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Context: In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York to compel GE to pay for the cleanup of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped from their plant in Waterford, New York. In 1999, the company agreed to pay a $250 million settlement in connection with claims it polluted the Housatonic River (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) and other sites with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances.
Question: Which New York State Attorney General filed suit in US District Court to force GE to pay for the cleanup of chemicals dumped by their plant in Waterford, NY?
Answer: Robert Abrams
Question: How much did GE agree to pay in claims for the pollution it caused in the Housatonic River and other sites?
Answer: $250 million
Question: How many tons of PCBs were claimed to have been dumped by GE's Waterford Plant in the 1983 lawsuit?
Answer: more than 100,000
Question: In which year was a settlement reached regarding GE's pollution of the Housatonic River?
Answer: 1999
Question: What was the location of the pollution caused by GE in the Housatonic River?
Answer: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Question: In what year was the suit against GE by New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams settled?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much money did GE pay to settle the lawsuit filed against it by the New York State Attorney General in 1983?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What river is near GE's plant in Waterford, New York?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was the lawsuit filed against GE in connection to it polluting the Housatonic River?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the attorney general who filed a suit against GE for it polluting the Housatonic River?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Some of the second-generation renewables, such as wind power, have high potential and have already realised relatively low production costs. Global wind power installations increased by 35,800 MW in 2010, bringing total installed capacity up to 194,400 MW, a 22.5% increase on the 158,700 MW installed at the end of 2009. The increase for 2010 represents investments totalling €47.3 billion (US$65 billion) and for the first time more than half of all new wind power was added outside of the traditional markets of Europe and North America, mainly driven, by the continuing boom in China which accounted for nearly half of all of the installations at 16,500 MW. China now has 42,300 MW of wind power installed. Wind power accounts for approximately 19% of electricity generated in Denmark, 9% in Spain and Portugal, and 6% in Germany and the Republic of Ireland. In Australian state of South Australia wind power, championed by Premier Mike Rann (2002–2011), now comprises 26% of the state's electricity generation, edging out coal fired power. At the end of 2011 South Australia, with 7.2% of Australia's population, had 54%of the nation's installed wind power capacity. Wind power's share of worldwide electricity usage at the end of 2014 was 3.1%. These are some of the largest wind farms in the world:
Question: Global wind power installations increased by how much in 2010?
Answer: 35,800 MW
Question: China has how much wind power installed?
Answer: 42,300 MW
Question: In Denmark, wind power accounts for what percentage of electricity generated?
Answer: 19%
Question: In Spain, wind power accounts for what percentage of electricity generated?
Answer: 9%
Question: In Germany, wind power accounts for what percentage of electricity generated?
Answer: 6%
Question: Global wind power installations decreased by how much in 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: China doesn't have how much wind power installed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Denmark, wind power doesn't account for what percentage of electricity generated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Spain, wind power doesn't account for what percentage of electricity generated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Germany, wind power doesn't account for what percentage of electricity generated?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The anti-bullying It Gets Better Project expanded from a single YouTube video directed to discouraged or suicidal LGBT teens, that within two months drew video responses from hundreds including U.S. President Barack Obama, Vice President Biden, White House staff, and several cabinet secretaries. Similarly, in response to fifteen-year-old Amanda Todd's video "My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm", legislative action was undertaken almost immediately after her suicide to study the prevalence of bullying and form a national anti-bullying strategy.
Question: What is the name of the group that drew responses from the resident and most of his staff regarding anti-bullying?
Answer: It Gets Better Project
Question: How ling did it take the It Gets Better Project video to draw such a huge response?
Answer: within two months
Question: How old was Amanda Todd when she took her own life because of bullying?
Answer: fifteen
Question: What was done after Amanda Todd's death?
Answer: legislative action was undertaken
Question: What was the goal of the actions taken after Amanda Todd's death?
Answer: form a national anti-bullying strategy
Question: What project was aimed toward LTBG teens?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the It Gets Better video draw responses from within 15 months?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose video prompted legislative action within two months?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Two days after the marriage, Bonaparte left Paris to take command of the Army of Italy. He immediately went on the offensive, hoping to defeat the forces of Piedmont before their Austrian allies could intervene. In a series of rapid victories during the Montenotte Campaign, he knocked Piedmont out of the war in two weeks. The French then focused on the Austrians for the remainder of the war, the highlight of which became the protracted struggle for Mantua. The Austrians launched a series of offensives against the French to break the siege, but Napoleon defeated every relief effort, scoring notable victories at the battles of Castiglione, Bassano, Arcole, and Rivoli. The decisive French triumph at Rivoli in January 1797 led to the collapse of the Austrian position in Italy. At Rivoli, the Austrians lost up to 14,000 men while the French lost about 5,000.
Question: After his marriage, Napoleon left Paris to lead what army?
Answer: the Army of Italy
Question: In which series of battles did Napoleon eliminate the forces of Piedmont from the war?
Answer: the Montenotte Campaign
Question: When did the French victory at Rivoli occur?
Answer: January 1797
Question: Up to how many Austrian soldiers died at Rivoli?
Answer: 14,000
Question: Around how many casualties did the French suffer at Rivoli?
Answer: 5,000
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Context: Armenia is also a member of the Council of Europe, maintaining friendly relations with the European Union, especially with its member states such as France and Greece. A 2005 survey reported that 64% of Armenia's population would be in favor of joining the EU. Several Armenian officials have also expressed the desire for their country to eventually become an EU member state, some[who?] predicting that it will make an official bid for membership in a few years.[citation needed] In 2004 its forces joined KFOR, a NATO-led international force in Kosovo. It is also an observer member of the Eurasian Economic Community and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Question: How many of Armenias inhabitants approve of becoming part of the EU?
Answer: 64%
Question: What is KFOR?
Answer: a NATO-led international force in Kosovo
Question: What are some states join Armenia in the Council of Europe?
Answer: France and Greece
Question: When can the EU expect Armenia to attempt to join it?
Answer: in a few years
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Context: Law enforcement in Ancient China was carried out by "prefects" for thousands of years since it developed in both the Chu and Jin kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn period. In Jin, dozens of prefects were spread across the state, each having limited authority and employment period. They were appointed by local magistrates, who reported to higher authorities such as governors, who in turn were appointed by the emperor, and they oversaw the civil administration of their "prefecture", or jurisdiction. Under each prefect were "subprefects" who helped collectively with law enforcement in the area. Some prefects were responsible for handling investigations, much like modern police detectives. Prefects could also be women. The concept of the "prefecture system" spread to other cultures such as Korea and Japan.
Question: Which Chinese kingdoms developed law enforcement?
Answer: Chu and Jin
Question: What period was the Chu kingdom in?
Answer: Spring
Question: What period was the Jin kingdom in?
Answer: Autumn
Question: Which countries adopted the 'prefecture system' from China?
Answer: Korea and Japan
Question: What did ancient China call its police?
Answer: prefects
Question: Which Japanese kingdoms developed law enforcement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period was the Chu kingdom not in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period was the Chin kingdom in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which countries never adopted the 'prefecture system' from China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did modern China call its police?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Pope Julius had died in April, 352, and was succeeded by Liberius. For two years Liberius had been favourable to the cause of Athanasius; but driven at last into exile, he was induced to sign an ambiguous formula, from which the great Nicene text, the "homoousion", had been studiously omitted. In 355 a council was held at Milan, where in spite of the vigorous opposition of a handful of loyal prelates among the Western bishops, a fourth condemnation of Athanasius was announced to the world. With his friends scattered, the saintly Hosius in exile, and Pope Liberius denounced as acquiescing in Arian formularies, Athanasius could hardly hope to escape. On the night of 8 February, 356, while engaged in services in the Church of St. Thomas, a band of armed men burst in to secure his arrest. It was the beginning of his third exile.
Question: In what year did Pope Julius die?
Answer: 352
Question: Did Liberius sympathize with Athanasius?
Answer: Liberius had been favourable
Question: What was the outcome of the Council of Milan?
Answer: a fourth condemnation of Athanasius
Question: What was Athanasius doing when he was arrested?
Answer: engaged in services
Question: Where the men armed who arrested him?
Answer: armed men
Question: In what year was Pope Julius born?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasn't the outcome of the Council of Milan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was arrested by unarmed men?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 368?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Eton has a long list of distinguished former pupils. David Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have attended the school, and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards. Eton now co-sponsors a state sixth-form college in Newham, a deprived area of East London, called the London Academy of Excellence, opened in 2012, which is free of charge and aims to get all its students into higher education. In September 2014, Eton opened, and became the sole educational sponsor for, a new purpose-built co-educational state boarding and day school for around 500 pupils, Holyport College, in Maidenhead in Berkshire, with construction costing around £15 million, in which a fifth of places for day pupils will be set aside for children from poor homes, 21 boarding places will go to youngsters on the verge of being taken into care, and a further 28 boarders will be funded or part-funded through bursaries.
Question: How many British prime ministers attended Eton?
Answer: 19
Question: Which college in Newham does Eton College co-sponsor?
Answer: London Academy of Excellence
Question: How does London Academy of Excellence vary in cost from Eton College?
Answer: free of charge
Question: Where will Holyport College be located?
Answer: Maidenhead in Berkshire
Question: How much is construction of Holyport College predicted to cost?
Answer: around £15 million
Question: who was the 19th British Prime Minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many students attend Newham each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many students attend Eton each year?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Eton located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did the London Academy of Excellence cost to build?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Other major sporting events include Thoroughbred and Quarter horse racing circuits at Remington Park and numerous horse shows and equine events that take place at the state fairgrounds each year. There are numerous golf courses and country clubs spread around the city.
Question: What park hosts Quarter horse racing?
Answer: Remington Park
Question: Where are equine events hosted?
Answer: state fairgrounds
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Context: Most elevators have a location in which the permit for the building owner to operate the elevator is displayed. While some jurisdictions require the permit to be displayed in the elevator cab, other jurisdictions allow for the operating permit to be kept on file elsewhere – such as the maintenance office – and to be made available for inspection on demand. In such cases instead of the permit being displayed in the elevator cab, often a notice is posted in its place informing riders of where the actual permits are kept.
Question: Whose name is on the permit required for operation of an elevator?
Answer: the building owner
Question: Do all jurisdictions require the permit to be displayed in the elevator?
Answer: some jurisdictions require the permit to be displayed in the elevator cab, other jurisdictions allow for the operating permit to be kept on file elsewhere
Question: Aside from the elevator, where else might a permit be displayed?
Answer: the maintenance office
Question: What type of notice can be displayed in the elevator in lieu of the permit?
Answer: a notice is posted in its place informing riders of where the actual permits are kept.
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Context: From all the fault gases formed in power transformers, hydrogen is the most common and is generated under most fault conditions; thus, formation of hydrogen is an early indication of serious problems in the transformer's life cycle.
Question: What is the most common gas found in power tranformers?
Answer: hydrogen
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Context: It has been mentioned that most nonprofits will never be able to match the pay of the private sector and therefore should focus their attention on benefits packages, incentives and implementing pleasurable work environments. Pleasurable work conditions are ranked as being more preferable than a high salary and implacable work. NPOs are encouraged to pay as much as they are able, and offer a low stress work environment that the employee can associate him or herself positively with. Other incentives that should be implemented are generous vacation allowances or flexible work hours.
Question: Can Npos match the wages of public and private sector employers?
Answer: will never be able to match the pay
Question: What should NPOs focus on offering employees instead of high wages?
Answer: benefits packages, incentives and implementing pleasurable work environments
Question: What is better than having high pay at an NPO?
Answer: Pleasurable work conditions
Question: How much should an NPO pay employees?
Answer: as much as they are able
Question: What are other incentives that NPO emplotees can be offered instead of higher wages?
Answer: generous vacation allowances or flexible work hours
Question: What benefits should the private sector focus on offering?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What benefit is voted higher than flexible hours and vacation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much are private companies encouraged to pay?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of environment do private sector workers look for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What will the private sector never be able to match compared to NPO's
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The FBI's chief tool against organized crime is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. The FBI is also charged with the responsibility of enforcing compliance of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 and investigating violations of the act in addition to prosecuting such violations with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The FBI also shares concurrent jurisdiction with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
Question: What is the FBI's main tool against organized crime?
Answer: RICO
Question: What act is the FBI required to enforce?
Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Question: What organization does the FBI prosecute violations of the United States Civil Rights Act with?
Answer: DOJ
Question: What organization does the FBI share jurisdiction with?
Answer: DEA
Question: What Substance act does the FBI enforce?
Answer: Controlled Substances Act of 1970
Question: What is the FBI's least used tool against organized crime?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the CIA also responsible for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not required to enforce compliance with the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What enforcement does the FBI not share with the DEA?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where does the FBI not investigate violations of the Civil Rights Act?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: This Act clearly demarcated borders between the Crown and the Company. After this point, the Company functioned as a regularised subsidiary of the Crown, with greater accountability for its actions and reached a stable stage of expansion and consolidation. Having temporarily achieved a state of truce with the Crown, the Company continued to expand its influence to nearby territories through threats and coercive actions. By the middle of the 19th century, the Company's rule extended across most of India, Burma, Malaya, Singapore, and British Hong Kong, and a fifth of the world's population was under its trading influence. In addition, Penang, one of the states in Malaya, became the fourth most important settlement, a presidency, of the Company's Indian territories.
Question: by the middle of the 19th century how much of the worlds population was effected by EIC and it trade?
Answer: fifth
Question: To EIC in Malaya what state was the forth most improtant settlement?
Answer: Penang
Question: during this time the relationship change between Britian and the EIC. the EIC became more of a what to the crown??
Answer: regularised subsidiary
Question: when EIC become more like a regularised subsidiary did they have greater or less accountability to the Crown
Answer: greater accountability
Question: How much of the moon's population was effected by EIC and it trade by the middle of the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What state in Malaya had no important settlements?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the EIC become less of to the crown?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When EIC became more like a regularised subsidiary did they have greater or less accountability to Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In the period before German colonisation, Samoa produced mostly copra. German merchants and settlers were active in introducing large scale plantation operations and developing new industries, notably cocoa bean and rubber, relying on imported labourers from China and Melanesia. When the value of natural rubber fell drastically, about the end of the Great War (World War I), the New Zealand government encouraged the production of bananas, for which there is a large market in New Zealand.[citation needed]
Question: What was Samoa's major production product before the Germans arrived?
Answer: copra
Question: What product significantly dropped in price at the end of World War I?
Answer: natural rubber
Question: What did Samoa start growing more of to make up for the lost value of rubber?
Answer: bananas
Question: Which country's government wanted Samoa to grow bananas for them?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: Besides Melanesia, which country sent many workers for the cocoa and rubber plantations in Samoa?
Answer: China
Question: What did China produce before Melanesian colonization?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What new industries were produced by China in Somoa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened when the price of cocoa beans fell?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is there a large market for in Melanesia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups were developing new industries and plantations in Melanesia?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Napoleon turned his focus to domestic affairs after the war. Empress Joséphine had still not given birth to a child from Napoleon, who became worried about the future of his empire following his death. Desperate for a legitimate heir, Napoleon divorced Joséphine in January 1810 and started looking for a new wife. Hoping to cement the recent alliance with Austria through a family connection, Napoleon married the Archduchess Marie Louise, who was 18 years old at the time. On 20 March 1811, Marie Louise gave birth to a baby boy, whom Napoleon made heir apparent and bestowed the title of King of Rome. His son never actually ruled the empire, but historians still refer to him as Napoleon II.
Question: After the war, what did Napoleon focus on?
Answer: domestic affairs
Question: When did Napoleon divorce Josephine?
Answer: January 1810
Question: After his divorce from Josephine, who did Napoleon marry?
Answer: Archduchess Marie Louise
Question: How old was Archduchess Marie Louise when she married Napoleon?
Answer: 18
Question: When did Marie Louise give birth?
Answer: 20 March 1811
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Context: On 13 March 2015, several members of the cast and crew, including Craig, Whishaw, Wilson and Mendes, as well as previous James Bond actor, Sir Roger Moore, appeared in a sketch written by David Walliams and the Dawson Brothers for Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on BBC One. In the sketch, they film a behind-the-scenes mockumentary on the filming of Spectre. The first teaser trailer for Spectre was released worldwide in March 2015, followed by the theatrical trailer in July and the final trailer in October.
Question: What comedy production did Spectre actors appear in?
Answer: Comic Relief's Red Nose Day
Question: On what TV station did Red Nose Day appear?
Answer: BBC One
Question: In what month was the preview of Spectre released in movie theaters?
Answer: July
Question: When was the first teaser trailer of Spectre released?
Answer: March 2015
Question: What show did several members of the cast and crew appear on in March 2015?
Answer: Comic Relief's Red Nose Day
Question: Who wrote the comedy sketch for the cast and crew?
Answer: David Walliams and the Dawson Brothers
Question: Several members of the cast appeared on BBC Two on what date?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who filmed a behind-the scenes documentary of the filming of Spectre?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which teaser trailer for Spectre was released in February 2015?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who produced the sketch for BBC One?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: An example of mutual symbiosis is the relationship between the ocellaris clownfish that dwell among the tentacles of Ritteri sea anemones. The territorial fish protects the anemone from anemone-eating fish, and in turn the stinging tentacles of the anemone protect the clownfish from its predators. A special mucus on the clownfish protects it from the stinging tentacles.
Question: What lives with Ritteri sea anemones?
Answer: ocellaris clownfish
Question: What prevents the clownfish from being stung?
Answer: A special mucus
Question: What type of relationship do the clownfish and anemone have?
Answer: mutual symbiosis
Question: What kind of clownfish eat the Ritteri sea anemones?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of sea anemone has special mucus to protect the clownfish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organism do the clownfish use their stinging tentacles to protect?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of relationship do Ritteri sea anemones have with anemone-eating fish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do Ritteri sea anemones produce to evade predators?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The term aspiration sometimes refers to the sound change of debuccalization, in which a consonant is lenited (weakened) to become a glottal stop or fricative [ʔ h ɦ].
Question: Aspiration may refer to a sound change of what?
Answer: debuccalization
Question: Debuccalization is when consonants are weakened to become what?
Answer: glottal stop or fricative
Question: What is another term for a consonant being weakened?
Answer: lenited
Question: The term unaspiration sometimes refers to what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When is a consonant strengthened to become a glottal stop or fricative?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is sometime referred to as the vocal change of debuccalization?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What sometimes becomes a global stop or fricative?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When a sound is lenited it becomes what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Puerto Rico has been under U.S. sovereignty for over a century when it was ceded to the U.S. by Spain following the end of the Spanish–American War, and Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917. The island's ultimate status has not been determined as of 2012[update], its residents do not have voting representation in their federal government. Puerto Rico has limited representation in the U.S. Congress in the form of a Resident Commissioner, a delegate with limited no voting rights. Like the states, Puerto Rico has self-rule, a republican form of government organized pursuant to a constitution adopted by its people, and a bill of rights.
Question: In the aftermath of which war was the U.S. granted Puerto Rico?
Answer: Spanish–American War
Question: What country handed over Puerto Rico to the US?
Answer: Spain
Question: How long have Puerto Ricans been U.S. citizens?
Answer: since 1917
Question: What form of government do the Puerto Ricans have?
Answer: republican
Question: In the aftermath of which war was the U.S. granted Congress?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country handed over Congress to the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long has Congress been U.S. citizens?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What form of government does Spain have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long has Spain been under U.S. sovereignty?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: It is classified as a Beta World City, ranking seventh in Latin America and 73rd in the world. Described as a "vibrant, eclectic place with a rich cultural life", and "a thriving tech center and entrepreneurial culture", Montevideo ranks 8th in Latin America on the 2013 MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index. By 2014, is also regarded as the fifth most gay-friendly major city in the world, first in Latin America. It is the hub of commerce and higher education in Uruguay as well as its chief port. The city is also the financial and cultural hub of a larger metropolitan area, with a population of around 2 million.
Question: What is Montevideo classified as?
Answer: a Beta World City
Question: What rank did Montevideo hold in Latin America during 2013?
Answer: 8th
Question: Montevideo is the hub of commerce and higher education in what area?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: Montevideo is the chief port of what area?
Answer: Uruguay
Question: What is the population of Montevideo?
Answer: around 2 million
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Context: A year before Alfonso III "the Great" of Asturias death, three of Alfonso's sons rose in rebellion and forced him to abdicate, partitioning the kingdom among them. The eldest son, García, became king of León. The second son, Ordoño, reigned in Galicia, while the third, Fruela, received Asturias with Oviedo as his capital. Alfonso died in Zamora, probably in 910. His former realm would be reunited when first García died childless and León passed to Ordoño. He in turn died when his children were too young to ascend; Fruela became king of a reunited crown. His death the next year initiated a series of internecine struggles that led to unstable succession for over a century. It continued under that name[clarification needed] until incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile in 1230, after Ferdinand III became joint king of the two kingdoms. This was done to avoid dynastic feuds and to maintain the Christian Kingdoms strong enough to prevent complete Muslim take over of the Iberian Peninsula and to further the Reconquista of Iberia by Christian armies.
Question: Who was the eldest son of Alfonso III and what did he become king of?
Answer: García, became king of León
Question: Who was the second son of Alfonso III and what did he become king of?
Answer: Ordoño, reigned in Galicia
Question: Who was Alfonso III's third son and what area did he receive?
Answer: Fruela, received Asturias with Oviedo as his capital
Question: In which year did Alfonso III likely die?
Answer: 910
Question: In which year was the Kingdom of Castile formed?
Answer: 1230
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Context: Like most Slavic languages, there are mostly three genders for nouns: masculine, feminine, and neuter, a distinction which is still present even in the plural (unlike Russian and, in part, the Čakavian dialect). They also have two numbers: singular and plural. However, some consider there to be three numbers (paucal or dual, too), since (still preserved in closely related Slovene) after two (dva, dvije/dve), three (tri) and four (četiri), and all numbers ending in them (e.g. twenty-two, ninety-three, one hundred four) the genitive singular is used, and after all other numbers five (pet) and up, the genitive plural is used. (The number one [jedan] is treated as an adjective.) Adjectives are placed in front of the noun they modify and must agree in both case and number with it.
Question: What three noun genders does Serbo-Croatian have?
Answer: masculine, feminine, and neuter
Question: Where are adjectives properly placed in the Serbo-Croatian language?
Answer: in front of the noun they modify
Question: Which number in the Serbo-Croatian language is treated as an adjective?
Answer: one [jedan]
Question: What three genders does Slovene have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of numbers are in Russian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the three numbers treated as in Slavic languages?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Russian where are adjectives placed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Slavic languages what must singular and plural numbers do when in front of a noun?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In Kazakhstan on June 19, 1989, young men carrying guns, firebombs, iron bars and stones rioted in Zhanaozen, causing a number of deaths. The youths tried to seize a police station and a water-supply station. They brought public transportation to a halt and shut down various shops and industries. By June 25, the rioting had spread to five other towns near the Caspian Sea. A mob of about 150 people armed with sticks, stones and metal rods attacked the police station in Mangishlak, about 90 miles from Zhanaozen, before they were dispersed by government troops flown in by helicopters. Mobs of young people also rampaged through Yeraliev, Shepke, Fort-Shevchenko and Kulsary, where they poured flammable liquid on trains housing temporary workers and set them on fire.
Question: Where was the fatal June 19th riots?
Answer: Zhanaozen
Question: Who were the rioters?
Answer: young men
Question: What did the rioters try to take over?
Answer: police station and a water-supply station
Question: How many towns had riots of their own following the initial riots?
Answer: five
Question: What was attacked in Mangishlak?
Answer: police station
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Context: Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli, such as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting alcohol on a cut, and bumping the "funny bone". Because it is a complex, subjective phenomenon, defining pain has been a challenge. The International Association for the Study of Pain's widely used definition states: "Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage." In medical diagnosis, pain is a symptom.
Question: What type of stimuli causes pain?
Answer: intense or damaging
Question: What type of feeling is pain?
Answer: distressing
Question: Why has defining pain been a challenge?
Answer: complex, subjective phenomenon
Question: What organization's definition is widely used?
Answer: The International Association for the Study of Pain
Question: In medical diagnosis, what is pain considered?
Answer: a symptom
Question: What definition does the International Association for the Pain Study use for pain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is pain in complex diagnosis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the National Association for the Study of Pain's definition for pain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an intense phenomenon?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In females, changes in the primary sex characteristics involve growth of the uterus, vagina, and other aspects of the reproductive system. Menarche, the beginning of menstruation, is a relatively late development which follows a long series of hormonal changes. Generally, a girl is not fully fertile until several years after menarche, as regular ovulation follows menarche by about two years. Unlike males, therefore, females usually appear physically mature before they are capable of becoming pregnant.
Question: What term is the beginning of menstruation given?
Answer: Menarche
Question: How many years does regular ovulation follow menarche?
Answer: two years
Question: Do males or females appear physically mature before they are capable of reproduction?
Answer: females
Question: What are two areas of the reproductive system that experience growth in females during puberty?
Answer: uterus, vagina
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Context: Due to the centralisation of power and the Viking invasions, there is relatively little written record of the non-Wessex dialects after Alfred's unification. Some Mercian texts continued to be written, however, and the influence of Mercian is apparent in some of the translations produced under Alfred's programme, many of which were produced by Mercian scholars. Other dialects certainly continued to be spoken, as is evidenced by the continued variation between their successors in Middle and Modern English. In fact, what would become the standard forms of Middle English and of Modern English are descended from Mercian rather than West Saxon, while Scots developed from the Northumbrian dialect. It was once claimed that, owing to its position at the heart of the Kingdom of Wessex, the relics of Anglo-Saxon accent, idiom and vocabulary were best preserved in the dialect of Somerset.
Question: From what Old English dialect is the standard for of Modern English descended?
Answer: Mercian
Question: From what Old English dialect did Scots derive?
Answer: Northumbrian
Question: What modern dialect is sometimes regarded as being similar to that of the historical Kingdom of Wessex?
Answer: Somerset
Question: Along with centralization, what reason is given for the lack of records in non-Wessex dialects after the unification of Alfred?
Answer: the Viking invasions
Question: What dialects disappeared after Alfred's unification?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What scholars lead the movement to translate texts into English?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What languages are descended from Mercian and West Saxon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The essence of air defence is to detect hostile aircraft and destroy them. The critical issue is to hit a target moving in three-dimensional space; an attack must not only match these three coordinates, but must do so at the time the target is at that position. This means that projectiles either have to be guided to hit the target, or aimed at the predicted position of the target at the time the projectile reaches it, taking into account speed and direction of both the target and the projectile.
Question: What is the first purpose of air defence?
Answer: detect hostile aircraft
Question: What is the second purpose of air defence?
Answer: destroy them
Question: What is the critical issue in air defence?
Answer: to hit a target moving in three-dimensional space
Question: Projectiles must either be guided to the target or aimed where?
Answer: at the predicted position of the target at the time the projectile reaches it
Question: What two things must be considered in regards to the projectile and target?
Answer: speed and direction
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Context: Despite their close genetic relationship and the ability to inter-breed, there are a number of diagnostic features to distinguish the gray wolves from domestic dogs. Domesticated dogs are clearly distinguishable from wolves by starch gel electrophoresis of red blood cell acid phosphatase. The tympanic bullae are large, convex and almost spherical in gray wolves, while the bullae of dogs are smaller, compressed and slightly crumpled. Compared to equally sized wolves, dogs tend to have 20% smaller skulls and 30% smaller brains.:35 The teeth of gray wolves are also proportionately larger than those of dogs; the premolars and molars of wolves are much less crowded and have more complex cusp patterns. Wolves do not have dewclaws on their back legs, unless there has been admixture with dogs. Dogs lack a functioning pre-caudal gland, and most enter estrus twice yearly, unlike gray wolves which only do so once a year. Dogs require fewer calories to function than wolves. The dog's limp ears may be the result of atrophy of the jaw muscles. The skin of domestic dogs tends to be thicker than that of wolves, with some Inuit tribes favoring the former for use as clothing due to its greater resistance to wear and tear in harsh weather.
Question: Which typically has thicker skin, dogs or wolves?
Answer: dogs.
Question: Dogs having ears that are not erect may be due to what?
Answer: atrophy of the jaw muscles.
Question: What kind of features differentiate gray wolves from dogs?
Answer: diagnostic features
Question: How often do female wolves enter estrus?
Answer: once a year.
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Context: On 28 January 1871 the Government of National Defence based in Paris negotiated an armistice with the Prussians. With Paris starving, and Gambetta's provincial armies reeling from one disaster after another, French foreign minister Favre went to Versailles on 24 January to discuss peace terms with Bismarck. Bismarck agreed to end the siege and allow food convoys to immediately enter Paris (including trains carrying millions of German army rations), on condition that the Government of National Defence surrender several key fortresses outside Paris to the Prussians. Without the forts, the French Army would no longer be able to defend Paris.
Question: On what date did the Government of National Defence negotiate an armistice?
Answer: 28 January 1871
Question: With whom did the French government negotiate?
Answer: the Prussians
Question: What consequence of war were Parisians suffering?
Answer: starving
Question: Which French minister traveled to Versailles to discuss peace?
Answer: Favre
Question: What was the date on which jFarve and Bismarck met?
Answer: 24 January
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Context: The Han-era Chinese used bronze and iron to make a range of weapons, culinary tools, carpenters' tools and domestic wares. A significant product of these improved iron-smelting techniques was the manufacture of new agricultural tools. The three-legged iron seed drill, invented by the 2nd century BC, enabled farmers to carefully plant crops in rows instead of casting seeds out by hand. The heavy moldboard iron plow, also invented during the Han dynasty, required only one man to control it, two oxen to pull it. It had three plowshares, a seed box for the drills, a tool which turned down the soil and could sow roughly 45,730 m2 (11.3 acres) of land in a single day.
Question: What was an invention that allowed farmers to place their crops into rows?
Answer: The three-legged iron seed drill
Question: How many animals were neccessary to pull an iron plow?
Answer: two oxen
Question: How many acres of land could succesfully be sowed with a seed box in a day?
Answer: 11.3 acres
Question: What methodology allowed the production of new agricultural tools?
Answer: improved iron-smelting techniques
Question: How many persons were necessary to operate an iron plow?
Answer: one man
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Context: For centuries, Jews worldwide have spoken the local or dominant languages of the regions they migrated to, often developing distinctive dialectal forms or branches that became independent languages. Yiddish is the Judæo-German language developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Central Europe. Ladino is the Judæo-Spanish language developed by Sephardic Jews who migrated to the Iberian peninsula. Due to many factors, including the impact of the Holocaust on European Jewry, the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, and widespread emigration from other Jewish communities around the world, ancient and distinct Jewish languages of several communities, including Judæo-Georgian, Judæo-Arabic, Judæo-Berber, Krymchak, Judæo-Malayalam and many others, have largely fallen out of use.
Question: What is the Judaeo-German language developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to Central Europe?
Answer: Yiddish
Question: What is the Judaeo-Spanish language developed by Sephardic Jews who migrated to the Iberian peninsula?
Answer: Ladino
Question: Name one reason the ancient and distinct Jewish languages have largely fallen out of use?
Answer: Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries
Question: For how long have Jews not spoken the local languages of the regions they migrated to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have Jews never spoken?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What language was developed by Ashkenazi Jews who migrated to the Iberian peninsula?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was not a factor in Jewish languages falling out of use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a Jewish language that has not fallen out of use?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Traymore Hotel was located at the corner of Illinois Avenue and the boardwalk. Begun in 1879 as a small boarding house, the hotel grew through a series of uncoordinated expansions. By 1914, the hotel's owner, Daniel White, taking a hint from the Marlborough-Blenheim, commissioned the firm of Price and McLanahan to build an even bigger hotel. Rising 16 stories, the tan brick and gold-capped hotel would become one of the city's best-known landmarks. The hotel made use of ocean-facing hotel rooms by jutting its wings farther from the main portion of the hotel along Pacific Avenue.
Question: What was the name of the hotel located at the corner of Illinois Avenue and the boardwalk?
Answer: The Traymore Hotel
Question: What year was The Traymore Hotel begun?
Answer: 1879
Question: Who was the owner of The Traymore Hotel?
Answer: Daniel White
Question: How many stories was The Traymore Hotel after its renovation?
Answer: 16
Question: What was the name of the firm commissioned to build The Traymore Hotel?
Answer: Price and McLanahan
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Context: Washington University spent its first half century in downtown St. Louis bounded by Washington Ave., Lucas Place, and Locust Street. By the 1890s, owing to the dramatic expansion of the Manual School and a new benefactor in Robert Brookings, the University began to move west. The University Board of Directors began a process to find suitable ground and hired the landscape architecture firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot of Boston. A committee of Robert S. Brookings, Henry Ware Eliot, and William Huse found a site of 103 acres (41.7 ha) just beyond Forest Park, located west of the city limits in St. Louis County. The elevation of the land was thought to resemble the Acropolis and inspired the nickname of "Hilltop" campus, renamed the Danforth campus in 2006 to honor former chancellor William H. Danforth.
Question: Where was Washington University located during the first half of the 1800's.
Answer: downtown St. Louis
Question: When did Washington University begin to expand west?
Answer: the 1890s
Question: What architecture firm was hired by the Board of Directors at Washington University?
Answer: Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot of Boston
Question: Who was on the committee that found a new site for Washington University?
Answer: Robert S. Brookings, Henry Ware Eliot, and William Huse
Question: What nickname was given to the new campus site?
Answer: "Hilltop" campus
Question: In what decade was the Manual School established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was one of the university's Board of Directors members in the 1890s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city was Robert Brookings originally from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who designed the Manual School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one of the streets that the Danforth campus now lies next to?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: One year after its publication To Kill a Mockingbird had been translated into ten languages. In the years since, it has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. The novel has never been out of print in hardcover or paperback, and has become part of the standard literature curriculum. A 2008 survey of secondary books read by students between grades 9–12 in the U.S. indicates the novel is the most widely read book in these grades. A 1991 survey by the Book of the Month Club and the Library of Congress Center for the Book found that To Kill a Mockingbird was rated behind only the Bible in books that are "most often cited as making a difference".[note 1] It is considered by some to be the Great American Novel.
Question: After one year when To Kill a Mockingbird first came out, how many languages has it been printed in?
Answer: ten
Question: Up til today, how many languages has To Kill a Mockingbird been printed in?
Answer: 40
Question: How many copies has To Kill a Mockingbird sold since it first came out?
Answer: 30 million
Question: How many copies of the book have been sold?
Answer: more than 30 million
Question: How many languages has the book been translated into?
Answer: more than 40
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Context: A German trading company, the Jaluit Gesellschaft, administered the islands from 1887 until 1905. They conscripted the islanders as laborers and mistreated them. After the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899, in which Germany acquired the Carolines, Palau, and the Marianas from Spain, Germany placed all of its Micronesian islands, including the Marshalls, under the governor of German New Guinea.
Question: What company ran the Marshall Islands in the late 19th century?
Answer: the Jaluit Gesellschaft
Question: When did the Jaluit Gesellschaft's administration of the islands end?
Answer: 1905
Question: What document was signed in 1899?
Answer: the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899
Question: Along with the Marianas and Palau, what islands were acquired from Spain in 1899?
Answer: the Carolines
Question: What official administered Germany's Micronesian possessions?
Answer: the governor of German New Guinea
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Context: Historically, the roots of Buddhism lie in the religious thought of ancient India during the second half of the first millennium BCE. That was a period of social and religious turmoil, as there was significant discontent with the sacrifices and rituals of Vedic Brahmanism.[note 15] It was challenged by numerous new ascetic religious and philosophical groups and teachings that broke with the Brahmanic tradition and rejected the authority of the Vedas and the Brahmans.[note 16] These groups, whose members were known as shramanas, were a continuation of a non-Vedic strand of Indian thought distinct from Indo-Aryan Brahmanism.[note 17] Scholars have reasons to believe that ideas such as samsara, karma (in the sense of the influence of morality on rebirth), and moksha originated in the shramanas, and were later adopted by Brahmin orthodoxy.[note 18][note 19][note 20][note 21][note 22][note 23]
Question: What time period was the beginning of Buddhism?
Answer: second half of the first millennium BCE
Question: Scholars believe that karma originated in what?
Answer: the shramanas
Question: What groups broke with Brahmanic tradition?
Answer: shramanas
Question: Shramanas were a continuation of what type of trand of Indian thought?
Answer: non-Vedic
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Context: At the Abbey Saint-Denis, Noyon Cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris and at the eastern end of Canterbury Cathedral in England, simple cylindrical columns predominate over the Gothic forms of clustered columns and shafted piers. Wells Cathedral in England, commenced at the eastern end in 1175, was the first building in which the designer broke free from Romanesque forms. The architect entirely dispensed with the round arch in favour of the pointed arch and with cylindrical columns in favour of piers composed of clusters of shafts which lead into the mouldings of the arches. The transepts and nave were continued by Adam Locke in the same style and completed in about 1230. The character of the building is entirely Gothic. Wells Cathedral is thus considered the first truly Gothic cathedral.
Question: What is one cathedral in which simple cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
Answer: Abbey Saint-Denis
Question: When was the construction of Wells Cathedral in England begun?
Answer: in 1175
Question: Who completed the transepts and nave on Wells Cathedral in about 1230?
Answer: Adam Locke
Question: Which Cathedral is considered the first thoroughly Gothic cathedral?
Answer: Wells Cathedral
Question: What is another cathedral in which simple cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
Answer: Notre Dame de Paris
Question: What is one cathedral in which complex cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the construction of Wells Cathedral in England halted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who completed the transepts and nave on Wells Cathedral in about 1130?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Cathedral is considered the only thoroughly Gothic cathedral?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The climate of Greece is primarily Mediterranean, featuring mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. This climate occurs at all coastal locations, including Athens, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete, the Peloponnese, the Ionian Islands and parts of the Central Continental Greece region. The Pindus mountain range strongly affects the climate of the country, as areas to the west of the range are considerably wetter on average (due to greater exposure to south-westerly systems bringing in moisture) than the areas lying to the east of the range (due to a rain shadow effect).
Question: Greece's climate is mainly of what type?
Answer: Mediterranean
Question: Greece's climate is affected by what range?
Answer: Pindus mountain range
Question: East of the Pindus mountains, the climate is drier due to what?
Answer: a rain shadow effect
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Context: The climate in San Diego, like most of Southern California, often varies significantly over short geographical distances resulting in microclimates. In San Diego, this is mostly because of the city's topography (the Bay, and the numerous hills, mountains, and canyons). Frequently, particularly during the "May gray/June gloom" period, a thick "marine layer" cloud cover will keep the air cool and damp within a few miles of the coast, but will yield to bright cloudless sunshine approximately 5–10 miles (8.0–16.1 km) inland. Sometimes the June gloom can last into July, causing cloudy skies over most of San Diego for the entire day. Even in the absence of June gloom, inland areas tend to experience much more significant temperature variations than coastal areas, where the ocean serves as a moderating influence. Thus, for example, downtown San Diego averages January lows of 50 °F (10 °C) and August highs of 78 °F (26 °C). The city of El Cajon, just 10 miles (16 km) inland from downtown San Diego, averages January lows of 42 °F (6 °C) and August highs of 88 °F (31 °C).
Question: What areas experience the most significant temperature variations?
Answer: inland areas
Question: What is the average high temperature in El Cajon in August?
Answer: 88 °F
Question: What frequently blankets San Diego in May and June?
Answer: a thick "marine layer" cloud cover
Question: What is the average January low temperature in downtown San Diego?
Answer: 50 °F (10 °C)
Question: What effect does the springtime cloud cover have on the temperature?
Answer: keep the air cool and damp
Question: What areas experience the most insignificant temperature variations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the average high temperature in El Cajon in July?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What frequently blankets San Francisco in May and June?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the average January high temperature in downtown San Diego?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What effect does the summertime cloud cover have on the temperature?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Until the 1990s further replays would be played until one team was victorious. Some ties took as many as six matches to settle; in their 1975 campaign, Fulham played a total of 12 games over six rounds, which remains the most games played by a team to reach a final. Replays were traditionally played three or four days after the original game, but from 1991–92 they were staged at least 10 days later on police advice. This led to penalty shoot-outs being introduced, the first of which came on 26 November 1991 when Rotherham United eliminated Scunthorpe United.
Question: Do clubs replay each other?
Answer: Until the 1990s further replays would be played until one team was victorious.
Question: What is the most games played a team to reach the final?
Answer: 12 games over six rounds, which remains the most games played by a team to reach a final
Question: When are replays played?
Answer: . Replays were traditionally played three or four days after the original game, but from 1991–92 they were staged at least 10 days later on police advice.
Question: When was the first penalty kick?
Answer: penalty shoot-outs being introduced, the first of which came on 26 November 1991
Question: What clubs were playing during the first penalty?
Answer: Rotherham United eliminated Scunthorpe United.
Question: What is the least amount of games played by a team to reach a final?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Scunthorpe United eliminate Rotherham United?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the last penalty shoot-out?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were replays traditionally played three or four days after the original game?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did clubs replay each other after the 1990s?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Many of the leading universities associated with Enlightenment progressive principles were located in northern Europe, with the most renowned being the universities of Leiden, Göttingen, Halle, Montpellier, Uppsala and Edinburgh. These universities, especially Edinburgh, produced professors whose ideas had a significant impact on Britain's North American colonies and, later, the American Republic. Within the natural sciences, Edinburgh's medical also led the way in chemistry, anatomy and pharmacology. In other parts of Europe, the universities and schools of France and most of Europe were bastions of traditionalism and were not hospitable to the Enlightenment. In France, the major exception was the medical university at Montpellier.
Question: Where were many of the leading universities associated with Enlightenment progressive principles located?
Answer: northern Europe
Question: Which six universities were the most renowned in northern Europe?
Answer: Leiden, Göttingen, Halle, Montpellier, Uppsala and Edinburgh
Question: Which university, especially, produced professors whose ideas had a significant impact on the colonies?
Answer: Edinburgh
Question: Which of France's universities was the exception and was hospitable to the Enlightenment?
Answer: the medical university at Montpellier
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Context: Apart from residences for upper and middle class households, sanitation is insufficient in most residential areas. Private flush toilets are too expensive for virtually all residents in townships due to their water consumption and installation cost. As a result, access to improved sanitation has not increased much since independence: In Namibia's rural areas 13% of the population had more than basic sanitation, up from 8% in 1990. Many of Namibia's inhabitants have to resort to "flying toilets", plastic bags to defecate which after use are flung into the bush. The use of open areas close to residential land to urinate and defecate is very common and has been identified as a major health hazard.
Question: Most residential areas are insufficient in what area of Namibia?
Answer: sanitation
Question: Besides installation cost, why are private flush toilets too expensive for most residents in Namibia?
Answer: water consumption
Question: What do Namibian's use as a toilet?
Answer: flying toilets
Question: Where do flying toilets end up after use?
Answer: bush
Question: Urinating and defecating in public has been identified as what?
Answer: major health hazard
Question: In what African country is sanitation sufficient for most residential areas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what African country are private flush toilets reasonably priced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Namibia's rural areas have 13% of the population with more than basic sanitation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what African country is water plentiful?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The theory of special relativity finds a convenient formulation in Minkowski spacetime, a mathematical structure that combines three dimensions of space with a single dimension of time. In this formalism, distances in space can be measured by how long light takes to travel that distance, e.g., a light-year is a measure of distance, and a meter is now defined in terms of how far light travels in a certain amount of time. Two events in Minkowski spacetime are separated by an invariant interval, which can be either space-like, light-like, or time-like. Events that have a time-like separation cannot be simultaneous in any frame of reference, there must be a temporal component (and possibly a spatial one) to their separation. Events that have a space-like separation will be simultaneous in some frame of reference, and there is no frame of reference in which they do not have a spatial separation. Different observers may calculate different distances and different time intervals between two events, but the invariant interval between the events is independent of the observer (and his velocity).
Question: Minkowski spacetime combines the three dimensions of space with what?
Answer: a single dimension of time
Question: In Minkowski spacetime, how can distances in space be measured?
Answer: by how long light takes to travel that distance
Question: What are two events in Minkowski spacetime separated by?
Answer: by an invariant interval
Question: The invariant interval between events is independent of what?
Answer: of the observer (and his velocity)
Question: The invariant interval that separates two events in Minkowski spacetime can either be what?
Answer: space-like, light-like, or time-like
Question: What are light years combined with in Minkowski spacetime?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are bodies in space measured?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How are independent observers separated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some characteristics that are applied to bodies in space?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What will events that have a time-like separation always be in some frame of reference?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Minkowski spacetime combine the three dimensions of time with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Minkowski spacetime, how can time be measured?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are two events in Minkowski spacetime connected by?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the invariant interval between time is independent of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What may the same observer calculate?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On April 8, 2005, a partnership led by Comcast and Sony Pictures Entertainment finalized a deal to acquire MGM and its affiliate studio, United Artists, and create an additional outlet to carry MGM/UA's material for cable and Internet distribution. On October 31, 2005, Comcast officially announced that it had acquired Susquehanna Communications a South Central Pennsylvania, -based cable television and broadband services provider and unit of the former Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff company, for $775 million cash. In this deal Comcast acquired approximately 230,000 basic cable customers, 71,000 digital cable customers, and 86,000 high-speed Internet customers. Comcast previously owned approximately 30 percent of Susquehanna Communications through affiliate company Lenfest. In December 2005, Comcast announced the creation of Comcast Interactive Media, a new division focused on online media.
Question: Comcast joined with what media company to acquire a movie studio in 2005?
Answer: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Question: What movie studios did Comcast and their partner buy?
Answer: MGM and its affiliate studio, United Artists
Question: What Pennsylvania cable provider did Comcast buy controlling interest in during 2005?
Answer: Susquehanna Communications
Question: When did Comcast formally announce its purchase of this cable provider?
Answer: October 31, 2005
Question: How much did Comcast pay for this cable tv provider?
Answer: $775 million cash
Question: What did Comcast and MGM buy in 2005?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is MGM located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did Comcast purchase MGM for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of Lenfest did Comcast own?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many internet customers did the partnership with Sony Pictures garner Comcast?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1768 Russian-backed Ukrainian Haidamaks, pursuing Polish confederates, entered Balta, an Ottoman-controlled town on the border of Bessarabia in Ukraine, and massacred its citizens and burned the town to the ground. This action provoked the Ottoman Empire into the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774 ended the war and provided freedom to worship for the Christian citizens of the Ottoman-controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia. By the late 18th century, a number of defeats in several wars with Russia led some people in the Ottoman Empire to conclude that the reforms of Peter the Great had given the Russians an edge, and the Ottomans would have to keep up with Western technology in order to avoid further defeats.
Question: Which group supported by Russia entered Balta in 1768?
Answer: Ukrainian Haidamaks
Question: Near what region was Balta bording?
Answer: Bessarabia
Question: During what years was the Russo-Turkish war?
Answer: 1768–1774
Question: The Russo-Turkish War resulted in what treaty?
Answer: Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
Question: The culmination of the Russo-Turkish war granted what to the citizens of Ottoman controlled Provinces in Moldavia?
Answer: freedom to worship
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Context: The cloth or fiber material used, resin material, and the cloth to resin ratio determine the laminate's type designation (FR-4, CEM-1, G-10, etc.) and therefore the characteristics of the laminate produced. Important characteristics are the level to which the laminate is fire retardant, the dielectric constant (er), the loss factor (tδ), the tensile strength, the shear strength, the glass transition temperature (Tg), and the Z-axis expansion coefficient (how much the thickness changes with temperature).
Question: What element of a laminate is designated by the cloth to resin ratio, among other things?
Answer: type designation
Question: What's the name for the measurement of a laminate's change in thickness as its temperature changes?
Answer: Z-axis expansion coefficient
Question: What's the abbreviation for the glass transition temperature of a laminate?
Answer: Tg
Question: What determine's the silver's type designation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not considered an important characteristic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Z-axis expansion coagulant is what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The gain factor is one of the important what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The shear sector is one of the important what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The race was the most expensive for Congress in the country that year and four days before the general election, Durkin withdrew and endorsed Cronin, hoping to see Kerry defeated. The week before, a poll had put Kerry 10 points ahead of Cronin, with Dukin on 13%. In the final days of the campaign, Kerry sensed that it was "slipping away" and Cronin emerged victorious by 110,970 votes (53.45%) to Kerry's 92,847 (44.72%). After his defeat, Kerry lamented in a letter to supporters that "for two solid weeks, [The Sun] called me un-American, New Left antiwar agitator, unpatriotic, and labeled me every other 'un-' and 'anti-' that they could find. It's hard to believe that one newspaper could be so powerful, but they were." He later felt that his failure to respond directly to The Sun's attacks cost him the race.
Question: How many votes did Cronin get against Kerry?
Answer: 110,970
Question: What percent of votes did Cronin get against Kerry?
Answer: 53.45%
Question: How many votes did Kerry get against Cronin?
Answer: 92,847
Question: What percent of votes did Kerry get against Cronin?
Answer: 44.72%
Question: What did Kerry think cost him the race against Cronin?
Answer: his failure to respond directly to The Sun's attacks
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Context: In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. During World War II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz (1948), Cortina d'Ampezzo (1956), Innsbruck, Austria (1964 and 1976), Grenoble, France, (1968), Albertville, France, (1992), and Torino (2006). In 1930 the Lauberhorn Rennen (Lauberhorn Race), was run for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen; the equally demanding Hahnenkamm was first run in the same year in Kitzbühl, Austria. Both races continue to be held each January on successive weekends. The Lauberhorn is the more strenuous downhill race at 4.5 km (2.8 mi) and poses danger to racers who reach 130 km/h (81 mph) within seconds of leaving the start gate.
Question: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1924?
Answer: Chamonix, France
Question: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1928?
Answer: St. Moritz, Switzerland
Question: Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1936?
Answer: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Question: When was the Lauberhorn Rennen ran for the first time on the Lauberhorn above Wengen?
Answer: 1930
Question: When were the Winter Olympics held in Albertville, France?
Answer: (1992)
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Context: In Arabic-speaking cultures, two words are commonly used for Christians: Naṣrānī (نصراني), plural Naṣārā (نصارى) is generally understood to be derived from Nazareth through the Syriac (Aramaic); Masīḥī (مسيحي) means followers of the Messiah. The term Nasara rose to prominence in July 2014, after the Fall of Mosul to the terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The nun or ن— the first letter of Nasara—was spray-painted on the property of Christians ejected from the city.
Question: What does Masīḥī mean?
Answer: followers of the Messiah
Question: When did the term Nasara become used more in modern times?
Answer: July 2014
Question: What happened in July 2014?
Answer: the Fall of Mosul
Question: What was spray pained on the properties of Christians who left the area?
Answer: the first letter of Nasara
Question: Which term means followers of the Islamic State of Iraq?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which month of 105 did the term Nasara rise to prominence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which term rose to prominence after the nun was spraypainted on Christian property?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which words are commonly used for Christians in the Sryiac?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the term Nasara fall in prominence?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In June 1990, The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles ("Mr", "Mrs", or "Miss" prefixes) for living persons before full names on first reference, but it continues to use them before surnames on subsequent references. The more formal style is now confined to the "Court and Social" page, though "Ms" is now acceptable in that section, as well as before surnames in news sections.
Question: In what year did The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles for living persons before full names on first reference?
Answer: 1990
Question: What kind of style is now confined to the "Court and Social" page of The Times when referring to the use of courtesy titles?
Answer: formal style
Question: When The Times ceased its policy of using courtesy titles, it continued to use them for what kind of name on references after the first?
Answer: surnames
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Context: Universal Music Group decided not to renew their contract with the iTunes Store on July 3, 2007. Universal will now supply iTunes in an 'at will' capacity.
Question: What company ended its deal with Apple's music store in July of 2007?
Answer: Universal Music Group
Question: What entity did Universal have a contract with prior to July of 2007?
Answer: iTunes Store
Question: In what year did Universal Music Group let their contract with iTunes lapse?
Answer: 2007
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Context: World War I demonstrated that aircraft could be an important part of the battlefield, but in some nations it was the prospect of strategic air attack that was the main issue, presenting both a threat and an opportunity. The experience of four years of air attacks on London by Zeppelins and Gotha G.V bombers had particularly influenced the British and was one of if not the main driver for forming an independent air force. As the capabilities of aircraft and their engines improved it was clear that their role in future war would be even more critical as their range and weapon load grew. However, in the years immediately after World War I the prospect of another major war seemed remote, particularly in Europe where the most militarily capable nations were, and little financing was available.
Question: What showed that aircraft could be a significant contribution to the battlefield?
Answer: World War I
Question: In addition to Zeppelins, what attacked London for four years with air attacks?
Answer: Gotha G.V bombers
Question: The four year air attack was instrumental in Britain forming what?
Answer: an independent air force
Question: The future of aircraft in war situations was important because of the growth in what two areas?
Answer: their range and weapon load
Question: Where were most of the nations who had the strongest military after World War I?
Answer: Europe
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Context: Spectre (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the character's re-introduction into the series. It was directed by Sam Mendes as his second James Bond film following Skyfall, and was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. It is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures. With a budget around $245 million, it is the most expensive Bond film and one of the most expensive films ever made.
Question: Which company made Spectre?
Answer: Eon Productions
Question: Who is the star of Spectre?
Answer: Daniel Craig
Question: What role does Daniel Craig play in Spectre?
Answer: James Bond
Question: What 007 movie did Sam Mendes previously direct?
Answer: Skyfall
Question: How much money did it take to make Spectre?
Answer: $245
Question: How many James Bond films has Eon Productions produced?
Answer: twenty-four
Question: Which Bond film was the most expensive ever made?
Answer: Spectre
Question: How many films has Daniel Craig appeared in as James Bond?
Answer: four
Question: Which two movie studios distributed the James Bond film Spectre?
Answer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures
Question: Who directed Spectre?
Answer: Sam Mendes
Question: What is the name of the thirty-fourth James Bond film?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the thirty-fourth James Bond film produced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Daniel Craig stars as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in what 2015 film?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Sam Mendes wrote what 2015 film?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: John Logan directed what 2015 film?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Although unpleasantness is an essential part of the IASP definition of pain, it is possible to induce a state described as intense pain devoid of unpleasantness in some patients, with morphine injection or psychosurgery. Such patients report that they have pain but are not bothered by it; they recognize the sensation of pain but suffer little, or not at all. Indifference to pain can also rarely be present from birth; these people have normal nerves on medical investigations, and find pain unpleasant, but do not avoid repetition of the pain stimulus.
Question: IASP's definition of pain includes what aspect as an essential part?
Answer: unpleasantness
Question: What is it possible to induce which is, contrary to expectations, devoid of unpleasantness?
Answer: a state described as intense pain
Question: Which type of injection has caused patients to report they have pain but aren't bothered by it?
Answer: morphine
Question: How much do some patients going through psychosurgery suffer from the sensation of pain?
Answer: little, or not at all
Question: What perspective towards pain are some people with perfectly normal nerves born with?
Answer: Indifference
Question: What is an essential part of the AISP definition of pain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the result of psychosurgery injection?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is present from birth?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On 2 March 1882, Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shot at the Queen as her carriage left Windsor railway station. Two schoolboys from Eton College struck him with their umbrellas, until he was hustled away by a policeman. Victoria was outraged when he was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but was so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she said it was "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved".
Question: Who shot at the queen?
Answer: Roderick Maclean
Question: When was the shooting?
Answer: 2 March 1882
Question: What was Maclean's occupation?
Answer: poet
Question: Which college were to two boys attending?
Answer: Eton College
Question: With what did the college boy's hit the shooter with?
Answer: umbrellas
Question: Who shot Queen Victoria?
Answer: Roderick Maclean
Question: What year was the Queen shot?
Answer: 1882
Question: Who stopped Maclean after he shot the Queen?
Answer: Two schoolboys from Eton College
Question: How did the schoolboys stop Maclean?
Answer: struck him with their umbrellas
Question: What did the court determine was the fate for Maclean after shooting the Queen?
Answer: not guilty by reason of insanity
Question: What disgruntled poet shot at Victoria's carriage on March 2, 1882?
Answer: Roderick Maclean
Question: What school did the boys who defended the Queen with umbrellas attend?
Answer: Eton College
Question: What was the verdict in Roderick Maclean's trial?
Answer: he was found not guilty by reason of insanity
Question: What provoked the attack on Queen Victoria as she left Windsor?
Answer: offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems
Question: What was Victoria's reaction to the verdict?
Answer: outraged
Question: Who attempted to assassinate the Queen?
Answer: Roderick Maclean
Question: What was the verdict in Maclean's trial?
Answer: not guilty by reason of insanity
Question: What position did Victoria take on being shot at?
Answer: "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved"
Question: When did Maclean attempt to shoot Victoria?
Answer: 2 March 1882
Question: Why did Maclean shoot at Victoria?
Answer: refusal to accept one of his poems
Question: Who never shot at the queen?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When wasn't the shooting?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasn't Maclean's occupation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which college were to two girls attending?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With what didn't the college boy's hit the shooter with?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Much of the country lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator. It lies in the monsoon region of Asia, with its coastal regions receiving over 5,000 mm (196.9 in) of rain annually. Annual rainfall in the delta region is approximately 2,500 mm (98.4 in), while average annual rainfall in the Dry Zone in central Myanmar is less than 1,000 mm (39.4 in). The Northern regions of Myanmar are the coolest, with average temperatures of 21 °C (70 °F). Coastal and delta regions have an average maximum temperature of 32 °C (89.6 °F).
Question: Where does the majority of the Burmese country fall on the globe ?
Answer: Much of the country lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator
Question: How much rain is received in the region where Burma is located ?
Answer: 5,000 mm (196.9 in) of rain annually
Question: What is the expected rainfall in the zone considered to be dry in Burma ?
Answer: 1,000 mm (39.4 in
Question: What is the average temperature of the coldest part of Burma and where is it located ?
Answer: The Northern regions of Myanmar are the coolest, with average temperatures of 21 °C (70 °F).
Question: How warm does it get at the height of summer along the in the delta and coastal regions of Burma?
Answer: Coastal and delta regions have an average maximum temperature of 32 °C (89.6 °F).
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Context: The population density normally reported for Oklahoma City using the area of its city limits can be a bit misleading. Its urbanized zone covers roughly 244 sq mi (630 km2) resulting in a density of 2,500 per square mile (2013 est), compared with larger rural watershed areas incorporated by the city, which cover the remaining 377 sq mi (980 km2) of the city limits.
Question: What covers the remaining 377 square miles?
Answer: rural watershed areas
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Context: Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia and it also the largest archipelago in the world by size (according to the CIA World Factbook). Geologically, the Indonesian Archipelago is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world. Geological uplifts in the region have also produced some impressive mountains, culminating in Puncak Jaya in Papua, Indonesia at 5,030 metres (16,500 feet), on the island of New Guinea; it is the only place where ice glaciers can be found in Southeast Asia. The second tallest peak is Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo with a height of 4,095 metres (13,435 feet). The highest mountain in Southeast Asia is Hkakabo Razi at 5,967 meters and can be found in northern Burma sharing the same range of its parent peak, Mount Everest.
Question: Name the largest country in Southeast Asia.
Answer: Indonesia
Question: Geologically what is Indonesia's region most active for?
Answer: volcanically active
Question: What is the largest country in Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the smallest archipelago in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What country has the least volcanic activity in Southeast Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only mountain without glaciers in Souteast Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the second largest peak in Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Soviet propaganda and representatives went to great lengths to minimize the importance of the fact that they had opposed and fought against the Nazis in various ways for a decade prior to signing the Pact. Upon signing the pact, Molotov tried to reassure the Germans of his good intentions by commenting to journalists that "fascism is a matter of taste". For its part, Nazi Germany also did a public volte-face regarding its virulent opposition to the Soviet Union, though Hitler still viewed an attack on the Soviet Union as "inevitable".[citation needed]
Question: Who downplayed the contrast and recent past history between German and the Soviets?
Answer: Molotov
Question: How long did the anti-Nazi propaganda machine run before the pact-signing?
Answer: a decade
Question: A war with the USSR was considered certain according to whom?
Answer: Hitler
Question: Who up-played the contrast and recent past history between German and the Soviets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who downplayed the contrast and recent past history between England and the Soviets?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did the anti-Soviet propaganda machine run before the pact-signing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A war with the USSR wasn't considered certain according to whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A war with the USSR was considered uncertain according to whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The most significant event between the 7th and 11th century was the Tripartite struggle centered on Kannauj that lasted for more than two centuries between the Pala Empire, Rashtrakuta Empire, and Gurjara Pratihara Empire. Southern India was ruled by the Chalukya, Chola, Pallava, Chera, Pandyan, and Western Chalukya Empires. The seventh century also saw the advent of Islam as a political power, though as a fringe, in the western part of the subcontinent, in modern-day Pakistan. The Chola dynasty conquered southern India and successfully invaded parts of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bengal in the 11th century. The early medieval period Indian mathematics influenced the development of mathematics and astronomy in the Arab world and the Hindu numerals were introduced.
Question: Between what centuries was the Tripartite struggle focused on Kannauj?
Answer: 7th and 11th
Question: How long did the Tripartite struggle last?
Answer: two centuries
Question: When did Islam begin to become a political power in India?
Answer: seventh century
Question: What dynasty conquered southern India and parts of southeast Asia?
Answer: Chola dynasty
Question: What facet of Indian mathematics was introduced into the Arab areas in the early Medieval period?
Answer: Hindu numerals
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Context: The evidence for the effectiveness of measures to prevent the development of asthma is weak. Some show promise including: limiting smoke exposure both in utero and after delivery, breastfeeding, and increased exposure to daycare or large families but none are well supported enough to be recommended for this indication. Early pet exposure may be useful. Results from exposure to pets at other times are inconclusive and it is only recommended that pets be removed from the home if a person has allergic symptoms to said pet. Dietary restrictions during pregnancy or when breast feeding have not been found to be effective and thus are not recommended. Reducing or eliminating compounds known to sensitive people from the work place may be effective. It is not clear if annual influenza vaccinations effects the risk of exacerbations. Immunization; however, is recommended by the World Health Organization. Smoking bans are effective in decreasing exacerbations of asthma.
Question: What is weak that is not helping prevent the development of asthma?
Answer: The evidence for the effectiveness of measures to prevent
Question: What preventative measures always work to prevent asthma?
Answer: none are well supported enough to be recommended for this indication
Question: What has been determined about dietry restrictions during pregnancy and when breast feeding?
Answer: have not been found to be effective and thus are not recommended
Question: Why are smoking bans in place?
Answer: effective in decreasing exacerbations of asthma
Question: Who recoomends immunizations?
Answer: World Health Organization
Question: What's weak and isn't helping prevent the development of the flu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some methods that seem promising to prevent workplace allergies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What methods are foolproof to prevent the flu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What group recommends having a smoking ban?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Do smoking bans prevent workplace allergies?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The evolution of the Greek sculpture can be observed in his depictions from the almost static formal Kouros type in early archaic period, to the representation of motion in a relative harmonious whole in late archaic period. In classical Greece the emphasis is not given to the illusive imaginative reality represented by the ideal forms, but to the analogies and the interaction of the members in the whole, a method created by Polykleitos. Finally Praxiteles seems to be released from any art and religious conformities, and his masterpieces are a mixture of naturalism with stylization.
Question: Whose masterpieces are a mixture of naturallism with stylization?
Answer: Praxiteles
Question: In whose depictions can the evolution of Greek sculpture be observed?
Answer: Praxiteles
Question: Who seems to be released from any art and religious conformities?
Answer: Praxiteles
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Context: Transport in the Republic of the Congo includes land, air and water transportation. The country's rail system was built by forced laborers during the 1930s and largely remains in operation. There are also over 1000 km of paved roads and two major international airports (Maya-Maya Airport and Pointe Noire Airport) which have flights to Paris and many African cities. The country also has a large port on the Atlantic Ocean at Pointe-Noire and others along the Congo River at Brazzaville and Impfondo.
Question: What forms of transport are available in the Congo?
Answer: land, air and water
Question: When was the Congo's train system built?
Answer: 1930s
Question: What is a common destination outside of Africa for Congolese airlines?
Answer: Paris
Question: On what ocean is a major port located?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
Question: What method of transport is not available in the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the country's rail system get taken out of operation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many kilometers of unpaved roads are in the Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many domestic airports are located in the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which ocean does the Congo have no ports on?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Increasingly, more modern games such as video games and slot machines are provided. Pubs hold special events, from tournaments of the aforementioned games to karaoke nights to pub quizzes. Some play pop music and hip-hop (dance bar), or show football and rugby union on big screen televisions (sports bar). Shove ha'penny and Bat and trap were also popular in pubs south of London.
Question: Along with slot machines, what is a modern game that is increasingly present in pubs?
Answer: video games
Question: What is a pub that plays pop and hip-hop music called?
Answer: dance bar
Question: At what sort of pub can you watch rugby union on television?
Answer: sports bar
Question: Along with Bat and trap, what game is popular in south London pubs?
Answer: Shove ha'penny
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Context: Logan Airport, located in East Boston and operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), is Boston's principal airport. Nearby general aviation airports are Beverly Municipal Airport to the north, Hanscom Field to the west, and Norwood Memorial Airport to the south. Massport also operates several major facilities within the Port of Boston, including a cruise ship terminal and facilities to handle bulk and container cargo in South Boston, and other facilities in Charlestown and East Boston.
Question: What Airport is located in East Boston?
Answer: Logan Airport
Question: Who operates Logan Airport?
Answer: Massport
Question: What is the name of Bostons main airport?
Answer: Logan Airport
Question: What airport is North of Logan Airport?
Answer: Beverly Municipal Airport
Question: What airport is south of Logan Airport?
Answer: Norwood Memorial Airport
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Context: If there are differences within a growth ring, then the part of a growth ring nearest the center of the tree, and formed early in the growing season when growth is rapid, is usually composed of wider elements. It is usually lighter in color than that near the outer portion of the ring, and is known as earlywood or springwood. The outer portion formed later in the season is then known as the latewood or summerwood. However, there are major differences, depending on the kind of wood (see below).
Question: If a growth ring has differences over one season, would the part nearest the tree's center be narrower or wider?
Answer: wider
Question: What name, besides springwood, is used for the part of a growth ring formed in the beginning of the growing season?
Answer: earlywood
Question: If the opposite of springwood is summerwood, what's the opposite of earlywood?
Answer: latewood
Question: Is earlywood usually lighter or darker than the part of the growth ring that forms later in the season?
Answer: lighter
Question: Is summerwood the inner or outer portion of a growth ring?
Answer: outer
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Context: Governments have seen alternates between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress (INC), no third front ever has become significant. In 2003, the state legislative assembly was won by the Indian National Congress and Virbhadra Singh was elected as the chief minister of the state. In the assembly elections held in December 2007, the BJP secured a landslide victory. The BJP won 41 of the 68 seats while the Congress won only 23 of the 68 seats. BJP's Prem Kumar Dhumal was sworn in as Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh on 30 December 2007.
Question: Who was elected as chief minister of the state of India?
Answer: Virbhadra Singh
Question: How many seats did the BJP win?
Answer: 41 of the 68 seats
Question: Who is BJP's Chief MInister of Himachal Pradesh?
Answer: Prem Kumar Dhumal
Question: When was he sworn in?
Answer: 30 December 2007
Question: When did the BJP secure a landslide victory?
Answer: December 2007
Question: In 2003, what did the Bharatiya Party win?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Prem Kumar Dhumal elected as in 2003?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the Indian National Congress elections held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the Indian National Congress win by a landslide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Virbhadra Singh sworn in as Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Consortium first published The Unicode Standard (ISBN 0-321-18578-1) in 1991 and continues to develop standards based on that original work. The latest version of the standard, Unicode 8.0, was released in June 2015 and is available from the consortium's website. The last of the major versions (versions x.0) to be published in book form was Unicode 5.0 (ISBN 0-321-48091-0), but since Unicode 6.0 the full text of the standard is no longer being published in book form. In 2012, however, it was announced that only the core specification for Unicode version 6.1 would be made available as a 692-page print-on-demand paperback. Unlike the previous major version printings of the Standard, the print-on-demand core specification does not include any code charts or standard annexes, but the entire standard, including the core specification, will still remain freely available on the Unicode website.
Question: When was the Unicode Standard first published?
Answer: 1991
Question: When was the latest version, Unicode 8.0, released?
Answer: June 2015
Question: What was the last major version of Unicode to be published in book form?
Answer: Unicode 5.0
Question: What year was it announced that only the core specification for Unicode would be printed in physical form?
Answer: 2012
Question: What does the print on demand, core version not include?
Answer: any code charts or standard annexes
Question: When was the Consortium founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What month did the Consortium first publish Unicode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was it announced that Unicode would no longer be available in book form?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many pages was the original Unicode standard?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What extra sections are not included on the Unicode website?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: As the Tokugawa period progressed more value became placed on education, and the education of females beginning at a young age became important to families and society as a whole. Marriage criteria began to weigh intelligence and education as desirable attributes in a wife, right along with physical attractiveness. Though many of the texts written for women during the Tokugawa period only pertained to how a woman could become a successful wife and household manager, there were those that undertook the challenge of learning to read, and also tackled philosophical and literary classics. Nearly all women of the samurai class were literate by the end of the Tokugawa period.
Question: In what period did Japanese women begin being more educated?
Answer: Tokugawa
Question: What were added to marriage criteria in the Tokugawa period?
Answer: intelligence and education as desirable attributes
Question: What types of advanced books did some Japanese women read?
Answer: philosophical and literary classics
Question: When had most samurai wives learned to read?
Answer: the end of the Tokugawa period
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Context: On 12 July 2007, European Court of Human Rights when dismissing the appeal by Nikola Jorgić against his conviction for genocide by a German court (Jorgic v. Germany) noted that the German courts wider interpretation of genocide has since been rejected by international courts considering similar cases. The ECHR also noted that in the 21st century "Amongst scholars, the majority have taken the view that ethnic cleansing, in the way in which it was carried out by the Serb forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to expel Muslims and Croats from their homes, did not constitute genocide. However, there are also a considerable number of scholars who have suggested that these acts did amount to genocide, and the ICTY has found in the Momcilo Krajisnik case that the actus reu, of genocide was met in Prijedor "With regard to the charge of genocide, the Chamber found that in spite of evidence of acts perpetrated in the municipalities which constituted the actus reus of genocide".
Question: Which court dismissed Nikola Jorgic's appeal against his conviction for genocide by a German court?
Answer: European Court of Human Rights
Question: In Jorgic v. Germany, what about the German courts was later rejected by international courts hearing similar cases?
Answer: wider interpretation of genocide
Question: The ECHR noted that among certain academics, what act carried out by the Serbs agains Bosnian Muslims and Croats did not constitute genocide?
Answer: ethnic cleansing
Question: The ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Serbs against Bosnia-Herzegovina was conducted with what ultimate goal in mind?
Answer: expel Muslims and Croats from their homes
Question: Conversely the scholars who did view the Serbs' acts as constituting genocide, were backed up by what Tribunal?
Answer: the ICTY
Question: Which court dismissed Nikola Jorgic's appeal against his conviction for cleansing by a German court?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In Jorgic v. Germany, what about the European courts was later rejected by international courts hearing similar cases?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What act carried about by the ECHR against Bosnian Muslims and Croats did not constitute genocide?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Tribunal backed up scholars who have ethnic cleansing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the ultimate goal of the ethnic cleansing perpetuated by the ECHR?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Ban Chao (d. AD 102) enlisted the aid of the Kushan Empire, occupying the area of modern India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, to subdue Kashgar and its ally Sogdiana. When a request by Kushan ruler Vima Kadphises (r. c. 90–c. 100 AD) for a marriage alliance with the Han was rejected in AD 90, he sent his forces to Wakhan (Afghanistan) to attack Ban Chao. The conflict ended with the Kushans withdrawing because of lack of supplies. In AD 91, the office of Protector General of the Western Regions was reinstated when it was bestowed on Ban Chao.
Question: Which ruler requested a marriage alliance with the Han in AD 90?
Answer: Vima Kadphises
Question: Who was the Protector General of the Western Regions in AD 91?
Answer: Ban Chao
Question: Which empire was asked to help subdue Kashgar?
Answer: Kushan
Question: Which empire sent armies to attack Ban Chao?
Answer: Kushan
Question: Who was allied with Kashgar?
Answer: Sogdiana
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Context: In early modern times, cardinals often had important roles in secular affairs. In some cases, they took on powerful positions in government. In Henry VIII's England, his chief minister was Cardinal Wolsey. Cardinal Richelieu's power was so great that he was for many years effectively the ruler of France. Richelieu successor was also a cardinal, Jules Mazarin. Guillaume Dubois and André-Hercule de Fleury complete the list of the "four great" cardinals to have ruled France.[citation needed] In Portugal, due to a succession crisis, one cardinal, Henry, King of Portugal, was crowned king, the only example of a cardinal-king.
Question: In what roles did cardinals have important roles?
Answer: secular affairs.
Question: What Caridinal had powers so great that he basically ran France?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu
Question: Which cardinal acted a the leader of France due to his amount of power?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu
Question: Who is the only person to ever become a cardinal king?
Answer: Henry, King of Portugal
Question: What role did priests have in secular affairs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not take powerful positions in government?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who acted as Henry VI's chief minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which cardinal had power so great that he effectively ruled England?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What five great cardinals once ruled France?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Over the years, AC has spawned subgenres including "hot AC", "soft AC" (also known as "lite AC"), "urban AC", "rhythmic AC", and "Christian AC" (a softer type of contemporary Christian music). Some stations play only "hot AC", "soft AC", or only one of the variety of subgenres. Therefore, it is not usually considered a specific genre of music; it is merely an assemblage of selected tracks from musicians of many different genres.
Question: What is lite AC otherwise known as?
Answer: soft AC
Question: What is Christian AC a subgenre of?
Answer: contemporary Christian music
Question: Along with hot, soft, urban and Christian AC, what is another prominent time of adult contemporary music?
Answer: rhythmic AC
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Context: A very high resolution source may require more bandwidth than available in order to be transmitted without loss of fidelity. The lossy compression that is used in all digital HDTV storage and transmission systems will distort the received picture, when compared to the uncompressed source.
Question: If more bandwith is required than is available, a very high resolution source my not be able to transmitted without loss of what?
Answer: fidelity
Question: The compression used in all HDTV storage and transmission systems will do what if resolution is too high?
Answer: distort the received picture
Question: A very high resolution source may require more of what?
Answer: bandwidth
Question: If more bandwidth is required than is available, a very low resolution source my not be able to transmitted without loss of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The compression used in all SDTV storage and transmission systems will do what if resolution is too high?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A very low resolution source may require more of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: It was not long until Apple released their first portable computer, the Macintosh Portable in 1989. Although due to considerable design issues, it was soon replaced in 1991 with the first of the PowerBook line: the PowerBook 100, a miniaturized portable; the 16 MHz 68030 PowerBook 140; and the 25 MHz 68030 PowerBook 170. They were the first portable computers with the keyboard behind a palm rest and a built-in pointing device (a trackball) in front of the keyboard. The 1993 PowerBook 165c was Apple's first portable computer to feature a color screen, displaying 256 colors with 640 x 400-pixel resolution. The second generation of PowerBooks, the 68040-equipped 500 series, introduced trackpads, integrated stereo speakers, and built-in Ethernet to the laptop form factor in 1994.
Question: What was the name of Apple's first portable computer?
Answer: Macintosh Portable
Question: When was the Macintosh Portable first released?
Answer: 1989
Question: What replaced the Macintosh Portable in 1991?
Answer: the PowerBook line
Question: What was the 1993 PowerBook 165c Apple's first portable computer to feature?
Answer: a color screen
Question: Which generation of PowerBooks introduced trackpads?
Answer: second
Question: What was the name of Apple's last portable computer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Macintosh Portable last released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What replaced the Macintosh Portable in 1992?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the 1992 PowerBook 165c Apple's first portable computer to feature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which generation of PowerMacs introduced trackpads?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Yaroslav, known as "the Wise", struggled for power with his brothers. A son of Vladimir the Great, he was vice-regent of Novgorod at the time of his father's death in 1015. Subsequently, his eldest surviving brother, Svyatopolk the Accursed, killed three of his other brothers and seized power in Kiev. Yaroslav, with the active support of the Novgorodians and the help of Viking mercenaries, defeated Svyatopolk and became the grand prince of Kiev in 1019. Although he first established his rule over Kiev in 1019, he did not have uncontested rule of all of Kievan Rus' until 1036. Like Vladimir, Yaroslav was eager to improve relations with the rest of Europe, especially the Byzantine Empire. Yaroslav's granddaughter, Eupraxia the daughter of his son Vsevolod I, Prince of Kiev, was married to Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor. Yaroslav also arranged marriages for his sister and three daughters to the kings of Poland, France, Hungary and Norway. Yaroslav promulgated the first East Slavic law code, Russkaya Pravda; built Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod; patronized local clergy and monasticism; and is said to have founded a school system. Yaroslav's sons developed the great Kiev Pechersk Lavra (monastery), which functioned in Kievan Rus' as an ecclesiastical academy.
Question: What was Yaroslav also known as?
Answer: the Wise
Question: Who was Yaroslav's father?
Answer: Vladimir the Great
Question: In what year did Yaroslav become the prince of Kiev?
Answer: 1019
Question: What was Yaroslav nor known as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not struggle for power with his brothers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the daughter of Vladimir the Great?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Yaroslav not eager to improve?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Yaroslav's sons develop the Kiev Pechersk Lavra?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Medical detection dogs are capable of detecting diseases by sniffing a person directly or samples of urine or other specimens. Dogs can detect odour in one part per trillion, as their brain's olfactory cortex is (relative to total brain size) 40 times larger than humans. Dogs may have as many as 300 million odour receptors in their nose, while humans may have only 5 million. Each dog is trained specifically for the detection of single disease from the blood glucose level indicative to diabetes to cancer. To train a cancer dog requires 6 months. A Labrador Retriever called Daisy has detected 551 cancer patients with an accuracy of 93 percent and received the Blue Cross (for pets) Medal for her life-saving skills.
Question: What can trained dogs detect by sniffing a person or a sample of their urine?
Answer: diseases
Question: How much larger is a dog brain olfactory cortex when compared to humans?
Answer: 40 times larger
Question: A dog can detect smells in one part per what?
Answer: trillion
Question: How much larger is a dog's olfactory cortex than a person's?
Answer: 40 times larger
Question: How many cancer patients has Daisy detected?
Answer: 551
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Context: A format called quiet storm is often included in urban adult contemporary, and is often played during the evening, blending the urban AC and soft AC styles of music. The music that is played is strictly ballads and slow jams, mostly but not limited to Black and Latino artists. Popular artists in the quiet storm format are Teena Marie, Freddie Jackson, Johnny Gill, Lalah Hathaway, Vanessa L. Williams, Toni Braxton, and En Vogue among others.
Question: What radio format consists of ballads and slow jams?
Answer: quiet storm
Question: What is the name of the radio format that is a mixture of urban and soft adult contemporary?
Answer: quiet storm
Question: At what time of day is the quiet storm format played?
Answer: the evening
Question: What is the typical ethnicity of artists played on quiet storm stations?
Answer: Black and Latino
Question: Along with Freddie Jackson, Johnny Gill, Teena Marie, Lalah Hathaway, Toni Braxton, and En Vogue, what artist is popular on quiet storm stations?
Answer: Vanessa L. Williams
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Context: Founded by Dantidurga around 753, the Rashtrakuta Empire ruled from its capital at Manyakheta for almost two centuries. At its peak, the Rashtrakutas ruled from the Ganges River and Yamuna River doab in the north to Cape Comorin in the south, a fruitful time of political expansion, architectural achievements and famous literary contributions.[citation needed] The early kings of this dynasty were Hindu but the later kings were strongly influenced by Jainism. Govinda III and Amoghavarsha were the most famous of the long line of able administrators produced by the dynasty. Amoghavarsha, who ruled for 64 years, was also an author and wrote Kavirajamarga, the earliest known Kannada work on poetics. Architecture reached a milestone in the Dravidian style, the finest example of which is seen in the Kailasanath Temple at Ellora. Other important contributions are the sculptures of Elephanta Caves in modern Maharashtra as well as the Kashivishvanatha temple and the Jain Narayana temple at Pattadakal in modern Karnataka, all of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Arab traveler Suleiman described the Rashtrakuta Empire as one of the four great Empires of the world. The Rashtrakuta period marked the beginning of the golden age of southern Indian mathematics. The great south Indian mathematician Mahāvīra (mathematician) lived in the Rashtrakuta Empire and his text had a huge impact on the medieval south Indian mathematicians who lived after him. The Rashtrakuta rulers also patronised men of letters, who wrote in a variety of languages from Sanskrit to the Apabhraṃśas.
Question: When was the Rastrakuta Empire started?
Answer: 753
Question: In what location was the capital of the Rashtrakuta Empire?
Answer: Manyakheta
Question: What was the faith of the early rulers of the Rastrakuta Empire?
Answer: Hindu
Question: By what were the later kings of the Rastrakuta Empire influenced?
Answer: Jainism
Question: What Rastrakuta king ruler for 64 years?
Answer: Amoghavarsha
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Context: Many more artillery pieces had arrived and been dug into batteries. In June, a third bombardment was followed after two days by a successful attack on the Mamelon, but a follow-up assault on the Malakoff failed with heavy losses. During this time the garrison commander, Admiral Nakhimov fell on 30 June 1855.:378 Raglan having also died on 28 June.:460 In August, the Russians again made an attack towards the base at Balaclava, defended by the French, newly arrived Sardinian and Ottoman troops.:461 The resulting battle of Tchernaya was a defeat for the Russians, who suffered heavy casualties.
Question: Who was the garrison commander that died on June 30th 1855?
Answer: Admiral Nakhimov
Question: What figure died on June 28th 1855?
Answer: Raglan
Question: What did the Russians try to attack during the month of August?
Answer: the base at Balaclava
Question: Who defended the base at Balaclava?
Answer: newly arrived Sardinian and Ottoman troops
Question: Who was defeated at the battle of Tchernaya?
Answer: the Russians
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Context: Chopin's original publishers included Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel. His works soon began to appear in popular 19th-century piano anthologies. The first collected edition was by Breitkopf & Härtel (1878–1902). Among modern scholarly editions of Chopin's works are the version under the name of Paderewski published between 1937 and 1966 and the more recent Polish "National Edition", edited by Jan Ekier, both of which contain detailed explanations and discussions regarding choices and sources.
Question: Who released the first collection of Chopin's works?
Answer: Breitkopf & Härtel
Question: Who edited the Polish "National Edition" of Chopin's works?
Answer: Jan Ekier
Question: Maurice Schlesinger and Camille Pleyel were what to Chopin?
Answer: original publishers
Question: Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up?
Answer: popular 19th-century piano anthologies.
Question: What was the name under scholarly publications of Chopin's work form 1937 to 1966?
Answer: Paderewski
Question: Who edited the Polish National Edition?
Answer: Jan Ekier
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Context: Within the Luftwaffe, there was a more muted view of strategic bombing. The OKL did not oppose the strategic bombardment of enemy industries and or cities, and believed it could greatly affect the balance of power on the battlefield in Germany's favour by disrupting production and damaging civilian morale, but they did not believe that air power alone could be decisive. Contrary to popular belief, the Luftwaffe did not have a systematic policy of what became known as "terror bombing". Evidence suggests that the Luftwaffe did not adopt an official bombing policy in which civilians became the primary target until 1942.
Question: Who believe air power alone would not be decisive?
Answer: Luftwaffe
Question: What was the name of the Luftwaffe's bombing raids?
Answer: terror bombing
Question: What year did the terror bombing policy become official?
Answer: 1942
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Context: Hellenistic art saw a turn from the idealistic, perfected, calm and composed figures of classical Greek art to a style dominated by realism and the depiction of emotion (pathos) and character (ethos). The motif of deceptively realistic naturalism in art (aletheia) is reflected in stories such as that of the painter Zeuxis, who was said to have painted grapes that seemed so real that birds came and pecked at them. The female nude also became more popular as epitomized by the Aphrodite of Cnidos of Praxiteles and art in general became more erotic (e.g. Leda and the Swan and Scopa's Pothos). The dominant ideals of Hellenistic art were those of sensuality and passion.
Question: Emotion is called what in Hellenistic art?
Answer: pathos
Question: Character is called what in Hellenistic art?
Answer: ethos
Question: Who is the artist that drew grapes so lifelike, birds flew up and pecked at them?
Answer: Zeuxis
Question: The ideals of Hellenistic art are sensuality and what?
Answer: passion
Question: What painting epitomized the female nude?
Answer: Aphrodite of Cnidos of Praxiteles
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Context: The Muslims took control of the Island in 904, after decades of fierce fighting, and the Emirate of Sicily was established. Muslim rule on the island lasted for about 120 years and was marked by cruelty and brutality against the native population, which was reduced into near slavery[clarification needed] and Christian churches across the island were all completely destroyed.[page needed] Palermo (Balarm during Arab rule) displaced Syracuse as the capital city of Sicily. It was said to have then begun to compete with Córdoba and Cairo in terms of importance and splendor. For more than one hundred years Palermo was the capital of a flourishing emirate. The Arabs also introduced many agricultural crops which remain a mainstay of Sicilian cuisine.
Question: How long did Muslim control of Palermo last?
Answer: 120 years
Question: What did the Arabs introduce that continues to be relevant to Palermo's culture today?
Answer: agricultural crops
Question: How were the indigenous Palermo population treated under Muslim rule?
Answer: reduced into near slavery
Question: Who took control of the island in the 9th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Emerite did the Muslims establish in the 9th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city displaced Palermo as the capital during Arab rule?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What cities did Syracuse compete with in terms of importance and splendor?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Sicilians introduce to the Arabs?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Relations between Ashkenazim and Sephardim have not always been warm. North African Sepharadim and Berber Jews were often looked upon by Ashkenazim as second-class citizens during the first decade after the creation of Israel. This has led to protest movements such as the Israeli Black Panthers led by Saadia Marciano a Moroccan Jew. Nowadays, relations are getting better. In some instances, Ashkenazi communities have accepted significant numbers of Sephardi newcomers, sometimes resulting in intermarriage.
Question: In the past have relations between Ashkenazim and Sephardim tended to be warm or cold?
Answer: have not always been warm
Question: How did the Ashkenazim view north African Sepharadim and Berber Jews?
Answer: as second-class citizens
Question: Who led the Israeli Black Panthers?
Answer: Saadia Marciano
Question: Where was Saadia Marciano from?
Answer: Moroccan Jew
Question: What did Saadia Marciano do with the Israeli Black Panthers?
Answer: led to protest movements
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Context: US army general Hoyt Vandenberg, the CIG's second director, created the Office of Special Operations (OSO), as well as the Office of Reports and Estimates (ORE). Initially the OSO was tasked with spying and subversion overseas with a budget of $15 million, the largesse of a small number of patrons in congress. Vandenberg's goals were much like the ones set out by his predecessor; finding out "everything about the Soviet forces in Eastern and Central Europe - their movements, their capabilities, and their intentions." This task fell to the 228 overseas personnel covering Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
Question: Who created the Office of Special Operations?
Answer: Hoyt Vandenberg
Question: What was the Office of Special Operations initial budget?
Answer: $15 million
Question: Who was the OSO trying to track and gain intelligence on?
Answer: the Soviet forces
Question: What does ORE stand for?
Answer: Office of Reports and Estimates
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Context: Lord Castlereagh, the British Foreign Secretary, first used the term in its diplomatic context, in a letter sent on February 13, 1814: "It affords me great satisfaction to acquaint you that there is every prospect of the Congress terminating with a general accord and Guarantee between the Great powers of Europe, with a determination to support the arrangement agreed upon, and to turn the general influence and if necessary the general arms against the Power that shall first attempt to disturb the Continental peace."
Question: When did Lord Castlereagh first use the term Great Powers?
Answer: in a letter sent on February 13, 1814
Question: What position did Lord Castlereagh hold?
Answer: British Foreign Secretary
Question: What did Castlereagh determine as the last resort of great power's influence?
Answer: if necessary the general arms against the Power that shall first attempt to disturb the Continental peace
Question: What member of Congress first used the term Great Powers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Lord Castleereagh first use the term Continental peace?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Great powers of Europe send in 1814?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What general influence was agreed upon in the letter sent in 1814?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the Great power turning against in the letter sent in 1814?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Electroluminescence as a phenomenon was discovered in 1907 by the British experimenter H. J. Round of Marconi Labs, using a crystal of silicon carbide and a cat's-whisker detector. Soviet inventor Oleg Losev reported creation of the first LED in 1927. His research was distributed in Soviet, German and British scientific journals, but no practical use was made of the discovery for several decades. Kurt Lehovec, Carl Accardo and Edward Jamgochian, explained these first light-emitting diodes in 1951 using an apparatus employing SiC crystals with a current source of battery or pulse generator and with a comparison to a variant, pure, crystal in 1953.
Question: LED lighting is the end result of what phenomenon?
Answer: Electroluminescence
Question: When was Electroluminescence discovered?
Answer: 1907
Question: What was the nationality of the man who discovered Electroluminescence?
Answer: British
Question: What type of detector did H.J. Round use to help him in his discovery?
Answer: cat's-whisker
Question: Who is the Soviet man that created the first LED?
Answer: Oleg Losev
Question: LED lighting is the beginning result of what phenomenon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was non-Electroluminescence discovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the nationality of the woman who discovered Electroluminescence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of light did H.J. Round use to help him in his discovery?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is the Soviet man that created the second LED?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: At the same conference, Marshall Sahlins presented a paper entitled, "Notes on the Original Affluent Society", in which he challenged the popular view of hunter-gatherers lives as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short," as Thomas Hobbes had put it in 1651. According to Sahlins, ethnographic data indicated that hunter-gatherers worked far fewer hours and enjoyed more leisure than typical members of industrial society, and they still ate well. Their "affluence" came from the idea that they were satisfied with very little in the material sense. Later, in 1996, Ross Sackett performed two distinct meta-analyses to empirically test Sahlin's view. The first of these studies looked at 102 time-allocation studies, and the second one analyzed 207 energy-expenditure studies. Sackett found that adults in foraging and horticultural societies work, on average, about 6.5 hours a day, where as people in agricultural and industrial societies work on average 8.8 hours a day.
Question: Who called hunter-gathers the original affluent society?
Answer: Marshall Sahlins
Question: When did Ross Sackett study time and energy for hunter-gartherer groups?
Answer: 1996
Question: How long a day do people in other societies work?
Answer: 8.8 hours a day
Question: What was the title of Ross Sackett's paper in which he challenged the popular view of hunter-gatherer lives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1851, Thomas Hobbes described hunter-gatherers as what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Data showed that hunter-gatherers enjoyed less leisure time than whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which group did not typically eat well?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Marshall Sahlins performed analysis testing Sackett's view in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The decline in the value of the U.S. dollar corresponds to price inflation, which is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. A consumer price index (CPI) is a measure estimating the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The United States Consumer Price Index, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is a measure estimating the average price of consumer goods and services in the United States. It reflects inflation as experienced by consumers in their day-to-day living expenses. A graph showing the U.S. CPI relative to 1982–1984 and the annual year-over-year change in CPI is shown at right.
Question: What does the decline in value of the dollar correspond to?
Answer: price inflation
Question: The rise in level of prices in an economy is referred to as what?
Answer: price inflation
Question: What does CPI stand for?
Answer: consumer price index
Question: Who publishes the Consumer Price Index?
Answer: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Question: What does the CPI estimate?
Answer: average price of consumer goods and services in the United States
Question: What does the decline in value of the average price correspond to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the rise in level of living expenses in an economy referred to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is published by the CPI?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who publishes the prices of goods and services?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimate?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In intelligent mammals, such as primates, the cerebrum is larger relative to the rest of the brain. Intelligence itself is not easy to define, but indications of intelligence include the ability to learn, matched with behavioral flexibility. Rats, for example, are considered to be highly intelligent, as they can learn and perform new tasks, an ability that may be important when they first colonize a fresh habitat. In some mammals, food gathering appears to be related to intelligence: a deer feeding on plants has a brain smaller than a cat, which must think to outwit its prey.
Question: Which part is larger relative to the brain in primates?
Answer: cerebrum
Question: Which non-primate has the ability to learn and perform new task?
Answer: Rats
Question: Mammals with smaller brains tend to be in what class in the food chain?
Answer: prey
Question: What part of the brain is larger in rats compared to the rest of the brain?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With primates, what is related to intelligence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are two indications of a larger cerebrum?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are cats able to do when they find a new home?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one thing that shows a cat has a large cerebrum?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recognizes that conflicts may exist between the respect for and implementation of current intellectual property systems and other human rights. In 2001 the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issued a document called "Human rights and intellectual property" that argued that intellectual property tends to be governed by economic goals when it should be viewed primarily as a social product; in order to serve human well-being, intellectual property systems must respect and conform to human rights laws. According to the Committee, when systems fail to do so they risk infringing upon the human right to food and health, and to cultural participation and scientific benefits. In 2004 the General Assembly of WIPO adopted The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization which argues that WIPO should "focus more on the needs of developing countries, and to view IP as one of many tools for development—not as an end in itself".
Question: Who recognizes that conflicts may exist between IP and other human rights?
Answer: World Intellectual Property Organization
Question: When was a document called "Human rights and intellectual property" issued?
Answer: 2001
Question: Who issued a document called "Human rights and intellectual property"?
Answer: the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Question: Who said IP failures may infringe on human rights to food and health?
Answer: the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Question: When did the WIPO adopt 'The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Intellectual Property Organization'?
Answer: 2004
Question: Who says that IP is in harmony with other human rights?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the WIPO issue the "Human rights and intellectual property"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the WIPO say IP failures infringed on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the UN Committee adopt 'The Geneva Declaration on the Future of the World Inellectual Property Organization'?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What tends to be governed by social goals?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Madonna performed at the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief concert in January 2010. In April she released her third live album, Sticky & Sweet Tour. It was her first release under Live Nation, but was distributed by Warner Bros. Madonna granted American TV show Glee the rights to her entire catalogue of music, and the producers planned an episode featuring Madonna songs exclusively. Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna, an EP containing eight cover versions of Madonna songs featured in the episode, was released afterward and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
Question: When did Madonna perform at the Hope for Haiti Now?
Answer: January 2010
Question: What album did Madonna released in April 2010?
Answer: Sticky & Sweet Tour
Question: Madonna granted which TV show the rights to her entire catalog of music?
Answer: Glee
Question: What is the name of the episode of Glee that featured Madonna's songs?
Answer: Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna
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Context: The Midwest Regional Medical Center located in the suburb of Midwest City; other major hospitals in the city include the Oklahoma Heart Hospital and the Mercy Health Center. There are 347 physicians for every 100,000 people in the city.
Question: Where is the Midwest Regional Medical Center?
Answer: Midwest City
Question: How many doctors are there per 100,000 people?
Answer: 347
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Context: Most bacterial species are either spherical, called cocci (sing. coccus, from Greek kókkos, grain, seed), or rod-shaped, called bacilli (sing. bacillus, from Latin baculus, stick). Elongation is associated with swimming. Some bacteria, called vibrio, are shaped like slightly curved rods or comma-shaped; others can be spiral-shaped, called spirilla, or tightly coiled, called spirochaetes. A small number of species even have tetrahedral or cuboidal shapes. More recently, some bacteria were discovered deep under Earth's crust that grow as branching filamentous types with a star-shaped cross-section. The large surface area to volume ratio of this morphology may give these bacteria an advantage in nutrient-poor environments. This wide variety of shapes is determined by the bacterial cell wall and cytoskeleton, and is important because it can influence the ability of bacteria to acquire nutrients, attach to surfaces, swim through liquids and escape predators.
Question: What shape does usually cocci type of bacteria can be?
Answer: spherical
Question: What type of bacteria usually takes rod-shaped form?
Answer: bacilli
Question: What shape Spirochaetes are?
Answer: tightly coiled
Question: What shape was newly discovered bacteria from deep under Earth?
Answer: branching filamentous types with a star-shaped cross-section
Question: Can shape of bacteria be beneficial to their survival?
Answer: can influence the ability of bacteria to acquire nutrients
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Context: Beneath the plain lies the Biscayne Aquifer, a natural underground source of fresh water that extends from southern Palm Beach County to Florida Bay, with its highest point peaking around the cities of Miami Springs and Hialeah. Most of the Miami metropolitan area obtains its drinking water from this aquifer. As a result of the aquifer, it is not possible to dig more than 15 to 20 ft (5 to 6 m) beneath the city without hitting water, which impedes underground construction, though some underground parking garages exist. For this reason, the mass transit systems in and around Miami are elevated or at-grade.[citation needed]
Question: Along with Miami Springs, where is the highest point of the Biscayne Aquifer?
Answer: Hialeah
Question: The Biscayne Aquifer stretches from Palm Beach County to where?
Answer: Florida Bay
Question: After digging how many meters is one sure to reach running water in Miami?
Answer: 5 to 6
Question: What is limited by Miami's high water table?
Answer: underground construction
Question: Along with Miami Springs, where is the lowest point of the Biscayne Aquifer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Biscayne Aquifer stretches from Palm Beach County to when?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After digging how many meters is one not sure to reach running water in Miami?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After digging how many meters is one sure to reach running oil in Miami?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is unlimited by Miami's high water table?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: During the 1990s, several research papers and popular books wrote on what came to be called the "Mozart effect": an observed temporary, small elevation of scores on certain tests as a result of listening to Mozart's works. The approach has been popularized in a book by Don Campbell, and is based on an experiment published in Nature suggesting that listening to Mozart temporarily boosted students' IQ by 8 to 9 points. This popularized version of the theory was expressed succinctly by the New York Times music columnist Alex Ross: "researchers... have determined that listening to Mozart actually makes you smarter." Promoters marketed CDs claimed to induce the effect. Florida passed a law requiring toddlers in state-run schools to listen to classical music every day, and in 1998 the governor of Georgia budgeted $105,000 per year to provide every child born in Georgia with a tape or CD of classical music. One of the co-authors of the original studies of the Mozart effect commented "I don't think it can hurt. I'm all for exposing children to wonderful cultural experiences. But I do think the money could be better spent on music education programs."
Question: Which composer had an effect named after him?
Answer: Mozart
Question: Who wrote a book on the Mozart effect?
Answer: Don Campbell
Question: Where was the experiment originally published?
Answer: Nature
Question: How many IQ points of a students' does the Mozart effect temporarily boost?
Answer: 8 to 9 points
Question: How much did the Governor of Georgia budget per year to provide every child with a CD of classical music?
Answer: $105,000
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Context: Rex Stout's fictional detective Nero Wolfe is described as fond of solving the London Times' crossword puzzle at his New York home, in preference to those of American papers.
Question: The author, Rex Stout, created a fictional detection that is fond of solving London Times' crossword puzzles that goes by what name?
Answer: Nero Wolfe
Question: In what part of the world did the fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, live in?
Answer: New York
Question: The fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, preferred what newspaper to American newspapers?
Answer: London Times
Question: The fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, is described as fond of solving what kind of puzzle in the London Times newspaper?
Answer: crossword
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Context: In 1937, the Empire of Japan started a full-scale invasion of China after invading Manchuria in 1931, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War (often considered a theatre of World War II). Their troops occupied Nanjing in December and carried out the systematic and brutal Nanking Massacre (the "Rape of Nanking"). Even children, the elderly, and nuns are reported to have suffered at the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army. The total death toll, including estimates made by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal, was between 300,000 and 350,000. The city itself was also severely damaged during the massacre. The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall was built in 1985 to commemorate this event.
Question: When did Japan invade Manchuria?
Answer: 1931
Question: When did Japan invade all of China?
Answer: 1937
Question: Who killed innocent civilians in the Nanking Massacre?
Answer: the Imperial Japanese Army
Question: How many died in the Nanking Massacre?
Answer: between 300,000 and 350,000
Question: When was the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall built?
Answer: 1985
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