text
large_stringlengths 236
26.5k
|
|---|
Context: With high cost of labor in developed countries, production automation has become increasingly popular. Rather than being assembled by hand, mosaics designed using computer aided design (CAD) software can be assembled by a robot. Production can be greater than 10 times faster with higher accuracy. But these "computer" mosaics have a different look than hand-made "artisanal" mosaics. With robotic production, colored tiles are loaded into buffers, and then the robot picks and places tiles individually according to a command file from the design software.
Question: Why has production automation become popular?
Answer: high cost of labor in developed countries
Question: Which software can aid in the design of robotically created mosaics?
Answer: CAD
Question: How much faster is automated creation over handmade?
Answer: 10 times faster
Question: How does the robot pick the tiles it places?
Answer: a command file
Question: What is not the same between hand made and robotic amde mosaics?
Answer: different look |
Context: The undergraduates have a number of traditions: Painting The Rock (originally a fountain donated by the Class of 1902) is a way to advertise, for example, campus organizations, events in Greek life, student groups, and university-wide events. Dance Marathon, a 30-hour philanthropic event, has raised more than 13 million dollars in its history for various children's charities. Primal Scream is held at 9 p.m. on the Sunday before finals week every quarter; students lean out of windows or gather in courtyards and scream. Armadillo Day, or, more popularly, Dillo Day, a day of music and food, is held on Northwestern's Lakefill every Spring on the weekend after Memorial Day. And in one of the University's newer traditions, every year during freshman orientation, known as Wildcat Welcome, freshmen and transfer students pass through Weber Arch to the loud huzzahs of upperclassmen and the music of the University Marching Band.
Question: How much money has the traditional Northwestern Dance Marathon raised for children's charities?
Answer: more than 13 million dollars
Question: What do students do during the traditional Primal Scream event held before finals week every quarter?
Answer: scream
Question: What is the popular name for Northwestern's traditional Armadillo Day?
Answer: Dillo Day
Question: When is Armadillo Day held every year?
Answer: on the weekend after Memorial Day
Question: What name is freshman orientation known as?
Answer: Wildcat Welcome
Question: How much money has the traditional Southwestern Dance Marathon raised for children's charities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do students do during the traditional Primal Scream event held before finals week every year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the popular name for Southwestern's traditional Armadillo Day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What name is sophomore orientation known as?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the early Western Han, a wealthy salt or iron industrialist, whether a semi-autonomous king or wealthy merchant, could boast funds that rivaled the imperial treasury and amass a peasant workforce of over a thousand. This kept many peasants away from their farms and denied the government a significant portion of its land tax revenue. To eliminate the influence of such private entrepreneurs, Emperor Wu nationalized the salt and iron industries in 117 BC and allowed many of the former industrialists to become officials administering the monopolies. By Eastern Han times, the central government monopolies were repealed in favor of production by commandery and county administrations, as well as private businessmen.
Question: In which year did Emperor Wu monopolize several industries?
Answer: 117 BC
Question: Who allowed industrialists to become officials in the newly state sanctioned industries?
Answer: Emperor Wu
Question: During what period did the governmental monopolies become privatized once again?
Answer: Eastern Han
Question: What did Emperor Wu do to negate the influence of private entrepreneurs?
Answer: nationalized the salt and iron industries
Question: During what era could a wealthy iron industrialist be able to rival the treasury in funds?
Answer: Western Han |
Context: Adolescence (from Latin adolescere, meaning "to grow up") is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood (age of majority). The period of adolescence is most closely associated with the teenage years, though its physical, psychological and cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later. For example, although puberty has been historically associated with the onset of adolescent development, it now typically begins prior to the teenage years and there has been a normative shift of it occurring in preadolescence, particularly in females (see precocious puberty). Physical growth, as distinct from puberty (particularly in males), and cognitive development generally seen in adolescence, can also extend into the early twenties. Thus chronological age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have found it difficult to agree upon a precise definition of adolescence.
Question: From which language does the word "adolescence" originate?
Answer: Latin
Question: What is the Latin meaning of the word "adolescere"?
Answer: to grow up
Question: What is another term for legal adulthood?
Answer: age of majority
Question: Physical growth and cognitive development generally observed in adolescents can extend to what age?
Answer: early twenties |
Context: As a result of the confusion in Greece at the end of the Second Macedonian War, the Seleucid Empire also became entangled with the Romans. The Seleucid Antiochus III had allied with Philip V of Macedon in 203 BC, agreeing that they should jointly conquer the lands of the boy-king of Egypt, Ptolemy V. After defeating Ptolemy in the Fifth Syrian War, Antiochus concentrated on occupying the Ptolemaic possessions in Asia Minor. However, this brought Antiochus into conflict with Rhodes and Pergamum, two important Roman allies, and began a 'cold war' between Rome and Antiochus (not helped by the presence of Hannibal at the Seleucid court). Meanwhile, in mainland Greece, the Aetolian League, which had sided with Rome against Macedon, now grew to resent the Roman presence in Greece. This presented Antiochus III with a pretext to invade Greece and 'liberate' it from Roman influence, thus starting the Roman-Syrian War (192–188 BC). In 191 BC, the Romans under Manius Acilius Glabrio routed him at Thermopylae and obliged him to withdraw to Asia. During the course of this war Roman troops moved into Asia for the first time, where they defeated Antiochus again at the Battle of Magnesia (190 BC). A crippling treaty was imposed on Antiochus, with Seleucid possessions in Asia Minor removed and given to Rhodes and Pergamum, the size of the Seleucid navy reduced, and a massive war indemnity invoked.
Question: Antiochus III allied with what king in 203 BC?
Answer: Philip V
Question: Who defeated Ptolemy?
Answer: Antiochus
Question: In what war was Ptolemy defeated?
Answer: Fifth Syrian War
Question: What war bgean when Antiochus III invaded Greece?
Answer: Roman-Syrian War
Question: What years did the Roman-Syrian war take place?
Answer: 192–188 BC |
Context: The emergence of Susa as a city, as determined by radiocarbon dating, dates back to early 4,395 BC. There are dozens of prehistoric sites across the Iranian plateau, pointing to the existence of ancient cultures and urban settlements in the 4th millennium BC. During the Bronze Age, Iran was home to several civilizations including Elam, Jiroft, and Zayande River. Elam, the most prominent of these civilizations, developed in the southwest of Iran, alongside those in Mesopotamia. The emergence of writing in Elam was paralleled to Sumer, and the Elamite cuneiform was developed since the 3rd millennium BC.
Question: What ancient city dates back as early as 4395 BC in Iran?
Answer: Susa
Question: How long ago did ancient cultures and settlements exist across the Iranian plateau?
Answer: the 4th millennium BC
Question: During what Age was Iran the site of several of these ancient civilizations?
Answer: Bronze Age
Question: Which ancient civilization in Iran during the 4th Millenium was the most prominent?
Answer: Elam
Question: Elam's writing system had paralleled Sumer's cuneiform since what era?
Answer: the 3rd millennium BC |
Context: In addition, the Somali community has produced numerous important Muslim figures over the centuries, many of whom have significantly shaped the course of Islamic learning and practice in the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and well beyond.
Question: Along with the Horn of Africa, what is a notable location where Somali Islamic figures have been influential?
Answer: the Arabian Peninsula |
Context: In 2014 attention was drawn to an appeal to the New Zealand Immigration and Protection Tribunal against the deportation of a Tuvaluan family on the basis that they were "climate change refugees", who would suffer hardship resulting from the environmental degradation of Tuvalu. However the subsequent grant of residence permits to the family was made on grounds unrelated to the refugee claim. The family was successful in their appeal because, under the relevant immigration legislation, there were "exceptional circumstances of a humanitarian nature" that justified the grant of resident permits as the family was integrated into New Zealand society with a sizeable extended family which had effectively relocated to New Zealand. Indeed, in 2013 a claim of a Kiribati man of being a "climate change refugee" under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) was determined by the New Zealand High Court to be untenable as there was no persecution or serious harm related to any of the five stipulated Refugee Convention grounds. Permanent migration to Australia and New Zealand, such as for family reunification, requires compliance with the immigration legislation of those countries.
Question: What was the argument against the deportation of a Tuvaluan family from new Zealand?
Answer: climate change refugees
Question: By what reason was the Tuvaluan family allowed to immigrate?
Answer: humanitarian nature
Question: What court ruled the claim of climate change refugee to be untenable?
Answer: New Zealand High Court
Question: What feature was missing in the climate change claims?
Answer: persecution or serious harm
Question: What document draws out the requirements of refugee status?
Answer: Refugee Convention |
Context: Yongzheng also inherited diplomatic and strategic problems. A team made up entirely of Manchus drew up the Treaty of Kyakhta (1727) to solidify the diplomatic understanding with Russia. In exchange for territory and trading rights, the Qing would have a free hand dealing with the situation in Mongolia. Yongzheng then turned to that situation, where the Zunghars threatened to re-emerge, and to the southwest, where local Miao chieftains resisted Qing expansion. These campaigns drained the treasury but established the emperor's control of the military and military finance.
Question: When was the Treaty of Kyakhta written?
Answer: 1727
Question: Who was the partner in the Treaty of Kyakhta?
Answer: Russia
Question: What did the treaty give to the Russians?
Answer: territory and trading rights
Question: What did the Qing get from the Treaty of Kyakhta?
Answer: Mongolia |
Context: Feathers are a feature characteristic of birds (though also present in some dinosaurs not currently considered to be true birds). They facilitate flight, provide insulation that aids in thermoregulation, and are used in display, camouflage, and signaling. There are several types of feathers, each serving its own set of purposes. Feathers are epidermal growths attached to the skin and arise only in specific tracts of skin called pterylae. The distribution pattern of these feather tracts (pterylosis) is used in taxonomy and systematics. The arrangement and appearance of feathers on the body, called plumage, may vary within species by age, social status, and sex.
Question: What is a feature characteristic of birds?
Answer: Feathers
Question: What feature of a bird facilitate flight?
Answer: Feathers
Question: What is pterylae?
Answer: specific tracts of skin |
Context: Red, blue, and white are also the Pan-Slavic colors adopted by the Slavic solidarity movement of the late nineteenth century. Initially these were the colors of the Russian flag; as the Slavic movement grew, they were adopted by other Slavic peoples including Slovaks, Slovenes, and Serbs. The flags of the Czech Republic and Poland use red for historic heraldic reasons (see Coat of arms of Poland and Coat of arms of the Czech Republic) & not due to Pan-Slavic connotations. In 2004 Georgia adopted a new white flag, which consists of four small and one big red cross in the middle touching all four sides.
Question: When did the Slavic solidarity movement choose red blue and white as their colors?
Answer: the late nineteenth century
Question: In what year did the nation of George get a new national flag?
Answer: 2004
Question: What is in the middle of the Georgian flag?
Answer: one big red cross
Question: How many small crosses are on the Georgian flag?
Answer: four
Question: What were the Pan-Slavic colors originally?
Answer: the colors of the Russian flag
Question: What colors were adopted by the Pan solidarity movement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Pan solidarity movement take place?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do Georgia and Poland use red on their flags?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color flag did the Czech Republic adopt in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The University of Oklahoma has several institutions of higher learning in the city and metropolitan area, with OU Medicine and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center campuses located east of downtown in the Oklahoma Health Center district, and the main campus located to the south in the suburb of Norman. The OU Medicine hosting the state's only Level-One trauma center. OU Health Sciences Center is one of the nation's largest independent medical centers, employing more than 12,000 people. OU is one of only four major universities in the nation to operate six medical schools.[clarification needed]
Question: Which district is OU Medicine campus located in?
Answer: Oklahoma Health Center district
Question: Which institution houses the Level-One trauma center?
Answer: OU Medicine
Question: Approximately how many people work in OU Health Sciences Center?
Answer: 12,000 |
Context: There were 112,608 households in the city in 2000, of which 26.5% included children below the age of 18, 39.5% were composed of married couples living together, 11.4% reported a female householder with no husband present, and 45.5% classified themselves as nonfamily. Unmarried partners were present in 2.2% of households. In addition, 33.1% of all households were composed of individuals living alone, of which 6.2% was someone 65 years of age or older. The average household size in Raleigh was 2.30 persons, and the average family size was 2.97 persons.
Question: What percent of households had children in 2000?
Answer: 26.5%
Question: 39.5% of the households comprised of what?
Answer: married couples living together
Question: How many people lived alone in 2000?
Answer: 33.1%
Question: How many households had someone 65 or older?
Answer: 6.2%
Question: What was the average family size?
Answer: 2.97 persons.
Question: How many households were there in 2001?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the percentage of children are under 10?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people lived alone in 2004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of households had children in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage were 70 and older?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Some important texts were created and studied by scholars. Philosophical works written by Yang Xiong (53 BC – 18 AD), Huan Tan (43 BC – 28 AD), Wang Chong (27–100 AD), and Wang Fu (78–163 AD) questioned whether human nature was innately good or evil and posed challenges to Dong's universal order. The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan (d. 110 BC) and his son Sima Qian (145–86 BC) established the standard model for all of imperial China's Standard Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao (3–54 AD), his son Ban Gu (32–92 AD), and his daughter Ban Zhao (45–116 AD). There were dictionaries such as the Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen (c. 58 – c. 147 AD) and the Fangyan by Yang Xiong. Biographies on important figures were written by various gentrymen. Han dynasty poetry was dominated by the fu genre, which achieved its greatest prominence during the reign of Emperor Wu.
Question: Who had produced biographies of individuals of significant importance?
Answer: various gentrymen
Question: What type of poetry had much influence in the Han dynasty?
Answer: fu
Question: Who had written the dictionary Fangyan?
Answer: Yang Xiong
Question: Which person had authored the Book of Han?
Answer: Ban Biao
Question: What was the name of Ban Biao's female offspring?
Answer: Ban Zhao |
Context: Madonna's Italian-Catholic background and her relationship with her parents are reflected in the album Like a Prayer. It was an evocation of the impact religion had on her career. Her video for the title track contains Catholic symbolism, such as the stigmata. During The Virgin Tour, she wore a rosary and prayed with it in the music video for "La Isla Bonita". The "Open Your Heart" video sees her boss scolding her in the Italian language. On the Who's That Girl World Tour, she dedicated the song "Papa Don't Preach" to Pope John Paul II.
Question: What is Madonna's religious background?
Answer: Italian-Catholic
Question: Like a Prayer reflects Madonna's relationship with who?
Answer: her parents
Question: In which video did Madonna wear a rosary?
Answer: La Isla Bonita"
Question: In which video does it show Madonna being scolded by her boss in Italian?
Answer: Open Your Heart
Question: She dedicated Papa Don't Preach to whom?
Answer: Pope John Paul II. |
Context: After its release, Evita garnered critical appreciation. Zach Conner from Time magazine commented, "It's a relief to say that Evita is pretty damn fine, well cast and handsomely visualized. Madonna once again confounds our expectations. She plays Evita with a poignant weariness and has more than just a bit of star quality. Love or hate Madonna-Eva, she is a magnet for all eyes." Madonna won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the role. She released three singles from the Evita soundtrack album, including "You Must Love Me" (which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1997) and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina". Madonna was later presented with the Artist Achievement Award by Tony Bennett at the 1996 Billboard Music Awards. On October 14, 1996, Madonna gave birth to Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, her daughter with Leon. Biographer Mary Cross writes that although Madonna was often ill during the filming and worried that her pregnancy would harm the film, she reached some important personal goals: "Now 38 years old, Madonna had at last triumphed on screen and achieved her dream of having a child, both in the same year. She had reached another turning point in her career, reinventing herself and her image with the public." Her relationship with Carlos Leon ended in May 1997; she declared that they were "better off as best friends." After Lourdes' birth, Madonna became involved in Eastern mysticism and Kabbalah. She was introduced to Jewish mysticism by actress Sandra Bernhard in 1997.
Question: Who from Times magazine gave an excellent critique of the film Evita?
Answer: Zach Conner
Question: What award did Madonna win for the film Evita?
Answer: Golden Globe Award
Question: When was Madonna's daughter born?
Answer: October 14, 1996
Question: What is the name of Madonna's daughter?
Answer: Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon
Question: When did Madonna's relationship with Carlos Leon ended?
Answer: May 1997 |
Context: Because of its relative isolation from other Spanish-speaking areas over most of its 400-year existence, New Mexico Spanish, and in particular the Spanish of northern New Mexico and Colorado has retained many elements of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and has developed its own vocabulary. In addition, it contains many words from Nahuatl, the language spoken by the ancient Aztecs of Mexico. New Mexican Spanish also contains loan words from the Pueblo languages of the upper Rio Grande Valley, Mexican-Spanish words (mexicanismos), and borrowings from English. Grammatical changes include the loss of the second person verb form, changes in verb endings, particularly in the preterite, and partial merging of the second and third conjugations.
Question: Why is New Mexico always an after thought in American -Spanish speaking society?
Answer: Because of its relative isolation from other Spanish-speaking areas over most of its 400-year existence
Question: Is New Mexico's language different than from other Spanish dialect
Answer: , New Mexico Spanish, and in particular the Spanish of northern New Mexico and Colorado has retained many elements of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish
Question: How does New Mexico's Spanish dialect differ?
Answer: has developed its own vocabulary. In addition, it contains many words from Nahuatl, the language spoken by the ancient Aztecs of Mexico.
Question: Does New Mexico's language also include other dialect?
Answer: New Mexican Spanish also contains loan words from the Pueblo languages of the upper Rio Grande Valley, Mexican-Spanish words (mexicanismos)
Question: Does New Mexico also use language from the American language when spoken in Spanish?
Answer: borrowings from English. Grammatical changes include the loss of the second person verb form, changes in verb endings
Question: Why is Colorado always an after thought in American-Spanish speaking society?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Coloradp's Spanish dialect differ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Does Colorado also use language from the American language when spoken in Spanish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been relatively isolated from other English-speaking areas over most of its 400-year existence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for English-Spanish words?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: It was announced on December 12, 2012, that the AFL reached a partnership agreement with NET10 Wireless to be the first non-motorsports-related professional sports league in the United States to have a title sponsor, renaming it the NET10 Wireless Arena Football League. The redesigned website showed the new logo which incorporated the current AFL logo with the one from NET10 Wireless. The title sponsorship agreement ended in 2014 after a two-year partnership.
Question: On what date did the AFL announce its title sponsorship deal?
Answer: December 12, 2012
Question: What business was the title sponsor of the AFL?
Answer: NET10 Wireless
Question: What was the league renamed after the title sponsorship deal?
Answer: NET10 Wireless Arena Football League
Question: When did the AFL title sponsorship deal come to an end?
Answer: 2014
Question: How many years did the AFL title sponsorship deal last?
Answer: two |
Context: The east coast Appalachian system, originally forest covered, is relatively low and narrow and is bordered on the southeast and south by an important coastal plain. The Cordilleran system on the western side of the continent is lofty, broad and complicated having two branches, the Rocky Mountain System and the Pacific Mountain System. In between these mountain systems lie the Intermontaine Plateaus. Both the Columbia River and Colorado River rise far inland near the easternmost members of the Cordilleran system, and flow through plateaus and intermontaine basins to the ocean. Heavy forests cover the northwest coast, but elsewhere trees are found only on the higher ranges below the Alpine region. The intermontane valleys, plateaus and basins range from treeless to desert with the most arid region being in the southwest.
Question: What originally covered the east coast of the Appalachians?
Answer: forest
Question: What are the two branches of the Cordilleran system?
Answer: Rocky Mountain System and the Pacific Mountain System
Question: Which two major rivers are located in the Cordilleran system?
Answer: Columbia River and Colorado River
Question: Which region of the Appalachians is the most arid?
Answer: southwest
Question: What system is relatively high and wide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Appalachian system is bordered on the southwest and south by what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Cordilleran system on the eastern side of the continent is what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has three branches including the Rocky Mountains system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Light force cover what coast?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War (German: Deutsch-Französischer Krieg, lit. German-French War, French: Guerre franco-allemande, lit. Franco-German War), often referred to in France as the War of 1870 (19 July 1870 – 10 May 1871), was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The conflict was caused by Prussian ambitions to extend German unification. Some historians argue that the Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck planned to provoke a French attack in order to draw the southern German states—Baden, Württemberg, Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt—into an alliance with the North German Confederation dominated by Prussia, while others contend that Bismarck did not plan anything and merely exploited the circumstances as they unfolded.
Question: What is the Franco-Prussian War also known as?
Answer: Franco-German War
Question: What was the war often referred to in France as?
Answer: the War of 1870
Question: In the conflict, who lead the German states of the North German Confederation?
Answer: the Kingdom of Prussia
Question: Whose ambitions are credited with causing the conflict?
Answer: Prussian ambitions
Question: Which Prussian chancellor's motives in the conflict are still disputed?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck |
Context: In a switching circuit, the idea is to simulate, as near as possible, the ideal switch having the properties of open circuit when off, short circuit when on, and an instantaneous transition between the two states. Parameters are chosen such that the "off" output is limited to leakage currents too small to affect connected circuitry; the resistance of the transistor in the "on" state is too small to affect circuitry; and the transition between the two states is fast enough not to have a detrimental effect.
Question: How are parameters chosen in a switching circuit?
Answer: the "off" output is limited to leakage currents too small to affect connected circuitry
Question: What is a switching circuit trying to simulate when on?
Answer: short circuit
Question: What is a switching circuit trying to simulate when off?
Answer: open circuit
Question: How quickly does the change from open circuit to short circuit happen?
Answer: instantaneous
Question: What might stop a switch from transitioning quickly?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can help a switch work more efficiently?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of circuit has the least amount of resistance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of circuit has the most resistance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is a circuit most likely to fail?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: John wanted John de Gray, the Bishop of Norwich and one of his own supporters, to be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury after the death of Walter, but the cathedral chapter for Canterbury Cathedral claimed the exclusive right to elect Walter's successor. They favoured Reginald, the chapter's sub-prior. To complicate matters, the bishops of the province of Canterbury also claimed the right to appoint the next archbishop. The chapter secretly elected Reginald and he travelled to Rome to be confirmed; the bishops challenged the appointment and the matter was taken before Innocent. John forced the Canterbury chapter to change their support to John de Gray, and a messenger was sent to Rome to inform the papacy of the new decision. Innocent disavowed both Reginald and John de Gray, and instead appointed his own candidate, Stephen Langton. John refused Innocent's request that he consent to Langton's appointment, but the pope consecrated Langton anyway in June 1207.
Question: Who did John want to be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury?
Answer: John de Gray
Question: Who did Innocent disavow?
Answer: Reginald and John de Gray
Question: Who did John force to change their support to John de Gray?
Answer: Canterbury chapter |
Context: Traditionally, Switzerland avoids alliances that might entail military, political, or direct economic action and has been neutral since the end of its expansion in 1515. Its policy of neutrality was internationally recognised at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Only in 2002 did Switzerland become a full member of the United Nations and it was the first state to join it by referendum. Switzerland maintains diplomatic relations with almost all countries and historically has served as an intermediary between other states. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union; the Swiss people have consistently rejected membership since the early 1990s. However, Switzerland does participate in the Schengen Area.
Question: When was Switzerland's policy of neutrality internationally recognized?
Answer: Congress of Vienna in 1815
Question: What was Switzerland the first state to join the U.N. by?
Answer: referendum
Question: What have the Swiss people continually rejected membership in since the 1990's?
Answer: European Union
Question: How long has Switzerland traditionally been neutral?
Answer: since the end of its expansion in 1515
Question: How does Switzerland treat alliances that might entail military or political action?
Answer: avoids |
Context: As of 2013 the City of Paris had 1,570 hotels with 70,034 rooms, of which 55 were rated five-star, mostly belonging to international chains and mostly located close to the centre and the Champs-Élysées. Paris has long been famous for its grand hotels. The Hotel Meurice, opened for British travellers in 1817, was one of the first luxury hotels in Paris. The arrival of the railroads and the Paris Exposition of 1855 brought the first flood of tourists and the first modern grand hotels; the Hôtel du Louvre (now an antiques marketplace) in 1855; the Grand Hotel (now the Intercontinental LeGrand) in 1862; and the Hôtel Continental in 1878. The Hôtel Ritz on Place Vendôme opened in 1898, followed by the Hôtel Crillon in an 18th-century building on the Place de la Concorde in 1909; the Hotel Bristol on rue de Fabourg Saint-Honoré in 1925; and the Hotel George V in 1928.
Question: How many hotels are in the City of Paris?
Answer: 1,570
Question: When did The Hotel Meurice open?
Answer: 1817
Question: When was the Hotel du Louvre opened?
Answer: 1855
Question: Along what major road are most hotels located?
Answer: Champs-Élysées |
Context: "Whereas their Majesties have been Graciously Pleased to grant Letters patent to John Lofting of London Merchant for a New Invented Engine for Extinguishing Fires which said Engine have found every great encouragement. The said Patentee hath also projected a Very Useful Engine for starting of beer and other liquors which will deliver from 20 to 30 barrels an hour which are completely fixed with Brass Joints and Screws at Reasonable Rates. Any Person that hath occasion for the said Engines may apply themselves to the Patentee at his house near St Thomas Apostle London or to Mr. Nicholas Wall at the Workshoppe near Saddlers Wells at Islington or to Mr. William Tillcar, Turner, his agent at his house in Woodtree next door to the Sun Tavern London."
Question: How many barrels did Lofting promise his beer pump would deliver hourly?
Answer: 20 to 30
Question: What location did John Lofting live near?
Answer: St Thomas Apostle London
Question: In what London borough did Nicholas Wall reside?
Answer: Islington
Question: What was William Tillcar's profession?
Answer: Turner
Question: What tavern did William Tillcar live adjacent to?
Answer: Sun Tavern |
Context: In 1642, during the English Civil War, a Parliamentary garrison moved into Southampton. The Royalists advanced as far as Redbridge, Southampton, in March 1644 but were prevented from taking the town.
Question: What war was taking place in the 1640s in England?
Answer: English Civil War
Question: What year did a Parliamentary garrison enter Southampton?
Answer: 1642
Question: What is the furthest town the Royalists reached during their advance into Southampton in 1644?
Answer: Redbridge
Question: In what month of 1644 did the Royalists fail to take Redbridge?
Answer: March |
Context: Historical records show evidence of Jewish communities north of the Alps and Pyrenees as early as the 8th and 9th century. By the 11th century Jewish settlers, moving from southern European and Middle Eastern centers, appear to have begun to settle in the north, especially along the Rhine, often in response to new economic opportunities and at the invitation of local Christian rulers. Thus Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, invited Jacob ben Yekutiel and his fellow Jews to settle in his lands; and soon after the Norman Conquest of England, William the Conqueror likewise extended a welcome to continental Jews to take up residence there. Bishop Rüdiger Huzmann called on the Jews of Mainz to relocate to Speyer. In all of these decisions, the idea that Jews had the know-how and capacity to jump-start the economy, improve revenues, and enlarge trade seems to have played a prominent role. Typically Jews relocated close to the markets and churches in town centres, where, though they came under the authority of both royal and ecclesiastical powers, they were accorded administrative autonomy.
Question: Jewish communities were seen north of the Alps and Pyrenees as early as which centuries?
Answer: 8th and 9th century
Question: Jewish settlers appear along the Rhine by what century?
Answer: 11th century
Question: What two factors contributed the increase in Jewish settlers along the Rhine and other similar areas?
Answer: often in response to new economic opportunities and at the invitation of local Christian rulers |
Context: Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, the Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although he was the archbishop of one of the most ancient and prominent sees in Italy, he had not yet been made a cardinal. Though his absence from the 1958 conclave did not make him ineligible – under Canon Law any Catholic male who is capable of receiving priestly ordination and episcopal consecration may be elected – the College of Cardinals usually chose the new pontiff from among the Cardinals who head archdioceses or departments of the Roman Curia that attend the papal conclave. At the time, as opposed to contemporary practice, the participating Cardinals did not have to be below age 80 to vote, there were few Eastern-rite Cardinals, and no Cardinals who were just priests at the time of their elevation.
Question: Who was the Archbishop of Milan?
Answer: Giovanni Battista Montini
Question: New pontiffs are chosen from Cardinals who head what?
Answer: archdioceses or departments of the Roman Curia
Question: When was Montini absent from the conclave?
Answer: 1958
Question: What was the Roman curia absent from in 1958?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can be elected to the College of Cardinals under Canon Law?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the College of Cardinals choose the Archbishop of Milan from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What age did the Archbishop of Milan not have to be below to serve in office?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were Eastern-rite Cardinals in charge of in Italy?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With the majority of Nigeria's populace in the rural areas, the major languages of communication in the country remain indigenous languages. Some of the largest of these, notably Yoruba and Igbo, have derived standardised languages from a number of different dialects and are widely spoken by those ethnic groups. Nigerian Pidgin English, often known simply as 'Pidgin' or 'Broken' (Broken English), is also a popular lingua franca, though with varying regional influences on dialect and slang. The pidgin English or Nigerian English is widely spoken within the Niger Delta Regions, predominately in Warri, Sapele, Port Harcourt, Agenebode, Ewu, and Benin City.
Question: What is Nigerian Pidgin English often called?
Answer: 'Pidgin' or 'Broken'
Question: What regions is Nigerian English commonly spoken in?
Answer: Niger Delta Regions
Question: What type of region does a majority of Nigerians live in?
Answer: rural
Question: What type of languages are the most popular in Nigeria?
Answer: indigenous |
Context: Once a year between 2008–2012 the European Formula One Grand Prix took place in the Valencia Street Circuit. Valencia is among with Barcelona, Porto and Monte Carlo the only European cities ever to host Formula One World Championship Grands Prix on public roads in the middle of cities. The final race in 2012 European Grand Prix saw an extremely popular winner, since home driver Fernando Alonso won for Ferrari in spite of starting halfway down the field. The Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix (Gran Premi de la Comunitat Valenciana de motociclisme) is part of the Grand Prix motorcycle racing season at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo (also known as Circuit de Valencia). Periodically the Spanish round of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters touring car racing Championship (DTM) is held in Valencia.
Question: Who won the last race of the European Grand Prix in 2012?
Answer: Fernando Alonso
Question: What motorcycle event is held in Valencia?
Answer: Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
Question: In which years was the European Formula One Grand Prix in Valencia?
Answer: 2008–2012
Question: What is another name for the Circuit Recardo Tormo?
Answer: Circuit de Valencia |
Context: Schwarzenegger has admitted to using performance-enhancing anabolic steroids while they were legal, writing in 1977 that "steroids were helpful to me in maintaining muscle size while on a strict diet in preparation for a contest. I did not use them for muscle growth, but rather for muscle maintenance when cutting up." He has called the drugs "tissue building."
Question: In what year did Schwarzenegger write that he used anabolic steroid because they were "helpful"?
Answer: 1977 |
Context: Rowing has been popular in Philadelphia since the 18th century. Boathouse Row is a symbol of Philadelphia's rich rowing history, and each Big Five member has its own boathouse. Philadelphia hosts numerous local and collegiate rowing clubs and competitions, including the annual Dad Vail Regatta, the largest intercollegiate rowing event in the U.S, the Stotesbury Cup Regatta, and the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, all of which are held on the Schuylkill River. The regattas are hosted and organized by the Schuylkill Navy, an association of area rowing clubs that has produced numerous Olympic rowers.
Question: What water sport is popular in the city?
Answer: Rowing
Question: What is the symbol of rowing in the city?
Answer: Boathouse Row
Question: What is the name of the big rowing races?
Answer: Dad Vail Regatta, the largest intercollegiate rowing event in the U.S, the Stotesbury Cup Regatta, and the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta
Question: Where are these races held?
Answer: Schuylkill River |
Context: Politechnika (translated as a "technical university" or "university of technology") is a main kind of technical university name in Poland. There are some biggest Polytechnic in Poland:
Question: What word do they use in Poland for an institute of technology?
Answer: Politechnika |
Context: Outdoor events and festivals are held including the annual British Firework Championships in August, which attracts tens of thousands of people across the waterfront. In August 2006 the world record for the most amount of simultaneous fireworks was surpassed, by Roy Lowry of the University of Plymouth, over Plymouth Sound. Since 1992 the Music of the Night has been performed in the Royal Citadel by the 29 Commando Regiment and local performers to raise money for local and military charities.
Question: What notable event occurs each August?
Answer: British Firework Championships
Question: In what month and year was the world record for simultaneous fireworks broken?
Answer: August 2006
Question: Who broke the world record for simultaneous fireworks?
Answer: Roy Lowry
Question: What institution did Roy Lowry work for?
Answer: University of Plymouth
Question: In what year did the Music of the Night begin?
Answer: 1992 |
Context: In the beginning, racial classifications that identified race were inherently suspect and subject to strict scrutiny. These classifications would only be upheld if necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest. Later the U.S. Supreme Court decided that racial classifications that benefited underrepresented minorities were to only be upheld if necessary and promoted a compelling governmental purpose. (See Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.) There is no clear guidance about when government action is not "compelling", and such rulings are rare.
Question: What kind of classification was subject to strict scrutiny?
Answer: racial
Question: What was the only situation in which a racial classification could be considered acceptable?
Answer: necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest
Question: Who later confirmed that racial classifications were only to be upheld if they were necessary?
Answer: U.S. Supreme Court
Question: What is an example case that can help display where upholding a racial classification is beneficial?
Answer: Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.
Question: What kind of classification was not subject to strict scrutiny?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the only situation in which a racial classification could be considered unacceptable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who later confirmed that racial classifications were only to be upheld if they were unnecessary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example case that can help display where upholding a racial classification is not beneficial?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the audition rounds, 121 contestants were selected from around 10,000 who attended the auditions. These were cut to 30 for the semifinal, with ten going on to the finals. One semifinalist, Delano Cagnolatti, was disqualified for lying to evade the show's age limit. One of the early favorites, Tamyra Gray, was eliminated at the top four, the first of several such shock eliminations that were to be repeated in later seasons. Christina Christian was hospitalized before the top six result show due to chest pains and palpitations, and she was eliminated while she was in the hospital. Jim Verraros was the first openly gay contestant on the show; his sexual orientation was revealed in his online journal, however it was removed during the competition after a request from the show producers over concerns that it might be unfairly influencing votes.
Question: How many contestants made it past the first round of auditions?
Answer: 121
Question: How many people initially auditioned?
Answer: around 10,000
Question: Who was the first known homosexual contestant on American Idol?
Answer: Jim Verraros
Question: Which contestant was surprisingly eliminated during the top four episode?
Answer: Tamyra Gray
Question: Where was Christina Christian at when she was eliminated from the show?
Answer: the hospital
Question: How many contestants were chosen from the 10,000 that auditioned?
Answer: 121
Question: Of the 121 chosen, how many became semi-finalists?
Answer: 30
Question: Which contestant was disqualified for lying about his age?
Answer: Delano Cagnolatti
Question: When was Tamyra Gray eliminated?
Answer: top four
Question: Who was eliminated while she was in the hospital due to chest pains?
Answer: Christina Christian |
Context: Season seven premiered on January 15, 2008, for a two-day, four-hour premiere. The media focused on the professional status of the season seven contestants, the so-called 'ringers', many of whom, including Kristy Lee Cook, Brooke White, Michael Johns, and in particular Carly Smithson, had prior recording contracts. Contestant David Hernandez also attracted some attention due to his past employment as a stripper.
Question: What year did season seven of American Idol first air?
Answer: 2008
Question: Which season seven contestant had worked as a stripper before his time on American Idol?
Answer: David Hernandez
Question: Which contestant was talked about most for having a record deal before being a contestant on American Idol?
Answer: Carly Smithson
Question: When did season seven premiere?
Answer: January 15, 2008
Question: Which contestant drew attention because he was a former stripper?
Answer: David Hernandez
Question: Why did many of the contestants draw the attention of the media?
Answer: professional status
Question: Which contestant garnered the most attention because of a prior recording contract?
Answer: Carly Smithson |
Context: The earliest detailed accounts of the death of Jesus are contained in the four canonical gospels. There are other, more implicit references in the New Testament epistles. In the synoptic gospels, Jesus predicts his death in three separate episodes. All four Gospels conclude with an extended narrative of Jesus' arrest, trial, crucifixion, burial, and accounts of resurrection. In each Gospel these five events in the life of Jesus are treated with more intense detail than any other portion of that Gospel's narrative. Scholars note that the reader receives an almost hour-by-hour account of what is happening.:p.91
Question: What holds the records of the death of Jesus?
Answer: four canonical gospels
Question: What part of the Bible references the death of Jesus?
Answer: New Testament epistles
Question: How many times did Jesus predict his own death?
Answer: three
Question: What part of Jesus' life is detailed in these gospels?
Answer: Jesus' arrest, trial, crucifixion, burial, and accounts of resurrection
Question: How detailed is the description of Jesus' death?
Answer: hour-by-hour account
Question: What part of the Bible was written later than the Old Testament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many scholars did it take to translate the New Testament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How quickly were scholars able to interpret and translate the Bible?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do scholars have to overcome when meeting bias about discussing Jesus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did scholars treat the Bible when trying to accurately translate it?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: General Dong Zhuo (d. 192 AD) found the young emperor and his brother wandering in the countryside. He escorted them safely back to the capital and was made Minister of Works, taking control of Luoyang and forcing Yuan Shao to flee. After Dong Zhuo demoted Emperor Shao and promoted his brother Liu Xie as Emperor Xian, Yuan Shao led a coalition of former officials and officers against Dong, who burned Luoyang to the ground and resettled the court at Chang'an in May 191 AD. Dong Zhuo later poisoned Emperor Shao.
Question: How was Luoyang destroyed?
Answer: burned
Question: Who demoted Emperor Shao?
Answer: Dong Zhuo
Question: What position would the young Liu Xie eventually be promoted to?
Answer: Emperor Xian
Question: Who had taken control of Luoyang?
Answer: General Dong Zhuo
Question: When did Dong Zhuo die?
Answer: 192 AD |
Context: In stable patients whose symptoms have resolved by the time of evaluation, technetium (99mTc) sestamibi (i.e. a "MIBI scan") or thallium-201 chloride can be used in nuclear medicine to visualize areas of reduced blood flow in conjunction with physiological or pharmacological stress. Thallium may also be used to determine viability of tissue, distinguishing whether nonfunctional myocardium is actually dead or merely in a state of hibernation or of being stunned. Medical societies and professional guidelines recommend that the physician confirm a person is at high risk for myocardial infarction before conducting imaging tests to make a diagnosis. Patients who have a normal ECG and who are able to exercise, for example, do not merit routine imaging. Imaging tests such as stress radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging or stress echocardiography can confirm a diagnosis when a patient's history, physical exam, ECG, and cardiac biomarkers suggest the likelihood of a problem.
Question: What is used to examine blood flood in unstable patients?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for thallium-201?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What purpose does technetium serve in terms of identifying tissue?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must be determined after taking an imaging test?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A patient does not need routine imaging when they have what kind of biomarker?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There were no anamorphic LaserDisc titles available in the US except for promotional purposes. Upon purchase of a Toshiba 16:9 television viewers had the option of selecting a number of Warner Bros. 16:9 films. Titles include Unforgiven, Grumpy Old Men, The Fugitive, and Free Willy. The Japanese lineup of titles was different. A series of releases under the banner "SQUEEZE LD" from Pioneer of mostly Carolco titles included Basic Instinct, Stargate, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Showgirls, Cutthroat Island, and Cliffhanger. Terminator 2 was released twice in Squeeze LD, the second release being THX certified and a notable improvement over the first.
Question: Which movie was released twice on Squeeze LD?
Answer: Terminator 2
Question: What improvement was added to Terminator 2's second Squeeze LD release?
Answer: THX certified
Question: What Warner Brothers films were available in 16:9 aspect ratio Squeeze LDs?
Answer: Unforgiven, Grumpy Old Men, The Fugitive, and Free Willy
Question: What films were available for Japanese market Squeeze LDs?
Answer: Basic Instinct, Stargate, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Showgirls, Cutthroat Island, and Cliffhanger |
Context: In the film Knute Rockne, All American, Knute Rockne (played by Pat O'Brien) delivers the famous "Win one for the Gipper" speech, at which point the background music swells with the "Notre Dame Victory March". George Gipp was played by Ronald Reagan, whose nickname "The Gipper" was derived from this role. This scene was parodied in the movie Airplane! with the same background music, only this time honoring George Zipp, one of Ted Striker's former comrades. The song also was prominent in the movie Rudy, with Sean Astin as Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who harbored dreams of playing football at the University of Notre Dame despite significant obstacles.
Question: Ronald Reagan had a nickname, what was it?
Answer: The Gipper
Question: In what film did a parody of the "Win one for the Gipper" speech appear?
Answer: Airplane!
Question: Who starred as Daniel Ruettiger in the film Rudy?
Answer: Sean Astin
Question: Which person was a former comrade to Ted Striker in the film Airplane!?
Answer: George Zipp
Question: Pat O'Brien portrayed which person in the film Knute Rockne?
Answer: Knute Rockne |
Context: Most Paramount sound releases made prior to 1950 are owned by EMKA, Ltd./NBCUniversal Television Distribution, while Paramount (currently owned by Viacom) holds on to most of its post-1949 releases, which are distributed for television by Trifecta Entertainment & Media. Columbia's film output is owned by Sony (through Sony Pictures Television); distribution of 20th Century Fox's film library is handled for television by its 21st Century Fox subsidiary 20th Television, and the Walt Disney Studios (owned by The Walt Disney Company) has its library film output handled for television by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. Classic films released by 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios, and Columbia Pictures are licensed individually for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies.
Question: Who owns the majority of pre-1950 Paramount sound releases?
Answer: EMKA, Ltd./NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Question: Who owns Paramount?
Answer: Viacom
Question: Who holds TV distribution rights to Paramount's post-1949 releases?
Answer: Trifecta Entertainment & Media
Question: Who owns Walt Disney Studios?
Answer: The Walt Disney Company
Question: Who manages the TV distribution of Walt Disney Studios?
Answer: Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Question: Who owns the majority of 1950 Paramount sound releases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who holds TV distribution rights to Paramount's 1949 releases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who owns Walt Disney Fox?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who manages the TV distribution of Walt Disney Fox?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Disney's film output owned by?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Late Middle Ages in Europe as a whole correspond to the Trecento and Early Renaissance cultural periods in Italy. Northern Europe and Spain continued to use Gothic styles, which became increasingly elaborate in the 15th century, until almost the end of the period. International Gothic was a courtly style that reached much of Europe in the decades around 1400, producing masterpieces such as the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. All over Europe secular art continued to increase in quantity and quality, and in the 15th century the mercantile classes of Italy and Flanders became important patrons, commissioning small portraits of themselves in oils as well as a growing range of luxury items such as jewellery, ivory caskets, cassone chests, and maiolica pottery. These objects also included the Hispano-Moresque ware produced by mostly Mudéjar potters in Spain. Although royalty owned huge collections of plate, little survives except for the Royal Gold Cup. Italian silk manufacture developed, so that western churches and elites no longer needed to rely on imports from Byzantium or the Islamic world. In France and Flanders tapestry weaving of sets like The Lady and the Unicorn became a major luxury industry.
Question: Around what year did the International Gothic style flourish?
Answer: 1400
Question: What is a notable masterpiece of the International Gothic style?
Answer: the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Question: Along with the Trecento, what period occurred in Italy during the Late Middle Ages?
Answer: Early Renaissance
Question: Who produced most of the Hispano-Moresque pottery?
Answer: Mudéjar potters
Question: What is a notable piece of surviving Late Middle Age royal plate?
Answer: the Royal Gold Cup |
Context: Inspection service is designed to provide access to the hoistway and car top for inspection and maintenance purposes by qualified elevator mechanics. It is first activated by a key switch on the car operating panel usually labeled 'Inspection', 'Car Top', 'Access Enable' or 'HWENAB'. When this switch is activated the elevator will come to a stop if moving, car calls will be canceled (and the buttons disabled), and hall calls will be assigned to other elevator cars in the group (or canceled in a single elevator configuration). The elevator can now only be moved by the corresponding 'Access' key switches, usually located at the highest (to access the top of the car) and lowest (to access the elevator pit) landings. The access key switches will allow the car to move at reduced inspection speed with the hoistway door open. This speed can range from anywhere up to 60% of normal operating speed on most controllers, and is usually defined by local safety codes.
Question: Who is authorized to provide inspection and/or maintenance of the elevator?
Answer: qualified elevator mechanics
Question: What is the purpose of the Inspection service?
Answer: to provide access to the hoistway and car top for inspection and maintenance
Question: What action initiates it's activation?
Answer: a key switch on the car operating panel usually labeled 'Inspection', 'Car Top', 'Access Enable' or 'HWENAB
Question: WWhat's the first thing to happen when the switch is activated?
Answer: the elevator will come to a stop if moving
Question: Once activatated, what is the only way to deactivate it?
Answer: The elevator can now only be moved by the corresponding 'Access' key switches |
Context: Two years later, the Emperor Valens, who favored the Arian position, in his turn exiled Athanasius. This time however, Athanasius simply left for the outskirts of Alexandria, where he stayed for only a few months before the local authorities convinced Valens to retract his order of exile. Some early reports state that Athanasius spent this period of exile at his family's ancestral tomb in a Christian cemetery. It was during this period, the final exile, that he is said to have spent four months in hiding in his father's tomb. (Soz., "Hist. Eccl.", VI, xii; Soc., "Hist. Eccl.", IV, xii).
Question: What Christian beliefs did Emperor Valens adhere to?
Answer: Arian
Question: Where did Athanasius during his latest exile?
Answer: outskirts of Alexandria
Question: For how long was he exiled this time?
Answer: few months
Question: Where did he hide during this time?
Answer: his father's tomb
Question: Who convinced Valens to let him return to Alexandria?
Answer: local authorities
Question: What Catholic beliefs did Emperor Valens adhere to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Athanasius go during his first exile?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many years was he exiled?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who didn't convince Valens to let him return to Alexandria?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1972, Queen entered discussions with Trident Studios after being spotted at De La Lane Studios by John Anthony and after discussions were offered a management deal by Norman Sheffield under Neptune Productions, a subsidiary of Trident to manage the band and enable them to use the facilities at Trident to record new material whilst the management search for a record label to sign Queen. This suited both parties at the time as Trident were expanding into management and Queen under the deal were able to make use of the hi-tech recording facilities shared by bands at the time such as the Beatles and Elton John to produce new material. However, Trident found it difficult to find a label for a band bearing a name with such connotation during the early 1970s.
Question: Who offered Queen a management deal in 1972?
Answer: Norman Sheffield
Question: Which singer used Trident studios in addition to Queen and the Beatles?
Answer: Elton John
Question: What was the name of Trident's subsidiary?
Answer: Neptune Productions
Question: Where was Queen spotted before entering discussions with Trident?
Answer: De La Lane Studios
Question: In what year did Queen enter discussions with Trident studios?
Answer: 1972 |
Context: While the Umayyads and the Hashimites may have had bitterness between the two clans before Muhammad, the rivalry turned into a severe case of tribal animosity after the Battle of Badr. The battle saw three top leaders of the Umayyad clan (Utba ibn Rabi'ah, Walid ibn Utbah and Shaybah) killed by Hashimites (Ali, Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib and Ubaydah ibn al-Harith) in a three-on-three melee. This fueled the opposition of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, the grandson of Umayya, to Muhammad and to Islam. Abu Sufyan sought to exterminate the adherents of the new religion by waging another battle with Muslims based in Medina only a year after the Battle of Badr. He did this to avenge the defeat at Badr. The Battle of Uhud is generally believed by scholars to be the first defeat for the Muslims, as they had incurred greater losses than the Meccans. After the battle, Abu Sufyan's wife Hind, who was also the daughter of Utba ibn Rabi'ah, is reported to have cut open the corpse of Hamza, taking out his liver which she then attempted to eat. Within five years after his defeat in the Battle of Uhud, however, Muhammad took control of Mecca and announced a general amnesty for all. Abu Sufyan and his wife Hind embraced Islam on the eve of the conquest of Mecca, as did their son (the future caliph Muawiyah I).
Question: How many top leaders of the Umayyads were killed in the Battle of Badr?
Answer: three
Question: Who did the Umayyads fight in the Battle of Badr?
Answer: Hashimites
Question: What do historians see as the first military defeat of Islam?
Answer: Battle of Uhud
Question: Who was the spouse of Abu Sufyan?
Answer: Hind
Question: Who was the son of Abu Sufyan?
Answer: Muawiyah I
Question: How many top leaders of the Umayyads survived the Battle of Badr?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the grandson of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who fought a battle only a year before the Battle of Badr?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What battle was the last defeat for the Muslims?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the daughter of Hind?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Charles Town was a hub of the deerskin trade, the basis of its early economy. Trade alliances with the Cherokee and Creek nations insured a steady supply of deer hides. Between 1699 and 1715, colonists exported an average of 54,000 deer skins annually to Europe through Charles Town. Between 1739 and 1761, the height of the deerskin trade era, an estimated 500,000 to 1,250,000 deer were slaughtered. During the same period, Charles Town records show an export of 5,239,350 pounds of deer skins. Deer skins were used in the production of men's fashionable and practical buckskin pantaloons, gloves, and book bindings.
Question: What other Native American nation supplied Charles Town with deer hides other than the Cherokee nation?
Answer: Creek nations
Question: What is the estimation of deer slaughtered in Charles Town from 1739 to 1761?
Answer: 500,000 to 1,250,000
Question: Records indicate how many pounds of deer skins were exported from Charles Town during the height of its deerskin trade?
Answer: 5,239,350
Question: What trade was the basis of Charles Town's original economy?
Answer: the deerskin trade
Question: What was the average amount of deer skins that Charles Town exported to Europe between 1699 to 1715?
Answer: 54,000
Question: What other North American nation supplied Charles Town with deer hides other than the Cherokee nation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the estimation of deer slaughtered in Charles Town from 1739 to 1861?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Records indicate how many pounds of deer skins were imported from Charles Town during the height of its deerskin trade?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What trade wasn't the basis of Charles Town's original economy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the average amount of deer skins that Charles Town exported to Europe between 1699 to 1815?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: If Mammalia is considered as the crown group, its origin can be roughly dated as the first known appearance of animals more closely related to some extant mammals than to others. Ambondro is more closely related to monotremes than to therian mammals while Amphilestes and Amphitherium are more closely related to the therians; as fossils of all three genera are dated about 167 million years ago in the Middle Jurassic, this is a reasonable estimate for the appearance of the crown group. The earliest known synapsid satisfying Kemp's definitions is Tikitherium, dated 225 Ma, so the appearance of mammals in this broader sense can be given this Late Triassic date. In any case, the temporal range of the group extends to the present day.
Question: Which group are Ambondro's closely related to?
Answer: monotremes
Question: Which two groups are closely related to therian mammals?
Answer: Amphilestes and Amphitherium
Question: How many years do momotremes and therian mammals go back?
Answer: 167 million years
Question: About what year do synapsid date back to?
Answer: 225 Ma
Question: What is the earliest Ambondro that satisfies Kemp's definitions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Tikitherium more closely related to more than therian mammals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What time period are fossils of the ambondro dated to in the Middle Jurassic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: About what year are ambondro dated to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can the appearance of genera be broadly given?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hydrogen can be prepared in several different ways, but economically the most important processes involve removal of hydrogen from hydrocarbons. Commercial bulk hydrogen is usually produced by the steam reforming of natural gas. At high temperatures (1000–1400 K, 700–1100 °C or 1300–2000 °F), steam (water vapor) reacts with methane to yield carbon monoxide and H
2.
Question: The most economical way to prepare hydrogen involves removing it from what?
Answer: hydrocarbons
Question: What temperature is needed for steam to react with methane?
Answer: 1000–1400 K, 700–1100 °C or 1300–2000 °F |
Context: The 2008 United Nations Human Rights Council report called "extremely credible" the description of the citizenship policy of Estonia as "discriminatory". According to surveys, only 5% of the Russian community have considered returning to Russia in the near future. Estonian Russians have developed their own identity – more than half of the respondents recognised that Estonian Russians differ noticeably from the Russians in Russia. When comparing the result with a survey from 2000, then Russians' attitude toward the future is much more positive.
Question: What document labeled the the description of the citizenship policy of Estonia as "discriminatory"?
Answer: The 2008 United Nations Human Rights Council report
Question: What percentage of Estonian Russians have though of going back to Russia?
Answer: 5%
Question: What proportion of Estonian Russians see themselves as different from their Russian counterparts?
Answer: more than half |
Context: Hyderabad (i/ˈhaɪdərəˌbæd/ HY-dər-ə-bad; often /ˈhaɪdrəˌbæd/) is the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana and de jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.[A] Occupying 650 square kilometres (250 sq mi) along the banks of the Musi River, it has a population of about 6.7 million and a metropolitan population of about 7.75 million, making it the fourth most populous city and sixth most populous urban agglomeration in India. At an average altitude of 542 metres (1,778 ft), much of Hyderabad is situated on hilly terrain around artificial lakes, including Hussain Sagar—predating the city's founding—north of the city centre.
Question: Which city is the capital of Telangana?
Answer: Hyderabad (i/ˈhaɪdərəˌbæd/ HY-dər-ə-bad; often /ˈhaɪdrəˌbæd/) is the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana
Question: How many square miles does Hyderabad cover?
Answer: 250 sq mi
Question: What river is Hyderabad next to?
Answer: the Musi River
Question: What is the population of Hyderabad?
Answer: about 6.7 million
Question: At what altitude is Hyderabad, in meters?
Answer: an average altitude of 542 metres |
Context: Von Neumann was a founding figure in computing. Donald Knuth cites von Neumann as the inventor, in 1945, of the merge sort algorithm, in which the first and second halves of an array are each sorted recursively and then merged. Von Neumann wrote the sorting program for the EDVAC in ink, being 23 pages long; traces can still be seen on the first page of the phrase "TOP SECRET", which was written in pencil and later erased. He also worked on the philosophy of artificial intelligence with Alan Turing when the latter visited Princeton in the 1930s.
Question: Who was the inventor of the merge-sort algorithm?
Answer: Von Neumann
Question: With whom did von Neumann work on the philosophy of artificial intelligence?
Answer: Alan Turing
Question: What does a merge sort algorithm do?
Answer: the first and second halves of an array are each sorted recursively and then merged |
Context: Few species of reptiles or amphibians are found in Great Britain or Ireland. Only three snakes are native to Great Britain: the common European adder, the grass snake and the smooth snake; none are native to Ireland. In general, Great Britain has slightly more variation and native wild life, with weasels, polecats, wildcats, most shrews, moles, water voles, roe deer and common toads also being absent from Ireland. This pattern is also true for birds and insects. Notable exceptions include the Kerry slug and certain species of wood lice native to Ireland but not Great Britain.
Question: Which snakes are considered native to the British Isles but not Ireland?
Answer: European adder, the grass snake and the smooth snake
Question: What is the name of the slug that is native to both Britain and Ireland?
Answer: Kerry slug
Question: Is the grass nake or the smooth snake native to Ireland?
Answer: none are native to Ireland
Question: What type of wild life are not native to Ireland but are in Britain?
Answer: water voles, roe deer and common toads
Question: Which four snakes are native to Ireland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Great Britain and what other country are there a large number of reptile species?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Certain species of wood lice are native to Great Britain but not where?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Great Britain and what other country are there a large number of amphibian species?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Ireland and what other country are there a large number of reptile species?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The passenger cabs are mechanically separated from the lift mechanism, thus allowing the elevator shafts to be used continuously while passengers board and embark from the cabs, as well as move through show scenes on various floors. The passenger cabs, which are automated guided vehicles or AGVs, move into the vertical motion shaft and lock themselves in before the elevator starts moving vertically. Multiple elevator shafts are used to further improve passenger throughput. The doorways of the top few "floors" of the attraction are open to the outdoor environment, thus allowing passengers to look out from the top of the structure.
Question: How are passenger cabs separated from the lift?
Answer: mechanically
Question: What type of vehicles are the passenger cabs?
Answer: automated guided vehicles or AGVs
Question: What action do the cabs take before the elevator begins to move?
Answer: move into the vertical motion shaft and lock themselves in
Question: What is special about the doorways of the top floors?
Answer: The doorways of the top few "floors" of the attraction are open to the outdoor environment
Question: What does this allow riders to do at the top?
Answer: look out from the top of the structure |
Context: One senator represents the island in the French Senate. The first election was held on 21 September 2008 with the last election in September 2014. St. Barthélemy became an overseas territory of the European Union on 1 January 2012, but the island's inhabitants remain French citizens with EU status holding EU passports. France is responsible for the defence of the island and as such has stationed a security force on the island comprising six policemen and thirteen gendarmes (posted on two-year term).
Question: How many senators represent St. Barts in France?
Answer: One
Question: What year was the first senate election held for the St. Barts?
Answer: 2008
Question: When was the last senate election in St. Barts?
Answer: September 2014
Question: What organization did St. Barts become a part of in 2012?
Answer: the European Union
Question: How many policemen does the French government pay for on St. Barts?
Answer: thirteen
Question: On what date in September 2014 was the last election held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long do the policemen terms last?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did St. Barthelemy residents become French citizens?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many senators are there in the French Senate?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: One of the most popular shows on CBC Television is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games, Hockey Night in Canada. It has been televised by the network since 1952. During the NHL lockout and subsequent cancellation of the 2004-2005 hockey season, CBC instead aired various recent and classic movies, branded as Movie Night in Canada, on Saturday nights. Many cultural groups criticized this and suggested the CBC air games from minor hockey leagues; the CBC responded that most such broadcast rights were already held by other groups, but it did base each Movie Night broadcast from a different Canadian hockey venue. Other than hockey, CBC Sports properties include Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto FC Soccer, and various other amateur and professional events.
Question: What year did HNIC begin being broadcasted on CBC?
Answer: 1952
Question: What did CBC air during the NHL lockout?
Answer: various recent and classic movies
Question: What did CBC call it's movie showings during the NHL Lockout?
Answer: Movie Night in Canada
Question: On what nights does CBC generally reserve broadcasting for hockey?
Answer: Saturday
Question: what popular show has aired on the CBC since its inception in 1952?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The NHL refused the CBC access to hockey games during which season?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CBC lost sponsorship when they refused to air what games?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When movie Night in Canada was not successful, what other sports team rights did the CBC acquire?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Kublai Khan did not conquer the Song dynasty in South China until 1279, so Tibet was a component of the early Mongol Empire before it was combined into one of its descendant empires with the whole of China under the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). Van Praag writes that this conquest "marked the end of independent China," which was then incorporated into the Yuan dynasty that ruled China, Tibet, Mongolia, Korea, parts of Siberia and Upper Burma. Morris Rossabi, a professor of Asian history at Queens College, City University of New York, writes that "Khubilai wished to be perceived both as the legitimate Khan of Khans of the Mongols and as the Emperor of China. Though he had, by the early 1260s, become closely identified with China, he still, for a time, claimed universal rule", and yet "despite his successes in China and Korea, Khubilai was unable to have himself accepted as the Great Khan". Thus, with such limited acceptance of his position as Great Khan, Kublai Khan increasingly became identified with China and sought support as Emperor of China.
Question: When did Kublai Khan conquer the song dynasty?
Answer: 1279
Question: When did the Yuan dynasty rule?
Answer: 1271–1368
Question: Which dynasty ruled all of china?
Answer: the Yuan dynasty
Question: What did Khubilai claim for a while?
Answer: universal rule
Question: Where did Khubilai seek support as Emperor?
Answer: China |
Context: The coalition government led the country to the parliamentary elections of May 2012. The power of the traditional Greek political parties, PASOK and New Democracy, declined from 43% to 13% and from 33% to 18%, respectively, due to their support on the politics of Mnimonio and the austerity measures. The leftist party of SYRIZA became the second major party, with an increase from 4% to 16%. No party could form a sustainable government, which led to the parliamentary elections of June 2012. The result of the second elections was the formation of a coalition government composed of New Democracy (29%), PASOK (12%) and Democratic Left (6%) parties.
Question: In May 2012, who started the parliamentary elections?
Answer: The coalition government
Question: What led to the loss of power of traditional Greek parties?
Answer: their support on the politics of Mnimonio and the austerity measures
Question: Who became the second major party after the elections?
Answer: The leftist party of SYRIZA
Question: What caused the second election of 2012?
Answer: No party could form a sustainable government
Question: What was the demographic result of the second election?
Answer: coalition government composed of New Democracy (29%), PASOK (12%) and Democratic Left (6%) parties. |
Context: Between 1948 and 1958, the Jewish population rose from 800,000 to two million. Currently, Jews account for 75.4% of the Israeli population, or 6 million people. The early years of the State of Israel were marked by the mass immigration of Holocaust survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust and Jews fleeing Arab lands. Israel also has a large population of Ethiopian Jews, many of whom were airlifted to Israel in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Between 1974 and 1979 nearly 227,258 immigrants arrived in Israel, about half being from the Soviet Union. This period also saw an increase in immigration to Israel from Western Europe, Latin America, and North America.
Question: What years did the Jewish population rise from 800,000 to two million?
Answer: 1948 and 1958
Question: What is the population of Israel?
Answer: 6 million
Question: Between 1974 and 1979, how many immigrants arrived in Israel?
Answer: 227,258
Question: What did the Jewish population rise to before 1948?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percent of the Israeli population is not Jewish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the latest years of the State of Israel marked by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Before 1974 how many immigrants arrived in Israel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did this period see a decrease in immigration to Israel?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Furthermore, despite the novel's thematic focus on racial injustice, its black characters are not fully examined. In its use of racial epithets, stereotyped depictions of superstitious blacks, and Calpurnia, who to some critics is an updated version of the "contented slave" motif and to others simply unexplored, the book is viewed as marginalizing black characters. One writer asserts that the use of Scout's narration serves as a convenient mechanism for readers to be innocent and detached from the racial conflict. Scout's voice "functions as the not-me which allows the rest of us—black and white, male and female—to find our relative position in society". A teaching guide for the novel published by The English Journal cautions, "what seems wonderful or powerful to one group of students may seem degrading to another". A Canadian language arts consultant found that the novel resonated well with white students, but that black students found it "demoralizing". Another criticism, articulated by Michael Lind, is that the novel indulges in classist stereotyping and demonization of poor rural "white trash".
Question: Which character has some critics deemed a variation of a contented slave?
Answer: Calpurnia
Question: According to one consultant, which group found the book demoralizing?
Answer: black students
Question: Michael Lund criticized the novel for demonizing whom?
Answer: poor rural "white trash" |
Context: These court categories were not, however, wholly exclusive: for instance, the Islamic courts—which were the Empire's primary courts—could also be used to settle a trade conflict or disputes between litigants of differing religions, and Jews and Christians often went to them to obtain a more forceful ruling on an issue. The Ottoman state tended not to interfere with non-Muslim religious law systems, despite legally having a voice to do so through local governors. The Islamic Sharia law system had been developed from a combination of the Qur'an; the Hadīth, or words of the prophet Muhammad; ijmā', or consensus of the members of the Muslim community; qiyas, a system of analogical reasoning from earlier precedents; and local customs. Both systems were taught at the Empire's law schools, which were in Istanbul and Bursa.
Question: What were the primary courts of the empire?
Answer: Islamic courts
Question: From what works was Sharia developed?
Answer: the Qur'an; the Hadīth
Question: Whose words contributed to the Islamic Sharia law system?
Answer: the prophet Muhammad
Question: Where were the empire's law schools?
Answer: in Istanbul and Bursa.
Question: What other religious groups went to Islamic courts?
Answer: Jews and Christians |
Context: Britain had been surprised by the sudden Prussian offensive but now began shipping supplies and ₤670,000 (equivalent to ₤89.9 million in 2015) to its new ally. A combined force of allied German states was organised by the British to protect Hanover from French invasion, under the command of the Duke of Cumberland. The British attempted to persuade the Dutch Republic to join the alliance, but the request was rejected, as the Dutch wished to remain fully neutral. Despite the huge disparity in numbers, the year had been successful for the Prussian-led forces on the continent, in contrast to disappointing British campaigns in North America.
Question: How did Britain Protect Hanover?
Answer: combined force of allied German states was organised by the British to protect Hanover
Question: How did the British support Prussia?
Answer: shipping supplies and ₤670,000
Question: Why did the Dutch reject Britain's offer to join the alliance?
Answer: the Dutch wished to remain fully neutral
Question: Who had done better, the Prussians in Europe or the Brits in North America?
Answer: successful for the Prussian-led forces on the continent, in contrast to disappointing British campaigns in North America.
Question: Who led the force to defend Hanover?
Answer: under the command of the Duke of Cumberland |
Context: Others, such as Rep. Roger Sherman of Connecticut, believed the clause was unnecessary because the original Constitution only gave Congress stated powers, which did not include establishing a national religion. Anti-Federalists such as Rep. Thomas Tucker of South Carolina moved to strike the establishment clause completely because it could preempt the religious clauses in the state constitutions. However, the Anti-Federalists were unsuccessful in persuading the House of Representatives to drop the clause from the first amendment.
Question: Where was Representative Roger Sherman from?
Answer: Connecticut
Question: Why did Sherman believe the establishment clause was unnecessary?
Answer: Constitution only gave Congress stated powers
Question: What power was not granted to Congress by the Constitution?
Answer: establishing a national religion
Question: Where was Representative Thomas Tucker from?
Answer: South Carolina
Question: What was Tucker concerned the establishment clause could preempt?
Answer: religious clauses in the state constitutions
Question: Where was Representative Roger Merman from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Sherman believe the establishment clause was necessary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What power was granted to Congress by the Constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Representative Thomas Pucker from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Tucker concerned the establishment clause could not preempt?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Of Alaska's 2010 Census population figure of 710,231, 20,429 people, or 2.88% of the population, did not live in an incorporated city or census-designated place. Approximately three-quarters of that figure were people who live in urban and suburban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city limits of Ketchikan, Kodiak, Palmer and Wasilla. CDPs have not been established for these areas by the United States Census Bureau, except that seven CDPs were established for the Ketchikan-area neighborhoods in the 1980 Census (Clover Pass, Herring Cove, Ketchikan East, Mountain Point, North Tongass Highway, Pennock Island and Saxman East), but have not been used since. The remaining population was scattered throughout Alaska, both within organized boroughs and in the Unorganized Borough, in largely remote areas.
Question: In 2010, what percent of Alaska's population did not live in a city or CDP?
Answer: 2.88%
Question: What four areas have not been established as CDPs by the Census Bureau?
Answer: Ketchikan, Kodiak, Palmer and Wasilla
Question: Which seven CDPs were incorporated as part of the 1980 Census?
Answer: Clover Pass, Herring Cove, Ketchikan East, Mountain Point, North Tongass Highway, Pennock Island and Saxman East
Question: In 2010, what percent of Alaska's population did not live in a city or CPD?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2012, what percent of Alaska's population did not live in a city or CDP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2010, what percent of Alaska's population live in a city or CDP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What five areas have not been established as CDPs by the Census Bureau?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which seven CDPs were incorporated as part of the 1982 Census?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the 21st century, these trends have continued, and several new approaches have come into prominence, including multielectrode recording, which allows the activity of many brain cells to be recorded all at the same time; genetic engineering, which allows molecular components of the brain to be altered experimentally; genomics, which allows variations in brain structure to be correlated with variations in DNA properties and neuroimaging.
Question: Multielectrode recording allows what?
Answer: the activity of many brain cells to be recorded all at the same time;
Question: Genetic engineering allows what?
Answer: molecular components of the brain to be altered experimentally;
Question: What does genomics allow the study of?
Answer: variations in brain structure to be correlated with variations in DNA properties and neuroimaging.
Question: During what century was multielectrode recording invented?
Answer: the 21st century,
Question: Genetic engineering was first discovered in what century?
Answer: the 21st century, |
Context: The CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) of India, along with several other state education boards, has made Sanskrit an alternative option to the state's own official language as a second or third language choice in the schools it governs. In such schools, learning Sanskrit is an option for grades 5 to 8 (Classes V to VIII). This is true of most schools affiliated with the ICSE board, especially in those states where the official language is Hindi. Sanskrit is also taught in traditional gurukulas throughout India.
Question: To what has the Central Board of Education of India relegated Sanskrit?
Answer: alternative option
Question: Where has the Education Board ranked Sanskrit as a language option?
Answer: second or third
Question: What grades in Indian schools have an option for Sanskrit study?
Answer: 5 to 8
Question: In what language states is Sanskrit considered an option?
Answer: Hindi
Question: In what other type of schools is Sanskrit also taught?
Answer: gurukulas
Question: What board refused to see Sanskrit as an alternative option?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only India board of education?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language is the state official language of India?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which grades is learning Sanskrit required?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Traditional gurukulas no longer teach what language?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the 1990s two icons by the Russian icon painter Sergei Fyodorov were hung in the abbey. On 6 September 1997 the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, was held at the Abbey. On 17 September 2010 Pope Benedict XVI became the first pope to set foot in the abbey.
Question: Who painted the icons hung in the abbey in the 1990s?
Answer: Sergei Fyodorov
Question: What was held at the abbey on 6 September 1997?
Answer: funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
Question: Who was the first pope to set foot in the abbey?
Answer: Pope Benedict XVI
Question: On what date did the first pope set foot in the abbey?
Answer: 17 September 2010
Question: What nationality was Sergei Fyodorov?
Answer: Russian
Question: Who painted the icons hung in the abbey in the 1980s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was held at the abbey on 6 September 1996?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the last pope to set foot in the abbey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date did the last pope set foot in the abbey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nationality was Sergei Fedorov?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following the Declaration by United Nations (the first official use of the term United Nations) on 1 January 1942, the Allied governments appointed the British General Sir Archibald Wavell to the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM), a supreme command for Allied forces in Southeast Asia. This gave Wavell nominal control of a huge force, albeit thinly spread over an area from Burma to the Philippines to northern Australia. Other areas, including India, Hawaii, and the rest of Australia remained under separate local commands. On 15 January Wavell moved to Bandung in Java to assume control of ABDACOM.
Question: What date was the first official use of the term United Nations?
Answer: 1 January 1942
Question: Who was appointed to command the Allied forces in Southeast Asia in 1942?
Answer: General Sir Archibald Wavell
Question: When did General Wavell assume control of the Southheast Asia Allied forces?
Answer: 15 January
Question: How spread out were the Allied forces in Southeastern Asia?
Answer: thinly
Question: Where did General Wavell command the Allied forces from?
Answer: Bandung |
Context: North Raleigh is an expansive, diverse, and fast-growing suburban area of the city that is home to established neighborhoods to the south along with many newly built subdivisions and along its northern fringes. The area generally falls North of Millbrook Road. It is primarily suburban with large shopping areas. Primary neighborhoods and subdivisions in North Raleigh include Harrington Grove, Springdale, Dominion Park, Bedford, Bent Tree, Brentwood, Brier Creek, Brookhaven, Black Horse Run, Coachman's Trail, Crossgate, Crosswinds, Falls River, Hidden Valley, Lake Park, North Haven, North Ridge, Oakcroft, Shannon Woods, Six Forks Station, Springdale, Stonebridge, Stone Creek, Stonehenge, Summerfield, Valley Estates, Wakefield, Weathersfield, Windsor Forest, and Wood Valley. The area is served by a number of primary transportation corridors including Glenwood Avenue U.S. Route 70, Interstate 540, Wake Forest Road, Millbrook Road, Lynn Road, Six Forks Road, Spring Forest Road, Creedmoor Road, Leesville Road, Strickland Road, and North Hills Drive.
Question: What are in the area?
Answer: large shopping areas.
Question: What neighborhoods are in North Raleigh?
Answer: Harrington Grove, Springdale, Dominion Park
Question: What are the means of transportation in the area?
Answer: U.S. Route 70, Interstate 540,
Question: What type of area is North Raleigh?
Answer: expansive, diverse, and fast-growing
Question: What area is slow-growing and not expansive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where are subdivisions hard to find?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area is urban and not suburban?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area does Route 40 run through?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area does US 90 run through?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Hume divided all of human knowledge into two categories: relations of ideas and matters of fact (see also Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction). Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while propositions involving some contingent observation of the world (e.g. "the sun rises in the East") are examples of the second. All of people's "ideas", in turn, are derived from their "impressions". For Hume, an "impression" corresponds roughly with what we call a sensation. To remember or to imagine such impressions is to have an "idea". Ideas are therefore the faint copies of sensations.
Question: What types of human knowledge did Hume say there are?
Answer: relations of ideas and matters of fact
Question: What type of human knowledge is math?
Answer: relations of ideas
Question: What type of human knowledge is observing the world?
Answer: matters of fact
Question: What type of human knowledge is "the sun rises in the East"?
Answer: matters of fact
Question: Where did Hume say people's ideas come from?
Answer: their "impressions"
Question: How many categories did Kant divide the world into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What would the incorrect phrase "the sun rises in the west" be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why are sensations considered copies of ideas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the analytic-synthetic distinction?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1878, the instrument's popularity rebounded. The Exposition was one of many stops for a popular new performing group the Estudiantes Españoles (Spanish Students). They danced and played guitars, violins and the bandurria, which became confused with the mandolin. Along with the energy and awareness created by the day's hit sensation, a wave of Italian mandolinists travelled Europe in the 1880s and 1890s and in the United States by the mid-1880s, playing and teaching their instrument. The instrument's popularity continued to increase during the 1890s and mandolin popularity was at its height in "early years of the 20th century." Thousands were taking up the instrument as a pastime, and it became an instrument of society, taken up by young men and women. Mandolin orchestras were formed worldwide, incorporating not only the mandolin family of instruments, but also guitars, double basses and zithers.
Question: When did the mandolin's poplarity rebound?
Answer: Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1878
Question: What popular group performed at the Paris Exposition?
Answer: Estudiantes Españoles (Spanish Students)
Question: When was it said that mandolin's popularity peaked?
Answer: early years of the 20th century.
Question: What instrument was the mandolin confused with during the 1880's?
Answer: bandurria
Question: What were formed worldwide that incorporated the mandolin famiy of instruments and other instruments as well?
Answer: Mandolin orchestras
Question: What took place in 1887?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What instrument did the violin become confused with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group of people traveled to the United States in 1880?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group of people traveled to Europe in 1890?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the mandolin's poplarity not rebound?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What popular group didn't perform at the Paris Exposition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was it said that mandolin's popularity sank?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What instrument was the mandolin never confused with during the 1880's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were formed worldwide that incorporated the mandolin family of instruments but no other instruments as well?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Basketball is also a notable sport in Estonia. Estonia national basketball team previously participated in 1936 Summer Olympics, appeared in EuroBasket four times. Estonia national team also qualified to EuroBasket 2015, which will be held in Ukraine. BC Kalev/Cramo, which participates in EuroCup, is the most recent Korvpalli Meistriliiga winner after becoming champion of the league for the 6th time. Tartu Ülikool/Rock, which participates in EuroChallenge, is the second strongest Estonian basketball club, previously winning Korvpalli Meistriliiga 22 times. Six Estonian basketball clubs participates in Baltic Basketball League.
Question: What year did Estonia's basketball team first compete in the Summer Olympics
Answer: 1936
Question: How many instances has Estonia appeared in the EuroBasket tournament?
Answer: four
Question: Which Estonian football club competes in the EuroCup?
Answer: BC Kalev/Cramo
Question: What is the name of second best basketball club in Estonia?
Answer: Tartu Ülikool/Rock
Question: How many Estonian teams are in the Baltic Basketball League?
Answer: Six |
Context: Before A.D. 200, residents were building earthwork mounds, which were used for ceremonial and religious purposes. Succeeding peoples, including those of the ancient Mississippian culture established by A.D. 1000 in the Piedmont, continued to build or add onto such mounds. In the 500–700 years preceding European contact, the Mississippian culture built large, complex cities and maintained far-flung regional trading networks. Historically documented tribes in the North Carolina region included the Carolina Algonquian-speaking tribes of the coastal areas, such as the Chowanoke, Roanoke, Pamlico, Machapunga, Coree, Cape Fear Indians, and others, who were the first to encounter the English; Iroquoian-speaking Meherrin, Cherokee and Tuscarora of the interior; and Southeastern Siouan tribes, such as the Cheraw, Waxhaw, Saponi, Waccamaw, and Catawba.[citation needed]
Question: During what time period did people buid earth mounds used for religious and ceremonial purposes?
Answer: Before A.D. 200
Question: By 1000 AD, what culture of people settled in the Piedmont?
Answer: ancient Mississippian culture
Question: About how many years before European contact did ancient Mississippian culture build large cities?
Answer: 500–700 years
Question: Pamlico and Cape fear indians are examples of what?
Answer: Algonquian-speaking tribes
Question: Where did the Algonquin speaking tribes of North Carolina live?
Answer: the coastal areas |
Context: In general, German bombers were likely to get through to their targets without too much difficulty. It was to be some months before an effective night fighter force would be ready, and anti-aircraft defences only became adequate after the Blitz was over, so ruses were created to lure German bombers away from their targets. Throughout 1940, dummy airfields were prepared, good enough to stand up to skilled observation. A number[clarification needed] of bombs fell on these diversionary ("Starfish") targets.
Question: Anti-aircraft defenses became better after what?
Answer: Blitz was over
Question: What did they use to lure German bombers away from their targets?
Answer: ruses
Question: What kind of airfields were prepared to stand up to skilled observers?
Answer: dummy
Question: What was the name given to these dummy airfields?
Answer: Starfish |
Context: The centre of Southampton is located above a large hot water aquifer that provides geothermal power to some of the city's buildings. This energy is processed at a plant in the West Quay region in Southampton city centre, the only geothermal power station in the UK. The plant provides private electricity for the Port of Southampton and hot water to the Southampton District Energy Scheme used by many buildings including the WestQuay shopping centre. In a 2006 survey of carbon emissions in major UK cities conducted by British Gas, Southampton was ranked as being one of the lowest carbon emitting cities in the United Kingdom.
Question: What source of geothermal power sits below Southampton's center?
Answer: hot water aquifer
Question: In what region of Southampton is the geothermal power station for the aquifer?
Answer: West Quay
Question: Which section of the city receives hot water from geothermal power through the West Quay plant?
Answer: Southampton District Energy Scheme
Question: What utility company sponsored a carbon emissions survey in 2006?
Answer: British Gas
Question: In the 2006 study, Southampton was discovered to be one of the lowest carbon emitters out of major cities in what large geographical area?
Answer: United Kingdom |
Context: A Yagi-Uda array uses passive elements to greatly increase gain. It is built along a support boom that is pointed toward the signal, and thus sees no induced signal and does not contribute to the antenna's operation. The end closer to the source is referred to as the front. Near the rear is a single active element, typically a half-wave dipole or folded dipole. Passive elements are arranged in front (directors) and behind (reflectors) the active element along the boom. The Yagi has the inherent quality that it becomes increasingly directional, and thus has higher gain, as the number of elements increases. However, this also makes it increasingly sensitive to changes in frequency; if the signal frequency changes, not only does the active element receive less energy directly, but all of the passive elements adding to that signal also decrease their output as well and their signals no longer reach the active element in-phase.
Question: What can take advantage of these elements to add more gain?
Answer: Yagi-Uda array
Question: Does this device improve the operation of the antenna?
Answer: does not contribute
Question: What is the name for passive elements nearer to the source of the signal?
Answer: directors
Question: Adding more elements to a Yagi-Uda would have what effect?
Answer: increasingly directional |
Context: The 2007 gross state product was $44.9 billion, 45th in the nation. Its per capita personal income for 2007 was $40,042, ranking 15th in the nation. According to a 2013 study by Phoenix Marketing International, Alaska had the fifth-largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 6.75 percent. The oil and gas industry dominates the Alaskan economy, with more than 80% of the state's revenues derived from petroleum extraction. Alaska's main export product (excluding oil and natural gas) is seafood, primarily salmon, cod, Pollock and crab.
Question: What was the per capita personal income in Alaska in 2007?
Answer: $40,042
Question: How does Alaska's per capita personal income rank against other states?
Answer: 15th in the nation
Question: How much of Alaskan state revenue comes from petroleum extraction?
Answer: 80%
Question: Beyond petroleum, what is Alaska's largest export?
Answer: seafood, primarily salmon, cod, Pollock and crab
Question: What was the per capita personal income in Alaska in 2017?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Alaska's per capita personal debt rank against other states?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of Alaskan state revenue never comes from petroleum extraction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Beyond petroleum, what is Alaska's largest import?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Beyond petroleum, what is Alaska's smallest export?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition. Prior to the start of the first Premier League season Alan Shearer became the first British player to command a transfer fee of more than £3 million. The record rose steadily in the Premier League's first few seasons, until Alan Shearer made a record breaking £15 million move to Newcastle United in 1996. The three highest transfer in the sport's history had a Premier League club on the selling end, with Tottenham Hotspur selling Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for £85 million in 2013, Manchester United's sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80 million in 2009, and Liverpool selling Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75 million in 2014.
Question: Have transfer fees been increasing over the past years?
Answer: The record transfer fee for a Premier League player has risen steadily over the lifetime of the competition.
Question: What was the record breaking transfer fee in 1996?
Answer: Alan Shearer made a record breaking £15 million move to Newcastle United in 1996.
Question: What was the transfer fee for Gareth Bale in 2013.
Answer: Tottenham Hotspur selling Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for £85 million in 2013,
Question: In 2009, what was the transfer fee for Cristiano Ronaldo?
Answer: Manchester United's sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £80 million in 2009,
Question: What was Luis Suarez's transfer fee in 2014?
Answer: Liverpool selling Luis Suárez to Barcelona for £75 million in 2014.
Question: Who was the first British player in the Premier League to receive a transfer fee greater than £3 million?
Answer: Alan Shearer
Question: Who was the first British player in the Premier League to receive a transfer fee greater than £15 million?
Answer: Alan Shearer
Question: Who paid £15 million to transfer Alan Shearer to their club?
Answer: Newcastle United
Question: In which year did Newcastle United pay £15 million to transfer Alan Shearer to their club?
Answer: 1996
Question: For how much did Tottenham Hotspur sell Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for in 2013?
Answer: £85 million
Question: For how long has the record transfer fee steadily declined?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the first Manchester player to command a transfer fee greater than 3 million?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who made a record breaking move to Tottenham Hotspur in 1996?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For how much was the move between Alan Shearer and Manchester United worth in 1996?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Alan Shearer became the fifth British player to do what?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: All Greeks were united, however, in their determination to liberate the Greek-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire, regardless of the dialect they spoke. Especially in Crete, a prolonged revolt in 1866–1869 had raised nationalist fervour. When war broke out between Russia and the Ottomans in 1877, Greek popular sentiment rallied to Russia's side, but Greece was too poor, and too concerned of British intervention, to officially enter the war. Nevertheless, in 1881, Thessaly and small parts of Epirus were ceded to Greece as part of the Treaty of Berlin, while frustrating Greek hopes of receiving Crete.
Question: War between Russia and the Ottomans began in what year?
Answer: 1877
Question: A revolt lasted for 3 years on which Greek island?
Answer: Crete
Question: In what year did the Treaty of Berlin occur?
Answer: 1881 |
Context: A significant and far-reaching shift in human subsistence and lifestyle was to be brought about in areas where crop farming and cultivation were first developed: the previous reliance on an essentially nomadic hunter-gatherer subsistence technique or pastoral transhumance was at first supplemented, and then increasingly replaced by, a reliance upon the foods produced from cultivated lands. These developments are also believed to have greatly encouraged the growth of settlements, since it may be supposed that the increased need to spend more time and labor in tending crop fields required more localized dwellings. This trend would continue into the Bronze Age, eventually giving rise to permanently settled farming towns, and later cities and states whose larger populations could be sustained by the increased productivity from cultivated lands.
Question: What trend led to a major shift in the livelihoods of early cultures?
Answer: crop farming and cultivation
Question: What behavior did humans rely on to survive before agriculture?
Answer: nomadic hunter-gatherer subsistence technique
Question: What era saw an increase in permanently settled farming towns?
Answer: the Bronze Age
Question: What trend led to a major shift in the livelihoods of early towns?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What behavior did humans rely on to survive before the Bronze Age?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What era saw an increase in permanent crop fields?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was brought about by crop rotating?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What had larger populations that were sustained by labor?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the early 21st century the Cypriot economy has diversified and become prosperous. However, in 2012 it became affected by the Eurozone financial and banking crisis. In June 2012, the Cypriot government announced it would need €1.8 billion in foreign aid to support the Cyprus Popular Bank, and this was followed by Fitch downgrading Cyprus's credit rating to junk status. Fitch said Cyprus would need an additional €4 billion to support its banks and the downgrade was mainly due to the exposure of Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank, Cyprus's three largest banks, to the Greek financial crisis.
Question: What affected the Cypriot economy in 2012?
Answer: Eurozone financial and banking crisis
Question: How much many did the Cypriot government initially announce it needed?
Answer: €1.8 billion
Question: What was the amount of additional money requested by Cyprus?
Answer: €4 billion
Question: What are the names of Cyprus' three largest banks?
Answer: Bank of Cyprus, Cyprus Popular Bank and Hellenic Bank |
Context: Direction lanterns are also found both inside and outside elevator cars, but they should always be visible from outside because their primary purpose is to help people decide whether or not to get on the elevator. If somebody waiting for the elevator wants to go up, but a car comes first that indicates that it is going down, then the person may decide not to get on the elevator. If the person waits, then one will still stop going up. Direction indicators are sometimes etched with arrows or shaped like arrows and/or use the convention that one that lights up red means "down" and green means "up". Since the color convention is often undermined or overridden by systems that do not invoke it, it is usually used only in conjunction with other differentiating factors. An example of a place whose elevators use only the color convention to differentiate between directions is the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where a single circle can be made to light up green for "up" and red for "down". Sometimes directions must be inferred by the position of the indicators relative to one another.
Question: What is the main function of direction lanterns?
Answer: to help people decide whether or not to get on the elevator
Question: What might change your mind about whether or not to enter an elevator?
Answer: If somebody waiting for the elevator wants to go up, but a car comes first that indicates that it is going down
Question: What type of etching might you see on a direction indicator?
Answer: arrows or shaped like arrows
Question: Some elevators may use the color convention for only what purpose?
Answer: to differentiate between directions |
Context: As of the Census of 2010, there were 1,307,402 people living in the city of San Diego. That represents a population increase of just under 7% from the 1,223,400 people, 450,691 households, and 271,315 families reported in 2000. The estimated city population in 2009 was 1,306,300. The population density was 3,771.9 people per square mile (1,456.4/km2). The racial makeup of San Diego was 45.1% White, 6.7% African American, 0.6% Native American, 15.9% Asian (5.9% Filipino, 2.7% Chinese, 2.5% Vietnamese, 1.3% Indian, 1.0% Korean, 0.7% Japanese, 0.4% Laotian, 0.3% Cambodian, 0.1% Thai). 0.5% Pacific Islander (0.2% Guamanian, 0.1% Samoan, 0.1% Native Hawaiian), 12.3% from other races, and 5.1% from two or more races. The ethnic makeup of the city was 28.8% Hispanic or Latino (of any race); 24.9% of the total population were Mexican American, and 0.6% were Puerto Rican.
Question: What was the population density of San Diego in 2009?
Answer: 3,771.9 people per square mile (1,456.4/km2)
Question: What ethnicity made up 15.9.% of San Diego's population in 2009?
Answer: Asian
Question: In 2009, what percentage of the population was Hispanic?
Answer: 28.8%
Question: What was San Diego's population at the time of the 2010 census?
Answer: 1,307,402
Question: What was the population increase in San Diego from 2009 to 2010?
Answer: just under 7%
Question: What was the population density of San Diego in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ethnicity made up 19.5.% of San Diego's population in 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2008, what percentage of the population was Hispanic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was San Diego's population at the time of the 2012 census?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the population increase in San Diego from 2009 to 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The origins of the people of Tuvalu are addressed in the theories regarding migration into the Pacific that began about 3000 years ago. During pre-European-contact times there was frequent canoe voyaging between the nearer islands including Samoa and Tonga. Eight of the nine islands of Tuvalu were inhabited; thus the name, Tuvalu, means "eight standing together" in Tuvaluan (compare to *walo meaning "eight" in Proto-Austronesian). Possible evidence of fire in the Caves of Nanumanga may indicate human occupation for thousands of years.
Question: How many years ago did migrations of people happen in the Pacific area?
Answer: 3000 years
Question: By what means did locale people travel between Pacific islands?
Answer: canoe
Question: How many islands are in the Tuvalu group?
Answer: nine islands
Question: On how many of Tuvalu's islands did people live?
Answer: Eight
Question: What is the native language meaning of Tuvalu?
Answer: eight standing together |
Context: Home-based manufacturing operations were active year round. Families willingly deployed their children in these income generating home enterprises. In many cases, men worked from home. In France, over 58 percent of garment workers operated out of their homes; in Germany, the number of full-time home operations nearly doubled between 1882 and 1907; and in the United States, millions of families operated out of home seven days a week, year round to produce garments, shoes, artificial flowers, feathers, match boxes, toys, umbrellas and other products. Children aged 5–14 worked alongside the parents. Home-based operations and child labour in Australia, Britain, Austria and other parts of the world was common. Rural areas similarly saw families deploying their children in agriculture. In 1946, Frieda Miller - then Director of United States Department of Labour - told the International Labour Organisation that these home-based operations offered, "low wages, long hours, child labour, unhealthy and insanitary working conditions."
Question: What time were home manufactoring activities for children taking place?
Answer: year round
Question: Who did the children work beside?
Answer: parents
Question: Where were rural children employed?
Answer: agriculture
Question: What were the working conditions described as for the children employed at home?
Answer: unhealthy and insanitary
Question: In 1946 who was the Director of the United States Department of Labour?
Answer: Frieda Miller |
Context: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that a "spy-plane" had been shot down but intentionally made no reference to the pilot. As a result, the Eisenhower Administration, thinking the pilot had died in the crash, authorized the release of a cover story claiming that the plane was a "weather research aircraft" which had unintentionally strayed into Soviet airspace after the pilot had radioed "difficulties with his oxygen equipment" while flying over Turkey. The Soviets put Captain Powers on trial and displayed parts of the U-2, which had been recovered almost fully intact.
Question: What did the Eisenhower administration refer to the downed U-2 as?
Answer: weather research aircraft
Question: Where did the Eisenhower administration say that the downed U-2 was intended to be flying?
Answer: Turkey
Question: According to the cover story, what did the "weather research" pilot have trouble with?
Answer: oxygen equipment
Question: What happened to Powers in the Soviet Union?
Answer: trial
Question: What did Khrushchev refer to the U-2 as?
Answer: spy-plane |
Context: As one of the most successful teams in the country, Arsenal have often featured when football is depicted in the arts in Britain. They formed the backdrop to one of the earliest football-related films, The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939). The film centres on a friendly match between Arsenal and an amateur side, one of whose players is poisoned while playing. Many Arsenal players appeared as themselves and manager George Allison was given a speaking part. More recently, the book Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby was an autobiographical account of Hornby's life and relationship with football and Arsenal in particular. Published in 1992, it formed part of the revival and rehabilitation of football in British society during the 1990s. The book was twice adapted for the cinema – the 1997 British film focuses on Arsenal's 1988–89 title win, and a 2005 American version features a fan of baseball's Boston Red Sox.
Question: In what film was Arsenal FC shown?
Answer: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Question: What Arsenal manager had a speaking part in the 1939 film?
Answer: George Allison
Question: What book by Nick Hornby has twice been adapted for film?
Answer: Fever Pitch
Question: When was Hornby's book published?
Answer: 1992
Question: In what decade did film and literature help revive football in Britain?
Answer: 1990s
Question: What was the name of the 1997 movie about Arsenal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the 2005 movie about the Boston Red Sox?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the lead actor in Arsenal Stadium Mystery?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What player is poisoned during the Arsenal Stadium Mystery movie?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What stadium do the Boston Red Sox play in?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: At the close of the 1991 season, a proposal was tabled for the establishment of a new league that would bring more money into the game overall. The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991 by the game's top-flight clubs, established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League. The newly formed top division would have commercial independence from The Football Association and the Football League, giving the FA Premier League licence to negotiate its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. The argument given at the time was that the extra income would allow English clubs to compete with teams across Europe.
Question: In 1991, was a proposal for a new league postponed?
Answer: At the close of the 1991 season, a proposal was tabled
Question: When was the Founder Members Agreement signed?
Answer: The Founder Members Agreement, signed on 17 July 1991
Question: What did this agreement establish?
Answer: established the basic principles for setting up the FA Premier League.
Question: Would the new top division have commerical independence from the Football Association as well as the Football League?
Answer: The newly formed top division would have commercial independence from The Football Association and the Football League
Question: Would the FA Premier League be able to negotiate their broadcasting and sponsorship agreements?
Answer: giving the FA Premier League licence to negotiate its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.
Question: On which day was the Founder Members Agreement signed?
Answer: 17 July 1991
Question: What was the argument made for the splitting off of the FA Premier League which would lead to being able to compete across Europe?
Answer: extra income
Question: In which year was the proposal for a new league tabled?
Answer: 1991
Question: When was the FA Premier League Agreement signed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The FA Premier League established the basic principles for which agreement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The new division would be dependent on which association and league?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What would the extra income allow European clubs to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was proposed at the beginning of the 1991 season?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although anthropologists worldwide refer to Tylor's definition of culture, in the 20th century "culture" emerged as the central and unifying concept of American anthropology, where it most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially.[citation needed] American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture: biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.
Question: Who's definition of culture did anthropologist accept?
Answer: Tylor's
Question: What four fields make up American anthropology which play a vital role on its research of culture?
Answer: biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, and archaeology.
Question: In which century did "culture" as a central concept of American anthropology emerge?
Answer: 20th century
Question: Who's definition of culture did anthropologists reject?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What four fields make up European anthropology which play a vital role on its research of culture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which century had "culture" as a secondary concept of European anthropology emerge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What commonly refers to the universal human capacity to hack human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically decoded experiences socially?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Outside of the Netherlands and Belgium, the dialect around the German town of Kleve (South Guelderish) both historically and genetically belongs to the Dutch language. In Northeastern France, the area around Calais was historically Dutch-speaking (West Flemish) of which an estimated 20,000 daily speakers. The cities of Dunkirk, Gravelines and Bourbourg only became predominantly French-speaking by the end of the 19th century. In the countryside, until World War I, many elementary schools continued to teach in Dutch, and the Catholic Church continued to preach and teach the catechism in Flemish in many parishes.
Question: What town in Germany has always had mostly Dutch speakers?
Answer: Kleve
Question: About how many people around Calais, France speak Dutch every day?
Answer: 20,000
Question: It took until the end of what century for people in French cities like Gravelines to finally switch over to French from Dutch?
Answer: 19th
Question: Which church often preached in Flemish prior to World War I?
Answer: the Catholic Church
Question: In what area of France is Calais located?
Answer: Northeastern France |
Context: Following a peak in growth in 1979, the Liberian economy began a steady decline due to economic mismanagement following the 1980 coup. This decline was accelerated by the outbreak of civil war in 1989; GDP was reduced by an estimated 90% between 1989 and 1995, one of the fastest declines in history. Upon the end of the war in 2003, GDP growth began to accelerate, reaching 9.4% in 2007. The global financial crisis slowed GDP growth to 4.6% in 2009, though a strengthening agricultural sector led by rubber and timber exports increased growth to 5.1% in 2010 and an expected 7.3% in 2011, making the economy one of the 20 fastest growing in the world.
Question: When did the Liberian economy hit it's peak growth?
Answer: 1979
Question: Why did the Liberian economy decline after 1980?
Answer: economic mismanagement following the 1980 coup.
Question: By what percentage did Liberia's GDP reduced by during the civil war?
Answer: 90%
Question: Why was Liberia's GDP growth stalled in 2007?
Answer: The global financial crisis
Question: In 2011 Liberia's economy was considered what?
Answer: one of the 20 fastest growing in the world.
Question: When did the Liberian economy reach peak timber exports?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was Liberia's GDP growth stalled prior to 2007?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2011 Liberia's exports were considered what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the GDP reduced by 95%?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did GDP growth reach 5.1%?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Habitat size and numbers of species are systematically related. Physically larger species and those living at lower latitudes or in forests or oceans are more sensitive to reduction in habitat area. Conversion to "trivial" standardized ecosystems (e.g., monoculture following deforestation) effectively destroys habitat for the more diverse species that preceded the conversion. In some countries lack of property rights or lax law/regulatory enforcement necessarily leads to biodiversity loss (degradation costs having to be supported by the community).[citation needed]
Question: What is systematically related to the numbers of species?
Answer: Habitat size
Question: What animals are more sensitive to reduction in habitat area?
Answer: Physically larger species and those living at lower latitudes or in forests or oceans
Question: How is a standardized ecosystem formed?
Answer: monoculture following deforestation
Question: What leads to biodiversity loss is some countries?
Answer: lack of property rights or lax law/regulatory enforcement
Question: What is systematically related to the numbers of communities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What animals are more sensitive to reduction of community area?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is a community ecosystem formed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What leads to biodiversity loss in some species?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What destroys the more diverse species?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Beyoncé has worked with Tommy Hilfiger for the fragrances True Star (singing a cover version of "Wishing on a Star") and True Star Gold; she also promoted Emporio Armani's Diamonds fragrance in 2007. Beyoncé launched her first official fragrance, Heat in 2010. The commercial, which featured the 1956 song "Fever", was shown after the water shed in the United Kingdom as it begins with an image of Beyoncé appearing to lie naked in a room. In February 2011, Beyoncé launched her second fragrance, Heat Rush. Beyoncé's third fragrance, Pulse, was launched in September 2011. In 2013, The Mrs. Carter Show Limited Edition version of Heat was released. The six editions of Heat are the world's best-selling celebrity fragrance line, with sales of over $400 million.
Question: Beyonce worked with who on her perfumes, True Star and True Star Gold?
Answer: Tommy Hilfiger
Question: The world's best selling celebrity perfume line belongs to whom?
Answer: Beyoncé
Question: Beyonce's first fragrance had what name?
Answer: Heat
Question: The Mrs. Carter Show Limited Edition was released in what year?
Answer: 2013
Question: How much money did The Mrs. Carter Show Limited Edition fragrance make?
Answer: 400 million
Question: What was Beyonce's 2010 perfume called?
Answer: Heat
Question: When was her second perfume, Heat Rush, released?
Answer: 2011
Question: What was Beyonce's third perfume named?
Answer: Pulse
Question: How many editions of Heat have been launched?
Answer: six editions
Question: Which Emporio Armani fragrance did Beyoncé promote in 2007?
Answer: Diamonds
Question: What year did Beyoncé introduce her first fragrance?
Answer: 2010.
Question: What was Beyoncé's first fragrance called?
Answer: Heat
Question: How many editions of Heat exist?
Answer: six |
Context: Detroit is one of 12 American metropolitan areas that are home to professional teams representing the four major sports in North America. All these teams but one play within the city of Detroit itself (the NBA's Detroit Pistons play in suburban Auburn Hills at The Palace of Auburn Hills). There are three active major sports venues within the city: Comerica Park (home of the Major League Baseball team Detroit Tigers), Ford Field (home of the NFL's Detroit Lions), and Joe Louis Arena (home of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings). A 1996 marketing campaign promoted the nickname "Hockeytown".
Question: How many metropolitan areas boast teams from all major US sports?
Answer: 12
Question: What is the name of Detroit Piston's arena?
Answer: The Palace of Auburn Hills
Question: Where do the Tigers play?
Answer: Comerica Park
Question: Where do the Lions play?
Answer: Ford Field
Question: Where do the Red Wings play?
Answer: Joe Louis Arena |
Context: Other types of lossy compressors, such as the linear predictive coding (LPC) used with speech, are source-based coders. These coders use a model of the sound's generator (such as the human vocal tract with LPC) to whiten the audio signal (i.e., flatten its spectrum) before quantization. LPC may be thought of as a basic perceptual coding technique: reconstruction of an audio signal using a linear predictor shapes the coder's quantization noise into the spectrum of the target signal, partially masking it.
Question: What is the coding called that is used with speech?
Answer: linear predictive coding
Question: What is thought of as a basic perceptual coding technique?
Answer: linear predictive coding
Question: What uses a model of the sound's generator?
Answer: source-based coders
Question: What is thought of as a basic signal coding technique?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What uses a model of the sound's quantization?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What may be thought of as a basic perceptual spectrum?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does reconstruction of an audio signal shape the coder's compressor noise into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What may be thought of as a generator coding technique?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Modern Greek has, in addition to Standard Modern Greek or Dimotiki, a wide variety of dialects of varying levels of mutual intelligibility, including Cypriot, Pontic, Cappadocian, Griko and Tsakonian (the only surviving representative of ancient Doric Greek). Yevanic is the language of the Romaniotes, and survives in small communities in Greece, New York and Israel. In addition to Greek, many Greeks in Greece and the Diaspora are bilingual in other languages or dialects such as English, Arvanitika/Albanian, Aromanian, Macedonian Slavic, Russian and Turkish.
Question: What is different about the use of Greek language today as opposed to the language of the past ?
Answer: Modern Greek has, in addition to Standard Modern Greek or Dimotiki, a wide variety of dialects
Question: What are some of the local jargon used in Greek speaking?
Answer: wide variety of dialects of varying levels of mutual intelligibility, including Cypriot, Pontic, Cappadocian, Griko and Tsakonian
Question: What language still survives as the representation of the one of the three religious orders of historic Greece ?
Answer: Tsakonian (the only surviving representative of ancient Doric Greek)
Question: What ancient language is still in use today in some of the minuscule societies in the Grecian world ?
Answer: Yevanic is the language of the Romaniotes, and survives in small communities in Greece, New York and Israel.
Question: Do the people of Greek ascendancy only speak Grecian languages ?
Answer: bilingual in other languages or dialects such as English, Arvanitika/Albanian, Aromanian, Macedonian Slavic, Russian and Turkish.
Question: What is different about the use of Greek language today as opposed to the language of the future?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some of the non-local jargon used in Greek speaking?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language still survives as the representation of the one of the four religious orders of historic Greece?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ancient language is still in use today in some of the minuscule societies in the non-Grecian world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Do the people of French ascendancy only speak Grecian languages?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1969 the Cubs, managed by Leo Durocher, built a substantial lead in the newly created National League Eastern Division by mid-August. Ken Holtzman pitched a no-hitter on August 19, and the division lead grew to 8 1⁄2 games over the St. Louis Cardinals and by 9 1⁄2 games over the New York Mets. After the game of September 2, the Cubs record was 84-52 with the Mets in second place at 77-55. But then a losing streak began just as a Mets winning streak was beginning. The Cubs lost the final game of a series at Cincinnati, then came home to play the resurgent Pittsburgh Pirates (who would finish in third place). After losing the first two games by scores of 9-2 and 13-4, the Cubs led going into the ninth inning. A win would be a positive springboard since the Cubs were to play a crucial series with the Mets the very next day. But Willie Stargell drilled a 2-out, 2-strike pitch from the Cubs' ace reliever, Phil Regan, onto Sheffield Avenue to tie the score in the top of the ninth. The Cubs would lose 7-5 in extra innings. Burdened by a four-game losing streak, the Cubs traveled to Shea Stadium for a short two-game set. The Mets won both games, and the Cubs left New York with a record of 84-58 just 1⁄2 game in front. Disaster followed in Philadelphia, as a 99 loss Phillies team nonetheless defeated the Cubs twice, to extend Chicago's losing streak to eight games. In a key play in the second game, on September 11, Cubs starter Dick Selma threw a surprise pickoff attempt to third baseman Ron Santo, who was nowhere near the bag or the ball. Selma's throwing error opened the gates to a Phillies rally. After that second Philly loss, the Cubs were 84-60 and the Mets had pulled ahead at 85-57. The Mets would not look back. The Cubs' eight-game losing streak finally ended the next day in St. Louis, but the Mets were in the midst of a ten-game winning streak, and the Cubs, wilting from team fatigue, generally deteriorated in all phases of the game. The Mets (who had lost a record 120 games 7 years earlier), would go on to win the World Series. The Cubs, despite a respectable 92-70 record, would be remembered for having lost a remarkable 17½ games in the standings to the Mets in the last quarter of the season.
Question: Who managed the Cubs in 1969?
Answer: Leo Durocher
Question: The Cubs built a substantial lead in what league under management of Leo Durocher?
Answer: National League Eastern Division
Question: When did Ken Hoitzman pitch a no-hitter?
Answer: August 19
Question: Who threw a surprise pickoff attempt to third baseman Ron Santo?
Answer: Dick Selma |
Context: On 27 June, Rhee evacuated from Seoul with some of the government. On 28 June, at 2 am, the South Korean Army blew up the highway bridge across the Han River in an attempt to stop the North Korean army. The bridge was detonated while 4,000 refugees were crossing the bridge, and hundreds were killed. Destroying the bridge also trapped many South Korean military units north of the Han River. In spite of such desperate measures, Seoul fell that same day. A number of South Korean National Assemblymen remained in Seoul when it fell, and forty-eight subsequently pledged allegiance to the North.
Question: Who, along with members of the South Korean government, fled South Korea?
Answer: Rhee
Question: What bridge were refugees attempting to cross when it was blown up by the South Korean Army?
Answer: Han River
Question: How many South Korean National Assemblyman pledged their allegiance to Seoul?
Answer: forty-eight
Question: What did South Korea do to cause members of the South Korean military unit to become trapped near the Han River?
Answer: blew up the highway bridge
Question: What day was the city of Seoul captured?
Answer: 28 June |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.