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Context: The first Archivist, R.D.W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established by Congress. As a result of a first Hoover Commission recommendation, in 1949 the National Archives was placed within the newly formed General Services Administration (GSA). The Archivist served as a subordinate official to the GSA Administrator until the National Archives and Records Administration became an independent agency on April 1, 1985.
Question: Who was the first Archivist at the National Archives?
Answer: R.D.W. Connor
Question: When did the first Archivist start at the National Archives?
Answer: 1934
Question: What branch of the US government established the National Archives?
Answer: Congress
Question: What commission merged the National Archives with GSA?
Answer: Hoover Commission
Question: The Archivist took on what role after the incorporation of the Nation Archives into GSA?
Answer: subordinate official
Question: Who began serving on April 1, 1985?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Hoover's profession in 1934?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Was Hoover one of many Archivists or was he the first?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Hoover become President?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was established by the GSA in 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The map of earthquake intensity published by CEA after surveying 500,000 km2 of the affected area shows a maximum liedu of XI on the China Seismic Intensity Scale (CSIS), described as "very destructive" on the European Macroseismic Scale (EMS) from which CSIS drew reference. (USGS, using the Modified Mercalli intensity scale (CC), also placed maximum intensity at XI, "very disastrous".) Two south-west-north-east stripes of liedu XI are centered around Yingxiu, Wenchuan (the town closest to the epicenter of the main quake) and Beichuan (the town repeatedly struck by strong aftershocks including one registering MS 6.1 on Aug 1, 2008), both in Sichuan Province, occupying a total of 2,419 km2. The Yingxiu liedu-XI zone is about 66 km long and 20 km wide along Wenchuan–Dujiangyan–Pengzhou; the Beichuan liedu-XI zone is about 82 km long and 15 km wide along An County–Beichuan–Pingwu. The area with liedu X (comparable to X on EMS, "destructive" and X on MM, "disastrous") spans 3,144 km2. The area affected by earthquakes exceeding liedu VI totals 440,442 km2, occupying an oval 936 km long and 596 km wide, spanning three provinces and one autonomous region.
Question: Who published the map of the earthquakes intensity?
Answer: CEA
Question: What was the intensity scaled at?
Answer: XI
Question: What does the China Seismic Intensity Scale call the earthquake?
Answer: very destructive
Question: How did the USGS rate the earthquake?
Answer: very disastrous
Question: What town was closest to the main epicenter?
Answer: Yingxiu, Wenchuan
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Context: By 1938 the United States Navy had developed an electromechanical analog computer small enough to use aboard a submarine. This was the Torpedo Data Computer, which used trigonometry to solve the problem of firing a torpedo at a moving target. During World War II similar devices were developed in other countries as well.
Question: What part of the US military developed an electromechanical analog computer to use on a submarine?
Answer: the United States Navy
Question: When did the US Navy invent an electromechanical computer to use on a submarine?
Answer: 1938
Question: What type of math did the Torpedo Data computer use to fire a torpedo at a moving target?
Answer: trigonometry
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Context: The clock does not run during convert attempts in the last three minutes of a half. If the 15 minutes of a quarter expire while the ball is live, the quarter is extended until the ball becomes dead. If a quarter's time expires while the ball is dead, the quarter is extended for one more scrimmage. A quarter cannot end while a penalty is pending: after the penalty yardage is applied, the quarter is extended one scrimmage. Note that the non-penalized team has the option to decline any penalty it considers disadvantageous, so a losing team cannot indefinitely prolong a game by repeatedly committing infractions.
Question: What happens to a quarter whose time expires while the ball is still live in play?
Answer: extended
Question: What causes a quarter to be extended one additional play even if time has run out?
Answer: penalty
Question: How long is a quarter in minutes?
Answer: 15
Question: Which plays do not cause time to run off the clock during the final minutes of a half?
Answer: convert attempts
Question: When does the clock not run when a penalty is pending?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: If a quarter's time expires while the ball is pending how long is the quarter extended?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When can't a scrimmage end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the losing team have the option to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the plays where the clock doesn't run near the end of a half?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: While its fellow Canadian broadcasters converted most of their transmitters to digital by the Canadian digital television transition deadline of August 31, 2011, CBC converted only about half of the analogue transmitters in mandatory areas to digital (15 of 28 markets with CBC Television stations, and 14 of 28 markets with Télévision de Radio-Canada stations). Due to financial difficulties reported by the corporation, the corporation published digital transition plans for none of its analogue retransmitters in mandatory markets to be converted to digital by the deadline. Under this plan, communities that receive analogue signals by rebroadcast transmitters in mandatory markets would lose their over-the-air signals as of the deadline. Rebroadcast transmitters account for 23 of the 48 CBC and Radio-Canada transmitters in mandatory markets. Mandatory markets losing both CBC and Radio-Canada over-the-air signals include London, Ontario (metropolitan area population 457,000) and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (metro area population 257,000). In both of those markets, the corporation's television transmitters are the only ones that were not planned to be converted to digital by the deadline.
Question: What was the deadline for converstion to digital transmission from analogue?
Answer: August 31, 2011
Question: How many of CBC's mandatory transmitters were updated before the deadline?
Answer: only about half
Question: Which two large metropolitan areas lost CBC and Radio-Canada broadcasts?
Answer: London, Ontario (metropolitan area population 457,000) and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (metro area population 257,000)
Question: The CBC petitioned to change what original deadline for converting transmission from digital to analog?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CBC held elaborate fundraisers when it realized that it lacked the funds to transmit what percent of their transmitters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CRTC reported that the population in what two cities were no longer profitable for their operations and recommended terminating broadcasts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Other Canadian broadcasters accounted for how many of the rebroadcast transmitters?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The economic reforms of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari had a tremendous effect on the city, as a number of businesses, including banks and airlines, were privatized. He also signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This led to decentralization and a shift in Mexico City's economic base, from manufacturing to services, as most factories moved away to either the State of Mexico, or more commonly to the northern border. By contrast, corporate office buildings set their base in the city.
Question: Who privatized the airlines of Mexico?
Answer: President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Question: Who signed NAFTA for Mexico?
Answer: President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Question: What did NAFTA do to the businesses in Mexico City?
Answer: led to decentralization and a shift in Mexico City's economic base, from manufacturing to services
Question: Where did the factories of Mexico City move to most commonly?
Answer: northern border
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Context: The earliest known chemical evidence of barley beer dates to circa 3500–3100 BC from the site of Godin Tepe in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran. Some of the earliest Sumerian writings contain references to beer; examples include a prayer to the goddess Ninkasi, known as "The Hymn to Ninkasi", which served as both a prayer as well as a method of remembering the recipe for beer in a culture with few literate people, and the ancient advice (Fill your belly. Day and night make merry) to Gilgamesh, recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh, by the ale-wife Siduri may, at least in part, have referred to the consumption of beer. The Ebla tablets, discovered in 1974 in Ebla, Syria, show that beer was produced in the city in 2500 BC. A fermented beverage using rice and fruit was made in China around 7000 BC. Unlike sake, mould was not used to saccharify the rice (amylolytic fermentation); the rice was probably prepared for fermentation by mastication or malting.
Question: When does evidence show the earliest known barley beer was produced?
Answer: circa 3500–3100 BC
Question: In what country was the earliest chemical evidence of barley beer found?
Answer: Iran
Question: What country are the Zargos Mountains located in?
Answer: Iran
Question: What year were the elbow tablet first discovered?
Answer: 1974
Question: What ingredient is used for amylotytic fermentation in sake?
Answer: mould
Question: When does evidence show the earliest known beer was produced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mountains are located in eastern Iran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What tablets were discovered in Syria in 1970?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Sake, made with rice and fruit, was produced in China around which year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which kind of beer used mould in the process?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dates to circa 3500-1300 BC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What site was the earliest known chemical evidence of barley beer found on in the Iran Mountains?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did The Hymn to Gilgamesh serve as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What may the Epic of Ninkasi have referred to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was discovered in 1947?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Union Station is further served by four Amtrak lines: the Northeast Regional and the high-speed Acela Express provide service to New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston, and rank as the first and second busiest routes in the country; the New Haven–Springfield Line provides service to Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts; and the Vermonter provides service to both Washington, D.C., and Vermont, 15 miles (24 km) from the Canadian border. Amtrak also codeshares with United Airlines for travel to any airport serviced by United Airlines, via Newark Airport (EWR) originating from or terminating at Union Station, (IATA: ZVE).
Question: How many Amtrak lines service Union Station?
Answer: four
Question: Which transit lines out of Union Station are ranked as the busiest routes in the U.S.?
Answer: Northeast Regional and the high-speed Acela Express
Question: Which transit line out of Union Station provides service to Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts?
Answer: New Haven–Springfield Line
Question: With what airline does Amtrak codeshare for transit to Newark Airport that originates or terminates at Union Station?
Answer: United Airlines
Question: Which transit line out of Union Station provides service between Vermont and Washington D.C.?
Answer: the Vermonter
Question: What is the name of the train station within New Haven?
Answer: Union Station
Question: The train line that connects Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont together is known as what?
Answer: New Haven–Springfield Line
Question: In additions, the train line is also connected with which airline services?
Answer: United Airlines
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Context: Helmut Hoffman states that the Ming upheld the facade of rule over Tibet through periodic missions of "tribute emissaries" to the Ming court and by granting nominal titles to ruling lamas, but did not actually interfere in Tibetan governance. Melvyn C. Goldstein writes that the Ming had no real administrative authority over Tibet, as the various titles given to Tibetan leaders did not confer authority as the earlier Mongol Yuan titles had. He asserts that "by conferring titles on Tibetans already in power, the Ming emperors merely recognized political reality." Hugh Edward Richardson writes that the Ming dynasty exercised no authority over the succession of Tibetan ruling families, the Phagmodru (1354–1435), Rinpungpa (1435–1565), and Tsangpa (1565–1642).
Question: Who believed that the Ming had no real authority over Tibet?
Answer: Melvyn C. Goldstein
Question: What years did the Rinpungpa regime start and end?
Answer: 1435–1565
Question: Who believed that the titles given to Tibetan leaders did not confer authority?
Answer: Melvyn C. Goldstein
Question: What years did the Tsangpa start and end?
Answer: 1565–1642
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Context: An adolescent's environment plays a huge role in their identity development. While most adolescent studies are conducted on white, middle class children, studies show that the more privileged upbringing people have, the more successfully they develop their identity. The forming of an adolescent's identity is a crucial time in their life. It has been recently found that demographic patterns suggest that the transition to adulthood is now occurring over a longer span of years than was the case during the middle of the 20th century. Accordingly, youth, a period that spans late adolescence and early adulthood, has become a more prominent stage of the life course. This therefore has caused various factors to become important during this development. So many factors contribute to the developing social identity of an adolescent from commitment, to coping devices, to social media. All of these factors are affected by the environment an adolescent grows up in. A child from a more privileged upbringing is exposed to more opportunities and better situations in general. An adolescent from an inner city or a crime-driven neighborhood is more likely to be exposed to an environment that can be detrimental to their development. Adolescence is a sensitive period in the development process, and exposure to the wrong things at that time can have a major effect on future decisions. While children that grow up in nice suburban communities are not exposed to bad environments they are more likely to participate in activities that can benefit their identity and contribute to a more successful identity development.
Question: Which adolescent ethninticy is most often studied?
Answer: white
Question: What social class of adolescents is most often studied?
Answer: middle class
Question: The period of one's life that spans late adolescence and early adulthood is known as what?
Answer: youth
Question: Is an inner city or crime-driven neighborhood more or less likely to be detrimental to one's development?
Answer: more likely
Question: Why are children from suburban communities more likely to participate in activies that benefit their identity?
Answer: exposed to more opportunities and better situations in general
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Context: Almost 60 years later, 80 year old career criminal Henry (Harry) James Burge claimed to have committed the theft, confessing to a newspaper, with the story being published in the Sunday Pictorial newspaper on 23 February 1958. He claimed to have carried out the robbery with two other men, although when discrepancies with a contemporaneous report in the Birmingham Post newspaper (the crime pre-dated written police reports) in his account of the means of entry and other items stolen, detectives decided there was no realistic possibility of a conviction and the case was closed. Burge claimed the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins, which matched known intelligence of the time, in which stolen silver was being used to forge coins which were then laundered through betting shops at a local racecourse, although Burge had no past history of forgery in a record of 42 previous convictions for which he had spent 42 years in prison. He had been further imprisoned in 1957 for seven years for theft from cars. Released in 1961, he died in 1964.
Question: How claims to have stolen the FA cup?
Answer: 80 year old career criminal Henry (Harry) James Burge claimed to have committed the theft
Question: Did he act alone?
Answer: He claimed to have carried out the robbery with two other men
Question: How long go did this crime take place?
Answer: 60 years
Question: What did Burge do with the cup?
Answer: the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins
Question: What did they do with those coins?
Answer: stolen silver was being used to forge coins which were then laundered through betting shops at a local racecourse
Question: Who returned the FA cup?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Henry James Burge commit the theft?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Birmingham Post publish its report?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What made detectives decide there was a possibility of conviction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What crime did Burge commit that he spent 42 years in prison for?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: As briefly discussed in Unicode Technical Note #26, "In terms of implementation issues, any attempt at a unification of Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic would wreak havoc [and] make casing operations an unholy mess, in effect making all casing operations context sensitive […]". In other words, while the shapes of letters like A, B, E, H, K, M, O, P, T, X, Y and so on are shared between the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets (and small differences in their canonical forms may be considered to be of a merely typographical nature), it would still be problematic for a multilingual character set or a font to provide only a single codepoint for, say, uppercase letter B, as this would make it quite difficult for a wordprocessor to change that single uppercase letter to one of the three different choices for the lower-case letter, b (Latin), β (Greek), or в (Cyrillic). Without letter case, a "unified European alphabet" – such as ABБCГDΔΕZЄЗFΦGHIИJ…Z, with an appropriate subset for each language – is feasible; but considering letter case, it becomes very clear that these alphabets are rather distinct sets of symbols.
Question: Attempts to unify Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic would create which sort of problems?
Answer: make casing operations an unholy mess
Question: What among many common letters is shared between Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic?
Answer: shapes
Question: What would be problematic for a multilingual character set or font to provide?
Answer: single codepoint
Question: What distinguishes Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic from one another?
Answer: sets of symbols
Question: Although there are challenges a unified European alphabet is feasible even in the absence of which common language rule?
Answer: letter case
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Context: The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (formerly named the UEFA Cup; until 1998 they entered the Cup Winners' Cup instead). This European place applies even if the team is relegated or is not in the English top flight. In the past, if the FA Cup winning team also qualified for the following season's Champions League or Europa League through their league position, then the losing FA Cup finalist was given the Europa League place instead. FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the group stage. Losing finalists, if they entered the Europa League, began earlier, at the play-off or third qualifying round stage. From the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League season, however, UEFA will not allow the runners-up to qualify for the Europa League through the competition.
Question: Do the FA Cup winners qualify for anything?
Answer: The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League
Question: Did that used to have a different name?
Answer: formerly named the UEFA Cup; until 1998
Question: What is the cup called now?
Answer: Cup Winners' Cup
Question: Does the loser of the cup gain anything?
Answer: the losing FA Cup finalist was given the Europa League place
Question: what about the FA Cup winner?
Answer: FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the group stage.
Question: What do FA Cup losers qualify for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do UEFA Europa League winners qualify for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the FA Cup's former name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When do FA Cup winners exit the Europa League?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what season did UEFA allow runners-up to qualify for the Europa League?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The free trade spirit of the time received a strong augmentation through the development of a modern, effective stock market in the Low Countries. The Netherlands has the oldest stock exchange in the world, founded in 1602 by the Dutch East India Company. While Rotterdam has the oldest bourse in the Netherlands, the world's first stock exchange – that of the Dutch East-India Company – went public in six different cities. Later, a court ruled that the company had to reside legally in a single city, so Amsterdam is recognized as the oldest such institution based on modern trading principles. While the banking system evolved in the Low Countries, it was quickly incorporated by the well-connected English, stimulating English economic output.
Question: When was the stock exchange founded in the Netherlands?
Answer: 1602
Question: Which city in the Netherlands has the oldest stock exchange?
Answer: Rotterdam
Question: The Dutch East-India Company inhabited how many cities?
Answer: six
Question: Which city did the Dutch East-India Company decide to reside in after a court decided they could legally only operate in one city?
Answer: Amsterdam
Question: When was the oldest stock exchange founded in England?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What court founded the stock exchange in the Netherlands?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the spirit of the time evolve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who adopted the modern trading principles that stimulated their economy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many cities did the Low Countries inhabit?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In early 1758, Frederick launched an invasion of Moravia, and laid siege to Olmütz (now Olomouc, Czech Republic). Following an Austrian victory at the Battle of Domstadtl that wiped out a supply convoy destined for Olmütz, Frederick broke off the siege and withdrew from Moravia. It marked the end of his final attempt to launch a major invasion of Austrian territory. East Prussia had been occupied by Russian forces over the winter and would remain under their control until 1762, although Frederick did not see the Russians as an immediate threat and instead entertained hopes of first fighting a decisive battle against Austria that would knock them out of the war.
Question: Where did Frederick invade in 1758
Answer: Frederick launched an invasion of Moravia
Question: What city did Frederick lay siege to?
Answer: Olmütz
Question: What turned the battle for Olmutz against Frederick?
Answer: Austrian victory at the Battle of Domstadtl that wiped out a supply convoy destined for Olmütz,
Question: How did Frederick respond to the loss of a supply convoy?
Answer: Frederick broke off the siege and withdrew from Moravia.
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Context: New York—often called New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part—is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York metropolitan area, the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.
Question: What city in the United States has the highest population?
Answer: New York
Question: In what city is the United Nations based?
Answer: New York
Question: What city has been called the cultural capital of the world?
Answer: New York
Question: What American city welcomes the largest number of legal immigrants?
Answer: New York
Question: The major gateway for immigration has been which US city?
Answer: New York City
Question: The most populated city in the United States is which city?
Answer: New York City
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Context: Since the mid-1980s, Spielberg has increased his role as a film producer. He headed up the production team for several cartoons, including the Warner Bros. hits Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!, for which he collaborated with Jean MacCurdy and Tom Ruegger. Due to his work on these series, in the official titles, most of them say, "Steven Spielberg presents" as well as making numerous cameos on the shows. Spielberg also produced the Don Bluth animated features, An American Tail and The Land Before Time, which were released by Universal Studios. He also served as one of the executive producers of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its three related shorts (Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, Trail Mix-Up), which were all released by Disney, under both the Walt Disney Pictures and the Touchstone Pictures banners. He was furthermore, for a short time, the executive producer of the long-running medical drama ER. In 1989, he brought the concept of The Dig to LucasArts. He contributed to the project from that time until 1995 when the game was released. He also collaborated with software publishers Knowledge Adventure on the multimedia game Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, which was released in 1996. Spielberg appears, as himself, in the game to direct the player. The Spielberg name provided branding for a Lego Moviemaker kit, the proceeds of which went to the Starbright Foundation.
Question: Which Warner Bros. cartoons did Spielberg produce?
Answer: Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!
Question: What films did Spielberg produce for Don Bluth?
Answer: An American Tail and The Land Before Time
Question: What video game did Spielberg come up with the concept for?
Answer: The Dig
Question: When was 'The Dig' released?
Answer: 1995
Question: What charity did Spielberg's 'Lego Moviemaker' kit fund?
Answer: Starbright Foundation
Question: Who did one of the voices in Tiny Toon Adventures?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did one of the voices in Pinky and the Brain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Tiny Toon Adventures debut?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Starbright Foundation launched?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was one of the voices in Toonsylvania?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: As a defining aspect of what it means to be human, culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies. The word is used in a general sense as the evolved ability to categorize and represent experiences with symbols and to act imaginatively and creatively. This ability arose with the evolution of behavioral modernity in humans around 50,000 years ago.[citation needed] This capacity is often thought to be unique to humans, although some other species have demonstrated similar, though much less complex abilities for social learning. It is also used to denote the complex networks of practices and accumulated knowledge and ideas that is transmitted through social interaction and exist in specific human groups, or cultures, using the plural form. Some aspects of human behavior, such as language, social practices such as kinship, gender and marriage, expressive forms such as art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies such as cooking, shelter, clothing are said to be cultural universals, found in all human societies. The concept material culture covers the physical expressions of culture, such as technology, architecture and art, whereas the immaterial aspects of culture such as principles of social organization (including, practices of political organization and social institutions), mythology, philosophy, literature (both written and oral), and science make up the intangible cultural heritage of a society.
Question: Around when were humans able to understand to some degree what culture really meant?
Answer: 50,000 years ago
Question: Name some cultural universals that exist with humans today.
Answer: kinship, gender and marriage
Question: What does the term "concept material culture" cover?
Answer: technology, architecture and art
Question: What is not a defining aspect of what it means to be human?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were humans able to understand culture fully?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the term "concept immaterial culture" cover?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is excluded from the cultural heritage of a society?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cultural universals no longer exist in humans?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: By the 2000 census, demographic changes including the end to slavery, immigration from Europe and Asia, assimilation of multiracial persons, and other factors resulted in a population in which 6.2% of the population identified as black, 40% as pardo, and 55% as white. Essentially most of the black population was absorbed into the multi-racial category by intermixing. A 2007 genetic study found that at least 29% of the middle-class, white Brazilian population had some recent (since 1822 and the end of the colonial period) African ancestry.
Question: How much of the Brazilian population identified as black in 2000?
Answer: 6.2%
Question: How much identified as mixed race?
Answer: 40%
Question: How much identified as white?
Answer: 55%
Question: How much of the Brazilian population had connections to African ancestry in 2007?
Answer: 29%
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Context: Colonial records of French and Spanish slave ships and sales, and plantation records in all the former colonies, often have much more information about slaves, from which researchers are reconstructing slave family histories. Genealogists have begun to find plantation records, court records, land deeds and other sources to trace African-American families and individuals before 1870. As slaves were generally forbidden to learn to read and write, black families passed along oral histories, which have had great persistence. Similarly, Native Americans did not generally learn to read and write English, although some did in the nineteenth century. Until 1930, census enumerators used the terms free people of color and mulatto to classify people of apparent mixed race. When those terms were dropped, as a result of the lobbying by the Southern Congressional bloc, the Census Bureau used only the binary classifications of black or white, as was typical in segregated southern states.
Question: What has helped geneologists researching slaves?
Answer: Colonial records of French and Spanish slave ships and sales, and plantation records in all the former colonies
Question: What were slaves usually not allowed to do?
Answer: learn to read and write
Question: What replaced written records for black families?
Answer: oral histories
Question: Who caused the Census Burea to drop the terms free people of color and mulatto?
Answer: Southern Congressional bloc
Question: When were the terms mulatto and free people of color taken off the census?
Answer: 1930
Question: What do colonial records of German slave ships often have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do genealogists use to trace African American families after 1870?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Asians generally not learn to read and write?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Census Bureau drop the binary classifications of black and white?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1880, the newspapers News and Observer combined to form The News & Observer. It remains Raleigh's primary daily newspaper. The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now known as North Carolina State University, was founded as a land-grant college in 1887. The city's Rex Hospital opened in 1889 and included the state's first nursing school. The Baptist Women's College, now known as Meredith College, opened in 1891, and in 1898, The Academy of Music, a private music conservatory, was established.
Question: What year did the News and the Observer merge?
Answer: 1880
Question: What is Raleigh's daily newspaper?
Answer: The News & Observer
Question: What was North Carolina State called before?
Answer: The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts,
Question: What year was the college founded?
Answer: 1887
Question: When did Merideth College open?
Answer: 1891
Question: When did the News and the Observer separate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What school is now known as The Baptist Women's College?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Rex Hospital close?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did North Carolina State University close?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Academy of Music established?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1853, Victoria gave birth to her eighth child, Leopold, with the aid of the new anaesthetic, chloroform. Victoria was so impressed by the relief it gave from the pain of childbirth that she used it again in 1857 at the birth of her ninth and final child, Beatrice, despite opposition from members of the clergy, who considered it against biblical teaching, and members of the medical profession, who thought it dangerous. Victoria may have suffered from post-natal depression after many of her pregnancies. Letters from Albert to Victoria intermittently complain of her loss of self-control. For example, about a month after Leopold's birth Albert complained in a letter to Victoria about her "continuance of hysterics" over a "miserable trifle".
Question: Who was Victoria's eighth child?
Answer: Leopold
Question: What anaesthetic helped her give birth to her eighth child?
Answer: chloroform
Question: What did Victoria suffer from after he pregnancies?
Answer: post-natal depression
Question: Why did medical professionals advise against using an anaesthetic during childbirth?
Answer: thought it dangerous
Question: What did Albert complain about Victoria?
Answer: her "continuance of hysterics" over a "miserable trifle"
Question: What was the name of Victoria's eighth child?
Answer: Leopold
Question: What was the name of the new anesthetic given to Victoria for the birth of Leopold?
Answer: chloroform
Question: What year did Victoria give birth to her final child?
Answer: 1857
Question: What was the name of Victoria's final child?
Answer: Beatrice
Question: Hysteria and loss of control after the birts of many of her children were likely caused by what?
Answer: post-natal depression
Question: When did Victoria give birth to her eigth child?
Answer: 1853
Question: What was the name of Victorias eighth child?
Answer: Leopold
Question: What was the name of the new anesthetic used during leopolds birth?
Answer: chloroform.
Question: What year was victorias final child born?
Answer: 1857
Question: What was the name of Victorias final child?
Answer: Beatrice
Question: Who was Victoria's eighth child?
Answer: Leopold
Question: What was the new anastethetic Victoria used in her last two childbirths?
Answer: chloroform
Question: When was Victoria's final child, Beatrice, born?
Answer: 1857
Question: Why did members of the clergy oppose the use of chloroform?
Answer: considered it against biblical teaching
Question: What did Albert complain about in letters to Victoria after the birth of her children?
Answer: loss of self-control
Question: What was the name of Victoria's eigth child?
Answer: Leopold
Question: What was a new anaesthetic being used for childbirth in Victoria's time?
Answer: chloroform
Question: What was the name of Victoria's ninth child?
Answer: Beatrice
Question: Why did members of the clergy oppose the use of chloroform for childbirth?
Answer: considered it against biblical teaching
Question: After nine pregnancies, what could Victoria have been suffering from that would make her sad and depressed?
Answer: post-natal depression
Question: Who was Victoria's 18th child?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What anaesthetic helped her give birth to her 18th child?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Victoria not suffer from after he pregnancies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did medical professionals advise using an anaesthetic during childbirth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Albert not complain about Victoria?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: A noteworthy development in 20th-century Protestant Christianity was the rise of the modern Pentecostal movement. Sprung from Methodist and Wesleyan roots, it arose out of meetings at an urban mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. From there it spread around the world, carried by those who experienced what they believed to be miraculous moves of God there. These Pentecost-like manifestations have steadily been in evidence throughout the history, such as seen in the two Great Awakenings. Pentecostalism, which in turn birthed the Charismatic movement within already established denominations, continues to be an important force in Western Christianity.
Question: What modern movement began in the 20th century?
Answer: the modern Pentecostal movement
Question: What were the roots of the modern Pentecostal movement?
Answer: Methodist and Wesleyan
Question: What movement did Pentecostalism create?
Answer: the Charismatic movement
Question: In what city did the modern Pentecostal movement begin?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: What type of mission was the birthplace of the modern Pentecostal movement?
Answer: urban
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Context: Improvisation once played an important role in classical music. A remnant of this improvisatory tradition in classical music can be heard in the cadenza, a passage found mostly in concertos and solo works, designed to allow skilled performers to exhibit their virtuoso skills on the instrument. Traditionally this was improvised by the performer; however, it is often written for (or occasionally by) the performer beforehand. Improvisation is also an important aspect in authentic performances of operas of Baroque era and of bel canto (especially operas of Vincenzo Bellini), and is best exemplified by the da capo aria, a form by which famous singers typically perform variations of the thematic matter of the aria in the recapitulation section ('B section' / the 'da capo' part). An example is Beverly Sills' complex, albeit pre-written, variation of Da tempeste il legno infranto from Händel's Giulio Cesare.
Question: What once played an important role in classical music?
Answer: Improvisation
Question: Where can a remnant of improvisation tradition be found?
Answer: cadenza
Question: What can solo performers exhibit during a cadenza?
Answer: their virtuoso skills on the instrument
Question: What type of performances of Baroque ear Operas require improvisation?
Answer: authentic performances
Question: An example of improvisation in an opera is Beverly Sills variation of what movement of Handel's Giulio Cesare?
Answer: Da tempeste il legno infranto
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Context: As a result, they broke up in 1979, but remained close friends. Then in 1984 they renewed their romance, and in November 1985, they married, already having had a son, Max Samuel. After three and a half years of marriage, however, many of the same competing stresses of their careers caused them to divorce in 1989. They agreed to maintain homes near each other as to facilitate the shared custody and parenting of their son.:403 Their divorce was recorded as the third most costly celebrity divorce in history.
Question: When did Spielberg and Irving initially break up?
Answer: 1979
Question: When did Spielberg and Irving get back together?
Answer: 1984
Question: When did Spielberg and Irving marry?
Answer: November 1985
Question: When did Spielberg and Irving divorce?
Answer: 1989
Question: How expensive was Spielberg and Irving's divorce?
Answer: third most costly celebrity divorce in history
Question: Who broke up with his girlfriend in 1979?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who got back together with his girlfriend in 1984?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which celebrity got divorced in 1989?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the husband in the most costly celebrity divorce in history?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Much of the Great Plains became open range, or rangeland where cattle roamed free, hosting ranching operations where anyone was theoretically free to run cattle. In the spring and fall, ranchers held roundups where their cowboys branded new calves, treated animals and sorted the cattle for sale. Such ranching began in Texas and gradually moved northward. In 1866-95, cowboys herded 10 million cattle north to rail heads such as Dodge City, Kansas and Ogallala, Nebraska; from there, cattle were shipped eastward.
Question: what type of land is much of the great plans?
Answer: open range
Question: when did ranchers usually have a cattle round up?
Answer: spring and fall
Question: in a cattle round up, what did ranchers do to the new calves?
Answer: branded
Question: from 1866-95 about how many cattle did cowboys herd?
Answer: 10 million
Question: In what year were cattle first left free to roam the Great Plains?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many cowboys did it take to herd 10 million cattle north?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many people lived in Dodge City, Kansas in 1866?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the cattle shipped eastward to during the late 1800s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many cattle went through Dodge City, Kansas between the years 1866-95?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: There are certain characteristics of adolescent development that are more rooted in culture than in human biology or cognitive structures. Culture has been defined as the "symbolic and behavioral inheritance received from the past that provides a community framework for what is valued". Culture is learned and socially shared, and it affects all aspects of an individual's life. Social responsibilities, sexual expression, and belief system development, for instance, are all things that are likely to vary by culture. Furthermore, distinguishing characteristics of youth, including dress, music and other uses of media, employment, art, food and beverage choices, recreation, and language, all constitute a youth culture. For these reasons, culture is a prevalent and powerful presence in the lives of adolescents, and therefore we cannot fully understand today's adolescents without studying and understanding their culture. However, "culture" should not be seen as synonymous with nation or ethnicity. Many cultures are present within any given country and racial or socioeconomic group. Furthermore, to avoid ethnocentrism, researchers must be careful not to define the culture's role in adolescence in terms of their own cultural beliefs.
Question: How is culture defined?
Answer: symbolic and behavioral inheritance received from the past that provides a community framework for what is valued
Question: Does culture affect all, some, or none of the aspects of an individual's life?
Answer: all
Question: What is a challenge researchers face when studying culture and adolescents?
Answer: not to define the culture's role in adolescence in terms of their own cultural beliefs
Question: Should culture be directly connected to a nation or ethnicity?
Answer: not
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Context: The ECB's first supplementary longer-term refinancing operation (LTRO) with a six-month maturity was announced March 2008. Previously the longest tender offered was three months. It announced two 3-month and one 6-month full allotment of Long Term Refinancing Operations (LTROs). The first tender was settled 3 April, and was more than four times oversubscribed. The €25 billion auction drew bids amounting to €103.1 billion, from 177 banks. Another six-month tender was allotted on 9 July, again to the amount of €25 billion. The first 12-month LTRO in June 2009 had close to 1100 bidders.
Question: What is an LTRO?
Answer: longer-term refinancing operation
Question: How long was the time to maturity on an LTRO?
Answer: six-month
Question: When were the first supplemental LTRO's offered?
Answer: March 2008
Question: How long had the time to maturity been previously?
Answer: three months
Question: How many bids were recorded at the auction for the first 12 month LRTO?
Answer: close to 1100 bidders
Question: What is an LTRO formerly known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long was the time to apply for an LTRO?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the worst supplemental LTRO's offered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long had the time to maturity been banned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many bids were ignored at the auction for the first 12 month LRTO?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1949, the club unveiled a modernised crest featuring the same style of cannon below the club's name, set in blackletter, and above the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and a scroll inscribed with the club's newly adopted Latin motto, Victoria Concordia Crescit "victory comes from harmony", coined by the club's programme editor Harry Homer. For the first time, the crest was rendered in colour, which varied slightly over the crest's lifespan, finally becoming red, gold and green. Because of the numerous revisions of the crest, Arsenal were unable to copyright it. Although the club had managed to register the crest as a trademark, and had fought (and eventually won) a long legal battle with a local street trader who sold "unofficial" Arsenal merchandise, Arsenal eventually sought a more comprehensive legal protection. Therefore, in 2002 they introduced a new crest featuring more modern curved lines and a simplified style, which was copyrightable. The cannon once again faces east and the club's name is written in a sans-serif typeface above the cannon. Green was replaced by dark blue. The new crest was criticised by some supporters; the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association claimed that the club had ignored much of Arsenal's history and tradition with such a radical modern design, and that fans had not been properly consulted on the issue.
Question: What Latin motto was added to the crest in 1949?
Answer: Victoria Concordia Crescit
Question: In 1949 what new addition was done to enhance the Arsenal club crest?
Answer: rendered in colour
Question: What legal stance did Arsenal use to win a law suit against a merchant?
Answer: trademark
Question: In what year did Arsenal produce a remodeled crest that could be copyrighted?
Answer: 2002
Question: Who did Arsenal supporters think should have been consulted before announcing the new crest?
Answer: fans
Question: What was Arsenal's motto prior to 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did programme editor Harry Homer join Arsenal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the crest's initial colors in 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Arsenal finally win its trademark lawsuit against a street vendor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association formed?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: While inert gas reduces filament evaporation, it also conducts heat from the filament, thereby cooling the filament and reducing efficiency. At constant pressure and temperature, the thermal conductivity of a gas depends upon the molecular weight of the gas and the cross sectional area of the gas molecules. Higher molecular weight gasses have lower thermal conductivity, because both the molecular weight is higher and also the cross sectional area is higher. Xenon gas improves efficiency because of its high molecular weight, but is also more expensive, so its use is limited to smaller lamps.
Question: Why does inert gas reduce efficiency?
Answer: conducts heat from the filament, thereby cooling the filament
Question: What affects the thermal conductivity of a gas?
Answer: molecular weight of the gas and the cross sectional area of the gas molecules
Question: How does the molecular weight of a gas relate to thermal conductivity?
Answer: Higher molecular weight gasses have lower thermal conductivity
Question: Why is xenon gas not more widely used?
Answer: more expensive, so its use is limited to smaller lamps
Question: What is the advantage of using inert gas in a light bulb?
Answer: reduces filament evaporation
Question: What does not reduce filament evaporation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What conducts heat and heats the filament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does not affect the thermal conductivity of a gas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is xenon gas widely used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a disadvantage of using inert gas in a light bulb?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Executive power is vested, with exceptions and qualifications, in the President. By law (Section 2.) the president becomes the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Militia of several states when called into service, has power to make treaties and appointments to office "with the Advice and Consent of the Senate," receive Ambassadors and Public Ministers, and "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" (Section 3.) By using these words, the Constitution does not require the president to personally enforce the law; rather, officers subordinate to the president may perform such duties. The Constitution empowers the president to ensure the faithful execution of the laws made by Congress and approved by the President. Congress may itself terminate such appointments, by impeachment, and restrict the president. Bodies such as the War Claims Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission—all quasi-judicial—often have direct Congressional oversight.
Question: Which branches of the national military does the U.S. president command?
Answer: Army and Navy
Question: Whose approval is required for the president's appointees to take office?
Answer: Senate
Question: What is a Congressional means of removing presidential appointees?
Answer: impeachment
Question: What term can characterize the status of bodies like the War Claims Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission?
Answer: quasi-judicial
Question: Which of the three branches has the duty of Commander and Chief?
Answer: Executive
Question: Who has the authority to make treaties?
Answer: the President
Question: What is it called when congress terminates an appointment of the President?
Answer: impeachment
Question: Who has over-sight of the Federal Trade Commission?
Answer: Congress
Question: In whom is Congressional power vested?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Vice President become Commander in Chief of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: By the words it uses, what does the Constitution require the President to do regarding laws?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Laws are made by the President and approved by which body?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who may the President restrict through impeachment?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Transcription produces a single-stranded RNA molecule known as messenger RNA, whose nucleotide sequence is complementary to the DNA from which it was transcribed.:6.1 The mRNA acts as an intermediate between the DNA gene and its final protein product. The gene's DNA is used as a template to generate a complementary mRNA. The mRNA matches the sequence of the gene's DNA coding strand because it is synthesised as the complement of the template strand. Transcription is performed by an enzyme called an RNA polymerase, which reads the template strand in the 3' to 5' direction and synthesizes the RNA from 5' to 3'. To initiate transcription, the polymerase first recognizes and binds a promoter region of the gene. Thus, a major mechanism of gene regulation is the blocking or sequestering the promoter region, either by tight binding by repressor molecules that physically block the polymerase, or by organizing the DNA so that the promoter region is not accessible.:7
Question: What does transcription produce?
Answer: a single-stranded RNA molecule known as messenger RNA
Question: How does the nucleotide sequence of mRNA compare to DNA?
Answer: complementary to the DNA from which it was transcribed
Question: What is used as a template to generate a complementary mRNA?
Answer: The gene's DNA
Question: Why does the mRNA match the sequence of the gene's DNA coding strand?
Answer: because it is synthesised as the complement of the template strand
Question: What is the enzyme called that performs transcription?
Answer: an RNA polymerase
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Context: The army's most common vehicle is the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), commonly called the Humvee, which is capable of serving as a cargo/troop carrier, weapons platform, and ambulance, among many other roles. While they operate a wide variety of combat support vehicles, one of the most common types centers on the family of HEMTT vehicles. The M1A2 Abrams is the army's main battle tank, while the M2A3 Bradley is the standard infantry fighting vehicle. Other vehicles include the Stryker, and the M113 armored personnel carrier, and multiple types of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles.
Question: What does HMMWV stand for?
Answer: High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
Question: What is the HMMWV also known as?
Answer: Humvee
Question: The M1A2 Abrams is an example of what?
Answer: battle tank
Question: What does MRAP stand for?
Answer: Mine Resistant Ambush Protected
Question: What does HMMWA stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the HMMWA also known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does MRAA stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the least common type of combat support vehicles?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Thus, in less than twenty years, Rome had destroyed the power of one of the successor states, crippled another, and firmly entrenched its influence over Greece. This was primarily a result of the over-ambition of the Macedonian kings, and their unintended provocation of Rome; though Rome was quick to exploit the situation. In another twenty years, the Macedonian kingdom was no more. Seeking to re-assert Macedonian power and Greek independence, Philip V's son Perseus incurred the wrath of the Romans, resulting in the Third Macedonian War (171–168 BC). Victorious, the Romans abolished the Macedonian kingdom, replacing it with four puppet republics; these lasted a further twenty years before Macedon was formally annexed as a Roman province (146 BC) after yet another rebellion under Andriscus. Rome now demanded that the Achaean League, the last stronghold of Greek independence, be dissolved. The Achaeans refused and declared war on Rome. Most of the Greek cities rallied to the Achaeans' side, even slaves were freed to fight for Greek independence. The Roman consul Lucius Mummius advanced from Macedonia and defeated the Greeks at Corinth, which was razed to the ground. In 146 BC, the Greek peninsula, though not the islands, became a Roman protectorate. Roman taxes were imposed, except in Athens and Sparta, and all the cities had to accept rule by Rome's local allies.
Question: What was the name of Philip V's son who wanted to bring back Greek independence?
Answer: Perseus
Question: Perseus fought the Romans in what war?
Answer: Third Macedonian War
Question: When was Macedonia annexed by the Romans?
Answer: 146 BC
Question: Which Roman consul defeated the Greeks at Corinth?
Answer: Lucius Mummius
Question: When did the Greek peninsula become a Roman protectorate?
Answer: 146 BC
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Context: Other professional sports clubs in Oklahoma City include the Oklahoma City Dodgers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Oklahoma City Energy FC of the United Soccer League, and the Crusaders of Oklahoma Rugby Football Club USA Rugby.
Question: What team is the affiliate to the Los Angeles Dodgers?
Answer: Oklahoma City Dodgers
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Context: The University of Kansas has had more teams (70) compete in the National Debate Tournament than any other university. Kansas has won the tournament 5 times (1954, 1970, 1976, 1983, and 2009) and had 12 teams make it to the final four. Kansas trails only Northwestern (13), Dartmouth (6), and Harvard (6) for most tournaments won. Kansas also won the 1981–82 Copeland Award.
Question: How many times have KU teams appeared in the National Debate Tournament?
Answer: 70
Question: How many times has KU won the national debate championship?
Answer: 5
Question: How many times has KU been one of the last four teams competing at the National Debate Championships?
Answer: 12
Question: What school has won the most national debate championships?
Answer: Northwestern
Question: What is the name of an honor given to collegiate debate teams?
Answer: Copeland Award
Question: How many times has KU lost the national debate championship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times have UK teams appeared in the National Debate Tournament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many times has KU been one of the last five teams competing at the National Debate Championships?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What school has won the least national debate championships?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of an honor given to high school debate teams?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In Alberta, five bitumen upgraders produce synthetic crude oil and a variety of other products: The Suncor Energy upgrader near Fort McMurray, Alberta produces synthetic crude oil plus diesel fuel; the Syncrude Canada, Canadian Natural Resources, and Nexen upgraders near Fort McMurray produce synthetic crude oil; and the Shell Scotford Upgrader near Edmonton produces synthetic crude oil plus an intermediate feedstock for the nearby Shell Oil Refinery. A sixth upgrader, under construction in 2015 near Redwater, Alberta, will upgrade half of its crude bitumen directly to diesel fuel, with the remainder of the output being sold as feedstock to nearby oil refineries and petrochemical plants.
Question: How many asphalt upgraders operate in Alberta?
Answer: five
Question: What synthetic product is produced by upgraders?
Answer: crude oil
Question: Besides crude oil, what does the Suncor Energy plant produce?
Answer: diesel fuel
Question: Where is a sixth upgrader being built in Alberta?
Answer: Redwater, Alberta
Question: How much of the production of the Redwater plant will into diesel fuel?
Answer: half
Question: How many bitumen upgraders produce synthetic crude oil in Edmonton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is the seventh upgrader scheduled to be under construction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The sixth upgrader will upgrade two thirds of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The remainder of the output will be sold to Suncor Energy as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the Shell Oil upgrader located?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Although each institution is organized differently, nearly all universities have a board of trustees; a president, chancellor, or rector; at least one vice president, vice-chancellor, or vice-rector; and deans of various divisions. Universities are generally divided into a number of academic departments, schools or faculties. Public university systems are ruled over by government-run higher education boards. They review financial requests and budget proposals and then allocate funds for each university in the system. They also approve new programs of instruction and cancel or make changes in existing programs. In addition, they plan for the further coordinated growth and development of the various institutions of higher education in the state or country. However, many public universities in the world have a considerable degree of financial, research and pedagogical autonomy. Private universities are privately funded and generally have broader independence from state policies. However, they may have less independence from business corporations depending on the source of their finances.
Question: How many vice presidents do most universities have?
Answer: at least one
Question: What kind of board does a university commonly have?
Answer: a board of trustees
Question: What are the different departments of a university called?
Answer: schools or faculties
Question: Who controls public universities?
Answer: government-run higher education boards
Question: Besides students, what is the source of funds of private universities?
Answer: business corporations
Question: How many vice presidents do most businesses have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of board does a business commonly have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the different departments of a business called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who controls public businesses?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Besides students, what is the source of funds of public universities?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: CDO issuance grew from an estimated $20 billion in Q1 2004 to its peak of over $180 billion by Q1 2007, then declined back under $20 billion by Q1 2008. Further, the credit quality of CDO's declined from 2000 to 2007, as the level of subprime and other non-prime mortgage debt increased from 5% to 36% of CDO assets. As described in the section on subprime lending, the CDS and portfolio of CDS called synthetic CDO enabled a theoretically infinite amount to be wagered on the finite value of housing loans outstanding, provided that buyers and sellers of the derivatives could be found. For example, buying a CDS to insure a CDO ended up giving the seller the same risk as if they owned the CDO, when those CDO's became worthless.
Question: When did the issuance of CDO peak?
Answer: Q1 2007
Question: What was the estimated value of CDO issuance in Q1 2004?
Answer: $20 billion
Question: What was the estimated value of CDO issuance at it's peak in Q1 2007?
Answer: over $180 billion
Question: What percent of CDO assets were subprime and other non-prime mortgage debt in 2007?
Answer: 36%
Question: What was the estimated value of CDO issuance in Q1 2008?
Answer: under $20 billion
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Context: Only insects which live in nests or colonies demonstrate any true capacity for fine-scale spatial orientation or homing. This can allow an insect to return unerringly to a single hole a few millimeters in diameter among thousands of apparently identical holes clustered together, after a trip of up to several kilometers' distance. In a phenomenon known as philopatry, insects that hibernate have shown the ability to recall a specific location up to a year after last viewing the area of interest. A few insects seasonally migrate large distances between different geographic regions (e.g., the overwintering areas of the Monarch butterfly).:14
Question: Insects with fine scale spatial orientation live in colonies and where else?
Answer: nests
Question: Some insects have a fine scale spatial orientation and/or what else?
Answer: homing
Question: Spacial orientation/homing allows an insect to return to one specific hole among how many?
Answer: thousands
Question: An insect recalling a specific location for up to a year is called what?
Answer: philopatry
Question: An insect that can recall a specific location for up to a year does what?
Answer: hibernate
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Context: The British Library notes that "Chopin's works have been recorded by all the great pianists of the recording era." The earliest recording was an 1895 performance by Paul Pabst of the Nocturne in E major Op. 62 No. 2. The British Library site makes available a number of historic recordings, including some by Alfred Cortot, Ignaz Friedman, Vladimir Horowitz, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, Arthur Rubinstein, Xaver Scharwenka and many others. A select discography of recordings of Chopin works by pianists representing the various pedagogic traditions stemming from Chopin is given by Methuen-Campbell in his work tracing the lineage and character of those traditions.
Question: What year was the earliest Chopin recording created?
Answer: 1895
Question: What is the title of the earliest known recording of Chopin's work?
Answer: Nocturne in E major Op. 62 No. 2
Question: Who played the earlier known recording of Chopin's work?
Answer: Paul Pabst
Question: What has stated that every pianist in the recording era has used Chopin's music?
Answer: The British Library
Question: When did Pabst record his Chopin performance?
Answer: 1895
Question: Who has given a discography of pianists' representation of Chopin's pedagogic style?
Answer: Methuen-Campbell
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Context: As the economic situation worsened MacDonald agreed to form a "National Government" with the Conservatives and the Liberals. On 24 August 1931 MacDonald submitted the resignation of his ministers and led a small number of his senior colleagues in forming the National Government together with the other parties. This caused great anger among those within the Labour Party who felt betrayed by MacDonald's actions: he and his supporters were promptly expelled from the Labour Party and formed a separate National Labour Organisation. The remaining Labour Party MPs (led again by Arthur Henderson) and a few Liberals went into opposition. The ensuing 1931 general election resulted in overwhelming victory for the National Government and disaster for the Labour Party which won only 52 seats, 225 fewer than in 1929.
Question: When did MacDonald submit the resignation of his ministers?
Answer: 1931
Question: What caused MacDonald to form a separate party?
Answer: he and his supporters were promptly expelled
Question: Who won the 1931 election?
Answer: National Government
Question: What happened when the economic situation got better?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who refused to form a National Government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did people in the Conservative Party feel about MacDonald's actions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was expelled from the National Labour Organisation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What election was an overwhelming victory for the Labour Party?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Most MIs occur due to coronary artery disease. Risk factors include high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, lack of exercise, obesity, high blood cholesterol, poor diet, and excessive alcohol intake, among others. The mechanism of an MI often involves the complete blockage of a coronary artery caused by a rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque. MIs are less commonly caused by coronary artery spasms, which may be due to cocaine, significant emotional stress, and extreme cold, among others. A number of tests are useful to help with diagnosis, including electrocardiograms (ECGs), blood tests, and coronary angiography. An ECG may confirm an ST elevation MI if ST elevation is present. Commonly used blood tests include troponin and less often creatine kinase MB.
Question: What is used to confirm a artery spasm?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What test includes cocaine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of rupture helps prevent MI?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What causes extreme cold?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does a coronary angiography look for?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Sichuan has been historically known as the "Province of Abundance". It is one of the major agricultural production bases of China. Grain, including rice and wheat, is the major product with output that ranked first in China in 1999. Commercial crops include citrus fruits, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, peaches and grapes. Sichuan also had the largest output of pork among all the provinces and the second largest output of silkworm cocoons in 1999. Sichuan is rich in mineral resources. It has more than 132 kinds of proven underground mineral resources including vanadium, titanium, and lithium being the largest in China. The Panxi region alone possesses 13.3% of the reserves of iron, 93% of titanium, 69% of vanadium, and 83% of the cobalt of the whole country. Sichuan also possesses China's largest proven natural gas reserves, the majority of which is transported to more developed eastern regions.
Question: What area for the "Province of Abundance" refer to?
Answer: Sichuan
Question: What are the major agricultural outputs of Sichuan?
Answer: rice and wheat
Question: What kind of meat is Sichuan known to produce in abundance?
Answer: pork
Question: How much of China's titanium is houses in Sichuan?
Answer: 93%
Question: What is often done with Sichuan's natural gas reserves?
Answer: transported to more developed eastern regions
Question: What is known as the Bread Basket of China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area produces the most silkworm?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What reserves does Sichuan send further west?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What region contains 69% of the titanium reserves?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What silkworm cocoon does the "Province of Abundance" refer to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the major agricultural outputs of Providence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of meat is the Providence known to produce in abundance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of Providence's titanium is housed in Sichuan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is often done with Sichuan's pork?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Foreign students' department for Armenian diaspora established in 1957 later was enlarged and the enrollment of foreign students began. Nowadays the YSMU is a Medical Institution corresponding to international requirements, trains medical staff for not only Armenia and neighbor countries, i.e. Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Georgia, but also many other leading countries all over the world. A great number of foreign students from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the USA and Russian Federation study together with Armenian students. Nowadays the university is ranked among famous higher Medical Institutions and takes its honorable place in the World Directory of Medical Schools published by the WHO.
Question: Who is in charge of releasing the World Directory of Medical Schools?
Answer: WHO
Question: When was the foreign student department for Armenian diaspora created?
Answer: 1957
Question: Armenian students attend YMSU with foreign students from where?
Answer: India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the USA and Russian Federation
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Context: Inimitability of the Quran (or "I'jaz") is the belief that no human speech can match the Quran in its content and form. The Quran is considered an inimitable miracle by Muslims, effective until the Day of Resurrection—and, thereby, the central proof granted to Muhammad in authentication of his prophetic status. The concept of inimitability originates in the Quran where in five different verses opponents are challenged to produce something like the Quran: "If men and sprites banded together to produce the like of this Quran they would never produce its like not though they backed one another." So the suggestion is that if there are doubts concerning the divine authorship of the Quran, come forward and create something like it. From the ninth century, numerous works appeared which studied the Quran and examined its style and content. Medieval Muslim scholars including al-Jurjani (d. 1078) and al-Baqillani (d. 1013) have written treatises on the subject, discussed its various aspects, and used linguistic approaches to study the Quran. Others argue that the Quran contains noble ideas, has inner meanings, maintained its freshness through the ages and has caused great transformations in individual level and in the history. Some scholars state that the Quran contains scientific information that agrees with modern science. The doctrine of miraculousness of the Quran is further emphasized by Muhammad's illiteracy since the unlettered prophet could not have been suspected of composing the Quran.
Question: What term indicates that the contents of the Quran cannot be reproduced in speech?
Answer: I'jaz
Question: Until what day is the Quran believed to be in effect?
Answer: Day of Resurrection
Question: In which year did the Medieval Muslim scholar al-Baqillani die?
Answer: 1013
Question: Which Muslim scholar studied the Quran's inimitability until his death in 1078?
Answer: al-Jurjani
Question: What term indicates that the contents of the Quran should be reproduced in speech?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Until what day is the Quran believed to not be in effect?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which year did the Medieval Muslim scholar al-Baqillani survive illness?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Muslim scholar studied the Quran's inimitability until his death in 1087?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Jewish scholar studied the Quran's inimitability until his death in 1078?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Appalachian belt includes, with the ranges enumerated above, the plateaus sloping southward to the Atlantic Ocean in New England, and south-eastward to the border of the coastal plain through the central and southern Atlantic states; and on the north-west, the Allegheny and Cumberland plateaus declining toward the Great Lakes and the interior plains. A remarkable feature of the belt is the longitudinal chain of broad valleys, including The Great Appalachian Valley, which in the southerly sections divides the mountain system into two unequal portions, but in the northernmost lies west of all the ranges possessing typical Appalachian features, and separates them from the Adirondack group. The mountain system has no axis of dominating altitudes, but in every portion the summits rise to rather uniform heights, and, especially in the central section, the various ridges and intermontane valleys have the same trend as the system itself. None of the summits reaches the region of perpetual snow.
Question: What does the Great Appalachian Valley do?
Answer: divides the mountain system into two unequal portions
Question: What is common among all the mountains in the range?
Answer: has no axis of dominating altitudes, but in every portion the summits rise to rather uniform heights
Question: What is the climate like on the summits?
Answer: None of the summits reaches the region of perpetual snow.
Question: How many portions is the Great Appalachian Valley divided into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ocean is to the south east of the mountains?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the names of the interior plains?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What divides the mountain range equally?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which group reaches the region of perpetual snow?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Australian citizens and residents from other parts of the nation now have automatic right of residence on the island after meeting these criteria (Immigration (Amendment No. 2) Act 2012). Australian citizens must carry either a passport or a Document of Identity to travel to Norfolk Island. Citizens of all other nations must carry a passport to travel to Norfolk Island even if arriving from other parts of Australia. Holders of Australian visas who travel to Norfolk Island have departed the Australian Migration Zone. Unless they hold a multiple-entry visa, the visa will have ceased; in which case they will require another visa to re-enter mainland Australia.
Question: What automatic right do Australian citizens and residents have on Norfolk Island after meeting the criteria in Immigration (Amendment No. 2) Act 2012?
Answer: automatic right of residence
Question: What do Australian citizens need in order to travel to Norfolk Island?
Answer: either a passport or a Document of Identity
Question: What do citizens from other nations need in order to travel to Norfolk Island?
Answer: a passport
Question: When someone has an Australian visa and they want to travel to Norfolk Island, where must they depart?
Answer: Australian Migration Zone
Question: What will happen to travelers with an Australian visa who don't depart from the Australian Migration Zone?
Answer: the visa will have ceased
Question: What automatic right do Australian citizens and residents lose on Norfolk Island after meeting the criteria in Immigration (Amendment No. 2) Act 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do Australian citizens need in order to talk about Norfolk Island?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do citizens from other nations need in order to talk about Norfolk Island?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When someone has an American visa and they want to travel to Norfolk Island, where must they depart?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What will happen to travelers with an American visa who don't depart from the Australian Migration Zone?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: As of the census of 2000, there were 197,790 people, 84,549 households, and 43,627 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,292.6 people per square mile (1,271.3/km²). There were 92,282 housing units at an average density of 1,536.2 per square mile (593.1/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 38.3% White, 57.2% African American, 0.2% Native American, 1.3% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.5% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.6% of the population.
Question: In 2000, how many families lived in Richmond?
Answer: 43,627
Question: As of 2000, how many people lived in Richmond per square kilometer?
Answer: 1,271.3
Question: What percentage of the Richmond population of 2000 was Pacific Islander?
Answer: 0.1
Question: What was the largest racial group in Richmond as of 2000?
Answer: African American
Question: In 2000, what percentage of Richmond residents were multiracial?
Answer: 1.5
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Context: The TCM Vault Collection consists of several different DVD collections of rare classic films that have been licensed, remastered and released by Turner Classic Movies (through corporate sister Warner Home Video). These boxed set releases are of films by notable actors, directors or studios that were previously unreleased on DVD or VHS. The sets often include bonus discs including documentaries and shorts from the TCM library. The initial batch of DVDs are printed in limited quantities and subsequent batches are made-on-demand (MOD).
Question: Through what company is the TCM Vault Collection released?
Answer: Warner Home Video
Question: What do the TCM Vault Collection bonus discs feature in addition to documentaries?
Answer: shorts
Question: After the initial batch of TCM Vault Collection DVDs are printed, how are they made afterwards?
Answer: on-demand
Question: Through what company is the MOD released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do the DVD Vault Collection bonus discs feature in addition to documentaries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are the Initial batch of VHS Vault Collection DVDs made after the initial batch?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What consists of several VHS collections?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What often includes bonus documentaries?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: After the collapse of the talks and a controversial visit by Likud leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount, the Second Intifada began. Some commentators contend that the uprising was pre-planned by Yasser Arafat due to the collapse of peace talks. Sharon became prime minister in a 2001 special election. During his tenure, Sharon carried out his plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and also spearheaded the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier, ending the Intifada. By this time 1,100 Israelis had been killed, mostly in suicide bombings. The Palestinian fatalities, by 30 April 2008, reached 4,745 killed by Israeli security forces, 44 killed by Israeli civilians, and 577 killed by Palestinians.
Question: Who visited the Temple Mount?
Answer: Ariel Sharon
Question: When did Ariel Sharon become prime minister?
Answer: 2001
Question: How many Palestinian fatalities were they by 30 April 2008?
Answer: 4,745
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Context: The FBI director is responsible for the day-to-day operations at the FBI. Along with his deputies, the director makes sure cases and operations are handled correctly. The director also is in charge of making sure the leadership in any one of the FBI field offices is manned with qualified agents. Before the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act was passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the FBI director would directly brief the President of the United States on any issues that arise from within the FBI. Since then, the director now reports to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who in turn reports to the President.
Question: Who is responsible for day-to-day FBI operations?
Answer: The FBI director
Question: Who assists the FBI director?
Answer: his deputies
Question: What acts were passed relating to the FBI after 9/11?
Answer: Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
Question: Who used to brief the President?
Answer: FBI director
Question: Who now reports to the President?
Answer: Director of National Intelligence
Question: Who makes sure CIA field offices are manned with qualified agents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What act was passed before September 11th?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who does the President report to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is responsible for briefing the FBI director?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the CIA director brief the President on?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The CIA had different demands placed on it by the different bodies overseeing it. Truman wanted a centralized group to organize the information that reached him, the Department of Defense wanted military intelligence and covert action, and the State Department wanted to create global political change favorable to the US. Thus the two areas of responsibility for the CIA were covert action and covert intelligence. One of the main targets for intelligence gathering was the Soviet Union, which had also been a priority of the CIA's predecessors.
Question: Who wanted the CIA to have a central group that organized information for him?
Answer: Truman
Question: What did the Department of defense want from the CIA?
Answer: military intelligence and covert action
Question: What was the State Department hoping for the CIA to do?
Answer: create global political change favorable to the US
Question: What was one of the main targets of intelligence gathering?
Answer: the Soviet Union
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Context: Animals that characterize the Appalachian forests include five species of tree squirrels. The most commonly seen is the low to moderate elevation eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Occupying similar habitat is the slightly larger fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) and the much smaller southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans). More characteristic of cooler northern and high elevation habitat is the red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), whereas the Appalachian northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus), which closely resembles the southern flying squirrel, is confined to northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests.
Question: How many species of tree squirrel are commonly found in the range?
Answer: five species
Question: What is the most commonly seen species?
Answer: gray squirrel
Question: What does the squirrel share its habitat with?
Answer: larger fox squirrel
Question: What is found more in the northern portions?
Answer: red squirrel
Question: Which species is commonly found more in spruce-fir forests?
Answer: Appalachian northern flying squirrel
Question: How many species of animals are in the Appalachian forests?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the northern flying squirrel smaller than?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the least commonly seen squirrel in moderate elevation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What trees are the red squirrel confined to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the most commonly seen squirrel in higher elevations?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On February 6, 2016, one day before her performance at the Super Bowl, Beyoncé released a new single exclusively on music streaming service Tidal called "Formation".
Question: Beyonce released the song "Formation" on which online music service?
Answer: Tidal
Question: Beyonce's new single released before the super bowl was called what?
Answer: Formation
Question: What day did Beyonce release her single, Formation?
Answer: February 6, 2016
Question: How was the single released?
Answer: exclusively
Question: What was the name of the streaming service?
Answer: Tidal
Question: What kind of platform was the song released?
Answer: music streaming
Question: When did Beyoncé release Formation?
Answer: February 6, 2016
Question: Where did Beyoncé exclusively release her single, Formation?
Answer: Tidal
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Context: With the discovery of fire, the earliest form of artificial lighting used to illuminate an area were campfires or torches. As early as 400,000 BCE, fire was kindled in the caves of Peking Man. Prehistoric people used primitive oil lamps to illuminate surroundings. These lamps were made from naturally occurring materials such as rocks, shells, horns and stones, were filled with grease, and had a fiber wick. Lamps typically used animal or vegetable fats as fuel. Hundreds of these lamps (hollow worked stones) have been found in the Lascaux caves in modern-day France, dating to about 15,000 years ago. Oily animals (birds and fish) were also used as lamps after being threaded with a wick. Fireflies have been used as lighting sources. Candles and glass and pottery lamps were also invented. Chandeliers were an early form of "light fixture".
Question: Peking man kindled fire as early as?
Answer: 400,000 BCE
Question: Which type of oily animals where also used as lamps after being threaded with wick?
Answer: birds and fish
Question: What is considered the earliest form of artificial lighting?
Answer: campfires or torches
Question: The hollow worked stones lamps found in Lascaux caves date back how far?
Answer: 15,000 years
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Context: In a time when royals were expected to marry fellow royals, it was unusual that Albert had a great deal of freedom in choosing a prospective wife. An infatuation with the already-married Australian socialite Sheila, Lady Loughborough, came to an end in April 1920 when the King, with the promise of the dukedom of York, persuaded Albert to stop seeing her. That year, he met for the first time since childhood Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. He became determined to marry her. She rejected his proposal twice, in 1921 and 1922, reportedly because she was reluctant to make the sacrifices necessary to become a member of the royal family. In the words of Lady Elizabeth's mother, Albert would be "made or marred" by his choice of wife. After a protracted courtship, Elizabeth agreed to marry him.
Question: Who was Albert infatuated with?
Answer: Sheila, Lady Loughborough
Question: Who was the youngest daughter of Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne?
Answer: Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Question: How many times did Elizabeth reject Albert's proposal?
Answer: twice
Question: Who were royals usually expected to marry?
Answer: fellow royals
Question: Who was the Australian socialite Sheila married to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of Lady Elizabeth's mother?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Albert first meet Lady Elizabeth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nationality was Lady Elizabeth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Albert and Elizabeth marry?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Educational and technological reforms came about, including the establishment of higher education institutions such as the Istanbul Technical University. In 1734 an artillery school was established to impart Western-style artillery methods, but the Islamic clergy successfully objected under the grounds of theodicy. In 1754 the artillery school was reopened on a semi-secret basis. In 1726, Ibrahim Muteferrika convinced the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha, the Grand Mufti, and the clergy on the efficiency of the printing press, and Muteferrika was later granted by Sultan Ahmed III permission to publish non-religious books (despite opposition from some calligraphers and religious leaders). Muteferrika's press published its first book in 1729 and, by 1743, issued 17 works in 23 volumes, each having between 500 and 1,000 copies.
Question: What is one university that was formed in the early 18th century of the empire?
Answer: Istanbul Technical University
Question: What type of school was established in the empire in 1734?
Answer: an artillery school
Question: In 1754 what man convinced the Grand Vizier to allow the use of the printing press?
Answer: Ibrahim Muteferrika
Question: Who was the Ottoaman Grand Vizier in 1726?
Answer: Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha
Question: In what year did an Ottoman press produce its first book?
Answer: 1729
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Context: The climate in Southeast Asia is mainly tropical–hot and humid all year round with plentiful rainfall. Northern Vietnam and the Myanmar Himalayas are the only regions in Southeast Asia that feature a subtropical climate, which has a cold winter with snow. The majority of Southeast Asia has a wet and dry season caused by seasonal shift in winds or monsoon. The tropical rain belt causes additional rainfall during the monsoon season. The rain forest is the second largest on earth (with the Amazon being the largest). An exception to this type of climate and vegetation is the mountain areas in the northern region, where high altitudes lead to milder temperatures and drier landscape. Other parts fall out of this climate because they are desert like.
Question: What is the climate like in Southeast Asia?
Answer: tropical–hot and humid
Question: Which region has the 2nd largest rain-forest in the world?
Answer: Southeast Asia
Question: Which regions in Southeast Asia see cold winter with snow?
Answer: Northern Vietnam and the Myanmar Himalayas
Question: What causes additional rainfall during monsoon?
Answer: The tropical rain belt
Question: What causes the Southeast Asian regions to experience wet & dry seasons?
Answer: seasonal shift in winds or monsoon
Question: What part of Asia is mostly subtropical?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: North Vietnam and what other region have atropical climate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What region has the largest rain forest in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the climate like in the souther mountain region?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Melbourne (/ˈmɛlbərn/, AU i/ˈmɛlbən/) is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia and Oceania. The name "Melbourne" refers to the area of urban agglomeration (as well as a census statistical division) spanning 9,900 km2 (3,800 sq mi) which comprises the broader metropolitan area, as well as being the common name for its city centre. The metropolis is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip and expands into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon mountain ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. Melbourne consists of 31 municipalities. It has a population of 4,347,955 as of 2013, and its inhabitants are called Melburnians.
Question: What is the most populas city in the Australian state of Victoria?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: What is the second most populas city in Australia?
Answer: Oceania
Question: Where is the Metropolis?
Answer: large natural bay of Port Phillip
Question: What is the population of Melbourne?
Answer: 4,347,955 as of 2013
Question: What are inhabitants of Melbourne called?
Answer: Melburnians
Question: Which city is the capital of Victoria?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Which city is the most populous city in Victoria?
Answer: Melbourne
Question: Melbourne consists of how many municipalities?
Answer: 31
Question: What was Melbourne's population in 2013?
Answer: 4,347,955
Question: What are the inhabitants of Melbourne called?
Answer: Melburnians
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Context: This influx was compounded by the decline of the Western Sudanic Mali Empire in 1375 and the Songhai Empire in 1591. Additionally, as inland regions underwent desertification, inhabitants moved to the wetter coast. These new inhabitants brought skills such as cotton spinning, cloth weaving, iron smelting, rice and sorghum cultivation, and social and political institutions from the Mali and Songhai empires. Shortly after the Mane conquered the region, the Vai people of the former Mali Empire immigrated into the Grand Cape Mount region. The ethnic Kru opposed the influx of Vai, forming an alliance with the Mane to stop further influx of Vai.[citation needed]
Question: What empire was o the decline on 1375?
Answer: Western Sudanic Mali Empire
Question: What happened when regions underwent desertification?
Answer: inhabitants moved to the wetter coast
Question: Where did the people of the Mali empire immigrate to?
Answer: the Grand Cape Mount region.
Question: Who opposed the influx of vai forming an alliance with maine?
Answer: The ethnic Kru
Question: When did the Western Sudanic Mali Empire begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Songhai Empire Begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who conquered Mongolia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group wanted to extend the influence of the Vai?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What skills were the Yun Song Empire known for?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In an effort to conserve water, Tucson is recharging groundwater supplies by running part of its share of CAP water into various open portions of local rivers to seep into their aquifer. Additional study is scheduled to determine the amount of water that is lost through evaporation from the open areas, especially during the summer. The City of Tucson already provides reclaimed water to its inhabitants, but it is only used for "applications such as irrigation, dust control, and industrial uses." These resources have been in place for more than 27 years, and deliver to over 900 locations.
Question: How is Tucson replenishing its groundwater?
Answer: running part of its share of CAP water into various open portions of local rivers to seep into their aquifer
Question: What does Tucson use reclaimed water for?
Answer: irrigation, dust control, and industrial uses
Question: How long has Tucson's water conservation efforts been underway?
Answer: more than 27 years
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Context: Topographically, a remarkable feature of Galicia is the presence of many firth-like inlets along the coast, estuaries that were drowned with rising sea levels after the ice age. These are called rías and are divided into the smaller Rías Altas ("High Rías"), and the larger Rías Baixas ("Low Rías"). The Rías Altas include Ribadeo, Foz, Viveiro, Barqueiro, Ortigueira, Cedeira, Ferrol, Betanzos, A Coruña, Corme e Laxe and Camariñas. The Rías Baixas, found south of Fisterra, include Corcubión, Muros e Noia, Arousa, Pontevedra and Vigo. The Rías Altas can sometimes refer only to those east of Estaca de Bares, with the others being called Rías Medias ("Intermediate Rías").
Question: What are estuaries called in Galicia?
Answer: rías
Question: What does Rías Altas mean?
Answer: High Rías
Question: WWhat does Rías Baixas mean?
Answer: Low Rías
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Context: Brasília is known as a departing point for the practice of unpowered air sports, sports that may be practiced with hang gliding or paragliding wings. Practitioners of such sports reveal that, because of the city's dry weather, the city offers strong thermal winds and great "cloud-streets", which is also the name for a manoeuvre quite appreciated by practitioners. In 2003, Brasília hosted the 14th Hang Gliding World Championship, one of the categories of free flying. In August 2005, the city hosted the 2nd stage of the Brazilian Hang Gliding Championship.
Question: What type of sports are popular in Brasilia?
Answer: unpowered air sports
Question: What air sports event did Brasilia host in 2003?
Answer: the 14th Hang Gliding World Championship
Question: What air sports event did Brasilia host in 2005?
Answer: the 2nd stage of the Brazilian Hang Gliding Championship
Question: Why is Brasilia a good place for air sports?
Answer: strong thermal winds and great "cloud-streets"
Question: What category of free flying did Brasilia host in August 2005?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name for paragliding in Brasilia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the city have to offer because of its categories of free flying?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is thermal wind known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of a manoeuvre appreciated by hanggliding?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In March 2012, the newspaper El Mundo published a story according to which FGV had instructed employees who were to testify at the crash commission investigation, providing a set of possible questions and guidelines to prepare the answers. In April 2013, the television program Salvados questioned the official version of the incident as there were indications that the Valencian Government had tried to downplay the accident, which coincided with the visit of the pope to Valencia, or even to hide evidence, as the book of train breakdowns was never found. The day after the broadcast of this report, which received extensive media coverage, several voices called for the reopening of the investigation. The investigation was effectively reopened and the accident is currently under re-examination.
Question: What TV program questioned the official account of the crash?
Answer: Salvados
Question: What happened at the same time as the crash, which may have contributed to the government downplaying it?
Answer: visit of the pope to Valencia
Question: What evidence related to the crash remains missing?
Answer: book of train breakdowns
Question: Which paper published an article that raised questions about the handling of the investigation?
Answer: El Mundo
Question: When did El Mundo's article with information about the crash investigation come out?
Answer: March 2012
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Context: One of the primary functions of a brain is to extract biologically relevant information from sensory inputs. The human brain is provided with information about light, sound, the chemical composition of the atmosphere, temperature, head orientation, limb position, the chemical composition of the bloodstream, and more. In other animals additional senses may be present, such as the infrared heat-sense of snakes, the magnetic field sense of some birds, or the electric field sense of some types of fish. Moreover, other animals may develop existing sensory systems in new ways, such as the adaptation by bats of the auditory sense into a form of sonar. One way or another, all of these sensory modalities are initially detected by specialized sensors that project signals into the brain.
Question: What type of animal has a sense that adapted into sonar?
Answer: bats
Question: What type of animal uses infrared heat to sense?
Answer: snakes
Question: The group of animals that can detect magnetic fields is what?
Answer: birds
Question: The group of creatures that can sense electric fields is what?
Answer: fish
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Context: On May 30, 2006, Taylor Hicks was named American Idol, with Katharine McPhee the runner-up. "Do I Make You Proud" was released as Hicks' first single and McPhee's was "My Destiny".
Question: Who was the winner American Idol in 2006?
Answer: Taylor Hicks
Question: What was the name of the first song that Taylor Hicks released after winning American Idol?
Answer: Do I Make You Proud
Question: What was the first song that Katherine McPhee released after coming in second on American Idol?
Answer: My Destiny
Question: Who was the winner for this season?
Answer: Taylor Hicks
Question: What was Hick's debut single?
Answer: Do I Make You Proud
Question: What was McPhee's first single?
Answer: My Destiny
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Context: Several bronze-era states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including the Hittite Empire (at the height of its power), Mitanni (South-Western historical Armenia), and Hayasa-Azzi (1500–1200 BC). The Nairi people (12th to 9th centuries BC) and the Kingdom of Urartu (1000–600 BC) successively established their sovereignty over the Armenian Highland. Each of the aforementioned nations and tribes participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people. A large cuneiform lapidary inscription found in Yerevan established that the modern capital of Armenia was founded in the summer of 782 BC by King Argishti I. Yerevan is the world's oldest city to have documented the exact date of its foundation.
Question: When was the capital of Armenia established?
Answer: 782 BC
Question: What is the capital of Armenia?
Answer: Yerevan
Question: Who ruled Armenia in 782 BC?
Answer: King Argishti I
Question: The founding of which city was the first to be ever recorded?
Answer: Yerevan
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Context: While most artists became established in other formats before moving to adult contemporary, Michael Bublé and Josh Groban started out as AC artists. Throughout this decade, artists such as Nick Lachey, James Blunt, John Mayer, Bruno Mars, Jason Mraz, Kelly Clarkson, Adele, Clay Aiken and Susan Boyle have become successful thanks to a ballad heavy sound. Much as some hot AC and modern rock artists have crossed over into each other, so too has soft AC crossed with country music in this decade. Country musicians such as Faith Hill, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes and Carrie Underwood have had success on both charts.
Question: Along with Josh Groban, what notable pop artist started out his career on adult contemporary radio?
Answer: Michael Bublé
Question: What sort of sound does the music of Susan Boyle have?
Answer: ballad heavy
Question: Along with Faith Hill, Shania Twain and LeAnn Rimes, what country artist has had adult contemporary hits?
Answer: Carrie Underwood
Question: What genre of music has soft AC found common ground with?
Answer: country
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Context: The Candidate Conservation Agreement is closely related to the "Safe Harbor" agreement, the main difference is that the Candidate Conservation Agreements With Assurances(CCA) are meant to protect unlisted species by providing incentives to private landowners and land managing agencies to restore, enhance or maintain habitat of unlisted species which are declining and have the potential to become threatened or endangered if critical habitat is not protected. The FWS will then assure that if, in the future the unlisted species becomes listed, the landowner will not be required to do more than already agreed upon in the CCA.
Question: How do Candidate Conservation Agreements differ from Safe Harbor agreements?
Answer: Candidate Conservation Agreements With Assurances(CCA) are meant to protect unlisted species
Question: How does a CCA help protect a private landowner?
Answer: if, in the future the unlisted species becomes listed, the landowner will not be required to do more than already agreed upon in the CCA.
Question: How does a CCA impact unlisted species?
Answer: enhance or maintain habitat of unlisted species which are declining and have the potential to become threatened or endangered
Question: What agreement is the Safe Harbor Agreement primarily different from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does the Safe Harbor agreement protect unlisted species?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization can make a landowner do activities beyond those agreed on in the CCA?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Safe Harbor protect?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Positioned asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle, Antarctica is the southernmost continent and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean; alternatively, it may be considered to be surrounded by the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, or by the southern waters of the World Ocean. It covers more than 14,000,000 km2 (5,400,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest continent, about 1.3 times as large as Europe. The coastline measures 17,968 km (11,165 mi) and is mostly characterized by ice formations, as the following table shows:
Question: What is the southern most continent?
Answer: Antarctica
Question: What is the size of Antarctica in square miles?
Answer: 5,400,000
Question: What is Antarctica's ranking among the continents?
Answer: fifth-largest
Question: How many miles long is Antarctica's coast line?
Answer: 11,165
Question: What continent is largely north of the Antarctic Circle?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ocean does Antarctica surround?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other oceansbesides the Southern Ocean does Antarctica surround?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What continent is 14,000,000 square miles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What coninent is 1.3 times smaller than Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What surrounds the Southern Ocean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What continent covers more than 14,000,000 sq mi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What continent is 3.1 times as large as Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What measures 17,968 square miles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is positioned symmetrically around the South Pole?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On December 30, 1922, the First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, by which Russia was united with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic into a single federal state, the Soviet Union. Later treaty was included in the 1924 Soviet Constitution,[clarification needed] adopted on January 31, 1924 by the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR.
Question: On what date was the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR passed?
Answer: December 30, 1922
Question: What body passed the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR?
Answer: First Congress of the Soviets of the USSR
Question: Along with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, what state joined Russia to form the Soviet Union?
Answer: Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic
Question: On what date was the 1924 Soviet Constitution adopted?
Answer: January 31, 1924
Question: What body adopted the 1924 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR
Question: On what date was the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR rejected?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What body rejected the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Along with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, what state didn't join Russia to form the Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date was the 1942 Soviet Constitution adopted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What body rejected the 1924 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In the early 20th century, many Europeans (particularly Spaniards and Italians but also thousands from Central Europe) immigrated to the city. In 1908, 30% of the city's population of 300,000 was foreign-born. In that decade the city expanded quickly: new neighbourhoods were created and many separate settlements were annexed to the city, among which were the Villa del Cerro, Pocitos, the Prado and Villa Colón. The Rodó Park and the Estadio Gran Parque Central were also established, which served as poles of urban development.
Question: What century did many Europeans immigrate to the city of Montevideo?
Answer: early 20th century
Question: In 1908 what percent of the city's population was foreign-born?
Answer: 30%
Question: The Rodo Park and the Estadio Gran Parque Central serves as poles of what?
Answer: urban development
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Context: The following is the hierarchy of the Canadian Armed Forces. It begins at the top with the most senior-ranking personnel and works its way into lower organizations.
Question: What is the hierarchy of the Canadian Armed Forces?
Answer: It begins at the top with the most senior-ranking personnel and works its way into lower organizations.
Question: What is the hierarchy of the French Armed Forces?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The noise-based speed is defined as the exposure that will lead to a given signal-to-noise ratio on individual pixels. Two ratios are used, the 40:1 ("excellent image quality") and the 10:1 ("acceptable image quality") ratio. These ratios have been subjectively determined based on a resolution of 70 pixels per cm (178 DPI) when viewed at 25 cm (9.8 inch) distance. The signal-to-noise ratio is defined as the standard deviation of a weighted average of the luminance and color of individual pixels. The noise-based speed is mostly determined by the properties of the sensor and somewhat affected by the noise in the electronic gain and AD converter.
Question: Which ratios are employed to calculate noise-based speed?
Answer: the 40:1 ("excellent image quality") and the 10:1 ("acceptable image quality") ratio
Question: What is the noise-based speed?
Answer: the exposure that will lead to a given signal-to-noise ratio on individual pixels
Question: How are the two ratios found?
Answer: subjectively determined based on a resolution of 70 pixels per cm (178 DPI) when viewed at 25 cm (9.8 inch) distance
Question: What is a definition of signal-to-noise ratio?
Answer: the standard deviation of a weighted average of the luminance and color of individual pixels
Question: What factors influence the noise-based speed?
Answer: the properties of the sensor and somewhat affected by the noise in the electronic gain and AD converter
Question: Which ratio was subjectively determined?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the individual pixels defined by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the signal-to-noise ration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many pixels are in a 40:1 ratio image?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The weighted average of the luminance and the noise in the electronic gain is defined as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The French cleric Pierre Gassendi (1592-1665) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to the attempts of René Descartes (1596-1650) to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations. There followed the materialist and atheist abbé Jean Meslier (1664-1729), Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the German-French Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), the Encyclopedist Denis Diderot (1713-1784), and other French Enlightenment thinkers; as well as (in England) John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822), whose insistence in seeing matter as endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
Question: Pierre Gassendi lived from what year to what year?
Answer: 1592-1665
Question: René Descartes lived from what year to what year?
Answer: 1596-1650
Question: abbé Jean Meslier lived from what year to what year?
Answer: 1664-1729
Question: Denis Diderot lived from what year to what year?
Answer: 1713-1784
Question: William Wordsworth lived from what year to what year?
Answer: 1770-1850
Question: Who agreed with Pierre Gassendi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who disagreed with Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not see matter as endowed with moral dimension?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: William Wordsworth was not impacted by which thinker?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who provided the non-natural sciences with dualist foundations?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: President Bush denied funding to the UNFPA. Over the course of the Bush Administration, a total of $244 million in Congressionally approved funding was blocked by the Executive Branch.
Question: Which government official blocked funding to the UNFPA?
Answer: President
Question: What was the name of the official who blocked UNFPA funding?
Answer: Bush
Question: How much funding was blocked?
Answer: $244 million
Question: Which branch of government denied the UNFPA funding?
Answer: the Executive Branch
Question: How had the UNFPA funding been initially approved?
Answer: Congressionally
Question: Which government official increased funding to the UNFPA?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the official who increased UNFPA funding?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much was funding increased by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which administration increased funding to UNFPA?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Seminole Indians based in East Florida began raiding Georgia settlements, and offering havens for runaway slaves. The United States Army led increasingly frequent incursions into Spanish territory, including the 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminole Indians by Andrew Jackson that became known as the First Seminole War. The United States now effectively controlled East Florida. Control was necessary according to Secretary of State John Quincy Adams because Florida had become "a derelict open to the occupancy of every enemy, civilized or savage, of the United States, and serving no other earthly purpose than as a post of annoyance to them.".
Question: Where did Seminole Indians raid
Answer: Seminole Indians based in East Florida began raiding Georgia settlements
Question: Who did the Indians offer haven to
Answer: runaway slaves
Question: What is the first Incursion led by Jackson known as now
Answer: First Seminole War
Question: Why did the US president say the Incursion of Florida was neccessary
Answer: orida had become "a derelict open to the occupancy of every enemy, civilized or savage
Question: Where did Seminole Indians not raid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Indians lived in North Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What people did Indians turn away refuge from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said "serving every earthly purpose as a post of annoyance to them"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did John Quincy Adams say about Georgia?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Sparta remained independent, but it was no longer the leading military power in the Peloponnese. The Spartan king Cleomenes III (235–222 BCE) staged a military coup against the conservative ephors and pushed through radical social and land reforms in order to increase the size of the shrinking Spartan citizenry able to provide military service and restore Spartan power. Sparta's bid for supremacy was crushed at the Battle of Sellasia (222) by the Achaean league and Macedon, who restored the power of the ephors.
Question: What years did Cleomenes III rule?
Answer: 235–222 BCE
Question: In 222 BCE, Sparta lost what Battle?
Answer: Battle of Sellasia
Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of Sellasia?
Answer: Sparta
Question: What was Sparta's afilliation in the Peloponnese?
Answer: independent
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Context: All sacrifices and offerings required an accompanying prayer to be effective. Pliny the Elder declared that "a sacrifice without prayer is thought to be useless and not a proper consultation of the gods." Prayer by itself, however, had independent power. The spoken word was thus the single most potent religious action, and knowledge of the correct verbal formulas the key to efficacy. Accurate naming was vital for tapping into the desired powers of the deity invoked, hence the proliferation of cult epithets among Roman deities. Public prayers (prex) were offered loudly and clearly by a priest on behalf of the community. Public religious ritual had to be enacted by specialists and professionals faultlessly; a mistake might require that the action, or even the entire festival, be repeated from the start. The historian Livy reports an occasion when the presiding magistrate at the Latin festival forgot to include the "Roman people" among the list of beneficiaries in his prayer; the festival had to be started over. Even private prayer by an individual was formulaic, a recitation rather than a personal expression, though selected by the individual for a particular purpose or occasion.
Question: What did each offering require to be valid in Roman religion?
Answer: prayer
Question: What did Pliny the Elder think that a sacrifice without prayer was?
Answer: useless
Question: What act alone had power in Roman thought?
Answer: Prayer
Question: What knowledge was of importance in the potency of prayer?
Answer: correct verbal formulas
Question: What was missing in the formulas of prayer in Rome?
Answer: personal expression
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Context: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN organization. The UNFPA says it "is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled." Their work involves the improvement of reproductive health; including creation of national strategies and protocols, and providing supplies and services. The organization has recently been known for its worldwide campaign against obstetric fistula and female genital mutilation.
Question: What is the current name of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities?
Answer: United Nations Population Fund
Question: UNFPA's work concerns what general area?
Answer: reproductive health
Question: One of UNFPA's goals is to make all pregnancies what?
Answer: wanted
Question: Another of UNFPA's goals is to make all childbirths what?
Answer: safe
Question: What, in addition to its work against obstetric fistula, is UNFPA campaigning against?
Answer: female genital mutilation
Question: What does UNFPA try to avoid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does UNFPA not provide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where has UNFPA been the most unknown recently?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What local campaigns is UNFPA most involved with?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Rebetiko, initially a music associated with the lower classes, later (and especially after the population exchange between Greece and Turkey) reached greater general acceptance as the rough edges of its overt subcultural character were softened and polished, sometimes to the point of unrecognizability. It was the base of the later laïkó (song of the people). The leading performers of the genre include Apostolos Kaldaras, Grigoris Bithikotsis, Stelios Kazantzidis, George Dalaras, Haris Alexiou and Glykeria.
Question: What music began associated with the lower classes?
Answer: Rebetiko
Question: Rebetiko was the base of what?
Answer: laïkó
Question: One of the leading performers of the laiko genre is who?
Answer: Apostolos Kaldaras
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Context: Biggeri and Mehrotra have studied the macroeconomic factors that encourage child labour. They focus their study on five Asian nations including India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines. They suggest that child labour is a serious problem in all five, but it is not a new problem. Macroeconomic causes encouraged widespread child labour across the world, over most of human history. They suggest that the causes for child labour include both the demand and the supply side. While poverty and unavailability of good schools explain the child labour supply side, they suggest that the growth of low-paying informal economy rather than higher paying formal economy is amongst the causes of the demand side. Other scholars too suggest that inflexible labour market, sise of informal economy, inability of industries to scale up and lack of modern manufacturing technologies are major macroeconomic factors affecting demand and acceptability of child labour.
Question: Biggeri and Mehrotra studied primarily Asia nations including India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines and what other country?
Answer: Thailand
Question: Is child labour a new issue in these Asian countries?
Answer: not a new problem
Question: Supply and what else causes child labour to still exist today?
Answer: demand
Question: What encourages child labour across the globe?
Answer: Macroeconomic
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Context: Despite Magellan's visit, Guam was not officially claimed by Spain until January 26, 1565 by General Miguel López de Legazpi.:46 From 1565 to 1815, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, the only Spanish outpost in the Pacific Ocean east of the Philippines, was an important resting stop for the Manila galleons, a fleet that covered the Pacific trade route between Acapulco and Manila.:51 To protect these Pacific fleets, Spain built several defensive structures which are still standing today, such as Fort Nuestra Señora de la Soledad in Umatac. It is the biggest single segment of Micronesia, the largest islands between the island of Kyushu (Japan), New Guinea, the Philippines, and the Hawaiian Islands.
Question: In what year was Guam claimed by Spain?
Answer: 1565
Question: What was the name of the general who claimed Guam?
Answer: General Miguel López de Legazpi
Question: What did Spain build to protect their fleet at Guam?
Answer: built several defensive structures
Question: What Spanish outposts was there west of the Philippines?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what country is Acapulco?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what country is Manila?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Fort Nuestra Senora de la Soledad built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was an important resting stop for Manila galleons on the Atlantic trade route?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Historians disagree on what the relationship was between the Ming court and Tibet and whether or not Ming China had sovereignty over Tibet. Van Praag writes that Chinese court historians viewed Tibet as an independent foreign tributary and had little interest in Tibet besides a lama-patron relationship. The historian Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa supports van Praag's position. However, Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain state that these assertions by van Praag and Shakabpa are "fallacies".
Question: Who supported van Praag's beliefs?
Answer: historian Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa
Question: Who did not agree with van Praag and Shakabpa?
Answer: Wang Jiawei and Nyima Gyaincain
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Context: Paris hosts one of the largest science museums in Europe, the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette. The National Museum of Natural History, on the Left Bank, is famous for its dinosaur artefacts, mineral collections, and its Gallery of Evolution. The military history of France, from the Middle Ages to World War II, is vividly presented by displays at the Musée de l'Armée at Les Invalides, near the tomb of Napoleon. In addition to the national museums, run by the French Ministry of Culture, the City of Paris operates 14 museums, including the Carnavalet Museum on the history of Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Palais de Tokyo; the House of Victor Hugo and House of Balzac, and the Catacombs of Paris. There are also notable private museums; The Contemporary Art museum of the Louis Vuitton Foundation, designed by architect Frank Gehry, opened in October 2014 in the Bois de Boulogne.
Question: What museum is famous for its dinosaur artifacts?
Answer: The National Museum of Natural History
Question: When did THe Contemporary Art museum of the Louis Vuitton Foundation open?
Answer: October 2014
Question: What famous landmark is Mysee de l'Armee lat Les Invalides located ner?
Answer: the tomb of Napoleon
Question: How many museums does the city of Paris operate?
Answer: 14
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Context: In 2007, the Japanese Buddhist organisation Nipponzan Myohoji decided to build a Peace Pagoda in the city containing Buddha relics. It was inaugurated by the current Dalai Lama.
Question: The Nipponzan Myohoji decided to build a Peace Pagoda in new Delhi in what year?
Answer: 2007
Question: The Peace Pagoda built in New Delhi by the Nipponzan Myohoji contained what type of artifacts?
Answer: Buddha relics
Question: Which Japanese Buddhist organization built a Peace Pagoda in New Delhi in 2007?
Answer: Nipponzan Myohoji
Question: The Peace Pagoda built in New Delhi by the Nipponzan Myohoji was inaugurated by which prominent figure?
Answer: Dalai Lama
Question: What structure did the Nipponzan Myohoji decide to build in New Delhi in 2007?
Answer: Peace Pagoda
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Context: A typical protein-coding gene is first copied into RNA as an intermediate in the manufacture of the final protein product.:6.1 In other cases, the RNA molecules are the actual functional products, as in the synthesis of ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA. Some RNAs known as ribozymes are capable of enzymatic function, and microRNA has a regulatory role. The DNA sequences from which such RNAs are transcribed are known as non-coding RNA genes.
Question: What is first copied into RNA as an intermediate in the manufacture of the final protein product?
Answer: A typical protein-coding gene
Question: In some cases, what are the actual functional products?
Answer: the RNA molecules
Question: What sort of synthesis occurs when the RNA molecules are the actual functional products?
Answer: the synthesis of ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA
Question: What sort of function are ribozymes capable of?
Answer: enzymatic function
Question: What are the DNA sequences from which ribozymes are transcribed known as?
Answer: non-coding RNA genes
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Context: In December 2009, campaigners in the UK called on two leading high street retailers to stop selling clothes made with cotton which may have been picked by children. Anti-Slavery International and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) accused H&M and Zara of using cotton suppliers in Bangladesh. It is also suspected that many of their raw materials originates from Uzbekistan, where children aged 10 are forced to work in the fields. The activists were calling to ban the use of Uzbek cotton and implement a "track and trace" systems to guarantee an ethical responsible source of the material.
Question: Who accused H&M of using products made by child labours?
Answer: Anti-Slavery International and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
Question: Who else did they accuse of using child labor products?
Answer: Zara
Question: What country did the cotton come from that was picked by children?
Answer: Bangladesh
Question: What are activists trying to get implemented?
Answer: "track and trace" systems
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Context: The Somali language is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its nearest relatives are the Afar and Saho languages. Somali is the best documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of it dating from before 1900.
Question: What language family does the Somali language belong to?
Answer: Afro-Asiatic
Question: What branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family does the Somali language belong to?
Answer: Cushitic
Question: Along with Saho, what language is closely related to Somali?
Answer: Afar
Question: Among the Cushitic languages, which is the most well-documented?
Answer: Somali
Question: Before what year did studies on the Somali language exist?
Answer: 1900
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Context: In the aftermath of John's death William Marshal was declared the protector of the nine-year-old Henry III. The civil war continued until royalist victories at the battles of Lincoln and Dover in 1217. Louis gave up his claim to the English throne and signed the Treaty of Lambeth. The failed Magna Carta agreement was resuscitated by Marshal's administration and reissued in an edited form in 1217 as a basis for future government. Henry III continued his attempts to reclaim Normandy and Anjou until 1259, but John's continental losses and the consequent growth of Capetian power in the 13th century proved to mark a "turning point in European history".
Question: Who was declared the protector of Henry III after John's death?
Answer: William Marshal
Question: Who gave up their claim to the English throne?
Answer: Louis
Question: What agreement failed?
Answer: Magna Carta
Question: Until when did Henry III continue his attempts to reclaim Normandy?
Answer: 1259
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Context: The CBS Records Group was led very successfully by Clive Davis until his dismissal in 1972, after it was discovered that Davis has used CBS funds to finance his personal life, including an expensive bar mitzvah party for his son. He was replaced first by former head Goddard Lieberson, then in 1975 by the colourful and controversial lawyer Walter Yetnikoff, who led the company until 1990.
Question: In what year was Clive Davis let go at CBS Records Group?
Answer: 1972
Question: ABC Records Group was led successfully by whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Clive Davis was dismissed from ABC Records Group in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who used CBS funds to finance his professional life?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who used company funds for an expensive bar mitzvah party for their daughter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who replaced lawyer Walter Yetnikoff?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Interference can hamper memorization and retrieval. There is retroactive interference, when learning new information makes it harder to recall old information and proactive interference, where prior learning disrupts recall of new information. Although interference can lead to forgetting, it is important to keep in mind that there are situations when old information can facilitate learning of new information. Knowing Latin, for instance, can help an individual learn a related language such as French – this phenomenon is known as positive transfer.
Question: What trouble can interference cause?
Answer: can hamper memorization and retrieval
Question: What is retroactive interference?
Answer: when learning new information makes it harder to recall old information
Question: What is proactive interference?
Answer: where prior learning disrupts recall of new information
Question: What is a term used to describe being able to learn something quicker due to an older ability?
Answer: positive transfer.
Question: What benefits does interference have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is active interference?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is proactive disruption?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the phenomenon when learning Latin makes it harder to learn French?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What disrupts recall of old information?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Since the founding of Freemasonry, many Bishops of the Church of England have been Freemasons, such as Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher. In the past, few members of the Church of England would have seen any incongruity in concurrently adhering to Anglican Christianity and practicing Freemasonry. In recent decades, however, reservations about Freemasonry have increased within Anglicanism, perhaps due to the increasing prominence of the evangelical wing of the church. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, appeared to harbour some reservations about Masonic ritual, whilst being anxious to avoid causing offence to Freemasons inside and outside the Church of England. In 2003 he felt it necessary to apologise to British Freemasons after he said that their beliefs were incompatible with Christianity and that he had barred the appointment of Freemasons to senior posts in his diocese when he was Bishop of Monmouth.
Question: What English Archbishop was a member of the Freemasons?
Answer: Geoffrey Fisher
Question: What former Archbishop of Canterbury has reservations about the Freemasons?
Answer: Dr Rowan Williams
Question: What year did Dr. Rowan Williams apologize to the Freemasons?
Answer: 2003
Question: Dr. Rowan Williams was also Bishop of what?
Answer: Bishop of Monmouth
Question: What Austrian Archbishop was a member of the Freemasons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What former Archbishop of Canterbury has accolades from the Freemasons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Dr. Rowan Williams destroy the Freemasons?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Dr. Rowan Williams a Cardinal of?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The doctrine of pratītyasamutpāda, (Sanskrit; Pali: paticcasamuppāda; Tibetan Wylie: rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba; Chinese: 緣起) is an important part of Buddhist metaphysics. It states that phenomena arise together in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect. It is variously rendered into English as "dependent origination", "conditioned genesis", "dependent relationship", "dependent co-arising", "interdependent arising", or "contingency".
Question: What is the name of the Buddhist doctrine that states that phenomena arise together in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect?
Answer: pratītyasamutpāda, (Sanskrit; Pali: paticcasamuppāda; Tibetan Wylie: rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba; Chinese: 緣起)
Question: Translated into English, what does pratītyasamutpāda mean?
Answer: "dependent origination", "conditioned genesis", "dependent relationship", "dependent co-arising", "interdependent arising", or "contingency"
Question: The doctrine of pratityasumatupada is a important part of what type of metaphysics?
Answer: Buddhist
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Context: More radical reformists were increasingly convinced that a rapid transition to a market economy was required, even if the eventual outcome meant the disintegration of the Soviet Union into several independent states. Independence also accorded with Yeltsin's desires as president of the Russian Federation, as well as those of regional and local authorities to get rid of Moscow’s pervasive control. In contrast to the reformers' lukewarm response to the treaty, the conservatives, "patriots," and Russian nationalists of the USSR – still strong within the CPSU and the military – were opposed to weakening the Soviet state and its centralized power structure.
Question: What did radicals want to change the economy to?
Answer: market economy
Question: What were they prepared to have happen to the Soviet Union in order to get a market economy?
Answer: disintegration
Question: What was Yeltsin president of?
Answer: the Russian Federation,
Question: Whose control were regional authorities hoping to do away with?
Answer: Moscow’s
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Context: Hyderabad has continued with these traditions in its annual Hyderabad Literary Festival, held since 2010, showcasing the city's literary and cultural creativity. Organisations engaged in the advancement of literature include the Sahitya Akademi, the Urdu Academy, the Telugu Academy, the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, the Comparative Literature Association of India, and the Andhra Saraswata Parishad. Literary development is further aided by state institutions such as the State Central Library, the largest public library in the state which was established in 1891, and other major libraries including the Sri Krishna Devaraya Andhra Bhasha Nilayam, the British Library and the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram.
Question: In what year did the Hyderabad Literary Festival start?
Answer: 2010
Question: In what year was the biggest public library in Hyderabad created?
Answer: 1891
Question: What is the name of the largest public library in Hyderabad?
Answer: State Central Library
Question: What is one of the activities Telugu Academy is credited with encouraging?
Answer: the advancement of literature
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Context: Chopin arrived in Paris in late September 1831; he would never return to Poland, thus becoming one of many expatriates of the Polish Great Emigration. In France he used the French versions of his given names, and after receiving French citizenship in 1835, he travelled on a French passport. However, Chopin remained close to his fellow Poles in exile as friends and confidants and he never felt fully comfortable speaking French. Chopin's biographer Adam Zamoyski writes that he never considered himself to be French, despite his father's French origins, and always saw himself as a Pole.
Question: What event was Frédéric a part of when he arrived in Paris during the later part of September in 1831?
Answer: the Polish Great Emigration
Question: What version of Frédéric's birth name did he begin using after arriving in France?
Answer: French
Question: In what year did Frédéric officially acquire French citizenship?
Answer: 1835
Question: What were the two kinds of relationships stated as Frédéric having with his fellow Poland natives in exile?
Answer: friends and confidants
Question: What nationality is stated as the one Frédéric felt most identified by?
Answer: Polish
Question: When did Chopin reach Paris?
Answer: September 1831
Question: By not going back to Poland Chopin became part of what?
Answer: Polish Great Emigration
Question: In what year did Chopin become a French citizen?
Answer: 1835
Question: What is the name of Chopin's biographer?
Answer: Adam Zamoyski
Question: After 1831, what country did Chopin never return to?
Answer: Poland
Question: What country's passport did he have from 1835?
Answer: France
Question: What language was Chopin never completely at ease speaking?
Answer: French
Question: What biographer of Chopin wrote that Chopin never considered himself French?
Answer: Adam Zamoyski
Question: Due to the numbers of expatriates of Poland after the uprising, what did it become to be known as?
Answer: Polish Great Emigration
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Context: The allies' most advanced technologies were showcased by the anti-aircraft defence against the German V-1 cruise missiles (V stands for Vergeltungswaffe, "retaliation weapon"). The 419th and 601st Antiaircraft Gun Battalions of the US Army were first allocated to the Folkestone-Dover coast to defend London, and then moved to Belgium to become part of the "Antwerp X" project. With the liberation of Antwerp, the port city immediately became the highest priority target, and received the largest number of V-1 and V-2 missiles of any city. The smallest tactical unit of the operation was a gun battery consisting of four 90 mm guns firing shells equipped with a radio proximity fuse. Incoming targets were acquired and automatically tracked by SCR-584 radar, developed at the MIT Rad Lab. Output from the gun-laying radar was fed to the M-9 director, an electronic analog computer developed at Bell Laboratories to calculate the lead and elevation corrections for the guns. With the help of these three technologies, close to 90% of the V-1 missiles, on track to the defence zone around the port, were destroyed.
Question: What did advanced ally technology showcase it could defend against?
Answer: German V-1 cruise missiles
Question: Where did the US Army's 419th and 601st locate at to defend London?
Answer: Folkestone-Dover coast
Question: Where did the US Army 419th and 601st relocate to as part of the Antwerp X project?
Answer: Belgium
Question: What city got attacked by more V-1 and V-2 missiles than any other?
Answer: Antwerp
Question: What acquired and automatically tracked incoming targets?
Answer: SCR-584 radar
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Context: The Premier League has the highest revenue of any football league in the world, with total club revenues of €2.48 billion in 2009–10. In 2013–14, due to improved television revenues and cost controls, the Premier League had net profits in excess of £78 million, exceeding all other football leagues. In 2010 the Premier League was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for its outstanding contribution to international trade and the value it brings to English football and the United Kingdom's broadcasting industry.
Question: What are the Premier League's revenues for 2009-10?
Answer: total club revenues of €2.48 billion in 2009–10.
Question: What were some of the reasons for the increased revenues in 2013-14?
Answer: the Premier League had net profits in excess of £78 million, exceeding all other football leagues
Question: Which award did the Premier League win in 2010?
Answer: In 2010 the Premier League was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category
Question: Why did it receive this award?
Answer: for its outstanding contribution to international trade and the value it brings to English football and the United Kingdom's broadcasting industry.
Question: What were the Premier League's net profits in 2013-14?
Answer: the Premier League had net profits in excess of £78 million, exceeding all other football leagues
Question: Which league has the highest revenue in the world?
Answer: Premier League
Question: What were the total revenues of the Premier League in the 2009-10 season?
Answer: €2.48 billion
Question: What were the net profits of the Premier League in 2013-14?
Answer: £78 million
Question: In which year was the Premier League awarded an International Trade award?
Answer: 2010
Question: Which league has the lowest revenue of any football league in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With revenues of 78 million, which football league has the highest revenue in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What award was the Premier League given in 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Award is presented for outstanding contribution to national trade?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Premier League given the United Kingdom Award?
Answer: Unanswerable
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