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Context: Carnival in Haiti started in 1804 in the capital Port-au-Prince after the declaration of independence. The Port-au-Prince Carnival is one of the largest in North America. It is known as Kanaval in the Creole language. It starts in January, known as "Pre-Kanaval", while the main carnival activities begin in February. In July 2012, Haiti had another carnival called Kanaval de Fleur. Beautiful costumes, floats, Rara parades, masks, foods, and popular rasin music (like Boukman Eksperyans, Foula Vodoule, Tokay, Boukan Ginen, Eritaj, etc.) and kompa bands (such as T-Vice, Djakout No. 1, Sweet Micky, Kreyòl La, D.P. Express, Mizik Mizik, Ram, T-Micky, Carimi, Djakout Mizik, and Scorpio Fever) play for dancers in the streets of the plaza of Champ-de-Mars. An annual song competition takes place.
Question: What year did the Carnival start in Haiti?
Answer: 1804
Question: What event precipitated the Carnival starting in Haiti?
Answer: declaration of independence
Question: What is the Carnival known as in the Creole language?
Answer: Kanaval
Question: What type of bands play for dancers in the streets?
Answer: kompa
Question: What type of annual competition takes place during Kanavel?
Answer: song
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Context: One STOBAR carrier: Liaoning was originally built as the 57,000 tonne Soviet Admiral Kuznetsov-class carrier Varyag and was later purchased as a stripped hulk by China in 1998 on the pretext of use as a floating casino, then partially rebuilt and towed to China for completion. Liaoning was commissioned on 25 September 2012, and began service for testing and training. On 24 or 25 November 2012, Liaoning successfully launched and recovered several Shenyang J-15 jet fighter aircraft. She is classified as a training ship, intended to allow the navy to practice with carrier usage. On 26 December 2012, the People's Daily reported that it will take four to five years for Liaoning to reach full capacity, mainly due to training and coordination which will take significant amount of time for Chinese PLA Navy to complete as this is the first aircraft carrier in their possession. As it is a training ship, Liaoning is not assigned to any of China's operation fleets.
Question: Why did China purchase the STOBAR carrier Liaoning in 1998?
Answer: on the pretext of use as a floating casino
Question: What is Liaoning classifed as?
Answer: a training ship
Question: What is the Liaoning intended to help the navy practice with?
Answer: carrier usage
Question: Why is Liaoning not assigned to any of China's operation fleets?
Answer: it is a training ship
Question: Why did the Chinese PLA Navy need 4-5 years for Liaoning to reach full capacity?
Answer: this is the first aircraft carrier in their possession
Question: Why didn't China purchase the STOBAR carrier Liaoning in 1998?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't Liaoning classifed as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Liaoning intended to hinder the navy practice with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why is Liaoning assigned to any of China's operation fleets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the Chinese PLA Navy need 14-15 years for Liaoning to reach full capacity?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Immigration to the United States of Spanish-speaking Cubans began because of Cuba's political instability upon achieving independence. The deposition of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship and the ascension of Fidel Castro's government in 1959 increased Cuban immigration to the United States, hence there are some one million Cubans in the United States, most settled in southern and central Florida, while other Cubans live in the Northeastern United States; most are fluent in Spanish. In the city of Miami today Spanish is the first language mostly due to Cuban immigration.
Question: Why did Cubans come to the United States?
Answer: Immigration to the United States of Spanish-speaking Cubans began because of Cuba's political instability
Question: What year did most Cubans start coming to America?
Answer: The deposition of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship and the ascension of Fidel Castro's government in 1959 increased Cuban immigration to the United States
Question: Where do most Cuban Americans live?
Answer: , most settled in southern and central Florida, while other Cubans live in the Northeastern United States
Question: Do Cubans speak Spanish in America?
Answer: most are fluent in Spanish
Question: Is there a particular place where Cubans live and speak Spanish in the U.S.?
Answer: In the city of Miami today Spanish is the first language mostly due to Cuban immigration.
Question: Cuba's political instability caused what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship end?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who came into power in Cuba in 1959?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Most Cubans settled in which southern state?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which city's first language is Spanish due to Cuban immigration?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did Baptista come to United States?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did most Spanish start coming to America?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do most Spanish live?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Do Floridians speak Spanish in America?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Is there a particular place where Cubans live and speak Spanish in Cuba?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: During the middle decades of the 18th century, there were several outbreaks of military conflict on the Indian subcontinent, the Carnatic Wars, as the English East India Company (the Company) and its French counterpart, the Compagnie française des Indes orientales, struggled alongside local rulers to fill the vacuum that had been left by the decline of the Mughal Empire. The Battle of Plassey in 1757, in which the British, led by Robert Clive, defeated the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies, left the Company in control of Bengal and as the major military and political power in India. France was left control of its enclaves but with military restrictions and an obligation to support British client states, ending French hopes of controlling India. In the following decades the Company gradually increased the size of the territories under its control, either ruling directly or via local rulers under the threat of force from the British Indian Army, the vast majority of which was composed of Indian sepoys.
Question: What was the French equivalent of the English East India Company?
Answer: Compagnie française des Indes orientales
Question: When was the Battle of Plassey?
Answer: 1757
Question: Who led the British in the Battle of Plassey?
Answer: Robert Clive
Question: Where were the Carnatic Wars?
Answer: British Indian Army
Question: What was the British Indian Army mostly composed of?
Answer: Indian sepoys
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Context: These theorists were driven by two basic questions: one, by what right or need do people form states; and two, what the best form for a state could be. These fundamental questions involved a conceptual distinction between the concepts of "state" and "government." It was decided that "state" would refer to a set of enduring institutions through which power would be distributed and its use justified. The term "government" would refer to a specific group of people who occupied the institutions of the state, and create the laws and ordinances by which the people, themselves included, would be bound. This conceptual distinction continues to operate in political science, although some political scientists, philosophers, historians and cultural anthropologists have argued that most political action in any given society occurs outside of its state, and that there are societies that are not organized into states that nevertheless must be considered in political terms. As long as the concept of natural order was not introduced, the social sciences could not evolve independently of theistic thinking. Since the cultural revolution of the 17th century in England, which spread to France and the rest of Europe, society has been considered subject to natural laws akin to the physical world.
Question: What would refer to a set of enduring institutions through which power would be distributed and its use justified?
Answer: state
Question: What refers to a specific group of people who occupied the institutions of the state?
Answer: government
Question: Society has been considered subject to natural laws akin to what?
Answer: the physical world
Question: What two questions joined the concepts of state and government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term referred to a set of temporary institutions through which power could be distributed in its use justified?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What term referred to individuals who created laws and ordinances by which other people would be bound?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What conceptual distinction continues to operate in science?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been believed society is subject to since the 1700s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one question government was driven by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has happened since power was distributed and justified in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What theistic thinking led to a division between state and government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What society not organized into states continues to operate today?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the rest of Europe argue about political action?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The majority of the province's population is Han Chinese, who are found scattered throughout the region with the exception of the far western areas. Thus, significant minorities of Tibetan, Yi, Qiang and Nakhi people reside in the western portion that are impacted by inclement weather and natural disasters, environmentally fragile, and impoverished. Sichuan's capital of Chengdu is home to a large community of Tibetans, with 30,000 permanent Tibetan residents and up to 200,000 Tibetan floating population. The Eastern Lipo, included with either the Yi or the Lisu people, as well as the A-Hmao, also are among the ethnic groups of the provinces.
Question: What race is the majority of Sichuan?
Answer: Han Chinese
Question: What is one of the largest minorities in Chengdu?
Answer: Tibetan
Question: Which part of Sichuan has the worst weather and subjected to natural disasters?
Answer: far western areas.
Question: How many permanent Tibetan people live in Chengdu?
Answer: 30,000
Question: What group makes up a minority of the privinces population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups live in the eastern province?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do people benefit from mild climate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What population includes 200,000 perminant residents?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What race is the majority of Tibet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one of the largest minorities in Yi?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which part of Sichuan has the worst weather and subjected to ethnic groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many permanent Tibetan people live in Eastern Lipo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How big is the Yi floating population?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The patent examiner, Zenas Fisk Wilber, later stated in an affidavit that he was an alcoholic who was much in debt to Bell's lawyer, Marcellus Bailey, with whom he had served in the Civil War. He claimed he showed Gray's patent caveat to Bailey. Wilber also claimed (after Bell arrived in Washington D.C. from Boston) that he showed Gray's caveat to Bell and that Bell paid him $100. Bell claimed they discussed the patent only in general terms, although in a letter to Gray, Bell admitted that he learned some of the technical details. Bell denied in an affidavit that he ever gave Wilber any money.
Question: Who declared himself an alcoholic?
Answer: Zenas Fisk Wilber
Question: In what war did Wilber and Bailey fight together?
Answer: Civil War
Question: How much did Wilber say Bell gave him in order to look at Gray's paperwork?
Answer: $100
Question: What did Bell only admit to knowing in a letter?
Answer: technical details
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Context: At present, the full name of the government of Nanjing is "People's Government of Nanjing City" and the city is under the one-party rule of the CPC, with the CPC Nanjing Committee Secretary as the de facto governor of the city and the mayor as the executive head of the government working under the secretary.
Question: What is the full name for Nanjing's government?
Answer: "People's Government of Nanjing City"
Question: How many parties rule Nanjing?
Answer: one-party
Question: What party rules Nanjing?
Answer: the CPC
Question: Who is considered to be the governor of Nanjing?
Answer: the CPC Nanjing Committee Secretary
Question: who is the executive leader of Nanjing, working under the secretary?
Answer: the mayor
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Context: During the summer of 1969, a Chicago studio group produced a single record called "Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel! (The Cubs Song)" whose title and lyrics incorporated the catch-phrases of the respective TV and radio announcers for the Cubs, Jack Brickhouse and Vince Lloyd. Several members of the Cubs recorded an album called Cub Power which contained a cover of the song. The song received a good deal of local airplay that summer, associating it very strongly with that bittersweet season. It was played much less frequently thereafter, although it remained an unofficial Cubs theme song for some years after.
Question: What year was the single "Hey Hey! Holy Mackerel! (The Cubs Song)" produced?
Answer: 1969
Question: What was the name of the album several members of the cubs recorded?
Answer: Cub Power
Question: What did The Cubs Song incorporate?
Answer: the catch-phrases of the respective TV and radio announcers
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Context: Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs are found throughout the state and supply most of the water used by residents. The limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell. During the last glacial period, lower sea levels and a drier climate revealed a much wider peninsula, largely savanna. The Everglades, an enormously wide, slow-flowing river encompasses the southern tip of the peninsula. Sinkhole damage claims on property in the state exceeded a total of $2 billion from 2006 through 2010.
Question: What is found in Florida
Answer: Extended systems of underwater caves, sinkholes and springs
Question: What did the last glacial period provide
Answer: lower sea levels and a drier climate revealed a much wider peninsula, largely savanna.
Question: What are the Everglades
Answer: an enormously wide, slow-flowing river encompasses the southern tip of the peninsula
Question: How much sink hole damage did Florida suffer recently
Answer: Sinkhole damage claims on property in the state exceeded a total of $2 billion from 2006 through 2010
Question: What kind of caves are rare in Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What body of water is uncommon in Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of stone is hard to find in Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the river through the Northern area of Florida?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What damage amounted to $2 billion from 2016-2018?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The list of nutrients that people are known to require is, in the words of Marion Nestle, "almost certainly incomplete". As of 2014, nutrients are thought to be of two types: macro-nutrients which are needed in relatively large amounts, and micronutrients which are needed in smaller quantities. A type of carbohydrate, dietary fiber, i.e. non-digestible material such as cellulose, is required, for both mechanical and biochemical reasons, although the exact reasons remain unclear. Other micronutrients include antioxidants and phytochemicals, which are said to influence (or protect) some body systems. Their necessity is not as well established as in the case of, for instance, vitamins.
Question: Who claims that the list of nutrients that humans require is incomplete?
Answer: Marion Nestle
Question: What is the other category of nutrients that people require other than micronutrients?
Answer: macro-nutrients
Question: What is notable about cellulose in humans?
Answer: non-digestible
Question: What else, other than antioxidants, helps protect body systems?
Answer: phytochemicals
Question: In which year were nutrients categorized into their two respective categories?
Answer: 2014
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Context: An article in Science suggested that the construction and filling of the Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the earthquake. The chief engineer of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau said that the sudden shift of a huge quantity of water into the region could have relaxed the tension between the two sides of the fault, allowing them to move apart, and could have increased the direct pressure on it, causing a violent rupture. The effect was "25 times more" than a year's worth of natural stress from tectonic movement. The government had disregarded warnings about so many large-scale dam projects in a seismically active area. Researchers have been denied access to seismological and geological data to examine the cause of the quake further.
Question: What was concluded about the construction?
Answer: that the sudden shift of a huge quantity of water into the region could have relaxed the tension between the two sides of the fault, allowing them to move apart, and could have increased the direct pressure on it, causing a violent rupture
Question: What structure did an article contemplate could have caused the quake?
Answer: Zipingpu Dam
Question: What was the affect of the dam on the stresses in that area?
Answer: 25 times more
Question: Who disregarded warnings about dams in the area?
Answer: The government
Question: What type of area is Sichuan?
Answer: seismically active
Question: What have researchers been denied?
Answer: access to seismological and geological data
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Context: Sub- and quotient groups are related in the following way: a subset H of G can be seen as an injective map H → G, i.e. any element of the target has at most one element that maps to it. The counterpart to injective maps are surjective maps (every element of the target is mapped onto), such as the canonical map G → G / N.y[›] Interpreting subgroup and quotients in light of these homomorphisms emphasizes the structural concept inherent to these definitions alluded to in the introduction. In general, homomorphisms are neither injective nor surjective. Kernel and image of group homomorphisms and the first isomorphism theorem address this phenomenon.
Question: What map shows the relation between sub and quotient groups?
Answer: injective map
Question: What are the opposites of injective maps?
Answer: surjective maps
Question: What is an example of a surjective map?
Answer: canonical map
Question: What theory address the phenomenon of homomorphisms being neither injective nor surjective?
Answer: the first isomorphism theorem
Question: Subset G of H is seen as what map?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the minimum number of elements in a target?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of map is similar to an injective map?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What theory discusses the surjective nature of canonical maps?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two forms must homomorphisms take?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Nevertheless, although a distinction between lawful and unlawful hunting is undoubtedly permissible, it is certain that a bishop can absolutely prohibit all hunting to the clerics of his diocese, as was done by synods at Milan, Avignon, Liège, Cologne, and elsewhere. Benedict XIV (De synodo diœces., l. II, c. x) declared that such synodal decrees are not too severe, as an absolute prohibition of hunting is more conformable to the ecclesiastical law. In practice, therefore, the synodal statutes of various localities must be consulted to discover whether they allow quiet hunting or prohibit it altogether.
Question: What distinction is undoubtedly permissible?
Answer: between lawful and unlawful hunting
Question: What can a bishop absolutely prohibit?
Answer: all hunting
Question: Where did synods prohibit all hunting at?
Answer: Milan, Avignon, Liège, Cologne, and elsewhere
Question: What did Benedict XIV declare about decrees prohibiting hunting?
Answer: not too severe
Question: Who can prohibit hunting to the clerics?
Answer: bishop
Question: Declaration that decrees are not severe was done by who?
Answer: Benedict XIV
Question: What did Synods at Milan, Avignon, Liege, Cologne, and elsewhere do?
Answer: prohibit all hunting to the clerics
Question: What happens if a bishop takes part in hunting?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what areas was it allowed for bishops to hunt?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Benedict XIV say allowing hunting conformed to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the only pope who took part in quiet hunting?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What law was put in place to protect the right of hunting by Benedict XIV?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Reflections generally affect polarization. For radio waves, one important reflector is the ionosphere which can change the wave's polarization. Thus for signals received following reflection by the ionosphere (a skywave), a consistent polarization cannot be expected. For line-of-sight communications or ground wave propagation, horizontally or vertically polarized transmissions generally remain in about the same polarization state at the receiving location. Matching the receiving antenna's polarization to that of the transmitter can make a very substantial difference in received signal strength.
Question: What mostly affects polarization?
Answer: Reflections
Question: What reflector can change the waves polarization?
Answer: ionosphere
Question: What will you be matching with the receiving antenna's polarization?
Answer: transmitter
Question: What stays the same regarding polarization state at the recieving location?
Answer: polarized transmissions
Question: What is the name used for signals recieved following reflection by the ionosphere?
Answer: a skywave
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Context: The first six rounds are the Qualifying Competition, from which 32 teams progress to the first round of the Competition Proper, meeting the first of the 92 professional teams. The last entrants are the Premier League and Championship clubs, into the draw for the Third Round Proper. In the modern era, non-league teams have never reached the quarter finals, and teams below Level 2 have never reached the final.[note 1] As a result, as well as who wins, significant focus is given to those "minnows" (smaller teams) who progress furthest, especially if they achieve an unlikely "giant-killing" victory.
Question: What rounds are the qualifiers?
Answer: first six rounds
Question: How many teams in the first round?
Answer: 92 professional teams.
Question: What league enters in the third round?
Answer: Premier League and Championship clubs
Question: In the modern era, has any non-league team reached the quarter finals??
Answer: never reached the quarter finals
Question: Has a level 2 club reached the finals ever?
Answer: Level 2 have never reached the final.
Question: How many teams do not progress to the first round of the Competition Proper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In past eras, has a non-league team reached the quarter finals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many teams are in the second round?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what time period did a non-league team get to the quarter finals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the last six rounds called?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The consuls of the Roman Republic were the highest ranking ordinary magistrates; each consul served for one year. Consuls had supreme power in both civil and military matters. While in the city of Rome, the consuls were the head of the Roman government. They would preside over the senate and the assemblies. While abroad, each consul would command an army. His authority abroad would be nearly absolute. Praetors administered civil law and commanded provincial armies. Every five years, two censors were elected for an 18-month term, during which they would conduct a census. During the census, they could enroll citizens in the senate, or purge them from the senate. Aediles were officers elected to conduct domestic affairs in Rome, such as managing public games and shows. The quaestors would usually assist the consuls in Rome, and the governors in the provinces. Their duties were often financial.
Question: Which official had supremacy in both civil and military matters?
Answer: Consuls
Question: Who was responsible for the adminstration of civil laws?
Answer: Praetors
Question: Who was responsible for the handling of the Roman census?
Answer: two censors
Question: How long could an elected censor remain in office for?
Answer: 18-month term
Question: What officer primarily had duties over finance matters?
Answer: quaestors
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Context: Although not specifically prepared to conduct independent strategic air operations against an opponent, the Luftwaffe was expected to do so over Britain. From July until September 1940 the Luftwaffe attacked RAF Fighter Command to gain air superiority as a prelude to invasion. This involved the bombing of English Channel convoys, ports, and RAF airfields and supporting industries. Destroying RAF Fighter Command would allow the Germans to gain control of the skies over the invasion area. It was supposed that Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and the Royal Navy could not operate under conditions of German air superiority.
Question: Which tactics were the Luftwaffe excepted to use against Britain?
Answer: air operations
Question: Why did the Luftwaffe bomb the RAF Fighter Command?
Answer: to gain air superiority
Question: What was the name of the Channel the Luftwaffe bomb to try to gain air superiority?
Answer: English
Question: Which Navy was assumed not to be able to operate under German air superiority?
Answer: Royal
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Context: In contrast to the Fed, the ECB normally does not buy bonds outright. The normal procedure used by the ECB for manipulating the money supply has been via the so-called refinancing facilities. In these facilities, bonds are not purchased but used in reverse transactions: repurchase agreements, or collateralised loans. These two transactions are similar, i.e. bonds are used as collaterals for loans, the difference being of legal nature. In the repos the ownership of the collateral changes to the ECB until the loan is repaid.
Question: Who retains ownership of the collateral until the debt is paid?
Answer: ECB
Question: Since the ECB doesn't buy bonds outright, how are they used?
Answer: refinancing facilities
Question: What is the manner in which bonds are used at refinancing facilities?
Answer: repurchase agreements, or collateralised loans
Question: Who buys the bonds instead of using them in reverse transactions?
Answer: the Fed
Question: Who loses ownership of the collateral until the debt is paid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the manner in which bonds are lost at refinancing facilities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who steals the bonds instead of using them in reverse transactions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who always buys bonds outright?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 2011 the National Archives initiated a Wikiproject on the English Wikipedia to expand collaboration in making its holdings widely available through Wikimedia.
Question: In 2011, what sort of Wikipedia addition did the National Archives make?
Answer: Wikiproject
Question: What was the purpose of creating a Wikiproject?
Answer: expand collaboration
Question: Whose idea was it for the National Archives to work with Wikimedia?
Answer: National Archives
Question: What benefit does public reap from the National Archives working with Wikimedia?
Answer: holdings widely available
Question: Which language was the Wikiproject primarily created in?
Answer: English
Question: In what language was Wikipedia first published in in 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the purpose behind the creation of Wikimedia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Wikimedia want saved in the English National Archives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Wikipedia want its holdings available through?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did English Wikipedia want to expand in 2011?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Since World War II, aircraft carrier designs have increased in size to accommodate a steady increase in aircraft size. The large, modern Nimitz class of US carriers has a displacement nearly four times that of the World War II–era USS Enterprise, yet its complement of aircraft is roughly the same—a consequence of the steadily increasing size and weight of military aircraft over the years. Today's aircraft carriers are so expensive that nations which operate them risk significant political, economic, and military impact if a carrier is lost, or even used in conflict.
Question: Why have aircraft carriers increased in size since World War II?
Answer: to accommodate a steady increase in aircraft size
Question: How much more displacement does the modern Nimitz class have compared to the older USS Enterprise?
Answer: nearly four times
Question: Why do nations risk significant political impacts if a carrier is lost or even used in conflict?
Answer: Today's aircraft carriers are so expensive
Question: Which era does the USS Enterprise belong to?
Answer: World War II
Question: Why have aircraft carriers increased in size since World War I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much more displacement does the modern Nimitz class have compared to the newer USS Enterprise?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do nations risk minimal political impacts if a carrier is lost or even used in conflict?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which era does the USA Enterprise belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Today's aircraft carriers are so cheap that nations which operate them risk what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The 7th and 6th centuries BC witnessed the composition of the earliest Upanishads. Upanishads form the theoretical basis of classical Hinduism and are known as Vedanta (conclusion of the Vedas). The older Upanishads launched attacks of increasing intensity on the ritual. Anyone who worships a divinity other than the Self is called a domestic animal of the gods in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The Mundaka launches the most scathing attack on the ritual by comparing those who value sacrifice with an unsafe boat that is endlessly overtaken by old age and death.
Question: When were the earliest Upanishads composed?
Answer: 7th and 6th centuries BC
Question: Of what philosophical system do the Upanishads form the basis?
Answer: Hinduism
Question: What are the Upanishads called in Hinduism?
Answer: Vedanta
Question: What part of the Hinduism belief system did the Upanishads attack?
Answer: ritual
Question: What worship system is central to Hinduism?
Answer: Self
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Context: On the morning of 11 September 2001, 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners all bound for California. Once the hijackers assumed control of the airliners, they told the passengers that they had the bomb on board and would spare the lives of passengers and crew once their demands were met – no passenger and crew actually suspected that they would use the airliners as suicide weapons since it had never happened before in history. The hijackers – members of al-Qaeda's Hamburg cell – intentionally crashed two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Both buildings collapsed within two hours from fire damage related to the crashes, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington D.C., to target the White House, or the U.S. Capitol. No flights had survivors. A total of 2,977 victims and the 19 hijackers perished in the attacks.
Question: How many al-Qaeda operatives hijacked planes on 9/11?
Answer: 19
Question: How many planes were hijacked on 9/11?
Answer: four
Question: Where were the 9/11 planes originally going?
Answer: California
Question: Which al-Qaeda cell were the 9/11 hijackers members of?
Answer: Hamburg
Question: How soon after planes crashed into them did the WTC towers collapse?
Answer: within two hours
Question: What building is located in Shanksville, Virginia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area of Arlington, Pennsylvania did the fourth plane crash?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many victims perished in addition to the 11 hijackers in the attacks?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where were the airliners leaving from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did it take for the Pentagon to collapse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many passengers died?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cell were the passengers and crew part of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which plane crashed into the White House?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The military effectiveness of bombing varied. The Luftwaffe dropped around 45,000 short tons (41,000 t) of bombs during the Blitz disrupting production and transport, reducing food supplies and shaking the British morale. It also helped to support the U-Boat blockade by sinking some 58,000 long tons (59,000 t) of shipping destroyed and 450,000 long tons (460,000 t) damaged. Yet, overall the British production rose steadily throughout this period although there were significant falls during April 1941, probably influenced by the departure of workers of Easter Holidays according to the British official history. The British official history on war production noted the great impact was upon the supply of components rather than complete equipment. In aircraft production, the British were denied the opportunity to reach the planned target of 2,500 aircraft in a month, arguably the greatest achievement of the bombing, as it forced the dispersal of industry. In April 1941, when the targets were British ports, rifle production fell by 25%, filled-shell production by 4.6%, and in smallarms production 4.5% overall. The strategic impact on industrial cities was varied; most took from 10–15 days to recover from heavy raids, although Belfast and Liverpool took longer. The attacks against Birmingham took war industries some three months to recover fully from. The exhausted population took three weeks to overcome the effects of an attack.
Question: The Luftwaffe used how many short tons of bombs during the Blitz?
Answer: 45,000 short tons
Question: The Luftwaffe helped the U-boats by sinking how much shipping?
Answer: 58,000 long tons
Question: How did the British production fare as a result of all the bombing?
Answer: overall the British production rose steadily throughout this period
Question: What was the greatest achievement of the bombings?
Answer: British were denied the opportunity to reach the planned target of 2,500 aircraft in a month
Question: How long was the recovery of industrial cities from raids?
Answer: most took from 10–15 days
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Context: On October 28, 2015, IBM announced its acquisition of digital assets from The Weather Company—a holding company of Bain Capital, The Blackstone Group and NBCUniversal which owns The Weather Channel, including its weather data platforms (such as Weather Services International), websites (Weather.com and Weather Underground) and mobile apps. The acquisition seeks to use Watson for weather analytics and predictions. The acquisition does not include The Weather Channel itself, which will enter into a long-term licensing agreement with IBM for use of its data. The sale closed on January 29, 2016
Question: IBM acquired digital assets of this company on October 28, 2015.
Answer: The Weather Company
Question: What will IBM use to analyze weather and make predictions?
Answer: Watson
Question: When did the sale of Weather Company assets close?
Answer: January 29, 2016
Question: The Weather Channel entered into what with IBM?
Answer: long-term licensing agreement
Question: Bain Capital is a holding company of which company?
Answer: The Weather Company
Question: What did Bain Capital acquire from The Weather Company in 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What will Bain Capital seek to use Watson for in this acquisition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why will The Weather Channel enter into a long-term agreement with NBCUniversal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the sale of The Blackstone Group assets close?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Bain Capital become incorporated?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The coronation of Charlemagne as emperor on Christmas Day 800 is regarded as a turning point in medieval history, marking a return of the Western Roman Empire, since the new emperor ruled over much of the area previously controlled by the western emperors. It also marks a change in Charlemagne's relationship with the Byzantine Empire, as the assumption of the imperial title by the Carolingians asserted their equivalence to the Byzantine state. There were several differences between the newly established Carolingian Empire and both the older Western Roman Empire and the concurrent Byzantine Empire. The Frankish lands were rural in character, with only a few small cities. Most of the people were peasants settled on small farms. Little trade existed and much of that was with the British Isles and Scandinavia, in contrast to the older Roman Empire with its trading networks centred on the Mediterranean. The empire was administered by an itinerant court that travelled with the emperor, as well as approximately 300 imperial officials called counts, who administered the counties the empire had been divided into. Clergy and local bishops served as officials, as well as the imperial officials called missi dominici, who served as roving inspectors and troubleshooters.
Question: On what date did Charlemagne assume the imperial title?
Answer: Christmas Day 800
Question: Of what class were most inhabitants of the Carolingian Empire?
Answer: peasants
Question: About how many counts existed in the Carolingian Empire?
Answer: 300
Question: In what settlements did most inhabitants of the Carolingian Empire live?
Answer: small farms
Question: Along with the British Isles, with what land did the Carolingians trade?
Answer: Scandinavia
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Context: Orientalist scholars of the 18th century like Sir William Jones marked a wave of enthusiasm for Indian culture and for Sanskrit. According to Thomas Trautmann, after this period of "Indomania", a certain hostility to Sanskrit and to Indian culture in general began to assert itself in early 19th century Britain, manifested by a neglect of Sanskrit in British academia. This was the beginning of a general push in favor of the idea that India should be culturally, religiously and linguistically assimilated to Britain as far as possible. Trautmann considers two separate and logically opposite sources for the growing hostility: one was "British Indophobia", which he calls essentially a developmentalist, progressivist, liberal, and non-racial-essentialist critique of Hindu civilisation as an aid for the improvement of India along European lines; the other was scientific racism, a theory of the English "common-sense view" that Indians constituted a "separate, inferior and unimprovable race".
Question: When was Sanskrit and Indian culture popular?
Answer: 18th century
Question: In what century was Indian culture accorded a more hostile reception?
Answer: early 19th century
Question: How did the British academics show their feelings about Sanskrit?
Answer: neglect
Question: What did British of the 19th century want India to be as soon as possible?
Answer: assimilated to Britain
Question: Besides assimilation of British culture, what else did the British consider Indians to be?
Answer: inferior
Question: What did Sir William Jones create enthusiasm about in the 17th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was there a hostility towards in 19th century India?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who held fast to the teaching of Sanskrit in Britain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what ways did Britain believe that India and Britain needed to be separated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Trautmann believe was the cause of India believing that there culture was superior?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In some design instances, materials used on walls and furniture play a key role in the lighting effect< for example dark paint tends to absorb light, making the room appear smaller and more dim than it is, whereas light paint does the opposite. In addition to paint, reflective surfaces also have an effect on lighting design.
Question: What type of paint tends to absorb light?
Answer: dark paint
Question: What kind of paint makes a room a room look larger and brighter?
Answer: light paint
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Context: Matte solder is usually fused to provide a better bonding surface or stripped to bare copper. Treatments, such as benzimidazolethiol, prevent surface oxidation of bare copper. The places to which components will be mounted are typically plated, because untreated bare copper oxidizes quickly, and therefore is not readily solderable. Traditionally, any exposed copper was coated with solder by hot air solder levelling (HASL). The HASL finish prevents oxidation from the underlying copper, thereby guaranteeing a solderable surface. This solder was a tin-lead alloy, however new solder compounds are now used to achieve compliance with the RoHS directive in the EU and US, which restricts the use of lead. One of these lead-free compounds is SN100CL, made up of 99.3% tin, 0.7% copper, 0.05% nickel, and a nominal of 60ppm germanium.
Question: What happens to untreated copper that makes it difficult to solder?
Answer: oxidizes
Question: What chemical treatment will prevent bare copper from oxidizing?
Answer: benzimidazolethiol
Question: What's the process by which bare copper gets covered in solder?
Answer: hot air solder levelling
Question: What does hot air solder leveling ensure the coated copper will have?
Answer: solderable surface
Question: What alloy can no longer be used in HASL because of restrictions on the use of one of its metal components?
Answer: tin-lead
Question: Shiny solder is usually fused to do what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What encourages surface oxidation of bare copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Traditionally, any exposed silver was coated with what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The HASL finish encourages oxidation from what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is now used in compliance with the RoHS directive in the EU and China?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: With continuing European integration, the European Union is increasingly being seen as a great power in its own right, with representation at the WTO and at G8 and G-20 summits. This is most notable in areas where the European Union has exclusive competence (i.e. economic affairs). It also reflects a non-traditional conception of Europe's world role as a global "civilian power", exercising collective influence in the functional spheres of trade and diplomacy, as an alternative to military dominance. The European Union is a supranational union and not a sovereign state, and has limited scope in the areas of foreign affairs and defence policy. These remain largely with the member states of the European Union, which include the three great powers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom (referred to as the "EU three").
Question: What organization is often seen as a great power in addition to member counties?
Answer: European Union
Question: What other tools are used as alternative to military force?
Answer: trade and diplomacy
Question: How many great powers are members of Europian Union?
Answer: three
Question: What summits does EU have membership?
Answer: WTO and at G8 and G-20
Question: Where does Europe use its military dominance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: As a supranational union, what are the UK's limits?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many great powers are members of the WTO?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: At what summits does Germany have representation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what area is the WTO exclusively competent?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Since the middle of the 19th century, Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement in a series of similar documents known as the Old Charges, dating from the Regius Poem in about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century. Alluding to the membership of a lodge of operative masons, they relate a mythologised history of the craft, the duties of its grades, and the manner in which oaths of fidelity are to be taken on joining. The fifteenth century also sees the first evidence of ceremonial regalia.
Question: When did ceremonial regalia first appear in the Masonic culture?
Answer: The fifteenth century
Question: How long have historians been seeking information about the Masonic movement?
Answer: middle of the 19th century
Question: What kind of an oath do Masons take when they join?
Answer: fidelity
Question: What is the oldest written document about Freemasonary?
Answer: Regius Poem
Question: When was the Regius Poem written?
Answer: 1425
Question: When did Masonic historians star seeking the origins of the Masonic Movement?
Answer: middle of the 19th century
Question: What are the old Masonic document referred as?
Answer: Old Charges
Question: The Old Charges are dated from when to when?
Answer: about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century
Question: The fifteenth century also shows evidence of what in Masonic history?
Answer: ceremonial regalia.
Question: The duties of its grades is an example of what historic documents?
Answer: Old Charges
Question: When did ceremonial regalia last appear in the Masonic culture?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long have historians been hiding information about the Masonic movement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of an oath do Masons refuse to take when they join?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Regius Poem stolen?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the new Masonic documents referred as?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Contrarily, having so firmly entrenched themselves into Greek affairs, the Romans now completely ignored the rapidly disintegrating Seleucid empire (perhaps because it posed no threat); and left the Ptolemaic kingdom to decline quietly, while acting as a protector of sorts, in as much as to stop other powers taking Egypt over (including the famous line-in-the-sand incident when the Seleucid Antiochus IV Epiphanes tried to invade Egypt). Eventually, instability in the near east resulting from the power vacuum left by the collapse of the Seleucid empire caused the Roman proconsul Pompey the Great to abolish the Seleucid rump state, absorbing much of Syria into the Roman republic. Famously, the end of Ptolemaic Egypt came as the final act in the republican civil war between the Roman triumvirs Mark Anthony and Augustus Caesar. After the defeat of Anthony and his lover, the last Ptolemaic monarch, Cleopatra VII at the Battle of Actium, Augustus invaded Egypt and took it as his own personal fiefdom. He thereby completed both the destruction of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman republic, and ended (in hindsight) the Hellenistic era.
Question: Who tried to invade Egypt in the famous line-in-the-sand incident?
Answer: Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Question: Which Roman proconsul ablished the Seleucid rump state?
Answer: Pompey the Great
Question: Who was the last Ptolemaic monarch?
Answer: Cleopatra VII
Question: At what battle was Mark Anthony defeated?
Answer: Battle of Actium
Question: What region did Augustus take on as his personal fiefdom?
Answer: Egypt
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Context: Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons. Starting in the pontificate of Pope John XXIII, that limit has been exceeded. At the start of 1971, Pope Paul VI set the number of cardinal electors at a maximum of 120, but set no limit on the number of cardinals generally. He also established a maximum age of eighty years for electors. His action deprived twenty-five living cardinals, including the three living cardinals elevated by Pope Pius XI, of the right to participate in a conclave.[citation needed] Popes can dispense from church laws and have sometimes brought the number of cardinals under the age of 80 to more than 120. Pope Paul VI also increased the number of cardinal bishops by giving that rank to patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
Question: Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to?
Answer: 70
Question: What did the composition of the cardinals consist of?
Answer: comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons.
Question: During who's term did the ruling exceed?
Answer: Pope John XXIII
Question: Pope Paul VI increse the number of cardinal electors to?
Answer: 120
Question: What is the maximum age for electors?
Answer: 80
Question: Pope Paul VI raised the cap on cardinal electors from 70 to what?
Answer: 120
Question: Pope Paul VI had no cap on what?
Answer: the number of cardinals generally
Question: What was the limit of cardinals that Pope Pius implemented?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the composition of popes consist of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who implemented the maximum age of 60 years for electors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who gave a rank to patriarchs of the Western Catholic Churches?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can popes not dispense from?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Aposematism, where organisms are brightly colored as a warning to predators, is the antithesis of camouflage. Some organisms pose a threat to their predators—for example they may be poisonous, or able to harm them physically. Aposematic coloring involves bright, easily recognizable and unique colors and patterns. For example, bright coloration in Variable Checkerspot butterflies leads to decreased predation attempts by avian predators. Upon being harmed (e.g., stung) by their prey, the appearance in such an organism will be remembered as something to avoid. While that particular prey organism may be killed, the coloring benefits the prey species as a whole.
Question: What scientific term is used to describe organisms that are brightly colored as a warning to predators?
Answer: Aposematism
Question: Does aposematism benefit only the organism ddirectly, or the entire population as a whole?
Answer: species as a whole
Question: How does aposematism help a species population?
Answer: Upon being harmed (e.g., stung) by their prey, the appearance in such an organism will be remembered as something to avoid
Question: What visual cues are characteristic of aposematism?
Answer: bright, easily recognizable and unique colors and patterns
Question: What term means how predators avoid a dangerous prey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do predators use to warn their prey?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What benefit does camoflage give the Variable Checkerspot butterfly?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group benefits from using camoflage if an organism is killed using it?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does a predator see a species using camflage as?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) resource for the public and the government. Congress has charged NARA with reviewing FOIA policies, procedures and compliance of Federal agencies and to recommend changes to FOIA. NARA's mission also includes resolving FOIA disputes between Federal agencies and requesters.
Question: OGIS provides what resource for the government and public?
Answer: FOIA
Question: What type of dispute does NARA typically resolve?
Answer: FOIA disputes
Question: NARA is ordered by congress to review what type of policies?
Answer: FOIA policies
Question: What types of recommendations does NARA provide to congress?
Answer: changes to FOIA
Question: What types of disputes do Federal agencies usually solve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of policies does NARA have Congress review annually?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does NARA have Congress also recommend if needed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups does Congress make itself a resource for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups does the public make sure are in compliance with FOIA?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Chopin took the new salon genre of the nocturne, invented by the Irish composer John Field, to a deeper level of sophistication. He was the first to write ballades and scherzi as individual concert pieces. He essentially established a new genre with his own set of free-standing preludes (Op. 28, published 1839). He exploited the poetic potential of the concept of the concert étude, already being developed in the 1820s and 1830s by Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles, in his two sets of studies (Op. 10 published in 1833, Op. 25 in 1837).
Question: Who is credited with creating the nocturne?
Answer: John Field
Question: Chopin was the first person to create what as singular concert pieces?
Answer: ballades and scherzi
Question: What new genre di John Field invent?
Answer: nocturne
Question: Chopin was first in writing what for concerts?
Answer: ballades and scherzi
Question: What musical concept did Chopin exploit?
Answer: concert étude
Question: What three other musicians were developing the new genre?
Answer: Liszt, Clementi and Moscheles
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Context: Most capacitors have numbers printed on their bodies to indicate their electrical characteristics. Larger capacitors like electrolytics usually display the actual capacitance together with the unit (for example, 220 μF). Smaller capacitors like ceramics, however, use a shorthand consisting of three numeric digits and a letter, where the digits indicate the capacitance in pF (calculated as XY × 10Z for digits XYZ) and the letter indicates the tolerance (J, K or M for ±5%, ±10% and ±20% respectively).
Question: How do larger capacitors present their electrical characteristics?
Answer: display the actual capacitance together with the unit (for example, 220 μF)
Question: What does the abbreviated electrical characteristics of smaller capacitors consist of?
Answer: three numeric digits and a letter
Question: What part of the electrical characteristics of smaller capacitors do the digits of the abbreviated notation represent ?
Answer: the digits indicate the capacitance
Question: What does the letter of the abbreviated notation for the electrical characteristics of smaller capacitors represent?
Answer: the letter indicates the tolerance
Question: In what SI unit is the capacitance reported on smaller capacitors?
Answer: in pF
Question: How do larger capacitors hide their electrical characteristics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the abbreviated electrical characteristics of larger capacitors consist of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What part of the electrical characteristics of larger capacitors do the digits of the abbreviated notation represent ?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the letter of the abbreviated notation for the electrical characteristics of larger capacitors represent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what SI unit is the capacitance reported on larger capacitors?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Karl Popper was born in Vienna (then in Austria-Hungary) in 1902, to upper middle-class parents. All of Karl Popper's grandparents were Jewish, but the Popper family converted to Lutheranism before Karl was born, and so he received Lutheran baptism. They understood this as part of their cultural assimilation, not as an expression of devout belief. Karl's father Simon Siegmund Carl Popper was a lawyer from Bohemia and a doctor of law at the Vienna University, and mother Jenny Schiff was of Silesian and Hungarian descent. After establishing themselves in Vienna, the Poppers made a rapid social climb in Viennese society: Simon Siegmund Carl became a partner in the law firm of Vienna's liberal Burgomaster Herr Grübl and, after Grübl's death in 1898, Simon took over the business. (Malachi Hacohen records that Herr Grübl's first name was Raimund, after which Karl received his middle name. Popper himself, in his autobiography, erroneously recalls that Herr Grübl's first name was Carl.) His father was a bibliophile who had 12,000–14,000 volumes in his personal library. Popper inherited both the library and the disposition from him.
Question: In which city was Karl Popper born?
Answer: Vienna
Question: What religion did Popper's family observe during his youth?
Answer: Lutheranism
Question: Whose law firm did Popper's father join in Vienna?
Answer: Burgomaster Herr Grübl
Question: What numerical range of volumes did Popper's father keep in his library?
Answer: 12,000–14,000
Question: What disposition regarding books did Popper inherit from his father?
Answer: bibliophile
Question: What year did Karl Popper pass away?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Popper family convert to after Karl was born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Karl Popper's mother's profession?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who took over the business after Simon's death?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many books did Karl's mother have in her library?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1954, Eisenhower articulated the domino theory in his outlook towards communism in Southeast Asia and also in Central America. He believed that if the communists were allowed to prevail in Vietnam, this would cause a succession of countries to fall to communism, from Laos through Malaysia and Indonesia ultimately to India. Likewise, the fall of Guatemala would end with the fall of neighboring Mexico. That year the loss of North Vietnam to the communists and the rejection of his proposed European Defence Community (EDC) were serious defeats, but he remained optimistic in his opposition to the spread of communism, saying "Long faces don't win wars". As he had threatened the French in their rejection of EDC, he afterwards moved to restore West Germany, as a full NATO partner.
Question: What country did Eisenhower believe communists would conquer if they took over Guatemala?
Answer: Mexico
Question: The domino theory was applied to Central America and what other region?
Answer: Southeast Asia
Question: In what year was Eisenhower's EDC rejected?
Answer: 1954
Question: What country was made a full partner in NATO as the result of the failure of EDC?
Answer: West Germany
Question: According to Eisenhower, all of Southeast Asia would become communist if the communist insurgency won in what country?
Answer: Vietnam
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Context: Portugal has developed a specific culture while being influenced by various civilizations that have crossed the Mediterranean and the European continent, or were introduced when it played an active role during the Age of Discovery. In the 1990s and 2000s (decade), Portugal modernized its public cultural facilities, in addition to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation established in 1956 in Lisbon. These include the Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, Serralves Foundation and the Casa da Música, both in Porto, as well as new public cultural facilities like municipal libraries and concert halls that were built or renovated in many municipalities across the country. Portugal is home to fifteen UNESCO World Heritage Sites, ranking it 8th in Europe and 17th in the world.
Question: Portugal modernized its public cultural facilities during what two decades?
Answer: 1990s and 2000s
Question: In what year was the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation established?
Answer: 1956
Question: Where was the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation established?
Answer: Lisbon
Question: What are some examples of Portugal's public cultural facilities?
Answer: Belém Cultural Centre in Lisbon, Serralves Foundation and the Casa da Música
Question: How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites is Portugal home to?
Answer: fifteen
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Context: Bernanke explained that between 1996 and 2004, the U.S. current account deficit increased by $650 billion, from 1.5% to 5.8% of GDP. Financing these deficits required the country to borrow large sums from abroad, much of it from countries running trade surpluses. These were mainly the emerging economies in Asia and oil-exporting nations. The balance of payments identity requires that a country (such as the U.S.) running a current account deficit also have a capital account (investment) surplus of the same amount. Hence large and growing amounts of foreign funds (capital) flowed into the U.S. to finance its imports.
Question: Per Bernanke, how much did the U.S. current account deficit increase between 1996 and 2004?
Answer: $650 billion
Question: What percentage of GDP was the U.S. current account deficit in 2004?
Answer: 5.8%
Question: What emerging economies did the U.S. borrow money from between 1996 and 2004 to finance its imports?
Answer: Asia and oil-exporting nations
Question: What type account is needed by the U.S. to balance an account deficit?
Answer: capital account
Question: Where did the U.S. obtain capital to finance its imports?
Answer: foreign funds
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Context: In the Romantic era, the modern piano, with a more powerful, sustained tone and a wider range took over from the more delicate-sounding fortepiano. In the orchestra, the existing Classical instruments and sections were retained (string section, woodwinds, brass and percussion), but these sections were typically expanded to make a fuller, bigger sound. For example, while a Baroque orchestra may have had two double bass players, a Romantic orchestra could have as many as ten. "As music grew more expressive, the standard orchestral palette just wasn't rich enough for many Romantic composers." New woodwind instruments were added, such as the contrabassoon, bass clarinet and piccolo and new percussion instruments were added, including xylophones, drums, celestes (a bell-like keyboard instrument), large orchestral harps, bells, and triangles and even wind machines for sound effects.
Question: What instrument did the modern piano take over for in the Romantic era?
Answer: fortepiano
Question: How many double bass players were typically used in the Baroque orchestra?
Answer: two
Question: What wasn't rich enough for many Romantic composers?
Answer: the standard orchestral palette
Question: Classical sections were expanded in the Romantic era for a fuller and bigger what?
Answer: sound
Question: What is a celestes?
Answer: a bell-like keyboard instrument
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Context: Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea immediately across the Gulf of Finland from Finland on the level northwestern part of the rising East European platform between 57.3° and 59.5° N and 21.5° and 28.1° E. Average elevation reaches only 50 metres (164 ft) and the country's highest point is the Suur Munamägi in the southeast at 318 metres (1,043 ft). There is 3,794 kilometres (2,357 mi) of coastline marked by numerous bays, straits, and inlets. The number of islands and islets is estimated at some 2,355 (including those in lakes). Two of them are large enough to constitute separate counties: Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. A small, recent cluster of meteorite craters, the largest of which is called Kaali is found on Saaremaa, Estonia.
Question: What body of water borders Estonia?
Answer: the Baltic Sea
Question: What is the average elevation of Estonia?
Answer: 50 metres (164 ft)
Question: What is Estonia's highest mountain point?
Answer: the Suur Munamägi
Question: How tall is the the Suur Munamägi?
Answer: 318 metres (1,043 ft)
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Context: In 1986, Michael Dell brought in Lee Walker, a 51-year-old venture capitalist, as president and chief operating officer, to serve as Michael's mentor and implement Michael's ideas for growing the company. Walker was also instrumental in recruiting members to the board of directors when the company went public in 1988. Walker retired in 1990 due to health, and Michael Dell hired Morton Meyerson, former CEO and president of Electronic Data Systems to transform the company from a fast-growing medium-sized firm into a billion-dollar enterprise.
Question: What year did Michael Dell bring in Lee Walker to the company?
Answer: 1986
Question: What did Lee Walker recruit members to Dell for?
Answer: board of directors
Question: What year did Walker retire?
Answer: 1990
Question: What was Morton Meyerson's position at his former company?
Answer: CEO
Question: What year didn't Michael Dell bring in Lee Walker to the company?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What didn't Lee Walker recruit members to Dell for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Walker die?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Morton Meyerson's position at his current company?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Morton Dell's position at his former company?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The 1950s and early 1960s are considered by many to be a golden age of Greek cinema. Directors and actors of this era were recognized as important historical figures in Greece and some gained international acclaim: Irene Papas, Melina Mercouri, Mihalis Kakogiannis, Alekos Sakellarios, Nikos Tsiforos, Iakovos Kambanelis, Katina Paxinou, Nikos Koundouros, Ellie Lambeti, and others. More than sixty films per year were made, with the majority having film noir elements. Notable films were Η κάλπικη λίρα (1955 directed by Giorgos Tzavellas), Πικρό Ψωμί (1951, directed by Grigoris Grigoriou), O Drakos (1956 directed by Nikos Koundouros), Stella (1955 directed by Cacoyannis and written by Kampanellis).
Question: Which time period is considered the golden age of Greek cinema?
Answer: 1950s and early 1960s
Question: During the Greek cinema golden age, how many films were made each year?
Answer: More than sixty
Question: Who directed the movie O Drakos in 1956?
Answer: Nikos Koundouros
Question: Who directed the movie Stella in 1955?
Answer: Cacoyannis
Question: Who wrote the movie Stella in 1955?
Answer: Kampanellis
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Context: In Western culture, the study of politics is first found in Ancient Greece. The antecedents of European politics trace their roots back even earlier than Plato and Aristotle, particularly in the works of Homer, Hesiod, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Euripides. Later, Plato analyzed political systems, abstracted their analysis from more literary- and history- oriented studies and applied an approach we would understand as closer to philosophy. Similarly, Aristotle built upon Plato's analysis to include historical empirical evidence in his analysis.
Question: Where did studying politics originate?
Answer: Ancient Greece
Question: What did Plato study?
Answer: political systems
Question: What method did Plato use to understand political systems?
Answer: philosophy
Question: What did Aristotle add to Plato's work?
Answer: historical empirical evidence
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Context: The LSPU Hall is home to the Resource Centre for the Arts. The "Hall" hosts a vibrant and diverse arts community and is regarded as the backbone of artistic infrastructure and development in the downtown. The careers of many well-known Newfoundland artists were launched there including Rick Mercer, Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Andy Jones and Greg Thomey. The St. John's Arts and Culture Centre houses an art gallery, libraries and a 1000-seat theatre, which is the city's major venue for entertainment productions.
Question: Where is the Resource Centre for the Arts?
Answer: The LSPU Hall
Question: How many seats does the St. John's Arts and Culture theatre have?
Answer: 1000
Question: Where in the city is the LSPU Hall?
Answer: downtown
Question: Where is Rick Mercer from?
Answer: Newfoundland
Question: What hall is located in the Resource Centre for the Arts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What artist support the Resource Centre for the Arts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other entertainment buildings can be found in the city?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Annelids' cuticles are made of collagen fibers, usually in layers that spiral in alternating directions so that the fibers cross each other. These are secreted by the one-cell deep epidermis (outermost skin layer). A few marine annelids that live in tubes lack cuticles, but their tubes have a similar structure, and mucus-secreting glands in the epidermis protect their skins. Under the epidermis is the dermis, which is made of connective tissue, in other words a combination of cells and non-cellular materials such as collagen. Below this are two layers of muscles, which develop from the lining of the coelom (body cavity): circular muscles make a segment longer and slimmer when they contract, while under them are longitudinal muscles, usually four distinct strips, whose contractions make the segment shorter and fatter. Some annelids also have oblique internal muscles that connect the underside of the body to each side.
Question: How are the layers arranged in annelids' cuticles?
Answer: spiral in alternating directions
Question: What are annelids' cuticles made out of?
Answer: collagen fibers
Question: What do non-cuticle annelids use to protect their skin?
Answer: mucus-secreting glands in the epidermis
Question: What layer is under the epidermis?
Answer: the dermis
Question: What does 'coelom' mean?
Answer: (body cavity
Question: How are the eyes arranged in annelids' cuticles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are annelids' brain made out of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do non-cuticle annelids use to protect their offspring?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What annelid is under the epidermis?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The National Archives Building, known informally as Archives I, located north of the National Mall on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., opened as its original headquarters in 1935. It holds the original copies of the three main formative documents of the United States and its government: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. It also hosts a copy of the 1297 Magna Carta confirmed by Edward I. These are displayed to the public in the main chamber of the National Archives, which is called the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom. The National Archives Building also exhibits other important American historical documents such as the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the Emancipation Proclamation, and collections of photography and other historically and culturally significant American artifacts.
Question: What is the informal name of The National Archives Building?
Answer: Archives I
Question: On what street is the The National Archives Building located?
Answer: Constitution Avenue
Question: Where is the Declaration of Independence kept?
Answer: The National Archives Building
Question: Where in the National Archives can you view a copy of the Magna Carta?
Answer: main chamber
Question: Where is the Louisiana Purchase Treaty kept?
Answer: The National Archives Building
Question: In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation written?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is a statue of Edward I located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Edward I like to have a collection of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What document was written by Edward I in 1297?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What documents are kept at the National Mall?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Waitz defined anthropology as "the science of the nature of man". By nature he meant matter animated by "the Divine breath"; i.e., he was an animist. Following Broca's lead, Waitz points out that anthropology is a new field, which would gather material from other fields, but would differ from them in the use of comparative anatomy, physiology, and psychology to differentiate man from "the animals nearest to him". He stresses that the data of comparison must be empirical, gathered by experimentation. The history of civilization as well as ethnology are to be brought into the comparison. It is to be presumed fundamentally that the species, man, is a unity, and that "the same laws of thought are applicable to all men".
Question: How did Waitz define anthropology?
Answer: the science of the nature of man
Question: What philosophical perspective did Waitz hold?
Answer: an animist
Question: What would anthropology use to differentiate man from the animals nearest him?
Answer: comparative anatomy, physiology, and psychology
Question: What did Waitz stress that the data of comparison must be?
Answer: empirical
Question: What history was to be brought into the comparison?
Answer: civilization
Question: How did Broca define anthropology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Broca define nature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: who followed Waitz lead and pointed out anthropology was a new field?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was to be compared to civilizations?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Polytechnics offer three-year diploma courses in fields such as information technology, engineering subjects and other vocational fields, like psychology and nursing. There are 5 polytechnics in Singapore. They are namely:
Question: How many polytechnics are there in Singapore?
Answer: 5
Question: How many years of study would it take to obtain a degree from a polytechnic in Singapore?
Answer: three
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Context: In 1953, the Republican Party's Old Guard presented Eisenhower with a dilemma by insisting he disavow the Yalta Agreements as beyond the constitutional authority of the Executive Branch; however, the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953 made the matter a practical moot point. At this time Eisenhower gave his Chance for Peace speech in which he attempted, unsuccessfully, to forestall the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union by suggesting multiple opportunities presented by peaceful uses of nuclear materials. Biographer Stephen Ambrose opined that this was the best speech of Eisenhower's presidency.
Question: What agreements did the GOP Old Guard want Eisenhower to abandon?
Answer: Yalta
Question: Why did the Old Guard say Eisenhower should void the Yalta Agreements?
Answer: beyond the constitutional authority of the Executive Branch
Question: What world leader died in March of 1953?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Question: What speech did Eisenhower give after Stalin died?
Answer: Chance for Peace
Question: Who called the Chance for Peace speech the best one Eisenhower gave as president?
Answer: Stephen Ambrose
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Context: Drinking habits and the motives behind them often reflect certain aspects of an individual's personality; in fact, four dimensions of the Five-Factor Model of personality demonstrate associations with drinking motives (all but 'Openness'). Greater enhancement motives for alcohol consumption tend to reflect high levels of extraversion and sensation-seeking in individuals; such enjoyment motivation often also indicates low conscientiousness, manifesting in lowered inhibition and a greater tendency towards aggression. On the other hand, drinking to cope with negative emotional states correlates strongly with high neuroticism and low agreeableness. Alcohol use as a negative emotion control mechanism often links with many other behavioral and emotional impairments, such as anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
Question: Which of the Five-Factor Model dimensions does not demonstrate an association with drinking motives?
Answer: Openness
Question: Is alcohol use a positive or negative emotion control mechanism?
Answer: negative
Question: Which motivation for drinking alcohol results in low conscientiousness, lowered inhibition, and greater tendency towards aggression?
Answer: enjoyment
Question: Drinking to cope with negative emotional states correlates strongly with what behavioral qualities?
Answer: high neuroticism and low agreeableness
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Context: Switzerland is one of the richest and wealthiest countries in the world. Switzerland ranks top or close to the top in several metrics of national performance, including government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and human development. It has the highest nominal wealth (financial and non-financial assets) per adult in the world according to Credit Suisse and the eighth-highest per capita gross domestic product on the IMF list. Zürich and Geneva have each been ranked among the top cities with the highest quality of life in the world, with the former ranked 2nd globally, according to Mercer.
Question: How does Switzerland rank worldwide in areas such as quality of life and civil liberties?
Answer: top or close to the top
Question: Which country has the highest nominal wealth per adult in the world according to Credit Suisse?
Answer: Switzerland
Question: Which two Swiss cities have been ranked as having the highest quality of life in the world?
Answer: Zürich and Geneva
Question: What assets are included in nominal wealth?
Answer: financial and non-financial
Question: What is Switzerland's ranking for per capita gross domestic product on the IMF list?
Answer: eighth-highest
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Context: In 1059, the right of electing the pope was reserved to the principal clergy of Rome and the bishops of the seven suburbicarian sees. In the 12th century the practice of appointing ecclesiastics from outside Rome as cardinals began, with each of them assigned a church in Rome as his titular church or linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses, while still being incardinated in a diocese other than that of Rome.[citation needed]
Question: In 1059, who was responsible for electing the pope?
Answer: the principal clergy of Rome and the bishops of the seven suburbicarian sees.
Question: What were the cardinals assigned?
Answer: a church in Rome as his titular church or linked with one of the suburbicarian dioceses
Question: Who did not have the right of electing the pope in 1059?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who held the right to appoint ecclesiastics from outside Rome in 1059?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the cardinals not assigned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where outside of Rome were the ecclesiastics assigned?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Historically, the cuisine of Estonia has been heavily dependent on seasons and simple peasant food, which today is influenced by many countries. Today, it includes many typical international foods.[citation needed] The most typical foods in Estonia are black bread, pork, potatoes, and dairy products. Traditionally in summer and spring, Estonians like to eat everything fresh – berries, herbs, vegetables, and everything else that comes straight from the garden. Hunting and fishing have also been very common, although currently hunting and fishing are enjoyed mostly as hobbies. Today, it is also very popular to grill outside in summer.
Question: What factors have influenced Estonian food for most of their history?
Answer: seasons and simple peasant food
Question: What are the most common foods in Estonia?
Answer: black bread, pork, potatoes, and dairy products.
Question: What fresh items do Estonians traditionally enjoy in summer and spring?
Answer: berries, herbs, vegetables
Question: What food gathering behaviors are now seen as hobbies in modern Estonian culture?
Answer: Hunting and fishing
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Context: The Centre For Co-Curricular Studies provides elective subjects and language courses outside the field of science for students in the other faculties and departments. Students are encouraged to take these classes either for credit or in their own time, and in some departments this is mandatory. Courses exist in a wide range of topics including philosophy, ethics in science and technology, history, modern literature and drama, art in the 20th century, film studies. Language courses are available in French, German, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. The Centre For Co-Curricular Studies is home to the Science Communication Unit which offers master's degrees in Science Communication and Science Media Production for science graduates.
Question: Which centre provides electives outside of science for students?
Answer: Centre For Co-Curricular Studies
Question: Outside of doing it on their own time, what other motivation could students have to take non mandatory electives?
Answer: credit
Question: Which unit is a part of the Co-Curricular Studies that offers master's degrees?
Answer: Science Communication Unit
Question: Scientists seeking a master's degree might be interested in which other degree besides Science Communication from the Science Communication Unit?
Answer: Science Media Production
Question: Where are elective science courses offered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are all students required to do on their own time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can students get a degree in mass communication?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language studies are required for students?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Quran consists of 114 chapters of varying lengths, each known as a sura. Suras are classified as Meccan or Medinan, depending on whether the verses were revealed before or after the migration of Muhammad to the city of Medina. However, a sura classified as Medinan may contain Meccan verses in it and vice versa. Sura titles are derived from a name or quality discussed in the text, or from the first letters or words of the sura. Suras are arranged roughly in order of decreasing size. The sura arrangement is thus not connected to the sequence of revelation. Each sura except the ninth starts with the Bismillah (بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم), an Arabic phrase meaning "In the name of God". There are, however, still 114 occurrences of the Bismillah in the Quran, due to its presence in Quran 27:30 as the opening of Solomon's letter to the Queen of Sheba.
Question: What is a chapter of the Quran called?
Answer: sura
Question: How many suras are in the Quran?
Answer: 114
Question: What two city-related categories divide the Quran's suras?
Answer: Meccan or Medinan
Question: What determines the order in which suras are placed in the Quran?
Answer: size
Question: Which Arabic phrase opens almost all suras?
Answer: Bismillah
Question: What is a chapter of the Quran not called?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many suras aren't in the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What three city-related categories divide the Quran's suras?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two city-related categories multiply the Quran's suras?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What determines the order in which suras aren't placed in the Quran?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Two airports serve Philadelphia: the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), straddling the southern boundary of the city, and the Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), a general aviation reliever airport in Northeast Philadelphia. Philadelphia International Airport provides scheduled domestic and international air service, while Northeast Philadelphia Airport serves general and corporate aviation. In 2013, Philadelphia International Airport was the 15th busiest airport in the world measured by traffic movements (i.e. takeoffs and landings). It is also the second largest hub and primary international hub for American Airlines.
Question: Name the main airport?
Answer: Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)
Question: Where does PHL rank in the list of busiest airports?
Answer: 15th
Question: What airline uses this airport as its primary international hub?
Answer: American Airlines
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Context: Loge continued during October. According to German sources, 9,000 short tons (8,200 t) of bombs were dropped in that month, of which about 10 percent of which was dropped in daylight. Over 6,000 short tons (5,400 t) was aimed at London during the night. Attacks on Birmingham and Coventry were subject to 500 short tons (450 t) of bombs between them in the last 10 days of October. Liverpool suffered 200 short tons (180 t) of bombs dropped. Hull and Glasgow were attacked, but 800 short tons (730 t) of bombs were spread out all over Britain. The Metropolitan-Vickers works in Manchester was targeted and 12 short tons (11 t) of bombs dropped against it. Little tonnage was dropped on Fighter Command airfields; Bomber Command airfields were hit instead.
Question: How much of the short tons of bombs were dropped during the day?
Answer: 10 percent
Question: What two cities had 500 short tons of bombs dropped on them during the end of October?
Answer: Birmingham and Coventry
Question: Liverpool had how many short tons dropped on it?
Answer: 200
Question: What was targeted with 12 short tons of bombs?
Answer: The Metropolitan-Vickers works in Manchester
Question: Which was targeted more heavily, bomber or fighter command airfields?
Answer: Bomber Command airfields
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Context: According to Hampshire Constabulary figures, Southampton is currently safer than it has ever been before, with dramatic reductions in violent crime year on year for the last three years. Data from the Southampton Safer City Partnership shows there has been a reduction in all crimes in recent years and an increase in crime detection rates. According to government figures Southampton has a higher crime rate than the national average. There is some controversy regarding comparative crime statisitics due to inconsistencies between different police forces recording methodologies. For example, in Hampshire all reported incidents are recorded and all records then retained. However, in neighbouring Dorset crimes reports withdrawn or shown to be false are not recorded, reducing apparent crime figures. In the violence against the person category, the national average is 16.7 per 1000 population while Southampton is 42.4 per 1000 population. In the theft from a vehicle category, the national average is 7.6 per 1000 compared to Southampton's 28.4 per 1000. Overall, for every 1,000 people in the city, 202 crimes are recorded. Hampshire Constabulary's figures for 2009/10 show fewer incidents of recorded crime in Southampton than the previous year.
Question: How many crimes overall are reported for each 1,000 people in Southampton?
Answer: 202
Question: Did Hampshire Constabulary record fewer or more crime incidents in 2009/10 than the year before?
Answer: fewer
Question: For how many consecutive years has violent crime in Southampton decreased?
Answer: three
Question: Is Southampton's crime rate higher or lower than the national average?
Answer: higher
Question: Which statistics are debated because of the different ways various police forces record crime?
Answer: comparative crime statisitics
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Context: Von Neumann made fundamental contributions in exploration of problems in numerical hydrodynamics. For example, with Robert D. Richtmyer he developed an algorithm defining artificial viscosity that improved the understanding of shock waves. A problem was that when computers solved hydrodynamic or aerodynamic problems, they tried to put too many computational grid points at regions of sharp discontinuity (shock waves). The mathematics of artificial viscosity smoothed the shock transition without sacrificing basic physics. Other well known contributions to fluid dynamics included the classic flow solution to blast waves, and the co-discovery of the ZND detonation model of explosives.
Question: The algorithm defining artificial viscosity is a fundamental contribution to what area?
Answer: numerical hydrodynamics
Question: What did the math of artificial viscosity do?
Answer: smoothed the shock transition without sacrificing basic physics
Question: What was the problem of computers solving fluid dynamics?
Answer: they tried to put too many computational grid points at regions of sharp discontinuity (shock waves)
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Context: Programming languages provide various ways of specifying programs for computers to run. Unlike natural languages, programming languages are designed to permit no ambiguity and to be concise. They are purely written languages and are often difficult to read aloud. They are generally either translated into machine code by a compiler or an assembler before being run, or translated directly at run time by an interpreter. Sometimes programs are executed by a hybrid method of the two techniques.
Question: Programming languages are translated into machine code by what?
Answer: a compiler or an assembler
Question: Programming languages are translated at run time by what?
Answer: an interpreter
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Context: The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command (CANSOFCOM) is a formation capable of operating independently but primarily focused on generating special operations forces (SOF) elements to support CJOC. The command includes Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2), the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit (CJIRU) based at CFB Trenton, as well as the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) and 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron (SOAS) based at CFB Petawawa.
Question: what does CANSOFCOM stand for?
Answer: The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command
Question: What is the CANSOFCOM focussed on?
Answer: generating special operations forces
Question: What do the special forces support?
Answer: CJOC
Question: Where is the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit based?
Answer: CFB Trenton
Question: How many Special Operations Aviation Squadron are based at Petawawa?
Answer: 427
Question: what does CANSOFCORN stand for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the CANSOFCOM not focused on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What don't the special forces support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the non-Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit based?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Special Operations Aviation Squadron aren't based at Petawawa?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In Pennsylvania, there are over sixty summits that rise over 2,500 ft (800 m); the summits of Mount Davis and Blue Knob rise over 3,000 ft (900 m). In Maryland, Eagle Rock and Dans Mountain are conspicuous points reaching 3,162 ft (964 m) and 2,882 ft (878 m) respectively. On the same side of the Great Valley, south of the Potomac, are the Pinnacle 3,007 feet (917 m) and Pidgeon Roost 3,400 ft (1,000 m). In West Virginia, more than 150 peaks rise above 4,000 ft (1,200 m), including Spruce Knob 4,863 ft (1,482 m), the highest point in the Allegheny Mountains. A number of other points in the state rise above 4,800 ft (1,500 m). Snowshoe Mountain at Thorny Flat 4,848 ft (1,478 m) and Bald Knob 4,842 ft (1,476 m) are among the more notable peaks in West Virginia.
Question: How many summits in PA are over 2,500 ft?
Answer: over sixty summits
Question: How tall are the summits of Mount Davis and Blue Knob?
Answer: over 3,000 ft
Question: How tall are Eagle Rock and Dans Mountain?
Answer: 3,162 ft (964 m) and 2,882 ft
Question: How tall is the Pinnacle?
Answer: 3,007 feet
Question: How many peaks are over 4,000 feet in WV?
Answer: more than 150 peaks
Question: How many summits are over 2500 ft in Maryland?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mountains are on the opposite side of the Great Valley from Dans Mountain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many peaks are over 3000ft in West Virginia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Besides Snowshoe, what is the name of the other mountain at Thorny Flat?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is south of the Pinnacle?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Windows 8 is available in three different editions, of which the lowest version, branded simply as Windows 8, and Windows 8 Pro, were sold at retail in most countries, and as pre-loaded software on new computers. Each edition of Windows 8 includes all of the capabilities and features of the edition below it, and add additional features oriented towards their market segments. For example, Pro added BitLocker, Hyper-V, the ability to join a domain, and the ability to install Windows Media Center as a paid add-on. Users of Windows 8 can purchase a "Pro Pack" license that upgrades their system to Windows 8 Pro through Add features to Windows. This license also includes Windows Media Center. Windows 8 Enterprise contains additional features aimed towards business environments, and is only available through volume licensing. A port of Windows 8 for ARM architecture, Windows RT, is marketed as an edition of Windows 8, but was only included as pre-loaded software on devices specifically developed for it.
Question: How many Windows 8 editions are there?
Answer: three
Question: What extras does Windows 8 Pro have?
Answer: BitLocker, Hyper-V, the ability to join a domain, and the ability to install Windows Media Center as a paid add-on
Question: What extras do Windows 8 Enterprise have?
Answer: features aimed towards business environments
Question: How would one get Windows RT?
Answer: as pre-loaded software on devices specifically developed for it
Question: How many Windows 8 editions aren't there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Windows 9 editions are there?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What extras does Windows 9 Pro have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What extras do Windows 9 Enterprise have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How would one get Windows TR?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: But the peace in the state did not last long, the elections of 1875 caused new hostilities. Ángel Trías led a new movement against the government in June 1875 and maintained control over the government until September 18, 1875 when Donato Guerra the orchestrator of the Revolution of the North was captured. Donato Guerra was assassinated in a suburb of Chihuahua City where he was incarcerated for conspiring with Ángel Trías. During October 1875 several locations were controlled by rebel forces, but the government finally regained control on November 25, 1875.
Question: The elections of which year caused new hostilities?
Answer: 1875
Question: Who led a movement against the government in June of 1875?
Answer: Ángel Trías
Question: Which orchestrator of the Revolution of the North was captured?
Answer: Donato Guerra
Question: Guerra was assassinated in a suburb of which city?
Answer: Chihuahua City
Question: With whom was he said to have conspired?
Answer: Ángel Trías
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Context: In early 2001, Apple began shipping computers with CD-RW drives and emphasized the Mac's ability to play DVDs by including DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives as standard. Steve Jobs admitted that Apple had been "late to the party" on writable CD technology, but felt that Macs could become a "digital hub" that linked and enabled an "emerging digital lifestyle". Apple would later introduce an update to its iTunes music player software that enabled it to burn CDs, along with a controversial "Rip, Mix, Burn" advertising campaign that some felt encouraged media piracy. This accompanied the release of the iPod, Apple's first successful handheld device. Apple continued to launch products, such as the unsuccessful Power Mac G4 Cube, the education-oriented eMac, and the titanium (and later aluminium) PowerBook G4 laptop for professionals.
Question: When did Apple begin shipping computers with CD-RW drives?
Answer: early 2001
Question: What did Apple begin offering as standard features meant for playing DVD's?
Answer: DVD-ROM and DVD-RAM drives
Question: Who admitted that Apple was late to the party with writable CD technology?
Answer: Steve Jobs
Question: Which Apple campaign did some people feel encouraged media piracy?
Answer: "Rip, Mix, Burn"
Question: What is the name of one of Apple's unsuccessful products?
Answer: Power Mac G4 Cube
Question: When did Microsoft begin shipping computers with CD-RW drives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Microsoft begin offering as standard features meant for playing DVD's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who admitted that Microsoft was late to the party with writable CD technology?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Apple campaign did some people feel discouraged media piracy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of one of Apple's successful products?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In addition to the mentioned late local newscasts, CBC stations in most markets fill early evenings with local news programs, generally from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., while most stations also air a single local newscast on weekend evenings (comprising a supper hour broadcast on Saturdays and a late evening newscast on Sundays). Other newscasts include parts of CBC News Now airing weekday at 6:00 a.m. and noon. Weekly newsmagazine the fifth estate is also a CBC mainstay, as are documentary series such as Doc Zone.
Question: What times are generally reserved for local newscasts?
Answer: from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Question: When do most other stations view their local newscasts?
Answer: weekend evenings
Question: When does CBC News Now air?
Answer: weekday at 6:00 a.m. and noon
Question: Consumers have complained that CBC stations tend to fill early evenings with what type of programming?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What popular CBC news program has won awards for their newscasts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What documentary series did the CBC recently gain rights to in order to increase their ratings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What weekly newsmagizine has played since the inception of the CBC station?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The term "domestic dog" is generally used for both of the domesticated and feral varieties. The English word dog comes from Middle English dogge, from Old English docga, a "powerful dog breed". The term may possibly derive from Proto-Germanic *dukkōn, represented in Old English finger-docce ("finger-muscle"). The word also shows the familiar petname diminutive -ga also seen in frogga "frog", picga "pig", stagga "stag", wicga "beetle, worm", among others. The term dog may ultimately derive from the earliest layer of Proto-Indo-European vocabulary.
Question: What is the Proto-Germanic word that "dog" may have come from?
Answer: dukkōn
Question: What may be the earliest vocabulary that the word "dog" came from?
Answer: Proto-Indo-European
Question: Where does the word dog originate?
Answer: Old English docga
Question: Dog could also come from the original layer of what vocabulary?
Answer: Proto-Indo-European
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Context: The Northern Mariana Islands had become a Japanese protectorate before the war. It was the Chamorros from the Northern Marianas who were brought to Guam to serve as interpreters and in other capacities for the occupying Japanese force. The Guamanian Chamorros were treated as an occupied enemy by the Japanese military. After the war, this would cause resentment between the Guamanian Chamorros and the Chamorros of the Northern Marianas. Guam's Chamorros believed their northern brethren should have been compassionate towards them, whereas having been occupied for over 30 years, the Northern Mariana Chamorros were loyal to Japan.
Question: Why were the Chamorros brought to Guam?
Answer: to serve as interpreters
Question: How were Guamanian Chamorro viewed by the Japanese?
Answer: as an occupied enemy
Question: Who were loyal to Japan?
Answer: Northern Mariana Chamorros
Question: How Northern Chamorro view Guamanian Chamorro?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For how many years did Japan occupy Guam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For how many years before the war had the Northern Mariana Islands been a Japanese protectorate?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who were the Guamanian Chamorro loyal to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With what attitude did the Northern Chamorro treat the Guamanian Chamorro during the occupation?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Moses, in 7:143, comes the way of those who are in love, he asks for a vision but his desire is denied, he is made to suffer by being commanded to look at other than the Beloved while the mountain is able to see God. The mountain crumbles and Moses faints at the sight of God's manifestation upon the mountain. In Qushayri's words, Moses came like thousands of men who traveled great distances, and there was nothing left to Moses of Moses. In that state of annihilation from himself, Moses was granted the unveiling of the realities. From the Sufi point of view, God is the always the beloved and the wayfarer's longing and suffering lead to realization of the truths.
Question: Beloved is a term for God used by which style of Quranic interpretation?
Answer: Sufi
Question: Which Quranic verse describes Moses' encounter with God at the mountain?
Answer: 7:143
Question: In Sufi thought, what experiences bring one closer to truth?
Answer: longing and suffering
Question: Who wrote that Moses had lost the Moses in himself along the way to his encounter with God?
Answer: Qushayri
Question: Beloved is a term for God used by which style of Quranic misinterpretation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Beloved is a term for God used by which style of Biblical interpretation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Biblical verse describes Moses' encounter with God at the mountain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Sufi thought, what experiences bring one farther from the truth?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote that Moses had found the Moses in himself along the way to his encounter with God?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On the second day, U.S. reconnaissance planes located Ozawa's fleet, 275 miles (443 km)[citation needed] away, and submarines sank two Japanese carriers. Mitscher launched 230 torpedo planes and dive bombers. He then discovered the enemy was actually another 60 miles (97 km)[citation needed] further off, out of aircraft range (based on a roundtrip flight). Mitscher decided this chance to destroy the Japanese fleet was worth the risk of aircraft losses due to running out of fuel on the return flight. Overall, the U.S. lost 130 planes and 76 aircrew; however, Japan lost 450 planes, three carriers, and 445 aircrew. The Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier force was effectively destroyed.
Question: On what day did U.S> planes located Ozawa's fleet?
Answer: second
Question: How many miles away was Ozawa's fleet located?
Answer: 275
Question: How many planes did the U.S. lose?
Answer: 130
Question: How many planes did Japan lose?
Answer: 450
Question: How many U.S. aircrews were lost?
Answer: 76
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Context: On 16 March 1938, Barcelona came under aerial bombardment from the Italian Air Force, causing more than 3,000 deaths, with one of the bombs hitting the club's offices. A few months later, Catalonia came under occupation and as a symbol of the "undisciplined" Catalanism, the club, now down to just 3,486 members, faced a number of restrictions. All signs of regional nationalism, including language, flag and other signs of separatism were banned throughout Spain. The Catalan flag was banned and the club were prohibited from using non-Spanish names. These measures forced the club to change its name to Club de Fútbol Barcelona and to remove the Catalan flag from its crest.
Question: When did the Italians bomb Barcelona?
Answer: 16 March 1938
Question: Why was club Barcelona placed under restrictions during the occupation?
Answer: "undisciplined" Catalanism
Question: What kind of signs were removed form club Barcelona?
Answer: regional nationalism
Question: What flag was removed from the club's crest?
Answer: Catalan
Question: What new named was the Barcelona club forced to adopt?
Answer: Club de Fútbol Barcelona
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Context: Public transport is essential in New York City. 54.6% of New Yorkers commuted to work in 2005 using mass transit. This is in contrast to the rest of the United States, where about 90% of commuters drive automobiles to their workplace. According to the US Census Bureau, New York City residents spend an average of 38.4 minutes a day getting to work, the longest commute time in the nation among large cities. New York is the only US city in which a majority (52%) of households do not have a car; only 22% of Manhattanites own a car. Due to their high usage of mass transit, New Yorkers spend less of their household income on transportation than the national average, saving $19 billion annually on transportation compared to other urban Americans.
Question: How many minutes does it take the average New Yorker to get to work?
Answer: 38.4
Question: What percentage of New Yorkers use public transportation to get to work?
Answer: 54.6
Question: What percentage of people living in Manhattan own a car?
Answer: 22
Question: In 2005, what percentage of New York residents used mass transit to get to work?
Answer: 54.6%
Question: What percentage of Americans drive cars to work?
Answer: 90%
Question: In minutes, how long does it take for the average New Yorker to get to work?
Answer: 38.4
Question: What percentage of New York households don't own an automobile?
Answer: 52%
Question: What percentage of Manhattan residents own an automobile?
Answer: 22%
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Context: Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835. A distinctive feature of many of the city's buildings is the wooden roof-mounted water towers. In the 1800s, the city required their installation on buildings higher than six stories to prevent the need for excessively high water pressures at lower elevations, which could break municipal water pipes. Garden apartments became popular during the 1920s in outlying areas, such as Jackson Heights.
Question: What event led to the decline in wooden construction in New York City?
Answer: the Great Fire of 1835
Question: In the 19th century, New York city required water towers in the roofs of buildings that were more than how many stories tall?
Answer: six
Question: What area was known for its garden apartments?
Answer: Jackson Heights
Question: After the Great Fire of 1835, what became the most widespread building materials?
Answer: Stone and brick
Question: To prevent high water pressures at lower elevations what were built on many of the city's buildings?
Answer: wooden roof-mounted water towers
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Context: According to filings to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by Thunder Bay Electronics (owner of CBC's Thunder Bay affiliate CKPR-DT) and Bell Media (owner of CBC affiliates CFTK-TV in Terrace and CJDC-TV in Dawson Creek),[citation needed] the CBC informed them that it will not extend its association with any of its private affiliates beyond August 31, 2011. Incidentally, that was also the date for analogue to digital transition in Canada. Given recent practice and the CBC's decision not to convert any retransmitters to digital, even in markets with populations in the hundreds in thousands, it is not expected that the CBC will open new transmitters to replace its affiliates, and indeed may pare back its existing transmitter network. However, in March 2011, CKPR announced that it had come to a programming agreement with the CBC, in which the station will continue to provide CBC programming in Thunder Bay for a period of five years. On March 16, 2012, Astral Media announced the sale of its assets to Bell Media, owners of CTV and CTV Two, for $3.38 billion with CFTK and CJDC included in the acquisition. Whether the stations will remain CBC affiliates or become owned-and-operated stations of CTV or CTV Two following the completion of the merger is undetermined.
Question: What was Canada's date for the switch between analog and digital transmission?
Answer: August 31, 2011
Question: What did CBC announce on August 31, 2011?
Answer: it will not extend its association with any of its private affiliates
Question: In March 2011, CBC and CKPR agreed to continue working together for how many additional years?
Answer: five
Question: Who purchased CFTK and CJDC in March 2012?
Answer: Bell Media
Question: The CBC cited not wanting to pay for the transition from analog to digital as it's reason for doing this?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CBC's refusal meant that hundreds of thousands would not have television access after what date?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The CRTC requested that the CBC negotiate with this station in order to extend their contract?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: CTV and CTV2 purchased Bell Media in 2012 for what sum?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Since the 16th century, the city has had a bear pit, the Bärengraben, at the far end of the Nydeggbrücke to house its heraldic animals. The currently four bears are now kept in an open-air enclosure nearby, and two other young bears, a present by the Russian president, are kept in Dählhölzli zoo.
Question: What is the Barengraben?
Answer: a bear pit
Question: Where is the Barengraben located?
Answer: the far end of the Nydeggbrücke
Question: What are held at the Barengraben?
Answer: heraldic animals
Question: Who gave Bern their bears?
Answer: the Russian president
Question: What zoo are the bears of Bern kept?
Answer: Dählhölzli zoo
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Context: According to the scriptures, soon after the death of the Buddha, the first Buddhist council was held; a monk named Mahākāśyapa (Pāli: Mahākassapa) presided. The goal of the council was to record the Buddha's teachings. Upāli recited the vinaya. Ānanda, the Buddha's personal attendant, was called upon to recite the dhamma. These became the basis of the Tripitaka. However, this record was initially transmitted orally in form of chanting, and was committed to text in the last century BCE. Both the sūtras and the vinaya of every Buddhist school contain a wide variety of elements including discourses on the Dharma, commentaries on other teachings, cosmological and cosmogonical texts, stories of the Gautama Buddha's previous lives, and various other subjects.
Question: Which monk presided after the death of the Buddha?
Answer: Mahākāśyapa
Question: What was the goal of the council?
Answer: to record the Buddha's teachings
Question: the vinaya was recited by?
Answer: Upāli
Question: Who was the Buddha's personal attendant?
Answer: Ānanda
Question: Ananda was called upon to recite what?
Answer: dhamma
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Context: Polyols, compounds containing more than one alcohol functional group, generally interact with cupric salts. For example, copper salts are used to test for reducing sugars. Specifically, using Benedict's reagent and Fehling's solution the presence of the sugar is signaled by a color change from blue Cu(II) to reddish copper(I) oxide. Schweizer's reagent and related complexes with ethylenediamine and other amines dissolve cellulose. Amino acids form very stable chelate complexes with copper(II). Many wet-chemical tests for copper ions exist, one involving potassium ferrocyanide, which gives a brown precipitate with copper(II) salts.
Question: What is the name of the componds that has more than one alcohol functional group?
Answer: Polyols
Question: What are copper salts used to test?
Answer: reducing sugars
Question: How is the presence of sugar shown by using Benedict's reagent and Fehling's solution?
Answer: color change
Question: What color does the copper salts turn to using Benedict's reagent and Fehling's solution if sugar is present?
Answer: reddish
Question: What does Schweizer's reagent dissolve?
Answer: cellulose
Question: What is the name of the compounds that have no alcohol functional group?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are copper salts used to burn?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is the presence of sugar hidden by using Benedict's reagent and Fehling's solution?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color does the copper salts turn to using Benedict's reagent and Fehling's solution if dust is present?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Schweizer's reagent grow?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: When it comes to civil and criminal cases, the Bundesgerichtshof is at the top of the hierarchy of courts. The other branches of the German judicial system each have their own appellate systems, each topped by a high court; these are the Bundessozialgericht for matters of social security, the Bundesarbeitsgericht for employment and labour, the Bundesfinanzhof for taxation and financial issues, and the Bundesverwaltungsgericht for administrative law. The so-called Gemeinsamer Senat der Obersten Gerichtshöfe (Joint Senate of the Supreme Courts) is not a supreme court in itself, but an ad-hoc body that is convened in only when one supreme court intends to diverge from another supreme court's legal opinion or when a certain case exceeds the authority of one court. As the courts have well-defined areas of responsibility, situations like these are rather rare and so, the Joint Senate gathers very infrequently, and only to consider matters which are mostly definitory.
Question: The German high court has jurisdiction over what two areas of law?
Answer: civil and criminal cases
Question: What court has supremacy for matters of social security?
Answer: Bundessozialgericht
Question: What court sits in supremacy for cases related to employment and labor law in Germany?
Answer: Bundesarbeitsgericht
Question: Germany's Joint Senate of the Supreme Courts is also known by what name?
Answer: Gemeinsamer Senat der Obersten Gerichtshöfe
Question: What else does Bundesgerichtshof deal with besides taxation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Bundessozialgericht at the top of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of law is Bundesarbeitsgericht for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the German term for the Senate of the Supreme Courts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How often does the Joint Supreme Court gather?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: During the period between 1582, when the first countries adopted the Gregorian calendar, and 1923, when the last European country adopted it, it was often necessary to indicate the date of some event in both the Julian calendar and in the Gregorian calendar, for example, "10/21 February 1750/51", where the dual year accounts for some countries already beginning their numbered year on 1 January while others were still using some other date. Even before 1582, the year sometimes had to be double dated because of the different beginnings of the year in various countries. Woolley, writing in his biography of John Dee (1527–1608/9), notes that immediately after 1582 English letter writers "customarily" used "two dates" on their letters, one OS and one NS.
Question: When did the last country to adopt the Gregorian calendar start using it?
Answer: 1923
Question: At what date did the first country start using the new calendar?
Answer: 1582
Question: How which calendar did some countries notate the date?
Answer: in both
Question: Who said that English writers usually used both dates on writings?
Answer: Woolley
Question: What difference in dating caused the use of double-dating documents?
Answer: different beginnings of the year
Question: What happened in the fifteenth century that made it necessary to give dates using both calendars?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in the nineteenth century the Gregorian calendar that made it necessary to give dates using both calendars?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was it not necessary to use the dual year when giving two dates?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did the year sometimes have to be double dated after 1582?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did John Dee note?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The term Cubism did not come into general usage until 1911, mainly with reference to Metzinger, Gleizes, Delaunay, and Léger. In 1911, the poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire accepted the term on behalf of a group of artists invited to exhibit at the Brussels Indépendants. The following year, in preparation for the Salon de la Section d'Or, Metzinger and Gleizes wrote and published Du "Cubisme" in an effort to dispel the confusion raging around the word, and as a major defence of Cubism (which had caused a public scandal following the 1911 Salon des Indépendants and the 1912 Salon d'Automne in Paris). Clarifying their aims as artists, this work was the first theoretical treatise on Cubism and it still remains the clearest and most intelligible. The result, not solely a collaboration between its two authors, reflected discussions by the circle of artists who met in Puteaux and Courbevoie. It mirrored the attitudes of the "artists of Passy", which included Picabia and the Duchamp brothers, to whom sections of it were read prior to publication. The concept developed in Du "Cubisme" of observing a subject from different points in space and time simultaneously, i.e., the act of moving around an object to seize it from several successive angles fused into a single image (multiple viewpoints, mobile perspective, simultaneity or multiplicity), is a generally recognized device used by the Cubists.
Question: What year did the term Cubism become used more?
Answer: 1911
Question: Which poet critic in 1911 with a group of poets accepted the term Cubism?
Answer: Guillaume Apollinaire
Question: The artists of Passy included which two people?
Answer: Picabia and the Duchamp brothers
Question: What year did the term Cubism become used less?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 1910?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which poet critic in 1911 with a group of poets rejected the term Cubism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The artists of Passy included which three people?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1798, the revolutionary French government conquered Switzerland and imposed a new unified constitution. This centralised the government of the country, effectively abolishing the cantons: moreover, Mülhausen joined France and Valtellina valley, the Cisalpine Republic, separating from Switzerland. The new regime, known as the Helvetic Republic, was highly unpopular. It had been imposed by a foreign invading army and destroyed centuries of tradition, making Switzerland nothing more than a French satellite state. The fierce French suppression of the Nidwalden Revolt in September 1798 was an example of the oppressive presence of the French Army and the local population's resistance to the occupation.
Question: Who conquered Switzerland in 1798?
Answer: the revolutionary French government
Question: What did the French government impose on Switzerland in 1798, centralizing the Swiss government?
Answer: a new unified constitution
Question: What was abolished with the introduction of the unified constitution in Switzerland?
Answer: the cantons
Question: What was the name of the new regime created when the Cisalpine Republic separated from Switzerland?
Answer: Helvetic Republic
Question: Which unpopular republic destroyed centuries of Swiss traditions?
Answer: Helvetic
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Context: Second, Democrats have always elevated their minority floor leader to the speakership upon reclaiming majority status. Republicans have not always followed this leadership succession pattern. In 1919, for instance, Republicans bypassed James R. Mann, R-IL, who had been minority leader for eight years, and elected Frederick Gillett, R-MA, to be Speaker. Mann "had angered many Republicans by objecting to their private bills on the floor;" also he was a protégé of autocratic Speaker Joseph Cannon, R-IL (1903–1911), and many Members "suspected that he would try to re-centralize power in his hands if elected Speaker." More recently, although Robert H. Michel was the Minority Leader in 1994 when the Republicans regained control of the House in the 1994 midterm elections, he had already announced his retirement and had little or no involvement in the campaign, including the Contract with America which was unveiled six weeks before voting day.
Question: Which party has always elevated minority floor leaders to speakership?
Answer: Democrats
Question: Why were republicans upset with Mann?
Answer: objecting to their private bills on the floor
Question: What year did Republicans regain control while Rober Michel was Minority Leader?
Answer: 1994
Question: What have Republicans always elevated their minority floor leader to when obtaining majority status?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What pattern have Democrats not always followed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Democrats elect to be speaker in 1903?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Demcorats were angry with James R. Mann in 1911?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Frederick Gillett a protege of?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Chapter IV details natural selection under the "infinitely complex and close-fitting ... mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life". Darwin takes as an example a country where a change in conditions led to extinction of some species, immigration of others and, where suitable variations occurred, descendants of some species became adapted to new conditions. He remarks that the artificial selection practised by animal breeders frequently produced sharp divergence in character between breeds, and suggests that natural selection might do the same, saying:
Question: What did Darwin say that artificial selection by animal breeders often causes?
Answer: sharp divergence in character between breeds,
Question: What did Darwin say could happen somewhere if there is a change in conditions?
Answer: extinction of some species
Question: What can happen if species immigrate to a new location?
Answer: descendants of some species became adapted to new conditions
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Context: Unlike the American GPS, Russian GLONASS, and European Galileo systems, which use medium Earth orbit satellites, BeiDou-1 uses satellites in geostationary orbit. This means that the system does not require a large constellation of satellites, but it also limits the coverage to areas on Earth where the satellites are visible. The area that can be serviced is from longitude 70°E to 140°E and from latitude 5°N to 55°N. A frequency of the system is 2491.75 MHz.
Question: What type of satellites does the American GPS system use?
Answer: medium Earth orbit satellites
Question: What type of satellites does the BeiDou-1 system use?
Answer: satellites in geostationary orbit
Question: What is the purpose of the BeiDou-1 system using stallites in geostationary orbit?
Answer: the system does not require a large constellation of satellites
Question: What service area is covered by the BeiDou-1 system?
Answer: from longitude 70°E to 140°E and from latitude 5°N to 55°N
Question: What is the frequency of the BeiDou-1 system?
Answer: 2491.75 MHz
Question: BeiDou-1, along with American GPS, use which type of satellites?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: BeiDou-1, along with Russian GLONASS, use which type of satellites?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: BeiDou-1, along with European Galileo systems, use which type of satellites?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which is a frequency of the vehicular system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Although, BeiDou-1 uses medium Earth orbit satellites, American GPS systems use which kind?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The creation of modern-day Eritrea is a result of the incorporation of independent, distinct kingdoms and sultanates (for example, Medri Bahri and the Sultanate of Aussa) eventually resulting in the formation of Italian Eritrea. In 1947 Eritrea became part of a federation with Ethiopia, the Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Subsequent annexation into Ethiopia led to the Eritrean War of Independence, ending with Eritrean independence following a referendum in April 1993. Hostilities between Eritrea and Ethiopia persisted, leading to the Eritrean–Ethiopian War of 1998–2000 and further skirmishes with both Djibouti and Ethiopia.
Question: What is the result of the incorporation of independent kingdoms and sultanates?
Answer: modern-day Eritrea
Question: When did Eritrea join a federation with Ethiopia, the Federation of Ethipia and Eritrea?
Answer: 1947
Question: What was the result of the War of Independence?
Answer: Eritrean independence
Question: What persisted and led to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War of 1998-2000?
Answer: Hostilities between Eritrea and Ethiopia
Question: What subsequently led to the Eritran War of Independence?
Answer: annexation
Question: In what year was the Sultanate of Aussa founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Eritrean War of Independence start?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who won the Eritrean-Ethiopian war of 1998-2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Eritrea first skirmish with Djibouti?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Italian Eritrea get founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: After the three-year transition period ended with Nasser's official assumption of power, his domestic and independent foreign policies increasingly collided with the regional interests of the UK and France. The latter condemned his strong support for Algerian independence, and the UK's Eden government was agitated by Nasser's campaign against the Baghdad Pact. In addition, Nasser's adherence to neutralism regarding the Cold War, recognition of communist China, and arms deal with the Eastern bloc alienated the United States. On 19 July 1956, the US and UK abruptly withdrew their offer to finance construction of the Aswan Dam, citing concerns that Egypt's economy would be overwhelmed by the project.
Question: With what two nations did Nasser's foreign policy clash?
Answer: UK and France
Question: What construction project suffered from foreign political retaliation against Nasser?
Answer: Aswan Dam
Question: What communist country did Nasser and Egypt recognize?
Answer: China
Question: France was angered by Nasser's support of the independence of what people?
Answer: Algerian
Question: The UK was chafed by Nasser's opposition to what agreement?
Answer: Baghdad Pact
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Context: Following the end of World War II the educational gap between White and Black Americans was widened by Dwight D. Eisenhower's GI Bill. This piece of legislation paved the way for white GIs to attend college. Despite their veteran status returning black servicemen were not afforded loans at the same rate as whites. Furthermore, at the time of its introduction, segregation was still the law of the land barring blacks from the best institutions. Overall, "Nearly 8 million servicemen and servicewomen were educated under the provisions of the GI Bill after World War II. But for blacks, higher educational opportunities were so few that the promise of the GI Bill went largely unfulfilled."
Question: What major event preceded the growth of the divide in education between White and Black Americans?
Answer: end of World War II
Question: What was considered to be a major cause of the increase in educational gap?
Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower's GI Bill
Question: What did returning black veterans not receive?
Answer: loans at the same rate as whites
Question: How many servicemen and women were educated as a result of the GI Bill?
Answer: Nearly 8 million
Question: What opportunities were few for black veterans?
Answer: higher educational
Question: What major event preceded the growth of the divide in education between White and Asian Americans?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was not considered to be a major cause of the increase in educational gap?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did returning white veterans not receive?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many servicemen and women weren't educated as a result of the GI Bill?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What opportunities were few for hispanic veterans?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Hyderabad is also home to a number of centres specialising in particular fields such as biomedical sciences, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, such as the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) and National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). Hyderabad has five major medical schools—Osmania Medical College, Gandhi Medical College, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Deccan College of Medical Sciences and Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences—and many affiliated teaching hospitals. The Government Nizamia Tibbi College is a college of Unani medicine. Hyderabad is also the headquarters of the Indian Heart Association, a non-profit foundation for cardiovascular education.
Question: How many medical schools are in Hyderabad?
Answer: five
Question: What type of medicine is taught at The Government Nizamia Tibbi College?
Answer: Unani medicine
Question: What non-profit cardiovascular educational association is headquartered in Hyderabad?
Answer: Indian Heart Association
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Context: Birds have been domesticated by humans both as pets and for practical purposes. Colourful birds, such as parrots and mynas, are bred in captivity or kept as pets, a practice that has led to the illegal trafficking of some endangered species. Falcons and cormorants have long been used for hunting and fishing, respectively. Messenger pigeons, used since at least 1 AD, remained important as recently as World War II. Today, such activities are more common either as hobbies, for entertainment and tourism, or for sports such as pigeon racing.
Question: Why have birds been domesticated by humans?
Answer: both as pets and for practical purposes
Question: What type of birds are bred in captivity or kept as pets?
Answer: Colourful birds
Question: How long have messenger pigeons been used?
Answer: since at least 1 AD
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Context: The Sumerians developed a complex system of metrology c. 4000 BC. This advanced metrology resulted in the creation of arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. From c. 2600 BC onwards, the Sumerians wrote multiplication tables on clay tablets and dealt with geometrical exercises and division problems. The earliest traces of the Babylonian numerals also date back to this period. The period c. 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the abacus, and a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system. The Sumerians were the first to use a place value numeral system. There is also anecdotal evidence the Sumerians may have used a type of slide rule in astronomical calculations. They were the first to find the area of a triangle and the volume of a cube.
Question: What did the Sumerians a complex system of around 4000 BC?
Answer: metrology
Question: From the Sumerian metrology sprang forth the creation of what disciplines?
Answer: arithmetic, geometry, and algebra
Question: Where did the Sumerians put their multiplication tables?
Answer: on clay tablets
Question: When was the abacus first seen between?
Answer: 2700 – 2300 BC
Question: What were the Sumerians the first to do when it came to mathematics?
Answer: use a place value numeral system
Question: Who developed a complex system of metrology in the 4th century BC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of math did the Sumerians invent by the 26th century BC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What tool was invented in the 27th century BC?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who invented the slide ruler?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: There is no evidence that Mahāyāna ever referred to a separate formal school or sect of Buddhism, but rather that it existed as a certain set of ideals, and later doctrines, for bodhisattvas. Initially it was known as Bodhisattvayāna (the "Vehicle of the Bodhisattvas"). Paul Williams has also noted that the Mahāyāna never had nor ever attempted to have a separate Vinaya or ordination lineage from the early schools of Buddhism, and therefore each bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī adhering to the Mahāyāna formally belonged to an early school. This continues today with the Dharmaguptaka ordination lineage in East Asia, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda ordination lineage in Tibetan Buddhism. Therefore Mahāyāna was never a separate rival sect of the early schools. From Chinese monks visiting India, we now know that both Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna monks in India often lived in the same monasteries side by side.
Question: There is no evidence that Mahayana ever referred to a separate school of what?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: The mahayana never tried to have separte what?
Answer: Vinaya
Question: We know that both Mahayana and non Mahayana monks live in the same what?
Answer: monasteries
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Context: The second major event of the early reign of Abd al-Malik was the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Although the chronology remains somewhat uncertain, the building seems to have been completed in 692, which means that it was under construction during the conflict with Ibn al-Zubayr. This had led some historians, both medieval and modern, to suggest that the Dome of the Rock was built as a destination for pilgrimage to rival the Kaaba, which was under the control of Ibn al-Zubayr.
Question: Where was the Dome of the Rock built?
Answer: Jerusalem
Question: In what year was the Dome of the Rock finished?
Answer: 692
Question: During whose reign was the Dome of the Rock constructed?
Answer: Abd al-Malik
Question: What was the first major event of the early reign of Abd al-Mali?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did construction of the Dome of the Rock begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was the Kaaba built?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Kaaba under construction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year was the Kaaba completed?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Constitutional changes voted on 19 March 2007 prohibited parties from using religion as a basis for political activity, allowed the drafting of a new anti-terrorism law, authorised broad police powers of arrest and surveillance, and gave the president power to dissolve parliament and end judicial election monitoring. In 2009, Dr. Ali El Deen Hilal Dessouki, Media Secretary of the National Democratic Party (NDP), described Egypt as a "pharaonic" political system, and democracy as a "long-term goal". Dessouki also stated that "the real center of power in Egypt is the military".
Question: What did constitutional changes in 2007 prohibit?
Answer: parties from using religion as a basis for political activity
Question: What was the long term goal for Egypt?
Answer: democracy
Question: What presidential powers were included in 2007 law changes?
Answer: power to dissolve parliament and end judicial election monitoring
Question: What was Dr. Ali El Deen Hilal Dessouki's position?
Answer: Media Secretary of the National Democratic Party
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Context: In France, simultaneously, the towering figure of the Gothic Revival was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who outdid historical Gothic constructions to create a Gothic as it ought to have been, notably at the fortified city of Carcassonne in the south of France and in some richly fortified keeps for industrial magnates. Viollet-le-Duc compiled and coordinated an Encyclopédie médiévale that was a rich repertory his contemporaries mined for architectural details. He effected vigorous restoration of crumbling detail of French cathedrals, including the Abbey of Saint-Denis and famously at Notre Dame de Paris, where many of whose most "Gothic" gargoyles are Viollet-le-Duc's. He taught a generation of reform-Gothic designers and showed how to apply Gothic style to modern structural materials, especially cast iron.
Question: Who was the main figure of the Gothic Revival in France?
Answer: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Question: What famous French cathedral was restored and reconstructed by Viollet-le-Duc?
Answer: the Abbey of Saint-Denis
Question: What modern building material did Viollet-le-Duc teach reform Gothic designers to work with?
Answer: cast iron
Question: In what fortified city in Southern France did Viollet-le-Duc recreate historical Gothic constructions?
Answer: Carcassonne
Question: What other famous French cathedral did Viollet-le-Duc work on?
Answer: Notre Dame de Paris
Question: Who was the villain of the Gothic Revival in France?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What famous French cathedral was ruined by Viollet-le-Duc?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What modern building material did Viollet-le-Duc teach reform Gothic designers to avoid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What other famous American cathedral did Viollet-le-Duc work on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What empty city in Northern France did Viollet-le-Duc recreate historical Gothic constructions?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Meanwhile, the Tumed Mongols began moving into the Kokonor region (modern Qinghai), raiding the Ming Chinese frontier and even as far as the suburbs of Beijing under Altan Khan (1507–1582). Klieger writes that Altan Khan's presence in the west effectively reduced Ming influence and contact with Tibet. After Altan Khan made peace with the Ming dynasty in 1571, he invited the third hierarch of the Gelug—Sönam Gyatso (1543–1588)—to meet him in Amdo (modern Qinghai) in 1578, where he accidentally bestowed him and his two predecessors with the title of Dalai Lama—"Ocean Teacher". The full title was "Dalai Lama Vajradhara", "Vajradhara" meaning "Holder of the Thunderbolt" in Sanskrit. Victoria Huckenpahler notes that Vajradhara is considered by Buddhists to be the primordial Buddha of limitless and all-pervasive beneficial qualities, a being that "represents the ultimate aspect of enlightenment." Goldstein writes that Sönam Gyatso also enhanced Altan Khan's standing by granting him the title "king of religion, majestic purity". Rawski writes that the Dalai Lama officially recognized Altan Khan as the "Protector of the Faith".
Question: What region did the Tumed Mongols move into?
Answer: the Kokonor region
Question: Which frontier did the Tumed Mongols raid?
Answer: the Ming Chinese frontier
Question: The presence of the Altan Khan in the west reduced whos influence?
Answer: the Ming
Question: When did Altan Khan make peace with the Ming dynasty?
Answer: 1571
Question: Who did Altan Khan invite to meet him in Amdo?
Answer: the third hierarch of the Gelug—Sönam Gyatso
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Context: Some forms of corruption – now called "institutional corruption" – are distinguished from bribery and other kinds of obvious personal gain. A similar problem of corruption arises in any institution that depends on financial support from people who have interests that may conflict with the primary purpose of the institution.
Question: What are some forms of corruption now called?
Answer: institutional corruption
Question: Institutional corruption is distinguished from what type of corruption?
Answer: bribery
Question: This type of problem happens in any organization where the interests of the people who financially support it conflicts with what?
Answer: the primary purpose of the institution
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Context: The Desert Land Act of 1877 was passed to allow settlement of arid lands in the west and allotted 640 acres (2.6 km2) to settlers for a fee of $.25 per acre and a promise to irrigate the land. After three years, a fee of one dollar per acre would be paid and the land would be owned by the settler. This act brought mostly cattle and sheep ranchers into Montana, many of whom grazed their herds on the Montana prairie for three years, did little to irrigate the land and then abandoned it without paying the final fees. Some farmers came with the arrival of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads throughout the 1880s and 1890s, though in relatively small numbers.
Question: When was the Desert Land Act passed?
Answer: 1877
Question: How much land did the Desert Land Act allot?
Answer: 640 acres
Question: How much was the charge per acre at first?
Answer: $.25
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