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Context: Shooting as practised in Britain, as opposed to traditional hunting, requires little questing for game—around thirty-five million birds are released onto shooting estates every year, some having been factory farmed. Shoots can be elaborate affairs with guns placed in assigned positions and assistants to help load shotguns. When in position, "beaters" move through the areas of cover, swinging sticks or flags to drive the game out. Such events are often called "drives". The open season for grouse in the UK begins on 12 August, the so-called Glorious Twelfth. The definition of game in the United Kingdom is governed by the Game Act 1831.
Question: What does shooting in Britain require little questing for?
Answer: game
Question: About how many birds are released onto shooting estates every year in the UK?
Answer: thirty-five million
Question: What kind of affairs can shoots be?
Answer: elaborate
Question: Who uses swinging sticks or flags to drive game out?
Answer: "beaters"
Question: What is the Glorious Twelfth in the UK?
Answer: open season for grouse
Question: About how many birds are released onto shooting estates every year?
Answer: thirty-five million
Question: Who swings sticks or flags to drive game out?
Answer: beaters
Question: When does open season for grouse begin in the UK?
Answer: 12 August
Question: What is the UK definition of game is governed by?
Answer: Game Act 1831
Question: Why are assistants used?
Answer: help load shotguns
Question: How many people have taken part in shooting in the UK since 1831?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what day do assistants need to have gun safety training?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for the Game Act?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did factory farms first legally begin production in the UK?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another name for a gun placed in position?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Sichuan came under the firm control of a Chinese central government during the Sui dynasty, but it was during the subsequent Tang dynasty where Sichuan regained its previous political and cultural prominence for which it was known during the Han. Chengdu became nationally known as a supplier of armies and the home of Du Fu, who is sometimes called China's greatest poet. During the An Lushan Rebellion (755-763), Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled from Chang'an to Sichuan. The region was torn by constant warfare and economic distress as it was besieged by the Tibetan Empire.
Question: During which dynasty did Sichuan regain its political and cultural prominence for which it was known during the Han?
Answer: Tang dynasty
Question: Who was known as China's greatest poet and lived in Chengdu?
Answer: Du Fu
Question: What was Chengu known to supply the country with?
Answer: armies
Question: Which years saw the An Lushan Rebellion?
Answer: 755-763
Question: Which empire ravished the Chengdu region with constant warfare and economic distress?
Answer: the Tibetan Empire
Question: Who regained their prominence under the Sui dynasty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who came under tight control during the Tang dynasty?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What revolt took place in the 7th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who fled from Sichuan to Chang'an?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What region was liberated by the Tibetan Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During which dynasty did Sichuan regain its political and cultural prominence for which it was known during the Tibetan Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was known as China's greatest poet and lived in Tang?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Chengu known to supply the Tibetan Empire with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which years saw the Han Rebellion?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which empire ravished the Lushan region with constant warfare and economic distress?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Additionally, "[I]n the general case, von Neumann proved the following basic representation theorem. Any complemented modular lattice L having a "basis" of n≥4 pairwise perspective elements, is isomorphic with the lattice ℛ(R) of all principal right-ideals of a suitable regular ring R. This conclusion is the culmination of 140 pages of brilliant and incisive algebra involving entirely novel axioms. Anyone wishing to get an unforgettable impression of the razor edge of von Neumann's mind, need merely try to pursue this chain of exact reasoning for himself—realizing that often five pages of it were written down before breakfast, seated at a living room writing-table in a bathrobe."
Question: What type of axioms were used by von Neumann in his lattice work?
Answer: novel axioms
Question: How long was von Neumann's lattice theory paper?
Answer: 140 pages
Question: In what room did von Neumann often write at home?
Answer: living room writing-table
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Context: The RIBA is a member organisation, with 44,000 members. Chartered Members are entitled to call themselves chartered architects and to append the post-nominals RIBA after their name; Student Members are not permitted to do so. Formerly, fellowships of the institute were granted, although no longer; those who continue to hold this title instead add FRIBA.
Question: How many people have membership in the Royal Institute?
Answer: 44,000
Question: What can chartered members of RIBA add to their name to indicate their status?
Answer: RIBA
Question: What type of Royal Institute members are not able to use the organization's acronym after their names?
Answer: Student Members
Question: What is not provided by the Royal Institute anymore?
Answer: fellowships
Question: Fellows of the Royal Institute can use what abbreviation with their names?
Answer: FRIBA
Question: How many people have lost membership in the Royal Institute?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can chartered members of RIBA remove from their name to indicate their status?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of Royal Institute members are required to use the organization's acronym after their names?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is still provided by the Royal Institute?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What abbreviation can no longer be used by Fellows of the Royal Institute with their names?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In certain historical Christian, Islamic and Jewish cultures, among others, espousing ideas deemed heretical has been and in some cases still is subjected not merely to punishments such as excommunication, but even to the death penalty.
Question: What cultures are listed as examples of discipline for being a heretic?
Answer: Christian, Islamic and Jewish
Question: What religions believe new ideas is punishable?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the punishment for disagreeing with the church?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What punishment is nolonger used for heretics?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1976, a group of Italian American professors at City University of New York asked to be added as an affirmative action category for promotion and hiring. Italian Americans are usually considered white in the US and would not be covered under affirmative action policies, but the professors believed they were underrepresented. Libertarian economist Thomas Sowell wrote in his book, Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study, that affirmative action policies encourage non-preferred groups to designate themselves as members of preferred groups [i.e., primary beneficiaries of affirmative action] to take advantage of group preference policies.
Question: Where were the Italian American professors employed that asked to be added as an affirmative action category?
Answer: City University of New York
Question: Which year did the Italian American Professors make their request?
Answer: 1976
Question: What category of race do Italian Americans normally fall under?
Answer: white
Question: What was the title of the book written by Thomas Sowell?
Answer: Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study
Question: Why would Italian Americans want to get themselves designated as members of a preferred group?
Answer: to take advantage of group preference policies
Question: Where were the Irish American professors employed that asked to be added as an affirmative action category?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which year did the Irish American Professors make their request?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What category of race do Irish Americans normally fall under?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the title of the song written by Thomas Sowell?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why would Italian Americans want to get themselves designated as members of a non-preferred group?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The first Industrial Revolution merged into the Second Industrial Revolution around 1850, when technological and economic progress gained momentum with the development of steam-powered ships and railways, and later in the 19th century with the internal combustion engine and electric power generation. The Second Industrial Revolution was a phase of the Industrial Revolution; labeled as the separate Technical Revolution. From a technological and a social point of view there is no clean break between the two. Major innovations during the period occurred in the chemical, electrical, petroleum, and steel industries. Specific advancements included the introduction of oil fired steam turbine and internal combustion driven steel ships, the development of the airplane, the practical commercialization of the automobile, mass production of consumer goods, the perfection of canning, mechanical refrigeration and other food preservation techniques, and the invention of the telephone.
Question: When did the first industrial revolution merge into the second?
Answer: around 1850
Question: What caused technological and economical progress?
Answer: development of steam-powered ships and railways
Question: The 19th century was also known as?
Answer: the internal combustion engine and electric power generation.
Question: What was the second industrial revolution was labeled?
Answer: separate Technical Revolution
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Context: Compounds of hydrogen are often called hydrides, a term that is used fairly loosely. The term "hydride" suggests that the H atom has acquired a negative or anionic character, denoted H−, and is used when hydrogen forms a compound with a more electropositive element. The existence of the hydride anion, suggested by Gilbert N. Lewis in 1916 for group I and II salt-like hydrides, was demonstrated by Moers in 1920 by the electrolysis of molten lithium hydride (LiH), producing a stoichiometry quantity of hydrogen at the anode. For hydrides other than group I and II metals, the term is quite misleading, considering the low electronegativity of hydrogen. An exception in group II hydrides is BeH
2, which is polymeric. In lithium aluminium hydride, the AlH−
4 anion carries hydridic centers firmly attached to the Al(III).
Question: Who suggested that hydride anions existed?character does the H atom have in a hydride?
Answer: Gilbert N. Lewis
Question: What group of hydrides is BEH considered polymeric?
Answer: group II
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Context: Roman government was headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and advised by a senate composed of appointed magistrates. As Roman society was very hierarchical by modern standards, the evolution of the Roman government was heavily influenced by the struggle between the patricians, Rome's land-holding aristocracy, who traced their ancestry to the founding of Rome, and the plebeians, the far more numerous citizen-commoners. Over time, the laws that gave patricians exclusive rights to Rome's highest offices were repealed or weakened, and leading plebeian families became full members of the aristocracy. The leaders of the Republic developed a strong tradition and morality requiring public service and patronage in peace and war, making military and political success inextricably linked. Many of Rome's legal and legislative structures (later codified into the Justinian Code, and again into the Napoleonic Code) can still be observed throughout Europe and much of the world in modern nation states and international organizations.
Question: Who elected consuls in the Roman government?
Answer: citizens
Question: Who eventually became full members of the aristocracy?
Answer: leading plebeian families
Question: What were Rome's legislative structures eventually turned into?
Answer: the Justinian Code
Question: What was the senate that advised consuls in the Roman government comprised of?
Answer: appointed magistrates
Question: What went hand and hand with military success?
Answer: political success
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Context: In 1579 the northern seven provinces signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they decided to join forces against Spanish rule. The Union of Utrecht is seen as the beginning of the Dutch Republic. In 1580 the new and predominantly Protestant state abolished the bishoprics, including the archbishopric of Utrecht. The stadtholders disapproved of the independent course of the Utrecht bourgeoisie and brought the city under much more direct control of the republic; which shifted the power towards its dominant province Holland. This was the start of a long period of stagnation of trade and development in Utrecht. Utrecht remained an atypical city in the new republic with about 40% Catholic in the mid-17th century, and even more among the elite groups, who included many rural nobility and gentry with town houses there.
Question: What was signed in 1579
Answer: the northern seven provinces signed the Union of Utrecht, in which they decided to join forces against Spanish rule
Question: What is this union seen as
Answer: The Union of Utrecht is seen as the beginning of the Dutch Republic
Question: What became the dominant province
Answer: towards its dominant province Holland
Question: What was the state of Utrecht
Answer: Utrecht remained an atypical city in the new republic with about 40% Catholic in the mid-17th century, and even more among the elite groups
Question: Who signed the Union of Utrecht in the 15th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who opposed Spanish rule in the 15th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What union ended the Dutch Republic?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the bishopric abolish?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In addition to membership, as of 2010[update] there are 1,335 officially registered fan clubs, called penyes, around the world. The fan clubs promote Barcelona in their locality and receive beneficial offers when visiting Barcelona. Among the best supported teams globally, Barcelona has the highest social media following in the world among sports teams, with over 90 million Facebook fans as of February 2016. The club has had many prominent people among its supporters, including Pope John Paul II, who was an honorary member, and former prime minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. FC Barcelona has the second highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund.
Question: How many registered fan clubs does Barcelona have worldwide?
Answer: 1,335
Question: What are the fan clubs called?
Answer: penyes
Question: How many Facebook followers does team Barcelona have?
Answer: over 90 million
Question: What famous cleric was a supporter of Barcelona?
Answer: Pope John Paul II
Question: What is the only team that has a higher attendance rate than Club Barcelona?
Answer: Borussia Dortmund
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Context: HIV/AIDS rate in Nigeria is much lower compared to the other African nations such as Kenya or South Africa whose prevalence (percentage) rates are in the double digits. As of 2012[update], the HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15–49 was just 3.1 percent. As of 2014[update], Life expectancy in Nigeria is 52.62 years on average according to CIA, and just over half the population have access to potable water and appropriate sanitation; As of 2010[update], the Infant mortality is 8.4 deaths per 1000 live births.
Question: How much of Nigeria has HIV as of 2012?
Answer: 3.1 percent
Question: What is Nigeria's life expectancy?
Answer: 52.62 years
Question: How much of the Nigerian population has access to clean water?
Answer: just over half
Question: What was Nigeria's infant mortality rate as of 2010?
Answer: 8.4 deaths per 1000 live births
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Context: The set G is called the underlying set of the group (G, •). Often the group's underlying set G is used as a short name for the group (G, •). Along the same lines, shorthand expressions such as "a subset of the group G" or "an element of group G" are used when what is actually meant is "a subset of the underlying set G of the group (G, •)" or "an element of the underlying set G of the group (G, •)". Usually, it is clear from the context whether a symbol like G refers to a group or to an underlying set.
Question: What is known as underlying set of the group?
Answer: The set
Question: What is often utilized as a short name for the group?
Answer: the group's underlying set
Question: What expressions are utilized when is really implied to be a longer expression?
Answer: shorthand expressions
Question: What cannot be used as the short name for the group?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the overlaying set of the group?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What can be unclear for the G symbol?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: A subset of the underlying set G of the group (G) cannot be written using what kind of expression?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Due to its large size and wide range of geographic features, the United States contains examples of nearly every global climate. The climate is temperate in most areas, subtropical in the Southern United States, tropical in Hawaii and southern Florida, polar in Alaska, semiarid in the Great Plains west of the 100th meridian, Mediterranean in coastal California and arid in the Great Basin. Its comparatively favorable agricultural climate contributed (in part) to the country's rise as a world power, with infrequent severe drought in the major agricultural regions, a general lack of widespread flooding, and a mainly temperate climate that receives adequate precipitation.
Question: What is the climate like in the Southern United States?
Answer: subtropical
Question: Hawaii has what type of climate?
Answer: tropical
Question: Which state is known for its Mediterranean climate?
Answer: California
Question: What contributed to the rise of the US as a world power?
Answer: agricultural climate
Question: What is the climate like in most areas of the US?
Answer: temperate
Question: The southwestern part of what country is subtropical
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Hawaii and what other state or subtropical?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Great Plains are erred west of what Meridian?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The United States favorable agricultural climate hindered what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The United States has frequent droughts and widespread what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: An airport is an aerodrome with facilities for flights to take off and land. Airports often have facilities to store and maintain aircraft, and a control tower. An airport consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface such as a runway for a plane to take off or a helipad, and often includes adjacent utility buildings such as control towers, hangars and terminals. Larger airports may have fixed base operator services, airport aprons, air traffic control centres, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services.
Question: What is an aerodome with facilities for flights to take off and land?
Answer: airport
Question: What is an aerially accessible open space that includes at least one active surface such as a runway or a helipad?
Answer: landing area
Question: What is an airport?
Answer: aerodrome with facilities for flights to take off and land
Question: What is the definition of a control tower?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do larger control towers have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of the area around a utility building?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an example of an airport apron?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the definition of a helipad?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In 1966, CBS reorganized its corporate structure with Leiberson promoted to head the new "CBS-Columbia Group" which made the now renamed CBS Records company a separate unit of this new group run by Clive Davis.
Question: Who ran CBS-Columbia Group starting in 1966?
Answer: Leiberson
Question: In 1966, ABC reorganized what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Leiberson was promoted to secretary for what group?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The new "ABC-Columbia Group" had whom as its head?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Davis Clive ran which unit?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, developing the mathematical models behind the explosive lenses used in the implosion-type nuclear weapon. After the war, he served on the General Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and later as one of its commissioners. He was a consultant to a number of organizations, including the United States Air Force, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Along with theoretical physicist Edward Teller, mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, and others, he worked out key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb.
Question: With whom did Von Neumann work on the Manhattan Project?
Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller
Question: Post World War II, in what role did Von Neumann work?
Answer: General Advisory Committee of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
Question: For what organizations was Von Neumann a consultant after World War II?
Answer: United States Air Force, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Question: What keys steps did Von Neumann work out that contributed to weapons of war?
Answer: key steps in the nuclear physics involved in thermonuclear reactions and the hydrogen bomb
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Context: In 1883, salt water taffy was conceived in Atlantic City by David Bradley. The traditional story is that Bradley's shop was flooded after a major storm, soaking his taffy with salty Atlantic Ocean water. He sold some "salt water taffy" to a girl, who proudly walked down to the beach to show her friends. Bradley's mother was in the back of the store when the sale was made, and loved the name, and so salt water taffy was born.
Question: In what year was salt water taffy conceived?
Answer: 1883
Question: Who was the creator of salt water taffy?
Answer: David Bradley
Question: What happened to David Bradley's shop that led to the creation of salt water taffy?
Answer: Bradley's shop was flooded after a major storm
Question: Who did Bradley sell salt water taffy to for the first time?
Answer: a girl
Question: Where did the water come from for the creation of the first salt water taffy?
Answer: Atlantic Ocean
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Context: The National Disaster Relief Commission initiated a "Level II emergency contingency plan", which covers the most serious class of natural disasters. The plan rose to Level I at 22:15 CST, May 12.
Question: What did the National Disaster Relief Commission initiate?
Answer: Level II emergency contingency plan
Question: What does a Level II emergency contingency plan cover?
Answer: the most serious class of natural disasters
Question: When did the plan rise to Level I?
Answer: at 22:15 CST, May 12
Question: What level alert was instated for the quake?
Answer: Level II emergency
Question: What class of disasters is a level II emergency?
Answer: most serious
Question: What level was the disaster set at 22:15 CST, May 12?
Answer: Level II
Question: What department initiated the emergency contingency plan?
Answer: National Disaster Relief Commission
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Context: Heitaro Nakajima, who developed an early digital audio recorder within Japan's national public broadcasting organization NHK in 1970, became general manager of Sony's audio department in 1971. His team developed a digital PCM adaptor audio tape recorder using a Betamax video recorder in 1973. After this, in 1974 the leap to storing digital audio on an optical disc was easily made. Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976. A year later, in September 1977, Sony showed the press a 30 cm disc that could play 60 minutes of digital audio (44,100 Hz sampling rate and 16-bit resolution) using MFM modulation. In September 1978, the company demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150-minute playing time, 44,056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, and cross-interleaved error correction code—specifications similar to those later settled upon for the standard Compact Disc format in 1980. Technical details of Sony's digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention, held on 13–16 March 1979, in Brussels. Sony's AES technical paper was published on 1 March 1979. A week later, on 8 March, Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called "Philips Introduce Compact Disc" in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Question: Where was the 62nd AES Convention held?
Answer: Brussels
Question: Who was the general manger of Sony's audio department in 1971?
Answer: Heitaro Nakajima
Question: What year did Sony first exhibit the use of an optical digital audio disc?
Answer: 1976
Question: Where was the Philips Introduce Compact disc conference held?
Answer: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Question: What did Nakajima's team use to create a digital PCM adaptor audio tape recorder?
Answer: Betamax video recorder
Question: When did Sony release it's AES technical paper?
Answer: 1 March 1979
Question: What Japanese city is NHK located in?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was Sony's general manager in 1970?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Betamax video recorder created?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many minutes could Sony's 1976 optical digital disk play?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the sampling rate of Philips' 1979 optical digital dic?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, and about 26% live in Europe, 24% of total Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa, about 13% in Asia and the Pacific, and 1% of the world's Christians live in the Middle east and North Africa. About half of all Christians worldwide are Catholic, while more than a third are Protestant (37%). Orthodox communions comprise 12% of the world's Christians. Other Christian groups make up the remainder. Christians make up the majority of the population in 158 countries and territories. 280 million Christian live as a minority.
Question: Of all the Christians in the world, how many are Catholic?
Answer: half
Question: Christians are the majority in how many countries and territories in the world today?
Answer: 158
Question: About how many percent of Christians do not live in the Americas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: About 24% of Christians live in Europe and how many in Saharan Africa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: About 1% of the worlds Christian population lives in America and what other country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In how many countries do Christians make up a minority population?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many million Christians live as a majority?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Summers in the state are generally hot and humid, with most of the state averaging a high of around 90 °F (32 °C) during the summer months. Winters tend to be mild to cool, increasing in coolness at higher elevations. Generally, for areas outside the highest mountains, the average overnight lows are near freezing for most of the state. The highest recorded temperature is 113 °F (45 °C) at Perryville on August 9, 1930 while the lowest recorded temperature is −32 °F (−36 °C) at Mountain City on December 30, 1917.
Question: What is Tennessee's average high temperature in degree Celsius during the summer?
Answer: 32
Question: What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Tennessee?
Answer: 113 °F (45 °C)
Question: Where was the highest known temperature in Tennessee recorded?
Answer: Perryville
Question: What Fahrenheit temperature is the lowest ever recorded in Tennessee?
Answer: −32 °F
Question: Where in Tennessee did the temperature reach -36 degrees Celsius in December of 1917?
Answer: Mountain City
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Context: Shiraz, with a population of around 1.4 million (2011 census), is the sixth major city of Iran. It is the capital of Fars Province, and was also a former capital of Iran. The area was greatly influenced by the Babylonian civilization, and after the emergence of the ancient Persians, soon came to be known as Persis. Persians were present in the region since the 9th century BC, and became rulers of a large empire under the reign of the Achaemenid Dynasty in the 6th century BC. The ruins of Persepolis and Pasargadae, two of the four capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, are located around the modern-day city of Shiraz.
Question: What is the sixth most populous city of Iran?
Answer: Shiraz
Question: What is Shiraz' population by the 2011 Census?
Answer: 1.4 million
Question: Shiraz is the capital of what Province?
Answer: Fars Province
Question: What ancient civilization has majorly influenced the Fars Province?
Answer: Babylonian civilization
Question: Persians have been in the Fars Province since what century?
Answer: 9th century BC
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Context: According to Der Spiegel, credits given to European governments were disguised as "swaps" and consequently did not get registered as debt because Eurostat at the time ignored statistics involving financial derivatives. A German derivatives dealer had commented to Der Spiegel that "The Maastricht rules can be circumvented quite legally through swaps," and "In previous years, Italy used a similar trick to mask its true debt with the help of a different US bank." These conditions had enabled Greek as well as many other European governments to spend beyond their means, while meeting the deficit targets of the European Union and the monetary union guidelines. In May 2010, the Greek government deficit was again revised and estimated to be 13.6% which was the second highest in the world relative to GDP with Iceland in first place at 15.7% and Great Britain third with 12.6%. Public debt was forecast, according to some estimates, to hit 120% of GDP during 2010.
Question: What were credits given to European governments disguised as?
Answer: swaps
Question: Why weren't swaps registered as debts by Eurostat at the time?
Answer: ignored statistics involving financial derivatives
Question: What rules did a German derivatives dealer say could be quite legally circumvented through swaps?
Answer: Maastricht
Question: What was again revised in May of 2010?
Answer: Greek government deficit
Question: What was Greece's public debt forecast to hit as high of a percentage of GDP of in 2010?
Answer: 120%
Question: What were credits taken from European governments disguised as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why were swaps registered as debts by Eurostat at the time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What rules did a German derivatives dealer say could never be quite legally circumvented through swaps?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was left unchanged in May of 2010?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was Greece's public debt forecast to hit as low of a percentage of GDP of in 2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Henry VIII's wine cellar at the Palace of Whitehall, built in 1514–1516 for Cardinal Wolsey, is in the basement of Main Building, and is used for entertainment. The entire vaulted brick structure of the cellar was encased in steel and concrete and relocated nine feet to the west and nearly 19 feet (5.8 m) deeper in 1949, when construction was resumed at the site after World War II. This was carried out without any significant damage to the structure.
Question: Who had a wine cellar at the Palace of Whitehall?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: Where is Henry VIII's wine cellar?
Answer: the basement of Main Building
Question: When was the cellar in the basement of Main Building built?
Answer: 1514–1516
Question: What is the main material used to build the cellar in the basement of Main Building?
Answer: brick
Question: When was the cellar relocated?
Answer: 1949
Question: Where is Cardinal Wolsey buried?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was Henry VIII's reign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did Cardinal Wolsey build the wine cellar for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Palace of Whitehall relocated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the Palace of Whitehall built with in 1949?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Early in 1953, the French asked Eisenhower for help in French Indochina against the Communists, supplied from China, who were fighting the First Indochina War. Eisenhower sent Lt. General John W. "Iron Mike" O'Daniel to Vietnam to study and assess the French forces there. Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway dissuaded the President from intervening by presenting a comprehensive estimate of the massive military deployment that would be necessary. Eisenhower stated prophetically that "this war would absorb our troops by divisions."
Question: What war was being fought by France in 1953?
Answer: First Indochina War
Question: What was John W. O'Daniel's nickname?
Answer: Iron Mike
Question: Who convinced Eisenhower not to intervene in Vietnam?
Answer: Matthew Ridgway
Question: Who was providing supplies to the Vietnamese communists fighting against France?
Answer: China
Question: How large of a military deployment did Ridgway say would be necessary in Vietnam?
Answer: massive
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Context: The name Thuringia or Thüringen derives from the Germanic tribe Thuringii, who emerged during the Migration Period. Their origin is not completely known. An older theory claimed that they were successors of the Hermunduri, but later research rejected the idea. Other historians argue that the Thuringians were allies of the Huns, came to central Europe together with them, and lived before in what is Galicia today. Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus first mentioned the Thuringii around 400; during that period, the Thuringii were famous for their excellent horses.
Question: Where does the name Thuringia come from?
Answer: the Germanic tribe Thuringii
Question: When did Thuringii emerge?
Answer: the Migration Period
Question: Who are the theoretical allies of the Thuringians?
Answer: the Huns
Question: When were the thuringii first mentioned?
Answer: around 400
Question: What name is derived from the Russian tribe Thuringii?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Thuringii disappear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who are the theoretical enemies of the Thuringians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When were the Thuringii last mentioned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did a new theory claim that they were successors of?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: During the Baroque era, keyboard music played on the harpsichord and pipe organ became increasingly popular, and the violin family of stringed instruments took the form generally seen today. Opera as a staged musical drama began to differentiate itself from earlier musical and dramatic forms, and vocal forms like the cantata and oratorio became more common. Vocalists began adding embellishments to melodies. Instrumental ensembles began to distinguish and standardize by size, giving rise to the early orchestra for larger ensembles, with chamber music being written for smaller groups of instruments where parts are played by individual (instead of massed) instruments. The concerto as a vehicle for solo performance accompanied by an orchestra became widespread, although the relationship between soloist and orchestra was relatively simple.
Question: Keyboard music became popular during what era?
Answer: Baroque
Question: The violin family is what type of instrument?
Answer: stringed
Question: Opera began to differentiate itself from earlier forms as what?
Answer: staged musical drama
Question: What became more common during the Baroque era?
Answer: vocal forms
Question: What did vocalist add to melodies beginning in the Baroque era?
Answer: embellishments
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Context: In some jurisdictions, copyright or the right to enforce it can be contractually assigned to a third party which did not have a role in producing the work. When this outsourced litigator appears to have no intention of taking any copyright infringement cases to trial, but rather only takes them just far enough through the legal system to identify and exact settlements from suspected infringers, critics commonly refer to the party as a "copyright troll." Such practices have had mixed results in the U.S.
Question: Who can be assigned a contract to enforce a copyright in some jurisdictions?
Answer: third party
Question: What do outside lawyers take infringers to court for?
Answer: to identify and exact settlements
Question: What do critics usually call these lawyers?
Answer: copyright troll
Question: What do these lawsuits have in the U.S.?
Answer: mixed results
Question: Who can't be assigned a contract to enforce a copyright in some jurisdictions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who can be assigned a contract to enforce a copyright in all jurisdictions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do inside lawyers take infringers to court for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do critics never call these lawyers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What don't these lawsuits have in the U.S.?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Americo-Liberian settlers did not identify with the indigenous peoples they encountered, especially those in communities of the more isolated "bush." They knew nothing of their cultures, languages or animist religion. Encounters with tribal Africans in the bush often developed as violent confrontations. The colonial settlements were raided by the Kru and Grebo people from their inland chiefdoms. Because of feeling set apart and superior by their culture and education to the indigenous peoples, the Americo-Liberians developed as a small elite that held on to political power. It excluded the indigenous tribesmen from birthright citizenship in their own lands until 1904, in a repetition of the United States' treatment of Native Americans. Because of the cultural gap between the groups and assumption of superiority of western culture, the Americo-Liberians envisioned creating a western-style state to which the tribesmen should assimilate. They encouraged religious organizations to set up missions and schools to educate the indigenous peoples.
Question: The americo-liberians did not identify with who?
Answer: indigenous peoples they encountered,
Question: What were americo-liberians encounters like with tribal Africans"
Answer: violent confrontations.
Question: Who raided the colonial settlements?
Answer: the Kru and Grebo people from their inland chiefdoms.
Question: What did Americo-liberians exclude tribes from?
Answer: citizenship in their own lands
Question: Americo-Liberians set up missions and schools to do what?
Answer: to educate the indigenous peoples.
Question: Who did the Americo-Liberian settlers raid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What groups killed the Americo-Liberian children?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the indigenous peoples envision creating?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The indigenous tribesmen set up missions and schools to do what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year were indigenous tribesmen allowed to become Liberian citizens?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Domestically, Barcelona has won 23 La Liga, 27 Copa del Rey, 11 Supercopa de España, 3 Copa Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de la Liga trophies, as well as being the record holder for the latter four competitions. In international club football, Barcelona has won five UEFA Champions League titles, a record four UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, a shared record five UEFA Super Cup, a record three Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and a record three FIFA Club World Cup trophies. Barcelona was ranked first in the IFFHS Club World Ranking for 1997, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015 and currently occupies the second position on the UEFA club rankings. The club has a long-standing rivalry with Real Madrid; matches between the two teams are referred to as El Clásico.
Question: How many UEFA Championship League titles has Barcelona won?
Answer: five
Question: How many UEFA Cup Winners' Cup wins does Barcelona have?
Answer: four
Question: How many UEFA Super Cup wins does the Barcelona team have?
Answer: five
Question: How many FIFA Club World Cup trophies does football club Barcelona have?
Answer: three
Question: What club is Barcelona's long time rival?
Answer: Real Madrid
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Context: The lyrics of the modern Japanese national anthem, Kimi ga Yo, were written in the Heian period, as was The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, one of the first novels ever written. Murasaki Shikibu's contemporary and rival Sei Shōnagon's revealing observations and musings as an attendant in the Empress' court were recorded collectively as The Pillow Book in the 990s, which revealed the quotidian capital lifestyle. The Heian period produced a flowering of poetry including works of Ariwara no Narihira, Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu, Murasaki Shikibu, Saigyō and Fujiwara no Teika. The famous Japanese poem known as the Iroha (いろは), of uncertain authorship, was also written during the Heian period.
Question: What is the name of the Japanese national anthem?
Answer: Kimi ga Yo
Question: What famous poem with an unknown author was written during the Heian period?
Answer: Iroha
Question: The Pillow Book was a collection of whose observations of the imperial court?
Answer: Sei Shōnagon
Question: When were the lyrics of the ancient japanese anthem written.
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the title of the forst ever novel written by Sei Shonagon?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Fujiwara no Teika write Iroha?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In mainland China, the Japanese 3rd, 6th, and 40th Divisions massed at Yueyang and advanced southward in three columns and crossed the Xinqiang River, and tried again to cross the Miluo River to reach Changsha. In January 1942, Chinese forces got a victory at Changsha which was the first Allied success against Japan.
After the Doolittle Raid, the Japanese army conducted a massive sweep through Zhejiang and Jiangxi of China, now known as the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign, with the goal of searching out the surviving American airmen, applying retribution on the Chinese who aided them and destroying air bases. This operation started on 15 May 1942 with 40 infantry battalions and 15–16 artillery battalions but was repelled by Chinese forces in September. During this campaign, The Imperial Japanese Army left behind a trail of devastation and had also spread cholera, typhoid, plague and dysentery pathogens. Chinese estimates put the death toll at 250,000 civilians. Around 1,700 Japanese troops died out of a total 10,000 Japanese soldiers who fell ill with disease when their own biological weapons attack rebounded on their own forces.
On 2 November 1943, Isamu Yokoyama, commander of the Imperial Japanese 11th Army, deployed the 39th, 58th, 13th, 3rd, 116th and 68th divisions, a grand total of around 100,000 troops, to attack Changde of China. During the seven-week Battle of Changde, the Chinese forced Japan to fight a costly war of attrition. Although the Japanese army initially successfully captured the city, the Chinese 57th division was able to pin them down long enough for reinforcements to arrive and encircle the Japanese. The Chinese army then cut off the Japanese supply lines, forcing them into retreat, whereupon the Chinese pursued their enemy. During the battle, in an act of desperation, Japan used chemical weapons.
In the aftermath of the Japanese conquest of Burma, there was widespread disorder in eastern India, and a disastrous famine in Bengal, which ultimately caused up to 3 million deaths. In spite of these, and inadequate lines of communication, British and Indian forces attempted limited counter-attacks in Burma in early 1943. An offensive in Arakan failed, while a long distance raid mounted by the Chindits under Brigadier Orde Wingate suffered heavy losses, but was publicized to bolster Allied morale. It also provoked the Japanese to mount major offensives themselves the following year.
Question: Where were the 40th, 3rd, and 6th divisions massed at in China?
Answer: Yueyang
Question: What is the first river that the 40th, 3rd, and 6th Japanese divisions crossed while advancing southward?
Answer: Xinqiang River
Question: What is the river that the 40th, 3rd, and 6th Japanese divisions tried crossing to reach Changsha?
Answer: Miluo River
Question: How many Chinese civilians were estimated to have died during the Japanese Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign?
Answer: 250,000
Question: Who commanded the Imperial Japanese 11th Army on November, 1943?
Answer: Isamu Yokoyama
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Context: Jeffries and Ryan argue that no-aid position drew support from a coalition of separationist opinion. Most important was "the pervasive secularism that came to dominate American public life," which sought to confine religion to a private sphere. Further, the ban against government aid to religious schools was supported before 1970 by most Protestants (and most Jews), who opposed aid to religious schools, which were mostly Catholic at the time. After 1980, however, anti-Catholic sentiment has diminished among mainline Protestants, and the crucial coalition of public secularists and Protestant churches has collapsed. While mainline Protestant denominations are more inclined towards strict separation of church and state, much evangelical opinion has now largely deserted that position. As a consequence, strict separationism is opposed today by members of many Protestant faiths, even perhaps eclipsing the opposition of Roman Catholics.[citation needed]
Question: What position do Jeffries and Ryan argue was the reason for support from a coalition of separationists?
Answer: no-aid
Question: What type of secularism came to dominate American public life?
Answer: pervasive
Question: Who supported the ban against government aid to religious schools before 1970?
Answer: most Protestants (and most Jews)
Question: What diminished after 1980?
Answer: anti-Catholic sentiment
Question: What is opposed today by members of many Protestant faiths?
Answer: strict separationism
Question: What position do Jeffries and Ryan argue wasn't the reason for support from a coalition of separationists?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of secularism came to dominate Non-American public life?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who supported the unban against government aid to religious schools before 1970?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What diminished after 1981?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is opposed today by members of no Protestant faiths?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The first example is taken from the opening lines of the folk-epic Beowulf, a poem of some 3,000 lines and the single greatest work of Old English. This passage describes how Hrothgar's legendary ancestor Scyld was found as a baby, washed ashore, and adopted by a noble family. The translation is literal and represents the original poetic word order. As such, it is not typical of Old English prose. The modern cognates of original words have been used whenever practical to give a close approximation of the feel of the original poem.
Question: What is regarded as the greatest literary work in Old English?
Answer: Beowulf
Question: About how many lines was Beowulf?
Answer: 3,000
Question: Who was Hrothgar a descendant of?
Answer: Scyld
Question: Who adopted Hrothgar's ancestor?
Answer: a noble family
Question: What is the longest Old English work?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Hrothgar found as a baby?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Beowulf is typical of what prose?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: After the Marzpanate period (428–636), Armenia emerged as the Emirate of Armenia, an autonomous principality within the Arabic Empire, reuniting Armenian lands previously taken by the Byzantine Empire as well. The principality was ruled by the Prince of Armenia, and recognized by the Caliph and the Byzantine Emperor. It was part of the administrative division/emirate Arminiya created by the Arabs, which also included parts of Georgia and Caucasian Albania, and had its center in the Armenian city, Dvin. The Principality of Armenia lasted until 884, when it regained its independence from the weakened Arab Empire under King Ashot I Bagratuni.
Question: When was the Marzpanate era?
Answer: 428–636
Question: Who ruled the Emirate of Armenia?
Answer: Prince of Armenia
Question: When did the Principality of Armenia end?
Answer: 884
Question: Under which ruler did the Principality of Armenia gain its independence?
Answer: King Ashot I Bagratuni
Question: Where was the Principality of Armenia centered?
Answer: Dvin
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Context: From 2000 to 2009, the AFL had its own developmental league, the af2. The AFL played 22 seasons from 1987 to 2008; internal issues caused the league to cancel its 2009 season, though the af2 did play. Later that year both the AFL and af2 were dissolved and reorganized as a new corporation comprising teams from both leagues, and the AFL returned in 2010. The Arena Football League has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.
Question: What was the name of the AFL development league?
Answer: af2
Question: When did the AFL development league begin?
Answer: 2000
Question: When was the first AFL season played?
Answer: 1987
Question: What Arena Football League season was cancelled?
Answer: 2009
Question: In what city and state is the Arena Football League based?
Answer: Chicago, Illinois
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Context: By mid-1942, the Japanese found themselves holding a vast area from the Indian Ocean to the Central Pacific, even though they lacked the resources to defend or sustain it. Moreover, Combined Fleet doctrine was inadequate to execute the proposed "barrier" defence. Instead, Japan decided on additional attacks in both the south and central Pacific. While she had the element of surprise at Pearl Harbor, Allied codebreakers had now turned the tables. They discovered an attack was planned against Port Moresby; if it fell, Japan would control the seas to the north and west of Australia and could isolate the country. The carrier USS Lexington under Admiral Fletcher joined USS Yorktown and an American-Australian task force to stop the Japanese advance. The resulting Battle of the Coral Sea, fought in May 1942, was the first naval battle in which ships involved never sighted each other and only aircraft were used to attack opposing forces. Although Lexington was sunk and Yorktown seriously damaged, the Japanese lost the carrier Shōhō, and suffered extensive damage to Shōkaku and heavy losses to the air wing of Zuikaku, both of which missed the operation against Midway the following month. Although Allied losses were heavier than Japanese, the attack on Port Moresby was thwarted and the Japanese invasion force turned back, a strategic victory for the Allies. The Japanese were forced to abandon their attempts to isolate Australia. Moreover, Japan lacked the capacity to replace losses in ships, planes and trained pilots.
Question: What American carrier joined the USS Yorktown to stop the Japanese attack on Port Moresby in 1942?
Answer: USS Lexington
Question: What admiral was the USS Lexington under?
Answer: Admiral Fletcher
Question: When was the Battle of the Coral Sea fought?
Answer: May 1942
Question: What American carrier was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Answer: Lexington
Question: What Japanese carrier was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Answer: Shōhō
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Context: The site selected for the university was a hill known as Mount Oread, which was owned by former Kansas Governor Charles L. Robinson. Robinson and his wife Sara bestowed the 40-acre (16 ha) site to the State of Kansas in exchange for land elsewhere. The philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence donated $10,000 of the necessary endowment fund, and the citizens of Lawrence raised the remaining cash by issuing notes backed by Governor Carney. On November 2, 1863, Governor Carney announced that Lawrence had met the conditions to get the state university, and the following year the university was officially organized. The school's Board of Regents held its first meeting in March 1865, which is the event that KU dates its founding from. Work on the first college building began later that year. The university opened for classes on September 12, 1866, and the first class graduated in 1873.
Question: On what geographic feature was KU built?
Answer: Mount Oread
Question: Who did the site of KU's construction originally belong to?
Answer: Charles L. Robinson
Question: Who provided the majority of the money needed to secure the site of the University of Kansas?
Answer: Amos Adams Lawrence
Question: What was the governing body of KU?
Answer: Board of Regents
Question: What was the year in which KU's first roster of students graduated?
Answer: 1873
Question: On what geographic feature was KU torn down?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did the site of UK's construction originally belong to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who provided the minority of the money needed to secure the site of the University of Kansas?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the non-governing body of KU?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the year in which KU's final roster of students graduated?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Arguing against the absolutist position, Leibniz offers a number of thought experiments with the purpose of showing that there is contradiction in assuming the existence of facts such as absolute location and velocity. These arguments trade heavily on two principles central to his philosophy: the principle of sufficient reason and the identity of indiscernibles. The principle of sufficient reason holds that for every fact, there is a reason that is sufficient to explain what and why it is the way it is and not otherwise. The identity of indiscernibles states that if there is no way of telling two entities apart, then they are one and the same thing.
Question: What did Leibniz argue against?
Answer: the absolutist position
Question: Which principles did Leibniz's arguments trade heavily upon?
Answer: the principle of sufficient reason and the identity of indiscernibles
Question: Leibnitz held that there is a reason that is sufficient to explain what and why it is the way it is and not otherwise for every what?
Answer: fact
Question: What states that if there is no way of telling two entities apart, then they are one and the same thing?
Answer: identity of indiscernibles
Question: Who's position does Leibniz support?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two principles did Leibniz argue against?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What states that two things are not necessarily the same just because no difference can be identified?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In the city, the population was spread out with 21.9% at age 19 and under, 14.3% from 20 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30.8 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.9 males. There were 252,699 households, of which 20.4% had children under the age of 18 living in them, 25.5% were married couples living together, 16.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 54.0% were non-families. 37.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 3.08.
Question: What percentage of the City of Bostons population is 19 and under?
Answer: 21.9%
Question: What percentage of the City of Boston's population is 20 to 24?
Answer: 14.3%
Question: What percentage of the City of Bostons population is 25 to 44?
Answer: 33.2%
Question: What percentage of the City of Bostons residents are 45 to 64?
Answer: 20.4%
Question: What percentage of the City of Boston's residents are over 65?
Answer: 10.1%
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Context: The ordinary half-wave dipole is probably the most widely used antenna design. This consists of two 1⁄4-wavelength elements arranged end-to-end, and lying along essentially the same axis (or collinear), each feeding one side of a two-conductor transmission wire. The physical arrangement of the two elements places them 180 degrees out of phase, which means that at any given instant one of the elements is driving current into the transmission line while the other is pulling it out. The monopole antenna is essentially one half of the half-wave dipole, a single 1⁄4-wavelength element with the other side connected to ground or an equivalent ground plane (or counterpoise). Monopoles, which are one-half the size of a dipole, are common for long-wavelength radio signals where a dipole would be impractically large. Another common design is the folded dipole, which is essentially two dipoles placed side-by-side and connected at their ends to make a single one-wavelength antenna.
Question: What is the most popular antenna type?
Answer: half-wave dipole
Question: Elements in a half wave dipole and on an identical axis are said to be what?
Answer: collinear
Question: What is the current usually beng put into it or pulled out of?
Answer: transmission line
Question: What antenna type is a portion of the half wave dipole?
Answer: Monopoles
Question: What popular type combines more that one antenna?
Answer: folded dipole
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Context: As Universal's main product had always been low-budget film, it was one of the last major studios to have a contract with Technicolor. The studio did not make use of the three-strip Technicolor process until Arabian Nights (1942), starring Jon Hall and Maria Montez. The following year, Technicolor was also used in Universal's remake of their 1925 horror melodrama, Phantom of the Opera with Claude Rains and Nelson Eddy. With the success of their first two pictures, a regular schedule of high-budget, Technicolor films followed.
Question: What was the first Universal film to use the three-strip Technicolor process?
Answer: Arabian Nights
Question: What actress starred in Arabian Nights?
Answer: Maria Montez
Question: Along with Nelson Eddy, who starred in the Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: Claude Rains
Question: When was Universal's first version of the Phantom of the Opera made?
Answer: 1925
Question: In what year was Arabian Nights produced?
Answer: 1942
Question: Who was Universal first to have a contract with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What 1925 film was the first that made use of the three-strip Technicolor process?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What remake used technicolor in 1942?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who starred in the 1942 version of Phantom of the Opera?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: In the aftermath of the First World War, Greece attempted further expansion into Asia Minor, a region with a large native Greek population at the time, but was defeated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, contributing to a massive flight of Asia Minor Greeks. These events overlapped, with both happening during the Greek genocide (1914-1922), a period during which, according to various sources, Ottoman and Turkish officials contributed to the death of several hundred thousand Asia Minor Greeks. The resultant Greek exodus from Asia Minor was made permanent, and expanded, in an official Population exchange between Greece and Turkey. The exchange was part of the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne which ended the war.
Question: What years did the Greco-Turkish war take place?
Answer: 1919–1922
Question: After World War I, Greece wanted to expand into what area?
Answer: Asia Minor
Question: An exchange of people between Greece and Turkey took place under what agreement?
Answer: Treaty of Lausanne
Question: In what time period did the genocide of Greeks take place?
Answer: 1914-1922
Question: Who caused the deaths of thousands of Greeks?
Answer: Ottoman and Turkish officials
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Context: Since annelids are soft-bodied, their fossils are rare. Polychaetes' fossil record consists mainly of the jaws that some species had and the mineralized tubes that some secreted. Some Ediacaran fossils such as Dickinsonia in some ways resemble polychaetes, but the similarities are too vague for these fossils to be classified with confidence. The small shelly fossil Cloudina, from 549 to 542 million years ago, has been classified by some authors as an annelid, but by others as a cnidarian (i.e. in the phylum to which jellyfish and sea anemones belong). Until 2008 the earliest fossils widely accepted as annelids were the polychaetes Canadia and Burgessochaeta, both from Canada's Burgess Shale, formed about 505 million years ago in the early Cambrian. Myoscolex, found in Australia and a little older than the Burgess Shale, was possibly an annelid. However, it lacks some typical annelid features and has features which are not usually found in annelids and some of which are associated with other phyla. Then Simon Conway Morris and John Peel reported Phragmochaeta from Sirius Passet, about 518 million years old, and concluded that it was the oldest annelid known to date. There has been vigorous debate about whether the Burgess Shale fossil Wiwaxia was a mollusc or an annelid. Polychaetes diversified in the early Ordovician, about 488 to 474 million years ago. It is not until the early Ordovician that the first annelid jaws are found, thus the crown-group cannot have appeared before this date and probably appeared somewhat later. By the end of the Carboniferous, about 299 million years ago, fossils of most of the modern mobile polychaete groups had appeared. Many fossil tubes look like those made by modern sessile polychaetes , but the first tubes clearly produced by polychaetes date from the Jurassic, less than 199 million years ago.
Question: When did Cloudina exist?
Answer: 549 to 542 million years ago
Question: What do some people think Cloudina should be called instead of an annelid?
Answer: cnidarian
Question: How old were the fossils of Canadia and Burgessochaeta found in Canada?
Answer: 505 million years
Question: What era was underway 505 million years ago?
Answer: early Cambrian
Question: Where was Myoscolex found?
Answer: Australia
Question: When did Cloudina disappear?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do all people think Cloudina should be called instead of an annelid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How old were the fossils of Canadia and Burgessochaeta found in Australia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Myoscolex unknown?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Adjacent to the palace is the Royal Mews, also designed by Nash, where the royal carriages, including the Gold State Coach, are housed. This rococo gilt coach, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1760, has painted panels by G. B. Cipriani. It was first used for the State Opening of Parliament by George III in 1762 and has been used by the monarch for every coronation since George IV. It was last used for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Also housed in the mews are the coach horses used at royal ceremonial processions.
Question: Where is the Gold State Coach housed?
Answer: the Royal Mews
Question: When was the Gold State Coach first used?
Answer: 1762
Question: The Royal Mews houses which type of animal?
Answer: horses
Question: Who designed the Royal Mews?
Answer: Nash
Question: Where is the Gold State Coach kept?
Answer: the Royal Mews
Question: Who designed the Gold State Coach?
Answer: Sir William Chambers
Question: In what year was the Gold State Coach first used?
Answer: 1762
Question: What animals are kept in the mews?
Answer: horses
Question: Who destroyed the Royal Mews?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the Silver State Coach housed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who knows nothing about the Gold State Coach?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the Gold State Coach last used?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What animals are forbidden in the mews?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The early Qing emperors adopted the bureaucratic structures and institutions from the preceding Ming dynasty but split rule between Han Chinese and Manchus, with some positions also given to Mongols. Like previous dynasties, the Qing recruited officials via the imperial examination system, until the system was abolished in 1905. The Qing divided the positions into civil and military positions, each having nine grades or ranks, each subdivided into a and b categories. Civil appointments ranged from attendant to the emperor or a Grand Secretary in the Forbidden City (highest) to being a prefectural tax collector, deputy jail warden, deputy police commissioner or tax examiner. Military appointments ranged from being a field marshal or chamberlain of the imperial bodyguard to a third class sergeant, corporal or a first or second class private.
Question: Who split the leadership roles in the Qing dynasty?
Answer: Han Chinese and Manchus
Question: Where did the Qing find their officials?
Answer: imperial examination system
Question: How many ranks were there in civil service in the Qing dynasty?
Answer: nine
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Context: Meanwhile, he had written to Abu Ya'far, the prefect of the dynamic city of Isfahan, offering his services. The new emir of Hamadan, hearing of this correspondence and discovering where Ibn Sina was hiding, incarcerated him in a fortress. War meanwhile continued between the rulers of Isfahan and Hamadãn; in 1024 the former captured Hamadan and its towns, expelling the Tajik mercenaries. When the storm had passed, Ibn Sina returned with the emir to Hamadan, and carried on his literary labors. Later, however, accompanied by his brother, a favorite pupil, and two slaves, Ibn Sina escaped from the city in the dress of a Sufi ascetic. After a perilous journey, they reached Isfahan, receiving an honorable welcome from the prince.
Question: Where did Ibn Sina hope to flee to after Hamadan?
Answer: city of Isfahan
Question: What two cities were at war during this time?
Answer: Isfahan and Hamadãn
Question: What year did Isfahan gain victory over Hamadan?
Answer: 1024
Question: What mercenaries were expelled after Isfahan's victory over Hamadan?
Answer: the Tajik
Question: How did Ibn Sina escape from Hamadan?
Answer: in the dress of a Sufi ascetic
Question: What prefect wrote to Ibn Sani offering him a position?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Abu Ya'far do when he found out where Ibn Sani was hiding?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was captured in the 10th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was given an honorable welcome in Hamadan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mercenaries captured Hamadan in the 10th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Ibn Sina hope to flee from after Hamadan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two cities were at peace during this time?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did Isfahan lose to Hamadan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mercenaries were accepted after Isfahan's victory over Hamadan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Ibn Sina escape from Ramadan?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The United States shares land borders with Canada (to the north) and Mexico (to the south), and a territorial water border with Russia in the northwest, and two territorial water borders in the southeast between Florida and Cuba, and Florida and the Bahamas. The contiguous forty-eight states are otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Alaska borders the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Strait to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north, while Hawaii lies far to the southwest of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean.
Question: Who does the US share land borders with?
Answer: Canada (to the north) and Mexico (to the south),
Question: Who does the US share water borders with in the northwest?
Answer: Russia
Question: How many contiguous states are there?
Answer: forty-eight
Question: Which ocean does Alaska border to the south?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Question: United States shares land borders with Russia Canada and what other country?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The contiguous forty-eight states are bound by the Pacific on the east and what ocean on the West?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What state borders the bearing straight on the east?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Hawaii lays far to the north east in what ocean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the southwest of what country?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Some manufacturers have started using a new, significantly more environmentally friendly alternative to expanded plastic packaging. Made out of paper, and known commercially as paperfoam, the new packaging has very similar mechanical properties to some expanded plastic packaging, but is biodegradable and can also be recycled with ordinary paper.
Question: What product used in the sale ofpaper is newly used by manufacturers in an effort to be more environmentally friendly?
Answer: paperfoam
Question: What is the main benefit of using paperfoam over traditional shrink-wrap?
Answer: biodegradable
Question: What is paperfoam primarily made of?
Answer: paper
Question: How is paperfoam commonly disposed of?
Answer: recycled
Question: What is made out of plastic and is being used instead of expanded plastic packaging?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: To what does the new packaging have very different mechanical properties?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With what can paperfoam not be recycled?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How can some manufacturers be disposed of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is ordinary paper made out of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What product used in the sale of paper is newly used by manufacturers in an effort to be less environmentally friendly?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the least benefit of using paperfoam over traditional shrink-wrap?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is paperfoam uncommonly made of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is paperfoam uncommonly disposed of?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Typical second wave corruption metrics do not offer the worldwide coverage found in first wave projects, and instead focus on localizing information gathered to specific problems and creating deep, "unpackable"[clarification needed] content that matches quantitative and qualitative data.
Question: The second wave of metrics focuses on what level of corruption?
Answer: local
Question: Unlike the first wave, the second wave does not offer what type of coverage?
Answer: worldwide
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Context: New Haven has a variety of museums, many of them associated with Yale. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library features an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible. There is also the Connecticut Children's Museum; the Knights of Columbus museum near that organization's world headquarters; the Peabody Museum of Natural History; the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments; the Eli Whitney Museum (across the town line in Hamden, Connecticut, on Whitney Avenue); the Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest collection of British art outside the U.K., and the Yale University Art Gallery, the nation's oldest college art museum.[citation needed] New Haven is also home to the New Haven Museum and Historical Society on Whitney Avenue, which has a library of many primary source treasures dating from Colonial times to the present.
Question: At what New Haven museum is an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible housed?
Answer: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Question: What New Haven landmark serves as the nation's oldest college art museum?
Answer: Yale University Art Gallery
Question: What New Haven museum offers the largest collection of British art available outside of the UK?
Answer: Yale Center for British Art
Question: What museum is located in Hamden on Whitney Street and dedicated to a notable New Haven inventor?
Answer: Eli Whitney Museum
Question: With what major university are the majority of museums in New Haven associated?
Answer: Yale
Question: Which museum feature the original copy of the Gutenberg Bible?
Answer: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Question: Yale claim to have the oldest college art museum in the United States, what is the name of the place?
Answer: Yale University Art Gallery
Question: There is a museum on Whitney Avenue that contain a variety of historical treasure, what is its' name?
Answer: New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Question: What is the name of the museum that specifically focus on a single inventor located the city?
Answer: the Eli Whitney Museum
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Context: Zhejiang (help·info), formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu province and Shanghai municipality to the north, Anhui province to the northwest, Jiangxi province to the west, and Fujian province to the south; to the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lie the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
Question: What was Zhejiang formerly romanized as?
Answer: Chekiang
Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the northwest?
Answer: Anhui
Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the west?
Answer: Jiangxi
Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the south?
Answer: Fujian
Question: Which body of water is to the east of Zhejiang?
Answer: East China Sea
Question: What was Zhejiang never romanized as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the southwest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the southeast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the northeast?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which body of water is to the west of Zhejiang?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Treaty of Versailles prevented Germany having AA weapons, and for example, the Krupps designers joined Bofors in Sweden. Some World War I guns were retained and some covert AA training started in the late 1920s. Germany introduced the 8.8 cm FlaK 18 in 1933, 36 and 37 models followed with various improvements but ballistic performance was unchanged. In the late 1930s the 10.5 cm FlaK 38 appeared soon followed by the 39, this was designed primarily for static sites but had a mobile mounting and the unit had 220v 24 kW generators. In 1938 design started on the 12.8 cm FlaK.
Question: What treaty was supposed to stop Germany from having antiaircraft weapons?
Answer: Treaty of Versailles
Question: When did covert antiaircraft training start in Germany?
Answer: in the late 1920s
Question: When did the 10.5 centimeter FlaK 38 appear in Germany?
Answer: In the late 1930s
Question: When did the design begin for the 12.8 centimeter FlaK?
Answer: 1938
Question: What did the FlaK 39 have?
Answer: 220v 24 kW generators
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Context: Vinyl pressings were made with stampers from master cuts that were electroplated in vacuo by means of gold sputtering. Audio response was claimed out to 8,000 Hz, later 13,000 Hz, using light weight pickups employing jeweled styli. Amplifiers and cutters both using negative feedback were employed thereby improving the range of frequencies cut and lowering distortion levels. Radio transcription producers such as World Broadcasting System and Associated Music Publishers (AMP) were the dominant licensees of the Western Electric wide range system and towards the end of the 1930s were responsible for two-thirds of the total radio transcription business. These recordings use a bass turnover of 300 Hz and a 10,000 Hz rolloff of −8.5 dB.
Question: What were used to make vinyl pressings?
Answer: master cuts
Question: What were the top licensees of the Western Electric system in the 1930s?
Answer: World Broadcasting System and Associated Music Publishers
Question: Who was responsible for 2/3 of all recordings in the 1930s?
Answer: World Broadcasting System and Associated Music Publishers
Question: How was gold spluttering used in vinyl creation?
Answer: cuts that were electroplated in vacuo by means of gold sputtering
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Context: Estonia has pursued the development of the e-state and e-government. Internet voting is used in elections in Estonia. The first internet voting took place in the 2005 local elections and the first in a parliamentary election was made available for the 2007 elections, in which 30,275 individuals voted over the internet. Voters have a chance to invalidate their electronic vote in traditional elections, if they wish to. In 2009 in its eighth Worldwide Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders ranked Estonia sixth out of 175 countries. In the first ever State of World Liberty Index report, Estonia was ranked first out of 159 countries.
Question: What digital technology as Estonia been advacning?
Answer: Internet voting
Question: What year did the first internet vote occur in local Estonia elections?
Answer: 2005
Question: What year did the first internet vote occur in Estonia parliamentary elections?
Answer: 2007
Question: In 2007, how many Estonians used internet voting?
Answer: 30,275
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Context: Rajasthan is known for its traditional, colorful art. The block prints, tie and dye prints, Bagaru prints, Sanganer prints, and Zari embroidery are major export products from Rajasthan. Handicraft items like wooden furniture and crafts, carpets, and blue pottery are commonly found here. Shopping reflects the colorful culture, Rajasthani clothes have a lot of mirror work and embroidery. A Rajasthani traditional dress for females comprises an ankle-length skirt and a short top, also known as a lehenga or a chaniya choli. A piece of cloth is used to cover the head, both for protection from heat and maintenance of modesty. Rajasthani dresses are usually designed in bright colors like blue, yellow and orange.
Question: Bagaru and Sanganer represent what type of art?
Answer: prints
Question: Zari is a type of what art that is a major Rajasthani export?
Answer: embroidery
Question: Females in Rajasthan wear what type of traditional clothing?
Answer: ankle-length skirt and a short top
Question: What are the names for a traditional female short-top piece of clothing?
Answer: lehenga or a chaniya choli
Question: What colors are dresses in Rajasthan typically made using?
Answer: bright colors like blue, yellow and orange
Question: What are some things exported from Zari?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Zari known for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of items are usually found in Baragu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of embellishment do Zari clothes have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What colors are traditional Zari dresses made of?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Maslow’s ‘‘Third Force Psychology Theory’’ even allows literary analysts to critically understand how characters reflect the culture and the history in which they are contextualized. It also allows analysts to understand the author’s intended message and to understand the author’s psychology. The theory suggests that human beings possess a nature within them that demonstrates their true “self” and it suggests that the fulfillment of this nature is the reason for living. It also suggests that neurological development hinders actualizing the nature because a person becomes estranged from his or her true self. Therefore, literary devices reflect a characters’s and an author’s natural self. In his ‘‘Third Force Psychology and the Study of Literature’’, Paris argues “D.H Lawrence’s “pristine unconscious” is a metaphor for the real self”. Thus Literature is a reputable tool that allows readers to develop and apply critical reasoning to the nature of emotions.
Question: Who conceived of "The Third Force Psychology Theory?"
Answer: Maslow
Question: The theory states that at the center of humans beings is what?
Answer: a nature within them that demonstrates their true “self”
Question: The theory suggests that the quest for this nature represents what?
Answer: the reason for living
Question: What causes a person to become separated from their "true self"?
Answer: neurological development
Question: What author espoused the theory of the "pristine unconscious?"
Answer: D.H Lawrence
Question: Who came up with the "Fourth Force Psychology Theory?'
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the Law suggest about human beings?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who says that D.H. Lawrence's "pristine unconscious" is a metaphor for the fake self?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: It is said that literature is not a reputable tool to allow readers to do what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who is responsible for "Fourth Force Psychology and the Study of Literature?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote "Third Force Theory?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who wrote "Third Force Psychology Theory and the Study of Literature?"
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does literature as a critical tool allow readers to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the theory suggest characters possess?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Lateral-cut disc records were developed in the United States by Emile Berliner, who named his system the "gramophone", distinguishing it from Edison's wax cylinder "phonograph" and Columbia's wax cylinder "graphophone". Berliner's earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 5 inches (13 cm) in diameter, and were played with a small hand-propelled machine. Both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality. In the United States in 1894, under the Berliner Gramophone trademark, Berliner started marketing records with somewhat more substantial entertainment value, along with somewhat more substantial gramophones to play them. Berliner's records had poor sound quality compared to wax cylinders, but his manufacturing associate Eldridge R. Johnson eventually improved the sound quality. Abandoning Berliner's "Gramophone" trademark for legal reasons, in 1901 Johnson's and Berliner's separate companies reorganized to form the Victor Talking Machine Company, whose products would come to dominate the market for many years. Emile Berliner moved his company to Montreal in 1900. The factory which became RCA Victor stills exists. There is a dedicated museum in Montreal for Berliner.
Question: What is the name of lateral cut disc records?
Answer: gramophone
Question: What was an issue found with Berliner's records initially?
Answer: poor sound quality
Question: Where were lateral cut disc records developed?
Answer: United States
Question: What is 'Victor Talking Machine now known as?
Answer: RCA Victor
Question: Where is the museum dedicated to Berliner located?
Answer: Montreal
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Context: Schwarzenegger ran for re-election against Democrat Phil Angelides, the California State Treasurer, in the 2006 elections, held on November 7, 2006. Despite a poor year nationally for the Republican party, Schwarzenegger won re-election with 56.0% of the vote compared with 38.9% for Angelides, a margin of well over one million votes. In recent years, many commentators have seen Schwarzenegger as moving away from the right and towards the center of the political spectrum. After hearing a speech by Schwarzenegger at the 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said that, "[H]e's becoming a Democrat [… H]e's running back, not even to the center. I would say center-left".
Question: In the 2006 gubernatorial election, who did Schwarzenegger run against?
Answer: Phil Angelides
Question: Which city was Gavin Newsom mayor of when he said Schwarzenegger was turning Democrat?
Answer: San Francisco
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Context: When the Dzungar Mongols attempted to spread their territory from what is now Xinjiang into Tibet, the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661–1722) responded to Tibetan pleas for aid with his own expedition to Tibet, occupying Lhasa in 1720. By 1751, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796), a protectorate and permanent Qing dynasty garrison was established in Tibet. As of 1751, Albert Kolb writes that "Chinese claims to suzerainty over Tibet date from this time."
Question: Who tried to spread their territory into Tibet?
Answer: the Dzungar Mongols
Question: Who helped the Tibetan?
Answer: the Kangxi Emperor
Question: When did the Kangxi Emperor occupy Lhasa?
Answer: 1720
Question: When was The Qing dynasty garrison established in Tibet?
Answer: 1751
Question: When did the Qianlong Emperor reign?
Answer: 1735–1796
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Context: In 1173 John's elder brothers, backed by Eleanor, rose in revolt against Henry in the short-lived rebellion of 1173 to 1174. Growing irritated with his subordinate position to Henry II and increasingly worried that John might be given additional lands and castles at his expense, Henry the Young King travelled to Paris and allied himself with Louis VII. Eleanor, irritated by her husband's persistent interference in Aquitaine, encouraged Richard and Geoffrey to join their brother Henry in Paris. Henry II triumphed over the coalition of his sons, but was generous to them in the peace settlement agreed at Montlouis. Henry the Young King was allowed to travel widely in Europe with his own household of knights, Richard was given Aquitaine back, and Geoffrey was allowed to return to Brittany; only Eleanor was imprisoned for her role in the revolt.
Question: Who backed John's elder brothers?
Answer: Eleanor
Question: Where did Henry travel to?
Answer: Paris
Question: Who returned to Brittany?
Answer: Geoffrey
Question: Who was imprisoned?
Answer: Eleanor
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Context: The Somerset Levels (or Somerset Levels and Moors as they are less commonly but more correctly known) are a sparsely populated wetland area of central Somerset, between the Quantock and Mendip hills. They consist of marine clay levels along the coast, and the inland (often peat based) moors. The Levels are divided into two by the Polden Hills; land to the south is drained by the River Parrett while land to the north is drained by the River Axe and the River Brue. The total area of the Levels amounts to about 647.5 square kilometres (160,000 acres) and broadly corresponds to the administrative district of Sedgemoor but also includes the south west of Mendip district. Approximately 70% of the area is grassland and 30% is arable. Stretching about 32 kilometres (20 mi) inland, this expanse of flat land barely rises above sea level. Before it was drained, much of the land was under a shallow brackish sea in winter and was marsh land in summer. Drainage began with the Romans, and was restarted at various times: by the Anglo-Saxons; in the Middle Ages by the Glastonbury Abbey, from 1400–1770; and during the Second World War, with the construction of the Huntspill River. Pumping and management of water levels still continues.
Question: What are the Somerset levels
Answer: are a sparsely populated wetland area of central Somerset, between the Quantock and Mendip hills
Question: what do the Somerset levels consist of
Answer: marine clay levels along the coast, and the inland (often peat based) moors
Question: what are the 2 sections of the somerset levels
Answer: the Polden Hills; land to the south is drained by the River Parrett while land to the north is drained by the River Axe and the River Brue
Question: What is the total area of the levels
Answer: The total area of the Levels amounts to about 647.5 square kilometres (160,000 acres)
Question: who started drainage of the Somerset levels
Answer: the Romans, and was restarted at various times: by the Anglo-Saxons
Question: How many people live in the sparsely populated Somerset Levels?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the total area of the Polden Hills?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long are the Polden Hills?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What lies east of the Somerset Levels?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long is the River Brue?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud Daulah, the de facto ruler of the Bengal province, opposed British attempts to use these permits. This led to the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757, in which the Bengal Army of the East India Company, led by Robert Clive, defeated the French-supported Nawab's forces. This was the first real political foothold with territorial implications that the British acquired in India. Clive was appointed by the company as its first 'Governor of Bengal' in 1757. This was combined with British victories over the French at Madras, Wandiwash and Pondichéry that, along with wider British successes during the Seven Years' War, reduced French influence in India. The British East India Company extended its control over the whole of Bengal. After the Battle of Buxar in 1764, the company acquired the rights of administration in Bengal from de jure Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II; this marked the beginning of its formal rule, which within the next century engulfed most of India. The East India Company monopolized the trade of Bengal. They introduced a land taxation system called the Permanent Settlement which introduced a feudal-like structure in Bengal, often with zamindars set in place.
Question: What ruler opposed the British use of permits and ended up at war?
Answer: Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud Daulah
Question: What British company was heavily involved in the defeat of the Nawab's forces?
Answer: East India Company
Question: Who did the East India Company appoint as Governor of Bengal?
Answer: Robert Clive
Question: What type of land taxation system did the East India Company instigate in Bengal?
Answer: feudal
Question: How did the East India Company handle trade in Bengal?
Answer: monopolized
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Context: Orontid Armenia formally passed to empire of Alexander the Great following his conquest of Persia. Alexander appointed an Orontid named Mithranes to govern Armenia. Armenia later became a vassal state of the Seleucid Empire, but it maintained a considerable degree of autonomy, retaining its native rulers. Towards the end 212 BC the country was divided into two kingdoms, Greater Armenia and Armenia Sophene including Commagene or Armenia Minor. The kingdoms became so independent from Seleucid control that Antiochus III the Great waged war on them during his reign and replaced their rulers.
Question: Orontid Armenia was given to Alexander the Great after he took control of what area?
Answer: Persia
Question: Who did Alexander apoint to govern Armenia?
Answer: Mithranes
Question: Armenia became a vassal state of what Empire?
Answer: Seleucid
Question: What year did Armenia split into Greater Armenia and Armenia Sophene?
Answer: 212 BC
Question: Who attacked Armenia when they became too distant from Seleucid rule?
Answer: Antiochus III the Great
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Context: In 2008 the Government of Canada made efforts, through the Canada First Defence Strategy, to modernize the Canadian Armed Forces, through the purchase of new equipment, improved training and readiness, as well as the establishment of the Canadian Special Operations Regiment. More funds were also put towards recruitment, which had been dwindling throughout the 1980s and '90s, possibly because the Canadian populace had come to perceive the CAF as peacekeepers rather than as soldiers, as shown in a 2008 survey conducted for the Department of National Defence. The poll found that nearly two thirds of Canadians agreed with the country's participation in the invasion of Afghanistan, and that the military should be stronger, but also that the purpose of the forces should be different, such as more focused on responding to natural disasters. Then CDS, Walter Natynczyk, said later that year that while recruiting has become more successful, the CF was facing a problem with its rate of loss of existing members, which increased between 2006 and 2008 from 6% to 9.2% annually.
Question: What was the effort called to upgrade the Canadian Forces?
Answer: the Canada First Defence Strategy
Question: How were the Canadian Forces upgraded in 2008?
Answer: through the purchase of new equipment, improved training and readiness
Question: What major problem is the CAF trying to address currently?
Answer: loss of existing members
Question: What was the effort called to downgrade the Canadian Forces?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How were the Canadian Forces upgraded in 2018?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What major problem is the CAF not trying to address currently?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register and became The Times on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, itself wholly owned by the News Corp group headed by Rupert Murdoch. The Times and The Sunday Times do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1967.
Question: The Times is based in what major British city?
Answer: London
Question: What year did the initial incarnation of The Times start?
Answer: 1785
Question: What was the original name of The Times before changing its name?
Answer: The Daily Universal Register
Question: The Times, owned by News UK, is itself owned by what major corporation?
Answer: News Corp group
Question: The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by what company?
Answer: Times Newspapers
Question: What year did The Times change its name from The Daily Universal Register?
Answer: 1788
Question: What year did The Daily Universal Register initially start?
Answer: 1785
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Context: In 1963, the Robbins Report on universities in the United Kingdom concluded that such institutions should have four main "objectives essential to any properly balanced system: instruction in skills; the promotion of the general powers of the mind so as to produce not mere specialists but rather cultivated men and women; to maintain research in balance with teaching, since teaching should not be separated from the advancement of learning and the search for truth; and to transmit a common culture and common standards of citizenship."
Question: In what year did the Robbins report say that universities should have four objectives to remain balanced?
Answer: 1963
Question: What nation did the 1963 Robbins Report focus on?
Answer: the United Kingdom
Question: What should a university promote, according to the Robbins Report?
Answer: general powers of the mind
Question: Universities should maintain what, according to the Robbins Report?
Answer: research in balance with teaching
Question: The Robbins Report says universities should transmit what?
Answer: a common culture and common standards of citizenship
Question: In what year did the Robbins report say that men and women should have four objectives to remain balanced?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nation focused on teaching?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What should men and women promote, according to the Robbins Report?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Men and women should maintain what, according to the Robbins Report?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The Robbins report says men and women should transmit what?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Dams remain the principal source of water both for domestic and agricultural use; Cyprus has a total of 107 dams (plus one currently under construction) and reservoirs, with a total water storage capacity of about 330,000,000 m3 (1.2×1010 cu ft). Water desalination plants are gradually being constructed to deal with recent years of prolonged drought. The Government has invested heavily in the creation of water desalination plants which have supplied almost 50 per cent of domestic water since 2001. Efforts have also been made to raise public awareness of the situation and to encourage domestic water users to take more responsibility for the conservation of this increasingly scarce commodity.
Question: What do the people of Cyprus rely on for domestic and agricultural supply of water?
Answer: Dams
Question: What is the total number of completed dams located on Cyprus?
Answer: 107
Question: What is the capacity of water that the dams on Cyprus can hold?
Answer: 330,000,000 m3 (1.2×1010 cu ft).
Question: What has the government invested in to help supply water for Cyprus?
Answer: desalination plants
Question: What percentage of domestic water do desalination plants provide on Cyprus?
Answer: almost 50 per cent
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Context: In a number of countries, although being today generally considered similar institutions of higher learning across many countries, polytechnics and institutes of technology used to have a quite different statute among each other, its teaching competences and organizational history. In many cases polytechnic were elite technological universities concentrating on applied science and engineering and may also be a former designation for a vocational institution, before it has been granted the exclusive right to award academic degrees and can be truly called an institute of technology. A number of polytechnics providing higher education is simply a result of a formal upgrading from their original and historical role as intermediate technical education schools. In some situations, former polytechnics or other non-university institutions have emerged solely through an administrative change of statutes, which often included a name change with the introduction of new designations like institute of technology, polytechnic university, university of applied sciences, or university of technology for marketing purposes. Such emergence of so many upgraded polytechnics, former vocational education and technical schools converted into more university-like institutions has caused concern where the lack of specialized intermediate technical professionals lead to industrial skill shortages in some fields, being also associated to an increase of the graduate unemployment rate. This is mostly the case in those countries, where the education system is not controlled by the state and everybody can grant degrees.[citation needed] Evidence have also shown a decline in the general quality of teaching and graduate's preparation for the workplace, due to the fast-paced conversion of that technical institutions to more advanced higher level institutions. Mentz, Kotze and Van der Merwe (2008) argues that all the tools are in place to promote the debate on the place of technology in higher education in general and in Universities of Technology specifically. The aspects of this debate can follow the following lines: • To what degree is technology defined as a concept? • What is the scope of technology discourse? • What is the place and relation of science with technology? • How useful is the Mitcham framework in thinking about technology in South Africa? • Can a measure of cooperation as opposed to competition be achieved amongst higher education institutions? • Who ultimately is responsible for vocational training and what is the role of technology in this?
Question: What term was used in some countries to describe select universities that focus on technological education in applied science and engineering?
Answer: polytechnics
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Context: Asthma is thought to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Environmental factors include exposure to air pollution and allergens. Other potential triggers include medications such as aspirin and beta blockers. Diagnosis is usually based on the pattern of symptoms, response to therapy over time, and spirometry. Asthma is classified according to the frequency of symptoms, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), and peak expiratory flow rate. It may also be classified as atopic or non-atopic where atopy refers to a predisposition toward developing a type 1 hypersensitivity reaction.
Question: What two factors cause asthma?
Answer: genetic and environmental factors
Question: What are two enviromental factors?
Answer: exposure to air pollution and allergens
Question: What medications can also trigger asthma?
Answer: aspirin and beta blockers
Question: What patterns are used to diagnose asthma?
Answer: the pattern of symptoms, response to therapy over time, and spirometry
Question: How is asthma classified?
Answer: according to the frequency of symptoms, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), and peak expiratory flow rate
Question: How does usng aspirin activate allergens in others?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some triggers of spirometry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do you know if you are affected by spirometry?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How do you classify spirometry in people?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What two categories can spirometry also be classified into?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On September 20, 1963, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, President Kennedy proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union join forces in their efforts to reach the Moon. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev initially rejected Kennedy's proposal.
Question: When did US President John F. Kennedy, in a speech, propose to join forces to reach the moon with the USSR?
Answer: September 20, 1963
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Context: WHO recommends a child with diarrhea continue to be fed. Continued feeding speeds the recovery of normal intestinal function. In contrast, children whose food is restricted have diarrhea of longer duration and recover intestinal function more slowly. A child should also continue to be breastfed. The WHO states "Food should never be withheld and the child's usual foods should not be diluted. Breastfeeding should always be continued." And in the specific example of cholera, CDC also makes the same recommendation. In young children who are not breast-fed and live in the developed world, a lactose-free diet may be useful to speed recovery.
Question: What does WHO recommend?
Answer: a child with diarrhea continue to be fed
Question: What does continuing to eat do for your illness?
Answer: Continued feeding speeds the recovery of normal intestinal function
Question: What happens when a childs food is restricted?
Answer: children whose food is restricted have diarrhea of longer duration and recover intestinal function more slowly
Question: What happens if a child's breastfeeding is restricted?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the CDC state about a child's diet when they have diarrhea?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What speeds up recovery of food withholding?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization recommended that a lactose-free diet should always be continued?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who made the same recommendation regarding intestinal function?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: By the mid 18th century, the movement broadened to incorporate a greater range of Classical influences, including those from Ancient Greece. The shift to neoclassical architecture is conventionally dated to the 1750s. It first gained influence in England and France; in England, Sir William Hamilton's excavations at Pompeii and other sites, the influence of the Grand Tour and the work of William Chambers and Robert Adam, was pivotal in this regard. In France, the movement was propelled by a generation of French art students trained in Rome, and was influenced by the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The style was also adopted by progressive circles in other countries such as Sweden and Russia.
Question: What additional influences were incorporated into neoclassical architecture by mid 18th century?
Answer: Ancient Greece
Question: What englishman excavated pompeii?
Answer: Sir William Hamilton
Question: In what city did a generation of French art students study that propelled neoclassical architecture and incorporation broader styles?
Answer: Rome
Question: What other countries adopted the style of neoclassical?
Answer: Sweden and Russia.
Question: What did movement incorporate by the mid-1800s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the shift to classical architecture dated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What archaeological dig influence the classical period?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was influenced by Roman art students trained in France?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was neoclassical architecture adopted in conventional circles?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Some Samoans are spiritual and religious, and have subtly adapted the dominant religion of Christianity to 'fit in' with fa'a Samoa and vice versa. As such, ancient beliefs continue to co-exist side-by-side with Christianity, particularly in regard to the traditional customs and rituals of fa'a Samoa. The Samoan culture is centred around the principle of vāfealoa'i, the relationships between people. These relationships are based on respect, or fa'aaloalo. When Christianity was introduced in Samoa, most Samoan people converted. Currently 98% of the population identify themselves as Christian.
Question: What religion is practiced by the vast majority of Samoans?
Answer: Christianity
Question: What word that means human relationships is at the core of Samoa's culture?
Answer: vāfealoa'i
Question: What word is used in Samoa to mean "respect"?
Answer: fa'aaloalo
Question: What percentage of Samoans call themselves Christians?
Answer: 98%
Question: What religion is practiced by the fa'aaloalo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What word encapsulates the core beliefs of Christianity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much of the population believe in fa'a Samoa?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the practice of Christianity based on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened when fa'a Samoa was introduced?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: John's personal life greatly affected his reign. Contemporary chroniclers state that John was sinfully lustful and lacking in piety. It was common for kings and nobles of the period to keep mistresses, but chroniclers complained that John's mistresses were married noblewomen, which was considered unacceptable. John had at least five children with mistresses during his first marriage to Isabelle of Gloucester, and two of those mistresses are known to have been noblewomen. John's behaviour after his second marriage to Isabella of Angoulême is less clear, however. None of John's known illegitimate children were born after he remarried, and there is no actual documentary proof of adultery after that point, although John certainly had female friends amongst the court throughout the period. The specific accusations made against John during the baronial revolts are now generally considered to have been invented for the purposes of justifying the revolt; nonetheless, most of John's contemporaries seem to have held a poor opinion of his sexual behaviour.[nb 14]
Question: Many of John's mistresses were what?
Answer: married noblewomen
Question: How many children did John have with mistresses during his first marriage?
Answer: five
Question: How many of John's known illegitimate children were born after he remarried?
Answer: None
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Context: The arts of Southeast Asia have affinity with the arts of other areas. Dance in much of Southeast Asia includes movement of the hands as well as the feet, to express the dance's emotion and meaning of the story that the ballerina is going to tell the audience. Most of Southeast Asia introduced dance into their court; in particular, Cambodian royal ballet represented them in the early 7th century before the Khmer Empire, which was highly influenced by Indian Hinduism. Apsara Dance, famous for strong hand and feet movement, is a great example of Hindu symbolic dance.
Question: Where did the Southeast Asians introduce their dance?
Answer: into their court
Question: Which dance was famous for strong feet & hand movements?
Answer: Apsara Dance
Question: The Khmer Empire was influenced by what?
Answer: Indian Hinduism
Question: Where was dance not popular in Southeast Asia?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who had a royal ballet in the 700's?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dance is known for little hand movement?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What empire influenced ndian Hinduism?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: There is also a range of independent or public schools. Many of these are for pupils between 11 and 18 years, such as King's College, Taunton and Taunton School. King's School, Bruton, was founded in 1519 and received royal foundation status around 30 years later in the reign of Edward VI. Millfield is the largest co-educational boarding school. There are also preparatory schools for younger children, such as All Hallows, and Hazlegrove Preparatory School. Chilton Cantelo School offers places both to day pupils and boarders aged 7 to 16. Other schools provide education for children from the age of 3 or 4 years through to 18, such as King Edward's School, Bath, Queen's College, Taunton and Wells Cathedral School which is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain. Some of these schools have religious affiliations, such as Monkton Combe School, Prior Park College, Sidcot School which is associated with the Religious Society of Friends, Downside School which is a Roman Catholic public school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, situated next to the Benedictine Downside Abbey, and Kingswood School, which was founded by John Wesley in 1748 in Kingswood near Bristol, originally for the education of the sons of the itinerant ministers (clergy) of the Methodist Church.
Question: What school in Bruton was given royal foundation status
Answer: King's School, Bruton, was founded in 1519 and received royal foundation status around 30 years later
Question: What are some prepatory schools for younger students
Answer: such as All Hallows, and Hazlegrove Preparatory School
Question: What is one of the Musical schools
Answer: Wells Cathedral School which is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain
Question: What is a roman catholic school
Answer: Downside School which is a Roman Catholic public school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse
Question: In what year did Edward VI begin his reign?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was All Hallows established?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What age children are taught at Monkton Combe School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What age children are taught at Sidcot School?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Monkton Combe School founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On September 21, 1953, Thomas Watson, Jr., the company's president at the time, sent out a controversial letter to all IBM employees stating that IBM needed to hire the best people, regardless of their race, ethnic origin, or gender. He also publicized the policy so that in his negotiations to build new manufacturing plants with the governors of two states in the U.S. South, he could be clear that IBM would not build "separate-but-equal" workplaces. In 1984, IBM added sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy. The company stated that this would give IBM a competitive advantage because IBM would then be able to hire talented people its competitors would turn down.
Question: What date did Thomas Watson, Jr. send out a letter about IBM hiring the best people regardless of race, gender, or origin?
Answer: September 21, 1953
Question: IBM publicized its hiring policy to help negotiations in two states where in the U.S.?
Answer: the U.S. South
Question: What kind of workplaces did IBM commit to not building?
Answer: separate-but-equal
Question: IBM expanded their nondiscrimination policy in 1984 to include what?
Answer: sexual orientation
Question: In what year did IBM add sexual orientation to their nondiscrimination policy?
Answer: 1984
Question: What was sent out by governors in the south in 1953?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the letter sent in 1984 state to employees?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is one type of workplace that governors of two states would not build?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What would a separate but equal workplace give to IBM so it would get ahead?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who would negotiating with employees about hiring practices help IBM hire in the future?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: On 15 December 1944 landings against minimal resistance were made on the southern beaches of the island of Mindoro, a key location in the planned Lingayen Gulf operations, in support of major landings scheduled on Luzon. On 9 January 1945, on the south shore of Lingayen Gulf on the western coast of Luzon, General Krueger's Sixth Army landed his first units. Almost 175,000 men followed across the twenty-mile (32 km) beachhead within a few days. With heavy air support, Army units pushed inland, taking Clark Field, 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Manila, in the last week of January.
Question: Landings were made on the beaches of what island on December 15, 1944?
Answer: Mindoro
Question: Lingayen Gulf operations supported what landings?
Answer: Luzon
Question: Who led the Sixth Army?
Answer: General Krueger
Question: Clark field was how many miles northwest of Manila?
Answer: 40
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Context: The Houses of Parliament in London by Sir Charles Barry with interiors by a major exponent of the early Gothic Revival, Augustus Welby Pugin, is an example of the Gothic revival style from its earlier period in the second quarter of the 19th century. Examples from the High Victorian Gothic period include George Gilbert Scott's design for the Albert Memorial in London, and William Butterfield's chapel at Keble College, Oxford. From the second half of the 19th century onwards it became more common in Britain for neo-Gothic to be used in the design of non-ecclesiastical and non-governmental buildings types. Gothic details even began to appear in working-class housing schemes subsidised by philanthropy, though given the expense, less frequently than in the design of upper and middle-class housing.
Question: Who was the exterior architect of the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: Sir Charles Barry
Question: Who was the interior architect of the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: Augustus Welby Pugin
Question: What style of architecture does the Houses of Parliament exemplify?
Answer: the Gothic revival style
Question: Who designed the Albert Memorial in London?
Answer: George Gilbert Scott
Question: Who designed the chapel at Keble College, Oxford?
Answer: William Butterfield
Question: Who was the failed architect of the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the cook of the Houses of Parliament?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What style of architecture does the Houses of Parliament mock?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who designed the Albert Memorial in Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who destroyed the chapel at Keble College, Oxford?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Aside from the 20th century addition of the Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes and Paris heliport, Paris' administrative limits have remained unchanged since 1860. The Seine département had been governing Paris and its suburbs since its creation in 1790, but the rising suburban population had made it difficult to govern as a unique entity. This problem was 'resolved' when its parent "District de la région parisienne" (Paris region) was reorganised into several new departments from 1968: Paris became a department in itself, and the administration of its suburbs was divided between the three departments surrounding it. The Paris region was renamed "Île-de-France" in 1977, but the "Paris region" name is still commonly used today. Paris was reunited with its suburbs on January 1, 2016 when the Métropole du Grand Paris came into existence.
Question: What are they only two additions to Paris' administrative limits since 1860?
Answer: Bois de Boulogne, Bois de Vincennes
Question: When was the Siene department created?
Answer: 1790
Question: WHen was District de la region parisienne reorganised?
Answer: 1968
Question: What was the Paris region renamed to?
Answer: "Île-de-France"
Question: When was Paris reunited with its suburbs?
Answer: January 1, 2016
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Context: New Haven has many architectural landmarks dating from every important time period and architectural style in American history. The city has been home to a number of architects and architectural firms that have left their mark on the city including Ithiel Town and Henry Austin in the 19th century and Cesar Pelli, Warren Platner, Kevin Roche, Herbert Newman and Barry Svigals in the 20th. The Yale School of Architecture has fostered this important component of the city's economy. Cass Gilbert, of the Beaux-Arts school, designed New Haven's Union Station and the New Haven Free Public Library and was also commissioned for a City Beautiful plan in 1919. Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Alexander Jackson Davis, Philip C. Johnson, Gordon Bunshaft, Louis Kahn, James Gamble Rogers, Frank Gehry, Charles Willard Moore, Stefan Behnisch, James Polshek, Paul Rudolph, Eero Saarinen and Robert Venturi all have designed buildings in New Haven. Yale's 1950s-era Ingalls Rink, designed by Eero Saarinen, was included on the America's Favorite Architecture list created in 2007.
Question: New Haven served as home to what two notable 19th century architects?
Answer: Ithiel Town and Henry Austin
Question: What division of Yale University is credited with nurturing the architectural component of New Havens economy?
Answer: The Yale School of Architecture
Question: Who is the notable artist of the Beaux-Arts school responsible for designing both New Haven's Union Station and New Haven Public Library?
Answer: Cass Gilbert
Question: In what year did New Haven commission the City Beautiful plan?
Answer: 1919
Question: Who is responsible for designing Ingalls Rink at Yale University in New Haven?
Answer: Eero Saarinen
Question: New Haven is also known for a very notable architecture institution, it's name?
Answer: Yale School of Architecture
Question: Who was the architect that design the New Haven Free Public Library?
Answer: Cass Gilbert
Question: What was the name of the building that was feature in America's Favorite Architecture list of 2007?
Answer: Ingalls Rink
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Context: According to Paul Martin, Sr., by the end of the 1970s the Queen was worried that the Crown "had little meaning for" Pierre Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister. Tony Benn said that the Queen found Trudeau "rather disappointing". Trudeau's supposed republicanism seemed to be confirmed by his antics, such as sliding down banisters at Buckingham Palace and pirouetting behind the Queen's back in 1977, and the removal of various Canadian royal symbols during his term of office. In 1980, Canadian politicians sent to London to discuss the patriation of the Canadian constitution found the Queen "better informed ... than any of the British politicians or bureaucrats". She was particularly interested after the failure of Bill C-60, which would have affected her role as head of state. Patriation removed the role of the British parliament from the Canadian constitution, but the monarchy was retained. Trudeau said in his memoirs that the Queen favoured his attempt to reform the constitution and that he was impressed by "the grace she displayed in public" and "the wisdom she showed in private".
Question: About whom was Elizabeth worried in the 1970s?
Answer: Pierre Trudeau
Question: What was the subject under consideration in discussions in 1980?
Answer: Canadian constitution
Question: What did patriation of the Canadian Constitution remove from the constitution?
Answer: British parliament
Question: What was retained in the constitution?
Answer: monarchy
Question: What did Trudeau say Elizabeth favored?
Answer: reform
Question: In what year did Pierre Trudeau become the Canadian prime minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was one of the Canadians politicians sent to London in 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Bill C-60 fail?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Pierre Trudeau cease to be Canada's prime minister?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who was the prime minister of Britain in 1980?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: However, the 18th century saw the European empires gradually expand across the world, as European states developed economies built on maritime trade. The dynasty was confronted with newly developing concepts of the international system and state to state relations. European trading posts expanded into territorial control in nearby India and on the islands that are now Indonesia. The Qing response, successful for a time, was in 1756 to establish the Canton System, which restricted maritime trade to that city and gave monopoly trading rights to private Chinese merchants. The British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company had long before been granted similar monopoly rights by their governments.
Question: Which empires grew during the 18th century?
Answer: European states
Question: What were the economies of the European empires built on?
Answer: maritime trade
Question: What country near China did the Europeans first control?
Answer: India
Question: What was the only city the Chinese allowed the Europeans into to trade?
Answer: Canton
Question: Which two European companies traded in Canton?
Answer: British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company
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Context: The development of skyscrapers over 300 feet (91 m) in San Diego is attributed to the construction of the El Cortez Hotel in 1927, the tallest building in the city from 1927 to 1963. As time went on multiple buildings claimed the title of San Diego's tallest skyscraper, including the Union Bank of California Building and Symphony Towers. Currently the tallest building in San Diego is One America Plaza, standing 500 feet (150 m) tall, which was completed in 1991. The downtown skyline contains no super-talls, as a regulation put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration in the 1970s set a 500 feet (152 m) limit on the height of buildings due to the proximity of San Diego International Airport. An iconic description of the skyline includes its skyscrapers being compared to the tools of a toolbox.
Question: What was the first skyscraper built in San Diego that was over 300-feet tall?
Answer: El Cortez Hotel
Question: How tall is One America Plaza?
Answer: 500 feet
Question: What played a role in determining the maximum height skyscrapers can be in San Diego?
Answer: San Diego International Airport
Question: What organization regulates building heights in San Diego?
Answer: Federal Aviation Administration
Question: What bank spent time as being the tallest building in San Diego?
Answer: Union Bank of California Building
Question: What was the first skyscraper built in San Diego that was over 200-feet tall?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How tall is Two America Plaza?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What played a role in determining the maximum height skyscrapers can be in San Francisco?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What organization regulates building heights in San Francisco?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What bank spent time as being the shortest building in San Diego?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Humbert is at the center of ascetic writers in the Dominican Order. In this role, he added significantly to its spirituality. His writings are permeated with "religious good sense," and he used uncomplicated language that could edify even the weakest member. Humbert advised his readers, "[Young Dominicans] are also to be instructed not to be eager to see visions or work miracles, since these avail little to salvation, and sometimes we are fooled by them; but rather they should be eager to do good in which salvation consists. Also, they should be taught not to be sad if they do not enjoy the divine consolations they hear others have; but they should know the loving Father for some reason sometimes withholds these. Again, they should learn that if they lack the grace of compunction or devotion they should not think they are not in the state of grace as long as they have good will, which is all that God regards".
Question: What did Humbert use to teach even weak members of the Dominican Order?
Answer: uncomplicated language
Question: What did Humbert tell Dominican students to not concentrate on?
Answer: miracles
Question: According to Humbert, what is all that God regards?
Answer: good will
Question: What did Humbert instruct the students not to be?
Answer: sad
Question: Who was not at the center of ascetic writers in the Dominican Order?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not significantly add to the order's spirituality?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Hobart's writing's not permeate with?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were young Dominicans encouraged not to do?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Humbert instruct the students to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Most of the Estonian Defence Forces surrendered according to the orders of the Estonian government, believing that resistance was useless and were disarmed by the Red Army. Only the Estonian Independent Signal Battalion showed resistance to Red Army and Communist militia "People's Self-Defence" units in front of the XXI Grammar School in Tallinn on 21 June. As the Red Army brought in additional reinforcements supported by six armoured fighting vehicles, the battle lasted several hours until sundown. Finally the military resistance was ended with negotiations and the Independent Signal Battalion surrendered and was disarmed. There were two dead Estonian servicemen, Aleksei Männikus and Johannes Mandre, and several wounded on the Estonian side and about ten killed and more wounded on the Soviet side.
Question: Who commanded the defense of the Estonia to surrender?
Answer: the Estonian government
Question: Who disarmed the Estonian Defence Forces?
Answer: the Red Army
Question: What was the name of the single unit that didn't surrender?
Answer: the Estonian Independent Signal Battalion
Question: When did the Estonian Independent Signal Battalion face off against the Soviets?
Answer: 21 June
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Context: Mexico City offers a variety of cuisines. Restaurants specializing in the regional cuisines of Mexico's 31 states are available in the city. Also available are an array of international cuisines, including Canadian, French, Italian, Croatian, Spanish (including many regional variations), Jewish, Lebanese, Chinese (again with regional variations), Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese; and of course fellow Latin American cuisines such as Argentine, Brazilian, and Peruvian. Haute, fusion, kosher, vegetarian and vegan cuisines are also available, as are restaurants solely based on the concepts of local food and slow Food.
Question: How many states does Mexico have?
Answer: 31
Question: What are some international cuisines offered in Mexico City?
Answer: Canadian, French, Italian,
Question: What other specific types of food does the city offer?
Answer: kosher, vegetarian and vegan
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Context: By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy, and they followed a set of rules that later came to be known as the bushidō. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.
Question: What did samurai mean nearly the same thing as?
Answer: bushi
Question: What were samurai affiliated with?
Answer: a clan
Question: How much of Japan were samurais?
Answer: less than 10%
Question: Where do samurais' teachings live on?
Answer: everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts
Question: What class were samurais?
Answer: middle and upper echelons of the warrior class
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Context: In dominant-party systems, opposition parties are allowed, and there may be even a deeply established democratic tradition, but other parties are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. Sometimes, political, social and economic circumstances, and public opinion are the reason for others parties' failure. Sometimes, typically in countries with less of an established democratic tradition, it is possible the dominant party will remain in power by using patronage and sometimes by voting fraud. In the latter case, the definition between dominant and one-party system becomes rather blurred. Examples of dominant party systems include the People's Action Party in Singapore, the African National Congress in South Africa, the Cambodian People's Party in Cambodia, the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, and the National Liberation Front in Algeria. One-party dominant system also existed in Mexico with the Institutional Revolutionary Party until the 1990s, in the southern United States with the Democratic Party from the late 19th century until the 1970s, in Indonesia with the Golkar from the early 1970s until 1998.
Question: When are opposition parties allowed?
Answer: In dominant-party systems
Question: What are some of the reasons for a party's failure?
Answer: political, social and economic circumstances, and public opinion
Question: What are some ways a dominant party can stay in power?
Answer: patronage and sometimes by voting fraud
Question: What are some examples of dominant party systems?
Answer: African National Congress in South Africa, the Cambodian People's Party in Cambodia
Question: For how long did the dominant one-party system last in mexico?
Answer: 1990s
Question: How likely is it that there was voting fraud in the 1998 election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the reasons for the Democratic Parties failure in 1990?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were two things that the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan used in the 1970's to try and win an election?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are some parties that were guilty of using voter fraud?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long did the People's Action Party in Singapore last?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Instruction is the facilitation of another's learning. Instructors in primary and secondary institutions are often called teachers, and they direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects like reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. Instructors in post-secondary institutions might be called teachers, instructors, or professors, depending on the type of institution; and they primarily teach only their specific discipline. Studies from the United States suggest that the quality of teachers is the single most important factor affecting student performance, and that countries which score highly on international tests have multiple policies in place to ensure that the teachers they employ are as effective as possible. With the passing of NCLB in the United States (No Child Left Behind), teachers must be highly qualified. A popular way to gauge teaching performance is to use student evaluations of teachers (SETS), but these evaluations have been criticized for being counterproductive to learning and inaccurate due to student bias.
Question: What is another term used for instructors?
Answer: teachers
Question: What are the main subjects that are covered by the instructor?
Answer: reading, writing, mathematics, science and history
Question: In the United States what is considered the single most important factor in a child's education?
Answer: quality of teachers
Question: What is the opposite term used for instructors?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are not main subjects covered by teachers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: what is considered the least important factor in a child's education?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is an unpopular way to gauge teaching performance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Teachers don't have to be qualified because of what movement in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Beyond combat flight crew personnel, perhaps the most dangerous USAF jobs are Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Combat rescue officer, Pararescue, Security Forces, Combat Control, Combat Weather, Tactical Air Control Party, and AFOSI agents, who deploy with infantry and special operations units who disarm bombs, rescue downed or isolated personnel, call in air strikes and set up landing zones in forward locations. Most of these are enlisted positions augmented by a smaller number of commissioned officers. Other career fields that have seen increasing exposure to combat include civil engineers, vehicle operators, and Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) personnel.
Question: What is one of the most dangerous jobs for USAF personnel?
Answer: Tactical Air Control Party
Question: What does the abbreviation EOD stand for in the USAF?
Answer: Explosive Ordnance Disposal
Question: What do some of these special missions in the USAF who deploy with the infantry do?
Answer: rescue downed or isolated personnel
Question: What are these enlisted positions in the USAF complimented by?
Answer: commissioned officers
Question: What other career fields have seen an increase in active combat missions?
Answer: Air Force Office of Special Investigations
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Context: Before the reign of Henry VIII, the sovereign always granted his or her assent in person. The sovereign, wearing the Imperial State Crown, would be seated on the throne in the Lords chamber, surrounded by heralds and members of the royal court—a scene that nowadays is repeated only at the annual State Opening of Parliament. The Commons, led by their speaker, would listen from the Bar of the Lords, just outside the chamber. The Clerk of the Parliaments presented the bills awaiting assent to the monarch, save that supply bills were traditionally brought up by the speaker. The Clerk of the Crown, standing on the sovereign's right, then read aloud the titles of the bills (in earlier times, the entire text of the bills). The Clerk of the Parliaments, standing on the sovereign's left, responded by stating the appropriate Norman French formula.
Question: When assention was formally granted in person, who read the titles of the bills?
Answer: The Clerk of the Crown
Question: What job did the Clerk of the Parliaments have during assention notifications?
Answer: stating the appropriate Norman French formula
Question: Before whose reign was assent always granted in person?
Answer: Henry VIII
Question: Nowadays, when is the only time a formal assention ceremony occurs?
Answer: the annual State Opening of Parliament
Question: On which side of the soverign does the Clerk of the Crown stand?
Answer: right
Question: Before the reign of Henry I, the sovereign granted assent how?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who would wear the Imperial State Tiara?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who would sit on the throne in the Queens chamber?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who would stand in front of the sovereign and read the titles of the bills?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The most famous reformer of Estonian, Johannes Aavik (1880–1973), used creations ex nihilo (cf. ‘free constructions’, Tauli 1977), along with other sources of lexical enrichment such as derivations, compositions and loanwords (often from Finnish; cf. Saareste and Raun 1965: 76). In Aavik’s dictionary (1921), which lists approximately 4000 words, there are many words which were (allegedly) created ex nihilo, many of which are in common use today. Examples are
Question: Of all of Estonian's language reformers who is the most well known?
Answer: Johannes Aavik
Question: What was the period of time in which Johannes Aavik was alive?
Answer: 1880–1973
Question: What is the technique Aavic used to create Estonian words out of nothing?
Answer: creations ex nihilo
Question: In what publication can examples of ex nihilo words be found?
Answer: Aavik’s dictionary
Question: How many words did Aavik put in his dictionary?
Answer: approximately 4000
Question: Of all of Estonian's language reformers who is the least well known?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the period of time in which Johannes Aavik lived in Germany?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the technique Aavic used to create Estonian words out of old words?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what publication were examples of ex nihilo words eliminated?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What dictionary has under 3000 words?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Beginning as a self-help program in the mid-1960s, the Cotton Research and Promotion Program (CRPP) was organized by U.S. cotton producers in response to cotton's steady decline in market share. At that time, producers voted to set up a per-bale assessment system to fund the program, with built-in safeguards to protect their investments. With the passage of the Cotton Research and Promotion Act of 1966, the program joined forces and began battling synthetic competitors and re-establishing markets for cotton. Today, the success of this program has made cotton the best-selling fiber in the U.S. and one of the best-selling fibers in the world.[citation needed]
Question: What prompted a help program produced by cotton producers in the 1960s?
Answer: decline in market share
Question: What law was passed in 1966 to aid cotton producers?
Answer: Cotton Research and Promotion Act
Question: What type of competitors does the 1966 act help combat?
Answer: synthetic competitors
Question: Where has the Cotton Research and Promotion Act made cotton the best selling fiber?
Answer: U.S.
Question: What did producers of cotton have to re-establish after the market declined?
Answer: markets for cotton
Question: What prompted a help program produced by investments in the 1960s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What law was passed in 1966 to aid investments?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of competitors does the 1966 act help?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where has the Cotton Research and Promotion Act made synthetics the best selling fiber?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did producers of synthetics have to re-establish after the market declined?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: Over 90 weeklies, fortnightlies and quarterlies are published in Sanskrit. Sudharma, a daily newspaper in Sanskrit, has been published out of Mysore, India, since 1970, while Sanskrit Vartman Patram and Vishwasya Vrittantam started in Gujarat during the last five years. Since 1974, there has been a short daily news broadcast on state-run All India Radio. These broadcasts are also made available on the internet on AIR's website. Sanskrit news is broadcast on TV and on the internet through the DD National channel at 6:55 AM IST.
Question: In what year was the daily newspaper Sudharma first published?
Answer: 1970
Question: Where are Sanskrit Vartman Patram and Vishwasya Vrittantam published?
Answer: Gujarat
Question: In what year did daily news broadcasts in Sankrit begin on state-run All India Radio?
Answer: 1974
Question: Approximately how many weeklies, fortnightlies and quarterlies published in Sanskrit?
Answer: Over 90
Question: What is the broadcast time for Sanskrit news on the DD National channel?
Answer: 6:55 AM IST
Question: What is the publication, Sudharma?
Answer: daily newspaper
Question: What language are many periodicals published in in India?
Answer: Sanskrit
Question: Where is the newspaper Sudharma published?
Answer: Mysore, India
Question: Since what year has there been a daily broadcast on All India Radio?
Answer: 1974
Question: Where can the Sanskrit broadcasts be found online?
Answer: AIR's website
Question: How many weeklies are published in Sanskrit?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What news paper was first published in 1974?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What first appeared in Sanskrit on All India Radio in 1970?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What publications have been published out of Myrosa since 1970?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has been published out of Mumbai India since 1970?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which publication in Gujarat started more than five years ago?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What year did weekly broadcasts start on All India Radio?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What broadcast is only found on the internet?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What channel can the Sanskrit news be found on a 9:55 AM IST?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: With 39,000 acres (158 km2), the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in north-central Oklahoma is the largest protected area of tallgrass prairie in the world and is part of an ecosystem that encompasses only 10 percent of its former land area, once covering 14 states. In addition, the Black Kettle National Grassland covers 31,300 acres (127 km2) of prairie in southwestern Oklahoma. The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is the oldest and largest of nine national wildlife refuges in the state and was founded in 1901, encompassing 59,020 acres (238.8 km2).
Question: How large is the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve?
Answer: 39,000 acres
Question: What part of Oklahoma is the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in?
Answer: north-central
Question: The Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is the largest protected tallgrass prairie in what area?
Answer: the world
Question: How many states were originally covered by the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve?
Answer: 14
Question: How many national wildlife refuges are in Oklahoma?
Answer: nine
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Context: Two groups G and H are called isomorphic if there exist group homomorphisms a: G → H and b: H → G, such that applying the two functions one after another in each of the two possible orders gives the identity functions of G and H. That is, a(b(h)) = h and b(a(g)) = g for any g in G and h in H. From an abstract point of view, isomorphic groups carry the same information. For example, proving that g • g = 1G for some element g of G is equivalent to proving that a(g) ∗ a(g) = 1H, because applying a to the first equality yields the second, and applying b to the second gives back the first.
Question: What are two groups called if they include homomorphisms?
Answer: isomorphic
Question: What similar element do isomorphic groups carry?
Answer: isomorphic groups
Question: How can showing the second equality yields the first prove the concept of isomorphic groups?
Answer: applying a to the first equality yields the second
Question: What are two groups called if no group homomorphisms are found?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Isomorphic groups carry different what?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What gives the identity of a?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: From what point of view do isomorphic groups have different information?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How does the second equality disprove the concept of isomorphic groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
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Context: The Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) begins in Santa Monica near the Pacific Ocean and heads east. The Santa Monica Freeway between Santa Monica and downtown Los Angeles has the distinction of being one of the busiest highways in all of North America. After traversing Los Angeles County, I-10 crosses seven more states, terminating at Jacksonville, Florida. In Santa Monica, there is a road sign designating this route as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway. State Route 2 (Santa Monica Boulevard) begins in Santa Monica, barely grazing State Route 1 at Lincoln Boulevard, and continues northeast across Los Angeles County, through the Angeles National Forest, crossing the San Gabriel Mountains as the Angeles Crest Highway, ending in Wrightwood. Santa Monica is also the western (Pacific) terminus of historic U.S. Route 66. Close to the eastern boundary of Santa Monica, Sepulveda Boulevard reaches from Long Beach at the south, to the northern end of the San Fernando Valley. Just east of Santa Monica is Interstate 405, the "San Diego Freeway", a major north-south route in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California.
Question: What is the name of the Santa Monica Freeway?
Answer: Interstate 10
Question: Where does the Santa Monica Freeway begin around?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Question: How many more states aside from California does the interstate 10 run through?
Answer: seven more
Question: What city and state does the interstate 10 end at?
Answer: Jacksonville, Florida
Question: What road does state route 2 begin on?
Answer: Santa Monica Boulevard
Question: How many miles is State Route 2?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what street does the Santa Monica Freeway begin?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many miles is the Angeles National Forest from Santa Monica?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How long is Interstate 405 in miles?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what street does State Route 1 originate?
Answer: Unanswerable
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