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Context: At the end of 1831, Chopin received the first major endorsement from an outstanding contemporary when Robert Schumann, reviewing the Op. 2 Variations in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (his first published article on music), declared: "Hats off, gentlemen! A genius." On 26 February 1832 Chopin gave a debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel which drew universal admiration. The critic François-Joseph Fétis wrote in the Revue et gazette musicale: "Here is a young man who ... taking no model, has found, if not a complete renewal of piano music, ... an abundance of original ideas of a kind to be found nowhere else ..." After this concert, Chopin realized that his essentially intimate keyboard technique was not optimal for large concert spaces. Later that year he was introduced to the wealthy Rothschild banking family, whose patronage also opened doors for him to other private salons (social gatherings of the aristocracy and artistic and literary elite). By the end of 1832 Chopin had established himself among the Parisian musical elite, and had earned the respect of his peers such as Hiller, Liszt, and Berlioz. He no longer depended financially upon his father, and in the winter of 1832 he began earning a handsome income from publishing his works and teaching piano to affluent students from all over Europe. This freed him from the strains of public concert-giving, which he disliked.
Question: Who gave Frédéric his first significant public approval in regards to his compositions?
Answer: Robert Schumann
Question: On what date did Frédéric give his first performance at the Salle Pleyel?
Answer: 26 February 1832
Question: What is stated as a hindrance for Frédéric's ability to perform in large concert spaces?
Answer: intimate keyboard technique
Question: Who did Frédéric rely upon financially before earning a great income from his works?
Answer: his father
Question: From whom did Chopin receive his first big endorsement?
Answer: Robert Schumann
Question: When did Chopin debut at Salle Pleyel ?
Answer: 26 February 1832
Question: What affluent family did Chopin gain a patronage from?
Answer: Rothschild
Question: When did Chopin receive his first major endorsement from Robert Schumann?
Answer: 1831
Question: What did Chopin realize was not ideal for larger spaces after his first successful concert in Paris?
Answer: keyboard technique
Question: Once Chopin stopped performing concerts, how did he earn his income?
Answer: publishing his works and teaching piano to affluent students
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Context: Ozawa's "Northern Force" had four aircraft carriers, two obsolete battleships partly converted to carriers, three cruisers and nine destroyers. The carriers had only 108 planes. The force was not spotted by the Allies until 16:40 on 24 October. At 20:00 Toyoda ordered all remaining Japanese forces to attack. Halsey saw an opportunity to destroy the remnants of the Japanese carrier force. The U.S. Third Fleet was formidable – nine large carriers, eight light carriers, six battleships, 17 cruisers, 63 destroyers and 1,000 planes – and completely outgunned Ozawa's force. Halsey's ships set out in pursuit of Ozawa just after midnight. U.S. commanders ignored reports that Kurita had turned back towards San Bernardino Strait. They had taken the bait set by Ozawa. On the morning of 25 October Ozawa launched 75 planes. Most were shot down by U.S. fighter patrols. By 08:00 U.S. fighters had destroyed the screen of Japanese fighters and were hitting ships. By evening, they had sunk the carriers Zuikaku, Zuihō, and Chiyoda, and a destroyer. The fourth carrier, Chitose, and a cruiser were disabled and later sank.
Question: How many aircraft carriers were in Ozawa's "Northern Force"?
Answer: four
Question: When did the allies spot Ozawa's "Northern Force"?
Answer: 16:40 on 24 October
Question: How many planes were in the U.S. 3rd Fleet?
Answer: 1,000
Question: How many destroyers were in the U.S. Third Fleet?
Answer: 63
Question: How many cruisers were in the U.S. Third Fleet?
Answer: 17
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Context: USB 2.0 also added a larger three-byte SPLIT token with a seven-bit hub number, 12 bits of control flags, and a five-bit CRC. This is used to perform split transactions. Rather than tie up the high-bandwidth USB bus sending data to a slower USB device, the nearest high-bandwidth capable hub receives a SPLIT token followed by one or two USB packets at high bandwidth, performs the data transfer at full or low bandwidth, and provides the response at high bandwidth when prompted by a second SPLIT token.
Question: a larger three-byte SPLIT token with a seven-bit hub number, 12 bits of control flags, and a five-bit CRC were created to do what?
Answer: to perform split transactions
Question: Rather than tie up the high-bandwidth USB bus sending data to a slower USB device, what happens?
Answer: the nearest high-bandwidth capable hub receives a SPLIT token followed by one or two USB packets at high bandwidth
Question: How many bits of control flags did USB 2.0 add?
Answer: 12 bits
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Context: The Czech people gained widespread national pride during the mid-eighteenth century, inspired by the Age of Enlightenment a half-century earlier. Czech historians began to emphasize their people's accomplishments from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, rebelling against the Counter-Reformation (which had denigrated Czech and other non-Latin languages). Czech philologists studied sixteenth-century texts, advocating the return of the language to high culture. This period is known as the Czech National Revival (or Renascence).
Question: What did the Czechs as a people gain during the mid-18th century?
Answer: widespread national pride
Question: What inspired the Czech's national pride?
Answer: Age of Enlightenment a half-century earlier
Question: What did Czech historians emphasize about their countrymen?
Answer: accomplishments
Question: What did Czech philologists advocate?
Answer: the return of the language to high culture
Question: What is the period during the mid-eighteenth century also remembered as?
Answer: Czech National Revival
Question: What emotion did the Counter-Reformation support during the mid-eighteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What time period inspired the Counter-Reformation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Counter-Reformation emphasize people's accomplishments?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What had been denigrated by the Age of Enlightenment?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Counter-Reformation advocate for the language to return to?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Southampton was named "fittest city in the UK" in 2006 by Men's Fitness magazine. The results were based on the incidence of heart disease, the amount of junk food and alcohol consumed, and the level of gym membership. In 2007, it had slipped one place behind London, but was still ranked first when it came to the parks and green spaces available for exercise and the amount of television watched by Sotonians was the lowest in the country. Speedway racing took place at Banister Court Stadium in the pre-war era. It returned in the 1940s after WW2 and the Saints operated until the stadium closed down at the end of 1963. A training track operated in the 1950s in the Hamble area.
Question: What magazine awarded Southampton "fittest city in the UK" in 2006?
Answer: Men's Fitness
Question: How many spots did Southampton lose in the "fittest city" rankings for 2007?
Answer: one
Question: Who was the "fittest city in the UK" ahead of Southampton in 2007?
Answer: London
Question: During the pre-war period, where was speedway racing held?
Answer: Banister Court Stadium
Question: What year did Banister Court Stadium close its doors for good?
Answer: 1963
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Context: Humans have shown extreme inventiveness in devising clothing solutions to environmental hazards. Examples include: space suits, air conditioned clothing, armor, diving suits, swimsuits, bee-keeper gear, motorcycle leathers, high-visibility clothing, and other pieces of protective clothing. Meanwhile, the distinction between clothing and protective equipment is not always clear-cut—since clothes designed to be fashionable often have protective value and clothes designed for function often consider fashion in their design. Wearing clothes also has social implications. They cover parts of the body that social norms require to be covered, act as a form of adornment, and serve other social purposes.
Question: What animal has shown extreme inventiveness in the clothing it has devised?
Answer: Humans
Question: What are space suits an example of a solution to?
Answer: environmental hazards
Question: What type of implication might a certain type of clothing have?
Answer: social
Question: What value may clothing designed to be fashionable also have?
Answer: protective
Question: Why are some parts of the body covered?
Answer: social norms
Question: Humans have shown little inventiveness in what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does not have social implications
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do social norms not require of clothes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The distinction between clothing and what is always clear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Clothing that is designed to be fashionable is not also what
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: One of the Han's greatest mathematical advancements was the world's first use of negative numbers. Negative numbers first appeared in the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art as black counting rods, where positive numbers were represented by red counting rods. Negative numbers are used in the Bakhshali manuscript of ancient India, but its exact date of compilation is unknown. Negative numbers were also used by the Greek mathematician Diophantus in about 275 AD, but were not widely accepted in Europe until the 16th century AD.
Question: In what treatise did negative numbers first appear?
Answer: the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Question: How were negative numbers first described during the Han period?
Answer: as black counting rods
Question: In what century were negative numbers more commonly accepted in Europe?
Answer: 16th century AD
Question: What Indian manuscript also contains the useage of negative numbers?
Answer: Bakhshali
Question: What were positive numbers portayed as in the treatise of the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art?
Answer: red counting rods
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Context: On 4 January 2016, Barcelona's transfer ban ended. The same day, they registered 77 players across all categories and ages, and both last summer signings Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal became eligible to play with the first team. On 10 February, qualifying for the sixth Copa del Rey final in the last eight seasons, Luis Enrique’s Barcelona broke the club's record of 28 consecutive games unbeaten in all competitions set by Guardiola’s team in the 2010–11 season, with a 1–1 draw with Valencia in the second leg of the 2015–16 Copa del Rey.
Question: How many players did Barcelona list on the day their transfer ban ended?
Answer: 77
Question: What event in February did Barcelona qualify for for the sixth time?
Answer: Copa del Rey final
Question: How many consecutive wins did Barcelona have in 2010-11?
Answer: 28
Question: With which team did Barcelona have a 1-1 draw in the 2015-16 Copa del Rey?
Answer: Valencia
Question: Besides Arda Turan, what other player became eligible to play in 2016?
Answer: Aleix Vidal
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Context: In Britain and some other armies, the single artillery branch has been responsible for both home and overseas ground-based air defence, although there was divided responsibility with the Royal Navy for air defence of the British Isles in World War I. However, during the Second World War the RAF Regiment was formed to protect airfields everywhere, and this included light air defences. In the later decades of the Cold War this included the United States Air Force's operating bases in UK. However, all ground-based air defence was removed from Royal Air Force (RAF) jurisdiction in 2004. The British Army's Anti-Aircraft Command was disbanded in March 1955, but during the 1960s and 1970s the RAF's Fighter Command operated long-range air -defence missiles to protect key areas in the UK. During World War II the Royal Marines also provided air defence units; formally part of the mobile naval base defence organisation, they were handled as an integral part of the army-commanded ground based air defences.
Question: Who provided part of the air defence of the British Isles in WWI
Answer: Royal Navy
Question: Who protected airfields in WWII?
Answer: RAF Regiment
Question: The United States Air Force helped protect the UK during what 'war'?
Answer: Cold War
Question: What year was ground-based air defence taken from RAF?
Answer: 2004
Question: What was disbanded in 1955?
Answer: British Army's Anti-Aircraft Command
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Context: The accession of Valens gave a fresh lease of life to the Arian party. He issued a decree banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius, but who had been permitted by Jovian to return to their sees. The news created the greatest consternation in the city of Alexandria itself, and the prefect, in order to prevent a serious outbreak, gave public assurance that the very special case of Athanasius would be laid before the emperor. But the saint seems to have divined what was preparing in secret against him. He quietly withdrew from Alexandria, 5 October, and took up his abode in a country house outside the city. Valens, who seems to have sincerely dreaded the possible consequences of another popular outbreak, within a few weeks issued orders allowing Athanasius to return to his episcopal see.
Question: What party benefited from the accession of Valens?
Answer: Arian
Question: Valens issued a decree banishing the bishops that were deposed by who?
Answer: Constantius
Question: What saint fled from Alexandria on 5 October to a country house outside Alexandria?
Answer: Athanasius
Question: Valens' banishment of Athanasius created the greatest consternation in what city?
Answer: Alexandria
Question: What did the decree of Valens do?
Answer: banishing the bishops who had been deposed by Constantius
Question: When the people in the city were concerned about Athanasius, what did the prefect do?
Answer: case of Athanasius would be laid before the emperor
Question: What did Athanasius do to protect himself?
Answer: withdrew from Alexandria, 5 October
Question: How did Valens get him to return?
Answer: issued orders allowing Athanasius to return to his episcopal see
Question: What party didn't benefit from the accession of Valens?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Valens didn't issue a decree banishing the bishops that were deposed by who?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened on October 4?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the decree of Valens not do?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: "In 1727 the to-min or 'idle people' of Cheh Kiang province (a Ningpo name still existing), the yoh-hu or 'music people' of Shanxi province, the si-min or 'small people' of Kiang Su (Jiangsu) province, and the Tanka people or 'egg-people' of Canton (to this day the boat population there), were all freed from their social disabilities, and allowed to count as free men." "Cheh Kiang" is another romanization for Zhejiang. The Duomin (Chinese: 惰民; pinyin: duò mín; Wade–Giles: to-min) are a caste of outcasts in this province.
Question: What do 'to-min' mean?
Answer: idle people
Question: What does 'yoh-hu' mean?
Answer: music people
Question: What does 'si-min' mean?
Answer: small people
Question: What does Tanka mean?
Answer: egg-people
Question: What is 'Keh Chiang' a romanization for?
Answer: Zhejiang
Question: What do 'mo-min' mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does 'yoh-hue' mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does 'se-min' mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Tonka mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is 'Keh Chyng' a romanization for?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Kuru kingdom was the first state-level society of the Vedic period, corresponding to the beginning of the Iron Age in northwestern India, around 1200 – 800 BCE, as well as with the composition of the Atharvaveda (the first Indian text to mention iron, as śyāma ayas, literally "black metal"). The Kuru state organized the Vedic hymns into collections, and developed the orthodox srauta ritual to uphold the social order. When the Kuru kingdom declined, the center of Vedic culture shifted to their eastern neighbours, the Panchala kingdom. The archaeological Painted Grey Ware culture, which flourished in the Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh regions of northern India from about 1100 to 600 BCE, is believed to correspond to the Kuru and Panchala kingdoms.
Question: What was the first state size society in the Vedic period?
Answer: Kuru kingdom
Question: What is the dating of the Kuru kingdom?
Answer: 1200 – 800 BCE
Question: At the beginning of what age are the dates of the Kuru kingdom?
Answer: Iron Age
Question: What is the first Indian text to mention iron?
Answer: Atharvaveda
Question: When the Kuru kingdom declined, to what kingdom did Vedic culture go?
Answer: Panchala
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Context: There are technical limitations to archiving a web site, and as a consequence, it is possible for opposing parties in litigation to misuse the results provided by web site archives. This problem can be exacerbated by the practice of submitting screen shots of web pages in complaints, answers, or expert witness reports, when the underlying links are not exposed and therefore, can contain errors. For example, archives such as the Wayback Machine do not fill out forms and therefore, do not include the contents of non-RESTful e-commerce databases in their archives.
Question: What kind of limitations exist in keeping copies of a website?
Answer: technical
Question: The omission of what element in screenshots can make them unreliable as evidence?
Answer: underlying links
Question: What elements of webpages are not used by Wayback Machine?
Answer: forms
Question: What kind of sites contain information that the Wayback Machine does not record?
Answer: e-commerce
Question: What kind of limitations exist in keeping copies of the Wayback Machine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The omission of what element in Wayback Machines can make them unreliable as evidence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What elements of webpages are not used by site archives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of sites contain information that the screen shots do not record?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is it possible for opposing parties to misuse e-commerce?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Following the defeat in World War I, influence of German-speaking elites over Central and Eastern Europe was greatly limited. At the treaty of Versailles Germany was substantially reduced in size. Austria-Hungary was split up. Rump-Austria, which to a certain extent corresponded to the German-speaking areas of Austria-Hungary (a complete split into language groups was impossible due to multi-lingual areas and language-exclaves) adopted the name "German-Austria" (German: Deutschösterreich). The name German-Austria was forbidden by the victorious powers of World War I. Volga Germans living in the Soviet Union were interned in gulags or forcibly relocated during the Second World War.
Question: What greatly reduced the size of Germany after WWI?
Answer: treaty of Versailles
Question: Who was relocated during the second world war from the Soviet Union?
Answer: Volga Germans
Question: What name did Rump-Austria adopt?
Answer: German-Austria
Question: What is the German translation for German-Austria?
Answer: Deutschösterreich
Question: Who's influence increased after World War I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What treaty increased Germanium size?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what war did Germans relocate to the Soviet Union?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country was split among language groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Migrating birds can lose their way and appear outside their normal ranges. This can be due to flying past their destinations as in the "spring overshoot" in which birds returning to their breeding areas overshoot and end up further north than intended. Certain areas, because of their location, have become famous as watchpoints for such birds. Examples are the Point Pelee National Park in Canada, and Spurn in England.
Question: How can migrating birds lose their way?
Answer: flying past their destinations
Question: What is flying past their destinations called?
Answer: spring overshoot
Question: What location has become famous for bird overshooters?
Answer: Point Pelee National Park
Question: What other location is famous for spring overshoot?
Answer: Spurn in England
Question: Where do bird overshooters end up?
Answer: further north than intended
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Context: Despite the commanded withdrawal of Egyptian troops, about 2,000 Egyptian soldiers were killed during engagement with Israeli forces, and some 5,000 Egyptian soldiers were captured by the Israeli Army. Amer and Salah Salem proposed requesting a ceasefire, with Salem further recommending that Nasser surrender himself to British forces. Nasser berated Amer and Salem, and vowed, "Nobody is going to surrender." Nasser assumed military command. Despite the relative ease in which Sinai was occupied, Nasser's prestige at home and among Arabs was undamaged. To counterbalance the Egyptian Army's dismal performance, Nasser authorized the distribution of about 400,000 rifles to civilian volunteers and hundreds of militias were formed throughout Egypt, many led by Nasser's political opponents.
Question: How many Egyptian soldiers died during the fighting?
Answer: 2,000
Question: How many Egyptian soldiers did the Israeli army capture?
Answer: 5,000
Question: To whom did Nasser authorize distribution of small arms?
Answer: civilian volunteers
Question: Who recommended Nasser surrender himself to the British?
Answer: Salah Salem
Question: What was the consequence to Nassir's admiration among the Arab world for Egypt's military failure?
Answer: undamaged
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Context: The causes of World War I included many factors, including the conflicts and antagonisms of the four decades leading up to the war. The Triple Entente was the name given to the loose alignment between the United Kingdom, France, and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907. The alignment of the three powers, supplemented by various agreements with Japan, the United States, and Spain, constituted a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, the third having concluded an additional secret agreement with France effectively nullifying her Alliance commitments. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played major roles in the conflict. The immediate origins of the war lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914, the spark (or casus belli) for which was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
Question: What is The Triple Entente?
Answer: the name given to the loose alignment between the United Kingdom, France, and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907.
Question: When was the Anglo -Russia Entente signed?
Answer: 1907.
Question: The Triple Entente served as a counter to what agreement?
Answer: Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy,
Question: What was the origin of the war?
Answer: the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914
Question: Who was murdered in Austria?
Answer: Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Context: On October 31, 2013, after outcry from media outlets, including heavy criticism from Nick Bilton of The New York Times, the FAA announced it will allow airlines to expand the passengers use of portable electronic devices during all phases of flight, but mobile phone calls will still be prohibited. Implementation will vary among airlines. The FAA expects many carriers to show that their planes allow passengers to safely use their devices in airplane mode, gate-to-gate, by the end of 2013. Devices must be held or put in the seat-back pocket during the actual takeoff and landing. Mobile phones must be in airplane mode or with mobile service disabled, with no signal bars displayed, and cannot be used for voice communications due to Federal Communications Commission regulations that prohibit any airborne calls using mobile phones. If an air carrier provides Wi-Fi service during flight, passengers may use it. Short-range Bluetooth accessories, like wireless keyboards, can also be used.
Question: When did the FAA decide to expand passengers use of portable elctronic devices during all phases of flight?
Answer: October 31, 2013
Question: What mode must mobile phones be put into?
Answer: airplane mode
Question: What phases of flight will passengers be able to use electronic devices?
Answer: all phases
Question: Where must devices be put during actual takeoff and landing?
Answer: seat-back pocket
Question: Are short-range bluetooth accessories able to be used?
Answer: can also be used.
Question: When did the FAA begin to allow mobile phone calls during flights?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What paper criticized Nick Bilton?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who made regulations that phones must not be in airplane mode, with mobile service enabled and bars displayed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What must be in back pants pocket during takeoff and landing?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: At its greatest extent, the Achaemenid Empire included the modern territories of Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, much of the Black Sea coastal regions, northeastern Greece and southern Bulgaria (Thrace), northern Greece and Macedonia (Paeonia and Ancient Macedon), Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, all significant ancient population centers of ancient Egypt as far west as Libya, Kuwait, northern Saudi Arabia, parts of the UAE and Oman, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and much of Central Asia, making it the first world government and the largest empire the world had yet seen.
Question: What was the first world goverment the world had seen at the time it existed?
Answer: the Achaemenid Empire
Question: What was the largest empire the world had seen at the time it existed?
Answer: the Achaemenid Empire
Question: What sea did the Achaemenid Empire control the majority of the coastal regions of?
Answer: the Black Sea
Question: The Achaemenid Empire expanded into what part of Asia?
Answer: Central Asia
Question: The Achaemenid Empire controlled all of the significant settlements of what ancient country during its greatest extent?
Answer: ancient Egypt
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Context: Despite their initial reluctance, the Successors seem to have later deliberately naturalized themselves to their different regions, presumably in order to help maintain control of the population. In the Ptolemaic kingdom, we find some Egyptianized Greeks by the 2nd century onwards. The Indo-Greek kingdom, we find kings who were converts to Buddhism (e.g. Menander). The Greeks in the regions therefore gradually become 'localized', adopting local customs as appropriate. In this way, hybrid 'Hellenistic' cultures naturally emerged, at least among the upper echelons of society.
Question: Menander converted to what religion?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: Egyptianized Greeks in the Ptolemaic kingdom started to exist by which century?
Answer: 2nd
Question: Greeks adopted what from local cultures?
Answer: customs
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Context: Experts point out that the earthquake hit an area that has been largely neglected and untouched by China's economic rise. Health care is poor in inland areas such as Sichuan, highlighting the widening gap between prosperous urban dwellers and struggling rural people. Vice Minister of Health Gao Qiang told reporters in Beijing that the "public health care system in China is insufficient." The Vice Minister of Health also suggested that the government would pick up the costs of care to earthquake victims, many of whom have little or no insurance: "The government should be responsible for providing medical treatment to them," he said.
Question: What is poor about inland areas such as Sichuan?
Answer: Health care
Question: Who was the Vice Minister of Health?
Answer: Gao Qiang
Question: What did Gao Qiang tell reporters in Beijing?
Answer: public health care system in China is insufficient
Question: How economically forward has this area been?
Answer: neglected and untouched
Question: Where is health care poor in China?
Answer: inland areas
Question: What did the Vice Minster of Health call the public health system in China?
Answer: insufficient
Question: What should the government of China be responsible for providing to earthquake survivors?
Answer: medical treatment
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Context: By the 1990s Mexico City had become infamous as one of the world's most polluted cities; however the city has become a model for dramatically lowering pollution levels. By 2014 carbon monoxide pollution had dropped dramatically, while levels of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide were nearly three times lower than in 1992. The levels of signature pollutants in Mexico City are similar to those of Los Angeles.[citation needed] Despite the cleanup, the metropolitan area is still the most ozone-polluted part of the country, with ozone levels 2.5 times beyond WHO-defined safe limits.
Question: How bad is the ozone in Mexico City?
Answer: 2.5 times beyond WHO-defined safe limits
Question: Carbon Monoxide levels are about 3 times lower now than in what year?
Answer: 1992
Question: What city is similar to Mexico City in terms of pollution?
Answer: Los Angeles
Question: When Mexico one of the worst cities in terms of pollution?
Answer: 1990s
Question: Who decides safe levels of o-zone in cities?
Answer: WHO
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Context: The medical treatment of infectious diseases falls into the medical field of Infectious Disease and in some cases the study of propagation pertains to the field of Epidemiology. Generally, infections are initially diagnosed by primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists. For example, an "uncomplicated" pneumonia will generally be treated by the internist or the pulmonologist (lung physician). The work of the infectious diseases specialist therefore entails working with both patients and general practitioners, as well as laboratory scientists, immunologists, bacteriologists and other specialists.
Question: What medical field does the treatment of infectious diseases fall into?
Answer: field of Infectious Disease
Question: Disease propagation can fall under the purview of what field of study?
Answer: Epidemiology
Question: Who tends to initially diagnose an infection?
Answer: primary care physicians or internal medicine specialists
Question: What is the non-medical mumbo jumbo term for pulmonologist?
Answer: lung physician
Question: Who works with both patients and general practitioners to identify a disease?
Answer: infectious diseases specialist
Question: What psychological field does the treatment of infectious diseases fall into?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What field of war can disease propagation can fall under the purview of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who tends to initially ignore an infection?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the imaginary term for a pulmonologist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who fights with both patients and general practitioners to identify a disease?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Bangladesh's constitution clearly outlines the functions and powers of the Prime Minister, and also details the process of his/her appointment and dismissal.
Question: Which constitution details the role and abilities of the prime minister?
Answer: Bangladesh's
Question: What other considerations are included in the constitution of Bangladesh as regards the prime minister?
Answer: the process of his/her appointment and dismissal
Question: What contry only vaugly outlines the role of prime minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: A climbing elevator is a self-ascending elevator with its own propulsion. The propulsion can be done by an electric or a combustion engine. Climbing elevators are used in guyed masts or towers, in order to make easy access to parts of these constructions, such as flight safety lamps for maintenance. An example would be the Moonlight towers in Austin, Texas, where the elevator holds only one person and equipment for maintenance. The Glasgow Tower — an observation tower in Glasgow, Scotland — also makes use of two climbing elevators.
Question: What defines a climbing elevator?
Answer: a self-ascending elevator with its own propulsion
Question: What settings are climbing elevators used in?
Answer: guyed masts or towers
Question: What is the Glasgow Tower?
Answer: an observation tower in Glasgow, Scotland
Question: How is the propulsion powered in a climbing elevator?
Answer: by an electric or a combustion engine
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Context: The multi-national Communist armed forces' sole joint action was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. All member countries, with the exception of the Socialist Republic of Romania and the People's Republic of Albania participated in the invasion.
Question: In which year was the Warsaw Pact activated in a joint action?
Answer: 1968
Question: Which country did the Pact conquer?
Answer: Czechoslovakia
Question: What country was invaded in August 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which two countries supported the invasion in Czechoslovakia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Czechoslovakia invaded Albania in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Socialist Republic of Romania supported the invasion of what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Roman city life and culture changed greatly in the early Middle Ages. Although Italian cities remained inhabited, they contracted significantly in size. Rome, for instance, shrank from a population of hundreds of thousands to around 30,000 by the end of the 6th century. Roman temples were converted into Christian churches and city walls remained in use. In Northern Europe, cities also shrank, while civic monuments and other public buildings were raided for building materials. The establishment of new kingdoms often meant some growth for the towns chosen as capitals. Although there had been Jewish communities in many Roman cities, the Jews suffered periods of persecution after the conversion of the empire to Christianity. Officially they were tolerated, if subject to conversion efforts, and at times were even encouraged to settle in new areas.
Question: About how many people lived in Rome at the end of the 500s?
Answer: 30,000
Question: What new use was found for Roman temples?
Answer: Christian churches
Question: What group was notably persecuted after the Roman Empire converted to Christianity?
Answer: Jews
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Context: Ancient and medieval Hindu texts identify six pramāṇas as correct means of accurate knowledge and truths: pratyakṣa (perception), anumāṇa (inference), upamāṇa (comparison and analogy), arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances), anupalabdi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof) and śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts) Each of these are further categorized in terms of conditionality, completeness, confidence and possibility of error, by each school . The various schools vary on how many of these six are valid paths of knowledge. For example, the Cārvāka nāstika philosophy holds that only one (perception) is an epistemically reliable means of knowledge, the Samkhya school holds three are (perception, inference and testimony), while the Mīmāṃsā and Advaita schools hold all six are epistemically useful and reliable means to knowledge.
Question: What do ancient Hindu writings identify as the means to knowledge and truth?
Answer: pramāṇas
Question: How many pramanas are there in Hindu philosophy?
Answer: six
Question: What is the pramanas for perception?
Answer: pratyakṣa
Question: What Hindu philosohy is concerned with inference?
Answer: anumāṇa
Question: Which pramanas is understanding of experts?
Answer: śabda
Question: What does pramanas mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do the various schools agree on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Carvaka nastika mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What school believes none of the pramanas are correct?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which school believes only postulation is a valid form of knowledge?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Several subsets of Unicode are standardized: Microsoft Windows since Windows NT 4.0 supports WGL-4 with 652 characters, which is considered to support all contemporary European languages using the Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic script. Other standardized subsets of Unicode include the Multilingual European Subsets: MES-1 (Latin scripts only, 335 characters), MES-2 (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic 1062 characters) and MES-3A & MES-3B (two larger subsets, not shown here). Note that MES-2 includes every character in MES-1 and WGL-4.
Question: What subset of Unicode is used by Windows?
Answer: WGL-4 with 652 characters
Question: What are MES-1, MES-2, AND MES-3A AND MES-3B part of?
Answer: Multilingual European Subsets
Question: What subset includes every character in MES-1 and WGL-4?
Answer: MES-2
Question: How long has Microsoft Windows supported WGL-4?
Answer: since Windows NT 4.0
Question: MES-1 uses what scripts only?
Answer: Latin scripts only
Question: What system uses MES-3A?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Latin characters are supported in WGL-4?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many characters are in MES-3B?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: MES-3A combines which two other sets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What subset only uses the Greek script?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Northwestern fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams (8 men's and 11 women's) in addition to numerous club sports. The women's lacrosse team won five consecutive NCAA national championships between 2005 and 2009, went undefeated in 2005 and 2009, added more NCAA championships in 2011 and 2012, giving them 7 NCAA championships in 8 years, and holds several scoring records. The men's basketball team is recognized by the Helms Athletic Foundation as the 1931 National Champion. In the 2010–11 school year, the Wildcats had one national championship, 12 teams in postseason play, 20 All-Americans, two CoSIDA Academic All-American selections, 8 CoSIDA Academic All0District selections, 1 conference Coach of the Year and Player of the Year, 53 All-Conference and a record 201 Academic All-Big Ten athletes. Overall, 12 of Northwestern's 19 varsity programs had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances.
Question: How many men's intercollegiate athletic teams are fielded by Northwestern?
Answer: 8
Question: How many women's intercollegiate athletic teams are fielded by Northwestern?
Answer: 11
Question: How many consecutive NCAA championships did the women's larcrosse team win between 2005 and 2009?
Answer: five
Question: Who recognized the men's basketball team as the 1931 National Champion?
Answer: Helms Athletic Foundation
Question: How many of Northwestern's 19 varsity programs had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances?
Answer: 12
Question: How many women's intercollegiate athletic teams are fielded by Northwestern?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many men's intercollegiate athletic teams are fielded by Northwestern?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many consecutive NCAA championships did the men's larcrosse team win between 2005 and 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who recognized the women's basketball team as the 1931 National Champion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many of Southwestern's 19 varsity programs had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Muslim minority in Thrace, which amounts to approximately 0.95% of the total population, consists of speakers of Turkish, Bulgarian (Pomaks) and Romani. Romani is also spoken by Christian Roma in other parts of the country. Further minority languages have traditionally been spoken by regional population groups in various parts of the country. Their use has decreased radically in the course of the 20th century through assimilation with the Greek-speaking majority. Today they are only maintained by the older generations and are on the verge of extinction. This goes for the Arvanites, an Albanian-speaking group mostly located in the rural areas around the capital Athens, and for the Aromanians and Moglenites, also known as Vlachs, whose language is closely related to Romanian and who used to live scattered across several areas of mountainous central Greece. Members of these groups ethnically identify as Greeks and are today all at least bilingual in Greek.
Question: Muslims make up how much of the Greek population?
Answer: 0.95%
Question: Minority languages have been reduce due to what?
Answer: assimilation with the Greek-speaking majority
Question: In parts of the country, Romani is spoken by who?
Answer: Christian Roma
Question: What groups are called Vlachs?
Answer: Aromanians and Moglenites
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Context: In the 2000s, research in computer science, engineering, psychology and neuroscience has been aimed at developing devices that recognize human affect display and model emotions. In computer science, affective computing is a branch of the study and development of artificial intelligence that deals with the design of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, and process human emotions. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer sciences, psychology, and cognitive science. While the origins of the field may be traced as far back as to early philosophical enquiries into emotion, the more modern branch of computer science originated with Rosalind Picard's 1995 paper on affective computing. Detecting emotional information begins with passive sensors which capture data about the user's physical state or behavior without interpreting the input. The data gathered is analogous to the cues humans use to perceive emotions in others. Another area within affective computing is the design of computational devices proposed to exhibit either innate emotional capabilities or that are capable of convincingly simulating emotions. Emotional speech processing recognizes the user's emotional state by analyzing speech patterns. The detection and processing of facial expression or body gestures is achieved through detectors and sensors.
Question: Of what discipline is affective computing a branch?
Answer: computer science
Question: What is the foundational document of affective computing?
Answer: Rosalind Picard's 1995 paper
Question: In affective computing, what devices are used to collect data about the physical state of a user?
Answer: passive sensors
Question: How does emotional speech processing determine a user's emotional state?
Answer: analyzing speech patterns
Question: Of what discipline isn't affective computing a branch?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the foundational document of affective computing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In affective computing, what devices aren't used to collect data about the physical state of a user?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does emotional speech processing determine a user's non-emotional state?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1988, Apple sued Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on the grounds that they infringed Apple's copyrighted GUI, citing (among other things) the use of rectangular, overlapping, and resizable windows. After four years, the case was decided against Apple, as were later appeals. Apple's actions were criticized by some in the software community, including the Free Software Foundation (FSF), who felt Apple was trying to monopolize on GUIs in general, and boycotted GNU software for the Macintosh platform for seven years.
Question: On what grounds did Apple sue Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard in 1988?
Answer: they infringed Apple's copyrighted GUI
Question: How was the lawsuit decided for Apple vs. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard?
Answer: against Apple
Question: What did the FSF feel that Apple was trying to monopolize on?
Answer: GUIs in general
Question: How long did the FSF boycott GNU software for the Macintosh platform?
Answer: seven years
Question: What are some of the issues Apple cited in the lawsuit against Microsoft and HP?
Answer: the use of rectangular, overlapping, and resizable windows
Question: On what grounds did Apple sue Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How was the lawsuit decided for Apple vs. Compaq and Hewlett-Packard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the FSF feel that Microsoft was trying to monopolize on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did the FSF boycott GUN software for the Macintosh platform?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What aren't some of the issues Apple cited in the lawsuit against Microsoft and HP?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Commercial turkeys are usually reared indoors under controlled conditions. These are often large buildings, purpose-built to provide ventilation and low light intensities (this reduces the birds' activity and thereby increases the rate of weight gain). The lights can be switched on for 24-hrs/day, or a range of step-wise light regimens to encourage the birds to feed often and therefore grow rapidly. Females achieve slaughter weight at about 15 weeks of age and males at about 19. Mature commercial birds may be twice as heavy as their wild counterparts. Many different breeds have been developed, but the majority of commercial birds are white, as this improves the appearance of the dressed carcass, the pin feathers being less visible. Turkeys were at one time mainly consumed on special occasions such as Christmas (10 million birds in the United Kingdom) or Thanksgiving (60 million birds in the United States). However, they are increasingly becoming part of the everyday diet in many parts of the world.
Question: What type of accomidations are domesticated turkey normally grown in?
Answer: Commercial turkeys are usually reared indoors under controlled conditions
Question: What type of conditions are used to increase the weight and profitability of commercial turkeys?
Answer: The lights can be switched on for 24-hrs/day, or a range of step-wise light regimens to encourage the birds to feed often and therefore grow rapidly
Question: At what age is the average turkey considered ready for the initial step of the commercial food process?
Answer: Females achieve slaughter weight at about 15 weeks of age and males at about 19
Question: How much more does a average commercial turkey weigh in comparison to its wild turkey cousins ?
Answer: Mature commercial birds may be twice as heavy as their wild counterparts
Question: What the average for the amount of turkeys are consumed in the U.S on Thanksgiving Day?
Answer: 60 million birds in the United States
Question: What are domesticated turkeys no longer grown in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What age is the moose considered ready for the initial step of the commercial food process?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the average for the amount of parrots that are consumed in the U.S on Thanksgiving Day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of conditions are used to decrease the weight and profitability of commercial turkeys?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much more does a average commercial feather weigh in comparison to its wild turkey cousins ?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: From the late 18th century to the mid-19th century, large areas of India were annexed by the British East India Company of British Empire. Dissatisfaction with Company rule led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, after which the British provinces of India were directly administered by the British Crown and witnessed a period of both rapid development of infrastructure and economic stagnation. During the first half of the 20th century, a nationwide struggle for independence was launched with the leading party involved being the Indian National Congress which was later joined by other organizations. The subcontinent gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, after the British provinces were partitioned into the dominions of India and Pakistan and the princely states all acceded to one of the new states.
Question: What company annexed large areas of India in the 18th and 19th centuries?
Answer: British East India Company
Question: What effect did Company rule in India produce in 1857?
Answer: Indian Rebellion
Question: After the Rebellion who administered the British provinces of India?
Answer: British Crown
Question: The rapid development of what did British rule cause in India?
Answer: infrastructure
Question: What party was the leader in the Indian independence movement of the 20th century?
Answer: Indian National Congress
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Context: Miami's main four sports teams are the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association, the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball, and the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League. As well as having all four major professional teams, Miami is also home to the Major League Soccer expansion team led by David Beckham, Sony Ericsson Open for professional tennis, numerous greyhound racing tracks, marinas, jai alai venues, and golf courses. The city streets has hosted professional auto races, the Miami Indy Challenge and later the Grand Prix Americas. The Homestead-Miami Speedway oval hosts NASCAR national races.
Question: What sport do the Miami Heat play?
Answer: Basketball
Question: What is the nickname of Miami's NFL team?
Answer: Dolphins
Question: What professional hockey team is based in Miami?
Answer: Florida Panthers
Question: At what tournament in Miami is professional tennis played?
Answer: Sony Ericsson
Question: Where do NASCAR races in Miami take place?
Answer: Homestead-Miami Speedway
Question: What sport don't the Miami Heat play?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't the nickname of Miami's NFL team?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What professional hockey team is based outside of Miami?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what tournament in Miami is amateur tennis played?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where don't NASCAR races in Miami take place?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In late 1952 Eisenhower went to Korea and discovered a military and political stalemate. Once in office, when the Chinese began a buildup in the Kaesong sanctuary, he threatened to use nuclear force if an armistice was not concluded. His earlier military reputation in Europe was effective with the Chinese. The National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Strategic Air Command (SAC) devised detailed plans for nuclear war against China. With the death of Stalin in early March 1953, Russian support for a Chinese hard-line weakened and China decided to compromise on the prisoner issue.
Question: Where did the Chinese begin to increase forces after Eisenhower entered the White House?
Answer: Kaesong sanctuary
Question: What did Eisenhower threaten to do if there was no armistice in Korea?
Answer: use nuclear force
Question: Along with the Joint Chiefs and SAC, what body was involved with formulating plans for nuclear war with China?
Answer: National Security Council
Question: What event led to decreased Russian support for China?
Answer: death of Stalin
Question: What was SAC an abbreviation of?
Answer: Strategic Air Command
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Context: In the middle of the 17th century, the peasant rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong (1606–1646) from Yan'an, Shanxi Province, nicknamed Yellow Tiger, led his peasant troop from north China to the south, and conquered Sichuan. Upon capturing it, he declared himself emperor of the Daxi Dynasty (大西王朝). In response to the resistance from local elites, he massacred a large native population. As a result of the massacre as well as years of turmoil during the Ming-Qing transition, the population of Sichuan fell sharply, requiring a massive resettlement of people from the neighboring Huguang Province (modern Hubei and Hunan) and other provinces during the Qing dynasty.
Question: What was the nickname rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong?
Answer: Yellow Tiger
Question: Which region did Yellow Tiger conquer in the mid-17th century?
Answer: Sichuan
Question: Which dynasty did Yellow Tiger declare himself the emperor of?
Answer: Daxi Dynasty
Question: Which province supplied a large amount of people to the Sichuan resettlement, following years of turmoil during the Ming-Qing transition?
Answer: Huguang Province
Question: Who lead the peasant rebelion in the mid 1700's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the rebel leader born in the 16th century from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the nickname of the man who led the rebelion in the 1700's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who conquered the Daxi Dynasty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what dynasty did the population of Schuan rise sharply?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the nickname revel leader Daxi Dynasty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which region did Huguang conquer in the mid-17th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Dynasty did Huguang declare himself an emperor of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which province supplied a large amount of troops to the Sichuan resettlement, following years of turmoil during the Ming-Qing transition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the population of Yellow Tiger fall?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: At Buya in Eritrea, one of the oldest hominids representing a possible link between Homo erectus and an archaic Homo sapiens was found by Italian scientists. Dated to over 1 million years old, it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind and provides a link between hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans. It is believed that the section of the Danakil Depression in Eritrea was also a major player in terms of human evolution, and may contain other traces of evolution from Homo erectus hominids to anatomically modern humans.
Question: Where in Eritrea did Italian scientists find one of the oldest hominids?
Answer: Buya
Question: How old was the hominid that was found in Eritrea?
Answer: over 1 million years
Question: What place in Eritrea is believed to have played a major part in human evolution?
Answer: section of the Danakil Depression
Question: What possible link is represented by the hominid found in Eritrea?
Answer: hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans
Question: What is the importance pertaining to the age of the hominid that was found in Eritrea?
Answer: it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind
Question: What did German scientists find in Eritrea?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How old was the newest archaic Homo sapiens skeleton found in Eretria?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where in Eritrea is it believed that no traces of evolution to anatomically modern humans will ever be found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far back can anatomically modern human bones be found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How far back do scientists think archaic Homo sapiens transitioned to anatomically modern humans?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: After the success of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman turned to quantum gravity. By analogy with the photon, which has spin 1, he investigated the consequences of a free massless spin 2 field, and derived the Einstein field equation of general relativity, but little more. The computational device that Feynman discovered then for gravity, "ghosts", which are "particles" in the interior of his diagrams that have the "wrong" connection between spin and statistics, have proved invaluable in explaining the quantum particle behavior of the Yang–Mills theories, for example, QCD and the electro-weak theory.
Question: Where did Feynman find success before moving to quantum gravity
Answer: quantum electrodynamics
Question: What did Feynman investigate while working on quantum gravity?
Answer: consequences of a free massless spin 2 field
Question: What equation did Feyman derive?
Answer: Einstein field equation of general relativity
Question: What did Feynman's discoveries help explain?
Answer: Yang–Mills theories
Question: Which parts of the Yang-Mills theories did Feynman help explain?
Answer: QCD and the electro-weak theory
Question: Where did Feynman find failure before moving to quantum gravity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Feynman ignore while working on quantum gravity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What equation did Feynman steal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Feynman's discoveries hurt the explanation of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which parts of the Yang-Mills theories did Feynman dispel?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Enlightenment has been frequently linked to the French Revolution of 1789. One view of the political changes that occurred during the Enlightenment is that the "consent of the governed" philosophy as delineated by Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1689) represented a paradigm shift from the old governance paradigm under feudalism known as the "divine right of kings". In this view, the revolutions of the late 1700s and early 1800s were caused by the fact that this governance paradigm shift often could not be resolved peacefully, and therefore violent revolution was the result. Clearly a governance philosophy where the king was never wrong was in direct conflict with one whereby citizens by natural law had to consent to the acts and rulings of their government.
Question: The Enlightenment is frequently linked to the French Revolution of what year?
Answer: 1789
Question: Who delineated the "consent of the governed" in Two Treatises of Government (1689)?
Answer: Locke
Question: The "divine right of kings" was in direct conflict with which of Locke's philosophies?
Answer: "consent of the governed"
Question: According to Locke, the revolutions of the late 1700s and early 1800s were caused when what could not be resolved peacefully?
Answer: governance paradigm shift
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Context: A new Digimon series was announced 30 months after the end of Digimon Fusion at a 15th anniversary concert and theater event for the franchise in August 2014. The series announced the return of the protagonists from the original Digimon Adventure series, most of them now as high school students. A countdown clicking game was posted on the show's official website, offering news when specific clicks were met. On December 13, 2014 the series title and a key visual featuring character designs by Atsuya Uki were revealed with Keitaro Motonaga announced as director with a tentative premiere date of Spring, 2015. However, on May 6, 2015, it was announced that tri. would not be a television series, but rather a 6-part theatrical film series. The films are being streamed in episodic format outside Japan by Crunchyroll and Hulu from the same day they premiere on Japanese theaters.
Question: How long after Digimon Fusion was a new series announced?
Answer: 30 months
Question: When was the 15th year anniversary held for Digimon?
Answer: August 2014
Question: Rather than a TV series, What kind of series would the Digimon become?
Answer: 6-part theatrical film series
Question: Where are you able to watch the new series when it is released?
Answer: Crunchyroll and Hulu
Question: When was it announced a tri would be a television series?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Is streaming the television series the same day that premieres
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was announced thirty months after the franchises fifteenth anniversary?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who were now in middle school?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: New Haven lies at the intersection of Interstate 95 on the coast—which provides access southwards and/or westwards to the western coast of Connecticut and to New York City, and eastwards to the eastern Connecticut shoreline, Rhode Island, and eastern Massachusetts—and Interstate 91, which leads northward to the interior of Massachusetts and Vermont and the Canadian border. I-95 is infamous for traffic jams increasing with proximity to New York City; on the east side of New Haven it passes over the Quinnipiac River via the Pearl Harbor Memorial, or "Q Bridge", which often presents a major bottleneck to traffic. I-91, however, is relatively less congested, except at the intersection with I-95 during peak travel times.
Question: What major interstate provides access between New Haven and New York City?
Answer: Interstate 95
Question: What major interstate in New Haven provides access northward into Massachusetts, Vermont, and eventually reaches the Canadian border?
Answer: Interstate 91
Question: Over which New Haven river does 1-95 cross on the east side?
Answer: Quinnipiac River
Question: What is the nickname given to the Pearl Harbor Memorial?
Answer: "Q Bridge"
Question: Which New Haven interstate is less congested throughout times designated as peak travel?
Answer: I-91
Question: New Haven is adjacent to what part of the national highway?
Answer: Interstate 95
Question: Which of the nearby highway would take you north to Massachusetts?
Answer: Interstate 91
Question: Interstate 95 is also infamous for what exactly?
Answer: traffic jams
Question: What river crosses path with I-95?
Answer: Quinnipiac River
Question: Is I-91 similar to I-95 in terms of bad traffic?
Answer: is relatively less congested
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Context: The radiation pattern and even the driving point impedance of an antenna can be influenced by the dielectric constant and especially conductivity of nearby objects. For a terrestrial antenna, the ground is usually one such object of importance. The antenna's height above the ground, as well as the electrical properties (permittivity and conductivity) of the ground, can then be important. Also, in the particular case of a monopole antenna, the ground (or an artificial ground plane) serves as the return connection for the antenna current thus having an additional effect, particularly on the impedance seen by the feed line.
Question: What is the radiation patter influenced by?
Answer: dielectric constant
Question: The ground is important for what antenna?
Answer: terrestrial antenna
Question: Whats another name for the ground?
Answer: artificial ground plane
Question: What does the artificial ground plane do for the antenna current?
Answer: return connection
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Context: The first satellite, BeiDou-1A, was launched on 30 October 2000, followed by BeiDou-1B on 20 December 2000. The third satellite, BeiDou-1C (a backup satellite), was put into orbit on 25 May 2003. The successful launch of BeiDou-1C also meant the establishment of the BeiDou-1 navigation system.
Question: What was the name of the first satellite launched for the system?
Answer: BeiDou-1A
Question: When was BeiDou-1A launched?
Answer: 20 December 2000
Question: What was the name of the third satellite launched for the system?
Answer: BeiDou-1C
Question: What was the purpose of launching the BeiDou-1C satellite?
Answer: a backup satellite
Question: When was the BeiDou-1C satellite launched?
Answer: 25 May 2003
Question: What was the name of the eighth satellite launched for the system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was BeiDou-1D launched?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the third submarine launched for the system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the BeiDou-1C rocket launched?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The unsuccessful launch of BeiDou-1E happened when?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Many native speakers of Dutch, both in Belgium and the Netherlands, assume that Afrikaans and West Frisian are dialects of Dutch but are considered separate and distinct from Dutch: a daughter language and a sister language, respectively. Afrikaans evolved mainly from 17th century Dutch dialects, but had influences from various other languages in South Africa. However, it is still largely mutually intelligible with Dutch. (West) Frisian evolved from the same West Germanic branch as Old English and is less akin to Dutch.
Question: What dialect is considered a sister language to Dutch?
Answer: West Frisian
Question: Which Dutch dialect is so distinct that it's often called a daughter language?
Answer: Afrikaans
Question: Afrikaans is mostly derived from the Dutch spoken in what century?
Answer: 17th
Question: The Dutch influence on Afrikaans was seasoned with languages from what country?
Answer: South Africa
Question: What two-word phrase describes the relationship whereby Dutch and Afrikaans speakers can understand each other?
Answer: mutually intelligible
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Context: The Chicago White Stockings, (today's Chicago Cubs), began spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1886. President Albert Spalding (founder of Spalding Sporting Goods) and player/manager Cap Anson brought their players to Hot Springs and played at the Hot Springs Baseball Grounds. The concept was for the players to have training and fitness before the start of the regular season. After the White Stockings had a successful season in 1886, winning the National League Pennant, other teams began bringing their players to "spring training". The Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Spiders, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, New York Highlanders, Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Red Sox were among the early squads to arrive. Whittington Park (1894) and later Majestic Park (1909) and Fogel Field (1912) were all built in Hot Springs specifically to host Major League teams.
Question: Who began spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1886?
Answer: Chicago White Stockings
Question: Who is the founder of Spalding Sporting Goods?
Answer: Albert Spalding
Question: Whittington Park, Majestic Park, and Fogel Field were all built where?
Answer: Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Context: Helping his father in Visible Speech demonstrations and lectures brought Bell to Susanna E. Hull's private school for the deaf in South Kensington, London. His first two pupils were "deaf mute" girls who made remarkable progress under his tutelage. While his older brother seemed to achieve success on many fronts including opening his own elocution school, applying for a patent on an invention, and starting a family, Bell continued as a teacher. However, in May 1870, Melville died from complications due to tuberculosis, causing a family crisis. His father had also suffered a debilitating illness earlier in life and had been restored to health by a convalescence in Newfoundland. Bell's parents embarked upon a long-planned move when they realized that their remaining son was also sickly. Acting decisively, Alexander Melville Bell asked Bell to arrange for the sale of all the family property,[N 8] conclude all of his brother's affairs (Bell took over his last student, curing a pronounced lisp), and join his father and mother in setting out for the "New World". Reluctantly, Bell also had to conclude a relationship with Marie Eccleston, who, as he had surmised, was not prepared to leave England with him.
Question: What city is Susanna E. Hull located in?
Answer: South Kensington
Question: What sort of student attended Susanna E. Hull?
Answer: deaf
Question: Who died in 1870?
Answer: Melville
Question: Where did Bell's father go to recover from illness?
Answer: Newfoundland
Question: What did Bell help his final student get rid of?
Answer: lisp
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Context: Instead, Nanjing, as a popular tourist destination, hosts a series of government-organised events throughout the year. The annual International Plum Blossom Festival held in Plum Blossom Hill, the largest plum collection in China, attracts thousands of tourists both domestically and internationally. Other events include Nanjing Baima Peach Blossom and Kite Festival, Jiangxin Zhou Fruit Festival and Linggu Temple Sweet Osmanthus Festival.
Question: What city is considered to be a place that is popular with tourists?
Answer: Nanjing
Question: Rather than host the old festivals, what type of events does Nanjing host each year?
Answer: a series of government-organised events
Question: What area holds the largest collection of plum blossoms in all of China?
Answer: Plum Blossom Hill
Question: Where do the tourists for the Plum Blossom Festival come from?
Answer: domestically and internationally
Question: What festival involves kites and fruit trees?
Answer: Nanjing Baima Peach Blossom and Kite Festival
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Context: Over the years a variety of record equalization practices emerged and there was no industry standard. For example, in Europe recordings for years required playback with a bass turnover setting of 250–300 Hz and a treble roll-off at 10,000 Hz ranging from 0 to −5 dB or more. In the US there were more varied practices and a tendency to use higher bass turnover frequencies such as 500 Hz as well as a greater treble rolloff like −8.5 dB and even more to record generally higher modulation levels on the record.
Question: What was the industry standard in Europe for record equalization?
Answer: there was no industry standard
Question: In which country was the treble roll off greater?
Answer: US
Question: Which country prefers a bass turnover setting of 250-300 Hz?
Answer: Europe
Question: What was the industry standard on equalization practices?
Answer: there was no industry standard
Question: Which country used the most varied equalization practices?
Answer: US
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Context: The Ottoman Islamic legal system was set up differently from traditional European courts. Presiding over Islamic courts would be a Qadi, or judge. Since the closing of the ijtihad, or Gate of Interpretation, Qadis throughout the Ottoman Empire focused less on legal precedent, and more with local customs and traditions in the areas that they administered. However, the Ottoman court system lacked an appellate structure, leading to jurisdictional case strategies where plaintiffs could take their disputes from one court system to another until they achieved a ruling that was in their favor.
Question: Who was the one that presided over the empire's Islamic Courts?
Answer: Qadi
Question: At what juncture did the Qadi focus less on precedent?
Answer: closing of the ijtihad, or Gate of Interpretation
Question: What was one thing the Ottoman legal system lacked?
Answer: an appellate structure
Question: What did Qadis focus on in some areas?
Answer: local customs and traditions
Question: What is another word for Qadi?
Answer: judge
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Context: Universities created by bilateral or multilateral treaties between states are intergovernmental. An example is the Academy of European Law, which offers training in European law to lawyers, judges, barristers, solicitors, in-house counsel and academics. EUCLID (Pôle Universitaire Euclide, Euclid University) is chartered as a university and umbrella organisation dedicated to sustainable development in signatory countries, and the United Nations University engages in efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are of concern to the United Nations, its peoples and member states. The European University Institute, a post-graduate university specialised in the social sciences, is officially an intergovernmental organisation, set up by the member states of the European Union.
Question: What is a university formed through a bilateral treaty known as?
Answer: intergovernmental
Question: In terms of intergovernmental universities, what is EUCLID?
Answer: Pôle Universitaire Euclide, Euclid University
Question: What is a mission of EUCLID as it relates to signatory nations?
Answer: sustainable development
Question: What type of school is the European University Institute?
Answer: post-graduate
Question: What type of study does the European University Institute focus on?
Answer: social sciences
Question: What is a university formed through a unilateral treaty known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a mission of EUCLID as it relates to the United Nations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of school is the EUCLID?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of study does the EUCUD focus on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What offers training in Asian law?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: According to a 2011 projection by the International Energy Agency, solar power plants may produce most of the world's electricity within 50 years, significantly reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases that harm the environment. The IEA has said: "Photovoltaic and solar-thermal plants may meet most of the world's demand for electricity by 2060 – and half of all energy needs – with wind, hydropower and biomass plants supplying much of the remaining generation". "Photovoltaic and concentrated solar power together can become the major source of electricity".
Question: Which group projected that solar plant may produce most of the world's electricity within 50 years?
Answer: International Energy Agency
Question: Photovoltaic and solar-thermal plants may meet most of the world's demand for electricity by what year?
Answer: 2060
Question: Photovoltaic and solar-thermal plants may meet how much of the world's energy needs by 2060?
Answer: half
Question: Which group projected that solar plant may produce most of the world's electricity within 40 years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the IAE stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Photovoltaic and solar-thermal plants will never meet most of the world's demand for electricity by what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Photovoltaic and solar-thermal plants may meet how much of the world's energy needs by 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1989, the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field, Don Zimmer's Cubs were led by a core group of veterans in Ryne Sandberg, Rick Sutcliffe and Andre Dawson, who were boosted by a crop of youngsters such as Mark Grace, Shawon Dunston, Greg Maddux, Rookie of the Year Jerome Walton, and Rookie of the Year Runner-Up Dwight Smith. The Cubs won the NL East once again that season winning 93 games. This time the Cubs met the San Francisco Giants in the NLCS. After splitting the first two games at home, the Cubs headed to the Bay Area, where despite holding a lead at some point in each of the next three games, bullpen meltdowns and managerial blunders ultimately led to three straight losses. The Cubs couldn't overcome the efforts of Will Clark, whose home run off Maddux, just after a managerial visit to the mound, led Maddux to think Clark knew what pitch was coming. Afterward, Maddux would speak into his glove during any mound conversation, beginning what is a norm today. Mark Grace was 11–17 in the series with 8 RBI. Eventually, the Giants lost to the "Bash Brothers" and the Oakland A's in the famous "Earthquake Series."
Question: What year was the first full season with night baseball at Wrigley Field?
Answer: 1989
Question: Who was rookie of the year in 1989?
Answer: Jerome Walton
Question: Who was rookie of the year Runner-Up in 1989?
Answer: Dwight Smith
Question: Who did the Cubs meet in the NLCS during 1989?
Answer: San Francisco Giants
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Context: Most of the state has a humid subtropical climate, with the exception of some of the higher elevations in the Appalachians, which are classified as having a mountain temperate climate or a humid continental climate due to cooler temperatures. The Gulf of Mexico is the dominant factor in the climate of Tennessee, with winds from the south being responsible for most of the state's annual precipitation. Generally, the state has hot summers and mild to cool winters with generous precipitation throughout the year, with highest average monthly precipitation generally in the winter and spring months, between December and April. The driest months, on average, are August to October. On average the state receives 50 inches (130 cm) of precipitation annually. Snowfall ranges from 5 inches (13 cm) in West Tennessee to over 16 inches (41 cm) in the higher mountains in East Tennessee.
Question: What is the most common climate across Tennessee?
Answer: humid subtropical
Question: Most of Tennessee has which type of climate?
Answer: humid subtropical
Question: Which mountains contain those parts of Tennessee with a temperate climate?
Answer: Appalachians
Question: Which body of ocean water affects Tennessee's climate the most?
Answer: Gulf of Mexico
Question: Which range of months is Tennessee's wettest?
Answer: between December and April
Question: What is Tennessee's average annual precipitation in inches?
Answer: 50
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Context: Many of NARA's most requested records are frequently used for genealogy research. This includes census records from 1790 to 1930, ships' passenger lists, and naturalization records.
Question: Besides census records and passenger lists, what NARA documents are particularly useful to genealogists?
Answer: naturalization records
Question: For what time period does NARA have census records available for?
Answer: 1790 to 1930
Question: During what period did Europeans immigrate to the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many passengers are typically on a ship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the farthest year you can go back when studying your genealogy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was genealogy the most popular?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the government start taking to count the population in 1790?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Immanuel Velikovsky is an example of a recent scientific exoheretic; he did not have appropriate scientific credentials or did not publish in scientific journals. While the details of his work are in scientific disrepute, the concept of catastrophic change (extinction event and punctuated equilibrium) has gained acceptance in recent decades.
Question: What label is associated with Immanuel Velikovsky due to his works outside the accepted discipline?
Answer: exoheretic
Question: What medium did Immanuel Velikovsky not publish his works in that is accepted practice?
Answer: scientific journals
Question: What two examples of ideas from Immanuel Velikovsky are stated as to have gained some acceptance?
Answer: extinction event and punctuated equilibrium
Question: Who is a recent scientific endoheretic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Velikovsky publish in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What ideas of Velvovsky are in disrepute?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's work is widely excepted among scientest today?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1998, after the return of Steve Jobs, Apple consolidated its multiple consumer-level desktop models into the all-in-one iMac G3, which became a commercial success and revitalized the brand. Since their transition to Intel processors in 2006, the complete lineup is entirely based on said processors and associated systems. Its current lineup comprises three desktops (the all-in-one iMac, entry-level Mac mini, and the Mac Pro tower graphics workstation), and four laptops (the MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Pro with Retina display). Its Xserve server was discontinued in 2011 in favor of the Mac Mini and Mac Pro.
Question: What did Apple consolidate in 1998?
Answer: its multiple consumer-level desktop models
Question: What all-in-one product was created in 1998 through Apple's consolidations?
Answer: iMac G3
Question: What did the iMac G3 do to the Mac reputation?
Answer: revitalized the brand
Question: When was Mac's Xserve server discontinued?
Answer: 2011
Question: What took the place of Mac's Xserve server?
Answer: Mac Mini and Mac Pro
Question: What did Apple consolidate in 1989?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What all-in-one product was created in 1989 through Apple's consolidations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the iMac G2 do to the Mac reputation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Mac's Xserve server continued?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What took the place of Mac's iserve server?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: But after emancipation, a sense of a unified French Jewry emerged, especially when France was wracked by the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s. In the 1920s and 1930s, Ashkenazi Jews from Europe arrived in large numbers as refugees from antisemitism, the Russian revolution, and the economic turmoil of the Great Depression. By the 1930s, Paris had a vibrant Yiddish culture, and many Jews were involved in diverse political movements. After the Vichy years and the Holocaust, the French Jewish population was augmented once again, first by Ashkenazi refugees from Central Europe, and later by Sephardi immigrants and refugees from North Africa, many of them francophone.
Question: When did the Dreyfus affair occur?
Answer: 1890s
Question: In what years did large numbers of Jews arrive in France?
Answer: the 1920s and 1930s
Question: What three factors led to large numbers of Jews moving to France?
Answer: antisemitism, the Russian revolution, and the economic turmoil of the Great Depression
Question: By the 1930s, Paris was noted for which two things related to Jews?
Answer: a vibrant Yiddish culture, and many Jews were involved in diverse political movements
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Context: Archaeological evidence shows that Homo erectus lived in the region now known as Myanmar as early as 400,000 years ago. The first evidence of Homo sapiens is dated to about 11,000 BC, in a Stone Age culture called the Anyathian with discoveries of stone tools in central Myanmar. Evidence of neolithic age domestication of plants and animals and the use of polished stone tools dating to sometime between 10,000 and 6,000 BC has been discovered in the form of cave paintings near the city of Taunggyi.
Question: What extinct species of hominid that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological period is believed to have dwelled in Myanmar?
Answer: Homo erectus
Question: When was the extinct species believed to have lived in Myanmar?
Answer: 400,000 years ago
Question: What is the name of the civilization that is believed to be one of the oldest.
Answer: Anyathian
Question: Did any other ancient cultures also leave behind evidence of existence in Myanmar?
Answer: neolithic age domestication of plants and animals and the use of polished stone tools dating to sometime between 10,000 and 6,000 BC has been discovered
Question: What form was the evidence of ancient cultures discovered in ?
Answer: discovered in the form of cave paintings
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Context: Yale expanded gradually, establishing the Yale School of Medicine (1810), Yale Divinity School (1822), Yale Law School (1843), Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1847), the Sheffield Scientific School (1847), and the Yale School of Fine Arts (1869). In 1887, as the college continued to grow under the presidency of Timothy Dwight V, Yale College was renamed Yale University. The university would later add the Yale School of Music (1894), the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (founded by Gifford Pinchot in 1900), the Yale School of Public Health (1915), the Yale School of Nursing (1923), the Yale School of Drama (1955), the Yale Physician Associate Program (1973), and the Yale School of Management (1976). It would also reorganize its relationship with the Sheffield Scientific School.
Question: When was the Yale School of Medicine established?
Answer: 1810
Question: When was Yale Divinity School established?
Answer: 1822
Question: When was Yale Law School created?
Answer: 1843
Question: When was Yale Graduate Schools and Arts and Sciences established?
Answer: (1847
Question: When was the Sheffield Scientific School created?
Answer: 1847
Question: When was the Yale School of Medicine closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Yale Divinity School closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Yale Law School closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Yale Graduate Schools and Arts and Sciences closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Sheffield Scientific School closed?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The only indigenous mammals of Bermuda are five species of bats, all of which are also found in the eastern United States: Lasionycteris noctivagans, Lasiurus borealis, Lasiurus cinereus, Lasiurus seminolus and Perimyotis subflavus. Other commonly known fauna of Bermuda include its national bird, the Bermuda petrel or cahow. It was rediscovered in 1951 after having been thought extinct since the 1620s. It is important as an example of a Lazarus species. The government has a programme to protect it, including restoration of a habitat area. The Bermuda rock skink was long thought to have been the only indigenous land vertebrate of Bermuda, discounting the marine turtles that lay their eggs on its beaches. Recently through genetic DNA studies, scientists have discovered that a species of turtle, the diamondback terrapin, previously thought to have been introduced, pre-dated the arrival of humans in the archipelago. As this species spends most of its time in brackish ponds, some question whether it should be classified as a land vertebrate to compete with the skink's unique status.
Question: The only indigenous mammals of Bermuda are five species of what animal?
Answer: bats
Question: What is the national bird of Bermuda?
Answer: Bermuda petrel or cahow
Question: What animal was believe to be the only land vertebrate of Bermuda?
Answer: Bermuda rock skink
Question: What animal was found, through DNA testing, to pre-date the arrival of humans to the archipelago?
Answer: diamondback terrapin
Question: What are the only native mammals found in Bermuda?
Answer: bats
Question: What is the national bird of Bermuda?
Answer: Bermuda petrel or cahow
Question: Why is the National bird of importance?
Answer: example of a Lazarus species
Question: What animal has held the title of Bermuda's only native land vertabrate?
Answer: Bermuda rock skink
Question: Why is there a debate as to dubbing the diamondback terrapin the oldest indigenous land vertebrate?
Answer: this species spends most of its time in brackish ponds
Question: What is one of five indigenous mammals of Bermuda?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What portion of Bermuda are bats found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Bermuda's national bird first discovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What went extinct in 1620?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What species of turtle was introduced in Bermuda?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: An important creation myth of the islands of Tuvalu is the story of the te Pusi mo te Ali (the Eel and the Flounder) who created the islands of Tuvalu; te Ali (the flounder) is believed to be the origin of the flat atolls of Tuvalu and the te Pusin (the Eel) is the model for the coconut palms that are important in the lives of Tuvaluans. The stories as to the ancestors of the Tuvaluans vary from island to island. On Niutao, Funafuti and Vaitupu the founding ancestor is described as being from Samoa; whereas on Nanumea the founding ancestor is described as being from Tonga.
Question: What is the creation myth of Tuvalu?
Answer: te Pusi mo te Ali
Question: What does the flounder of the Tuvalu myth represent?
Answer: flat atolls
Question: What does the eel of the Tuvalu creation myth represent?
Answer: coconut palms
Question: From what land did the people of Niutao believe they came?
Answer: Samoa
Question: From where did the people of the island of Nanumea think they came?
Answer: Tonga
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Context: In 2013, global business and financial news provider, Bloomberg, named Namibia the top emerging market economy in Africa and the 13th best in the world. Only four African countries made the Top 20 Emerging Markets list in the March 2013 issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine, and Namibia was rated ahead of Morocco (19th), South Africa (15th) and Zambia (14th). Worldwide, Namibia also fared better than Hungary, Brazil and Mexico. Bloomberg Markets magazine ranked the top 20 based on more than a dozen criteria. The data came from Bloomberg's own financial-market statistics, IMF forecasts and the World Bank. The countries were also rated on areas of particular interest to foreign investors: the ease of doing business, the perceived level of corruption and economic freedom. In order to attract foreign investment, the government has made improvement in reducing red tape resulted from excessive government regulations making the country one of the least bureaucratic places to do business in the region. However, facilitation payments are occasionally demanded by customs due to cumbersome and costly customs procedures. Namibia is also classified as an Upper Middle Income country by the World Bank, and ranks 87th out of 185 economies in terms of ease of doing business.
Question: What did Bloomberg name Namibia?
Answer: top emerging market economy in Africa
Question: What rank did Bloomberg name Namibia's economy?
Answer: 13th best in the world
Question: How many African countries made the list for top Emerging Markets?
Answer: four
Question: Who did Bloomberg name as 2013's best emerging market in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many South American countries made the list for top emerging economies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Asian countries made the list for top emerging economies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was named as one of the reasons Zambia made the list?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did South Africa make this list?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The newly allied armies captured Beijing on June 6. The Shunzhi Emperor was invested as the "Son of Heaven" on October 30. The Manchus, who had positioned themselves as political heir to the Ming emperor by defeating the rebel Li Zicheng, completed the symbolic transition by holding a formal funeral for the Chongzhen Emperor. However the process of conquering the rest of China took another seventeen years of battling Ming loyalists, pretenders and rebels. The last Ming pretender, Prince Gui, sought refuge with the King of Burma, but was turned over to a Qing expeditionary army commanded by Wu Sangui, who had him brought back to Yunnan province and executed in early 1662.
Question: When did Beijing fall?
Answer: June 6
Question: What was the Shunzi Emperor called?
Answer: "Son of Heaven"
Question: When did the Shunzhi emperor become the Son of Heaven?
Answer: October 30
Question: How long did it take for the Manchus to take the rest of China?
Answer: seventeen years
Question: Who did the Manchus struggle against?
Answer: Ming loyalists
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Context: Historians have judged the Qing dynasty's vulnerability and weakness to foreign imperialism in the 19th century to be based mainly on its maritime naval weakness while it achieved military success against westerners on land, the historian Edward L. Dreyer said that "China’s nineteenth-century humiliations were strongly related to her weakness and failure at sea. At the start of the Opium War, China had no unified navy and no sense of how vulnerable she was to attack from the sea; British forces sailed and steamed wherever they wanted to go......In the Arrow War (1856–60), the Chinese had no way to prevent the Anglo-French expedition of 1860 from sailing into the Gulf of Zhili and landing as near as possible to Beijing. Meanwhile, new but not exactly modern Chinese armies suppressed the midcentury rebellions, bluffed Russia into a peaceful settlement of disputed frontiers in Central Asia, and defeated the French forces on land in the Sino-French War (1884–85). But the defeat of the fleet, and the resulting threat to steamship traffic to Taiwan, forced China to conclude peace on unfavorable terms."
Question: What was the main problem the Qing had in preventing invasion from Europe?
Answer: naval weakness
Question: Which historian blamed naval weakness for European imperialism in China?
Answer: Edward L. Dreyer
Question: When was the Arrow War?
Answer: (1856–60)
Question: Where did the French and English land in 1860?
Answer: Gulf of Zhili
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Context: Nintendo was accused of antitrust behavior because of the strict licensing requirements. The United States Department of Justice and several states began probing Nintendo's business practices, leading to the involvement of Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC conducted an extensive investigation which included interviewing hundreds of retailers. During the FTC probe, Nintendo changed the terms of its publisher licensing agreements to eliminate the two-year rule and other restrictive terms. Nintendo and the FTC settled the case in April 1991, with Nintendo required to send vouchers giving a $5 discount off to a new game, to every person that had purchased a NES title between June 1988 and December 1990. GameSpy remarked that Nintendo's punishment was particularly weak giving the case's findings, although it has been speculated that the FTC did not want to damage the video game industry in the United States.
Question: What was Nintendo accused of?
Answer: antitrust behavior
Question: Why was Nintendo accused of antitrust behavior?
Answer: strict licensing requirements
Question: Who began probing Nintendo's business?
Answer: United States Department of Justice
Question: Who interviewed retailers as part of their investigation?
Answer: FTC
Question: How much were the vouchers worth that Nintendo sent out?
Answer: $5
Question: What wasn't Nintendo accused of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why wasn't Nintendo accused of antitrust behavior?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who didn't probe Nintendo's business?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who didn't interview retailers as part of their investigation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much were the vouchers worth that Nintendo didn't send out?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Due to the tree structure of the filter bank, pre-echo problems are made worse, as the combined impulse response of the two filter banks does not, and cannot, provide an optimum solution in time/frequency resolution. Additionally, the combining of the two filter banks' outputs creates aliasing problems that must be handled partially by the "aliasing compensation" stage; however, that creates excess energy to be coded in the frequency domain, thereby decreasing coding efficiency.[citation needed]
Question: What kind of structure does a filter bank have?
Answer: tree
Question: Due to a specific kind of structure, what kind of problems are made worse?
Answer: pre-echo problems
Question: What kind of resolution are the filter banks unable to provide an optimal solution for?
Answer: time/frequency
Question: Combining two filter banks' outputs creates what kind of problem?
Answer: aliasing
Question: The need to code excess energy in the frequency domain decreases what kind of efficiency?
Answer: coding
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Context: In Han government, the emperor was the supreme judge and lawgiver, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and sole designator of official nominees appointed to the top posts in central and local administrations; those who earned a 600-dan salary-rank or higher. Theoretically, there were no limits to his power. However, state organs with competing interests and institutions such as the court conference (tingyi 廷議)—where ministers were convened to reach majority consensus on an issue—pressured the emperor to accept the advice of his ministers on policy decisions. If the emperor rejected a court conference decision, he risked alienating his high ministers. Nevertheless, emperors sometimes did reject the majority opinion reached at court conferences.
Question: Who was responsible for nominations of local administrators in the government?
Answer: the emperor
Question: Was the emperor able to reject an opinion that was made by the court conference?
Answer: sometimes did reject the majority opinion
Question: Who often placed pressure on the emperor in regards to local policies?
Answer: court conference
Question: What did the emperor risk if he did not accept the decisions of the court conference?
Answer: alienating his high ministers
Question: Who was considered to be the supreme judge in Han government?
Answer: the emperor
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Context: Ashkenazi Jews represent the bulk of modern Jewry, with at least 70% of Jews worldwide (and up to 90% prior to World War II and the Holocaust). As a result of their emigration from Europe, Ashkenazim also represent the overwhelming majority of Jews in the New World continents, in countries such as the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, and Brazil. In France, the immigration of Jews from Algeria (Sephardim) has led them to outnumber the Ashkenazim. Only in Israel is the Jewish population representative of all groups, a melting pot independent of each group's proportion within the overall world Jewish population.
Question: What group of Jews represent the bulk of modern Jewry?
Answer: Ashkenazi Jews
Question: Which group represents at least 70% of Jews worldwide?
Answer: Ashkenazi Jews
Question: Why does Ashkenazim represent the overwhelming majority of Jews in the New World continents?
Answer: As a result of their emigration from Europe
Question: In what country does the immigration of Jews from Algeria (Sephardim) has led them to outnumber the Ashkenazim?
Answer: France
Question: Who represents the minority of modern Jewry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which group represents less than 70% of Jews worldwide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a country where Ashkenazi Jews have not emigrated to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do Sephardim represent the overwhelming majority of Jews in the New World?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the Jewish population least representative of all groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1214 John began his final campaign to reclaim Normandy from Philip. John was optimistic, as he had successfully built up alliances with the Emperor Otto, Renaud of Boulogne and Count Ferdinand of Flanders; he was enjoying papal favour; and he had successfully built up substantial funds to pay for the deployment of his experienced army. Nonetheless, when John left for Poitou in February 1214, many barons refused to provide military service; mercenary knights had to fill the gaps. John's plan was to split Philip's forces by pushing north-east from Poitou towards Paris, whilst Otto, Renaud and Ferdinand, supported by William Longespée, marched south-west from Flanders.
Question: When did John begin his final campaign to reclaim Normandy?
Answer: 1214
Question: Who did John build alliances with?
Answer: Emperor Otto, Renaud of Boulogne and Count Ferdinand of Flanders
Question: When did John leave for Poitou?
Answer: February 1214
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Context: IBM has been a leading proponent of the Open Source Initiative, and began supporting Linux in 1998. The company invests billions of dollars in services and software based on Linux through the IBM Linux Technology Center, which includes over 300 Linux kernel developers. IBM has also released code under different open source licenses, such as the platform-independent software framework Eclipse (worth approximately US$40 million at the time of the donation), the three-sentence International Components for Unicode (ICU) license, and the Java-based relational database management system (RDBMS) Apache Derby. IBM's open source involvement has not been trouble-free, however (see SCO v. IBM).
Question: IBM began supporting this in 1998.
Answer: Linux
Question: 300 Linux kernel developers work here.
Answer: the IBM Linux Technology Center
Question: IBM created the software framework known as?
Answer: Eclipse
Question: What is a notable legal case involving open source and IBM?
Answer: SCO v. IBM
Question: What does RDBMS refer to?
Answer: relational database management system
Question: What company was Java supporting in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What initiative was created by IBM in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much was Linux worth in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does Java usually release code its developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do 300 Open Source Initiative developers work?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Iran has a paramilitary, volunteer militia force within the IRGC, called the Basij, which includes about 90,000 full-time, active-duty uniformed members. Up to 11 million men and women are members of the Basij who could potentially be called up for service; GlobalSecurity.org estimates Iran could mobilize "up to one million men". This would be among the largest troop mobilizations in the world. In 2007, Iran's military spending represented 2.6% of the GDP or $102 per capita, the lowest figure of the Persian Gulf nations. Iran's military doctrine is based on deterrence. In 2014 arms spending the country spent $15 billion and was outspent by the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council by a factor of 13.
Question: What is Iran's volunteer militia force named?
Answer: the Basij
Question: How many full-time members does the Basij have?
Answer: 90,000
Question: How many members in total does the Basij have?
Answer: Up to 11 million men and women
Question: In 2007 what was Iran spending 2.6% of its GDP on?
Answer: military spending
Question: In 2014, Iran spent how much on weapons spending?
Answer: $15 billion
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Context: Most organisms studied to date utilize a reward–punishment mechanism: for instance, worms and insects can alter their behavior to seek food sources or to avoid dangers. In vertebrates, the reward-punishment system is implemented by a specific set of brain structures, at the heart of which lie the basal ganglia, a set of interconnected areas at the base of the forebrain. There is substantial evidence that the basal ganglia are the central site at which decisions are made: the basal ganglia exert a sustained inhibitory control over most of the motor systems in the brain; when this inhibition is released, a motor system is permitted to execute the action it is programmed to carry out. Rewards and punishments function by altering the relationship between the inputs that the basal ganglia receive and the decision-signals that are emitted. The reward mechanism is better understood than the punishment mechanism, because its role in drug abuse has caused it to be studied very intensively. Research has shown that the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a central role: addictive drugs such as cocaine, amphetamine, and nicotine either cause dopamine levels to rise or cause the effects of dopamine inside the brain to be enhanced.
Question: A set of interconnected areas at the base of the forebrain is called what?
Answer: basal ganglia
Question: The basal ganglia is thought to be the central location at which what are made?
Answer: decisions
Question: Which neurotransmitter plays a large role in drug abuse?
Answer: dopamine
Question: Which of the two systems, reward or punishment is better understood?
Answer: The reward mechanism
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Context: One rescue team reported only 2,300 survivors from the town of Yingxiu in Wenchuan County, out of a total population of about 9,000. 3,000 to 5,000 people were killed in Beichuan County, Sichuan alone; in the same location, 10,000 people were injured and 80% of the buildings were destroyed. The old county seat of Beichuan was abandoned and preserved as part of the Beichuan Earthquake Museum. Eight schools were toppled in Dujiangyan. A 56-year-old was killed in Dujiangyan during a rescue attempt on the Lingyanshan Ropeway, where due to the earthquake 11 tourists from Taiwan had been trapped inside cable cars since May 13. A 4-year-old boy named Zhu Shaowei (traditional Chinese: 朱紹維; simplified Chinese: 朱绍维; pinyin: Zhū Shàowéi) was also killed in Mianzhu City when a house collapsed on him and another was reported missing.
Question: How many survivors were there from Yingxiu?
Answer: 2,300
Question: Where is Yingxiu located?
Answer: in Wenchuan
Question: How many people in total lived in Yingxiu?
Answer: 9,000
Question: How many people were killed in Beichuan County?
Answer: 3,000 to 5,000
Question: How many people were injured in Beichuan County?
Answer: 10,000
Question: How many survivors were there in the town of Yingxiu?
Answer: 2,300
Question: What was the previous population of Yingxiu?
Answer: about 9,000
Question: How many residents were killed in Beichuan County?
Answer: 3,000 to 5,000
Question: How large was the number of injured in Beichuan County?
Answer: 10,000
Question: What is the number of schools that collapsed in Dujiangyan?
Answer: Eight schools
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Context: The two local Sunday Leagues in the Southampton area are the City of Southampton Sunday Football League and the Southampton and District Sunday Football League.
Question: Local Southampton football leagues have what day of the week in their names?
Answer: Sunday
Question: How many local Sunday football leagues does Southampton have?
Answer: two
Question: What's the name of the local league with "City" in its name?
Answer: City of Southampton Sunday Football League
Question: What's the name of the the local league with "District" in its name?
Answer: Southampton and District Sunday Football League
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Context: By April 1945, China had already been at war with Japan for more than seven years. Both nations were exhausted by years of battles, bombings and blockades. After Japanese victories in Operation Ichi-Go, Japan were losing the battle in Burma and facing constant attacks from Chinese Nationalists forces and Communist guerrillas in the country side. The Japanese army began preparations for the Battle of West Hunan in March 1945. Japanese mobilized 34th, 47th, 64th, 68th and 116th Divisions, as well as the 86th Independent Brigade, for a total of 80,000 men to seize Chinese airfields and secure railroads in West Hunan by early April. In response, the Chinese National Military Council dispatched the 4th Front Army and the 10th and 27th Army Groups with He Yingqin as commander-in-chief. At the same time, it airlifted the entire Chinese New 6th Corps, an American-equipped corps and veterans of the Burma Expeditionary Force, from Kunming to Zhijiang. Chinese forces totaled 110,000 men in 20 divisions. They were supported by about 400 aircraft from Chinese and American air forces. Chinese forces achieved a decisive victory and launched a large counterattack in this campaign. Concurrently, the Chinese managed to repel a Japanese offensive in Henan and Hubei. Afterwards, Chinese forces retook Hunan and Hubei provinces in South China. Chinese launched a counter offensive to retake Guangxi which was the last major Japanese stronghold in South China. In August 1945, Chinese forces successfully retook Guangxi.[citation needed]
Question: In 1945, how many years had Japan already been at war with China?
Answer: seven
Question: What battle did the Japanese Army begin to prepare for in March 1945?
Answer: Battle of West Hunan
Question: How many Japanese soldiers were mobilized to capture the Chinese airfields and railroads in West Hunan?
Answer: 80,000
Question: Who was the Chinese commander-in-chief of the 10th and 27th Army Groups?
Answer: He Yingqin
Question: When did Chinese forces retake Guangxi?
Answer: August 1945
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Context: The Eritrean highway system is named according to the road classification. The three levels of classification are: primary (P), secondary (S), and tertiary (T). The lowest level road is tertiary and serves local interests. Typically they are improved earth roads which are occasionally paved. During the wet seasons these roads typically become impassable. The next higher level road is a secondary road and typically is a single-layered asphalt road that connects district capitals together and those to the regional capitals. Roads that are considered primary roads are those that are fully asphalted (throughout their entire length) and in general they carry traffic between all the major towns in Eritrea.
Question: How is the Eritrean highway system named?
Answer: according to the road classification
Question: What are the three levels of road classification in Eritrea?
Answer: primary (P), secondary (S), and tertiary (T)
Question: What are T roads, the lowest level that typically serves local interests?
Answer: improved earth roads which are occasionally paved
Question: What are S roads, the mid-level that connects district capitals to regional capitals?
Answer: single-layered asphalt road
Question: What are P roads, those that carry traffic between all major towns in Eritrea?
Answer: fully asphalted (throughout their entire length)
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Context: The names Land of Israel and Children of Israel have historically been used to refer to the biblical Kingdom of Israel and the entire Jewish people respectively. The name "Israel" (Standard Yisraʾel, Isrāʾīl; Septuagint Greek: Ἰσραήλ Israēl; 'El(God) persists/rules' though, after Hosea 12:4 often interpreted as "struggle with God") in these phrases refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the angel of the Lord. Jacob's twelve sons became the ancestors of the Israelites, also known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel or Children of Israel. Jacob and his sons had lived in Canaan but were forced by famine to go into Egypt for four generations, lasting 430 years, until Moses, a great-great grandson of Jacob, led the Israelites back into Canaan during the "Exodus". The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word "Israel" is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late 13th century BCE).
Question: Who was Moses?
Answer: a great-great grandson of Jacob
Question: Who led the Israelites back into Canaan during the "Exodus?"
Answer: Moses
Question: What does the word "Israel" refer to?
Answer: Jacob
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Context: Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons as well as chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Israel has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity toward its nuclear capabilities. The Israeli Navy's Dolphin submarines are believed to be armed with nuclear Popeye Turbo missiles, offering nuclear second strike capability. Since the Gulf War in 1991, when Israel was attacked by Iraqi Scud missiles, all homes in Israel are required to have a reinforced security room, Merkhav Mugan, impermeable to chemical and biological substances.
Question: Israel is widely believed to possess what?
Answer: nuclear weapons
Question: What is armed with nuclear Popeye Turbo missiles?
Answer: Israeli Navy's Dolphin submarines
Question: All homes in Israel are required to have a room called what?
Answer: Merkhav Mugan
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Context: Definitions of literature have varied over time; it is a "culturally relative definition". In Western Europe prior to the eighteenth century, literature as a term indicated all books and writing. A more restricted sense of the term emerged during the Romantic period, in which it began to demarcate "imaginative" literature. Contemporary debates over what constitutes literature can be seen as returning to the older, more inclusive notion of what constitutes literature. Cultural studies, for instance, takes as its subject of analysis both popular and minority genres, in addition to canonical works.
Question: The changing nature of the meaning of the term "literature" can be described as what?
Answer: a "culturally relative definition"
Question: In Western Europe until the 1700s, literature was a term used to describe what?
Answer: all books and writing
Question: During what literary movement did the definition of literature begin to narrow?
Answer: the Romantic period
Question: During that 18th century period, literature began to be applied how?
Answer: it began to demarcate "imaginative" literature
Question: What term has a "socially relative definition?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Prior to the seventeenth century, literature as a term included what too things?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what period did a more broad sense of the "literature" emerge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Eastern Europe, literature included all books and what else?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do social studies take as its subject and analysis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Due to the unvarying definition of literature, what can the term "literature' be described as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did literature refer to in Eastern Europe prior to the eighteenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period brought a term that was more unrestricted to describe literature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do social studies take as its subjects of analysis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been the result of modern debates over what constitutes literature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is literature referred to because definitions have varied very little over time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did "literature" include in Western Europe prior to the seventeenth century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did a more unrestricted sense of the term "literature" emerge?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does cultural studies take as its only subjects of analysis?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: New Haven is a notable center for higher education. Yale University, at the heart of downtown, is one of the city's best known features and its largest employer. New Haven is also home to Southern Connecticut State University, part of the Connecticut State University System, and Albertus Magnus College, a private institution. Gateway Community College has a campus in downtown New Haven, formerly located in the Long Wharf district; Gateway consolidated into one campus downtown into a new state-of-the-art campus (on the site of the old Macy's building) and was open for the Fall 2012 semester.
Question: What private university is located in downtown New Haven?
Answer: Yale University
Question: What community college is located in downtown New Haven?
Answer: Gateway Community College
Question: What state university is located in New Haven?
Answer: Southern Connecticut State University
Question: What school serves as the largest employer of New Haven?
Answer: Yale University
Question: In what year did Gateway Community College open its newly consolidated downtown campus?
Answer: 2012
Question: Where is Yale University located.
Answer: heart of downtown
Question: What the name of a state university also located in the city?
Answer: Southern Connecticut State University
Question: Other than Yale, New Haven has another private college in the city, it's name?
Answer: Albertus Magnus College
Question: Before relocating to downtown area, New Haven has a community college that used to be located where?
Answer: Long Wharf district
Question: When was the new Gateway Community College open?
Answer: Fall 2012
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Context: Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) was designed by Microsoft to give higher-level access to a device's filesystem than USB mass storage, at the level of files rather than disk blocks. It also has optional DRM features. MTP was designed for use with portable media players, but it has since been adopted as the primary storage access protocol of the Android operating system from the version 4.1 Jelly Bean as well as Windows Phone 8 (Windows Phone 7 devices had used the Zune protocol which was an evolution of MTP). The primary reason for this is that MTP does not require exclusive access to the storage device the way UMS does, alleviating potential problems should an Android program request the storage while it is attached to a computer. The main drawback is that MTP is not as well supported outside of Windows operating systems.
Question: Media Transfer Protocol was designed by who?
Answer: Microsoft
Question: Why was Media Transfer Protocol designed?
Answer: to give higher-level access to a device's filesystem
Question: What was MTP originally designed for?
Answer: use with portable media players
Question: Why has MTP become the primary storage access protocol of the Android operating system?
Answer: MTP does not require exclusive access to the storage device the way UMS does
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Context: A strong consistent theme in his family-friendly work is a childlike, even naïve, sense of wonder and faith, as attested by works such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and The BFG. According to Warren Buckland, these themes are portrayed through the use of low height camera tracking shots, which have become one of Spielberg's directing trademarks. In the cases when his films include children (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, etc.), this type of shot is more apparent, but it is also used in films like Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal, Minority Report, and Amistad. If one views each of his films, one will see this shot utilized by the director, notably the water scenes in Jaws are filmed from the low-angle perspective of someone swimming. Another child oriented theme in Spielberg's films is that of loss of innocence and coming-of-age. In Empire of the Sun, Jim, a well-groomed and spoiled English youth, loses his innocence as he suffers through World War II China. Similarly, in Catch Me If You Can, Frank naively and foolishly believes that he can reclaim his shattered family if he accumulates enough money to support them.
Question: Which Spielberg films are examples of a childlike sense of wonder?
Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, A.I. Artificial Intelligence and The BFG
Question: What camera style does Spielberg often use?
Answer: low height camera tracking shots
Question: What are some Spielberg films that included kids?
Answer: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park
Question: How were the water scenes in Jaws filmed?
Answer: from the low-angle perspective of someone swimming
Question: Who is naive in 'Catch Me if You Can'?
Answer: Frank
Question: What is one of the countries in which Catch Me if You Can takes place?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the book Amistad is based on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote the novel Catch Me if You Can is based on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote Empire of the Sun?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote A.I. Artificial Intelligence?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Archaeology confirms the widespread use of binding spells (defixiones), magical papyri and so-called "voodoo dolls" from a very early era. Around 250 defixiones have been recovered just from Roman Britain, in both urban and rural settings. Some seek straightforward, usually gruesome revenge, often for a lover's offense or rejection. Others appeal for divine redress of wrongs, in terms familiar to any Roman magistrate, and promise a portion of the value (usually small) of lost or stolen property in return for its restoration. None of these defixiones seem produced by, or on behalf of the elite, who had more immediate recourse to human law and justice. Similar traditions existed throughout the empire, persisting until around the 7th century AD, well into the Christian era.
Question: What science has confirmed the existence of magic use from early times?
Answer: Archaeology
Question: What was the term for binding spells in the Roman world?
Answer: defixiones
Question: What did the elite use instead of spells and potions to redress a wrong?
Answer: law and justice
Question: Until what era did spells persist in the empire?
Answer: 7th century AD
Question: What era produced a decline in the use of spells?
Answer: Christian era
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Context: In the 17th century, the Somers Isles Company suppressed shipbuilding, as it needed Bermudians to farm to generate income from the land. Agricultural production met with limited success, however. The Bermuda cedar boxes used to ship tobacco to England were reportedly worth more than their contents.[citation needed] The colony of Virginia far surpassed Bermuda in both quality and quantity of tobacco produced. Bermudians began to turn to maritime trades relatively early in the 17th century, but the Somers Isles Company used all its authority to suppress turning away from agriculture. This interference led to the islanders demanding, and receiving, the revocation of the Company's charter in 1684, and the Company was dissolved.
Question: Why did the Somers Isles Company decide to surpress shipbuilding?
Answer: needed Bermudians to farm to generate income from the land
Question: Why wasn't agriculture successful?
Answer: colony of Virginia far surpassed Bermuda in both quality and quantity of tobacco produced
Question: What did Bermudians do when agriculture failed?
Answer: turn to maritime trades
Question: Why was the Somers Isles Company's charter revoked?
Answer: islanders demanding
Question: What did the Somers Isles Company press in the 17th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What colony did Bermuda surpass in quantity of tobacco produced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What colony did Bermuda surpass in quality of tobacco produced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company was dissolved in 1648?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The brief success of the Communists also fed into the hands of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). Anti-Semitic attitudes became widespread, particularly in London. Rumours that Jewish support was underpinning the Communist surge were frequent. Rumours that Jews were inflating prices, were responsible for the Black Market, were the first to panic under attack (even the cause of the panic), and secured the best shelters via underhanded methods, were also widespread. Moreover, there was also racial antagonism between the small Black, Indian and Jewish communities. However, the feared race riots did not transpire despite the mixing of different peoples into confined areas.
Question: The success of the Communists helped what political group?
Answer: British Union of Fascists (BUF)
Question: Where did anti-semitic attitude spread primarily?
Answer: particularly in London
Question: What was one the rumors that Jews were doing in regard to shelters?
Answer: secured the best shelters via underhanded methods
Question: What was feared would happen when different races were mixed in shelters?
Answer: race riots
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Context: The ability of the Dominions to set their own foreign policy, independent of Britain, was recognised at the 1923 Imperial Conference. Britain's request for military assistance from the Dominions at the outbreak of the Chanak Crisis the previous year had been turned down by Canada and South Africa, and Canada had refused to be bound by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. After pressure from Ireland and South Africa, the 1926 Imperial Conference issued the Balfour Declaration, declaring the Dominions to be "autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another" within a "British Commonwealth of Nations". This declaration was given legal substance under the 1931 Statute of Westminster. The parliaments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland were now independent of British legislative control, they could nullify British laws and Britain could no longer pass laws for them without their consent. Newfoundland reverted to colonial status in 1933, suffering from financial difficulties during the Great Depression. Ireland distanced itself further from Britain with the introduction of a new constitution in 1937, making it a republic in all but name.
Question: When was the right of Dominions to determine their own foreign policy recognized?
Answer: 1923
Question: Which treaty did Canada ignore?
Answer: Treaty of Lausanne
Question: When was the Balfour Declaration issued?
Answer: 1926
Question: When was the status of Dominions as equal autonomous communities given legal force?
Answer: 1931
Question: When did Ireland issue a new constitution?
Answer: 1937
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Context: Italian unification was the political and social movement that annexed different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century. There is a lack of consensus on the exact dates for the beginning and the end of this period, but many scholars agree that the process began with the end of Napoleonic rule and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and approximately ended with the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, though the last città irredente did not join the Kingdom of Italy until after World War I.
Question: What is Italian Unification?
Answer: social movement that annexed different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy
Question: When did the Italian Unification occur?
Answer: in the 19th century
Question: In what year do most Scholars agree the Italian Unification began?
Answer: 1815
Question: In what year do most Scholars agree the Italian Unification ended?
Answer: 1871
Question: After what event did the last citta irredente join Italy?
Answer: World War I.
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Context: By 1840, the Market Hall and Sheds, where fresh meat and produce were brought daily, became a hub of commercial activity. The slave trade also depended on the port of Charleston, where ships could be unloaded and the slaves bought and sold. The legal importation of African slaves had ended in 1808, although smuggling was significant. However, the domestic trade was booming. More than one million slaves were transported from the Upper South to the Deep South in the antebellum years, as cotton plantations were widely developed through what became known as the Black Belt. Many slaves were transported in the coastwise slave trade, with slave ships stopping at ports such as Charleston.
Question: What industry depended on the port of Charleston?
Answer: The slave trade
Question: Where was fresh food sold daily in Charleston in 1840?
Answer: the Market Hall and Sheds
Question: What year did the legal importation of slaves end?
Answer: 1808
Question: The region where cotton plantations were developed was known as what?
Answer: Black Belt
Question: In what era did one million slaves get trade throughout the South?
Answer: in the antebellum years
Question: What industry never depended on the port of Charleston?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was fresh food sold daily in Charleston in 1804?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did the legal importation of slaves start?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The region where cotton plantations weren't developed was known as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what era did two million slaves get trade throughout the South?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Studies conducted on both animals and humans show major bidirectional relationships between the circadian system and abusive drugs. It is indicated that these abusive drugs affect the central circadian pacemaker. Individuals suffering from substance abuse display disrupted rhythms. These disrupted rhythms can increase the risk for substance abuse and relapse. It is possible that genetic and/or environmental disturbances to the normal sleep and wake cycle can increase the susceptibility to addiction.
Question: What do studies show has a bidirectional relationship with the circadian system?
Answer: abusive drugs
Question: What do abusive drugs effect in the circadian system?
Answer: circadian pacemaker
Question: What do drug abusers show in their circadian processes?
Answer: disrupted rhythms
Question: What can the disrupted circadian system cause?
Answer: abuse and relapse
Question: What can disruption to genetics and environment in the sleep cycle cause?
Answer: susceptibility to addiction
Question: What studies show a minor relationship between the circadian system and drug abuse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is displayed by individuals when not abusing drugs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do steady rhythms increase?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What may be increased by a person's normal sleep and wake cycle?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Federally, Boston is split between two congressional districts. The northern three-fourths of the city is in the 7th district, represented by Mike Capuano since 1998. The southern fourth is in the 8th district, represented by Stephen Lynch. Both are Democrats; a Republican has not represented a significant portion of Boston in over a century. The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat Elizabeth Warren, first elected in 2012. The state's junior member of the United States Senate is Democrat Ed Markey, who was elected in 2013 to succeed John Kerry after Kerry's appointment and confirmation as the United States Secretary of State.
Question: Boston is split between how many congressional districts?
Answer: two
Question: What district is the North 3/4 of the city located in?
Answer: the 7th district
Question: Who represents the 7th district?
Answer: Mike Capuano
Question: What year was Capuano elected?
Answer: 1998
Question: What district is the South fourth of Boston located in?
Answer: the 8th district
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Context: The torch was lit at a park outside at AT&T Park at about 1:17 pm PDT (20:17 UTC), briefly held aloft by American and Chinese Olympic officials. The relay descended into confusion as the first runner in the elaborately planned relay disappeared into a warehouse on a waterfront pier where it stayed for a half-an-hour. There were clashes between thousands of pro-China demonstrators, many of whom said they were bused in by the Chinese Consulate and other pro-China groups, and both pro-Tibet and Darfur protesters. The non-Chinese demonstrators were reported to have been swamped and trailed by angry crowds. Around 2 pm PDT (21:00 UTC), the torch resurfaced about 3 km (1.9 mi) away from the stadium along Van Ness Avenue, a heavily trafficked thoroughfare that was not on official route plans. Television reports showed the flame flanked by motorcycles and uniformed police officers. Two torchbearers carried the flame running slowly behind a truck and surrounded by Olympic security guards. During the torch relay, two torchbearers, Andrew Michael who uses a wheelchair and is the Vice President for Sustainable Development for the Bay Area Council and Director of Partnerships For Change, and an environmental advocate, Majora Carter, managed to display Tibetan flags in protest, resulting in their ejection from the relay. The closing ceremony at Justin Herman Plaza was canceled due to the presence of large numbers of protesters at the site. The torch run ended with a final stretch through San Francisco's Marina district and was then moved by bus to San Francisco International Airport for a makeshift closing ceremony at the terminal, from which the free media was excluded. San Jose Mercury News described the "deceiving" event as "a game of Where's Waldo, played against the landscape of a lovely city." International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said the San Francisco relay had "fortunately" avoided much of the disruptions that marred the legs in London and Paris, but "was, however, not the joyous party that we had wished it to be."
Question: Where did the first relay runner disappear to with the torch??
Answer: a warehouse
Question: Which wheelchair-bound torchbearer was ejected from the relay for showing a Tibetan flag?
Answer: Andrew Michael
Question: What wheelchair-bound bearer of the Olympic torch displayed a Tibetan flag?
Answer: Andrew Michael
Question: Where was the last part of the San Francisco torch relay carried through before getting on a bus?
Answer: Marina district
Question: Where was a makeshift closing ceremony held for the torch relay in San Francisco?
Answer: San Francisco International Airport
Question: After the bearer of the torch disappeared into a warehouse, what road did the relay reappear on?
Answer: Van Ness Avenue
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Context: Old Persian is the Old Iranian dialect as it was spoken in south-western Iran by the inhabitants of Parsa, who also gave their name to their region and language. Genuine Old Persian is best attested in one of the three languages of the Behistun inscription, composed circa 520 BC, and which is the last inscription (and only inscription of significant length) in which Old Persian is still grammatically correct. Later inscriptions are comparatively brief, and typically simply copies of words and phrases from earlier ones, often with grammatical errors, which suggests that by the 4th century BC the transition from Old Persian to Middle Persian was already far advanced, but efforts were still being made to retain an "old" quality for official proclamations.
Question: In which historical record does Old Persian appear in exemplary form?
Answer: the Behistun inscription
Question: When was the Behistun inscription written?
Answer: 520 BC
Question: During what century was the change from Old to Middle Persian well underway?
Answer: 4th century BC
Question: What dialect was spoken in northwestern Iran
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What official purpose was Middle Persian being used for in the fourth century BC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What inscription was composed in the 4th Century BC.
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which document composed in 520 BC was old Persian grammatically incorrect?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what century was the change from old to middle Persian just beginning?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Traditionally a carnival feast was the last opportunity to eat well before the time of food shortage at the end of the winter during which one was limited to the minimum necessary. On what nowadays is called vastenavond (the days before fasting) all the remaining winter stores of lard, butter and meat which were left would be eaten, for it would soon start to rot and decay. The selected livestock had in fact already been slaughtered in November and the meat would be no longer preservable. All the food that had survived the winter had to be eaten to assure that everyone was fed enough to survive until the coming spring would provide new food sources.
Question: Why was the carnival feast typically the last opportunity to eat well?
Answer: food shortage at the end of the winter
Question: What was one limited to during the winter?
Answer: the minimum necessary
Question: What does "vastenavond" mean?
Answer: the days before fasting)
Question: Why would all the remaining stores of lard, butter and meat left at vastenavond be eaten?
Answer: it would soon start to rot and decay
Question: When would new food sources be available for those who survived the winter?
Answer: spring
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Context: Bacteria were first observed by the Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676, using a single-lens microscope of his own design. He then published his observations in a series of letters to the Royal Society of London. Bacteria were Leeuwenhoek's most remarkable microscopic discovery. They were just at the limit of what his simple lenses could make out and, in one of the most striking hiatuses in the history of science, no one else would see them again for over a century. Only then were his by-then-largely-forgotten observations of bacteria — as opposed to his famous "animalcules" (spermatozoa) — taken seriously.
Question: When was the first time bacteria were observed?
Answer: 1676
Question: Who discovered bacteria?
Answer: Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Question: How was he able to see bacteria?
Answer: using a single-lens microscope of his own design
Question: How long did it take for his discovery to be taken seriously?
Answer: over a century
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Context: For a variety of reasons, market participants did not accurately measure the risk inherent with financial innovation such as MBS and CDOs or understand its impact on the overall stability of the financial system. For example, the pricing model for CDOs clearly did not reflect the level of risk they introduced into the system. Banks estimated that $450bn of CDO were sold between "late 2005 to the middle of 2007"; among the $102bn of those that had been liquidated, JPMorgan estimated that the average recovery rate for "high quality" CDOs was approximately 32 cents on the dollar, while the recovery rate for mezzanine CDO was approximately five cents for every dollar.
Question: What did market participants fail to measure accurately?
Answer: risk inherent with financial innovation
Question: What are the reasons market participants did not understand the impact financial innovation products would have?
Answer: a variety of reasons
Question: How much did JPMorgan estimate was the average recovery rate for high quality CDOs that had been liquidated?
Answer: approximately 32 cents on the dollar
Question: How much did JPMorgan estimate was the average recovery rate for mezzanine CDOs that had been liquidated?
Answer: approximately five cents for every dollar
Question: How much did banks estimate was the value of CDOs sold between late 2005 to the middle of 2007?
Answer: $450bn
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Context: The five most prevalent chains are Lotte, Hyundai, Shinsegae, Galleria, AK plaza. Lotte Department Store is the largest, operating more than 40 stores (include outlet, young plaza, foreign branches). Hyundai Department Store has about 14 stores (13dept, 1outlet), and there are 10 stores in Shinsegae. Shinsegae has 3 outlet store with Simon. Galleria has 5, AK has 5 stores. Galleriaeast and west is well known by luxury goods. These five department stores are known to people as representative corporations in the field of distirution in South Korea. From fashion items to electric appliances, people can buy various kinds of products. Every weekend, people are fond of going around these department stores, because their location is usually easy to visit. As of 2010 the Shinsegae department store in Centum City, Busan, is the largest department store in the world.
Question: What department store chain operates the most stores?
Answer: Lotte Department Store
Question: Where is the "field of distribution" most often associated with?
Answer: South Korea
Question: What store was the largest department store in the world in 2010?
Answer: Shinsegae department store
Question: Where is the largest department store in the world located?
Answer: Centum City, Busan
Question: What department store chain operates the least stores?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What department restaurant chain operates the most stores?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the "field of distribution" least often associated with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the smallest department store in the world located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What store was the smallest department store in the world in 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: During this period Boston flourished culturally as well, admired for its rarefied literary life and generous artistic patronage, with members of old Boston families—eventually dubbed Boston Brahmins—coming to be regarded as the nation's social and cultural elites.
Question: What was the name given to old Boston families?
Answer: Boston Brahmins
Question: Who came to be known as the nation's social elites?
Answer: Boston Brahmins
Question: Boston was admired for what kind of life?
Answer: literary life
Question: Boston improved culturally because of its generous what?
Answer: artistic patronage
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Context: On 30 March, Nasser proclaimed a manifesto stipulating the restoration of civil liberties, greater parliamentary independence from the executive, major structural changes to the ASU, and a campaign to rid the government of corrupt elements. A public referendum approved the proposed measures in May, and held subsequent elections for the Supreme Executive Committee, the ASU's highest decision-making body. Observers noted that the declaration signaled an important shift from political repression to liberalization, although its promises would largely go unfulfilled.
Question: What organization was to undergo a big overhaul?
Answer: ASU
Question: What trend was Nasser trying to cause?
Answer: liberalization
Question: How did Nasser's promises of increased freedoms turn out?
Answer: unfulfilled
Question: How did Nasser want to change the relationship between parliament and the executive?
Answer: independence
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