the 2nd century AD, including the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, Perfection of Wisdom, Shurangama Sutra, and Pratyutpanna Sutra.
Question: During was era did Buddhism first appear in the region?
Answer: Eastern Han
Question: When did Emperor Ming of Han's reign end?
Answer: 75 AD
Question: What philosophical practice did Liu Ying believe in?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: What is believed to be the first Buddhist temple in this area?
Answer: the White Horse Temple
Question: During which century were important Buddhist notions translated to Chinese?
Answer: 2nd century AD |
Context: Himachal has a rich heritage of handicrafts. These include woolen and pashmina shawls, carpets, silver and metal ware, embroidered chappals, grass shoes, Kangra and Gompa style paintings, wood work, horse-hair bangles, wooden and metal utensils and various other house hold items. These aesthetic and tasteful handicrafts declined under competition from machine made goods and also because of lack of marketing facilities. But now the demand for handicrafts has increased within and outside the country.
Question: What does Himachal have a rich heritage of?
Answer: handicrafts
Question: What handcrafts do they include?
Answer: woolen and pashmina shawls
Question: Has the demand increased or decreased for handcrafts?
Answer: increased
Question: What declined under competition?
Answer: aesthetic and tasteful handicrafts
Question: Has the demand increased inside or outside the country?
Answer: within and outside the country
Question: What does Kangra have a rich heritage of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are three examples of handicrafts from Gompa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the production of woolen and pashmina shawls decline?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has happened to the sale of grass shoes in Kangra?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Has the demand for horese-hair bangles increased or decreased?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Further work on MPEG audio was finalized in 1994 as part of the second suite of MPEG standards, MPEG-2, more formally known as international standard ISO/IEC 13818-3 (a.k.a. MPEG-2 Part 3 or backwards compatible MPEG-2 Audio or MPEG-2 Audio BC), originally published in 1995. MPEG-2 Part 3 (ISO/IEC 13818-3) defined additional bit rates and sample rates for MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, II and III. The new sampling rates are exactly half that of those originally defined in MPEG-1 Audio. This reduction in sampling rate serves to cut the available frequency fidelity in half while likewise cutting the bitrate by 50%. MPEG-2 Part 3 also enhanced MPEG-1's audio by allowing the coding of audio programs with more than two channels, up to 5.1 multichannel.
Question: Further work on MPEG was finalized as a part of which MPEG standard?
Answer: second suite
Question: What was the official name of ISO/IEC 13818-3 better known as?
Answer: MPEG-2
Question: At what rate were the new sampling rates defined in comparison to MPEG-1 Audio?
Answer: half
Question: Apart from cutting the frequency fidelity in half, what else was cut in half?
Answer: bitrate
Question: Allowing the coding of audio programs with more than two channels was a major aspect of what?
Answer: MPEG-2 Part 3 |
Context: The Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation began on 9 August 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and was the last campaign of the Second World War and the largest of the 1945 Soviet–Japanese War which resumed hostilities between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan after almost six years of peace. Soviet gains on the continent were Manchukuo, Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia) and northern Korea. The rapid defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army has been argued to be a significant factor in the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II, as Japan realized the Soviets were willing and able to take the cost of invasion of its Home Islands, after their rapid conquest of Manchuria and Invasion of South Sakhalin island.
Question: When did the soviet Union invade Manchukuo?
Answer: 9 August 1945
Question: What was the last campaign of World War II?
Answer: Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
Question: What was the largest campaign of the Soviets against Japan?
Answer: Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation
Question: Who gained Manchukuo, Mengjiang, and northern Korea after the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Campaign?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: When did hostilities between Japan and the Soviet Union resum after six years of peace?
Answer: 9 August 1945 |
Context: As of 2009, dial up, wireless and satellite services were available. Dial up internet services in Somalia were among the fastest growing on the continent, with an annual landline growth rate of over 12.5%. The increase in usage was largely due to innovative policy initiatives adopted by the various Somali telecom operators, including free local in-town calls, a flat rate of $10 per month for unlimited calls, a low charge of $0.005 per minute for Internet connections, and a one-time connection fee of $50. Global Internet Company, a firm jointly owned by the major Somali telecommunication networks Hormuud Telecom, Telcom Somalia and Nationlink, was the country's largest ISP. It was at the time the only provider of dial up services in Somalia's south-central regions. In the northern Puntland and Somaliland regions, online networks offered internet dial up services to their own group of subscribers. Among these firms was Golis Telecom Somalia in the northeast and Telesom in the northwest.
Question: As of what year were dial up, wireless , and satellite services available?
Answer: 2009
Question: What was the landline growth rate of Somalia in 2009?
Answer: 12.5%
Question: What was the flat rate per month for unlimited landline calls in Somalia in the year 2009?
Answer: $10 per month
Question: What was Somalias largest ISP in 2009?
Answer: Global Internet Company
Question: Who was the only provider of dial up service in Somalias SouthCentral regions in 2009?
Answer: Global Internet Company
Question: Who was the first ISP provider in Somalia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How quickly is the wireless service growing in Somalia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Somali telecom operators designed the policies responsible for dial up's growth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Somalia's second largest ISP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did telecom operators charge for text messaging?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The teachings on the Four Noble Truths are regarded as central to the teachings of Buddhism, and are said to provide a conceptual framework for Buddhist thought. These four truths explain the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome. The four truths are:[note 4]
Question: What is considered to be central to the teachings of Buddhism?
Answer: the Four Noble Truths
Question: What do the Four Noble Truths explain?
Answer: the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome
Question: What teachings are the most important to Buddhism?
Answer: the Four Noble Truths
Question: What part of Dukkha deals with pain?
Answer: suffering
Question: What is considered central to the teachings of Buddhism?
Answer: Four Noble Truths
Question: The four truths explain the nature of what?
Answer: dukkha |
Context: The show had been criticized in earlier seasons over the onerous contract contestants had to sign that gave excessive control to 19 Entertainment over their future career, and handed a large part of their future earnings to the management.
Question: What company are contestants required to sign a contract with on American Idol?
Answer: 19 Entertainment |
Context: Oklahoma is located in a humid subtropical region. Oklahoma lies in a transition zone between humid continental climate to the north, semi-arid climate to the west, and humid subtropical climate in the central, south and eastern portions of the state. Most of the state lies in an area known as Tornado Alley characterized by frequent interaction between cold, dry air from Canada, warm to hot, dry air from Mexico and the Southwestern U.S., and warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. The interactions between these three contrasting air currents produces severe weather (severe thunderstorms, damaging thunderstorm winds, large hail and tornadoes) with a frequency virtually unseen anywhere else on planet Earth. An average 62 tornadoes strike the state per year—one of the highest rates in the world.
Question: What is Oklahoma's main climate region?
Answer: humid subtropical
Question: What natural-disaster-based nickname does Oklahoma's region have?
Answer: Tornado Alley
Question: How many tornadoes hit Oklahoma each year?
Answer: average 62
Question: What types of severe weather does Oklahoma get?
Answer: severe thunderstorms, damaging thunderstorm winds, large hail and tornadoes
Question: Where does Oklahoma receive hot dry air from?
Answer: Mexico |
Context: Spielberg followed with War Horse, shot in England in the summer of 2010. It was released just four days after The Adventures of Tintin, on December 25, 2011. The film, based on the novel of the same name written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982, follows the long friendship between a British boy and his horse Joey before and during World War I – the novel was also adapted into a hit play in London which is still running there, as well as on Broadway. The film was released and distributed by Disney, with whom DreamWorks made a distribution deal in 2009. War Horse received generally positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Question: Where was 'War Horse' filmed?
Answer: England
Question: When did 'War Horse' come out?
Answer: December 25, 2011
Question: Who wrote the 'War Horse' book?
Answer: Michael Morpurgo
Question: When did the 'War Horse' book come out?
Answer: 1982
Question: Who distributed 'War Horse'?
Answer: Disney
Question: Which movie earned more, The Adventures of Tintin or War Horse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was The Adventures of Tintin mostly made?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was War Horse made into a play in London?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who released The Adventures of Tintin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Academy Award nominations did The Adventures of Tintin receive?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 20 May 2009, May and Taylor performed "We Are the Champions" live on the season finale of American Idol with winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert providing a vocal duet. In mid-2009, after the split of Queen + Paul Rodgers, the Queen online website announced a new greatest hits compilation named Absolute Greatest. The album was released on 16 November and peaked at number 3 in the official UK Chart. The album contains 20 of Queen's biggest hits spanning their entire career and was released in four different formats: single disc, double disc (with commentary), double disc with feature book, and a vinyl record. Prior to its release, a competition was run by Queen online to guess the track listing as a promotion for the album.
Question: On 20 May 2009 which Queen members performed We are the Champions on American Idol?
Answer: May and Taylor
Question: What was the name of the Greatest Hits compilation Queen released after the split from Paul Rodgers?
Answer: Absolute Greatest
Question: Which two American idol contestants performed a duet with Queen on American Idol?
Answer: winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert
Question: What day in 2009 was Queen's Absolute Greatest released?
Answer: 16 November |
Context: The French forces tried to subdue and capture the liberal government based in Saltillo. On September 21, 1864, José María Patoni and Jesús González Ortega lost against the French forces at the Battle of Estanzuelas; the supreme government led by President Juárez was forced to evacuate the city of Saltillo and relocate to Chihuahua. Juárez stopped in Ciudad Jiménez, Valle de Allende, and Hidalgo de Parral, in turn. He decreed Parral the capital of Mexico from October 2–5, 1864. Perceiving the threat from the advancing French forces, the president continued his evacuation through Santa Rosalía de Camargo, Santa Cruz de Rosales, and finally Chihuahua, Chihuahua. On October 12, 1864, the people of the state gave President Juárez an overwhelmingly supportive reception, led by Governor Ángel Trías. On October 15, 1864 the city of Chihuahua was declared the temporary capital of Mexico.
Question: French forces tried to capture the liberal government based where?
Answer: Saltillo
Question: Which two generals lost against the French on September 21, 1864?
Answer: José María Patoni and Jesús González
Question: The goverment led by whom was forced to evacuate Saltillo?
Answer: President Juárez
Question: Which was the last city through which Juarez evacuated?
Answer: Chihuahua, Chihuahua
Question: Which governor led the supportive reception of President Juarez?
Answer: Ángel Trías |
Context: The Ottoman Empire began to collapse, and in 1908, the Young Turk Revolution overthrew the government of Sultan Hamid. In April 1909, the Adana massacre occurred in the Adana Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire resulting in the deaths of as many as 20,000–30,000 Armenians. The Armenians living in the empire hoped that the Committee of Union and Progress would change their second-class status. Armenian reform package (1914) was presented as a solution by appointing an inspector general over Armenian issues.
Question: When did the Adana massacre take place?
Answer: April 1909
Question: How many Armenians died in the Adana Massacre?
Answer: 20,000–30,000
Question: When was the Armenian Reform package introduced?
Answer: 1914
Question: When was Sultan Hamid unseated?
Answer: 1908
Question: Who unseated Sultan Hamid?
Answer: Young Turk Revolution |
Context: The remains of a 6th-century synagogue have been uncovered in Sepphoris, which was an important centre of Jewish culture between the 3rd–7th centuries and a multicultural town inhabited by Jews, Christians and pagans. The mosaic reflects an interesting fusion of Jewish and pagan beliefs. In the center of the floor the zodiac wheel was depicted. Helios sits in the middle, in his sun chariot, and each zodiac is matched with a Jewish month. Along the sides of the mosaic are strips depicting Biblical scenes, such as the binding of Isaac, as well as traditional rituals, including a burnt sacrifice and the offering of fruits and grains.
Question: The remains of what was found at Sepphoris?
Answer: a 6th-century synagogue
Question: Who were the primary inhabitants of Sepphoris in the 3rd through 7th centuries?
Answer: Jews
Question: The mosaic found at Sepphoris display a mix of Jewish and which beliefs?
Answer: pagan
Question: What figure is dominant in the mosaic at Sepphoris?
Answer: Helios
Question: What surrounds Helios in the mosaic at Sepphoris?
Answer: a Jewish month |
Context: About 80% of undergraduates and 20% of graduate students live on campus. The majority of the graduate students on campus live in one of four graduate housing complexes on campus, while all on-campus undergraduates live in one of the 29 residence halls. Because of the religious affiliation of the university, all residence halls are single-sex, with 15 male dorms and 14 female dorms. The university maintains a visiting policy (known as parietal hours) for those students who live in dormitories, specifying times when members of the opposite sex are allowed to visit other students' dorm rooms; however, all residence halls have 24-hour social spaces for students regardless of gender. Many residence halls have at least one nun and/or priest as a resident. There are no traditional social fraternities or sororities at the university, but a majority of students live in the same residence hall for all four years. Some intramural sports are based on residence hall teams, where the university offers the only non-military academy program of full-contact intramural American football. At the end of the intramural season, the championship game is played on the field in Notre Dame Stadium.
Question: What percentage of undergrads live on the Notre Dame campus?
Answer: 80%
Question: How many student housing areas are reserved for Notre Dame's graduate students?
Answer: four
Question: How many dorms for males are on the Notre Dame campus?
Answer: 15
Question: What amount of the graduate student body at Notre Dame live on the campus?
Answer: 20%
Question: There are how many dorms for females at Notre Dame?
Answer: 14 |
Context: While full-time work hinders schooling, empirical evidence is varied on the relationship between part-time work and school. Sometimes even part-time work may hinder school attendance or performance. On the other hand, many poor children work for resources to attend school. Children who are not doing well at school sometimes seek more satisfactory experience in work. Good relations with a supervisor at work can provide relief from tensions that children feel at school and home. In the modern world, school education has become so central to society that schoolwork has become the dominant work for most children, often replacing participation in productive work. If school curricula or quality do not provide children with appropriate skills for available jobs or if children do nor have the aptitude for schoolwork, school may impede the learning of skills, such as agriculture, which will become necessary for future livelihood.
Question: What hinders schooling for child labourers?
Answer: full-time work
Question: What can relieve tension for children at work?
Answer: Good relations with a supervisor
Question: What can schools do to help children led to better work lives?
Answer: school may impede the learning of skills |
Context: Red, white, and black were the colors of the German Empire from 1870 to 1918, and as such they came to be associated with German nationalism. In the 1920s they were adopted as the colors of the Nazi flag. In Mein Kampf, Hitler explained that they were "revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past." The red part of the flag was also chosen to attract attention - Hitler wrote: "the new flag ... should prove effective as a large poster" because "in hundreds of thousands of cases a really striking emblem may be the first cause of awakening interest in a movement." The red also symbolized the social program of the Nazis, aimed at German workers. Several designs by a number of different authors were considered, but the one adopted in the end was Hitler's personal design.
Question: During what time period did the German Empire use the colors red white and black?
Answer: 1870 to 1918
Question: What did red white and black become associated with in Germany?
Answer: German nationalism
Question: In what era did red white and black become part of the Nazi flag?
Answer: 1920s
Question: Red was chosen as part of the Nazi flag to do what?
Answer: attract attention
Question: Whose design was the Nazi flag?
Answer: Hitler's personal design
Question: What were the colors of the German Empire from 1818 to 1970?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What flag were the colors black, red, and white associated with in 1920?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who explained the colors in Kampf Mein?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What workers was the social program of the Germans aimed at?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Likewise, Émile Durkheim was one of the earliest to suggest that gods represent an extension of human social life to include supernatural beings. In line with this reasoning, psychologist Matt Rossano contends that when humans began living in larger groups, they may have created gods as a means of enforcing morality. In small groups, morality can be enforced by social forces such as gossip or reputation. However, it is much harder to enforce morality using social forces in much larger groups. Rossano indicates that by including ever-watchful gods and spirits, humans discovered an effective strategy for restraining selfishness and building more cooperative groups.
Question: What are ways that small social groups can force morality?
Answer: gossip or reputation
Question: Who suggested that by including the presence of an omniscient God, selfishness can be controlled and cooperation can be gained?
Answer: Matt Rossano
Question: What did Émile Durkheim suggest about the existence of God?
Answer: gods represent an extension of human social life to include supernatural beings
Question: Why would humans have begun to create gods?
Answer: a means of enforcing morality
Question: Who posited that humans created gods to create morality in social groups?
Answer: Matt Rossano
Question: Omnipresent gods are a way to watch large groups and enforce what?
Answer: morality
Question: Omniprestent gods helped build what?
Answer: more cooperative groups
Question: What concept did Matt Rossano suggest earlier than others?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Emile Durkheim believe happened when humans live in groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How can selfishness be restrained in large groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is it harder to build cooperative groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did social forces use to enforce morality according to Durkheim?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Control of labour and inter-group conflict is characteristic of corporate-level or 'tribal' groups, headed by a charismatic individual; whether a 'big man' or a proto-chief, functioning as a lineage-group head. Whether a non-hierarchical system of organization existed is debatable, and there is no evidence that explicitly suggests that Neolithic societies functioned under any dominating class or individual, as was the case in the chiefdoms of the European Early Bronze Age. Theories to explain the apparent implied egalitarianism of Neolithic (and Paleolithic) societies have arisen, notably the Marxist concept of primitive communism.
Question: What production trait existed in tribal groups that were controlled by charismatic leaders?
Answer: Control of labour
Question: What theory describes the implied egalitarianism of Neolithic societies?
Answer: Marxist concept of primitive communism
Question: What type of disagreement existed in tribal groups that were controlled by charismatic leaders?
Answer: inter-group conflict
Question: What production trait existed in tribal groups that were controlled by Neolithic leaders?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What theory describes the implied egalitarianism of labor societies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of disagreement existed in tribal groups that were controlled by Neolithic groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a theory that has explained the egalitarianism of labor societies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is there evidence of?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Polytechnics were tertiary education teaching institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Since 1970 UK Polytechnics operated under the binary system of education along with universities. Polytechnics offered diplomas and degrees (bachelor's, master's, PhD) validated at the national level by the UK Council for National Academic Awards CNAA. They particularly excelled in engineering and applied science degree courses similar to technological universities in the USA and continental Europe. The comparable institutions in Scotland were collectively referred to as Central Institutions. Britain's first Polytechnic, the Royal Polytechnic Institution later known as the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) was established in 1838 at Regent Street in London and its goal was to educate and popularize engineering and scientific knowledge and inventions in Victorian Britain "at little expense." The London Polytechnic led a mass movement to create numerous Polytechnic institutes across the UK in the late 19th Century. Most Polytechnic institutes were established at the centre of major metropolitan cities and their focus was on engineering, applied science and technology education.
Question: What year did UK polytechnics start functioning in a binary education system?
Answer: 1970
Question: What organization validates degrees received from polytechnic schools?
Answer: the UK Council for National Academic Awards
Question: What two-word term does Scotland use to describe their technological universities?
Answer: Central Institutions
Question: What was the first polytechnic in Britain originally named?
Answer: Royal Polytechnic Institution |
Context: The iPod is a line of portable media players and multi-purpose pocket computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on October 23, 2001, about 8½ months after iTunes (Macintosh version) was released. The most recent iPod redesigns were announced on July 15, 2015. There are three current versions of the iPod: the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle, the compact iPod Nano and the touchscreen iPod Touch.
Question: Which company produces the iPod?
Answer: Apple
Question: When was the original iPod released?
Answer: October 23, 2001
Question: How many different types of iPod are currently available?
Answer: three
Question: What kind of device is the iPod?
Answer: portable media players
Question: The iPod Touch uses what kind of interface?
Answer: touchscreen
Question: In what year was the first iPod released?
Answer: 2001
Question: What company manufactures the iPod?
Answer: Apple
Question: How many versions of the iPod currently exist?
Answer: 3
Question: Which is the smallest version of the iPod?
Answer: Shuffle
Question: In what year was the iPod most recently redesigned?
Answer: 2015 |
Context: Nominally, sovereignty lay in the emperor but in fact power was wielded by the Fujiwara nobility. However, to protect their interests in the provinces, the Fujiwara and other noble families required guards, police and soldiers. The warrior class made steady political gains throughout the Heian period. As early as 939 A.D, Taira no Masakado threatened the authority of the central government, leading an uprising in the eastern province of Hitachi, and almost simultaneously, Fujiwara no Sumitomo rebelled in the west. Still, a true military takeover of the Japanese government was centuries away, when much of the strength of the government would lie within the private armies of the shogunate.
Question: What noble family wielded power during the Heian period?
Answer: Fujiwara
Question: Who threatened the authority of Japan's central government?
Answer: Taira no Masakado
Question: Masakado led an uprising in what province?
Answer: Hitachi
Question: What member of the Fujiwara family rebelled in western Japan?
Answer: Fujiwara no Sumitomo
Question: In what year did Masakado begin his rebellion?
Answer: 939 A.D
Question: Who ruled the Fujiwara family in Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who needed guards and soldiers to protect their interests in the imperial court?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's political power declined during the Heian period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who threatened the central governments authourity during the 9th century A.D.?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Fujiwara no Sumitoma lead in the east?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2013, an article in Mother Jones stated that while "[m]any prestigious orchestras have significant female membership—women outnumber men in the New York Philharmonic's violin section—and several renowned ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, and the Minnesota Symphony, are led by women violinists", the double bass, brass, and percussion sections of major orchestras "...are still predominantly male." A 2014 BBC article stated that the "...introduction of 'blind' auditions, where a prospective instrumentalist performs behind a screen so that the judging panel can exercise no gender or racial prejudice, has seen the gender balance of traditionally male-dominated symphony orchestras gradually shift."
Question: The National Symphony Orchestra is led by what gender of violinist?
Answer: female
Question: The double bass, brass and percussion sections are predominately what gender?
Answer: male
Question: What type of audition are expected to eliminator gender or racial prejudice?
Answer: 'blind' auditions
Question: In what section of the New York Philharmonic do women outnumber men?
Answer: violin |
Context: On 22 May 2015, Sun reporter Anthony France was found guilty of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office between 2008 and 2011. France’s trial followed the London Metropolitan Police's Operation Elveden, an ongoing investigation into alleged payments to police and officials in exchange for information. He had paid a total of more than £22,000 to PC Timothy Edwards, an anti-terrorism police officer based at Heathrow Airport. The police officer had already pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office and given a two-year gaol sentence in 2014, but the jury in France’s trial was not informed of this. Following the passing of the guilty verdict, the officer leading Operation Elveden, Detective Chief Superintendent Gordon Briggs said France and Edwards had been in a "long-term, corrupt relationship".
Question: Who was found guilty in 2015?
Answer: Anthony France
Question: Which Sun reporter was found guilty in 2015?
Answer: Anthony France
Question: Who was responsible for Operation Elveden?
Answer: London Metropolitan Police
Question: How much did Anthony France pay to a police officer?
Answer: more than £22,000
Question: Who was the policeman leading Operation Elveden?
Answer: Detective Chief Superintendent Gordon Briggs
Question: How did Briggs characterize the relationship between France and Edwards?
Answer: "long-term, corrupt relationship" |
Context: Feynman devoted the latter half of his book What Do You Care What Other People Think? to his experience on the Rogers Commission, straying from his usual convention of brief, light-hearted anecdotes to deliver an extended and sober narrative. Feynman's account reveals a disconnect between NASA's engineers and executives that was far more striking than he expected. His interviews of NASA's high-ranking managers revealed startling misunderstandings of elementary concepts. For instance, NASA managers claimed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a catastrophic failure aboard the shuttle, but Feynman discovered that NASA's own engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe at closer to 1 in 200. He concluded that the space shuttle reliability estimate by NASA management was fantastically unrealistic, and he was particularly angered that NASA used these figures to recruit Christa McAuliffe into the Teacher-in-Space program. He warned in his appendix to the commission's report (which was included only after he threatened not to sign the report), "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
Question: Feyman's experience on the Rogers Commission was talked about is which of his books?
Answer: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Question: In which way did he write about his experience on the Rogers Commission?
Answer: sober narrative
Question: His writings about the Rogers Commission showed that trouble was brewing between scientists and executives at which prolific institute?
Answer: NASA
Question: While the higher-ups said a failure was unlikely, at 1 in 100,000 odds, the scientists felt the odd were what?
Answer: 1 in 200
Question: Who did NASA recruit by using flawed safety numbers?
Answer: Christa McAuliffe
Question: What book ignored Feynman's experience on the Rogers Commission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which way did he avoid writing about his experience on the Rogers Commission?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What managers claimed there was a 1 in 10,000 chance of catastrophic failure aboard the shuttle?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did NASA recruit while using accurate safety numbers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who concluded that NASA management was fantastically realistic?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tajikistan (i/tɑːˈdʒiːkᵻstɑːn/, /təˈdʒiːkᵻstæn/, or /tæˈdʒiːkiːstæn/; Persian: تاجيكستان Тоҷикистон [tɔd͡ʒikɪsˈtɔn]), officially the Republic of Tajikistan (Persian: جمهورى تاجيكستان Tajik: Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Çumhuriji Toçikiston/Jumhuriyi Tojikiston; Russian: Респу́блика Таджикистан, Respublika Tadzhikistan), is a mountainous, landlocked country in Central Asia with an estimated 8 million people in 2013, and an area of 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi). It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. Pakistan lies to the south, separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Traditional homelands of Tajik people included present-day Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
Question: Where is Tajikistan located?
Answer: in Central Asia
Question: How many people are living in Tajikistan?
Answer: 8 million people
Question: What is the area of Tajikistan?
Answer: area of 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi)
Question: What country lies to Tajikistans east?
Answer: China
Question: What seperates Tajikistan and Pakistan?
Answer: Wakhan Corridor
Question: Which country is defined by a mountainous, ocean landscape in Central Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Tajikistan had an estimated 18 million people in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Traditional homelands of Talick people included?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which country in Central Africa has an area of 143,100 km2?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: 153,100 km2 is equal to how many square miles?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There were important quality advances in recordings specifically made for radio broadcast. In the early 1930s Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric announced the total reinvention of disc recording: the Western Electric Wide Range System, "The New Voice of Action". The intent of the new Western Electric system was to improve the overall quality of disc recording and playback. The recording speed was 33 1⁄3 rpm, originally used in the Western Electric/ERPI movie audio disc system implemented in the early Warner Brothers' Vitaphone "talkies" of 1927.
Question: When was the Western Electric System introduced?
Answer: early 1930s
Question: What two companies worked together to develop the Western Electric System?
Answer: Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric
Question: What system was used by Warner Brothers?
Answer: Western Electric system
Question: What speed was used in the Western Electric System?
Answer: 33 1⁄3 rpm
Question: What was the Western Electric System believed to do?
Answer: improve the overall quality |
Context: LaserDisc was a composite video format: the luminance (black and white) and chrominance (color) information were transmitted in one signal, separated by the receiver. While good comb filters can do so adequately, these two signals cannot be completely separated. On DVDs, data is stored in the form of digital blocks which make up each independent frame. The signal produced is dependent on the equipment used to master the disc. Signals range from composite and split, to YUV and RGB. Depending upon which format is used, this can result in far higher fidelity, particularly at strong color borders or regions of high detail (especially if there is moderate movement in the picture) and low-contrast details like skin tones, where comb filters almost inevitably smudge some detail.
Question: How is data stored on DVDs?
Answer: digital blocks which make up each independent frame
Question: What device seperated the black and white and color signals in LaserDiscs?
Answer: the receiver
Question: Are comb filters exact, or is some data smudged?
Answer: comb filters almost inevitably smudge some detail
Question: In what areas are comb filters most likely to lose detail?
Answer: low-contrast details like skin tones |
Context: Born in Bay City, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she signed with Sire Records (an auxiliary label of Warner Bros. Records) in 1982 and released her self-titled debut album the following year. She followed it with a series of commercially and critcally successful albums, including the Grammy Award winners Ray of Light (1998) and Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005). Throughout her career, Madonna has written and produced most of her songs, with many of them reaching number one on the record charts, including "Like a Virgin", "Into the Groove", "Papa Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue", "Frozen", "Music", "Hung Up", and "4 Minutes".
Question: Where was Madonna born?
Answer: Bay City, Michigan
Question: In which year did Madonna move to New York City?
Answer: 1977
Question: Which record label did Madonna sign with in 1982?
Answer: Sire Records
Question: What was the name of the album she released in 1983?
Answer: Madonna
Question: Name Madonna's Grammy award album in 1998?
Answer: Ray of Light |
Context: The biologist Lynn Margulis, famous for her work on endosymbiosis, contends that symbiosis is a major driving force behind evolution. She considers Darwin's notion of evolution, driven by competition, to be incomplete and claims that evolution is strongly based on co-operation, interaction, and mutual dependence among organisms. According to Margulis and Dorion Sagan, "Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking."
Question: What does Margulis think is the main driver of evolution?
Answer: symbiosis
Question: Who agrees with Margulis' cooperative view of evolution?
Answer: Dorion Sagan
Question: What is the biologist Darwin famous for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is strongly based only upon uncooperative interaction and independence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the last to utter this quote "Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking."?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not considered a driving force behind evolution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who currently disagrees with Margulis' cooperative view of evolution?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The American studies program reflected the worldwide anti-Communist ideological struggle. Norman Holmes Pearson, who worked for the Office of Strategic Studies in London during World War II, returned to Yale and headed the new American studies program, in which scholarship quickly became an instrument of promoting liberty. Popular among undergraduates, the program sought to instruct them in the fundamentals of American civilization and thereby instill a sense of nationalism and national purpose. Also during the 1940s and 1950s, Wyoming millionaire William Robertson Coe made large contributions to the American studies programs at Yale University and at the University of Wyoming. Coe was concerned to celebrate the 'values' of the Western United States in order to meet the "threat of communism."
Question: Who was the first professor for the American studies program?
Answer: Norman Holmes Pearson
Question: Where did Norman Holmes Pearson work before Yale?
Answer: Office of Strategic Studies in London
Question: What did the American studies program hope to instruct?
Answer: fundamentals of American civilization
Question: Who contributed to the American studies programs at Yale and University of Wyoming?
Answer: William Robertson Coe
Question: Why did Coe donate to American studies programs?
Answer: to celebrate the 'values' of the Western United States
Question: Who was the last professor for the American studies program?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Norman Holmes Pearson work after Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the American studies program hope to destruct?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who contributed to the Canadian studies programs at Yale and University of Wyoming?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Coe not donate to American studies programs?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The U.S. Census Bureau reports a 2010 population of 129,779, with 47,094 households and 25,854 families within the city of New Haven. The population density is 6,859.8 people per square mile (2,648.6/km²). There are 52,941 housing units at an average density of 2,808.5 per square mile (1,084.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city is 42.6% White, 35.4% African American, 0.5% Native American, 4.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 12.9% from other races, and 3.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 27.4% of the population. Non-Hispanic Whites were 31.8% of the population in 2010, down from 69.6% in 1970. The city's demography is shifting rapidly: New Haven has always been a city of immigrants and currently the Latino population is growing rapidly. Previous influxes among ethnic groups have been African-Americans in the postwar era, and Irish, Italian and (to a lesser degree) Slavic peoples in the prewar period.
Question: How many households are located in New Haven according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau report?
Answer: 47,094
Question: What percentage of New Haven's population is comprised by individuals identifying as White?
Answer: 42.6%
Question: What percentage of New Haven's population is comprised by individuals identifying as African American?
Answer: 35.4%
Question: What minority sector of the poulation in New Haven is currently experiencing rapid growth?
Answer: Latino
Question: What is the total population of New Haven as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010?
Answer: 129,779
Question: In terms of population density, what is the average person per square kilometers in New Haven?
Answer: 2,648.6/km²
Question: In regards to it resident, what is the demographic for Native Americans living in the city?
Answer: 0.5%
Question: New Haven has a large immigrant population, what seems to be one of the main cause of it throughout the last century?
Answer: postwar
Question: In modern times has the population of White/Caucasian increase or decrease since the 70s?
Answer: down from 69.6% in 1970 |
Context: In vertebrates, the part of the brain that plays the greatest role is the hypothalamus, a small region at the base of the forebrain whose size does not reflect its complexity or the importance of its function. The hypothalamus is a collection of small nuclei, most of which are involved in basic biological functions. Some of these functions relate to arousal or to social interactions such as sexuality, aggression, or maternal behaviors; but many of them relate to homeostasis. Several hypothalamic nuclei receive input from sensors located in the lining of blood vessels, conveying information about temperature, sodium level, glucose level, blood oxygen level, and other parameters. These hypothalamic nuclei send output signals to motor areas that can generate actions to rectify deficiencies. Some of the outputs also go to the pituitary gland, a tiny gland attached to the brain directly underneath the hypothalamus. The pituitary gland secretes hormones into the bloodstream, where they circulate throughout the body and induce changes in cellular activity.
Question: The hypothalamus is located at the base of what?
Answer: the forebrain
Question: In vertebrates, the most important part of the brain is what?
Answer: the hypothalamus,
Question: A collection of small nuclei at the base of the forebrain is called what?
Answer: the hypothalamus,
Question: The gland directly underneath the hypothalamus is which gland?
Answer: the pituitary gland
Question: The pituitary gland sends hormones through what in the body?
Answer: the bloodstream |
Context: In China, it opened on 12 November and earned $15 million on its opening day, which is the second biggest 2D single day gross for a Hollywood film behind the $18.5 million opening day of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and occupying 43% of all available screens which included $790,000 in advance night screenings. Through its opening weekend, it earned $48.1 million from 14,700 screens which is 198% ahead of Skyfall, a new record for a Hollywood 2D opening. IMAX contributed $4.6 million on 246 screens, also a new record for a three-day opening for a November release (breaking Interstellar's record). In its second weekend, it added $12.1 million falling precipitously by 75% which is the second worst second weekend drop for any major Hollywood release in China of 2015. It grossed a total of $84.7 million there after four weekends. Albeit a strong opening it failed to attain the $100 million mark as projected.
Question: On what day and month was Spectre released to the Chinese market?
Answer: 12 November
Question: How much more money did Spectre make during its first weekend in China than Skyfall?
Answer: 198%
Question: By the weekend after its China release, how much had revenue decreased?
Answer: 75%
Question: How much had Spectre made in its first month in China?
Answer: $84.7 million
Question: Spectre came in second in opening day gross in China behind what movie?
Answer: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Question: How much money did Spectre gross after four weekends in China?
Answer: $84.7 million
Question: The film opened on 11 of what month in China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The film occupied 53% of all screens in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The film took in $890,000 in advance night screenings in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The film fell by 85% in its second weekend in what country?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Standard Output Sensitivity (SOS) technique, also new in the 2006 version of the standard, effectively specifies that the average level in the sRGB image must be 18% gray plus or minus 1/3 stop when the exposure is controlled by an automatic exposure control system calibrated per ISO 2721 and set to the EI with no exposure compensation. Because the output level is measured in the sRGB output from the camera, it is only applicable to sRGB images—typically JPEG—and not to output files in raw image format. It is not applicable when multi-zone metering is used.
Question: What year was the Standard Output Sensitivity technique introduced?
Answer: 2006
Question: What does the Standard Output Sensitivity technique apply to?
Answer: sRGB images—typically JPEG
Question: What is the output level measured in?
Answer: the sRGB output from the camera
Question: With what type of metering can the Standard Output Sensitivity not be used?
Answer: multi-zone metering
Question: With what standard is the automatic exposure control system calibrated?
Answer: ISO 2721
Question: What technique was removed in the 2006 standards?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When exposure is not automatically controlled, what is the gray set at?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are files in raw measured?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Multi-zone metering uses what ISO calibration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the SOS technique applied to raw images?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The last use of the firing squad between 1608 and the moratorium on judicial executions between 1967 and 1977 was when Utah shot James W. Rodgers on March 30, 1960. The last use of the gallows between 1608 and the moratorium was when Kansas hanged George York on June 22, 1965. The last use of the electric chair between the first electrocution on August 6, 1890 and the moratorium was when Oklahoma electrocuted James French on August 10, 1966. The last use of the gas chamber between the first gassing on February 8, 1924 and the moratorium was when Colorado gassed Luis Monge on June 2, 1967.
Question: Who was executed on March 30, 1960?
Answer: James W. Rodgers
Question: What method of execution was used on James W. Rodgers?
Answer: firing squad
Question: In what state was Rodgers executed?
Answer: Utah
Question: On what date was George York executed?
Answer: June 22, 1965
Question: Which state executed James French?
Answer: Oklahoma
Question: Who was executed on March 30, 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What method of execution was not used on James W. Rodgers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what state was Rodgers born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date was George York freed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which state freed James French?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Roncalli was elected pope on 28 October 1958 at age 76 after 11 ballots. His selection was unexpected, and Roncalli himself had come to Rome with a return train ticket to Venice. He was the first pope to take the pontifical name of "John" upon election in more than 500 years, and his choice settled the complicated question of official numbering attached to this papal name due to the antipope of this name. Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962–65), the first session opening on 11 October 1962. His passionate views on equality were summed up in his famous statement, "We were all made in God's image, and thus, we are all Godly alike." John XXIII made many passionate speeches during his pontificate, one of which was on the day that he opened the Second Vatican Council in the middle of the night to the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square: "Dear children, returning home, you will find children: give your children a hug and say: This is a hug from the Pope!"
Question: How old was Roncalli when elected pope?
Answer: 76
Question: When was Roncalli elected pope?
Answer: 28 October 1958
Question: He was the first pope to take the pontifical name of "John" upon election in how long?
Answer: 500 years
Question: Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling what?
Answer: Second Vatican Council
Question: When did he call the Second Vatican Council?
Answer: 11 October 1962
Question: When was St. Peter's Square built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When the Second Vatican Council came to Rome what did they plan to return to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long has there been a Pope in Rome?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did God expect the Pope to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the crowd gathered at St. Peter's Square think the Pope's name choice settled?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The idea of Masonic brotherhood probably descends from a 16th-century legal definition of a brother as one who has taken an oath of mutual support to another. Accordingly, Masons swear at each degree to keep the contents of that degree secret, and to support and protect their brethren unless they have broken the law. In most Lodges the oath or obligation is taken on a Volume of Sacred Law, whichever book of divine revelation is appropriate to the religious beliefs of the individual brother (usually the Bible in the Anglo-American tradition). In Progressive continental Freemasonry, books other than scripture are permissible, a cause of rupture between Grand Lodges.
Question: Are masons allowed to divulge the secrets of each degree?
Answer: Masons swear at each degree to keep the contents of that degree secret
Question: How are oaths taken?
Answer: on a Volume of Sacred Law
Question: In what branch can books, other than scripture, be used for the purpose of oath taking?
Answer: Progressive continental Freemasonry
Question: What can be considered a Volume of Sacred Law?
Answer: whichever book of divine revelation is appropriate to the religious beliefs of the individual brother
Question: Masons swear to protect their brethren unless they what?
Answer: have broken the law
Question: Most lodges have the oath taken on what?
Answer: Volume of Sacred Law
Question: Mason swear at each degree to do what?
Answer: keep the contents of that degree secret
Question: Why are masons allowed to divulge the secrets of each degree?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are oaths taken as fake?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can be considered a Volume of Sacred Math?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are Masons required to have done in order to be protected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What branch of Freemasonry requires books other than scripture?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Network effects are a large factor with electrification. When converting lines to electric, the connections with other lines must be considered. Some electrifications have subsequently been removed because of the through traffic to non-electrified lines. If through traffic is to have any benefit, time consuming engine switches must occur to make such connections or expensive dual mode engines must be used. This is mostly an issue for long distance trips, but many lines come to be dominated by through traffic from long-haul freight trains (usually running coal, ore, or containers to or from ports). In theory, these trains could enjoy dramatic savings through electrification, but it can be too costly to extend electrification to isolated areas, and unless an entire network is electrified, companies often find that they need to continue use of diesel trains even if sections are electrified. The increasing demand for container traffic which is more efficient when utilizing the double-stack car also has network effect issues with existing electrifications due to insufficient clearance of overhead electrical lines for these trains, but electrification can be built or modified to have sufficient clearance, at additional cost.
Question: What is a major factor whn it comes to electrification?
Answer: Network effects
Question: What was the reason some electrifications were removed after a while?
Answer: through traffic to non-electrified lines
Question: Where can the issue of through traffic benefits occur?
Answer: long distance trips
Question: What can be a drawback of electrification of long distance freight trains?
Answer: electrification to isolated areas
Question: What does the increasing demand for container traffic make companies use more often?
Answer: diesel trains
Question: What is a small factor with electrification?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must be considered when converting lines from electric?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been removed because of the through traffic to electrified lines?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is mostly an issue for short distance trips?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Companies often find they need to use what trains to heavily populated areas?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Western emperor Gratian refused the office of pontifex maximus, and against the protests of the senate, removed the altar of Victory from the senate house and began the disestablishment of the Vestals. Theodosius I briefly re-united the Empire: in 391 he officially adopted Nicene Christianity as the Imperial religion and ended official support for all other creeds and cults. He not only refused to restore Victory to the senate-house, but extinguished the Sacred fire of the Vestals and vacated their temple: the senatorial protest was expressed in a letter by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus to the Western and Eastern emperors. Ambrose, the influential Bishop of Milan and future saint, wrote urging the rejection of Symmachus's request for tolerance. Yet Theodosius accepted comparison with Hercules and Jupiter as a living divinity in the panegyric of Pacatus, and despite his active dismantling of Rome's traditional cults and priesthoods could commend his heirs to its overwhelmingly Hellenic senate in traditional Hellenic terms.[clarification needed] He was the last emperor of both East and West.
Question: What office did Western emperor Gratian decline?
Answer: pontifex maximus
Question: What group did Gratian seek the abolish?
Answer: Vestals
Question: Which emperor briefly united the empire again?
Answer: Theodosius I
Question: What flame did Theodosius extinguish to remove the Vestals from power?
Answer: Sacred fire
Question: Of what was Theodosius the last emperor?
Answer: East and West |
Context: Spinal cord fibers dedicated to carrying A-delta fiber pain signals, and others that carry both A-delta and C fiber pain signals up the spinal cord to the thalamus in the brain have been identified. Other spinal cord fibers, known as wide dynamic range neurons, respond to A-delta and C fibers, but also to the large A-beta fibers that carry touch, pressure and vibration signals. Pain-related activity in the thalamus spreads to the insular cortex (thought to embody, among other things, the feeling that distinguishes pain from other homeostatic emotions such as itch and nausea) and anterior cingulate cortex (thought to embody, among other things, the motivational element of pain); and pain that is distinctly located also activates the primary and secondary somatosensory cortices. Melzack and Casey's 1968 picture of the dimensions of pain is as influential today as ever, firmly framing theory and guiding research in the functional neuroanatomy and psychology of pain.
Question: What are some spinal cord fibers exclusive to?
Answer: A-delta
Question: Pain signals travel first to what region of the brain?
Answer: thalamus
Question: What are dynamic range neurons?
Answer: spinal cord fibers
Question: Where does pain-related activity in the thalamus spread to?
Answer: the insular cortex
Question: Pain which is distinctly located also activates what cortices?
Answer: somatosensory
Question: Where do pain signals travel up to from the thalamus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are dynamic wide range neurons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What signals do the A-delta fibers carry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the cingulate cortex anterior embody?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose 1986 picture of pain is influential today?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Sweden, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court respectively function as the highest courts of the land. The Supreme Administrative Court considers cases concerning disputes between individuals and administrative organs, as well as disputes among administrative organs, while the Supreme Court considers all other cases. The judges are appointed by the Government. In most cases, the Supreme Courts will only grant leave to appeal a case (prövningstillstånd) if the case involves setting a precedent in the interpretation of the law. Exceptions are issues where the Supreme Court is the court of first instance. Such cases include an application for a retrial of a criminal case in the light of new evidence, and prosecutions made against an incumbent minister of the Government for severe neglect of duty. If a lower court has to try a case which involves a question where there is no settled interpretation of the law, it can also refer the question to the relevant Supreme Court for an answer.
Question: Sweden's two high courts are what?
Answer: the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court
Question: What is a type of case heard by the Supreme Administrative Court?
Answer: cases concerning disputes between individuals and administrative organs
Question: The Supreme Court hears what?
Answer: all other cases
Question: How are judges placed on Sweden's high courts?
Answer: appointed by the Government
Question: The ability to appeal a case provided by Sweden's court system is called what?
Answer: prövningstillstånd
Question: What is the Swedish term for government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other cases does the Supreme Court consider besides disputes between individuals and administrative organs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two courts are equally the highest courts of the land?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Supreme Court appoints what position?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Appalachians are characterized by a wealth of large, beautiful deciduous broadleaf (hardwood) trees. Their occurrences are best summarized and described in E. Lucy Braun's 1950 classic, Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America (Macmillan, New York). The most diverse and richest forests are the mixed mesophytic or medium moisture types, which are largely confined to rich, moist montane soils of the southern and central Appalachians, particularly in the Cumberland and Allegheny Mountains, but also thrive in the southern Appalachian coves. Characteristic canopy species are white basswood (Tilia heterophylla), yellow buckeye (Aesculus octandra), sugar maple (Acer saccharum), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera), white ash (Fraxinus americana ) and yellow birch (Betula alleganiensis). Other common trees are red maple (Acer rubrum), shagbark and bitternut hickories (Carya ovata and C. cordiformis) and black or sweet birch (Betula lenta ). Small understory trees and shrubs include flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) and spicebush (Lindera benzoin). There are also hundreds of perennial and annual herbs, among them such herbal and medicinal plants as American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) and black cohosh (Cimicifuga racemosa).
Question: What type of trees are lacking in the appalachian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was E. Lucy Braun from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the hardwood trees discovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are the perennial herbs primarily located?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The above are further subdivided into 31 planes of existence.[web 4] Rebirths in some of the higher heavens, known as the Śuddhāvāsa Worlds or Pure Abodes, can be attained only by skilled Buddhist practitioners known as anāgāmis (non-returners). Rebirths in the Ārūpyadhātu (formless realms) can be attained by only those who can meditate on the arūpajhānas, the highest object of meditation.
Question: Rebirth into the Śuddhāvāsa Worlds or Pure Abodes can only be attained by who?
Answer: skilled Buddhist practitioners known as anāgāmis (non-returners)
Question: Rebirth into the formless realms can only be attained by who?
Answer: those who can meditate on the arūpajhānas, the highest object of meditation
Question: How many planes of existence are there?
Answer: 31
Question: What are the higher heavens called?
Answer: Pure Abodes
Question: What are skilled Buddhists called?
Answer: anāgāmis
Question: What is another name for Ārūpyadhātu?
Answer: formless realms
Question: What is the highest object of meditation called?
Answer: arūpajhānas
Question: How many planes of existence?
Answer: 31
Question: Skilled buddhist practictioners that can get to the higher heavens are known as what?
Answer: anāgāmis
Question: What is the highest object of meditation?
Answer: arūpajhānas
Question: What does arupyadhatu mean?
Answer: formless realms |
Context: The most common staple crops consumed during Han were wheat, barley, foxtail millet, proso millet, rice, and beans. Commonly eaten fruits and vegetables included chestnuts, pears, plums, peaches, melons, apricots, strawberries, red bayberries, jujubes, calabash, bamboo shoots, mustard plant and taro. Domesticated animals that were also eaten included chickens, Mandarin ducks, geese, cows, sheep, pigs, camels and dogs (various types were bred specifically for food, while most were used as pets). Turtles and fish were taken from streams and lakes. Commonly hunted game, such as owl, pheasant, magpie, sika deer, and Chinese bamboo partridge were consumed. Seasonings included sugar, honey, salt and soy sauce. Beer and wine were regularly consumed.
Question: What type of crop was rice considered to be during this period?
Answer: staple crops
Question: What were dogs in this era most likely to be considered?
Answer: pets
Question: What type of partridge was commonly consumed?
Answer: Chinese bamboo
Question: Where were turtles acquired from?
Answer: streams and lakes
Question: What was the color of the bayberries?
Answer: red |
Context: Since the mid-1990s, Melbourne has maintained significant population and employment growth. There has been substantial international investment in the city's industries and property market. Major inner-city urban renewal has occurred in areas such as Southbank, Port Melbourne, Melbourne Docklands and more recently, South Wharf. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Melbourne sustained the highest population increase and economic growth rate of any Australian capital city in the three years ended June 2004. These factors have led to population growth and further suburban expansion through the 2000s.
Question: To what areas has Melbourne dedicated substantial international investment?
Answer: industries and property market
Question: In what areas has major inner-city urban renewal occurred?
Answer: Southbank, Port Melbourne, Melbourne Docklands and more recently, South Wharf
Question: Melbourne has sustained the highest population increase and economic growth rate in any Australian city according to what organization?
Answer: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Question: How many years did Melbourne sustain the highest population increase and economic growth?
Answer: three |
Context: It is the world's fourth oldest major film studio, after the renowned French studios Gaumont Film Company and Pathé, and the Danish Nordisk Film company.
Question: What is the nationality of Pathé?
Answer: French
Question: Along with Pathé and the Gaumont Film Company, what major film studio is older then Universal Studios?
Answer: Nordisk Film company
Question: Among major film studies, where does Universal Studios rank in terms of age?
Answer: fourth
Question: What studios follow Universal for being the oldest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does the Pathe Film Company belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does the Danish Film Company belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: While most of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands was under Ottoman control by the end of the 15th century, Cyprus and Crete remained Venetian territory and did not fall to the Ottomans until 1571 and 1670 respectively. The only part of the Greek-speaking world that escaped long-term Ottoman rule was the Ionian Islands, which remained Venetian until their capture by the First French Republic in 1797, then passed to the United Kingdom in 1809 until their unification with Greece in 1864.[page needed]
Question: The Ottomans controlled what islands b y the end of the 15th century?
Answer: Aegean islands
Question: The Venetians had control of which two islands in the 15th century?
Answer: Cyprus and Crete
Question: The Ottomans took which islands from the Venetians?
Answer: Cyprus and Crete
Question: In what year were the Ionian Islands captured by the French?
Answer: 1797
Question: Who gained control of the Ionian Islands in 1809?
Answer: United Kingdom |
Context: The most impressive and famous of Sumerian buildings are the ziggurats, large layered platforms which supported temples. Sumerian cylinder seals also depict houses built from reeds not unlike those built by the Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq until as recently as 400 CE. The Sumerians also developed the arch, which enabled them to develop a strong type of dome. They built this by constructing and linking several arches. Sumerian temples and palaces made use of more advanced materials and techniques,[citation needed] such as buttresses, recesses, half columns, and clay nails.
Question: What is the most impressive and famous style of Sumerian buildings?
Answer: the ziggurats
Question: Sumerians also built houses from reeds not very different from ones built by inhabitants in Iraq as recently as when?
Answer: 400 CE
Question: What development by the Sumerians allowed them to make use of domes?
Answer: the arch
Question: How did the Sumerians build their strong domes?
Answer: by constructing and linking several arches
Question: Where were the use of advanced materials and techniques on display in Sumer?
Answer: Sumerian temples and palaces
Question: What are the oldest examples of "Sumerian buildings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of seals were made with reeds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of house was built until the 4th century CE?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who built reed houses until the 4th century CE?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Napoleon acknowledged one illegitimate son: Charles Léon (1806–1881) by Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne. Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810–1868), the son of his mistress Maria Walewska, although acknowledged by Walewska's husband, was also widely known to be his child, and the DNA of his direct male descendant has been used to help confirm Napoleon's Y-chromosome haplotype. He may have had further unacknowledged illegitimate offspring as well, such as Eugen Megerle von Mühlfeld by Emilie Victoria Kraus and Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte (1816–1907) by Albine de Montholon.
Question: What was the name of the illegitimate son acknowledged by Napoleon?
Answer: Charles Léon
Question: Who was the mother of Charles Léon?
Answer: Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne
Question: Who was Napoleon's illegitimate son by his mistress, Maria Walewska?
Answer: Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
Question: DNA from Alexandre Colonna-Walewski's descendants has been used to confirm what attribute of Napoleon's?
Answer: Napoleon's Y-chromosome haplotype
Question: Who was the child of Emilie Victoria Kraus who might have been another of Napoleon's illegitimate children?
Answer: Eugen Megerle von Mühlfeld |
Context: Compared to other team sports, the National Football League preseason is very structured. Every NFL team plays exactly four pre-season exhibition games a year, two at home and two away, with the exception of two teams each year who play a fifth game, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. These exhibition games, most of which are held in the month of August, are played for the purpose of helping coaches narrow down the roster from the offseason limit of 90 players to the regular-season limit of 53 players. While the scheduling formula is not as rigid for preseason games as they are for the regular season, there are numerous restrictions and traditions that limit the choices of preseason opponents; teams are also restricted on what days and times they can play these games. Split-squad games, a practice common in baseball and hockey, where a team that is scheduled to play two games on the same day splits their team into two squads, are prohibited. The NFL has played exhibition games in Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia (including the American Bowl in 1999) and Mexico to spread the league's popularity (a game of this type was proposed for China but, due to financial and logistical problems, was eventually canceled). The league has tacitly forbidden the playing of non-league opponents, with the last interleague game having come in 1972 and the last game against a team other than an NFL team (the all-NFL rookie College All-Stars) was held in 1976. Exhibition games are quite unpopular with many fans, who resent having to pay regular-season prices for two home exhibition games as part of a season-ticket package. Numerous lawsuits have been brought by fans and classes of fans against the NFL or its member teams regarding this practice, but none have been successful in halting it.[citation needed] The Pro Bowl, traditionally played after the end of the NFL season (since 2011 is played the week prior to the Super Bowl), is also considered an exhibition game.
Question: How many preseason exhibition games does an NFL team play?
Answer: four
Question: What is the one exception to the NFL's 4-preseason-game limit?
Answer: the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game
Question: What month are most NFL preseason games in?
Answer: August
Question: How many players can an NFL team have in the off-season?
Answer: 90
Question: How many players can an NFL team have in the regular season?
Answer: 53
Question: How many postseason exhibition games doesn't NFL team play
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What team sport has very unstructured preseason's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What games are played to help coaches expand the roster?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What bowl game is traditionally played the beginning of the NFL season
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the last year that NFL teams were only allowed to play other NFL teams?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the United Kingdom, it has been alleged that peerages have been awarded to contributors to party funds, the benefactors becoming members of the House of Lords and thus being in a position to participate in legislating. Famously, Lloyd George was found to have been selling peerages. To prevent such corruption in the future, Parliament passed the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 into law. Thus the outright sale of peerages and similar honours became a criminal act. However, some benefactors are alleged to have attempted to circumvent this by cloaking their contributions as loans, giving rise to the 'Cash for Peerages' scandal.
Question: In the United Kingdom, what is awarded to people who help fund the parties?
Answer: peerages
Question: Who was discovered to be selling peerages?
Answer: Lloyd George
Question: What act did parliament put into place to stop such corruptions?
Answer: Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act
Question: What did the Honours act do?
Answer: outright sale of peerages and similar honours became a criminal act
Question: How did people attempt to overcome this law?
Answer: cloaking their contributions as loans
Question: What scandal took place in 1925?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is awarded to people in the UK who manage loans for a living?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Lloyd George help people acquire in his earlier profession?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do people become a member of if they help people get approved for a loan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can people who approve loans for a living take part in in government?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 23 April 2014, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was reported to be considering a new rule that will permit ISPs to offer content providers a faster track to send content, thus reversing their earlier net neutrality position. A possible solution to net neutrality concerns may be municipal broadband, according to Professor Susan Crawford, a legal and technology expert at Harvard Law School. On 15 May 2014, the FCC decided to consider two options regarding Internet services: first, permit fast and slow broadband lanes, thereby compromising net neutrality; and second, reclassify broadband as a telecommunication service, thereby preserving net neutrality. On 10 November 2014, President Barack Obama recommended that the FCC reclassify broadband Internet service as a telecommunications service in order to preserve net neutrality. On 16 January 2015, Republicans presented legislation, in the form of a U.S. Congress H.R. discussion draft bill, that makes concessions to net neutrality but prohibits the FCC from accomplishing the goal or enacting any further regulation affecting Internet service providers. On 31 January 2015, AP News reported that the FCC will present the notion of applying ("with some caveats") Title II (common carrier) of the Communications Act of 1934 to the internet in a vote expected on 26 February 2015. Adoption of this notion would reclassify internet service from one of information to one of the telecommunications and, according to Tom Wheeler, chairman of the FCC, ensure net neutrality. The FCC is expected to enforce net neutrality in its vote, according to the New York Times.
Question: What would the absence of net neutrality permit?
Answer: ISPs to offer content providers a faster track to send content
Question: what may possibly be a solution to net neutrality concerns?
Answer: municipal broadband
Question: how did president obama recommend to classify the internet?
Answer: a telecommunications service
Question: what did the fcc choose to apply to the internet?
Answer: Title II (common carrier)
Question: what would the internet be classified as based on title ii?
Answer: telecommunications
Question: What did the implementation of net neutrality permit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was net neutrality a solution to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What yell Law school professor considered to options regarding Internet service?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Democrats present in 2015
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the FCC expected to oppose with its vote?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Israel has a school life expectancy of 15.5 years and a literacy rate of 97.1% according to the United Nations. The State Education Law, passed in 1953, established five types of schools: state secular, state religious, ultra orthodox, communal settlement schools, and Arab schools. The public secular is the largest school group, and is attended by the majority of Jewish and non-Arab pupils in Israel. Most Arabs send their children to schools where Arabic is the language of instruction. Education is compulsory in Israel for children between the ages of three and eighteen. Schooling is divided into three tiers – primary school (grades 1–6), middle school (grades 7–9), and high school (grades 10–12) – culminating with Bagrut matriculation exams. Proficiency in core subjects such as mathematics, the Hebrew language, Hebrew and general literature, the English language, history, Biblical scripture and civics is necessary to receive a Bagrut certificate. In Arab, Christian and Druze schools, the exam on Biblical studies is replaced by an exam on Muslim, Christian or Druze heritage. Christian Arabs are one of the most educated groups in Israel. Maariv have describe the Christian Arabs sectors as "the most successful in education system", since Christian Arabs fared the best in terms of education in comparison to any other group receiving an education in Israel. Israeli children from Russian-speaking families have a higher bagrut pass rate at high-school level. Although amongst immigrant children born in the FSU, the bagrut pass rate is highest amongst those families from Western FSU states of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (at 62.6%), and lower amongst those from Central Asian and Caucasian FSU states. In 2003, over half of all Israeli twelfth graders earned a matriculation certificate.
Question: What is the school expectancy in Israel?
Answer: 15.5 years
Question: What is the literacy rate in Israel?
Answer: 97.1%
Question: What is necessary to receive a Bagrut certificate?
Answer: Biblical scripture and civics |
Context: In descending order of population, Oklahoma's largest cities in 2010 were: Oklahoma City (579,999, +14.6%), Tulsa (391,906, −0.3%), Norman (110,925, +15.9%), Broken Arrow (98,850, +32.0%), Lawton (96,867, +4.4%), Edmond (81,405, +19.2%), Moore (55,081, +33.9%), Midwest City (54,371, +0.5%), Enid (49,379, +5.0%), and Stillwater (45,688, +17.0%). Of the state's ten largest cities, three are outside the metropolitan areas of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and only Lawton has a metropolitan statistical area of its own as designated by the United States Census Bureau, though the metropolitan statistical area of Fort Smith, Arkansas extends into the state.
Question: What is Oklahoma's largest city?
Answer: Oklahoma City
Question: How much did Oklahoma City's population grow from 2000 to 2010?
Answer: 14.6%
Question: How many people lived in Lawton in 2010?
Answer: 96,867
Question: How many people lived in Stillwater in 2010?
Answer: 45,688
Question: What Arkansas city's metro area extends into Oklahoma?
Answer: Fort Smith |
Context: Modern Ottoman studies think that the change in relations between the Ottoman Turks and central Europe was caused by the opening of the new sea routes. It is possible to see the decline in the significance of the land routes to the East as Western Europe opened the ocean routes that bypassed the Middle East and Mediterranean as parallel to the decline of the Ottoman Empire itself. The Anglo-Ottoman Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Balta Liman that opened the Ottoman markets directly to English and French competitors, would be seen as one of the staging posts along this development.
Question: What is believed to have caused the opening of new sea routes during the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: change in relations between the Ottoman Turks and central Europe
Question: The formation of sea routes bypassing the Middle East may have led to the decline of what?
Answer: the Ottoman Empire itself
Question: What is another name for the Treaty of Balta Liman?
Answer: The Anglo-Ottoman Treaty
Question: What did the Treaty of Balta Liman do for Ottoman markets?
Answer: opened the Ottoman markets directly to English and French competitors
Question: In what direction did land routes lose their importance?
Answer: East |
Context: As an initial response, Truman called for a naval blockade of North Korea, and was shocked to learn that such a blockade could be imposed only 'on paper', since the U.S. Navy no longer had the warships with which to carry out his request. In fact, because of the extensive defense cuts and the emphasis placed on building a nuclear bomber force, none of the services were in a position to make a robust response with conventional military strength. General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was faced with re-organizing and deploying an American military force that was a shadow of its World War II counterpart. The impact of the Truman administration's defense budget cutbacks were now keenly felt, as American troops fought a series of costly rearguard actions. Lacking sufficient anti-tank weapons, artillery or armor, they were driven back down the Korean peninsula to Pusan. In a postwar analysis of the unpreparedness of U.S. Army forces deployed to Korea during the summer and fall of 1950, Army Major General Floyd L. Parks stated that "Many who never lived to tell the tale had to fight the full range of ground warfare from offensive to delaying action, unit by unit, man by man ... [T]hat we were able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat ... does not relieve us from the blame of having placed our own flesh and blood in such a predicament."
Question: Why was the US naval blockade not feasible?
Answer: U.S. Navy no longer had the warships
Question: Why was the US not able to provide an adequate response to the Korean invasion?
Answer: defense budget cutbacks
Question: Who was tasked with reorganization and deploying of the US military?
Answer: General Omar Bradley
Question: Who was forced to retreat back to the Pusan Peninsula due to unpreparedness?
Answer: American troops
Question: Who stated that winning the war does not excuse putting US troops into a bad situation?
Answer: Major General Floyd L. Parks |
Context: Comcast sold Comcast Cellular to SBC Communications in 1999 for $400 million, releasing them from $1.27 billion in debt. Comcast acquired Greater Philadelphia Cablevision in 1999. In March 1999, Comcast offered to buy MediaOne for $60 billion. However, MediaOne decided to accept AT&T Corporation's offer of $62 billion instead. Comcast University started in 1999 as well as Comcast Interactive Capital Group to make technology and Internet related investments taking its first investment in VeriSign.
Question: What was Comcast's telecommunication business prior to 1999?
Answer: Comcast Cellular
Question: What company did Comcast sell their telecommunications company to?
Answer: SBC Communications
Question: How much was ComCast Cellular sold for in 1999?
Answer: $400 million
Question: What internet commerce company did Comcast invest in?
Answer: VeriSign
Question: MediaOne merged with what telecommunications company?
Answer: AT&T Corporation
Question: How much did Comcast pay to purchase Greater Philadelphia Cablvision?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company turned down AT&T's offer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What month did VeriSign start?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much debt did SBC Communications have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who sold Comcast Cellular to Comcast?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tennessee's major industries include agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. Poultry, soybeans, and cattle are the state's primary agricultural products, and major manufacturing exports include chemicals, transportation equipment, and electrical equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most visited national park, is headquartered in the eastern part of the state, and a section of the Appalachian Trail roughly follows the Tennessee-North Carolina border. Other major tourist attractions include the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga; Dollywood in Pigeon Forge; the Parthenon, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and Ryman Auditorium in Nashville; the Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg; and Elvis Presley's Graceland residence and tomb, the Memphis Zoo, and the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.
Question: What is Tennessee's primary non-meat agricultural product?
Answer: soybeans
Question: Which national park in Tennessee sees more visitors that any other in the United States?
Answer: Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Question: What trail forms part of the border Tennessee shares with North Carolina?
Answer: Appalachian Trail
Question: Which Tennessee city hosts the state's most famous aquarium?
Answer: Chattanooga
Question: What tourist attraction is located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
Answer: Dollywood |
Context: Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC. The assassination was led by Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus. Most of the conspirators were senators, who had a variety of economic, political, or personal motivations for carrying out the assassination. Many were afraid that Caesar would soon resurrect the monarchy and declare himself king. Others feared loss of property or prestige as Caesar carried out his land reforms in favor of the landless classes. Virtually all the conspirators fled the city after Caesar's death in fear of retaliation. The civil war that followed destroyed what was left of the Republic.
Question: On what date was Caesar killed?
Answer: March 15, 44 BC
Question: Who comprised most of the members of the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar?
Answer: senators
Question: What did some members of the conspiracy believe Caesar would bring back?
Answer: the monarchy
Question: Who did Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus lead the conspiracy against?
Answer: Caesar
Question: Why did many members of the senate flee the city after Caesar's death?
Answer: fear of retaliation |
Context: Kerry is a Roman Catholic, and is said to carry a religious rosary, a prayer book, and a St. Christopher medal (the patron saint of travelers) when he campaigned. While Kerry is personally against abortion, he supports a woman's legal right to have one. Discussing his faith, Kerry said, "I thought of being a priest. I was very religious while at school in Switzerland. I was an altar boy and prayed all the time. I was very centered around the Mass and the church." He also said that the Letters of Paul (Apostle Paul) moved him the most, stating that they taught him to "not feel sorry for myself."
Question: What religion is Kerry?
Answer: Roman Catholic
Question: What religious items did Kerry bring with him while campaigning?
Answer: a religious rosary, a prayer book, and a St. Christopher medal
Question: What is St. Christopher the patron saint of?
Answer: travelers
Question: What did Kerry do in the church while living in Switzerland?
Answer: was an altar boy and prayed all the time
Question: Which part of the Bible did Kerry find the most moving?
Answer: the Letters of Paul |
Context: After two forays into more serious dramatic films, Spielberg then directed the third Indiana Jones film, 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Once again teaming up with Lucas and Ford, Spielberg also cast actor Sean Connery in a supporting role as Indy's father. The film earned generally positive reviews and was another box office success, becoming the highest grossing film worldwide that year; its total box office receipts even topped those of Tim Burton's much-anticipated film Batman, which had been the bigger hit domestically. Also in 1989, he re-united with actor Richard Dreyfuss for the romantic comedy-drama Always, about a daredevil pilot who extinguishes forest fires. Spielberg's first romantic film, Always was only a moderate success and had mixed reviews.
Question: When did the 3rd Indiana Jones film come out?
Answer: 1989
Question: What was the 3rd Indiana Jones film called?
Answer: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Question: Who played Indiana Jones's father?
Answer: Sean Connery
Question: Who directed 'Batman'?
Answer: Tim Burton
Question: What was 'Always' about?
Answer: a daredevil pilot who extinguishes forest fires
Question: When did the second Indiana Jones movie come out?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Besides Richard Dreyfuss who else starred in Always?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Sean Connery's highest grossing movie?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Spielberg's most profitable movie?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Tim Burton's most profitable movie?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The humoral (antibody) response is defined as the interaction between antibodies and antigens. Antibodies are specific proteins released from a certain class of immune cells known as B lymphocytes, while antigens are defined as anything that elicits the generation of antibodies ("anti"body "gen"erators). Immunology rests on an understanding of the properties of these two biological entities and the cellular response to both.
Question: Humoral immunology involves the interaction of what two elements?
Answer: antibodies and antigens
Question: What are antibodies comprised of?
Answer: specific proteins
Question: What cells produce antibodies?
Answer: B lymphocytes
Question: The term "antigen" is rooted in what two words?
Answer: "anti"body "gen"erators
Question: Immunology is the study of what type of responses to antibodies and antigens?
Answer: cellular response |
Context: Renaissance humanism was an intellectual movement in Europe of the later Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. The 19th-century German historian Georg Voigt (1827–91) identified Petrarch as the first Renaissance humanist. Paul Johnson agrees that Petrarch was "the first to put into words the notion that the centuries between the fall of Rome and the present had been the age of Darkness". According to Petrarch, what was needed to remedy this situation was the careful study and imitation of the great classical authors. For Petrarch and Boccaccio, the greatest master was Cicero, whose prose became the model for both learned (Latin) and vernacular (Italian) prose.
Question: When did the first wave of Humanism reach Europe?
Answer: Middle Ages and the Early Modern period
Question: Who was thought to be the original believer of humanism in of the Renaissance period?
Answer: Petrarch
Question: The study and following of classical writers was said to be a solution to what issue?
Answer: Cicero
Question: When did the first wave of Humanism fail to reach Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was thought to be the only believer of humanism in of the Renaissance period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What issue was the study and following of classical writers said to be a problem of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not understand prose?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was an intellectual movement forbidden in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi is the location where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life and was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Rajghat is the place where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated on 31 January 1948 after his assassination and his ashes were buried and make it a final resting place beside the sanctity of the Yamuna River. The Raj Ghat in the shape of large square platform with black marble was designed by architect Vanu Bhuta.
Question: In which location did Mahatma Gandhi spend the final 144 days of his life?
Answer: Gandhi Smriti
Question: In which city is the Gandhi Smriti located?
Answer: New Delhi
Question: On which date was Mahatma Gandhi killed?
Answer: 30 January 1948
Question: In what location was Mahatma Gandhi cremated?
Answer: Rajghat
Question: The Raj Ghat was designed by what architect?
Answer: Vanu Bhuta |
Context: The first degrees from the college were awarded in 1849. The university was expanded with new buildings to accommodate more students and faculty. With each new president, new academic programs were offered and new buildings built to accommodate them. The original Main Building built by Sorin just after he arrived was replaced by a larger "Main Building" in 1865, which housed the university's administration, classrooms, and dormitories. Beginning in 1873, a library collection was started by Father Lemonnier. By 1879 it had grown to ten thousand volumes that were housed in the Main Building.
Question: In what year did the initial degrees get handed out at Notre Dame?
Answer: 1849
Question: In what year did the original Sorin built Main Building get replaced?
Answer: 1865
Question: Which individual began a library at Notre Dame?
Answer: Father Lemonnier
Question: In what year had the library at Notre Dame reach 10,000 books?
Answer: 1879
Question: In what year was the library at Notre Dame started?
Answer: 1873 |
Context: A major feature is the calypso competition. Calypso music, originating in Trinidad, uses syncopated rhythm and topical lyrics. It offers a medium in which to satirise local politics, amidst the general bacchanal. Calypso tents, also originating in Trinidad, feature cadres of musicians who perform biting social commentaries, political exposés or rousing exhortations to "wuk dah waistline" and "roll dat bumper". The groups compete for the Calypso Monarch Award, while the air is redolent with the smells of Bajan cooking during the Bridgetown Market Street Fair. The Cohobblopot Festival blends dance, drama and music with the crowning of the King and Queen of costume bands. Every evening the "Pic-o-de-Crop" Show is performed after the King of Calypso is finally crowned. The climax of the festival is Kadooment Day celebrated with a national holiday when costume bands fill the streets with pulsating Barbadian rhythms and fireworks.
Question: What type of competition is a major feature of the festival?
Answer: calypso
Question: Where did Calypso music originate?
Answer: Trinidad
Question: Who perform biting social commentaries?
Answer: musicians
Question: What do the musical groups compete for?
Answer: the Calypso Monarch Award
Question: What is the climax of the festival called?
Answer: Kadooment Day |
Context: The predominant religions in Zhejiang are Chinese folk religions, Taoist traditions and Chinese Buddhism. According to surveys conducted in 2007 and 2009, 23.02% of the population believes and is involved in cults of ancestors, while 2.62% of the population identifies as Christian, decreasing from 3.92% in 2004. The reports didn't give figures for other types of religion; 74.36% of the population may be either irreligious or involved in worship of nature deities, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, folk religious sects, and small minorities of Muslims.
Question: What is another predominant religion of Zhejiang besides Chinese folk religions and Taoist traditions?
Answer: Chinese Buddhism
Question: According to surveys in 2007 and 2009, what percent of the population believes in cults of ancestors?
Answer: 23.02%
Question: According to surveys in 2007 and 2009, what percent of the population identifies as Christian?
Answer: 2.62%
Question: What percent of the population identified as Christians in 2004?
Answer: 3.92%
Question: What percent of the population may be irreligious?
Answer: 74.36%
Question: What is another predominant religion of Zhejiang besides Japanese folk religions and Taoist traditions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: According to surveys in 2007 and 2009, what percent of the population does not believe in cults of ancestors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of the population identified as Christians in 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of the population is not irreligious?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On 1 May, The Sun claimed to have 'sponsored' a British missile. Under the headline "Stick This Up Your Junta: A Sun missile for Galtieri’s gauchos", the newspaper published a photograph of a missile, (actually a Polaris missile stock shot from the Ministry of Defence) which had a large Sun logo printed on its side with the caption "Here It Comes, Senors..." underneath. The paper explained that it was 'sponsoring' the missile by contributing to the eventual victory party on HMS Invincible when the war ended. In copy written by Wendy Henry, the paper said that the missile would shortly be used against Argentinian forces. Despite this, it was not well received by the troops and copies of The Sun were soon burnt. Tony Snow, The Sun journalist on HMS Invincible who had 'signed' the missile, reported a few days later that it had hit an Argentinian target.
Question: What did The Sun state that had it taken sponsorship of?
Answer: a British missile
Question: What did the wording on the side of The Sun missile state?
Answer: "Here It Comes, Senors..."
Question: Who did The Sun state that the missile would be used against?
Answer: Argentinian forces
Question: How did troops react to the missile?
Answer: it was not well received
Question: What was the name of The Sun journalist who reported on the missile?
Answer: Tony Snow |
Context: In 1945, Plymouth-born Michael Foot was elected Labour MP for the war-torn constituency of Plymouth Devonport and after serving as Secretary of State for Education and responsible for the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act, went on to become one of the most distinguished leaders of the Labour party.
Question: What constituency did MP Michael Foot represent?
Answer: Plymouth Devonport
Question: What position was Michael Foot noted to occupy in government?
Answer: Secretary of State for Education
Question: What notable piece of legislation did Michael Foot contribute to?
Answer: 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act
Question: What party did Michael Foot become a leader of?
Answer: Labour
Question: In what town was Michael Foot born?
Answer: Plymouth |
Context: Federalism, and other forms of territorially autonomy, is generally seen as a useful way to structure political systems in order prevent violence among different groups with countries because it allows certain groups to legislate at the subnational level. Some scholars have suggested, however, that federalism can divide countries and result in state collapse because it creates proto-states. Still others have shown that federalism is only divisive when it lacks mechanisms tthat encourage political parties to compete across regional boundaries.
Question: What is federalism seen as?
Answer: a useful way to structure political systems in order prevent violence among different groups with countries
Question: What does federalism allow?
Answer: it allows certain groups to legislate at the subnational level
Question: What do scholars think of federalism?
Answer: Some scholars have suggested, however, that federalism can divide countries
Question: What isn't federalism seen as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is communism seen as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What doesn't federalism allow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does federalism not allow?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What don't scholars think of federalism?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Feynman alludes to his thoughts on the justification for getting involved in the Manhattan project in The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. He felt the possibility of Nazi Germany developing the bomb before the Allies was a compelling reason to help with its development for the U.S. He goes on to say that it was an error on his part not to reconsider the situation once Germany was defeated. In the same publication, Feynman also talks about his worries in the atomic bomb age, feeling for some considerable time that there was a high risk that the bomb would be used again soon, so that it was pointless to build for the future. Later he describes this period as a "depression".
Question: In which book did Feynman talk about the Manhattan project?
Answer: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Question: What was his reasoning in helping make the atomic bomb?
Answer: possibility of Nazi Germany developing the bomb before the Allies
Question: After feeling guilty for helping make an atomic bomb, Feynman went through what mental disorder?
Answer: depression
Question: What did Feynman think of his part in making the bomb after Germany had been defeated?
Answer: error on his part
Question: Which book did Feynman avoid about the Manhattan project?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was his reasoning in helping destroy the atomic bomb?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What disorder was Feynman falsely diagnosed with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Feynman think of his part in making the bomb after Spain had been defeated?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Oklahoma City also has several major national and state highways within its city limits. Shields Boulevard (US-77) continues from E.K. Gaylord Boulevard in downtown Oklahoma City and runs south eventually connecting to I-35 near the suburb of Moore. Northwest Expressway (Oklahoma State Highway 3) runs from North Classen Boulevard in north-central Oklahoma City to the northwestern suburbs.
Question: What boulevard turns into E.K Gaylord Boulevard?
Answer: Shields Boulevard |
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