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Context: In the general election, Kerry was initially favored to defeat the Republican candidate, former State Representative Paul W. Cronin, and conservative Democrat Roger P. Durkin, who ran as an Independent. A week after the primary, one poll put Kerry 26-points ahead of Cronin. His campaign called for a national health insurance system, discounted prescription drugs for the unemployed, a jobs programme to clean up the Merrimack River and rent controls in Lowell and Lawrence. A major obstacle, however, was the district's leading newspaper, the conservative The Sun. The paper editorialized against him. It also ran critical news stories about his out-of-state contributions and his "carpetbagging", because he had only moved into the district in April. Subsequently released "Watergate" Oval Office tape recordings of the Nixon White House showed that defeating Kerry's candidacy had attracted the personal attention of President Nixon. Kerry himself asserts that Nixon sent operatives to Lowell to help derail his campaign.
Question: What party did Durkin run as?
Answer: Independent
Question: How far ahead of Cronin did Kerry poll?
Answer: 26-points
Question: What slant did The Sun have?
Answer: conservative
Question: Who did Kerry say tried to stop his campaign?
Answer: President Nixon
Question: How did Kerry want to create jobs?
Answer: a jobs programme to clean up the Merrimack River |
Context: His Book of Healing became available in Europe in partial Latin translation some fifty years after its composition, under the title Sufficientia, and some authors have identified a "Latin Avicennism" as flourishing for some time, paralleling the more influential Latin Averroism, but suppressed by the Parisian decrees of 1210 and 1215. Avicenna's psychology and theory of knowledge influenced William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris and Albertus Magnus, while his metaphysics had an impact on the thought of Thomas Aquinas.
Question: Ibn Sina's Book of Healing was partially available in what language?
Answer: Latin
Question: How many years did it take for Ibn Sina's Book of Healing to be available in Latin?
Answer: fifty
Question: On what continent was the Book of Healing finally available fifty years after its composition?
Answer: Europe
Question: What was the title of Ibn Sina's Book of Healing?
Answer: Sufficientia
Question: Who did Avicenna's metaphysics works have an influence on?
Answer: Thomas Aquinas
Question: What book of healing did Ibn Sina write in Latin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the 12th century Parisian decrees suppresse?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Latin Avicennism replace in Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who impacted Ibn Sina's thoughts on metaphysics?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Bishop studied under Ibn Sina?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Ibn Sina's Book of Healing was fully available in what language?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many months did it take for Ibn Sina's Book of Healing to be available in Latin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what continent was the Book of Healing finally available forty years after its composition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the title of Ibn Sina's Tape of Healing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Avicenna's metaphysics works have no influence on?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The exta were the entrails of a sacrificed animal, comprising in Cicero's enumeration the gall bladder (fel), liver (iecur), heart (cor), and lungs (pulmones). The exta were exposed for litatio (divine approval) as part of Roman liturgy, but were "read" in the context of the disciplina Etrusca. As a product of Roman sacrifice, the exta and blood are reserved for the gods, while the meat (viscera) is shared among human beings in a communal meal. The exta of bovine victims were usually stewed in a pot (olla or aula), while those of sheep or pigs were grilled on skewers. When the deity's portion was cooked, it was sprinkled with mola salsa (ritually prepared salted flour) and wine, then placed in the fire on the altar for the offering; the technical verb for this action was porricere.
Question: What were the exta of a sacrifice?
Answer: entrails
Question: How were the exta read in Roman religious practice?
Answer: disciplina Etrusca
Question: What part of the sacrifice were reserved for the gods?
Answer: exta and blood
Question: What part of the sacrifice was shared among humans?
Answer: meat
Question: Into what was the god's portion of the sacrifice placed?
Answer: fire on the altar |
Context: Portugal operates a multi-party system of competitive legislatures/local administrative governments at the national-, regional- and local-levels. The Assembly of the Republic, Regional Assemblies and local municipalities and parishes, are dominated by two political parties, the Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party, in addition to the Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party and Ecologist Party "The Greens"), the Left Bloc and the Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party, which garner between 5 and 15% of the vote regularly.
Question: What two political parties dominate Portugal's government?
Answer: Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party
Question: At what three levels does the Portugal government operate?
Answer: national-, regional- and local-levels
Question: What other political groups exist other than the two dominant ones?
Answer: Unitary Democratic Coalition (Portuguese Communist Party and Ecologist Party "The Greens"), the Left Bloc and the Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party
Question: What percentage of the vote do the non-dominant parties get?
Answer: 5 and 15% |
Context: Biodiversity's relevance to human health is becoming an international political issue, as scientific evidence builds on the global health implications of biodiversity loss. This issue is closely linked with the issue of climate change, as many of the anticipated health risks of climate change are associated with changes in biodiversity (e.g. changes in populations and distribution of disease vectors, scarcity of fresh water, impacts on agricultural biodiversity and food resources etc.) This is because the species most likely to disappear are those that buffer against infectious disease transmission, while surviving species tend to be the ones that increase disease transmission, such as that of West Nile Virus, Lyme disease and Hantavirus, according to a study done co-authored by Felicia Keesing, an ecologist at Bard College, and Drew Harvell, associate director for Environment of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) at Cornell University.
Question: What is becoming an international political issue?
Answer: Biodiversity's relevance to human health
Question: What issue is closely linked with changes in biodiversity?
Answer: climate change
Question: What changes in biodiversity have an effect on the climate?
Answer: changes in populations and distribution of disease vectors, scarcity of fresh water, impacts on agricultural biodiversity and food resources
Question: What types of species disappear when a new disease is introduced?
Answer: those that buffer against infectious disease transmission
Question: What is becoming an international population issue?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What issue is closely linked with changes in the West Nile Virus?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What changes in biodiversity have an effect on human health?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What types of West Nile Virus disappear when a new disease is introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is causing biodiversity's relevance to human health to become an international population issue?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Sensory memory holds sensory information less than one second after an item is perceived. The ability to look at an item and remember what it looked like with just a split second of observation, or memorization, is the example of sensory memory. It is out of cognitive control and is an automatic response. With very short presentations, participants often report that they seem to "see" more than they can actually report. The first experiments exploring this form of sensory memory were conducted by George Sperling (1963) using the "partial report paradigm". Subjects were presented with a grid of 12 letters, arranged into three rows of four. After a brief presentation, subjects were then played either a high, medium or low tone, cuing them which of the rows to report. Based on these partial report experiments,Sperling was able to show that the capacity of sensory memory was approximately 12 items, but that it degraded very quickly (within a few hundred milliseconds). Because this form of memory degrades so quickly, participants would see the display but be unable to report all of the items (12 in the "whole report" procedure) before they decayed. This type of memory cannot be prolonged via rehearsal.
Question: How long does sensory memory to to store information?
Answer: less than one second
Question: Can we control what is stored in our sensory memory?
Answer: It is out of cognitive control
Question: Who did the first studies on exploring a new idea of sensory memory?
Answer: George Sperling
Question: What did Spellings' findings reveal?
Answer: this form of memory degrades so quickly, participants would see the display but be unable to report all of the items
Question: How long does sensory memory store presentations?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Can we control what is stored in our experimental memory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the first studies on exploring a new idea of sensory registers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What experiments did George Serling conduct in 1953?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Spellings' findings prove to be false?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Film speed is used in the exposure equations to find the appropriate exposure parameters. Four variables are available to the photographer to obtain the desired effect: lighting, film speed, f-number (aperture size), and shutter speed (exposure time). The equation may be expressed as ratios, or, by taking the logarithm (base 2) of both sides, by addition, using the APEX system, in which every increment of 1 is a doubling of exposure; this increment is commonly known as a "stop". The effective f-number is proportional to the ratio between the lens focal length and aperture diameter, the diameter itself being proportional to the square root of the aperture area. Thus, a lens set to f/1.4 allows twice as much light to strike the focal plane as a lens set to f/2. Therefore, each f-number factor of the square root of two (approximately 1.4) is also a stop, so lenses are typically marked in that progression: f/1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32, etc.
Question: What is the effective f-number proportional to?
Answer: the ratio between the lens focal length and aperture diameter
Question: What is used to discover the right exposure parameters?
Answer: Film speed
Question: What variables help the photographer produce the desired effect?
Answer: lighting, film speed, f-number (aperture size), and shutter speed (exposure time)
Question: A lens with a setting of f/1.4 lets how much to hit the focal plane compared with a setting of f/2?
Answer: twice as much
Question: In the APEX system, the increment that doubles the exposure is called what?
Answer: "stop"
Question: What are appropriate exposure parameters used to find?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for film speed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What system uses ratios?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The ratio between the diameter and square root of the aperture is called what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much does light does an f/2 let in as compared to an f/4?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The szlachta ([ˈʂlaxta] ( listen), exonym: Nobility) was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges between 1333 and 1370 during the reign of King Casimir III the Great.:211 In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown Kingdom of Poland, the existing Lithuanian nobility formally joined this class.:211 As the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) evolved and expanded in territory, its membership grew to include the leaders of Ducal Prussia, Podolian and Ruthenian lands.
Question: What class was slackta in Poland?
Answer: noble class
Question: Under whos' reign did the szlachta gain institutional privileges?
Answer: King Casimir III the Great
Question: WHich two kingdoms shared tentative personal unions?
Answer: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown Kingdom of Poland
Question: When did the polish-lithuanian commonwealth thrive?
Answer: 1569–1795
Question: What is one leader from the polish-lithuanian common weaith.
Answer: Ducal Prussia |
Context: The centuries-long geopolitical and ideological rivalry between Safavid Iran and the neighboring Ottoman Empire, led to numerous Ottoman–Persian Wars. The Safavid Era peaked in the reign of Abbas the Great, 1587–1629, surpassing their Ottoman arch rivals in strength, and making the empire a leading hub in Western Eurasia for the sciences and arts. The Safavid Era saw the start of mass integration from Caucasian populations into new layers of the society of Iran, as well as mass resettlement of them within the heartlands of Iran, playing a pivotal role in the history of Iran for centuries onwards. Following a gradual decline in the late 1600s and early 1700s, which was caused by the internal conflicts, the continuous wars with the Ottomans, and the foreign interference (most notably the Russian interference), the Safavid rule was ended by the Pashtun rebels who besieged Isfahan and defeated Soltan Hosein in 1722.
Question: What Empire neighbored and had a rivalry with Safavid Iran?
Answer: Ottoman Empire
Question: Safavid Iran peaked during whose reign?
Answer: Abbas the Great
Question: When did the Safavid Empire peak?
Answer: 1587–1629
Question: Who ended Safavid power in Iran in 1722?
Answer: Pashtun rebels
Question: Who was the last Safavid ruler who was defeated in 1722 by the Pashtuns in Isfahan?
Answer: Soltan Hosein |
Context: The main treatment for MI with ECG evidence of ST elevation (STEMI) include thrombolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the treatment of choice for STEMI if it can be performed in a timely manner. If PCI cannot be performed within 90 to 120 minutes then thrombolysis, preferably within 30 minutes of arrival to hospital, is recommended. If a person has had symptoms for 12 to 24 hours evidence for thrombolysis is less and if they have had symptoms for more than 24 hours it is not recommended.
Question: What is the shortened way of referring to thrombolysis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: PCI and what treatment must be performed within 90 to 120 minutes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long does the PCI procedure take?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What treatment is recommended after 24 hours?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When must ECG evidence be taken?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Database access control deals with controlling who (a person or a certain computer program) is allowed to access what information in the database. The information may comprise specific database objects (e.g., record types, specific records, data structures), certain computations over certain objects (e.g., query types, or specific queries), or utilizing specific access paths to the former (e.g., using specific indexes or other data structures to access information). Database access controls are set by special authorized (by the database owner) personnel that uses dedicated protected security DBMS interfaces.
Question: What does database access limit?
Answer: who (a person or a certain computer program) is allowed to access what information
Question: What are examples of database objects?
Answer: record types, specific records, data structures
Question: Who sets database access?
Answer: special authorized (by the database owner) personnel
Question: What does database access have no influence on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are examples of the only kind of database errors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has no database access?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who uses dedicated unprotected security DBMS interfaces?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 376, the Ostrogoths, fleeing from the Huns, received permission from Emperor Valens (r. 364–378) to settle in the Roman province of Thracia in the Balkans. The settlement did not go smoothly, and when Roman officials mishandled the situation, the Ostrogoths began to raid and plunder.[D] Valens, attempting to put down the disorder, was killed fighting the Ostrogoths at the Battle of Adrianople on 9 August 378. As well as the threat from such tribal confederacies from the north, internal divisions within the empire, especially within the Christian Church, caused problems. In 400, the Visigoths invaded the Western Roman Empire and, although briefly forced back from Italy, in 410 sacked the city of Rome. In 406 the Alans, Vandals, and Suevi crossed into Gaul; over the next three years they spread across Gaul and in 409 crossed the Pyrenees Mountains into modern-day Spain. The Migration Period began, where various people, initially largely Germanic peoples, moved across Europe. The Franks, Alemanni, and the Burgundians all ended up in northern Gaul while the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes settled in Britain. In the 430s the Huns began invading the empire; their king Attila (r. 434–453) led invasions into the Balkans in 442 and 447, Gaul in 451, and Italy in 452. The Hunnic threat remained until Attila's death in 453, when the Hunnic confederation he led fell apart. These invasions by the tribes completely changed the political and demographic nature of what had been the Western Roman Empire.
Question: In what year did the Ostrogoths settle in the Roman Empire?
Answer: 376
Question: Who invited the Ostrogoths to settle in the Roman Empire?
Answer: Valens
Question: In what province did the Ostrogoths settle?
Answer: Thracia
Question: At what battle was the Emperor Valens killed?
Answer: the Battle of Adrianople
Question: When did the Battle of Adrianople occur?
Answer: 9 August 378 |
Context: KU's academic computing department was an active participant in setting up the Internet and is the developer of the early Lynx text based web browser. Lynx itself provided hypertext browsing and navigation prior to Tim Berners Lee's invention of HTTP and HTML.
Question: What division of the University of Kansas contributed to the development of the internet?
Answer: academic computing
Question: What kind of software is Lynx?
Answer: text based web browser
Question: What was made possible by Lynx?
Answer: hypertext browsing and navigation
Question: What division of the University of Kansas hindered the development of the internet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What division of the University of Kansas contributed to the development of google?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of software is Linux?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What kind of hardware is Lynx?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was made impossible by Lynx?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following the earthquake, Joseph I gave his Prime Minister even more power, and Sebastião de Melo became a powerful, progressive dictator. As his power grew, his enemies increased in number, and bitter disputes with the high nobility became frequent. In 1758 Joseph I was wounded in an attempted assassination. The Távora family and the Duke of Aveiro were implicated and executed after a quick trial. The Jesuits were expelled from the country and their assets confiscated by the crown. Sebastião de Melo prosecuted every person involved, even women and children. This was the final stroke that broke the power of the aristocracy. Joseph I made his loyal minister Count of Oeiras in 1759.
Question: What happened to Joseph I in 1758?
Answer: wounded in an attempted assassination
Question: Who was implicated in the attempted assassination of Joseph I?
Answer: The Távora family and the Duke of Aveiro
Question: Who was expelled from the country after the assassination attempt on Joseph I?
Answer: The Jesuits
Question: What act finally broke the power of the aristocracy?
Answer: Sebastião de Melo prosecuted every person involved, even women and children
Question: In what year did Joseph I make his minister the Count of Oeiras?
Answer: 1759 |
Context: During the 19th and 20th centuries there was a major dispute known as the Greek language question, on whether the official language of Greece should be the archaic Katharevousa, created in the 19th century and used as the state and scholarly language, or the Dimotiki, the form of the Greek language which evolved naturally from Byzantine Greek and was the language of the people. The dispute was finally resolved in 1976, when Dimotiki was made the only official variation of the Greek language, and Katharevousa fell to disuse.
Question: When did the Greek Language dispute take place?
Answer: During the 19th and 20th centuries
Question: When was the Greek language Katharevousa created?
Answer: the 19th century
Question: Which language was considered the language of the people?
Answer: Dimotiki
Question: What language was made the only official variation in 1976?
Answer: Dimotiki
Question: From which language did Dimotiki evolve?
Answer: Byzantine Greek |
Context: Universities of Technology are academically similar to other (non-polytechnic) universities. Prior to Bologna process, M.Sc. (Tech.) required 180 credits, whereas M.Sc. from a normal university required 160 credits. The credits between Universities of Technology and normal universities are comparable.
Question: How many credits were needed for an M.Sc. (Tech.) degree before the Bologna Process?
Answer: 180
Question: How many credits were needed for an M.Sc. from a traditional university prior to the Bologna Process?
Answer: 160 |
Context: The Franco-Prussian War was a conflict between France and Prussia, while Prussia was backed up by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria. The complete Prussian and German victory brought about the final unification of Germany under King Wilhelm I of Prussia. It also marked the downfall of Napoleon III and the end of the Second French Empire, which was replaced by the Third Republic. As part of the settlement, almost all of the territory of Alsace-Lorraine was taken by Prussia to become a part of Germany, which it would retain until the end of World War I.
Question: What countries were involved in the Franco-Russian war?
Answer: France and Prussia
Question: Name one of the groups who backed Prussia in the Franco-Russian war?
Answer: North German Confederation
Question: What did the Prussian and German victory mark?
Answer: final unification of Germany under King Wilhelm I of Prussia.
Question: Prussia claimed almost all of what territory?
Answer: Alsace-Lorraine
Question: Prussia retained most of Alsace-Lorraine up until what event?
Answer: World War I. |
Context: Since Israel's capture of these territories, Israeli settlements and military installations have been built within each of them. Israel has applied civilian law to the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem and granted their inhabitants permanent residency status and the ability to apply for citizenship. The West Bank, outside of the Israeli settlements within the territory, has remained under direct military rule, and Palestinians in this area cannot become Israeli citizens. Israel withdrew its military forces and dismantled the Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip as part of its disengagement from Gaza though it continues to maintain control of its airspace and waters. The UN Security Council has declared the annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem to be "null and void" and continues to view the territories as occupied. The International Court of Justice, principal judicial organ of the United Nations, asserted, in its 2004 advisory opinion on the legality of the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier, that the lands captured by Israel in the Six-Day War, including East Jerusalem, are occupied territory.
Question: Who declared the annexation of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem?
Answer: UN Security Council
Question: What was captured by Israel in the Six-Day War?
Answer: Israeli West Bank
Question: Where did Israel withdraw and disband its military forces?
Answer: Gaza Strip |
Context: Few Chinese had any illusions about Japanese designs on China. Hungry for raw materials and pressed by a growing population, Japan initiated the seizure of Manchuria in September 1931 and established ex-Qing emperor Puyi as head of the puppet state of Manchukuo in 1932. During the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the loss of Manchuria, and its vast potential for industrial development and war industries, was a blow to the Kuomintang economy. The League of Nations, established at the end of World War I, was unable to act in the face of the Japanese defiance. After 1940, conflicts between the Kuomintang and Communists became more frequent in the areas not under Japanese control. The Communists expanded their influence wherever opportunities presented themselves through mass organizations, administrative reforms, and the land- and tax-reform measures favoring the peasants—while the Kuomintang attempted to neutralize the spread of Communist influence.
Question: When did the seizure of Manchuria occur?
Answer: September 1931
Question: Who was named the head of the puppet state after the seizure of Manchuria?
Answer: ex-Qing emperor Puyi
Question: What dealt a blow to the Kuomintang economy?
Answer: loss of Manchuria, and its vast potential for industrial development and war industries,
Question: In what year did conflict between the Kuomintang and Communist intensify?
Answer: 1940
Question: What was Kuomintang's main goal pertaining to Communist?
Answer: neutralize the spread of Communist influence. |
Context: The Alpine orogeny occurred in ongoing cycles through to the Paleogene causing differences in nappe structures, with a late-stage orogeny causing the development of the Jura Mountains. A series of tectonic events in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods caused different paleogeographic regions. The Alps are subdivided by different lithology (rock composition) and nappe structure according to the orogenic events that affected them. The geological subdivision differentiates the Western, Eastern Alps and Southern Alps: the Helveticum in the north, the Penninicum and Austroalpine system in the center and, south of the Periadriatic Seam, the Southern Alpine system.
Question: What caused the development of the Jura Mountains?
Answer: a late-stage orogeny
Question: What cause different paleogeographic regions in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?
Answer: A series of tectonic events
Question: What is another word for rock composition?
Answer: lithology
Question: What geological subdivision is located in the north?
Answer: Helveticum |
Context: In 1884, pro-Japanese Koreans in Seoul led the Gapsin Coup. Tensions between China and Japan rose after China intervened to suppress the uprising. Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi and Li Hongzhang signed the Convention of Tientsin, an agreement to withdraw troops simultaneously, but the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895 was a military humiliation. The Treaty of Shimonoseki recognized Korean independence and ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores to Japan. The terms might have been harsher, but when Japanese citizen attacked and wounded Li Hongzhang, an international outcry shamed the Japanese into revising them. The original agreement stipulated the cession of Liaodong Peninsula to Japan, but Russia, with its own designs on the territory, along with Germany and France, in what was known as the Triple Intervention, successfully put pressure on the Japanese to abandon the peninsula.
Question: What coup happened in 1884?
Answer: Gapsin Coup
Question: Who was involved in the Gapsin Coup?
Answer: pro-Japanese Koreans
Question: What resulted between the Chinese and Japanese after the Coup?
Answer: Tensions
Question: Who signed the Convention of Tientsin?
Answer: Itō Hirobumi and Li Hongzhang
Question: When did the First Sino-Japanese War happen?
Answer: 1895 |
Context: The BBC also introduced Ceefax, the first teletext service, starting in 1974. This service allows BBC viewers to view textual information such as the latest news on their television. CEEFAX has not made a full transition to digital television, instead being replaced by the new interactive BBCi service.
Question: What kind of service was Ceefax?
Answer: teletext
Question: When was Ceefax launched?
Answer: 1974
Question: What is the modern replacement for Ceefax?
Answer: BBCi
Question: What service was launched in 1947?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Ceefax make the full transition to digital television?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Ceefex replaced what interactive service?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The standard SNES controller adds two additional face buttons (X and Y) to the design of the NES iteration, arranging the four in a diamond shape, and introduces two shoulder buttons. It also features an ergonomic design by Lance Barr, later used for the NES-102 model controllers, also designed by Barr. The Japanese and PAL region versions incorporate the colors of the four action buttons into system's logo. The North American version's buttons are colored to match the redesigned console; the X and Y buttons are lavender with concave faces, and the A and B buttons are purple with convex faces. Several later consoles derive elements of their controller design from the SNES, including the PlayStation, Dreamcast, Xbox, and Wii Classic Controller.
Question: What face buttons do SNES controllers have that NES controllers didn't?
Answer: X and Y
Question: How many shoulder buttons do SNES controllers have?
Answer: two
Question: Who designed the SNES controllers?
Answer: Lance Barr
Question: What color are the US SNES controllers' X and Y buttons?
Answer: lavender
Question: What color are the US SNES controllers' A and B buttons?
Answer: purple
Question: What face buttons do NES controllers have that aren't on the SNES controllers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was also designed by Dreamcast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What consoles controller designs are inspired by the Japanese system logo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color are the shoulder buttons X and Y in Japan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many shoulder buttons are incorporated into the Japanese system logo?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Cambodia, there are Institutes of Technology/Polytechnic Institutes, and Universities that offer instruction in a variety of programs that can lead to: certificates, diplomas, and degrees. Institutes of Technology/Polytechnic Institutes and Universities tend to be independent institutions.
Question: What country has Institutes of Technology/Polytechnic Institutes from which students can earn certificates, diplomas, and degrees?
Answer: Cambodia |
Context: This new development heralded an explosion in the commercial and personal use of computers and led to the invention of the microprocessor. While the subject of exactly which device was the first microprocessor is contentious, partly due to lack of agreement on the exact definition of the term "microprocessor", it is largely undisputed that the first single-chip microprocessor was the Intel 4004, designed and realized by Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor at Intel.
Question: What was the name of the first single-chip microprocessor?
Answer: Intel 4004
Question: Who created the Intel 4004 microprocessor?
Answer: Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor
Question: Where did Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin, and Stanley Mazor work at?
Answer: Intel. |
Context: Peer groups are essential to social and general development. Communication with peers increases significantly during adolescence and peer relationships become more intense than in other stages and more influential to the teen, affecting both the decisions and choices being made. High quality friendships may enhance children's development regardless of the characteristics of those friends. As children begin to bond with various people and create friendships, it later helps them when they are adolescent and sets up the framework for adolescence and peer groups. Peer groups are especially important during adolescence, a period of development characterized by a dramatic increase in time spent with peers and a decrease in adult supervision. Adolescents also associate with friends of the opposite sex much more than in childhood and tend to identify with larger groups of peers based on shared characteristics. It is also common for adolescents to use friends as coping devices in different situations. A three-factor structure of dealing with friends including avoidance, mastery, and nonchalance has shown that adolescents use friends as coping devices with social stresses.
Question: Does communication with peers increase or decrease during adolescence?
Answer: increases
Question: Do children or adolescents tend to associae with friends of the opposite sex more?
Answer: Adolescents
Question: How is adolescence defined socially?
Answer: a period of development characterized by a dramatic increase in time spent with peers and a decrease in adult supervision |
Context: For many years, he wrote a monthly column for the bodybuilding magazines Muscle & Fitness and Flex. Shortly after being elected Governor, he was appointed executive editor of both magazines, in a largely symbolic capacity. The magazines agreed to donate $250,000 a year to the Governor's various physical fitness initiatives. When the deal, including the contract that gave Schwarzenegger at least $1 million a year, was made public in 2005, many criticized it as being a conflict of interest since the governor's office made decisions concerning regulation of dietary supplements in California. Consequently, Schwarzenegger relinquished the executive editor role in 2005. American Media Inc., which owns Muscle & Fitness and Flex, announced in March 2013 that Schwarzenegger had accepted their renewed offer to be executive editor of the magazines.
Question: How frequently did Schwarzenegger write a column for Muscle & Fitness and Flex?
Answer: monthly
Question: How much did the magazines Schwarzenegger wrote for pledge to contribute to physical fitness initiatives each year when he was Governor?
Answer: $250,000
Question: What position did Schwarzenegger briefly hold at Muscle & Fitness and Flex?
Answer: executive editor |
Context: Whilst it is often perceived as an optimal solution for states comprising different cultural or ethnic communities, the federalist model seems to work best in largely homogeneous states such as the United States, Germany or Australia, but there is also evidence to the contrary such as in Switzerland. Tensions between territories can still be found in federalist countries such as Canada and federation as a way to appease and quell military conflict has failed recently in places like Lybia or Iraq, while the formula is simultaneously proposed and dismissed in countries such as Ukraine or Syria. Federations such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia collapsed as soon as it was possible to put the model to the test.
Question: Where does the federalist model work best in?
Answer: homogeneous states
Question: What are homogeneous states?
Answer: United States, Germany or Australia
Question: Where can tensions be found in the federalist countries?
Answer: Canada
Question: What countries did the federalist model fail in?
Answer: Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia
Question: What countries dismissed the federalist model?
Answer: Ukraine or Syria
Question: Where does the federalist model work worst in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What aren't homogeneous states?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where can't tensions be found in the federalist countries?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What countries did the federalist model succeed in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What countries embraced the federalist model?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another example of the persecution of heretics under Protestant rule was the execution of the Boston martyrs in 1659, 1660, and 1661. These executions resulted from the actions of the Anglican Puritans, who at that time wielded political as well as ecclesiastic control in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. At the time, the colony leaders were apparently hoping to achieve their vision of a "purer absolute theocracy" within their colony .[citation needed] As such, they perceived the teachings and practices of the rival Quaker sect as heretical, even to the point where laws were passed and executions were performed with the aim of ridding their colony of such perceived "heresies".[citation needed] It should be noticed that the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox communions generally regard the Puritans themselves as having been heterodox or heretical.
Question: During which years did the execution of the Boston martyrs take place?
Answer: 1659, 1660, and 1661
Question: Which group was responsible for the deaths of the Boston martyrs?
Answer: Anglican Puritans
Question: What goal is cited as the reason these killings took place?
Answer: purer absolute theocracy
Question: What rival group did the Anglican Puritans want purged from their area?
Answer: Quaker sect
Question: Which two groups viewed the Puritans themselves as nothing more than heresy?
Answer: Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox
Question: Who was executed in the 16th entury?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who held political and religious control of the American colonies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What where the Quakers trying to achieve in the colonies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What communions also considered the Quakers heretical?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania, Germany, found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar. Von Kleist's hand and the water acted as conductors, and the jar as a dielectric (although details of the mechanism were incorrectly identified at the time). Von Kleist found that touching the wire resulted in a powerful spark, much more painful than that obtained from an electrostatic machine. The following year, the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented a similar capacitor, which was named the Leyden jar, after the University of Leiden where he worked. He also was impressed by the power of the shock he received, writing, "I would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France."
Question: Who first discovered the basic properties of capacitors?
Answer: Ewald Georg von Kleist
Question: When were the basic properties of capacitors first discovered?
Answer: In October 1745
Question: In the original experiment in which the properties of capacitors were discovered, what component acted as the dielectric?
Answer: a hand-held glass jar
Question: Besides the scientist's hand, what other component of the experiment in which the basic properties of capacitors were discovered acted as the second conductor?
Answer: the water acted as conductors
Question: What was the name of the Dutch physicist who invented the Leyden Jar?
Answer: Pieter van Musschenbroek
Question: Who did not discover the basic properties of capacitors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened on November 1745?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the original experiment in which the properties of capacitors were discovered, what component didn't act as the dielectric?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the French physicist who invented the Leyden Jar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said: "I would take a second shock for the kingdom of France."
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and "generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country." OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the U.S. Census as not "scientific or anthropological" and takes into account "social and cultural characteristics as well as ancestry", using "appropriate scientific methodologies" that are not "primarily biological or genetic in reference." The race categories include both racial and national-origin groups.
Question: Who defines the concept of race in the United States Census?
Answer: OMB
Question: What do the race categories in the US Census include in addition to race?
Answer: national-origin
Question: In addition to social and cultural characteristics, what else is taken into account for race classification in the US census?
Answer: ancestry |
Context: German record company Odeon is often said to have pioneered the album in 1909 when it released the Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky on 4 double-sided discs in a specially designed package. (It is not indicated what size the records are.) However, Deutsche Grammophon had produced an album for its complete recording of the opera Carmen in the previous year. The practice of issuing albums does not seem to have been widely taken up by other record companies for many years; however, HMV provided an album, with a pictorial cover, for the 1917 recording of The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan).
Question: What was unique about Odeon's 1909 release of the Nutcracker Suite?
Answer: 4 double-sided discs in a specially designed package
Question: What was one of the first releases with a photo on the cover?
Answer: The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Question: When were albums said to be pioneered?
Answer: 1909
Question: What was one of the very first albums released?
Answer: Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky |
Context: In response to Cusumano's perspective, Screen Producers Australia executive director Matt Deaner clarified the motivation of the film industry: "Distributors are usually wanting to encourage cinema-going as part of this process [monetizing through returns] and restrict the immediate access to online so as to encourage the maximum number of people to go to the cinema." Deaner further explained the matter in terms of the Australian film industry, stating: "there are currently restrictions on quantities of tax support that a film can receive unless the film has a traditional cinema release."
Question: Who made clear the motivations of the filmmakers?
Answer: Matt Deaner
Question: Who encourages watching movies at a theater as making money from the film?
Answer: Distributors
Question: What is restricted to ensure the largest number of people see a movie at the theater?
Answer: immediate access to online
Question: What is restricted unless the film has a traditional theater release?
Answer: tax support that a film can receive
Question: Who made unclear the motivations of the filmmakers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who discourages watching movies at a theater as making money from the film?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is restricted to ensure the smallest number of people see a movie at the theater?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is restricted to ensure the largest number of people see a movie at home?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is unrestricted unless the film has a traditional theater release?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Nanjing has been the educational centre in southern China for more than 1700 years. There are 75 institutions of higher learning till 2013. The number of National key laboratories, National key disciplines and the academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering all rank third in the nation. It boasts some of the most prominent educational institutions in the region, some of which are listed as follows:
Question: How long has Nanjing been considered the education hub of southern China?
Answer: more than 1700 years
Question: How many places of higher learning are in Nanjing?
Answer: 75
Question: What is Nanjing's nationwide ranking for National key laboratories?
Answer: third
Question: What is Nanjing's nationwide ranking for National key disciplines?
Answer: third
Question: What type of educational institutions are in the area, that Nanjing can brag about?
Answer: some of the most prominent |
Context: Seattle in this period attracted widespread attention as home to these many companies, but also by hosting the 1990 Goodwill Games and the APEC leaders conference in 1993, as well as through the worldwide popularity of grunge, a sound that had developed in Seattle's independent music scene. Another bid for worldwide attention—hosting the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999—garnered visibility, but not in the way its sponsors desired, as related protest activity and police reactions to those protests overshadowed the conference itself. The city was further shaken by the Mardi Gras Riots in 2001, and then literally shaken the following day by the Nisqually earthquake.
Question: What sporting event did Seattle sponsor in 1990?
Answer: Goodwill Games
Question: What is Seattle's musical genre developed in the 1990s?
Answer: grunge
Question: When did Seattle offer the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference?
Answer: 1999
Question: What caused bad press during the conference protests in Seattle?
Answer: police reactions
Question: What was the geologic event that followed the Mardi Gras Riots in2001?
Answer: Nisqually earthquake |
Context: Unicode is developed in conjunction with the International Organization for Standardization and shares the character repertoire with ISO/IEC 10646: the Universal Character Set. Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 function equivalently as character encodings, but The Unicode Standard contains much more information for implementers, covering—in depth—topics such as bitwise encoding, collation and rendering. The Unicode Standard enumerates a multitude of character properties, including those needed for supporting bidirectional text. The two standards do use slightly different terminology.
Question: Who was Unicode developed in conjunction with?
Answer: International Organization for Standardization
Question: What does Unicode share a character repertoire with?
Answer: the Universal Character Set
Question: What includes topics like bitwise encoding, collation, and rendering?
Answer: The Unicode Standard
Question: What do the two standards differ in?
Answer: slightly different terminology
Question: Who created the character repertoire for IOS/IEC 10646?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for Unicode?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is developed alongside the UCS?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Unicode has more information regarding what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have different character repertoires?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The state is divided into 77 counties that govern locally, each headed by a three-member council of elected commissioners, a tax assessor, clerk, court clerk, treasurer, and sheriff. While each municipality operates as a separate and independent local government with executive, legislative and judicial power, county governments maintain jurisdiction over both incorporated cities and non-incorporated areas within their boundaries, but have executive power but no legislative or judicial power. Both county and municipal governments collect taxes, employ a separate police force, hold elections, and operate emergency response services within their jurisdiction. Other local government units include school districts, technology center districts, community college districts, rural fire departments, rural water districts, and other special use districts.
Question: How many county commissioners does each Oklahoma county have?
Answer: three
Question: What are the major county offices in Oklahoma?
Answer: commissioners, a tax assessor, clerk, court clerk, treasurer, and sheriff
Question: How many counties are in Oklahoma?
Answer: 77
Question: Who can collect taxes in Oklahoma?
Answer: Both county and municipal governments
Question: Who can hold elections in Oklahoma?
Answer: Both county and municipal governments |
Context: The developers of both Chrome and Firefox committed to developing Metro-style versions of their browsers; while Chrome's "Windows 8 mode" uses a full-screen version of the existing desktop interface, Firefox's version (which was first made available on the "Aurora" release channel in September 2013) uses a touch-optimized interface inspired by the Android version of Firefox. In October 2013, Chrome's app was changed to mimic the desktop environment used by Chrome OS. Development of the Firefox app for Windows 8 has since been cancelled, citing a lack of user adoption for the beta versions.
Question: Which two browsers promised to develop Metro-style versions of their browsers?
Answer: Chrome and Firefox
Question: What does Chromes version for Windows 8 do?
Answer: uses a full-screen version of the existing desktop interface
Question: What does Firefox's version for Windows 8 do?
Answer: uses a touch-optimized interface
Question: When was Firefox's version of Windows 8 made accesible?
Answer: September 2013
Question: Which three browsers promised to develop Metro-style versions of their browsers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What doesn't Chromes version for Windows 8 do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Chromes version for Windows 9 do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Firefox's version for Windows 9 do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Firefox's version of Windows 9 made accesible?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: This makes for a large number of takeoffs and landings and it is not unusual for flights to be delayed in the holding pattern before landing. Following the airport's master plan, Infraero built a second runway, which was finished in 2006. In 2007, the airport handled 11,119,872 passengers. The main building's third floor, with 12 thousand square meters, has a panoramic deck, a food court, shops, four movie theatres with total capacity of 500 people, and space for exhibitions. Brasília Airport has 136 vendor spaces. The airport is located about 11 km (6.8 mi) from the central area of Brasília, outside the metro system. The area outside the airport's main gate is lined with taxis as well as several bus line services which connect the airport to Brasília's central district. The parking lot accommodates 1,200 cars. The airport is serviced by domestic and regional airlines (TAM, GOL, Azul, WebJET, Trip and Avianca), in addition to a number of international carriers. In 2012, Brasília's International Airport was won by the InfrAmerica consortium, formed by the Brazilian engineering company ENGEVIX and the Argentine Corporacion America holding company, with a 50% stake each. During the 25-year concession, the airport may be expanded to up to 40 million passengers a year.
Question: When did Brasilia's airport add a second runway?
Answer: 2006
Question: How many passengers came through Brasilia's airport in 2007?
Answer: 11,119,872
Question: How many movie theaters are in Brasilia's airport?
Answer: four
Question: How many vendor spaces are in Brasilia's airport?
Answer: 136
Question: How many parking spaces are there at Brasilia's airport?
Answer: 1,200
Question: What did Avianca build by following the airport master plan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did WebJET add a second runway?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many passengers did the airport handle in 2006?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many vendor spaces does ENGEVIX have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 2007 by how much was the airport expanded to handle?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Qing emperors were generally adept at poetry and often skilled in painting, and offered their patronage to Confucian culture. The Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors, for instance, embraced Chinese traditions both to control them and to proclaim their own legitimacy. The Kangxi Emperor sponsored the Peiwen Yunfu, a rhyme dictionary published in 1711, and the Kangxi Dictionary published in 1716, which remains to this day an authoritative reference. The Qianlong Emperor sponsored the largest collection of writings in Chinese history, the Siku Quanshu, completed in 1782. Court painters made new versions of the Song masterpiece, Zhang Zeduan's Along the River During the Qingming Festival whose depiction of a prosperous and happy realm demonstrated the beneficence of the emperor. The emperors undertook tours of the south and commissioned monumental scrolls to depict the grandeur of the occasion. Imperial patronage also encouraged the industrial production of ceramics and Chinese export porcelain.
Question: What arts were the Qing emperors good at?
Answer: poetry and often skilled in painting
Question: What was the rhyme dictionary called that was published by Kangxi?
Answer: Peiwen Yunfu
Question: When was the Kangxi Dictionary published?
Answer: 1716
Question: When was the Siku Quanshu finished?
Answer: 1782 |
Context: In addition to the use of the multiprotein complexes listed above, Gram-negative bacteria possess another method for release of material: the formation of outer membrane vesicles. Portions of the outer membrane pinch off, forming spherical structures made of a lipid bilayer enclosing periplasmic materials. Vesicles from a number of bacterial species have been found to contain virulence factors, some have immunomodulatory effects, and some can directly adhere to and intoxicate host cells. While release of vesicles has been demonstrated as a general response to stress conditions, the process of loading cargo proteins seems to be selective.
Question: What other method does Gram-negative bacters use to release material?
Answer: the formation of outer membrane vesicles
Question: What happens with the pinch off part of the outer membrane?
Answer: , forming spherical structures made of a lipid bilayer enclosing periplasmic materials
Question: What does the release of vesicles seem to demenstrate?
Answer: response to stress conditions
Question: What virulence factors do some bacterial species have?
Answer: some have immunomodulatory effects, and some can directly adhere to and intoxicate host cells |
Context: The Soviet request to join NATO arose in the aftermath of the Berlin Conference of January–February 1954. Soviet foreign minister Molotov made proposals to have Germany reunified and elections for a pan-German government, under conditions of withdrawal of the four powers armies and German neutrality, but all were refused by the other foreign ministers, Dulles (USA), Eden (UK) and Bidault (France). Proposals for the reunification of Germany were nothing new: earlier on 20 March 1952, talks about a German reunification, initiated by the socalled 'Stalin Note', ended after the United Kingdom, France, and the United States insisted that a unified Germany should not be neutral and should be free to join the European Defence Community and rearm. James Dunn (USA), who met in Paris with Eden, Adenauer and Robert Schuman (France), affirmed that "the object should be to avoid discussion with the Russians and to press on the European Defense Community". According to John Gaddis "there was little inclination in Western capitals to explore this offer" from USSR. While historian Rolf Steininger asserts that Adenauer's conviction that “neutralization means sovietization” was the main factor in the rejection of the soviet proposals, Adenauer also feared that unification might have resulted in the end of the CDU's dominance in the Bundestag.
Question: Who was the Soviet minister who proposed German reunification?
Answer: Molotov
Question: When was reunification first proposed as an idea?
Answer: 1952
Question: Who wanted to join NATO after the Berlin Conference of January-June 1954?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who made proposals to have Germany dismantled?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In 1942, what was first proposed as an idea?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which countries believed Germany should not be free to rearm?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Nigeria in recent years has been embracing industrialisation. It currently has an indigenous vehicle manufacturing company, Innoson Motors, which manufactures Rapid Transit Buses, Trucks and SUVs with an upcoming introduction of Cars. Nigeria also has few Electronic manufacturers like Zinox, the first Branded Nigerian Computer and Electronic gadgets (like tablet PCs) manufacturers. In 2013, Nigeria introduced a policy regarding import duty on vehicles to encourage local manufacturing companies in the country. In this regard, some foreign vehicle manufacturing companies like Nissan have made known their plans to have manufacturing plants in Nigeria. Ogun is considered to be the current Nigeria's industrial hub, as most factories are located in Ogun and more companies are moving there, followed by Lagos.
Question: What is Nigeria's local vehicle manufacturer?
Answer: Innoson Motors
Question: What is Nigeria's branded electronics manufacturer?
Answer: Zinox
Question: When did Nigeria change its import policies to encourage local manufacturers?
Answer: 2013
Question: What city is Nigeria's main industrial area?
Answer: Ogun
Question: What city is Nigeria's secondary industrial area?
Answer: Lagos |
Context: YouTube relies on its users to flag the content of videos as inappropriate, and a YouTube employee will view a flagged video to determine whether it violates the site's terms of service. In July 2008, the Culture and Media Committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom stated that it was "unimpressed" with YouTube's system for policing its videos, and argued that "proactive review of content should be standard practice for sites hosting user-generated content". YouTube responded by stating:
Question: Youtube depends on who to flag inappropriate videos?
Answer: users
Question: Who checks the flagged videos for unauthorized content?
Answer: a YouTube employee
Question: The United Kingdom stated it was what with youtube's policies with moderating its content?
Answer: unimpressed
Question: When did the UK speak out against youtube's copyright policies?
Answer: In July 2008
Question: Who of the house of commons spoke out on youtube's policies?
Answer: the Culture and Media Committee
Question: What do uses rely on YouTube to flag?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who said they were impressed in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Media and Culture Committee of the House of Commons of the UK argue?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The term Carnival is traditionally used in areas with a large Catholic presence. However, the Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country, does not celebrate Carnival anymore since the dissolution of the Manila Carnival after 1939, the last carnival in the country. In historically Lutheran countries, the celebration is known as Fastelavn, and in areas with a high concentration of Anglicans and Methodists, pre-Lenten celebrations, along with penitential observances, occur on Shrove Tuesday. In Eastern Orthodox nations, Maslenitsa is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent. In German-speaking Europe and the Netherlands, the Carnival season traditionally opens on 11/11 (often at 11:11 a.m.). This dates back to celebrations before the Advent season or with harvest celebrations of St. Martin's Day.
Question: The term Carnival is very common in areas with a large presence of which religious sect?
Answer: Catholic
Question: What country no longer celebrates Carnival?
Answer: the Philippines
Question: The Manila Carnival was dissolved after what year?
Answer: 1939
Question: What is the Carnival known as in countries which are mostly Lutheran?
Answer: Fastelavn
Question: What is the name of the festival celebrated in Eastern Orthodox nations during the last week before Great Lent?
Answer: Maslenitsa |
Context: North Carolina provides a large range of recreational activities, from swimming at the beach to skiing in the mountains. North Carolina offers fall colors, freshwater and saltwater fishing, hunting, birdwatching, agritourism, ATV trails, ballooning, rock climbing, biking, hiking, skiing, boating and sailing, camping, canoeing, caving (spelunking), gardens, and arboretums. North Carolina has theme parks, aquariums, museums, historic sites, lighthouses, elegant theaters, concert halls, and fine dining.
Question: Fishing, hunting, and birdwatching are what kind of activities that are provided in North Carolina?
Answer: recreational
Question: In the Fall, people go to North Carolina to see what?
Answer: fall colors
Question: What is another name for caving?
Answer: spelunking |
Context: Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred in the reproduction of plants, thereby enabling fertilisation and sexual reproduction. Most flowering plants require an animal to do the transportation. While other animals are included as pollinators, the majority of pollination is done by insects. Because insects usually receive benefit for the pollination in the form of energy rich nectar it is a grand example of mutualism. The various flower traits (and combinations thereof) that differentially attract one type of pollinator or another are known as pollination syndromes. These arose through complex plant-animal adaptations. Pollinators find flowers through bright colorations, including ultraviolet, and attractant pheromones. The study of pollination by insects is known as anthecology.
Question: Pollen transferred in the reproduction of plants is called?
Answer: Pollination
Question: What is required to transport pollen?
Answer: an animal
Question: Most pollination is completed by what?
Answer: insects
Question: What do insects receive in return for pollination?
Answer: energy rich nectar
Question: Flowers that allow only one type of pollinator is called what?
Answer: pollination syndromes |
Context: England is quite a successful nation at the UEFA European Football Championship, having finished in third place in 1968 and reached the semi-final in 1996. England hosted Euro 96 and have appeared in eight UEFA European Championship Finals tournaments, tied for ninth-best. The team has also reached the quarter-final on two recent occasions in 2004 and 2012. The team's worst result in the competition was a first-round elimination in 1980, 1988, 1992 and 2000. The team did not enter in 1960, and they failed to qualify in 1964, 1972, 1976, 1984, and 2008.
Question: In which place did England finish in the UEFA European Football Championship in 1968?
Answer: third place
Question: In how many UEFA European Championship Finals has England competed?
Answer: eight
Question: Where does England rank in terms of the number of UEFA European Football Championship appearances?
Answer: tied for ninth-best
Question: In what four years was England eliminated from the UEFA European Championship in the first round?
Answer: 1980, 1988, 1992 and 2000
Question: In which five years did England fail to qualify for the UEFA European Championship?
Answer: 1964, 1972, 1976, 1984, and 2008
Question: Who hosted the UEFA European Football Championship in 1968?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who finished in first place at the 1968 UEFA European Football Championship?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the first UEFA European Football Championship held?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did England play its first UEFA European Football Championship match?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what country was the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship held?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Portuguese cinema has a long tradition, reaching back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. Portuguese film directors such as Arthur Duarte, António Lopes Ribeiro, António Reis, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Fernando Lopes, João Botelho and Leonel Vieira, are among those that gained notability. Noted Portuguese film actors include Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Ruah, Maria de Medeiros, Diogo Infante, Soraia Chaves, Ribeirinho, Lúcia Moniz, and Diogo Morgado.
Question: In which period was cinema born?
Answer: late 19th century
Question: Who are some examples of Portuguese film directors?
Answer: Arthur Duarte, António Lopes Ribeiro, António Reis, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Fernando Lopes
Question: Who are some noted Portuguese actors?
Answer: Joaquim de Almeida, Daniela Ruah, Maria de Medeiros, Diogo Infante, Soraia Chaves, Ribeirinho, Lúcia Moniz, and Diogo Morgado |
Context: A mummified man, determined to be 5,000 years old, was discovered on a glacier at the Austrian–Italian border in 1991. By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established. Hannibal famously crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants, and the Romans had settlements in the region. In 1800 Napoleon crossed one of the mountain passes with an army of 40,000. The 18th and 19th centuries saw an influx of naturalists, writers, and artists, in particular the Romantics, followed by the golden age of alpinism as mountaineers began to ascend the peaks. In World War II, Adolf Hitler kept a base of operation in the Bavarian Alps throughout the war.
Question: How old was the mummified man discovered at the Austrian-Italian bored?
Answer: 5,000 years old
Question: What culture was well established by the 6th Century BC?
Answer: the Celtic La Tène culture
Question: Who famously crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants?
Answer: Hannibal
Question: What person took an army of 40,000 across the mountain passes?
Answer: Napoleon
Question: Where was Adolf Hitlers base of operation during World War 2?
Answer: Bavarian Alps |
Context: In addition, the Paris region is served by a light rail network of nine lines, the tramway: Line T1 runs from Asnières-Gennevilliers to Noisy-le-Sec, line T2 runs from Pont de Bezons to Porte de Versailles, line T3a runs from Pont du Garigliano to Porte de Vincennes, line T3b runs from Porte de Vincennes to Porte de la Chapelle, line T5 runs from Saint-Denis to Garges-Sarcelles, line T6 runs from Châtillon to Velizy, line T7 runs from Villejuif to Athis-Mons, line T8 runs from Saint-Denis to Épinay-sur-Seine and Villetaneuse, all of which are operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens, and line T4 runs from Bondy RER to Aulnay-sous-Bois, which is operated by the state rail carrier SNCF. Five new light rail lines are currently in various stages of development.
Question: Where does line T1 run from?
Answer: Asnières-Gennevilliers to Noisy-le-Sec
Question: Where does line T2 run?
Answer: Pont de Bezons to Porte de Versailles
Question: How many lines are in the rail network?
Answer: nine
Question: where does T5 run?
Answer: Saint-Denis to Garges-Sarcelles
Question: Who operates these lines?
Answer: Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens |
Context: Brain areas involved in the neuroanatomy of memory such as the hippocampus, the amygdala, the striatum, or the mammillary bodies are thought to be involved in specific types of memory. For example, the hippocampus is believed to be involved in spatial learning and declarative learning, while the amygdala is thought to be involved in emotional memory. Damage to certain areas in patients and animal models and subsequent memory deficits is a primary source of information. However, rather than implicating a specific area, it could be that damage to adjacent areas, or to a pathway traveling through the area is actually responsible for the observed deficit. Further, it is not sufficient to describe memory, and its counterpart, learning, as solely dependent on specific brain regions. Learning and memory are attributed to changes in neuronal synapses, thought to be mediated by long-term potentiation and long-term depression.
Question: What role does the amygdala play in memory?
Answer: thought to be involved in emotional memory
Question: Can you pin point certain areas of the brain to certain memories.
Answer: it is not sufficient to describe memory, and its counterpart, learning, as solely dependent on specific brain regions
Question: What changes can be linked to learning and memory?
Answer: neuronal synapses,
Question: What is the hippocampus's relationship to memory?
Answer: believed to be involved in spatial learning and declarative learning
Question: What role does the amygdala play in speech?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Can you pin point certain areas of the heart to certain memories
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What similarities can be linked to learning and memory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is thought to be involved in nonemotional memory?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the hippocampus's relationship to speech?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2004 he was admitted as knight of the Légion d'honneur by president Jacques Chirac. On July 15, 2006, Spielberg was also awarded the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Summer Gala of the Chicago International Film Festival, and also was awarded a Kennedy Center honour on December 3. The tribute to Spielberg featured a short, filmed biography narrated by Tom Hanks and included thank-yous from World War II veterans for Saving Private Ryan, as well as a performance of the finale to Leonard Bernstein's Candide, conducted by John Williams (Spielberg's frequent composer).[citation needed]
Question: Who made Spielberg a knight?
Answer: Jacques Chirac
Question: What award did Spielberg receive on Jul 15, 2006?
Answer: Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award
Question: Where was Spielberg honored on Dec 3, 2006?
Answer: Kennedy Center
Question: Who narrated a short Spielberg bio at the Kennedy Center?
Answer: Tom Hanks
Question: In what year did Jacques Chirac become president?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the Chicago International Film Festival first established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Candide released?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was the first Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award first handed out?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the first winner of the Gold Hugo Lifetime Achievement Award?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Palácio da Alvorada is the official residence of the President of Brazil. The palace was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1958. One of the first structures built in the republic's new capital city, the "Alvorada" lies on a peninsula at the margins of Lake Paranoá. The principles of simplicity and modernity, that in the past characterized the great works of architecture, motivated Niemeyer. The viewer has an impression of looking at a glass box, softly landed on the ground with the support of thin external columns. The building has an area of 7,000 m2 with three floors consisting of the basement, landing, and second floor. The auditorium, kitchen, laundry, medical center, and administration offices are at basement level. The rooms used by the presidency for official receptions are on the landing. The second floor has four suites, two apartments, and various private rooms which make up the residential part of the palace. The building also has a library, a heated Olympic-sized swimming pool, a music room, two dining rooms and various meeting rooms. A chapel and heliport are in adjacent buildings.
Question: Where does Brazil's president live?
Answer: Palácio da Alvorada
Question: When did Brasilia's presidential residence open?
Answer: 1958
Question: What principles of architecture was the Alvorada designed with?
Answer: simplicity and modernity
Question: How large is the Alvorada?
Answer: 7,000 m2
Question: How many floors does the Alvorada have?
Answer: three
Question: What is the area of the city of Brasilia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the President of Brazil inaugurated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many floors are in the chapel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of one of the first Olympic-sized swimming pools built in the capital city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What principles motivated the President of Brazil?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: However, an analysis by the Regional Data Cooperative for Greater New Haven, Inc., has shown that due to issues of comparative denominators and other factors, such municipality-based rankings can be considered inaccurate. For example, two cities of identical population can cover widely differing land areas, making such analyses irrelevant. The research organization called for comparisons based on neighborhoods, blocks, or standard methodologies (similar to those used by Brookings, DiversityData, and other established institutions), not based on municipalities.
Question: Analysis by what organization detailed that municipality-based rankings may be inaccurate?
Answer: Regional Data Cooperative for Greater New Haven, Inc
Question: What constant in two cities can create disparities in analysis by way of distribution over differing land areas?
Answer: identical population
Question: Neighborhoods and blocks, as opposed to municipalities, are both examples of what?
Answer: standard methodologies
Question: What research organization did an city analysis on New Haven?
Answer: Regional Data Cooperative for Greater New Haven, Inc
Question: The organization stated that analysis should be based on comparison of neighborhoods within the city and not what?
Answer: based on municipalities
Question: According to the institution what leads to inaccurate analysis of the city?
Answer: cities of identical population |
Context: Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation. It is also leading in health care sectors and building oilfield equipment; only New York City is home to more Fortune 500 headquarters within its city limits. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled. Nicknamed the Space City, Houston is a global city, with strengths in business, international trade, entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine and research. The city has a population from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. Houston is the most diverse city in Texas and has been described as the most diverse in the United States. It is home to many cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District and offers year-round resident companies in all major performing arts.
Question: What city has more Fortune 500 headquarters than Houston?
Answer: New York City
Question: What part of Houston ranks first in the U.S. in international tonnage?
Answer: Port of Houston
Question: What is Houston's nickname?
Answer: Space City
Question: What is varied about Houston's population?
Answer: ethnic and religious backgrounds
Question: What city is the most diverse in Texas?
Answer: Houston
Question: What city doesn't have more Fortune 500 headquarters than Houston?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What part of Houston ranks last in the U.S. in international tonnage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Texas's nickname?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What isn't varied about Houston's population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What city is the least diverse in Texas?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Christoph Waltz was cast in the role of Franz Oberhauser, though he refused to comment on the nature of the part. It was later revealed with the film's release that he is Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Dave Bautista was cast as Mr. Hinx after producers sought an actor with a background in contact sports. After casting Bérénice Lim Marlohe, a relative newcomer, as Sévérine in Skyfall, Mendes consciously sought out a more experienced actor for the role of Madeleine Swann, ultimately casting Léa Seydoux in the role. Monica Bellucci joined the cast as Lucia Sciarra, becoming, at the age of fifty, the oldest actress to be cast as a Bond girl. In a separate interview with Danish website Euroman, Jesper Christensen revealed he would be reprising his role as Mr. White from Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. Christensen's character was reportedly killed off in a scene intended to be used as an epilogue to Quantum of Solace, before it was removed from the final cut of the film, enabling his return in Spectre.
Question: Who did Christoph Waltz portray in Spectre?
Answer: Franz Oberhauser
Question: What is Franz Oberhauser's other name?
Answer: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Question: Who played Severine in the previous Bond film?
Answer: Bérénice Lim Marlohe
Question: In what movie was Mr. White originally supposed to die?
Answer: Quantum of Solace
Question: How old was Monica Bellucci when she filmed Spectre?
Answer: fifty
Question: Which actress was cast in the role of Severine in Skyfall?
Answer: Bérénice Lim Marlohe
Question: In what movie was it originally planned to kill the character Mr. White?
Answer: Quantum of Solace.
Question: Who commented on the nature of Franz Oberhauser?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Christoph who was cast as Mr. Hinx?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wanted an inexperienced actor for the role of Madeleine Swann?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the youngest actress to be a Bond girl?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who would not be reprising his role as Mr. White?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Gregorian calendar improves the approximation made by the Julian calendar by skipping three Julian leap days in every 400 years, giving an average year of 365.2425 mean solar days long. This approximation has an error of about one day per 3,300 years with respect to the mean tropical year. However, because of the precession of the equinoxes, the error with respect to the vernal equinox (which occurs, on average, 365.24237 days apart near 2000) is 1 day every 7,700 years, assuming a constant time interval between vernal equinoxes, which is not true. By any criterion, the Gregorian calendar is substantially more accurate than the 1 day in 128 years error of the Julian calendar (average year 365.25 days).
Question: The Gregorian calendar is an improvement over what other calendar?
Answer: Julian
Question: How many days must be skipped to align the calendar with mean solar days in a year?
Answer: three Julian leap days
Question: What is the approximate error for every 3,300 years?
Answer: one day
Question: What is the error rate of the vernal equinox per every 7,700 years?
Answer: 1 day
Question: What was the error rate in the Julian calendar?
Answer: 1 day in 128 years
Question: How does Julian calendar improve the approximations made by the Gregorian calendar?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many years does it take for the Julian approximation to have an error of one day?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In the Julia system what is the error rate for the vernal equinox first 7700 years?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Julian system skips three leap days and how many years?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Genes with a most recent common ancestor, and thus a shared evolutionary ancestry, are known as homologs. These genes appear either from gene duplication within an organism's genome, where they are known as paralogous genes, or are the result of divergence of the genes after a speciation event, where they are known as orthologous genes,:7.6 and often perform the same or similar functions in related organisms. It is often assumed that the functions of orthologous genes are more similar than those of paralogous genes, although the difference is minimal.
Question: What are genes with a most recent common ancestor called?
Answer: homologs
Question: What is one reason for homologs to appear?
Answer: gene duplication within an organism's genome
Question: What are genes that occur from duplication within an organism's genome called?
Answer: paralogous genes
Question: What are genes that result from divergence of the genes after a speciation event called?
Answer: orthologous genes |
Context: Selenizza is a naturally occurring solid hydrocarbon bitumen found in the native asphalt deposit of Selenice, in Albania, the only European asphalt mine still in use. The rock asphalt is found in the form of veins, filling cracks in a more or less horizontal direction. The bitumen content varies from 83% to 92% (soluble in carbon disulphide), with a penetration value near to zero and a softening point (ring & ball) around 120 °C. The insoluble matter, consisting mainly of silica ore, ranges from 8% to 17%.
Question: To what location is Selenizza bitumen native?
Answer: Selenice, in Albania
Question: What is it about the mine that is unusual?
Answer: still in use
Question: In what way is Selenizza bitumen geologically different than bitumen found in sands?
Answer: rock asphalt
Question: What is the variance in bitumen content rock asphalt?
Answer: 83% to 92%
Question: How is the rock asphalt mainly found?
Answer: veins
Question: The soluble matter consists mainly of silica ore and ranges from what percentage?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of matter ranges from 7% to 20%?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The veins are found in the form of what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What content varies from 80% to 93%?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The International Organization for Standardization has established a number of standards relating to solar energy equipment. For example, ISO 9050 relates to glass in building while ISO 10217 relates to the materials used in solar water heaters.
Question: ISO 9050 relates to standards for what?
Answer: glass in building
Question: ISO 10217 relates to standards for what?
Answer: materials used in solar water heaters
Question: What is the name of the standard related to glass in building?
Answer: ISO 9050
Question: What is the name of the standard related to the materials used in solar water heaters?
Answer: ISO 10217 |
Context: The humanists' close study of Latin literary texts soon enabled them to discern historical differences in the writing styles of different periods. By analogy with what they saw as decline of Latin, they applied the principle of ad fontes, or back to the sources, across broad areas of learning, seeking out manuscripts of Patristic literature as well as pagan authors. In 1439, while employed in Naples at the court of Alfonso V of Aragon (at the time engaged in a dispute with the Papal States) the humanist Lorenzo Valla used stylistic textual analysis, now called philology, to prove that the Donation of Constantine, which purported to confer temporal powers on the Pope of Rome, was an 8th-century forgery. For the next 70 years, however, neither Valla nor any of his contemporaries thought to apply the techniques of philology to other controversial manuscripts in this way. Instead, after the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Turks in 1453, which brought a flood of Greek Orthodox refugees to Italy, humanist scholars increasingly turned to the study of Neoplatonism and Hermeticism, hoping to bridge the differences between the Greek and Roman Churches, and even between Christianity itself and the non-Christian world. The refugees brought with them Greek manuscripts, not only of Plato and Aristotle, but also of the Christian Gospels, previously unavailable in the Latin West.
Question: How were humanist able to identify the development of humanist thought?
Answer: Latin literary texts
Question: What was included in this quest for knowledge of the belief system?
Answer: Patristic literature
Question: If your were unsure of the authenticity of an ancient text how could you verify it?
Answer: philology
Question: What caused a large migration of Greek refuges in the 1450s?
Answer: Greek manuscripts
Question: How were humanist able to ruin the development of humanist thought?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was missing in this quest for knowledge of the belief system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What helps to discredit the authenticity of an ancient text?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What caused a small migration of Greek refuges in the 1550s?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The central government estimates that over 7,000 inadequately engineered schoolrooms collapsed in the earthquake. Chinese citizens have since invented a catch phrase: "tofu-dregs schoolhouses" (Chinese: 豆腐渣校舍), to mock both the quality and the quantity of these inferior constructions that killed so many school children. Due to the one-child policy, many families lost their only child when schools in the region collapsed during the earthquake. Consequently, Sichuan provincial and local officials have lifted the restriction for families whose only child was either killed or severely injured in the disaster. So-called "illegal children" under 18 years of age may be registered as legal replacements for their dead siblings; if the dead child was illegal, no further outstanding fines would apply. Reimbursement would not, however, be offered for fines that were already levied.
Question: How many schoolrooms collapsed in the quake?
Answer: 7,000
Question: What catch-phrase was invented as a result of collapsed schools?
Answer: tofu-dregs schoolhouses
Question: Why did so many schools collapse during the earthquake?
Answer: inadequately engineered
Question: What are the estimations of how many schoolrooms collapsed?
Answer: over 7,000
Question: What has the citizenry started calling these type of schools?
Answer: tofu-dregs schoolhouses
Question: What can illegal children be registered as in place of their dead siblings?
Answer: legal replacements |
Context: Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions. Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting. The most authoritative classification in use today is IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats which has been adopted by major international conservation organizations such as the US Nature Conservancy, the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and BirdLife International.
Question: Who describes the "Evil Quartet"?
Answer: Jared Diamond
Question: What describes habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions?
Answer: Evil Quartet
Question: What describes Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting?
Answer: HIPPO
Question: What is the most authoritative classification in use today?
Answer: IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats
Question: What funding organization uses the IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats?
Answer: the World Wildlife Fund
Question: Who describes the "IUCN"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What describes habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and organization extinctions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What describes Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over Population, and Over-conservation?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the most invasive classification in use today?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What funding organization uses IUCN's Classification of Direct Population?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Weston Cadet (model 852 introduced in 1949), Direct Reading (model 853 introduced 1954) and Master III (models 737 and S141.3 introduced in 1956) were the first in their line of exposure meters to switch and utilize the meanwhile established ASA scale instead. Other models used the original Weston scale up until ca. 1955. The company continued to publish Weston film ratings after 1955, but while their recommended values often differed slightly from the ASA film speeds found on film boxes, these newer Weston values were based on the ASA system and had to be converted for use with older Weston meters by subtracting 1/3 exposure stop as per Weston's recommendation. Vice versa, "old" Weston film speed ratings could be converted into "new" Westons and the ASA scale by adding the same amount, that is, a film rating of 100 Weston (up to 1955) corresponded with 125 ASA (as per ASA PH2.5-1954 and before). This conversion was not necessary on Weston meters manufactured and Weston film ratings published since 1956 due to their inherent use of the ASA system; however the changes of the ASA PH2.5-1960 revision may be taken into account when comparing with newer ASA or ISO values.
Question: Which cameras were first of their type to adopt the ASA scale?
Answer: The Weston Cadet (model 852 introduced in 1949), Direct Reading (model 853 introduced 1954) and Master III (models 737 and S141.3 introduced in 1956)
Question: What were updated Weston values based on?
Answer: the ASA system
Question: How were Weston values changed to ASA values?
Answer: by subtracting 1/3 exposure stop
Question: Beginning with which year was the Weston to ASA conversion not necessary?
Answer: 1956
Question: Until what year did other models use the original Weston scale?
Answer: 1955
Question: Which two models were introduced in 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did models move back to the Weston scale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was added to convert Weston values to the older meters?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was necessary on meters manufactured after 1956?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the ASA scale established?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica at 4,892 m (16,050 ft), is located in the Ellsworth Mountains. Antarctica contains many other mountains, on both the main continent and the surrounding islands. Mount Erebus on Ross Island is the world's southernmost active volcano. Another well-known volcano is found on Deception Island, which is famous for a giant eruption in 1970. Minor eruptions are frequent and lava flow has been observed in recent years. Other dormant volcanoes may potentially be active. In 2004, a potentially active underwater volcano was found in the Antarctic Peninsula by American and Canadian researchers.
Question: What is the highest peak in Antarctica?
Answer: Vinson Massif
Question: How high is the Antarctic mountain Vinson Massif?
Answer: 4,892 m
Question: In what mountainous area of Antarctica is Vinson Massif?
Answer: Ellsworth Mountains
Question: What is the Earth's most southern volcano?
Answer: Mount Erebus
Question: What type of volcano was located in 2004 by researchers?
Answer: underwater
Question: What is the highest peak in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mountains are 4,892 ft high?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the worlds most active volcano?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Wha island has the southern most volcano in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who found the forst underwater volcano?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the highest peak in Antarctica at 4,892 ft?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How tall is Massif Vinson?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Massif Vinson located?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Mount Ross considered to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What island had a volcanic eruption in 1907?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Mongol prince Godan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, raided as far as Lhasa. During his attack in 1240, Prince Godan summoned Sakya Pandita (1182–1251), leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, to his court in what is now Gansu in Western China. With Sakya Pandita's submission to Godan in 1247, Tibet was officially incorporated into the Mongol Empire during the regency of Töregene Khatun (1241–1246). Michael C. van Walt van Praag writes that Godan granted Sakya Pandita temporal authority over a still politically fragmented Tibet, stating that "this investiture had little real impact" but it was significant in that it established the unique "Priest-Patron" relationship between the Mongols and the Sakya lamas.
Question: Who was the Mongol prince?
Answer: Godan
Question: Who was the leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism?
Answer: Sakya Pandita
Question: Who was the regent of the Mongol Empire?
Answer: Töregene Khatun
Question: In what years was Töregene Khatun the regent of the Mongol Empire?
Answer: 1241–1246 |
Context: Schwarzenegger has consulted an attorney, Bob Kaufman. Kaufman has earlier handled divorce cases for celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Schwarzenegger will keep the Brentwood home as part of their divorce settlement and Shriver has purchased a new home nearby so that the children may travel easily between their parents' homes. They will share custody of the two minor children. Schwarzenegger came under fire after the initial petition did not include spousal support and a reimbursement of attorney's fees. However, he claims this was not intentional and that he signed the initial documents without having properly read them. Schwarzenegger has filed amended divorce papers remedying this.
Question: Which attorney did Schwarzenegger consult to handle his divorce?
Answer: Bob Kaufman
Question: Which of the two kept their family home in Brentwood?
Answer: Schwarzenegger
Question: Schwarzenegger's initial divorce petition failed to provide for attorney's fee reimbursement and what other condition of divorce?
Answer: spousal support |
Context: The same happens with Arabic loanwords. Thus, Catalan alfàbia "large earthenware jar" and rajola "tile", of Arabic origin, contrast with Spanish tinaja and teja, of Latin origin; whereas Catalan oli "oil" and oliva "olive", of Latin origin, contrast with Spanish aceite and aceituna. However, the Arabic element in Spanish is generally much more prevalent.
Question: What element in Spanish is more prominent than in Catalan?
Answer: Arabic element
Question: What language loanwords are found in both Spanish and Catalan?
Answer: Arabic loanwords
Question: In which language is the Arabic element stand out more?
Answer: Spanish
Question: Where does the Catalan word alfabia come from?
Answer: of Arabic origin
Question: What is the origin of the Spanish word teja?
Answer: Latin origin |
Context: Influential gospel/R&B-influenced Aly-us released "Time Passes On" in 1993 (Strictly Rhythm), then later, "Follow Me" which received radio airplay as well as being played in clubs. Another U.S. hit which received radio play was the single "Time for the Perculator" by Cajmere, which became the prototype of ghetto house subgenre. Cajmere started the Cajual and Relief labels (amongst others). By the early 1990s artists such as Cajmere himself (under that name as well as Green Velvet and as producer for Dajae), DJ Sneak, Glenn Underground and others did many recordings. The 1990s saw new Chicago house artists emerge such as DJ Funk, who operates a Chicago house record label called Dance Mania. Ghetto house and acid house were other house music styles that were also started in Chicago.
Question: What gospel/R&B-influenced group released "Time Passes On" in 1993?
Answer: Aly-us
Question: who released the hit single "time for the perculator" in the us?
Answer: Cajmere
Question: what was cajmere's alternate name?
Answer: Green Velvet
Question: what was the name of the label operated by dj funk in chicago?
Answer: Dance Mania
Question: what was the prototype of ghetto house?
Answer: "Time for the Perculator" by Cajmere
Question: What gospel/R&B-influenced group released "DJ Sneak" in 1993?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who released the hit single "DJ Sneak" in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Cajual's alternative name?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the label operated by Cajmere in Chicago?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the prototype of Chicago house?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Medieval period includes music from after the fall of Rome to about 1400. Monophonic chant, also called plainsong or Gregorian chant, was the dominant form until about 1100. Polyphonic (multi-voiced) music developed from monophonic chant throughout the late Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, including the more complex voicings of motets.
Question: The Medieval period begins with the fall of what city?
Answer: Rome
Question: What can Plainsong or Gregorian chant also be called?
Answer: Monophonic chant
Question: What does Polyphonic mean?
Answer: multi-voiced
Question: When did Monophonic chant stop being the dominant form?
Answer: 1100
Question: Polyphonic music included more complex voicing of what?
Answer: motets |
Context: In 1961, writer-editor Stan Lee revolutionized superhero comics by introducing superheroes designed to appeal to more all-ages readers than the predominantly child audiences of the medium. Modern Marvel's first superhero team, the titular stars of The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961), broke convention with other comic book archetypes of the time by squabbling, holding grudges both deep and petty, and eschewing anonymity or secret identities in favor of celebrity status. Subsequently, Marvel comics developed a reputation for focusing on characterization and adult issues to a greater extent than most superhero comics before them, a quality which the new generation of older readers appreciated. This applied to The Amazing Spider-Man title in particular, which turned out to be Marvel's most successful book. Its young hero suffered from self-doubt and mundane problems like any other teenager, something readers could identify with.
Question: Marvel's first team of superheroes was known by what alliterative name?
Answer: The Fantastic Four
Question: What was the issue date when this superhero team debuted?
Answer: Nov. 1961
Question: What Marvel executive helped change the focus of Marvel's stories and characters?
Answer: Stan Lee
Question: What is Marvel's best-selling comic?
Answer: The Amazing Spider-Man
Question: In the Marvel Universe, the public treated conferred what response on the Fantastic Four?
Answer: celebrity status
Question: Who introduced superheroes marketed primarily towards children?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What superhero team used secret identities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Spider-Man launched?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did most comic superheros focus on that Marvel did not?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Marvel's least successful book?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Boston's early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine (after its "three mountains"—only traces of which remain today) but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the origin of several prominent colonists. The renaming, on September 7, 1630 (Old Style),[b] was by Puritan colonists from England, who had moved over from Charlestown earlier that year in quest of fresh water. Their settlement was initially limited to the Shawmut Peninsula, at that time surrounded by the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River and connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus. The peninsula is known to have been inhabited as early as 5000 BC.
Question: What did Boston's early settlers call the area?
Answer: Trimountaine
Question: What does Trimountaine mean?
Answer: three mountains
Question: What year was the city renamed Boston?
Answer: 1630
Question: Who named the city Boston?
Answer: Puritan colonists from England
Question: What were the puritan colonists searching for when they came to Boston?
Answer: fresh water |
Context: Tuberculosis has been present in humans since antiquity. The earliest unambiguous detection of M. tuberculosis involves evidence of the disease in the remains of bison in Wyoming dated to around 17,000 years ago. However, whether tuberculosis originated in bovines, then was transferred to humans, or whether it diverged from a common ancestor, is currently unclear. A comparison of the genes of M. tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in humans to MTBC in animals suggests humans did not acquire MTBC from animals during animal domestication, as was previously believed. Both strains of the tuberculosis bacteria share a common ancestor, which could have infected humans as early as the Neolithic Revolution.
Question: What animal was found with 17,000-year-old damage from tuberculosis?
Answer: bison
Question: What does MTBC stand for?
Answer: M. tuberculosis complex
Question: During what time period do some scientist believe the first human could have contracted TB from an ancestor they shared with animals?
Answer: Neolithic Revolution
Question: In which U.S. state was the oldest definitive evidence of TB found?
Answer: Wyoming
Question: When was Wyoming discovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which gene was concluded to come from animals?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What period did the bison live in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did animals get TB from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What species have we definitively traced the origin of TB to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Studio producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown offered Spielberg the director's chair for Jaws, a thriller-horror film based on the Peter Benchley novel about an enormous killer shark. Spielberg has often referred to the gruelling shoot as his professional crucible. Despite the film's ultimate, enormous success, it was nearly shut down due to delays and budget over-runs. But Spielberg persevered and finished the film. It was an enormous hit, winning three Academy Awards (for editing, original score and sound) and grossing more than $470 million worldwide at the box office. It also set the domestic record for box office gross, leading to what the press described as "Jawsmania.":248 Jaws made Spielberg a household name and one of America's youngest multi-millionaires, allowing him a great deal of autonomy for his future projects.:250 It was nominated for Best Picture and featured Spielberg's first of three collaborations with actor Richard Dreyfuss.
Question: What film did Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown offer Steven Spielberg to direct?
Answer: Jaws
Question: Why was Jaws nearly shut down?
Answer: delays and budget over-runs
Question: How many Academy Awards did the film "Jaws" win?
Answer: three
Question: How much money did the film "Jaws" gross worldwide?
Answer: $470 million worldwide
Question: What was the film "Jaws" nominated for?
Answer: Best Picture
Question: Who made Spielberg the 'Jaws' director?
Answer: Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown
Question: Who wrote the 'Jaws' book?
Answer: Peter Benchley
Question: How many Academy Awards did 'Jaws' win?
Answer: three
Question: How much did 'Jaws' earn in theaters?
Answer: more than $470 million worldwide
Question: How many times did Spielberg work with Richard Dreyfus?
Answer: three
Question: How much did Jaws earn in America?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Best Picture Academy awards has Richard D. Zanuck won?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Best Picture Academy awards has David Brown won?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much profit has Richard Dreyfuss movies made over the course of his career?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which one of Spielberg's movies has he said had few problems directing?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Greek Cypriot population, meanwhile, had become hopeful that the British administration would lead to enosis. The idea of enosis was historically part of the Megali Idea, a greater political ambition of a Greek state encompassing the territories with Greek inhabitants in the former Ottoman Empire, including Cyprus and Asia Minor with a capital in Constantinople, and was actively pursued by the Cypriot Orthodox Church, which had its members educated in Greece. These religious officials, together with Greek military officers and professionals, some of whom still pursued the Megali Idea, would later found the guerrilla organisation Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston or National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA). The Greek Cypriots viewed the island as historically Greek and believed that union with Greece was a natural right. In the 1950s, the pursuit of enosis became a part of the Greek national policy,
Question: Historically, the idea of enosis was part of which other idea?
Answer: Megali Idea
Question: The Megali Idea was actively pursued by whom?
Answer: Cypriot Orthodox Church
Question: What guerrilla organization was founded by religious officials and military officers?
Answer: Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston or National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA).
Question: In what year decade did the pursuit of enosis become a part of national Greek policy?
Answer: 1950s |
Context: YouTube offers users the ability to view its videos on web pages outside their website. Each YouTube video is accompanied by a piece of HTML that can be used to embed it on any page on the Web. This functionality is often used to embed YouTube videos in social networking pages and blogs. Users wishing to post a video discussing, inspired by or related to another user's video are able to make a "video response". On August 27, 2013, YouTube announced that it would remove video responses for being an underused feature. Embedding, rating, commenting and response posting can be disabled by the video owner.
Question: Youtube offers users the option to watch content where?
Answer: outside their website
Question: What is used to embed a youtube video to a webpage?
Answer: HTML
Question: What is the most common use of embedded youtube videos?
Answer: social networking pages and blogs
Question: What is a video called when a person records themselves watching a different video?
Answer: "video response"
Question: When did youtube officially remove the response feature?
Answer: On August 27, 2013
Question: What does the HMTL piece that accompanies each video do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the HMTL functionality often used for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did YouTube announce on August 13, 2017?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the features video users can disable?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The prefix neo is used to describe a 20th-century or contemporary composition written in the style of an earlier era, such as Classical or Romantic. Stravinsky's Pulcinella, for example, is a neoclassical composition because it is stylistically similar to works of the Classical era.
Question: A Contemporary composition written in the style of an earlier era is described with what prefix?
Answer: neo
Question: What century were Neoclassical compositions written in?
Answer: 20th-century
Question: Who wrote Pulcinella?
Answer: Stravinsky's
Question: What era is Pulcinella similar to?
Answer: Classical |
Context: The creation–evolution controversy in the United States raises the issue of whether creationistic ideas may be legitimately called science and whether evolution itself may be legitimately called science. In the debate, both sides and even courts in their decisions have frequently invoked Popper's criterion of falsifiability (see Daubert standard). In this context, passages written by Popper are frequently quoted in which he speaks about such issues himself. For example, he famously stated "Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program—a possible framework for testable scientific theories." He continued:
Question: Which of Popper's notions is often invoked in creation-evolution debates?
Answer: criterion of falsifiability
Question: What kind of research program did Popper call Darwinism?
Answer: metaphysical
Question: What phrase did Popper use to describe Darwinism's relation to proper falsifiable theories?
Answer: possible framework
Question: Popper's philosophy is often applied in what political debate concerning biological science?
Answer: creation–evolution
Question: What issues does the creation-evolution controversy in Canada raise?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What have both sides of the debate never invoked?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is there no creation-evolution controversy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How often are passages by Darwin quoted in the creation–evolution controversy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who stated that Darwinism is a testable scientific theory?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Indian rebellion of 1857 was a large-scale rebellion by soldiers employed by the British East India in northern and central India against the Company's rule. The rebels were disorganized, had differing goals, and were poorly equipped, led, and trained, and had no outside support or funding. They were brutally suppressed and the British government took control of the Company and eliminated many of the grievances that caused it. The government also was determined to keep full control so that no rebellion of such size would ever happen again.
Question: What did the soldiers rebel against in the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Answer: Company's rule
Question: What happened to the rebels of the Rebellion?
Answer: brutally suppressed
Question: What force took control of the company and the situation?
Answer: British government
Question: What did the British government intend to keep in regards to India?
Answer: full control
Question: What did the British government remove that had caused the Rebellion?
Answer: grievances |
Context: The American observer Ingersoll reported at this time that "as to the accuracy of the bombing of military objectives, here I make no qualifications. The aim is surprisingly, astonishingly, amazingly inaccurate ... The physical damage to civilian London, to sum up, was more general and more extensive than I had imagined. The damage to military targets much less", and stated that he had seen numerous examples of untouched targets surrounded by buildings destroyed by errant bombs. For example, in two months of bombing, Battersea Power Station, perhaps the largest single target in London, had only received one minor hit ("a nick"). No bridge over the Thames had been hit, and the docks were still functioning despite great damage. An airfield was hit 56 times but the runways were never damaged and the field was never out of operation, despite German pilots' familiarity with it from prewar commercial flights. Ingersoll wrote that the difference between the failure of the German campaign against military targets versus its success in continental Europe was the RAF retaining control of the air.:79–80,174
Question: What was the name of the American observer?
Answer: Ingersoll
Question: The American observer said what about the damage to London?
Answer: to sum up, was more general and more extensive than I had imagined.
Question: The Battersea Power Station took how many hits in two months?
Answer: one minor hit ("a nick")
Question: How many bridges over the Thames were struck?
Answer: No bridge over the Thames had been hit
Question: What did German pilots use to gain knowledge of an airfield?
Answer: prewar commercial flights. |
Context: Borders Books, started in Ann Arbor, was opened by brothers Tom and Louis Borders in 1971 with a stock of used books. The Borders chain was based in the city, as was its flagship store until it closed in September 2011. Domino's Pizza's headquarters is near Ann Arbor on Domino's Farms, a 271-acre (110 ha) Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired complex just northeast of the city. Another Ann Arbor-based company is Zingerman's Delicatessen, which serves sandwiches and has developed businesses under a variety of brand names. Zingerman's has grown into a family of companies which offers a variety of products (bake shop, mail order, creamery, coffee) and services (business education). Flint Ink Corp., another Ann Arbor-based company, was the world's largest privately held ink manufacturer until it was acquired by Stuttgart-based XSYS Print Solutions in October 2005. Avfuel, a global supplier of aviation fuels and services, is also headquartered in Ann Arbor. Aastrom Biosciences, a publicly traded company that develops stem cell treatments for cardiovascular diseases, is headquartered in Ann Arbor.
Question: When did the Borders Books open up in Ann Arbor?
Answer: 1971
Question: Who opened the Borders Books store in Ann Arbor?
Answer: Tom and Louis Borders
Question: Which pizza chain is headquartered at Ann Arbor?
Answer: Domino's Pizza's
Question: Which company was the world's largest privately held ink manufacturer till 2005?
Answer: Flint Ink Corp
Question: Avfuel, a global supplier of what services is headquartered in Ann Arbor?
Answer: aviation fuels
Question: What book store opened in 1917?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What pizza chain has their headquarters located on a 217 acre complex?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of the complex located on 217 acres just northeast of the city?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the world's largest privately held ink manufacturer?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What bookstore was started by Tom and Lois Borders?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Like the rest of India, Hyderabad has a large informal economy that employs 30% of the labour force.:71 According to a survey published in 2007, it had 40–50,000 street vendors, and their numbers were increasing.:9 Among the street vendors, 84% are male and 16% female,:12 and four fifths are "stationary vendors" operating from a fixed pitch, often with their own stall.:15–16 Most are financed through personal savings; only 8% borrow from moneylenders.:19 Vendor earnings vary from ₹50 (74¢ US) to ₹800 (US$12) per day.:25 Other unorganised economic sectors include dairy, poultry farming, brick manufacturing, casual labour and domestic help. Those involved in the informal economy constitute a major portion of urban poor.:71
Question: What percentage of Hyderabad's employed are employed informally?
Answer: 30%
Question: In 2007 how many street vendors did Hyderabad have?
Answer: 40–50,000
Question: What percentage of the street vendors in Hyderabad were male in 2007?
Answer: 84%
Question: Of the street vendors in Hyderabad what percentage owned their own stall in 2007?
Answer: four fifths
Question: In 2007 what percentage of street vendors in Hyderabad borrowed money to finance their operations?
Answer: 8% |
Context: Starting in 2006, Apple's industrial design shifted to favor aluminum, which was used in the construction of the first MacBook Pro. Glass was added in 2008 with the introduction of the unibody MacBook Pro. These materials are billed as environmentally friendly. The iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini lines currently all use aluminum enclosures, and are now made of a single unibody. Chief designer Jonathan Ive continues to guide products towards a minimalist and simple feel, including eliminating of replaceable batteries in notebooks. Multi-touch gestures from the iPhone's interface have been applied to the Mac line in the form of touch pads on notebooks and the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad for desktops.
Question: When did Apple begin to favor aluminum in their design?
Answer: 2006
Question: Which Mac used aluminum in it's construction?
Answer: MacBook Pro
Question: Which material did Apple add with the 2008 unibody MacBrook Pro?
Answer: Glass
Question: Are aluminum and glass considered to be environmentally friendly or environmentally harmful?
Answer: environmentally friendly
Question: What has Chief Designer Jonathan Ive been able to eliminate in Mac notebooks?
Answer: replaceable batteries
Question: When did Apple begin not to favor aluminum in their design?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Mac used tin in it's construction?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which material did Apple add with the 2009 unibody MacBrook Pro?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Are tin and glass considered to be environmentally friendly or environmentally harmful?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has Chief Designer Jonathan Ive been able to eliminate in HP notebooks?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On an international level the German DIN 4512 system has been effectively superseded in the 1980s by ISO 6:1974, ISO 2240:1982, and ISO 5800:1979 where the same sensitivity is written in linear and logarithmic form as "ISO 100/21°" (now again with degree symbol). These ISO standards were subsequently adopted by DIN as well. Finally, the latest DIN 4512 revisions were replaced by corresponding ISO standards, DIN 4512-1:1993-05 by DIN ISO 6:1996-02 in September 2000, DIN 4512-4:1985-08 by DIN ISO 2240:1998-06 and DIN 4512-5:1990-11 by DIN ISO 5800:1998-06 both in July 2002.
Question: What took the place of the German DIN 4512 system?
Answer: ISO 6:1974, ISO 2240:1982, and ISO 5800:1979
Question: How is sensitivity shown in the ISO systems?
Answer: in linear and logarithmic form as "ISO 100/21°"
Question: What standards did the DIN begin to use?
Answer: ISO standards
Question: When were the ISO standards first adopted?
Answer: in the 1980s
Question: When were the last ISO standards adopted?
Answer: July 2002
Question: What did the German DIN 4512 supersede?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What German system wrote in a linear and logarithmic form?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What standards did DIN abandon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the ISO adopt the DIN standards?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did DIN 4512-5:1990-11 replace DIN ISO 5800:1998-06?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Because of the distance of Neptune from Earth, its angular diameter only ranges from 2.2 to 2.4 arcseconds, the smallest of the Solar System planets. Its small apparent size makes it challenging to study it visually. Most telescopic data was fairly limited until the advent of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics (AO). The first scientifically useful observation of Neptune from ground-based telescopes using adaptive optics, was commenced in 1997 from Hawaii. Neptune is currently entering its spring and summer season and has been shown to be heating up, with increased atmospheric activity and brightness as a consequence. Combined with technological advancements, ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics are recording increasingly more detailed images of this Outer Planet. Both the HST and AO telescopes on Earth has made many new discoveries within the Solar System since the mid-1990s, with a large increase in the number of known satellites and moons around the Outer Planets for example. In 2004 and 2005, five new small satellites of Neptune with diameters between 38 and 61 kilometres were discovered.
Question: What is Neptune's angular diameter range?
Answer: 2.2 to 2.4 arcseconds
Question: The advent of what telescope made it easier to study Neptune?
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope
Question: When was the first useful observation of Neptune from the ground?
Answer: 1997
Question: What seasons are Neptune currently entering?
Answer: spring and summer
Question: What was discovered around Neptune in 2004 and 2005?
Answer: five new small satellites
Question: What is Neptune's angular height?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The advent of what telescope made it easier to study Jupiter?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened in 1978?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What seasons are Uranus currently entering?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was discovered around Neptune in 2008 and 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: With third parties like Namco, Square Enix, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Hudson Soft all making games for the iPod, Apple's MP3 player has taken steps towards entering the video game handheld console market. Even video game magazines like GamePro and EGM have reviewed and rated most of their games as of late.
Question: What are the names of companies producing video games for Apple's MP3 player?
Answer: Namco, Square Enix, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Hudson Soft
Question: What market can Apple participate in now that it has a variety of games available for iPod?
Answer: video game handheld console market
Question: What two publications have covered iPod games?
Answer: GamePro and EGM |
Context: Raised in Chicago, West briefly attended art school before becoming known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, producing hit singles for artists such as Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to widespread commercial and critical success, and founded record label GOOD Music. He went on to explore a variety of different musical styles on subsequent albums that included the baroque-inflected Late Registration (2005), the arena-inspired Graduation (2007), and the starkly polarizing 808s & Heartbreak (2008). In 2010, he released his critically acclaimed fifth album, the maximalist My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and the following year he collaborated with Jay-Z on the joint LP Watch the Throne (2011). West released his abrasive sixth album, Yeezus, to further critical praise in 2013. Following a series of recording delays and work on non-musical projects, West's seventh album, The Life of Pablo, was released in 2016.
Question: What was the first label that Kanye produced for?
Answer: Roc-A-Fella Records
Question: Who are some well known artists that Kanye produced for early in his career?
Answer: Jay-Z and Alicia Keys
Question: How many albums has Kanye released since starting his solo career in 2004?
Answer: 7
Question: With which artists that Kanye formerly produced for did he go on to collaborate with?
Answer: Jay-Z
Question: Where did Kanye West live as a child?
Answer: Chicago
Question: What was Kanye West's first job title after art school?
Answer: producer
Question: What year did Kanye West release his first rap CD?
Answer: 2004
Question: How many total CDs has Kanye West released in his career so far?
Answer: 7 |
Context: Despite its tropical wet and dry climate, extensive irrigation makes it a rich agricultural region. Its canal-irrigation system established by the British is the largest in the world. Wheat and cotton are the largest crops. Other crops include rice, sugarcane, millet, corn, oilseeds, pulses, vegetables, and fruits such as kinoo. Livestock and poultry production are also important. Despite past animosities, the rural masses in Punjab's farms continue to use the Hindu calendar for planting and harvesting.
Question: What kind of climate does Punjab have?
Answer: tropical wet and dry
Question: Who built Punjab's irrigation system?
Answer: the British
Question: What are Punjab's largest crops?
Answer: Wheat and cotton
Question: What are Punjab's secondary crops?
Answer: rice, sugarcane, millet, corn, oilseeds, pulses, vegetables, and fruits such as kinoo
Question: What calendar do Punjab's farmers use?
Answer: the Hindu calendar
Question: What calendar do Punjab farms no longer use?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Punjab create an irrigation system for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Punjab has the largest crop of what in the world?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the name of one of their vegetables?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What aspects of Punjab's climate make it perfect for agriculture?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Starting in 2002, Apple moved to eliminate CRT displays from its product line as part of aesthetic design and space-saving measures with the iMac G4. However, the new iMac with its flexible LCD flat-panel monitor was considerably more expensive on its debut than the preceding iMac G3, largely due to the higher cost of the LCD technology at the time. In order to keep the Macintosh affordable for the education market and due to obsolescence of the iMac G3, Apple created the eMac in April 2002 as the intended successor; however the eMac's CRT made it relatively bulky and somewhat outdated, while its all-in-one construction meant it could not be expanded to meet consumer demand for larger monitors. The iMac G4's relatively high prices were approaching that of laptops which were portable and had higher resolution LCD screens. Meanwhile, Windows PC manufacturers could offer desktop configurations with LCD flat panel monitors at prices comparable to the eMac and at much lower cost than the iMac G4. The flop of the Power Mac G4 Cube, along with the more expensive iMac G4 and heavy eMac, meant that Macintosh desktop sales never reached the market share attained by the previous iMac G3. For the next half-decade while Macintosh sales held steady, it would instead be the iPod portable music player and iTunes music download service that would drive Apple's sales growth.
Question: What did Apple begin to eliminate in 2002?
Answer: CRT displays
Question: Why was the new iMac G4 considerably more expensive than the G3?
Answer: higher cost of the LCD technology
Question: Who did Apple create the more affordable eMac in April 2002 for?
Answer: the education market
Question: What was the main problem with the eMac's CRT?
Answer: relatively bulky and somewhat outdated
Question: After Apple's failed desktop sales, what products drove their sales growth?
Answer: the iPod portable music player and iTunes music download service
Question: What did Apple begin to eliminate in 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why was the new iMac G4 considerably more expensive than the G5?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Apple create the more affordable eMac in April 2003 for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the main problem with the iMac's CRT?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: After Microsoft's failed desktop sales, what products drove their sales growth?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: One of the oldest observatories in South America is the Quito Astronomical Observatory. Founded in 1873 and located 12 minutes south of the Equator in Quito, Ecuador. The Quito Astronomical Observatory is the National Observatory of Ecuador and is located in the Historic Center of Quito and is managed by the National Polytechnic School.
Question: What observatory is the National Observatory of Ecuador?
Answer: Quito Astronomical Observatory
Question: What school oversees the Quito Astronomical Observatory?
Answer: National Polytechnic School
Question: When was the Quito Astronomical Observatory founded?
Answer: 1873 |
Context: Despite their collective name, not all woodwind instruments are made entirely of wood. The reeds used to play them, however, are usually made from Arundo donax, a type of monocot cane plant.
Question: What type of instruments with a misleading name aren't always made completely out of wood?
Answer: woodwind instruments
Question: What are woodwind instrument's reeds often made out of?
Answer: Arundo donax
Question: Is the Arundo donax a monocot or dicot cane plant?
Answer: monocot
Question: What objects do musicians have to have in order to play woodwind instruments?
Answer: reeds |
Context: The earliest known macrofossil confidently identified as an angiosperm, Archaefructus liaoningensis, is dated to about 125 million years BP (the Cretaceous period), whereas pollen considered to be of angiosperm origin takes the fossil record back to about 130 million years BP. However, one study has suggested that the early-middle Jurassic plant Schmeissneria, traditionally considered a type of ginkgo, may be the earliest known angiosperm, or at least a close relative. In addition, circumstantial chemical evidence has been found for the existence of angiosperms as early as 250 million years ago. Oleanane, a secondary metabolite produced by many flowering plants, has been found in Permian deposits of that age together with fossils of gigantopterids. Gigantopterids are a group of extinct seed plants that share many morphological traits with flowering plants, although they are not known to have been flowering plants themselves.
Question: When is the earliest known macrofossil identified as an angiosperm dated?
Answer: about 125 million years BP
Question: What is the earliest known angiosperm?
Answer: Archaefructus liaoningensis
Question: What pushes the age of angiosperm 5 million years further back?
Answer: pollen
Question: How long ago has circumstantial evidence has been found for the existence of angiosperms?
Answer: 250 million years ago
Question: What group of now extinct seed plants had many of the traits of what are now flowering plants?
Answer: Gigantopterids
Question: What is Oleanne, the earliest macrofossil, traditionally considered to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What evidence has shown that flowering plants existed 125 million years BP?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been found in ginko deposits of that age with gigantopterid fossils?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do Oleanne share morphological traits with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are not known to have Permian deposits themselves?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Agriculture and forestry have declined in importance over the decades. Nevertheless, they are more important than in the most other areas of Germany, especially within rural regions. 54% of Thuringia's territory is in agricultural use. The fertile basins such as the large Thuringian Basin or the smaller Goldene Aue, Orlasenke and Osterland are in intensive use for growing cereals, vegetables, fruits and energy crops. Important products are apples, strawberries, cherries and plums in the fruit sector, cabbage, potatoes, cauliflower, tomatoes (grown in greenhouses), onions, cucumbers and asparagus in the vegetable sector, as well as maize, rapeseed, wheat, barley and sugar beets in the crop sector.
Question: What is something more important to Thuringia than most areas of Germany?
Answer: Agriculture and forestry
Question: How much of Thuringia's territory is in agricultural use?
Answer: 54%
Question: What is the largest fertile area of Thuringia?
Answer: the large Thuringian Basin
Question: Where do they grow tomatoes in Thuringia?
Answer: greenhouses
Question: Which regions value agriculture most?
Answer: rural regions
Question: What is something no longer important to Thuringia compared to most areas of Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of Thuringia's territory is in agricultural ruin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the worst fertile area of Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where do they grow meat in Thuringia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which regions don't value agriculture?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: On the evening of May 18, CCTV-1 hosted a special four-hour program called The Giving of Love (simplified Chinese: 爱的奉献; traditional Chinese: 愛的奉獻), hosted by regulars from the CCTV New Year's Gala and round-the-clock coverage anchor Bai Yansong. It was attended by a wide range of entertainment, literary, business and political figures from mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Donations of the evening totalled 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan (~US$208 million). Of the donations, CCTV gave the biggest corporate contribution at ¥50 million. Almost at the same time in Taiwan, a similarly themed programme was on air hosted by the sitting president Ma Ying-jeou. In June, Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan, who donated $1.57 million to the victims, made a music video alongside other artists entitled "Promise"; the song was composed by Andy Lau. The Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign, an 8-hour fundraising marathon, was held on June 1 in Hong Kong; it was attended by some 200 Sinosphere musicians and celebrities. In Singapore, MediaCorp Channel 8 hosted a 'live' programme 让爱川流不息 to raise funds for the victims.
Question: What did CCTV-1 host on the evening of May 18th?
Answer: four-hour program called The Giving of Love
Question: Who was the show hosted by?
Answer: Bai Yansong
Question: How large were the donations from the program?
Answer: Donations of the evening totalled 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan
Question: How much did Jackie Chan donate to support?
Answer: $1.57 million
Question: What was the name of the music video that Jackie Chan made for the event?
Answer: Promise
Question: What was the program that CCTV-1 hosted?
Answer: The Giving of Love
Question: What did the donations total for the program?
Answer: US$208 million
Question: What company gave the most?
Answer: CCTV
Question: How much did actor Jackie Chan donate?
Answer: 1.57 million
Question: What was the name of Chan's music video?
Answer: Promise |
Context: His answer was that in many cases animals exist with intermediate structures that are functional. He presented flying squirrels, and flying lemurs as examples of how bats might have evolved from non-flying ancestors. He discussed various simple eyes found in invertebrates, starting with nothing more than an optic nerve coated with pigment, as examples of how the vertebrate eye could have evolved. Darwin concludes: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case."
Question: What are some flying animals that Darwin thought might have evolved from bats?
Answer: flying squirrels, and flying lemurs
Question: What example did Darwin give of eyes evolving?
Answer: simple eyes found in invertebrates, starting with nothing more than an optic nerve coated with pigment
Question: How did Darwin justify his theory not breaking down?
Answer: any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. |
Context: Beginning in 1939, Dr. Peter Goldmark and his staff at Columbia Records and at CBS Laboratories undertook efforts to address problems of recording and playing back narrow grooves and developing an inexpensive, reliable consumer playback system. It took about eight years of study, except when it was suspended because of World War II. Finally, the 12-inch (30 cm) Long Play (LP) 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove record album was introduced by the Columbia Record Company at a New York press conference on June 18, 1948.
Question: What caused a delay in the production of high quality records?
Answer: World War II
Question: Who released the 12 inch LP?
Answer: Columbia Record Company
Question: On what date was the 12 inch LP released?
Answer: June 18, 1948
Question: In what city was the 12 in LP released?
Answer: New York
Question: How long did it take Columbia to produce a consumer friendly long play record?
Answer: about eight years |
Context: In response to a given problem situation (), a number of competing conjectures, or tentative theories (), are systematically subjected to the most rigorous attempts at falsification possible. This process, error elimination (), performs a similar function for science that natural selection performs for biological evolution. Theories that better survive the process of refutation are not more true, but rather, more "fit"—in other words, more applicable to the problem situation at hand (). Consequently, just as a species' biological fitness does not ensure continued survival, neither does rigorous testing protect a scientific theory from refutation in the future. Yet, as it appears that the engine of biological evolution has, over many generations, produced adaptive traits equipped to deal with more and more complex problems of survival, likewise, the evolution of theories through the scientific method may, in Popper's view, reflect a certain type of progress: toward more and more interesting problems (). For Popper, it is in the interplay between the tentative theories (conjectures) and error elimination (refutation) that scientific knowledge advances toward greater and greater problems; in a process very much akin to the interplay between genetic variation and natural selection.
Question: What process in science is like the process of natural selection in nature?
Answer: error elimination
Question: What is a better description for theories that survive scientific scrutiny than "more true?"
Answer: more "fit"
Question: What is another term for the tentative theories enter the process of error elimination in science?
Answer: conjectures
Question: Toward what does Popper believe scientific understandings progress?
Answer: more and more interesting problems
Question: What is not subject to rigorous attempts at falsification?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What serves a different purpose in biological evolution than error elimination serves in science?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What theories are less applicable to the situation at hand?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What produces adaptive traits to deal only with simple problems of survival?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who thinks the evolution of theories does not reflect a certain type of progress?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Comcast has been criticized for multiple reasons. The company's customer satisfaction often ranks among the lowest in the cable industry. Comcast has violated net neutrality practices in the past; and, despite Comcast's commitment to a narrow definition of net neutrality, critics advocate a definition of which precludes distinction between Comcast's private network services and the rest of the Internet. Critics also point out a lack of competition in the vast majority of Comcast's service area; there is limited competition among cable providers. Given Comcast's negotiating power as a large ISP, some suspect that Comcast could leverage paid peering agreements to unfairly influence end-user connection speeds. Its ownership of both content production (in NBCUniversal) and content distribution (as an ISP) has raised antitrust concerns. These issues, in addition to others, led to Comcast being dubbed "The Worst Company in America" by The Consumerist in 2014 and 2010.
Question: What is the largest criticism leveled by consumers against Comcast
Answer: customer satisfaction
Question: It has been alleged that Comcast's internet service has done what to customers?
Answer: has violated net neutrality practices
Question: What monopolistic practice draws criticism of Comcast?
Answer: a lack of competition in the vast majority of Comcast's service area
Question: What dubious distinction has Comcast earned twice from The Consumerist?
Answer: "The Worst Company in America"
Question: How does Comcast's customer service stack up against its competition?
Answer: often ranks among the lowest in the cable industry
Question: What year did Comcast first violate net neutrality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What title was The Consumerist given in 2010 and 2014?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company has the highest customer satisfaction in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Antitrust concerns have been dismissed because COmcast does not own what company?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of definition does The Consumerist use?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Terrestrial annelids can be invasive in some situations. In the glaciated areas of North America, for example, almost all native earthworms are thought to have been killed by the glaciers and the worms currently found in those areas are all introduced from other areas, primarily from Europe, and, more recently, from Asia. Northern hardwood forests are especially negatively impacted by invasive worms through the loss of leaf duff, soil fertility, changes in soil chemistry and the loss of ecological diversity. Especially of concern is Amynthas agrestis and at least one state (Wisconsin) has listed it as a prohibited species.
Question: Where were native earthworms killed by glaciers?
Answer: glaciated areas of North America
Question: Where did most of the current earthworms in glacial areas come from?
Answer: Europe
Question: What type of forests can be hurt by invasive worms?
Answer: Northern hardwood forests
Question: Where were asian earthworms killed by glaciers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did all of the current earthworms in glacial areas come from?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of forests are immune to invasive worms?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are no longer considered an invasive species?
Answer: Unanswerable |
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