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Which philosopher believed that the Enlightenment was ultimately born out of Protestant reaction against the Catholic counter-reformation? | Bertrand Russell | [
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"segment": "Bertrand Russell saw the Enlightenment as a phase in a progressive development, which began in antiquity, and that reason and challenges to the established order were constant ideals throughout that time. Russell said that the Enlightenment was ultimately born out of the Protestant reaction against the Catholic counter-reformation, and that philosophical views such as affinity for democracy against monarchy originated among 16th-century Protestants to justify their desire to break away from the Catholic Church. Though many of these philosophical ideals were picked up by Catholics, Russell argues, by the 18th century the Enlightenment was the principal manifestation of the schism that began with Martin Luther.",
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What part of their motherboards does Dell not reveal the specifications of? | pin-outs | [
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What did Czech philologists advocate? | the return of the language to high culture | [
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"segment": "The Czech people gained widespread national pride during the mid-eighteenth century, inspired by the Age of Enlightenment a half-century earlier. Czech historians began to emphasize their people's accomplishments from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, rebelling against the Counter-Reformation (which had denigrated Czech and other non-Latin languages). Czech philologists studied sixteenth-century texts, advocating the return of the language to high culture. This period is known as the Czech National Revival (or Renascence).",
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What character did Walt Disney create in 1928? | Mickey Mouse | [
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"segment": "Universal owned the rights to the \"Oswald the Lucky Rabbit\" character, although Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks had created Oswald, and their films had enjoyed a successful theatrical run. After Charles Mintz had unsuccessfully demanded that Disney accept a lower fee for producing the property, Mintz produced the films with his own group of animators. Instead, Disney and Iwerks created Mickey Mouse who in 1928 stared in the first \"sync\" sound animated short, Steamboat Willie. This moment effectively launched Walt Disney Studios' foothold, while Universal became a minor player in film animation. Universal subsequently severed its link to Mintz and formed its own in-house animation studio to produce Oswald cartoons headed by Walter Lantz.",
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What type of powers should have actual influence throughout the scope of the prevailing international system? | great power | [
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"segment": "All states have a geographic scope of interests, actions, or projected power. This is a crucial factor in distinguishing a great power from a regional power; by definition the scope of a regional power is restricted to its region. It has been suggested that a great power should be possessed of actual influence throughout the scope of the prevailing international system. Arnold J. Toynbee, for example, observes that \"Great power may be defined as a political force exerting an effect co-extensive with the widest range of the society in which it operates. The Great powers of 1914 were 'world-powers' because Western society had recently become 'world-wide'.\"",
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In the Paleocene period Greenland was joined to which continent? | North America | [
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"segment": "In many ways, the Paleocene continued processes that had begun during the late Cretaceous Period. During the Paleocene, the continents continued to drift toward their present positions. Supercontinent Laurasia had not yet separated into three continents. Europe and Greenland were still connected. North America and Asia were still intermittently joined by a land bridge, while Greenland and North America were beginning to separate. The Laramide orogeny of the late Cretaceous continued to uplift the Rocky Mountains in the American west, which ended in the succeeding epoch. South and North America remained separated by equatorial seas (they joined during the Neogene); the components of the former southern supercontinent Gondwana continued to split apart, with Africa, South America, Antarctica and Australia pulling away from each other. Africa was heading north toward Europe, slowly closing the Tethys Ocean, and India began its migration to Asia that would lead to a tectonic collision and the formation of the Himalayas.",
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From 2000, Cambodia has surpassed other ASEAN countries in generating GDP on which sector? | tourism | [
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"segment": "Tourism has been a key factor in economic development for many Southeast Asian countries, especially Cambodia. According to UNESCO, \"tourism, if correctly conceived, can be a tremendous development tool and an effective means of preserving the cultural diversity of our planet.\" Since the early 1990s, \"even the non-ASEAN nations such as Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Burma, where the income derived from tourism is low, are attempting to expand their own tourism industries.\" In 1995, Singapore was the regional leader in tourism receipts relative to GDP at over 8%. By 1998, those receipts had dropped to less than 6% of GDP while Thailand and Lao PDR increased receipts to over 7%. Since 2000, Cambodia has surpassed all other ASEAN countries and generated almost 15% of its GDP from tourism in 2006.",
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What is recension? | The process of constructing the stemma | [
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"segment": "Stemmatics, stemmology or stemmatology is a rigorous approach to textual criticism. Karl Lachmann (1793–1851) greatly contributed to making this method famous, even though he did not invent it. The method takes its name from the word stemma. The Ancient Greek word στέμματα and its loanword in classical Latin stemmata may refer to \"family trees\". This specific meaning shows the relationships of the surviving witnesses (the first known example of such a stemma, albeit with the name, dates from 1827). The family tree is also referred to as a cladogram. The method works from the principle that \"community of error implies community of origin.\" That is, if two witnesses have a number of errors in common, it may be presumed that they were derived from a common intermediate source, called a hyparchetype. Relations between the lost intermediates are determined by the same process, placing all extant manuscripts in a family tree or stemma codicum descended from a single archetype. The process of constructing the stemma is called recension, or the Latin recensio.",
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What military advantage brought the success for the British in defending Quebec? | British naval superiority | [
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"segment": "All of Britain's campaigns against New France succeeded in 1759, part of what became known as an Annus Mirabilis. Fort Niagara and Fort Carillon on 8 July 1758 fell to sizable British forces, cutting off French frontier forts further west. On 13 September 1759, following a three-month siege of Quebec, General James Wolfe defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham outside the city. The French staged a counteroffensive in the spring of 1760, with initial success at the Battle of Sainte-Foy, but they were unable to retake Quebec, due to British naval superiority following the battle of Neuville. The French forces retreated to Montreal, where on 8 September they surrendered to overwhelming British numerical superiority.",
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Which country probably coined the term air defence? | Britain | [
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What imperative value was extolled from the Christian community to the Roman world ? | Greco-Roman educational system, although it was from Christianity that the culture's essential values were drawn. | [
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What became a theme of stories and myths? | hunting | [
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What country was at war with Japan in China prior to World War II? | Soviet Union | [
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How many people can fit in Dasarath Rangasala Stadium? | 25,000 | [
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"segment": "Football and Cricket are the most popular sports among the younger generation in Nepal and there are several stadiums in the city. The sport is governed by the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) from its headquarters in Kathmandu. The only international football stadium in the city is the Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium used mostly for football matches and cultural events, located in the neighborhood of Tripureshwor. It is the largest stadium in Nepal with a capacity of 25,000 spectators, built in 1956. Martyr's Memorial League is also held in this ground every year. The stadium was renovated with Chinese help before the 8th South Asian Games were held in Kathmandu and had floodlights installed. Kathmandu is home to the oldest football clubs of Nepal such as RCT, Sankata and NRT. Other prominent clubs include MMC, Machhindra FC, Tribhuwan Army Club (TAC) and MPC.",
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In which year did Alexander III die? | 323 BC | [
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"segment": "Following the assassination of Phillip II, his son Alexander III (\"The Great\") assumed the leadership of the League of Corinth and launched an invasion of the Persian Empire with the combined forces of all Greek states in 334 BC. Undefeated in battle, Alexander had conquered the Persian Empire in its entirety by 330 BC. By the time of his death in 323 BC, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to India. His empire split into several kingdoms upon his death, the most famous of which were the Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Indo-Greek Kingdom. Many Greeks migrated to Alexandria, Antioch, Seleucia and the many other new Hellenistic cities in Asia and Africa. Although the political unity of Alexander's empire could not be maintained, it resulted in the Hellenistic civilization and spread the Greek language and Greek culture in the territories conquered by Alexander. Greek science, technology and mathematics are generally considered to have reached their peak during the Hellenistic period.",
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The majority of an insects digestion happens where? | the mesenteron | [
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What is one disease that has been nearly eradicated thanks to vaccines and antibiotics? | tuberculosis | [
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What had long faded prior to the first European and African arrivals? | Some of these civilizations | [
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Where is the first known use of 'samurai'? | Kokin Wakashū | [
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Where is a royal assent ceremony held within the United Kingdom? | Palace of Westminster | [
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At the end of the 19th century what was the literacy rate for the public in the Empire believed to be? | 15% | [
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How much has the Cherokee Preservation Foundation spent on schools? | $3 million | [
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"segment": "The Cherokee Nation instigated a 10-year language preservation plan that involved growing new fluent speakers of the Cherokee language from childhood on up through school immersion programs as well as a collaborative community effort to continue to use the language at home. This plan was part of an ambitious goal that in 50 years, 80% or more of the Cherokee people will be fluent in the language. The Cherokee Preservation Foundation has invested $3 million into opening schools, training teachers, and developing curricula for language education, as well as initiating community gatherings where the language can be actively used. There is a Cherokee language immersion school in Tahlequah, Oklahoma that educates students from pre-school through eighth grade. Graduates are fluent speakers of the language. Several universities offer Cherokee as a second language, including the University of Oklahoma and Northeastern State University.",
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What distinguishes birds from almost all other vertebrate classes? | Most birds can fly, | [
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Why did the committee decide on 7bit instead? | minimize costs associated with data transmission | [
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Why have humans had a relationship with birds since the dawn of man? | Since birds are highly visible and common animals | [
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What individual privacy rights are citizens granted? | belief and religion | [
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How long had the squirrel been listed as endangered? | listed since 1985 | [
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What is responsible for different dog types and breeds today? | natural selection and selective breeding | [
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During the Revolutionary War, which French colony had moved towards political independence? | Saint-Domingue | [
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"segment": "The brief peace in Europe allowed Napoleon to focus on the French colonies abroad. Saint-Domingue had managed to acquire a high level of political autonomy during the Revolutionary Wars, with Toussaint Louverture installing himself as de facto dictator by 1801. Napoleon saw his chance to recuperate the formerly wealthy colony when he signed the Treaty of Amiens. During the Revolution, the National Convention voted to abolish slavery in February 1794. Under the terms of Amiens, however, Napoleon agreed to appease British demands by not abolishing slavery in any colonies where the 1794 decree had never been implemented. The resulting Law of 20 May never applied to colonies like Guadeloupe or Guyane, even though rogue generals and other officials used the pretext of peace as an opportunity to reinstate slavery in some of these places. The Law of 20 May officially restored the slave trade to the Caribbean colonies, not slavery itself. Napoleon sent an expedition under General Leclerc designed to reassert control over Sainte-Domingue. Although the French managed to capture Toussaint Louverture, the expedition failed when high rates of disease crippled the French army. In May 1803, the last 8000 French troops left the island and the slaves proclaimed an independent republic that they called Haïti in 1804. Seeing the failure of his colonial efforts, Napoleon decided in 1803 to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States, instantly doubling the size of the U.S. The selling price in the Louisiana Purchase was less than three cents per acre, a total of $15 million.",
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Where did Chopin's work start t oshow up? | popular 19th-century piano anthologies. | [
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What is an example of a stringed chordal instrument during the Baroque period? | a lute | [
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What was designed to standardize the connection of computer peripherals? | USB | [
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Clouds of H2 form what? | stars | [
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After Antigonus was killed, what region did Ptolemy take over? | Cyprus | [
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What conflict resulted from death of Jan Hus? | Hussite Wars | [
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Who did John Kerry choose to be by his side as the potential Vice President? | John Edwards | [
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What year did the Carolina Courage win the Founders Cup? | 2002 | [
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What church's religion does 19.4% of the Samoan population practice? | Roman Catholic | [
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Who ordered the construction of a paved road? | Napoléon Bonaparte | [
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What was North Carolinas gross state product in 2010? | $424.9 billion | [
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What is the most significant way to know Christ? | emulation of the moral actions and attitudes that Jesus demonstrated in His earthly ministry | [
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What was thought to be only good for children and those who could not read or write? | Comics | [
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What is generally the hottest month in Hyderabad? | May | [
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What likely arose due to Chopin's technique with keyboards? | harmonic innovations | [
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How much did Shell plan to raise from the sale of its assets? | $2–3bn | [
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What show did Nigel Lythgoe leave American Idol to produce? | So You Think You Can Dance | [
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Who wrote 'A Kind of Alaska'? | Harold Pinter | [
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A term that refers to the highs and lows of power in electro magnetic waves is? | standing wave ratio | [
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When did the torch reach Sanya, Hainan? | May 4 | [
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According to QS World University Rankings where does Cairo University rank? | 551-600 | [
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How many sales of Keeping Up Appearances have been made to non-British buyers? | nearly 1000 | [
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When did Brandenburg join the Fraunhofen Institute? | 1993 | [
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How long was Rutherford's tenure as president of the Society? | twenty-five years | [
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Each of a parent's two genes for each trait will sort independently into gametes according to what Mendelian principle? | independent assortment | [
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Aside from the elevator, where else might a permit be displayed? | the maintenance office | [
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In what location is The Qutub Festival held? | the Qutub Minar | [
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Under the Peace of Westphalia, who finally recognized Switzerland's neutrality? | European countries | [
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In what one way can videoconferencing help a person? | money savings | [
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What magazine described Portugal as "a new sick man of Europe?" | The Economist | [
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When did Andragoras' reign end? | 238 BCE | [
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When is Carnival celebrated? | before Lent | [
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What mountains does that region include? | Catskill Mountains | [
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What does theism mean in general? | belief in a god or gods | [
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What was New Haven's nickname? | Elm City" | [
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What was the name of the premium service that offered higher quality and DRM-free songs? | iTunes Plus | [
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What did Louis XIV believe about the modern man? | modern scholarship allowed modern man to surpass the ancients in knowledge. | [
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Are predator's effects on prey easiest to see in the short-term or long-term? | longer period of time | [
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What type of chemicals is Iran a leading manufacturer of in the Middle East? | petrochemicals | [
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What was signalled in 1940 when HMS Illustrious launched an strike on an Italian fleet? | the beginning of the effective and highly mobile aircraft strikes | [
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Where did studying politics originate? | Ancient Greece | [
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What does 'everted' mean? | turned inside out to extend | [
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Edwin Hubble's discovery about galaxies allowed for which theory by Georges Lemaitre? | the Big Bang theory | [
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The goal of an immunologist is to study what beings? | humans and animals | [
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What notable project was funded by Richmond's "admissions tax"? | CentreStage | [
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Which industry is Galicia's main money maker? | fishing | [
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Which parts of tools are sometimes made out of wood? | handles | [
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In which year was the study published that found biodiversity and genetic diversity are codependent? | 2007 | [
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Who are blamed in this paragraph for Jim Crow laws? | white Democrats | [
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What have humans used for clothing since prehistoric times? | animal fur | [
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What is one branch of knowledge that the Dominican Order created works in? | Thomas Aquinas | [
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What did engineers at CNES report in June 2007? | the spectrum and structure of the signals | [
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How much did the console sell for bundled with just the Super Mario Bros. game? | US$99.99 | [
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In April 2009, how many readers did the timesonline website have per day? | 750,000 | [
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What abolitionist was greatly affected by the writings of Comte? | Harriet Martineau | [
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In which centuries did Portugal establish the first global empire? | 15th and 16th centuries | [
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Who did the Numidians form an alliance with? | Rome | [
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What is -v- used for? | imperfect tense | [
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Who are the three scientists that claimed to have reached conclusions similar to Mendel's? | Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich von Tschermak | [
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What was the labor draft called? | the desagüe | [
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A large part of Boston's economy is made up of what? | Tourism | [
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Her video of "Material Girl" was an imitation of which singer's song, "Diamonds are a girl's best friend?" | Marilyn Monroe | [
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Where did Elizabeth visit on her first solo public appearance? | Grenadier Guards | [
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"segment": "In 1943, at the age of 16, Elizabeth undertook her first solo public appearance on a visit to the Grenadier Guards, of which she had been appointed colonel the previous year. As she approached her 18th birthday, parliament changed the law so that she could act as one of five Counsellors of State in the event of her father's incapacity or absence abroad, such as his visit to Italy in July 1944. In February 1945, she joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as an honorary second subaltern with the service number of 230873. She trained as a driver and mechanic and was promoted to honorary junior commander five months later.",
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What position did Eisenhower occupy in 1948? | President of Columbia University | [
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"segment": "In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, an Ivy League university in New York City. The assignment was described as not being a good fit in either direction. During that year Eisenhower's memoir, Crusade in Europe, was published. Critics regarded it as one of the finest U.S. military memoirs, and it was a major financial success as well. Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus he only had to pay capital gains tax on his $635,000 advance instead of the much higher personal tax rate. This ruling saved Eisenhower about $400,000.",
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Where did DJ Kool Herc hold parties? | 1520 Sedgwick Avenue | [
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"segment": "The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, \"From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale\". Hip Hop first emerged in the South Bronx in the early 1970s. The New York Times has identified 1520 Sedgwick Avenue \"an otherwise unremarkable high-rise just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway and hard along the Major Deegan Expressway\" as a starting point, where DJ Kool Herc presided over parties in the community room.",
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When was the Royal Northern College of Music formed? | 1972 | [
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"segment": "More recent Lancashire-born composers include Hugh Wood (1932- Parbold), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-, Salford), Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934-, Accrington), Gordon Crosse (1937-, Bury),John McCabe (1939-2015, Huyton), Roger Smalley (1943-2015, Swinton), Nigel Osborne (1948-, Manchester), Steve Martland (1954-2013, Liverpool), Simon Holt (1958-, Bolton) and Philip Cashian (1963-, Manchester). The Royal Manchester College of Music was founded in 1893 to provide a northern counterpart to the London musical colleges. It merged with the Northern College of Music (formed in 1920) to form the Royal Northern College of Music in 1972.",
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Laws against what lending practice were addressed by the creation of bills of exchange? | usury | [
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"segment": "In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, a process took place – primarily in Italy but partly also in the Empire – that historians have termed a 'commercial revolution'. Among the innovations of the period were new forms of partnership and the issuing of insurance, both of which contributed to reducing the risk of commercial ventures; the bill of exchange and other forms of credit that circumvented the canonical laws for gentiles against usury, and eliminated the dangers of carrying bullion; and new forms of accounting, in particular double-entry bookkeeping, which allowed for better oversight and accuracy.",
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How did the samurai view kidnapping concubines? | shameful, if not criminal | [
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"segment": "A samurai could take concubines but their backgrounds were checked by higher-ranked samurai. In many cases, taking a concubine was akin to a marriage. Kidnapping a concubine, although common in fiction, would have been shameful, if not criminal. If the concubine was a commoner, a messenger was sent with betrothal money or a note for exemption of tax to ask for her parents' acceptance. Even though the woman would not be a legal wife, a situation normally considered a demotion, many wealthy merchants believed that being the concubine of a samurai was superior to being the legal wife of a commoner. When a merchant's daughter married a samurai, her family's money erased the samurai's debts, and the samurai's social status improved the standing of the merchant family. If a samurai's commoner concubine gave birth to a son, the son could inherit his father's social status.",
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In what month is the Tour de France? | July | [
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"segment": "Paris is home to the association football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. Paris played host to the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics, the 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, and the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Every July, the Tour de France of cycling finishes in the city.",
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How much power does a halogen lamp save compared to a standard blub? | 70% | [
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"segment": "LED lamps have been advocated as the newest and best environmental lighting method. According to the Energy Saving Trust, LED lamps use only 10% power compared to a standard incandescent bulb, where compact fluorescent lamps use 20% and energy saving halogen lamps 70%. The lifetime is also much longer — up to 50,000 hours. A downside is still the initial cost, which is higher than that of compact fluorescent lamps.",
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The Kyoto Protocol is associated with what treaty? | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | [
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"segment": "Some examples: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established a framework for the development of binding greenhouse gas emission limits, while the Kyoto Protocol contained the specific provisions and regulations later agreed upon.",
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