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Context: Just as Roman letters have a characteristic shape (lower-case letters mostly occupying the x-height, with ascenders or descenders on some letters), Chinese characters occupy a more or less square area in which the components of every character are written to fit in order to maintain a uniform size and shape, especially with small printed characters in Ming and sans-serif styles. Because of this, beginners often practise writing on squared graph paper, and the Chinese sometimes use the term "Square-Block Characters" (方块字 / 方塊字, fāngkuàizì), sometimes translated as tetragraph, in reference to Chinese characters.
Question: What have a characteristic shape?
Answer: Roman letters
Question: What occupy a more or less space area?
Answer: Chinese characters
Question: What can sometimes be translated as tetragraph?
Answer: Square-Block Characters |
Context: The Renaissance era was from 1400 to 1600. It was characterized by greater use of instrumentation, multiple interweaving melodic lines, and the use of the first bass instruments. Social dancing became more widespread, so musical forms appropriate to accompanying dance began to standardize.
Question: When was the Renaissance era?
Answer: from 1400 to 1600
Question: What era was from 1400 to 1600?
Answer: Renaissance
Question: The use of the first ass instruments occurred in what era?
Answer: Renaissance
Question: What became widespread in the Renaissance era?
Answer: Social dancing
Question: Musical forms for dance began to standardize during what era?
Answer: Renaissance |
Context: As with the rest of the UK, Southampton experiences an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). Its southerly, low lying and sheltered location ensures it is among the warmer, sunnier cities in the UK. It has held the record for the highest temperature in the UK for June at 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) since 1976.
Question: What kind of climate does Southampton have?
Answer: oceanic
Question: For what month does Southampton hold the UK's record high temperature?
Answer: June
Question: What was the record high temperature for June in degrees Celsius?
Answer: 35.6
Question: What year did Southampton set the record high temperature for June?
Answer: 1976
Question: What does the record-setting 35.6 degrees Celsius convert to in degrees Fahrenheit?
Answer: 96.1 |
Context: The United States Army maintains the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. Marshallese land owners receive rent for the base.
Question: On what atoll is a missile test facility based?
Answer: Kwajalein Atoll
Question: Who is the missile test facility named after?
Answer: Ronald Reagan
Question: What is the official name of the missile test facility?
Answer: Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
Question: What organization operates the missile test site?
Answer: United States Army |
Context: Israelites enjoyed political independence twice in ancient history, first during the periods of the Biblical judges followed by the United Monarchy.[disputed – discuss] After the fall of the United Monarchy the land was divided into Israel and Judah. The term Jew originated from the Roman "Judean" and denoted someone from the southern kingdom of Judah. The shift of ethnonym from "Israelites" to "Jews" (inhabitant of Judah), although not contained in the Torah, is made explicit in the Book of Esther (4th century BCE), a book in the Ketuvim, the third section of the Jewish Tanakh. In 587 BC Nebuchadnezzar II, King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, besieged Jerusalem, destroyed the First Temple, and deported the most prominent citizens of Judah. In 586 BC, Judah itself ceased to be an independent kingdom, and its remaining Jews were left stateless. The Babylonian exile ended in 539 BCE when the Achaemenid Empire conquered Babylon and Cyrus the Great allowed the exiled Jews to return to Yehud and rebuild their Temple. The Second Temple was completed in 515 BCE. Yehud province was a peaceful part of the Achaemenid Empire until the fall of the Empire in c. 333 BCE to Alexander the Great. Jews were also politically independent during the Hasmonean dynasty spanning from 140 to 37 BCE and to some degree under the Herodian dynasty from 37 BCE to 6 CE. Since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, most Jews have lived in diaspora. As an ethnic minority in every country in which they live (except Israel), they have frequently experienced persecution throughout history, resulting in a population that has fluctuated both in numbers and distribution over the centuries.[citation needed]
Question: How many times did Israelites have political independence in ancient history?
Answer: twice
Question: From where did the term Jews originate?
Answer: Roman "Judean
Question: When was land divided into Israel and Judah?
Answer: After the fall of the United Monarchy
Question: Inhabitants of Judah are known as what?
Answer: Jews
Question: When did the Babylonian exile end?
Answer: 539 BCE
Question: How many times did Israelites enjoy political independence in modern times?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term denoted someone from the northern kingdom of Judah?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Nebuchadnezzar II build the First Temple?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Judah first become an independent kingdom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did most Jews stop living in diaspora?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The innovative production techniques devised by post-punk producers such as Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell during this period would become an important element of the emerging music, with studio experimentation taking a central role. A variety of groups that predated punk, such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, experimented with crude production techniques and electronic instruments in tandem with performance art methods and influence from transgressive literature, ultimately helping to pioneer industrial music. Throbbing Gristle's independent label Industrial Records would become a hub for this scene and provide it with its namesake.
Question: What type of production techniques did Dennis Bovell develop?
Answer: innovative
Question: What type of producer was Martin Hannett?
Answer: post-punk
Question: What took a central roll for the emerging post-punk music?
Answer: studio experimentation
Question: What eventually resulted in the pioneering of industrial music?
Answer: crude production techniques
Question: Whose independent label became a hub for the industrial scene?
Answer: Throbbing Gristle's
Question: Who were producers that led the way with emerging the post-punk culture?
Answer: Martin Hannett and Dennis Bovell
Question: Which bands were on the forefront of industrial music?
Answer: Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle
Question: What was the name of Throbbing Gristle's record label?
Answer: Industrial Records
Question: Where did industrial music get it's name?
Answer: Industrial Records
Question: What was one of the most important ways that post-punk artists created their new sound?
Answer: studio experimentation
Question: Who avoided post-punk production?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not predate punk?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not help to pioneer industrial music?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What label avoided this scene?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Because of their long life, fast switching times, and their ability to be seen in broad daylight due to their high output and focus, LEDs have been used in brake lights for cars' high-mounted brake lights, trucks, and buses, and in turn signals for some time, but many vehicles now use LEDs for their rear light clusters. The use in brakes improves safety, due to a great reduction in the time needed to light fully, or faster rise time, up to 0.5 second faster[citation needed] than an incandescent bulb. This gives drivers behind more time to react. In a dual intensity circuit (rear markers and brakes) if the LEDs are not pulsed at a fast enough frequency, they can create a phantom array, where ghost images of the LED will appear if the eyes quickly scan across the array. White LED headlamps are starting to be used. Using LEDs has styling advantages because LEDs can form much thinner lights than incandescent lamps with parabolic reflectors.
Question: Why are LED lights sought after for various applications?
Answer: their long life
Question: Because of their high output, LED lights are very useful where?
Answer: brake lights for cars
Question: LED brake lights are how many times faster than incandescent ones?
Answer: 0.5 second
Question: What color LEDs are now starting to be used more?
Answer: White
Question: What types of light can LEDs form better than incandescent?
Answer: thinner
Question: Why are non-LED lights sought after for various applications?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Because of their low output, LED lights are very useful where?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: ED brake lights are how many times slower than incandescent ones?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color LEDs are now not used more?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On June 11, 2006, the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday reported that iPods are mainly manufactured by workers who earn no more than US$50 per month and work 15-hour shifts. Apple investigated the case with independent auditors and found that, while some of the plant's labour practices met Apple's Code of Conduct, others did not: employees worked over 60 hours a week for 35% of the time, and worked more than six consecutive days for 25% of the time.
Question: What publication revealed information about the working conditions of iPod labor?
Answer: The Mail on Sunday
Question: What governs iPod manufacturers' labor policies?
Answer: Apple's Code of Conduct
Question: What percentage of the time did The Mail on Sunday claim workers labored for at least seven straight days?
Answer: 25
Question: Which British tabloid accused Apple of unfair worker conditions in 2006?
Answer: The Mail
Question: What percentage of Apple's manufacturing employees worked over 60 hour weeks?
Answer: 35% |
Context: Xinjiang, China; Argentina; Chile; Iceland; Russia and other areas skew time zones westward, in effect observing DST year-round without complications from clock shifts. For example, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is at 106°39′ W longitude, slightly west of center of the idealized Mountain Time Zone (105° W), but the time in Saskatchewan is Central Standard Time (90° W) year-round, so Saskatoon is always about 67 minutes ahead of mean solar time, thus effectively observing daylight saving time year-round. Conversely, northeast India and a few other areas skew time zones eastward, in effect observing negative DST. The United Kingdom and Ireland experimented with year-round DST from 1968 to 1971 but abandoned it because of its unpopularity, particularly in northern regions.
Question: In which direction do countries like Russia and Argentina shift their time zones that could be considered all-year DST?
Answer: westward
Question: About how many minutes does Saskatoon, Saskatchewan stay ahead of mean solar time?
Answer: 67
Question: What time does Saskatoon observe all year long?
Answer: Central Standard Time
Question: Places like northeast India that shift time zones to the east could be considered to be observing what kind of DST?
Answer: negative DST
Question: What year did Ireland and the UK give up on their permanent DST experiment?
Answer: 1971 |
Context: The early currency of the United States did not exhibit faces of presidents, as is the custom now; although today, by law, only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency. In fact, the newly formed government was against having portraits of leaders on the currency, a practice compared to the policies of European monarchs. The currency as we know it today did not get the faces they currently have until after the early 20th century; before that "heads" side of coinage used profile faces and striding, seated, and standing figures from Greek and Roman mythology and composite Native Americans. The last coins to be converted to profiles of historic Americans were the dime (1946) and the Dollar (1971).
Question: What condition does a person have to meet to be allowed by law on a coin?
Answer: deceased
Question: Having portraits of leaders on coins was compared to who's policies?
Answer: European monarchs
Question: When did modern day currency start getting the faces that they have?
Answer: 20th century
Question: Other than Greek and Roman mythology, who else was featured on the "heads" side of past coins?
Answer: composite Native Americans
Question: What was the last coin to be converted to the modern day style of having historic Americans on the face?
Answer: Dollar
Question: What condition does a person have to meet to be in mythology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Having mythology on coins was compared to whose policies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did modern day currency start getting the Native Americans they have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Other than Greek and Roman mythology, who else was featured on the "heads" of past monarchs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the last coin to be converted to the modern day style of having mythology on the face?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In August 2013, a launching ceremony for Japan's largest military ship since World War II was held in Yokohama. The 820-foot-long (250 m), 19,500-ton flattop Izumo was deployed in March 2015. The ship is able to carry up to 14 helicopters; however, only seven ASW helicopters and two SAR helicopters were planned for the initial aircraft complement. For other operations, 400 troops and fifty 3.5 t trucks (or equivalent equipment) can also be carried. The flight deck has five helicopter landing spots that allow simultaneous landings or take-offs. The ship is equipped with two Phalanx CIWS and two SeaRAM for its defense. The destroyers of this class were initially intended to replace the two ships of the Shirane class, which were originally scheduled to begin decommissioning in FY2014.
Question: What was the August 2013 launching ceremony in Yokohama held for?
Answer: Japan's largest military ship since World War II
Question: How many helicopters can simultaneously land on Japan's largest military ship?
Answer: five
Question: How long is Japan's largest military ship?
Answer: 820-foot-long (250 m)
Question: How many troops can Japan's largest military ship carry?
Answer: 400
Question: How much does Japan's largest military ship weigh?
Answer: 19,500-ton
Question: What was the August 2013 launching ceremony in Toyko held for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many helicopters can simultaneously land on China's largest military ship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long is Japan's largest civilian ship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many troops can Japan's smallest military ship carry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much does Japan's smallest military ship weigh?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During this period, the island enjoyed increased revenues through the sale of flax, with prices peaking in 1951. However, the industry declined because of transportation costs and competition from synthetic fibres. The decision by the British Post Office to use synthetic fibres for its mailbags was a further blow, contributing to the closure of the island's flax mills in 1965.
Question: What did the Island sell for increased revenue during this period?
Answer: flax
Question: What year did flax prices peak?
Answer: 1951
Question: The British Post Offices decision to use what kind of fibres hurt the flax industry?
Answer: synthetic fibres
Question: What year did the Island's flax mills close?
Answer: 1965 |
Context: Peace between England and the Netherlands in 1688 meant that the two countries entered the Nine Years' War as allies, but the conflict—waged in Europe and overseas between France, Spain and the Anglo-Dutch alliance—left the English a stronger colonial power than the Dutch, who were forced to devote a larger proportion of their military budget on the costly land war in Europe. The 18th century saw England (after 1707, Britain) rise to be the world's dominant colonial power, and France becoming its main rival on the imperial stage.
Question: Which country became Britain's main rival in the 18th century?
Answer: France
Question: When did England and the Netherlands make peace?
Answer: 1688
Question: In which war were England and the Netherlands allies?
Answer: Nine Years' War
Question: In which century did Britain become the world's dominant colonial power?
Answer: 18th |
Context: After the President signs a bill into law (or Congress enacts it over his veto), it is delivered to the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) where it is assigned a law number, and prepared for publication as a slip law. Public laws, but not private laws, are also given legal statutory citation by the OFR. At the end of each session of Congress, the slip laws are compiled into bound volumes called the United States Statutes at Large, and they are known as session laws. The Statutes at Large present a chronological arrangement of the laws in the exact order that they have been enacted.
Question: Who signs a bill into a law?
Answer: the President
Question: Where does a bill go after it is signed?
Answer: Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Question: What is a new law given at the OFR of the NARA?
Answer: a law number
Question: After being given a law number, a new law is prepared for publication as what?
Answer: a slip law
Question: What kind of laws are not given statutory citation by the OFR?
Answer: private laws
Question: Where does a bill go once the President signs it into effect?
Answer: delivered to the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Question: What happens after a bill is delivered to the OFR?
Answer: assigned a law number
Question: After a bill is assigned a number, what is it made ready for?
Answer: publication as a slip law
Question: Once the slip laws are placed into the United States Statutes at Large, what are they called?
Answer: session laws
Question: What is the United States Statutes at Large?
Answer: a chronological arrangement of the laws in the exact order that they have been enacted
Question: What does Congress sign into law?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization gives private laws legal statutory citations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Bound volumes of bills are called what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of laws does the NARA grant statutory citations to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who signs a bill after it is delivered to the OFR?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Nicholas began courting Britain by means of conversations with the British ambassador, George Hamilton Seymour, in January and February 1853.:105 Nicholas insisted that he no longer wished to expand Imperial Russia:105 but that he had an obligation to the Christian communities in the Ottoman Empire.:105 The Tsar next dispatched a highly abrasive diplomat, Prince Menshikov, on a special mission to the Ottoman Sublime Porte in February 1853. By previous treaties, the sultan was committed "to protect the (Eastern Orthodox) Christian religion and its churches." Menshikov demanded a Russian protectorate over all 12 million Orthodox Christians in the Empire, with control of the Orthodox Church's hierarchy. A compromise was reached regarding Orthodox access to the Holy Land, but the Sultan, strongly supported by the British ambassador, rejected the more sweeping demands.
Question: Who was the British ambassador in 1853?
Answer: George Hamilton Seymour
Question: Who declared they no longer wanted to spread Imperial Russian?
Answer: Nicholas
Question: Who did the Tsar send on a mission to Ottoman Sublime Porte?
Answer: Prince Menshikov
Question: In what year was Prince Menshikov sent to the Ottoman Sublime Porte?
Answer: 1853
Question: Who wanted to ruled over the 12 million Orthodox Christians in the Empire?
Answer: Menshikov |
Context: Accusing the rebels of being "drugged" and linked to al-Qaeda, Gaddafi proclaimed that he would die a martyr rather than leave Libya. As he announced that the rebels would be "hunted down street by street, house by house and wardrobe by wardrobe", the army opened fire on protests in Benghazi, killing hundreds. Shocked at the government's response, a number of senior politicians resigned or defected to the protesters' side. The uprising spread quickly through Libya's less economically developed eastern half. By February's end, eastern cities like Benghazi, Misrata, al-Bayda and Tobruk were controlled by rebels, and the Benghazi-based National Transitional Council (NTC) had been founded to represent them.
Question: Who did Gaddafi accuse the Libyan rebels of being linked to?
Answer: al-Qaeda
Question: How many protesters were killed in Benghazi?
Answer: hundreds
Question: What rebel organization was founded in Benghazi?
Answer: National Transitional Council
Question: Cities in what geographic part of Libya were controlled by rebels?
Answer: eastern
Question: Along with Benghazi and Misrata, what cities did the rebels control in February?
Answer: al-Bayda and Tobruk |
Context: The third John Walter, the founder's grandson, succeeded his father in 1847. The paper continued as more or less independent, but from the 1850s The Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from the penny press, notably The Daily Telegraph and The Morning Post.
Question: What year did the founder's grandson succeed his father as editor of The Times?
Answer: 1847
Question: What is the name of the The Times founder's grandson who succeeded his father as editor?
Answer: John Walter
Question: In the 1850s, the Times was beginning to suffer from the rise in competition from what kind of press?
Answer: the penny press |
Context: The traditional folk music of Cyprus has several common elements with Greek, Turkish, and Arabic music including Greco-Turkish dances such as the sousta, syrtos, zeibekikos, tatsia, and karsilamas as well as the Middle Eastern-inspired tsifteteli and arapies. There is also a form of musical poetry known as chattista which is often performed at traditional feasts and celebrations. The instruments commonly associated with Cyprus folk music are the bouzouki, oud ("outi"), violin ("fkiolin"), lute ("laouto"), accordion, Cyprus flute ("pithkiavlin") and percussion (including the "toumperleki"). Composers associated with traditional Cypriot music include Evagoras Karageorgis, Marios Tokas, Solon Michaelides and Savvas Salides. Among musicians is also the acclaimed pianist Cyprien Katsaris and composer and artistic director of the European Capital of Culture initiative Marios Joannou Elia.
Question: Traditional Cyprus music has what other types of genres in common?
Answer: Greek, Turkish, and Arabic
Question: What are the names of the Greco-Turkish dances?
Answer: sousta, syrtos, zeibekikos, tatsia, and karsilamas
Question: What are the names of the Middle-Eastern inspired dances?
Answer: tsifteteli and arapies
Question: What is chattista?
Answer: form of musical poetry
Question: Where is chattista performed?
Answer: traditional feasts and celebrations |
Context: iPods have won several awards ranging from engineering excellence,[not in citation given] to most innovative audio product, to fourth best computer product of 2006. iPods often receive favorable reviews; scoring on looks, clean design, and ease of use. PC World says that iPod line has "altered the landscape for portable audio players". Several industries are modifying their products to work better with both the iPod line and the AAC audio format. Examples include CD copy-protection schemes, and mobile phones, such as phones from Sony Ericsson and Nokia, which play AAC files rather than WMA.
Question: What rank did iPod achieve among various computer products in 2006?
Answer: fourth
Question: What kind of reviews do iPods tend to get?
Answer: favorable
Question: What two companies use the AAC format for music files?
Answer: Sony Ericsson and Nokia
Question: What file format is not supported by Sony Ericsson and Nokia?
Answer: WMA
Question: Which publication praised iPods for revolutionizing the industry?
Answer: PC World
Question: Which phone manufacturers adopted the AAC file format to become better iPod-compatible?
Answer: Sony Ericsson and Nokia
Question: Which PC magazine praised the iPod for having "altered the landscape for portable audio players"?
Answer: PC World |
Context: Philips' preferred name for the format was "VLP", after the Dutch words Video Langspeel-Plaat ("Video long-play disc"), which in English-speaking countries stood for Video Long-Play. The first consumer player, the Magnavox VH-8000 even had the VLP logo on the player. For a while in the early and mid-1970s, Philips also discussed a compatible audio-only format they called "ALP", but that was soon dropped as the Compact Disc system became a non-compatible project in the Philips corporation. Until early 1980, the format had no "official" name. The LaserVision Association, made up of MCA, Universal-Pioneer, IBM, and Philips/Magnavox, was formed to standardize the technical specifications of the format (which had been causing problems for the consumer market) and finally named the system officially as "LaserVision".
Question: What did VLP stand for in English-speaking countries?
Answer: Video Long-Play
Question: What was the first consumer VLP player?
Answer: Magnavox VH-8000
Question: Which group officially chose the name "Laservision"?
Answer: The LaserVision Association
Question: The Laservision Association was comprised of which companies?
Answer: MCA, Universal-Pioneer, IBM, and Philips/Magnavox |
Context: The city has several federal facilities, including the John F. Kennedy Federal Office Building, the Thomas P. O'Neill Federal Building, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Question: Where is the John F kennedy Federal office building located?
Answer: The city
Question: What court is located in Boston?
Answer: the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Question: What is the name of the famous bank located in Boston?
Answer: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
Context: Sacrifice to deities of the heavens (di superi, "gods above") was performed in daylight, and under the public gaze. Deities of the upper heavens required white, infertile victims of their own sex: Juno a white heifer (possibly a white cow); Jupiter a white, castrated ox (bos mas) for the annual oath-taking by the consuls. Di superi with strong connections to the earth, such as Mars, Janus, Neptune and various genii – including the Emperor's – were offered fertile victims. After the sacrifice, a banquet was held; in state cults, the images of honoured deities took pride of place on banqueting couches and by means of the sacrificial fire consumed their proper portion (exta, the innards). Rome's officials and priests reclined in order of precedence alongside and ate the meat; lesser citizens may have had to provide their own.
Question: When did the sacrifices to the deities of the heavens occur?
Answer: daylight
Question: What color was the sacrifice mandated to be for heaven deities?
Answer: white
Question: What type of sacrifices were offered to gods with earth connections?
Answer: fertile
Question: What event was held after the sacrifice?
Answer: banquet
Question: Who ate the meat of the sacrifice during the after sacrifice banquet?
Answer: officials and priests |
Context: Old English nouns had grammatical gender, a feature absent in modern English, which uses only natural gender. For example, the words sunne ("sun"), mōna ("moon") and wīf ("woman/wife") were respectively feminine, masculine and neuter; this is reflected, among other things, in the form of the definite article used with these nouns: sēo sunne ("the sun"), se mōna ("the moon"), þæt wīf ("the woman/wife"). Pronoun usage could reflect either natural or grammatical gender, when those conflicted (as in the case of wīf, a neuter noun referring to a female person).
Question: What type of gender did Old English nouns possess?
Answer: grammatical
Question: What type of gender is present in modern English nouns?
Answer: natural
Question: What was a masculine word in Old English?
Answer: mōna
Question: What was a feminine word in Old English?
Answer: sunne
Question: What was the grammatical gender of the Old English word for wife?
Answer: neuter
Question: what did not have a gender in Old English?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is used to show gender in modern English?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of noun refers to a female person in modern English?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the Napoleonic Wars he was taken seriously by the British press as a dangerous tyrant, poised to invade. He was often referred to by the British as Boney. A nursery rhyme warned children that Bonaparte ravenously ate naughty people; the "bogeyman". The British Tory press sometimes depicted Napoleon as much smaller than average height, and this image persists. Confusion about his height also results from the difference between the French pouce and British inch—2.71 cm and 2.54 cm, respectively. The myth of the "Napoleon Complex” — named after him to describe men who have an inferiority complex — stems primarily from the fact that he was listed, incorrectly, as 5 feet 2 inches (in French units) at the time of his death. In fact, he was 1.68 metres (5 ft 6 in) tall, an average height for a man in that period.[note 11]
Question: Which foreign news service viewed Napoleon as a dangerous tyrant?
Answer: the British press
Question: What abbreviated term did the British often use to refer to Napoleon?
Answer: Boney
Question: Which segment of the British press often showed Napoleon as being much shorter than average?
Answer: Tory
Question: What height was Napoleon incorrectly listed as at his time of death?
Answer: 5 feet 2 inches
Question: What was Napoleon's actual height, in feet and inches?
Answer: 5 ft 6 in |
Context: Some topological spaces may be endowed with a group law. In order for the group law and the topology to interweave well, the group operations must be continuous functions, that is, g • h, and g−1 must not vary wildly if g and h vary only little. Such groups are called topological groups, and they are the group objects in the category of topological spaces. The most basic examples are the reals R under addition, (R ∖ {0}, ·), and similarly with any other topological field such as the complex numbers or p-adic numbers. All of these groups are locally compact, so they have Haar measures and can be studied via harmonic analysis. The former offer an abstract formalism of invariant integrals. Invariance means, in the case of real numbers for example:
Question: What group operations must occur for group law and topology to integrate well?
Answer: continuous functions
Question: What is the most simple example of topological groups?
Answer: reals R under addition, (R ∖ {0}, ·),
Question: What variables do locally compact groups share that can be studied by harmonic analysis?
Answer: Haar measures
Question: What allows group law and group operations to interweave?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is group law endowed with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are harmonic analyses studied using?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are topological spaces categorized by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are groups that are not locally compact studied?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Georgics' tone wavers between optimism and pessimism, sparking critical debate on the poet's intentions, but the work lays the foundations for later didactic poetry. Virgil and Maecenas are said to have taken turns reading the Georgics to Octavian upon his return from defeating Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.
Question: Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at which battle?
Answer: Battle of Actium
Question: When did Octavian return from the Battle of Actium?
Answer: 31 BC
Question: Who took turns with Virgil to read the Georgics to Octavian?
Answer: Maecenas
Question: When were the Georgics published?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the Georgics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the Georgics written?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did most of Virgil's writing compose of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who funded the writing of the Georgics?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In international law and international relations, a protocol is generally a treaty or international agreement that supplements a previous treaty or international agreement. A protocol can amend the previous treaty, or add additional provisions. Parties to the earlier agreement are not required to adopt the protocol. Sometimes this is made clearer by calling it an "optional protocol", especially where many parties to the first agreement do not support the protocol.
Question: What is a treaty that supplements a previous treaty in international law?
Answer: a protocol
Question: A protocol may either amend a previous treaty or do what?
Answer: add additional provisions
Question: Do parties to a treaty have an obligation to adopt a later protocol?
Answer: not required
Question: What do we sometimes call an agreement that supplements a treaty especially when few parties to the treaty support the protocol?
Answer: an "optional protocol"
Question: A protocol may add additional provisions to a treaty or else do what?
Answer: amend the previous treaty |
Context: In 1952, following a referendum, Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merged into Baden-Württemberg. In 1957, the Saar Protectorate rejoined the Federal Republic as the Saarland. German reunification in 1990, in which the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ascended into the Federal Republic, resulted in the addition of the re-established eastern states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (in German Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Saxony (Sachsen), Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt), and Thuringia (Thüringen), as well as the reunification of West and East Berlin into Berlin and its establishment as a full and equal state. A regional referendum in 1996 to merge Berlin with surrounding Brandenburg as "Berlin-Brandenburg" failed to reach the necessary majority vote in Brandenburg, while a majority of Berliners voted in favour of the merger.
Question: Which city did Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merge into?
Answer: Baden-Württemberg
Question: In what year did Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern merge?
Answer: 1952
Question: In 1957, the Saar Protectorate rejoined the Federal Republic as which city?
Answer: Saarland
Question: When did the German reunification take place?
Answer: 1990
Question: Why did a regional referendum in 1996 to merge Berlin with surrounding Brandenburg fail?
Answer: failed to reach the necessary majority vote in Brandenburg
Question: In 1957 what merged into Baden-Wurttemberg?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did a majority of Berliners vote for in 1957?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to the referendum in 1990 to merge East Berlin with Saxony?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Brandenberg reunification take place?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Baden Protectorate rejoin in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which areas merged together in 1957?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Saarland leave the Federal Republic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What states became Berlin in 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Baden split from Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1980 which country was reunified?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The word Catalan derives from the territory of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology. The main theory suggests that Catalunya (Latin Gathia Launia) derives from the name Gothia or Gauthia ("Land of the Goths"), since the origins of the Catalan counts, lords and people were found in the March of Gothia, whence Gothland > Gothlandia > Gothalania > Catalonia theoretically derived.
Question: What is Catalan the derivitive of?
Answer: Catalonia
Question: What is the Latin for Calalunya?
Answer: Gathia Launia
Question: Where did the Catalan people originate?
Answer: March of Gothia
Question: What is the root word from which Catalonia comes?
Answer: Gothia |
Context: During the 18th century, systems of plant identification were developed comparable to dichotomous keys, where unidentified plants are placed into taxonomic groups (e.g. family, genus and species) by making a series of choices between pairs of characters. The choice and sequence of the characters may be artificial in keys designed purely for identification (diagnostic keys) or more closely related to the natural or phyletic order of the taxa in synoptic keys. By the 18th century, new plants for study were arriving in Europe in increasing numbers from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide. In 1753 Carl von Linné (Carl Linnaeus) published his Species Plantarum, a hierarchical classification of plant species that remains the reference point for modern botanical nomenclature. This established a standardised binomial or two-part naming scheme where the first name represented the genus and the second identified the species within the genus. For the purposes of identification, Linnaeus's Systema Sexuale classified plants into 24 groups according to the number of their male sexual organs. The 24th group, Cryptogamia, included all plants with concealed reproductive parts, mosses, liverworts, ferns, algae and fungi.
Question: What is the meaning of dichotomous keys?
Answer: choices between pairs
Question: What is the term for keys used for identification?
Answer: diagnostic keys
Question: Why were new plants arriving in Europe in the 18th century?
Answer: newly discovered countries
Question: What book is still used for nomenclature?
Answer: Species Plantarum
Question: How are the plants classified?
Answer: number of their male sexual organs |
Context: The mid-1970s saw the introduction of dbx-encoded records, again for the audiophile niche market. These were completely incompatible with standard record playback preamplifiers, relying on the dbx compandor encoding/decoding scheme to greatly increase dynamic range (dbx encoded disks were recorded with the dynamic range compressed by a factor of two in dB: quiet sounds were meant to be played back at low gain and loud sounds were meant to be played back at high gain, via automatic gain control in the playback equipment; this reduced the effect of surface noise on quiet passages). A similar and very short-lived scheme involved using the CBS-developed "CX" noise reduction encoding/decoding scheme.
Question: What was required for quality playback of DBX recordings?
Answer: automatic gain control
Question: When were DBX recordings released?
Answer: mid-1970s
Question: How compatible were DBX encoded recordings with prior technologies?
Answer: completely incompatible with
Question: What was the intention of DBX encoded recordings?
Answer: reduced the effect of surface noise on quiet passages
Question: What did CBS develop in order to reduce outside noise?
Answer: "CX" noise reduction |
Context: Alaska (i/əˈlæskə/) is a U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the Americas. The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east while Russia has a maritime border with the state to the west across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. To the south and southwest is the Pacific Ocean. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
Question: How many of Alaska's residents reside in the Anchorage area?
Answer: Approximately half
Question: What is Alaska's total population according to the 2015 Census?
Answer: 738,432
Question: Which industries are most prevalent in Alaska's economy?
Answer: fishing, natural gas, and oil
Question: Where does Alaska rank in population comparative to other US states?
Answer: 3rd least populous
Question: How does Alaska compare in size to other US states?
Answer: largest state in the United States by area
Question: How many of Alaska's residents die in the Anchorage area?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Alaska's total population according to the 2014 Census?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which industries are least prevalent in Alaska's economy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does Alaska rank in population comparative to other UN states?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Alaska compare in size to other UN states?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Yale's museum collections are also of international stature. The Yale University Art Gallery, the country's first university-affiliated art museum, contains more than 180,000 works, including Old Masters and important collections of modern art, in the Swartout and Kahn buildings. The latter, Louis Kahn's first large-scale American work (1953), was renovated and reopened in December 2006. The Yale Center for British Art, the largest collection of British art outside of the UK, grew from a gift of Paul Mellon and is housed in another Kahn-designed building.
Question: What is the name of the country's first university partnered art museum?
Answer: The Yale University Art Gallery
Question: How many items are in The Yale University Art Gallery?
Answer: more than 180,000
Question: Where is the largest center for British art, UK not included?
Answer: The Yale Center for British Art
Question: Whose contributions started The Yale Center for British Art?
Answer: Paul Mellon
Question: Who designed the building for The Yale Center for British Art?
Answer: Louis Kahn
Question: What is the name of the country's last university partnered art museum?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many items aren't in The Yale University Art Gallery?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the smallest center for British art, UK not included?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who re-designed the building for The Yale Center for British Art?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose contributions ended The Yale Center for British Art?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $45,733, and the median income for a family was $53,060. Males had a median income of $36,984 versus $31,076 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,609. According to Forbes in 2005, San Diego was the fifth wealthiest U.S. city but about 10.6% of families and 14.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.0% of those under age 18 and 7.6% of those age 65 or over. Nonetheless, San Diego was rated the fifth-best place to live in the United States in 2006 by Money magazine.
Question: What percentage of the population fell below the poverty line in San Diego in 2005?
Answer: 14.6%
Question: What did Money magazine rate San Diego as being in 2006?
Answer: fifth-best place to live in the United States
Question: What magazine rated San Diego as being the country's fifth wealthiest city?
Answer: Forbes
Question: In 2000, what was the median salary for females in San Diego?
Answer: $31,076
Question: What percentage of familes were below the poverty line in 2005?
Answer: 10.6%
Question: What percentage of the population fell below the poverty line in San Diego in 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Money magazine rate San Diego as being in 2005?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What magazine rated San Diego as being the country's fourth wealthiest city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2010, what was the median salary for females in San Diego?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What percentage of familes were below the poverty line in 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After being lit at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece on March 24, the torch traveled to the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, and then to Beijing, arriving on March 31. From Beijing, the torch was following a route passing through six continents. The torch has visited cities along the Silk Road, symbolizing ancient links between China and the rest of the world. The relay also included an ascent with the flame to the top of Mount Everest on the border of Nepal and Tibet, China from the Chinese side, which was closed specially for the event.
Question: What day was the Olympic torch lit for the 2008 games?
Answer: March 24
Question: Where did the Olympics originate?
Answer: Olympia, Greece
Question: When did the Olympic torch reach Beijing?
Answer: March 31
Question: How many continents did the torch visit after Beijing?
Answer: six
Question: The torch was on what road to symbolize historic links between China and the world?
Answer: Silk Road
Question: Where was the Olympic torch lit?
Answer: Olympia, Greece
Question: What date was the Olympic torch lit?
Answer: March 24
Question: What is the name of the stadium in Greece were the torch was taken to?
Answer: Panathinaiko Stadium
Question: What date did the Olympic torch arrive at its destination in China?
Answer: March 31.
Question: What mountain was the torch taken up?
Answer: Mount Everest |
Context: A referee may stop the match when they or official ring physician decides that a wrestler cannot safely continue the match. This may be decided if the wrestler cannot continue the match due to an injury. At the Great American Bash in 2008, Chris Jericho was declared the winner of a match against Shawn Michaels when Michaels could not defend himself due to excessive blood loss and impaired vision. At NXT TakeOver: Rival in 2015, the referee stopped the match when Sami Zayn could not defend himself due to an injury sustained against Kevin Owens for the NXT Championship.
Question: In what case can a referee choose to end the match?
Answer: when they or official ring physician decides that a wrestler cannot safely continue the match
Question: What is one reason that a wrestler may not be able to continue?
Answer: an injury
Question: Why couldn't Shawn Michaels defend himself?
Answer: due to excessive blood loss and impaired vision
Question: Where did Chris Jericho win in 2008?
Answer: Great American Bash |
Context: Mexico City is served by Mexico City International Airport (IATA Airport Code: MEX). This airport is Latin America's second busiest and one of the largests in traffic, with daily flights to United States and Canada, mainland Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Europe and Asia. Aeroméxico (Skyteam) is based at this airport, and provide codeshare agreements with non-Mexican airlines that span the entire globe. In 2014, the airport handled well over 34 million passengers, just over 2 million more than the year before. This traffic exceeds the current capacity of the airport, which has historically centralized the majority of air traffic in the country. An alternate option is Lic. Adolfo López Mateos International Airport (IATA Airport Code: TLC) in nearby Toluca, State of Mexico, although due to several airlines' decisions to terminate service to TLC, the airport has seen a passenger drop to just over 700,000 passengers in 2014 from over 2.1 million passengers just four years prior.
Question: What is the name of the major airport in Mexico City?
Answer: Mexico City International Airport
Question: What is the short hand code for Mexico City's largest airport?
Answer: MEX
Question: About how many passengers come through the Mexico City International Airport each year?
Answer: 34 million
Question: What is the name of the smaller airport near Mexico City?
Answer: Adolfo López Mateos International Airport
Question: How many passengers come through Adolfo Lopez Mateos International Airport?
Answer: 700,000 |
Context: La Cueva De Las Ventanas (The Cave of Windows), a series of cliff dwellings along an important trade route, and Las Jarillas Cave scrambled along the canyons of the Sierra Madre in Northwestern Chihuahua date between AD 1205 and 1260 and belong to the Paquimé culture. Cuarenta Casas is thought to have been a branch settlement from Paquime to protect the trade route from attack. Archaeologists believe the civilization began to decline during the 13th century and by the 15th century the inhabitants of Paquime sought refuge in the Sierra Madre Occidental while others are thought to have emigrated north and joined the Ancestral Pueblo peoples. According to anthropologist current natives tribes (Yaqui, Mayo, Opata, and Tarahumara) are descendants of the Casas Grandes culture.
Question: Along which mountain range does the Cave of Windows lie?
Answer: Sierra Madre
Question: Cuarenta Casas is thought to be a branch of which settlement?
Answer: Paquime
Question: Where did the Paquime seek refuge?
Answer: Sierra Madre Occidental
Question: Which current native tribes are thought to be descendants of the Casas Grandes?
Answer: Yaqui, Mayo, Opata, and Tarahumara |
Context: Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. The concentrated heat is then used as a heat source for a conventional power plant. A wide range of concentrating technologies exists; the most developed are the parabolic trough, the concentrating linear fresnel reflector, the Stirling dish and the solar power tower. Various techniques are used to track the Sun and focus light. In all of these systems a working fluid is heated by the concentrated sunlight, and is then used for power generation or energy storage.
Question: In all the different CSP systems, concentrated sunlight is used to heat what?
Answer: a working fluid
Question: What do Concentrating Solar Power systems use?
Answer: lenses or mirrors and tracking systems
Question: What is the heat generated from a Concentrating Solar Power system used for?
Answer: a heat source for a conventional power plant
Question: What is one of the most developed Concentrating Solar Power technologies?
Answer: the Stirling dish
Question: What do Concentrating Solar Power technologies have in common?
Answer: a working fluid is heated by the concentrated sunlight |
Context: As a teenager, he was greatly troubled by the Metaphysics of Aristotle, which he could not understand until he read al-Farabi's commentary on the work. For the next year and a half, he studied philosophy, in which he encountered greater obstacles. In such moments of baffled inquiry, he would leave his books, perform the requisite ablutions, then go to the mosque, and continue in prayer till light broke on his difficulties. Deep into the night, he would continue his studies, and even in his dreams problems would pursue him and work out their solution. Forty times, it is said, he read through the Metaphysics of Aristotle, till the words were imprinted on his memory; but their meaning was hopelessly obscure, until one day they found illumination, from the little commentary by Farabi, which he bought at a bookstall for the small sum of three dirhams. So great was his joy at the discovery, made with the help of a work from which he had expected only mystery, that he hastened to return thanks to God, and bestowed alms upon the poor.
Question: What text could Avicenna not understand?
Answer: the Metaphysics of Aristotle
Question: What helped Avicenna understand the Metaphysics of Aristotle?
Answer: al-Farabi's commentary
Question: How long did Avicenna study philosophy?
Answer: year and a half
Question: How many times did Avicenna read through the Metaphysics of Aristotle?
Answer: Forty times
Question: How much did Avicenna pay for the book that helped him understand the Aristotle text?
Answer: three dirhams
Question: What text did Avicenna embrace as a teenager?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What helped Avicenna understand al Farabi's commentary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did Avicenna study Mathmatics
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times did Acicenna read al Farabi's commentary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What text could Avicenna understand?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What helped Avicenna forget the Metaphysics of Aristotle?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did Avicenna teach philosophy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times did Avicenna teach the Metaphysics of Aristotle?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did Avicenna sell the book that helped him understand the Aristotle text?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Roman calendars show roughly forty annual religious festivals. Some lasted several days, others a single day or less: sacred days (dies fasti) outnumbered "non-sacred" days (dies nefasti). A comparison of surviving Roman religious calendars suggests that official festivals were organized according to broad seasonal groups that allowed for different local traditions. Some of the most ancient and popular festivals incorporated ludi ("games," such as chariot races and theatrical performances), with examples including those held at Palestrina in honour of Fortuna Primigenia during Compitalia, and the Ludi Romani in honour of Liber. Other festivals may have required only the presence and rites of their priests and acolytes, or particular groups, such as women at the Bona Dea rites.
Question: How many religious celebrations did Rome have?
Answer: forty
Question: What type of day were there more of in Rome?
Answer: sacred days
Question: With what were Roman festivals organized in accordance?
Answer: seasonal
Question: What traditions did the seasonal festivals incorporate?
Answer: local
Question: Instead of the public, what did some religious rites only require?
Answer: particular groups |
Context: Copper has been used since ancient times as a durable, corrosion resistant, and weatherproof architectural material. Roofs, flashings, rain gutters, downspouts, domes, spires, vaults, and doors have been made from copper for hundreds or thousands of years. Copper's architectural use has been expanded in modern times to include interior and exterior wall cladding, building expansion joints, radio frequency shielding, and antimicrobial indoor products, such as attractive handrails, bathroom fixtures, and counter tops. Some of copper's other important benefits as an architectural material include its low thermal movement, light weight, lightning protection, and its recyclability.
Question: What has copper been used for since ancient times?
Answer: architectural material
Question: In recent times what is one interior use copper been expanded to include?
Answer: antimicrobial indoor products
Question: What is an important benefit to using copper as an architectural material?
Answer: low thermal movement
Question: How long has copper been used in building construction?
Answer: hundreds or thousands of years
Question: What is the benefit to using copper for things such as counter tops and hand rails?
Answer: antimicrobial
Question: What has copper been avoided as since ancient times?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one interior use copper has been forbidden to include?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an important danger to using copper as an architectural material?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long has copper been banned in building construction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the danger to using copper for things such as counter tops and hand rails?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The axiom of foundation established that every set can be constructed from the bottom up in an ordered succession of steps by way of the principles of Zermelo and Fraenkel, in such a manner that if one set belongs to another then the first must necessarily come before the second in the succession, hence excluding the possibility of a set belonging to itself. To demonstrate that the addition of this new axiom to the others did not produce contradictions, von Neumann introduced a method of demonstration, called the method of inner models, which later became an essential instrument in set theory.
Question: What is the method to demonstrate that no contradictions were created by the addition of axiom of foundation?
Answer: method of inner models
Question: Zermelo and Fraenkel's axiom of foundation established that every set be constructed how?
Answer: from the bottom up in an ordered succession of steps
Question: What excluded a set from belonging to itself in set theory?
Answer: if one set belongs to another then the first must necessarily come before the second in the succession |
Context: Translation of material into Arabic expanded after the creation of Arabic script in the 5th century, and gained great importance with the rise of Islam and Islamic empires. Arab translation initially focused primarily on politics, rendering Persian, Greek, even Chinese and Indic diplomatic materials into Arabic. It later focused on translating classical Greek and Persian works, as well as some Chinese and Indian texts, into Arabic for scholarly study at major Islamic learning centers, such as the Al-Karaouine (Fes, Morocco), Al-Azhar (Cairo, Egypt), and the Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad. In terms of theory, Arabic translation drew heavily on earlier Near Eastern traditions as well as more contemporary Greek and Persian traditions.
Question: When did translation of material into Arabic begin to increase?
Answer: 5th century
Question: What allowed the expansion of Arabic translations during the 5th century?
Answer: creation of Arabic script
Question: What material was initial Arab translations primarily focused on?
Answer: politics
Question: What cultures' classical works were later translated into Arabic?
Answer: Greek and Persian
Question: What type of translation drew heavily on earlier Near Eastern traditions?
Answer: Arabic
Question: When did translation of material into Arabic begin to stop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What allowed the reduction of Arabic translations during the 5th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What material was initial Arab translations rarely focused on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cultures' classical works were never translated into Arabic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of translation had no influence from earlier Near Eastern traditions?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: St Helena has long been known for its high proportion of endemic birds and vascular plants. The highland areas contain most of the 400 endemic species recognised to date. Much of the island has been identified by BirdLife International as being important for bird conservation, especially the endemic Saint Helena plover or wirebird, and for seabirds breeding on the offshore islets and stacks, in the north-east and the south-west Important Bird Areas. On the basis of these endemics and an exceptional range of habitats, Saint Helena is on the United Kingdom's tentative list for future UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Question: Saint Helena has a high proportion of what kind of birds?
Answer: endemic
Question: What kind of plants are common on Saint Helena?
Answer: vascular
Question: What organization identified Saint Helena as important for bird conservation?
Answer: BirdLife International
Question: Saint Helena is on the United Kingdom's list for future what?
Answer: UNESCO World Heritage Sites |
Context: A core problem in the study of early Buddhism is the relation between dhyana and insight. Schmithausen, in his often-cited article On some Aspects of Descriptions or Theories of 'Liberating Insight' and 'Enlightenment' in Early Buddhism notes that the mention of the four noble truths as constituting "liberating insight", which is attained after mastering the Rupa Jhanas, is a later addition to texts such as Majjhima Nikaya 36.[page needed]
Question: A large problem in the study of early Buddhism is the relationship of dhyana and what else?
Answer: insight
Question: Liberating insight is attained after mastering what?
Answer: Rupa Jhanas
Question: Later edition of texts such as what has the Rupa Jhanas?
Answer: Majjhima Nikaya |
Context: Alan Dershowitz described Sudan as an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid." Former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler echoed the accusation.
Question: Who was the Canadian Minister of Justice?
Answer: Irwin Cotler
Question: How did Alan Dershozitz describe the Sudan?
Answer: an example of a government that "actually deserve(s)" the appellation "apartheid."
Question: Who argeed with Dershowitz?
Answer: Irwin Cotler
Question: Where did Irwin Cotler live?
Answer: Canadian |
Context: In the months after the Shenyang conference Peng Dehuai went to Beijing several times to brief Mao and Zhou about the heavy casualties suffered by Chinese troops and the increasing difficulty of keeping the front lines supplied with basic necessities. Peng was convinced that the war would be protracted, and that neither side would be able to achieve victory in the near future. On 24 February 1952, the Military Commission, presided over by Zhou, discussed the PVA's logistical problems with members of various government agencies involved in the war effort. After the government representatives emphasized their inability to meet the demands of the war, Peng, in an angry outburst, shouted: "You have this and that problem... You should go to the front and see with your own eyes what food and clothing the soldiers have! Not to speak of the casualties! For what are they giving their lives? We have no aircraft. We have only a few guns. Transports are not protected. More and more soldiers are dying of starvation. Can't you overcome some of your difficulties?" The atmosphere became so tense that Zhou was forced to adjourn the conference. Zhou subsequently called a series of meetings, where it was agreed that the PVA would be divided into three groups, to be dispatched to Korea in shifts; to accelerate the training of Chinese pilots; to provide more anti-aircraft guns to the front lines; to purchase more military equipment and ammunition from the Soviet Union; to provide the army with more food and clothing; and, to transfer the responsibility of logistics to the central government.
Question: Who believed that neither side would see a victory at the end of the Korean War?
Answer: Peng Dehuai
Question: What meeting was conducted to discuss the PVA's problems?
Answer: the Military Commission,
Question: What actions were taken to help the PVA?
Answer: PVA would be divided into three groups
Question: Who ended up in charge of logistics as a result of the restructuring of the PVA?
Answer: the central government |
Context: Whitehead describes causal efficacy as "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go." It is, in other words, the sense of causal relations between entities, a feeling of being influenced and affected by the surrounding environment, unmediated by the senses. Presentational immediacy, on the other hand, is what is usually referred to as "pure sense perception", unmediated by any causal or symbolic interpretation, even unconscious interpretation. In other words, it is pure appearance, which may or may not be delusive (e.g. mistaking an image in a mirror for "the real thing").
Question: What is the term for the experience dominating primitive organisms that have a sense for fate?
Answer: causal efficacy
Question: What is the other term for "pure sense perception"?
Answer: Presentational immediacy
Question: What is it called if you mistake a reflection in a mirror for the real thing?
Answer: Presentational immediacy
Question: How does Whitehead define causal efficacy?
Answer: "the experience dominating the primitive living organisms, which have a sense for the fate from which they have emerged, and the fate towards which they go."
Question: How do the senses affect causal efficacy?
Answer: unmediated by the senses
Question: How does Whitehead define presentational immediacy?
Answer: "pure sense perception", unmediated by any causal or symbolic interpretation, even unconscious interpretation
Question: What can be said about the accuracy of presentational immediacy?
Answer: it is pure appearance, which may or may not be delusive
Question: What can be said about the inaccuracy of presentational immediacy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Whitehead define noncausal efficacy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do the senses affect non-causal efficacy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Whitehead define unpresentational immediacy?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The "Bleacher Bums" is a name given to fans, many of whom spend much of the day heckling, who sit in the bleacher section at Wrigley Field. Initially, the group was called "bums" because it referred to a group of fans who were at most games, and since those games were all day games, it was assumed they did not work. Many of those fans were, and are still, students at Chicago area colleges, such as DePaul University, Loyola, Northwestern University, and Illinois-Chicago. A Broadway play, starring Joe Mantegna, Dennis Farina, Dennis Franz, and James Belushi ran for years and was based on a group of Cub fans who frequented the club's games. The group was started in 1967 by dedicated fans Ron Grousl, Tom Nall and "mad bugler" Mike Murphy, who was a sports radio host during mid days on Chicago-based WSCR AM 670 "The Score". Murphy alleges that Grousl started the Wrigley tradition of throwing back opposing teams' home run balls. The current group is headed by Derek Schaul (Derek the Five Dollar Kid). Prior to the 2006 season, they were updated, with new shops and private bar (The Batter's Eye) being added, and Bud Light bought naming rights to the bleacher section, dubbing them the Bud Light Bleachers. Bleachers at Wrigley are general admission, except during the playoffs. The bleachers have been referred to as the "World's Largest Beer Garden." A popular T-shirt (sold inside the park and licensed by the club) which says "Wrigley Bleachers" on the front and the phrase "Shut Up and Drink Your Beer" on the reverse fuels this stereotype.
Question: What nickname has been given to the fans who sit in the bleacher section at Wrigley Field?
Answer: Bleacher Bums
Question: Who heads the current group?
Answer: Derek Schaul
Question: What did Bud Light dub the bleacher section?
Answer: the Bud Light Bleachers |
Context: 40°48′27″N 73°57′18″W / 40.8076°N 73.9549°W / 40.8076; -73.9549 120th Street traverses the neighborhoods of Morningside Heights, Harlem, and Spanish Harlem. It begins on Riverside Drive at the Interchurch Center. It then runs east between the campuses of Barnard College and the Union Theological Seminary, then crosses Broadway and runs between the campuses of Columbia University and Teacher's College. The street is interrupted by Morningside Park. It then continues east, eventually running along the southern edge of Marcus Garvey Park, passing by 58 West, the former residence of Maya Angelou. It then continues through Spanish Harlem; when it crosses Pleasant Avenue it becomes a two‑way street and continues nearly to the East River, where for automobiles, it turns north and becomes Paladino Avenue, and for pedestrians, continues as a bridge across FDR Drive.
Question: On which road does 120th Street begin?
Answer: Riverside Drive
Question: The Interchurch Center is the start of which street?
Answer: 120th Street
Question: Morningside Park interrupts which street?
Answer: 120th Street
Question: Who formerly lived at 58 West?
Answer: Maya Angelou
Question: 120th Street turns into Paladino Avenue and into a pedestrian bridge across what road?
Answer: FDR Drive |
Context: New York is the most important source of political fundraising in the United States, as four of the top five ZIP codes in the nation for political contributions are in Manhattan. The top ZIP code, 10021 on the Upper East Side, generated the most money for the 2004 presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry. The city has a strong imbalance of payments with the national and state governments. It receives 83 cents in services for every $1 it sends to the federal government in taxes (or annually sends $11.4 billion more than it receives back). The city also sends an additional $11 billion more each year to the state of New York than it receives back.
Question: Four-fifths of the ZIP codes that provide the highest amount of political contributions in the United States are located in what borough?
Answer: Manhattan
Question: What ZIP code was responsible for the greatest amount of contributions in the 2004 presidential election for both candidates?
Answer: 10021
Question: How much money in cents does New York City receive for every dollar paid in federal taxes?
Answer: 83
Question: How much more money does the city give to the state of New York annually than it receives?
Answer: $11 billion
Question: Each year, how much more money does New York City give to the federal government than it gets back?
Answer: $11.4 billion |
Context: Horizontal gene transfer is invoked to explain how there is often extreme similarity between small portions of the genomes of two organisms that are otherwise very distantly related. Horizontal gene transfer seems to be common among many microbes. Also, eukaryotic cells seem to have experienced a transfer of some genetic material from their chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes to their nuclear chromosomes.
Question: What is an explanation for the resemblance between disparate parts of the genome?
Answer: Horizontal gene transfer
Question: In which organisms does horizontal gene transfer appear to occur commonly?
Answer: microbes
Question: Parts of which organelle genomes are thought to have ended up in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells via transfer?
Answer: chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes
Question: What helps explain why different parts of chloroplasts are similar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what organism are eukaryotic cells common?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does horizontal gene transfer explain about nuclear chromosomes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do microbes transfer material from their chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do microbes transfer to chloroplasts?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Adult contemporary music (AC) is a style of music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence. Adult contemporary is rather a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music.
Question: Along with pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock, what musical style influenced adult contemporary?
Answer: easy listening
Question: What was the prevailing style of adult contemporary music in the 1970s?
Answer: soft rock
Question: What type of adult contemporary music was popular in the 1960s?
Answer: vocal
Question: What does the acronym AC stand for?
Answer: Adult contemporary
Question: Along with easy listening, adult contemporary is a modern day continuation of what style of music?
Answer: soft rock |
Context: In February 2007, the U.S. Mint, under the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005, introduced a new $1 U.S. Presidential dollar coin. Based on the success of the "50 State Quarters" series, the new coin features a sequence of presidents in order of their inaugurations, starting with George Washington, on the obverse side. The reverse side features the Statue of Liberty. To allow for larger, more detailed portraits, the traditional inscriptions of "E Pluribus Unum", "In God We Trust", the year of minting or issuance, and the mint mark will be inscribed on the edge of the coin instead of the face. This feature, similar to the edge inscriptions seen on the British £1 coin, is not usually associated with U.S. coin designs. The inscription "Liberty" has been eliminated, with the Statue of Liberty serving as a sufficient replacement. In addition, due to the nature of U.S. coins, this will be the first time there will be circulating U.S. coins of different denominations with the same president featured on the obverse (heads) side (Lincoln/penny, Jefferson/nickel, Franklin D. Roosevelt/dime, Washington/quarter, Kennedy/half dollar, and Eisenhower/dollar). Another unusual fact about the new $1 coin is Grover Cleveland will have two coins with his portrait issued due to the fact he was the only U.S. President to be elected to two non-consecutive terms.
Question: In which year was the new $1 US Presidential coin introduced?
Answer: 2007
Question: What does the reverse side of the new coins feature?
Answer: Statue of Liberty
Question: What is the official version of "In God We Trust" printed on the coins?
Answer: E Pluribus Unum
Question: Which inscription was eliminated due to the Statue of Liberty being added to the coin?
Answer: "Liberty"
Question: Which President will have two coins with his portrait on it?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Question: In which year was the new Roosevelt Presidential coin introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the reverse side of the Roosevelt coin feature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the official version of "Liberty" printed on the coins?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which inscription was eliminated due to Roosevelt being added to the coin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which President will have two dimes with his portrait on it?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: When Ibn Sina was 22 years old, he lost his father. The Samanid dynasty came to its end in December 1004. Ibn Sina seems to have declined the offers of Mahmud of Ghazni, and proceeded westwards to Urgench in modern Turkmenistan, where the vizier, regarded as a friend of scholars, gave him a small monthly stipend. The pay was small, however, so Ibn Sina wandered from place to place through the districts of Nishapur and Merv to the borders of Khorasan, seeking an opening for his talents. Qabus, the generous ruler of Tabaristan, himself a poet and a scholar, with whom Ibn Sina had expected to find asylum, was on about that date (1012) starved to death by his troops who had revolted. Ibn Sina himself was at this time stricken by a severe illness. Finally, at Gorgan, near the Caspian Sea, Ibn Sina met with a friend, who bought a dwelling near his own house in which Ibn Sina lectured on logic and astronomy. Several of Ibn Sina's treatises were written for this patron; and the commencement of his Canon of Medicine also dates from his stay in Hyrcania.
Question: At what age did Avicenna lose his father?
Answer: 22
Question: What dynasty ended in December 1004?
Answer: The Samanid dynasty
Question: What modern country did Ibn Sina travel to after the end of the Samanid dynasty?
Answer: Turkmenistan
Question: What is one district that Ibn Sina traveled through in search of more work?
Answer: Nishapur
Question: Who did Ibn Sina turn down in order to travel westwards after the Samanid dynasty ended?
Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni
Question: How old was Ibn Sina when his mother died?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dynasty ended in the 10th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Ibn Sina head westward with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who invited Ibn Sina to travel wesward?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Ibn Sina write while in Urgench?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what age did Avicenna lose his mother?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dynasty began in December 1004?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What modern country did Ibn Sina travel to before the end of the Samanid dynasty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one district that Ibn Sina never traveled through in search of more work?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Ibn Sina turn down in order to travel eastwards after the Samanid dynasty ended?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Government of Punjab is a provincial government in the federal structure of Pakistan, is based in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab Province. The Chief Minister of Punjab (CM) is elected by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab to serve as the head of the provincial government in Punjab, Pakistan. The current Chief Minister is Shahbaz Sharif, who became the Chief Minister of Punjab as being restored after Governor's rule starting from 25 February 2009 to 30 March 2009. Thereafter got re-elected as a result of 11 May 2013 elections. The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the province of Punjab, which is located in Lahore in eastern Pakistan. The Assembly was established under Article 106 of the Constitution of Pakistan as having a total of 371 seats, with 66 seats reserved for women and eight reserved for non-Muslims.
Question: Who elects the Chief Minister?
Answer: the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
Question: In what year did Sharif become CM?
Answer: 2009
Question: When was Sharif re-elected CM?
Answer: 11 May 2013
Question: What kind of legislature is the Provincial Assembly?
Answer: unicameral
Question: How many seats are in the Provincial Assembly?
Answer: 371
Question: Who elects members of the Provincial Assembly?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Provincial Assembly elected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What election removed Sharif from office?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many seats are reserved for Muslims?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What article established the Chief Minister?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Valencia Metro derailment occurred on 3 July 2006 at 1 pm. CEST (1100 UTC) between Jesús and Plaça d'Espanya stations on Line 1 of the Metrovalencia mass transit system. 43 people were killed and more than ten were seriously injured. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash. Both the Valencian government spokesman Vicente Rambla and Mayor Rita Barberá called the accident a "fortuitous" event. However, the trade union CC.OO. accused the authorities of "rushing" to say anything but admit that Line 1 is in a state of "constant deterioration" with a "failure to carry out maintenance".
Question: How many people died when the Valencia metro derailed?
Answer: 43
Question: When did the Valencia metro derail?
Answer: 3 July 2006
Question: Who said the Valencia derailment was fortuitous?
Answer: Vicente Rambla and Mayor Rita Barberá
Question: On which Valencia metro line did the derailment occur?
Answer: 1
Question: How many people were gravely injured by the derailment?
Answer: more than ten |
Context: Richmond has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with hot and humid summers and generally cool winters. The mountains to the west act as a partial barrier to outbreaks of cold, continental air in winter; Arctic air is delayed long enough to be modified, then further warmed as it subsides in its approach to Richmond. The open waters of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean contribute to the humid summers and mild winters. The coldest weather normally occurs from late December to early February, and the January daily mean temperature is 37.9 °F (3.3 °C), with an average of 6.0 days with highs at or below the freezing mark. Downtown areas straddle the border between USDA Hardiness zones 7B and 8A, and temperatures seldom lower to 0 °F (−18 °C), with the most recent subzero (°F) reading occurring on January 28, 2000, when the temperature reached −1 °F (−18 °C). The July daily mean temperature is 79.3 °F (26.3 °C), and high temperatures reach or exceed 90 °F (32 °C) approximately 43 days out of the year; while 100 °F (38 °C) temperatures are not uncommon, they do not occur every year. Extremes in temperature have ranged from −12 °F (−24 °C) on January 19, 1940 up to 107 °F (42 °C) on August 6, 1918.[a]
Question: What is Richmond's Köppen climate classification?
Answer: Cfa
Question: How could one characterize the winters in Richmond?
Answer: generally cool
Question: What geographic feature keeps some cold inland air from reaching Richmond?
Answer: mountains
Question: In what month of the year does Richmond's chilliest weather typically end?
Answer: February
Question: About how many days a year does the temperature in Richmond go above 32 degrees Celsius?
Answer: 43 |
Context: The Richmond metro area is served by many local television and radio stations. As of 2010[update], the Richmond-Petersburg designated market area (DMA) is the 58th largest in the U.S. with 553,950 homes according to Nielsen Market Research. The major network television affiliates are WTVR-TV 6 (CBS), WRIC-TV 8 (ABC), WWBT 12 (NBC), WRLH-TV 35 (Fox), and WUPV 65 (CW). Public Broadcasting Service stations include WCVE-TV 23 and WCVW 57. There are also a wide variety of radio stations in the Richmond area, catering to many different interests, including news, talk radio, and sports, as well as an eclectic mix of musical interests.
Question: Per Nielsen, how many homes exist in the Richmond-Petersburg DMA?
Answer: 553,950
Question: Where does the Richmind-Petersburg DMA rank in the United States?
Answer: 58th
Question: With what network is WUPV 65 affiliated?
Answer: CW
Question: What type of channel is WCVW 57?
Answer: Public Broadcasting
Question: What Richmond-area station is affiliated with CBS?
Answer: WTVR-TV 6 |
Context: Today, nearly all commonly used video compression methods (e.g., those in standards approved by the ITU-T or ISO) apply a discrete cosine transform (DCT) for spatial redundancy reduction. The DCT that is widely used in this regard was introduced by N. Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao in 1974. Other methods, such as fractal compression, matching pursuit and the use of a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) have been the subject of some research, but are typically not used in practical products (except for the use of wavelet coding as still-image coders without motion compensation). Interest in fractal compression seems to be waning, due to recent theoretical analysis showing a comparative lack of effectiveness of such methods.
Question: What do all commonly used video compression methods use?
Answer: discrete cosine transform
Question: What does a DCT do?
Answer: spatial redundancy reduction
Question: What is not used in practical products?
Answer: fractal compression
Question: What do all commonly used fractals use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not used in DWT?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a wavelet do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who approves still-image coders?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who introduced redundancy reduction in 1974?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Modern Orthodoxy comprises a fairly broad spectrum of movements, each drawing on several distinct though related philosophies, which in some combination have provided the basis for all variations of the movement today. In general, Modern Orthodoxy holds that Jewish law is normative and binding, while simultaneously attaching a positive value to interaction with contemporary society. In this view, Orthodox Judaism can "be enriched" by its intersection with modernity; further, "modern society creates opportunities to be productive citizens engaged in the Divine work of transforming the world to benefit humanity". At the same time, in order to preserve the integrity of halakha, any area of "powerful inconsistency and conflict" between Torah and modern culture must be avoided. Modern Orthodoxy, additionally, assigns a central role to the "People of Israel".
Question: What is the name of the movement that comporises a fairly broad spectrum of distinct but related philosophies?
Answer: Modern Orthodoxy
Question: What integrity is orthodox judaism trying to preserve?
Answer: halakha
Question: Who does Modern Orthodoxy assign a central role to?
Answer: People of Israel
Question: What kind of work does orthodox Judiasm seek to transform the world with?
Answer: Divine work
Question: What is modern cutlture in conflict with?
Answer: Torah
Question: What comprises a fairly narrow spectrum of movements?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are distinct and non-related in Modern Orthodoxy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Classical Orthodoxy hold to be true?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can Orthodox Judaism be harmed by it's interaction with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who do Modern Orthodoxy assign a non-central role to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: An example of the first view is the regulation of attorneys and judges, and the establishment of rules for the conduct of the courts, by the Congress and in the states the legislatures. Although in practice these matters are delegated to the Supreme Court, the Congress holds these powers and delegates them to the Supreme Court only for convenience in light of the Supreme Court's expertise, but can withdraw that delegation at any time.
Question: Who has congress delegated the responsibility of establishing the rules of conduct for the courts to?
Answer: the Supreme Court
Question: The regulation of Congress is an example of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: While Supreme Court holds these powers, who does it delegate them to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In practice, what is delegated to Congress?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Congress unable to withdraw?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Qing dynasty (1644–1911) was founded after the fall of the Ming, the last Han Chinese dynasty, by the Manchus. The Manchus were formerly known as the Jurchens. When Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels in 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, the last Ming emperor, committed suicide. The Manchus then allied with former Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, which became the new capital of the Qing dynasty. The Mancus adopted the Confucian norms of traditional Chinese government in their rule of China proper. Schoppa, the editor of The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History argues, "A date around 1780 as the beginning of modern China is thus closer to what we know today as historical 'reality'. It also allows us to have a better baseline to understand the precipitous decline of the Chinese polity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
Question: What was founded after the fall of the Ming?
Answer: The Qing dynasty
Question: The Qing dynasty lasted through what time period?
Answer: 1644–1911
Question: What were the Manchus originally known as?
Answer: the Jurchens
Question: Why did the last Ming Emperor commit suicide?
Answer: Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels
Question: Who became allies with the Manchus to seize control over Beijing?
Answer: former Ming general Wu Sangui
Question: The Qing dynasty formed after what event?
Answer: after the fall of the Ming
Question: During what time period did the Qing dynasty rule?
Answer: 1644–1911
Question: What were the Manchus originally named?
Answer: Jurchens
Question: Who was Beijing captured by in 1644?
Answer: Li Zicheng's peasant rebels
Question: Who did the Manchus make an Ally with to seize control of Beijing?
Answer: former Ming general Wu Sangui |
Context: The university is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross (Latin: Congregatio a Sancta Cruce, abbreviated postnominals: "CSC"). While religious affiliation is not a criterion for admission, more than 93% of students identify as Christian, with over 80% of the total being Catholic. Collectively, Catholic Mass is celebrated over 100 times per week on campus, and a large campus ministry program provides for the faith needs of the community. There are multitudes of religious statues and artwork around campus, most prominent of which are the statue of Mary on the Main Building, the Notre Dame Grotto, and the Word of Life mural on Hesburgh Library depicting Christ as a teacher. Additionally, every classroom displays a crucifix. There are many religious clubs (catholic and non-Catholic) at the school, including Council #1477 of the Knights of Columbus (KOC), Baptist Collegiate Ministry (BCM), Jewish Club, Muslim Student Association, Orthodox Christian Fellowship, The Mormon Club, and many more. The Notre Dame KofC are known for being the first collegiate council of KofC, operating a charitable concession stand during every home football game and owning their own building on campus which can be used as a cigar lounge. Fifty-seven chapels are located throughout the campus.
Question: What is Congregation of Holy Cross in Latin?
Answer: Congregatio a Sancta Cruce
Question: What percentage of Notre Dame students feel they are Christian?
Answer: more than 93%
Question: How often is Catholic mass held at Notre Dame in a week?
Answer: over 100 times
Question: How many chapels are on the Notre Dame campus?
Answer: Fifty-seven
Question: What amount of the student body of Notre Dame identifies as Catholic?
Answer: over 80% |
Context: Mexico City, being the seat of the powers of the Union, did not belong to any particular state but to all. Therefore, it was the president, representing the federation, who used to designate the head of government of the Federal District, a position which is sometimes presented outside Mexico as the "Mayor" of Mexico City.[citation needed] In the 1980s, given the dramatic increase in population of the previous decades, the inherent political inconsistencies of the system, as well as the dissatisfaction with the inadequate response of the federal government after the 1985 earthquake, residents began to request political and administrative autonomy to manage their local affairs.[citation needed] Some political groups even proposed that the Federal District be converted into the 32nd state of the federation.
Question: If Mexico City was declared a state, how many states would be in the federation?
Answer: 32
Question: What event caused the citizens to reconsider how the government of Mexico City was set up?
Answer: the 1985 earthquake
Question: What do people call the leader of Mexico City?
Answer: Mayor
Question: Who declared the "Mayor" of Mexico City?
Answer: the president
Question: What state does Mexico City belong to?
Answer: all |
Context: During the 1988 presidential election, George H. W. Bush (Yale '48) derided Michael Dukakis for having "foreign-policy views born in Harvard Yard's boutique". When challenged on the distinction between Dukakis's Harvard connection and his own Yale background, he said that, unlike Harvard, Yale's reputation was "so diffuse, there isn't a symbol, I don't think, in the Yale situation, any symbolism in it" and said Yale did not share Harvard's reputation for "liberalism and elitism". In 2004 Howard Dean stated, "In some ways, I consider myself separate from the other three (Yale) candidates of 2004. Yale changed so much between the class of '68 and the class of '71. My class was the first class to have women in it; it was the first class to have a significant effort to recruit African Americans. It was an extraordinary time, and in that span of time is the change of an entire generation".
Question: In the 1988 election, where did George H. W. Bush say Michael Dukakis's foreign policy was born?
Answer: Harvard Yard's boutique
Question: How did George H. W. Bush describe Yale's reputation?
Answer: so diffuse, there isn't a symbol
Question: How did George H. W. Bush describe Harvard's reputation?
Answer: liberalism and elitism
Question: Why was Howard Dean proud of his graduating class?
Answer: first class to have women in it
Question: In the 1968 election, where did George H. W. Bush say Michael Dukakis's foreign policy was born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did George W. Bush describe Yale's reputation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did George W. Bush describe Harvard's reputation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was Howard Dean not proud of his graduating class?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was Howard Dean proud of his non-graduating class?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: According to the United States Census Bureau, the city had a total area of 17.037 square miles (44.125 km2), including 10.747 square miles (27.835 km2) of land and 6.290 square miles (16.290 km2) of water (36.92%).
Question: According to the United States Census Bureau, what is the total area in square miles?
Answer: 17.037 square miles
Question: What is the area of land?
Answer: 10.747 square miles
Question: What is the area of water?
Answer: 6.290 square miles
Question: What percentage of the city is made up of water?
Answer: 36.92%
Question: What organization provided data detailing the size of the city?
Answer: United States Census Bureau |
Context: Miami's tropical weather allows for year-round outdoors activities. The city has numerous marinas, rivers, bays, canals, and the Atlantic Ocean, which make boating, sailing, and fishing popular outdoors activities. Biscayne Bay has numerous coral reefs which make snorkeling and scuba diving popular. There are over 80 parks and gardens in the city. The largest and most popular parks are Bayfront Park and Bicentennial Park (located in the heart of Downtown and the location of the American Airlines Arena and Bayside Marketplace), Tropical Park, Peacock Park, Morningside Park, Virginia Key, and Watson Island.
Question: How many gardens and parks are in Miami?
Answer: 80
Question: In what park is the American Airlines Arena located?
Answer: Bicentennial
Question: Due to the presence of coral reefs, what activities are popular in Biscayne Bay?
Answer: snorkeling and scuba diving
Question: In what neighborhood is Bicentennial Park located?
Answer: Downtown
Question: Why can outdoor activities take place all year in Miami?
Answer: tropical weather
Question: How many gardens and parks aren't in Miami?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Outside of what park is the American Airlines Arena located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Due to the presence of coral reefs, what activities are unpopular in Biscayne Bay?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what neighborhood is Bicentennial Park not located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why can indoor activities take place all year in Miami?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The EFSA panel also determined intakes for different populations. Recommended intake volumes in the elderly are the same as for adults as despite lower energy consumption, the water requirement of this group is increased due to a reduction in renal concentrating capacity. Pregnant and breastfeeding women require additional fluids to stay hydrated. The EFSA panel proposes that pregnant women should consume the same volume of water as non-pregnant women, plus an increase in proportion to the higher energy requirement, equal to 300 mL/day. To compensate for additional fluid output, breastfeeding women require an additional 700 mL/day above the recommended intake values for non-lactating women.
Question: Who was similar recommended intake volumes as adults?
Answer: the elderly
Question: Other then breastfeeding women, who what other category of woman should have increased water intake?
Answer: Pregnant
Question: How much more water should pregnant women consumed compared to an average non - pregnant woman?
Answer: 300 mL/day
Question: Why should lactating women increase their water consumption?
Answer: To compensate for additional fluid output
Question: How much more water do lactating women need to consume in relation to the average woman?
Answer: 700 mL/day |
Context: Plymouth is an important centre for watersports, especially scuba diving and sailing. The Port of Plymouth Regatta is one of the oldest regattas in the world, and has been held regularly since 1823. In September 2011, Plymouth hosted the America's Cup World Series for nine days.
Question: When was the first Port of Plymouth Regatta?
Answer: 1823
Question: In what month and year did Plymouth play host to the America's Cup World Series?
Answer: September 2011
Question: For how many days did the America's Cup World Series take place in Plymouth?
Answer: nine |
Context: 14% of the population speaks the official language Portuguese, the language of government and national communication during centuries of colonial rule. 44% speak Kriol, a Portuguese-based creole language, which is effectively a national language of communication among groups. The remainder speak a variety of native African languages unique to ethnicities.
Question: What percentage of the population speaks Kriol?
Answer: 44%
Question: What is the official language of Guinea-Bissau?
Answer: Portuguese
Question: How long was Guinea-Bissau under colonial rule?
Answer: centuries
Question: What type of language is Kriol?
Answer: a Portuguese-based creole language |
Context: Geology did not undergo systematic restructuring during the Scientific Revolution, but individual theorists made important contributions. Robert Hooke, for example, formulated a theory of earthquakes, and Nicholas Steno developed the theory of superposition and argued that fossils were the remains of once-living creatures. Beginning with Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth in 1681, natural philosophers began to explore the idea that the Earth had changed over time. Burnet and his contemporaries interpreted Earth's past in terms of events described in the Bible, but their work laid the intellectual foundations for secular interpretations of Earth history.
Question: What happened to geology during the Scientific Revolution?
Answer: individual theorists made important contributions
Question: What did Robert Hooke study?
Answer: earthquakes
Question: What theory did Nicholas Steno discover?
Answer: the theory of superposition
Question: What book did Thomas Burnet right in 1681?
Answer: Sacred Theory of the Earth
Question: What text did Burnet base his work off of?
Answer: the Bible |
Context: Specification-based testing aims to test the functionality of software according to the applicable requirements. This level of testing usually requires thorough test cases to be provided to the tester, who then can simply verify that for a given input, the output value (or behavior), either "is" or "is not" the same as the expected value specified in the test case. Test cases are built around specifications and requirements, i.e., what the application is supposed to do. It uses external descriptions of the software, including specifications, requirements, and designs to derive test cases. These tests can be functional or non-functional, though usually functional.
Question: What term is used to test functionality of the software accordingly with the application requirements?
Answer: Specification-based testing
Question: What are the test cases built around?
Answer: specifications and requirements
Question: When building test cases which of the two methods used is more common over the other?
Answer: functional
Question: What does specialization-based testing aim to test?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Test cases are built around specializations and what else?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Out of the two methods of building test cases, non-functional and unfunctional, which is more common?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What descriptions of the firmware are used in test cases?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Copper is synthesized in massive stars and is present in the Earth's crust at a concentration of about 50 parts per million (ppm), where it occurs as native copper or in minerals such as the copper sulfides chalcopyrite and chalcocite, the copper carbonates azurite and malachite, and the copper(I) oxide mineral cuprite. The largest mass of elemental copper discovered weighed 420 tonnes and was found in 1857 on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, US. Native copper is a polycrystal, with the largest described single crystal measuring 4.4×3.2×3.2 cm.
Question: What is the concentration of copper in the earths crust.
Answer: 50 parts per million
Question: How large was the biggest find of copper?
Answer: 420 tonnes
Question: What year was the largest find of copper discovered?
Answer: 1857
Question: Where was the largest mass of copper found?
Answer: Michigan, US
Question: How big is the largest copper crystal that has been found?
Answer: 4.4×3.2×3.2 cm
Question: What is the concentration of copper in the earths atmosphere?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How large was the smallest find of copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the smallest find of copper discovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the smallest mass of copper found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How big is the largest alien crystal that has been found?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With Egypt and Macedonia weakened, the Seleucid Empire made increasingly aggressive and successful attempts to conquer the entire Greek world. Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids. The situation was made worse by the fact that Hannibal was now a chief military advisor to the Seleucid emperor, and the two were believed to be planning an outright conquest not just of Greece, but of Rome itself. The Seleucids were much stronger than the Macedonians had ever been, because they controlled much of the former Persian Empire, and by now had almost entirely reassembled Alexander the Great's former empire.
Question: Who had now been appointed as a military advisor to the emperor of Seleucid?
Answer: Hannibal
Question: What was thought to be the plan of Hannibal and the emperor of Seleucid?
Answer: an outright conquest not just of Greece, but of Rome itself
Question: Which empire currently controlled the majority of the former Persian Empire?
Answer: Seleucids
Question: Who had managed to recreate nearly the entirety of the empire of Alexander the Great?
Answer: Seleucids
Question: Which former enemy wanted an alliance with the Romans?
Answer: Philip |
Context: The largest ethnic groups are Newar (29.6%), Matwali (25.1% Sunuwar, Gurung, Magars, Tamang etc.), Khas Brahmins (20.51%) and Chettris (18.5%) . Tamangs originating from surrounding hill districts can be seen in Kathmandu. More recently, other hill ethnic groups and Caste groups from Terai have come to represent a substantial proportion of the city's population. The major languages are Nepali and Nepal Bhasa, while English is understood by many, particularly in the service industry. The major religions are Hinduism and Buddhism.
Question: What percentage of Kathmandu residents are Chettris?
Answer: 18.5
Question: What is the third largest ethnic group in Kathmandu?
Answer: Khas Brahmins
Question: What are Kathmandu's primary religions?
Answer: Hinduism and Buddhism
Question: What Kathmandu industry is particularly known for its English speakers?
Answer: service
Question: Along with Nepali, what is Kathmandu's main language?
Answer: Nepal Bhasa |
Context: On February 8, 2015, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, West walked on stage as Beck was accepting his award for Album of the Year and then walked off stage, making everyone think he was joking around. After the awards show, West stated in an interview that he was not joking and that "Beck needs to respect artistry, he should have given his award to Beyoncé". On February 26, 2015, he publicly apologized to Beck on Twitter.
Question: Which artist's award reception did Kanye interrupt at the 57th Grammy Awards?
Answer: Beck
Question: To who did Kanye state that Beck should hand his award over to?
Answer: Beyoncé
Question: What artist's acceptance speech did Kanye interrupt by walking on stage at the 57th Grammys?
Answer: Beck
Question: What day did Kanye apologize to Beck on Twitter?
Answer: February 26, 2015 |
Context: Summers are generally warm and sometimes hot. London's average July high is 24 °C (75.2 °F). On average London will see 31 days above 25 °C (77.0 °F) each year, and 4.2 days above 30.0 °C (86.0 °F) every year. During the 2003 European heat wave there were 14 consecutive days above 30 °C (86.0 °F) and 2 consecutive days where temperatures reached 38 °C (100.4 °F), leading to hundreds of heat related deaths. Winters are generally cool and damp with little temperature variation. Snowfall does occur from time to time, and can cause travel disruption when this happens. Spring and autumn are mixed seasons and can be pleasant. As a large city, London has a considerable urban heat island effect, making the centre of London at times 5 °C (9 °F) warmer than the suburbs and outskirts. The effect of this can be seen below when comparing London Heathrow, 15 miles west of London, with the London Weather Centre, in the city centre.
Question: How far from the center of London is London Heathrow Airport?
Answer: 15 miles west
Question: What is London's average high temperature in July?
Answer: 24 °C (75.2 °F)
Question: What phenomenon causes the center of London to be warmer than its suburbs?
Answer: urban heat island effect
Question: Approximately how many days in a given year will London experience temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius (or 77 degrees Farenheit?
Answer: 31
Question: What occasional weather event causes problems for drivers in London?
Answer: Snowfall |
Context: Myers spoke next and continued to read the script. Once it was West's turn to speak again, he said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." At this point, telethon producer Rick Kaplan cut off the microphone and then cut away to Chris Tucker, who was unaware of the cut for a few seconds. Still, West's comment reached much of the United States.
Question: What happened after Kanye made his controversial statement?
Answer: Rick Kaplan cut off the microphone and then cut away to Chris Tucker
Question: Who did Kanye West say doesn't care about black people?
Answer: George Bush |
Context: In July 1956, Nasser unilaterally nationalised the Suez Canal. The response of Anthony Eden, who had succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister, was to collude with France to engineer an Israeli attack on Egypt that would give Britain and France an excuse to intervene militarily and retake the canal. Eden infuriated US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, by his lack of consultation, and Eisenhower refused to back the invasion. Another of Eisenhower's concerns was the possibility of a wider war with the Soviet Union after it threatened to intervene on the Egyptian side. Eisenhower applied financial leverage by threatening to sell US reserves of the British pound and thereby precipitate a collapse of the British currency. Though the invasion force was militarily successful in its objectives, UN intervention and US pressure forced Britain into a humiliating withdrawal of its forces, and Eden resigned.
Question: When was the Suez Canal nationalized?
Answer: July 1956
Question: Who became British Prime Minister after Winston Churchill?
Answer: Anthony Eden
Question: Which country did Eden conspire with to cause an attack on Egypt?
Answer: France
Question: Who decided to sell US reserves of the British pound to cause the pound to collapse?
Answer: Eisenhower
Question: What country did Britain convince to attack Egypt?
Answer: Israeli |
Context: During McMahon's period in office, Neville Bonner joined the Senate and became the first Indigenous Australian in the Australian Parliament. Bonner was chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate vacancy in 1971 and celebrated his maiden parliamentary speech with a boomerang throwing display on the lawns of Parliament. Bonner went on to win election at the 1972 election and served as a Liberal Senator for 12 years. He worked on Indigenous and social welfare issues and proved an independent minded Senator, often crossing the floor on Parliamentary votes.
Question: Who became the first indigenous Austrailian in Parliament?
Answer: Neville Bonner
Question: How long did Bonner serve as a Liberal Senator?
Answer: 12 years
Question: How was Bonner appointed his position?
Answer: chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a Senate vacancy in 1971
Question: Who became the first indigienous liberal in Parliament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did Bonner serve as an independent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was McMahon appointed his position?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did McMahon win an election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did McMahon give a boomerang throwing display?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: DDT, sprayed on the walls of houses, is an organochlorine that has been used to fight malaria since the 1950s. Recent policy statements by the World Health Organization have given stronger support to this approach. However, DDT and other organochlorine pesticides have been banned in most countries worldwide because of their persistence in the environment and human toxicity. DDT use is not always effective, as resistance to DDT was identified in Africa as early as 1955, and by 1972 nineteen species of mosquito worldwide were resistant to DDT.
Question: What kind of pesticide is DDT?
Answer: an organochlorine
Question: Why have DDTs been banned in some areas?
Answer: persistence in the environment and human toxicity
Question: Is DDT 100% guaranteed to work?
Answer: DDT use is not always effective
Question: How may species have been found to be resistant to DDT?
Answer: nineteen
Question: When were 19 new species of mosquito discovered in Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long has DDT been banned worldwide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How supportive is Africa about DDT being banned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was DDT first invented?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were mosquitoes first discovered to carry Malaria?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After receiving his J.D. from Boston College Law School, Kerry worked in Massachusetts as an Assistant District Attorney. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts under Michael Dukakis from 1983 to 1985 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and was sworn in the following January. On the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he led a series of hearings from 1987 to 1989 which were a precursor to the Iran–Contra affair. Kerry was re-elected to additional terms in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008. In 2002, Kerry voted to authorize the President "to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein", but warned that the administration should exhaust its diplomatic avenues before launching war.
Question: Where did Kerry get a law degree?
Answer: Boston College Law School
Question: Who was Kerry an Lt. Gov. for?
Answer: Michael Dukakis
Question: When did Kerry become a Senator?
Answer: 1984
Question: Where was Kerry an Lt. Gov.?
Answer: Massachusetts
Question: When was Kerry an Lt. Gov.?
Answer: from 1983 to 1985 |
Context: In May 1940, the US requested base rights in Bermuda from the United Kingdom, but British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was initially unwilling to accede to the American request without getting something in return. In September 1940, as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, the UK granted the US base rights in Bermuda. Bermuda and Newfoundland were not originally included in the agreement, but both were added to it, with no war material received by the UK in exchange. One of the terms of the agreement was that the airfield the US Army built would be used jointly by the US and the UK (which it was for the duration of the war, with RAF Transport Command relocating there from Darrell's Island in 1943).
Question: What did the US ask of Britain in May 1940?
Answer: base rights in Bermuda
Question: What did the Destroyers for Bases Agreement do?
Answer: granted the US base rights in Bermuda
Question: What was one thing the UK wanted in return for granting access to Bermuda?
Answer: the airfield the US Army built would be used jointly by the US and the UK
Question: Who was the Prime Minister who reached this agreement with the US?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: When did the US request base rights from Bermuda?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Darrell Churchill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in September 1904?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What relocated in 1934?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did RAF Transport Command relocate from in 1934?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The forests play a vital role in harbouring more than 45,000 floral and 81,000 faunal species of which 5150 floral and 1837 faunal species are endemic. Plant and animal species confined to a specific geographical area are called endemic species. In reserved forests, rights to activities like hunting and grazing are sometimes given to communities living on the fringes of the forest, who sustain their livelihood partially or wholly from forest resources or products. The unclassed forests covers 6.4 percent of the total forest area and they are marked by the following characteristics:
Question: What plays a vital role in harbouring floral and faunal species?
Answer: The forests
Question: How many endemic floral species do forests harbor?
Answer: 5150
Question: How many endemic faunal species do forests harbor?
Answer: 1837
Question: What types of animals and plans are confined to a specific geographical area?
Answer: endemic species
Question: What types of activities are granted rights in reserved forests?
Answer: hunting and grazing
Question: What plays a vital role in harbouring finges?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many endemic floral species does grazing harbor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many endemic faunal species does grazing harbor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of animals and plans are confined to a specific forest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of activities are granted rights in reserved species?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: By about 1910,[note 1] bound collections of empty sleeves with a paperboard or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as record albums that customers could use to store their records (the term "record album" was printed on some covers). These albums came in both 10-inch and 12-inch sizes. The covers of these bound books were wider and taller than the records inside, allowing the record album to be placed on a shelf upright, like a book, suspending the fragile records above the shelf and protecting them.
Question: When could record album covers first be found?
Answer: 1910
Question: What were early record album covers made of?
Answer: empty sleeves with a paperboard or leather cover
Question: What sizes were record album covers available in?
Answer: 10-inch and 12-inch sizes
Question: How were record album covers intended to be stored?
Answer: upright
Question: What was the purpose of record album covers?
Answer: protecting them |
Context: Under these complex circumstances regional names are less useful. They are more historical than an accurate gauge of operations. The Directorate of Intelligence, one of four directorates into which the CIA is divided, includes the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis (NESA). Its duties are defined as "support on Middle Eastern and North African countries, as well as on the South Asian nations of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan." The total range of countries is in fact the same as the State Department's Near East, but the names do not correspond. The Near East of the NESA is the same as the Middle East defined in the CIA-published on-line resource, The World Factbook. Its list of countries is limited by the Red Sea, comprises the entire eastern coast of the Mediterranean, including Israel, Turkey, the small nations of the Caucasus, Iran and the states of the Arabian Peninsula.
Question: The Near East of the NESA is the same as the Middle East define in what?
Answer: The World Factbook
Question: What does NESA stand for?
Answer: Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis
Question: Whose duties are defined as "support on Middle Eastern and North African countries?"
Answer: (NESA) |
Context: The population of Israel, as defined by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, was estimated in 2016 to be 8,476,600 people. It is the world's only Jewish-majority state, with 6,345,400 citizens, or 74.9%, being designated as Jewish. The country's second largest group of citizens are denoted as Arabs, numbering 1,760,400 people (including the Druze and most East Jerusalem Arabs). The great majority of Israeli Arabs are Sunni Muslims, with smaller but significant numbers of semi-settled Negev Bedouins; the rest are Christians and Druze. Other far smaller minorities include Maronites, Samaritans, Dom people and Roma, Black Hebrew Israelites, other Sub-Saharan Africans, Armenians, Circassians, Vietnamese boat people, and others. Israel also hosts a significant population of non-citizen foreign workers and asylum seekers from Africa and Asia.
Question: What was the population of Israel in 2016?
Answer: 8,476,600
Question: How many citizens in Israel are Jewish?
Answer: 6,345,400
Question: How many citizens in Israel are Arab?
Answer: 1,760,400 |
Context: In 1821, after Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, Texas was part of the United Mexican States as the state of Coahuila y Tejas. A large influx of Americans soon followed, originally with the approval of Mexico's president. In 1836, the now largely "American" Texans, fought a war of independence from the central government of Mexico and established the Republic of Texas. In 1846, the Republic dissolved when Texas entered the United States of America as a state. Per the 1850 U.S. census, fewer than 16,000 Texans were of Mexican descent, and nearly all were Spanish-speaking people (both Mexicans and non-Spanish European settlers who include German Texan) who were outnumbered (six-to-one) by English-speaking settlers (both Americans and other immigrant Europeans).[citation needed]
Question: Was Texas a part of Mexico?
Answer: In 1821, after Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, Texas was part of the United Mexican States as the state of Coahuila y Tejas
Question: When did the Americans come to Texas?
Answer: A large influx of Americans soon followed, originally with the approval of Mexico's president. In 1836
Question: Was there a war between the Mexicans and the Texans?
Answer: Texans, fought a war of independence from the central government of Mexico
Question: When did Texas become a state?
Answer: In 1846, the Republic dissolved when Texas entered the United States of America as a state.
Question: Was Texas a primarily a Spanish speaking state?
Answer: Per the 1850 U.S. census, fewer than 16,000 Texans were of Mexican descent, and nearly all were Spanish-speaking people
Question: What was the name for the area Coahuila y Tejas was part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Texans were of Mexican descent in 1850?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Mexicans in Texas were Spanish speaking?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's the other nationality with a heavy presence in Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the republic dissolve and Texas entered the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Americans some to Spain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Spain become a state?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Texans were of English descent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Spain fight to get independence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What census found fewer than 16,000 Texans of English descent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Xbox Live Gold includes the same features as Free and includes integrated online game playing capabilities outside of third-party subscriptions. Microsoft has allowed previous Xbox Live subscribers to maintain their profile information, friends list, and games history when they make the transition to Xbox Live Gold. To transfer an Xbox Live account to the new system, users need to link a Windows Live ID to their gamertag on Xbox.com. When users add an Xbox Live enabled profile to their console, they are required to provide the console with their passport account information and the last four digits of their credit card number, which is used for verification purposes and billing. An Xbox Live Gold account has an annual cost of US$59.99, C$59.99, NZ$90.00, GB£39.99, or €59.99. As of January 5, 2011, Xbox Live has over 30 million subscribers.
Question: What extra features do Xbox Live Gold members get?
Answer: integrated online game playing capabilities outside of third-party subscriptions
Question: What information does Microsoft allow users to retain when transitioning Live subscriptions?
Answer: profile information, friends list, and games history
Question: What does a user need to do to transfer a Live account to the new system?
Answer: users need to link a Windows Live ID to their gamertag on Xbox.com
Question: What is the annual cost of a Live Gold membership in USD?
Answer: $59.99
Question: How many users are subscribed to Xbox Live?
Answer: 30 million
Question: What do users provide to get a Windows Live ID?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many users does the free version of Xbox live have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Free version have that Gold does not?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Microsoft force previous subscribers to change?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: how much does a Windows Live ID cost in USD?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Bushi interests were diverse, cutting across old power structures to form new associations in the tenth century. Mutual interests, family connections, and kinship were consolidated in military groups that became part of family administration. In time, large regional military families formed around members of the court aristocracy who had become prominent provincial figures. These military families gained prestige from connections to the imperial court and court-granted military titles and access to manpower. The Fujiwara family, Taira clan, and Minamoto clan were among the most prominent families supported by the new military class.
Question: Bushi formed new associations in what century?
Answer: tenth
Question: How did military families gain prestige?
Answer: connections to the imperial court
Question: Who were the three prominent families during the rise of the warrior classes?
Answer: Fujiwara family, Taira clan, and Minamoto clan
Question: Who had limited intrests in the tenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups became part of the centraladministration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What formed around provincial aristocracy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did provincial aristocracy grant to the imperial court?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs.[citation needed] In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also conveys water and nutrients between the leaves, other growing tissues, and the roots. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber.
Question: In addition to being used to build things, what has wood been used for over thousands of years?
Answer: fuel
Question: What kind of strong fibers are part of the composite of wood?
Answer: cellulose
Question: What's the matrix in wood made up of?
Answer: lignin
Question: What one word describes the function wood provides to a tree or plant?
Answer: support
Question: What does wood convey to leaves, roots, and other tissues of a woody plant in addition to water?
Answer: nutrients |
Context: The city also has several branches of renowned international restaurants and chefs. These include Paris' Au Pied de Cochon and Brasserie Lipp, Philippe (by Philippe Chow); Nobu, Morimoto; Pámpano, owned by Mexican-raised opera legend Plácido Domingo. There are branches of the exclusive Japanese restaurant Suntory, Rome's famed Alfredo, as well as New York steakhouses Morton's and The Palm, and Monte Carlo's BeefBar. Three of the most famous Lima-based Haute Peruvian restaurants, La Mar, Segundo Muelle and Astrid y Gastón have locations in Mexico City.
Question: What opera legend also has a famous restaurant in Mexico City?
Answer: Plácido Domingo
Question: What famous Italian Restaurant also has a branch in Mexico City?
Answer: Alfredo
Question: What is one of the famous Lima-based restaurants in Mexico City?
Answer: La Mar
Question: What Japanese restaurant also has a branch in Mexico City?
Answer: Suntory |
Context: Early Asian writings on architecture include the Kao Gong Ji of China from the 7th–5th centuries BCE; the Shilpa Shastras of ancient India and Manjusri Vasthu Vidya Sastra of Sri Lanka.
Question: Name one Asian architectural writer.
Answer: Kao Gong Ji
Question: What country produced the Kao Gong Ji?
Answer: China
Question: When was the Kao Gong Ji written?
Answer: 7th–5th centuries BCE
Question: What architectural writing came from Sri Lanka?
Answer: Manjusri Vasthu Vidya Sastra
Question: India produced which early architectural text?
Answer: Shilpa Shastras
Question: Who wrote late Asian writings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country rejected the Kao Gong Ji?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was written in 4th century BCE?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What religious writing came from Sri Lanka?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: India produced which modern architectural text?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: New York City is situated in the Northeastern United States, in southeastern New York State, approximately halfway between Washington, D.C. and Boston. The location at the mouth of the Hudson River, which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading port. Most of New York City is built on the three islands of Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island.
Question: In what geographical region of the United States is New York City located?
Answer: Northeastern
Question: In what geographical region of New York state is New York City located?
Answer: southeastern
Question: New York City is about half the distance between Washington DC and what city?
Answer: Boston
Question: New York City is adjacent to what ocean?
Answer: Atlantic
Question: What river is New York City located on?
Answer: Hudson River
Question: New York City is at the base of which American river?
Answer: Hudson
Question: The Hudson River flows into which body of water?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: The three islands that make up New York city are named what?
Answer: Long Island, Manhattan, and Staten Island. |
Context: Many globally popular sports had modern rules codified in the British Isles, including golf, association football, cricket, rugby, snooker and darts, as well as many minor sports such as croquet, bowls, pitch and putt, water polo and handball. A number of sports are popular throughout the British Isles, the most prominent of which is association football. While this is organised separately in different national associations, leagues and national teams, even within the UK, it is a common passion in all parts of the islands. Rugby union is also widely enjoyed across the islands with four national teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The British and Irish Lions is a team chosen from each national team and undertakes tours of the southern hemisphere rugby playing nations every four years. Ireland play as a united team, represented by players from both Northern Ireland and the Republic. These national rugby teams play each other each year for the Triple Crown as part of the Six Nations Championship. Also since 2001 the professional club teams of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Italy compete against each other in the RaboDirect Pro12.
Question: What are some of the minor sports in the United Kingdom?
Answer: croquet, bowls, pitch and putt
Question: What is the most popular sport in the United Kingdom?
Answer: association football
Question: How many national Ruby teams are there in the United Kingdom?
Answer: four
Question: In which hemisphere do the rugby playing countries meet once every four years?
Answer: southern hemisphere
Question: How often do the national rugby teams play for the Triple Crown?
Answer: each year
Question: Beginning in 2011, teams of which countries compete in the RaboDirect Pro12?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Since what year have teams from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Italy been competing in the Rugby Pro12 league?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: As part of the Seven Nations Championship, which rugby teams play for the Triple Crown each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Rugby union is widely disliked where?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In the early 2000s, print media in Somalia reached a peak in activity. Around 50 newspapers were published in Mogadishu alone during this period, including Qaran, Mogadishu Times, Sana'a, Shabelle Press, Ayaamaha, Mandeeq, Sky Sport, Goal, The Nation, Dalka, Panorama, Aayaha Nolosha, Codka Xuriyada and Xidigta Maanta. In 2003, as new free electronic media outlets started to proliferate, advertisers increasingly began switching over from print ads to radio and online commercials in order to reach more customers. A number of the broadsheets in circulation subsequently closed down operations, as they were no longer able to cover printing costs in the face of the electronic revolution. In 2012, the political Xog Doon and Xog Ogaal and Horyaal Sports were reportedly the last remaining newspapers printed in the capital. According to Issa Farah, a former editor with the Dalka broadsheet, newspaper publishing in Somalia is likely to experience a resurgence if the National Somali Printing Press is re-opened and the sector is given adequate public support.
Question: Where was The Mogadishu Times published?
Answer: Mogadishu
Question: What year did free media outlets begin to expand?
Answer: 2003
Question: Advertisers switched from print ads to what to reach more customers?
Answer: radio and online commercials
Question: Whos is a former editor with The Delka Broadsheet?
Answer: Issa Farah
Question: When is the National Somali Printing Press being reopened?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many newspapers were published in Somalia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did advertisers prefer print ads?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Xog Doon shut down?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Issa Farah stop working for Dalka?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: But while Claremont remains the most concentrated hub of Whiteheadian activity, the place where Whitehead's thought currently seems to be growing the most quickly is in China. In order to address the challenges of modernization and industrialization, China has begun to blend traditions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism with Whitehead's "constructive post-modern" philosophy in order to create an "ecological civilization." To date, the Chinese government has encouraged the building of twenty-three university-based centers for the study of Whitehead's philosophy, and books by process philosophers John Cobb and David Ray Griffin are becoming required reading for Chinese graduate students. Cobb has attributed China's interest in process philosophy partly to Whitehead's stress on the mutual interdependence of humanity and nature, as well as his emphasis on an educational system that includes the teaching of values rather than simply bare facts.
Question: Where is interest in Whitehead's work growing the fastest today?
Answer: China
Question: What challenges are China using Whitehead's ideas to help manage?
Answer: modernization and industrialization
Question: What types of traditions are China blending with Whitehead's "constructive post-modern" philosophy?
Answer: traditions of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism
Question: What philosphers' writings are becoming required reading for graduate students in China?
Answer: John Cobb and David Ray Griffin
Question: Why does John Cobb believe China has become interested in process philosophy?
Answer: interdependence of humanity and nature, as well as his emphasis on an educational system that includes the teaching of values rather than simply bare facts
Question: Where is interest in Whitehead's work growing the slowest today?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What challenges are Japan using Whitehead's ideas to help manage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of traditions are China blending with Whitehead's "constructive pre-modern" philosophy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What philosphers' writings are becoming not required reading for graduate students in China?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) would later point out that brokered deposits made up more than 37 percent of IndyMac's total deposits and ask the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) whether it had considered ordering IndyMac to reduce its reliance on these deposits. With $18.9 billion in total deposits reported on March 31, Senator Schumer would have been referring to a little over $7 billion in brokered deposits. While the breakout of maturities of these deposits is not known exactly, a simple averaging would have put the threat of brokered deposits loss to IndyMac at $500 million a month, had the regulator disallowed IndyMac from acquiring new brokered deposits on June 30.
Question: Who is the Senator that asked FDIC if it had considered ordering IndyMac to reduce its reliance on brokered deposits?
Answer: Charles Schumer (D-NY)
Question: What does the abbreviation FDIC stand for?
Answer: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Question: How much of IndyMac's total deposits of $18.9 billion on March 31, 2008 were considered brokered deposits?
Answer: a little over $7 billion
Question: Had the FDIC disallowed IndyMac from acquiring new brokered deposits on this date, the threat of brokered deposit losses would have been $500 million a month?
Answer: June 30
Question: How much was the threat of brokered deposit losses per month to IndyMac?
Answer: $500 million |
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