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Context: In his book, Humanism (1997), Tony Davies calls these critics "humanist anti-humanists". Critics of antihumanism, most notably Jürgen Habermas, counter that while antihumanists may highlight humanism's failure to fulfil its emancipatory ideal, they do not offer an alternative emancipatory project of their own. Others, like the German philosopher Heidegger considered themselves humanists on the model of the ancient Greeks, but thought humanism applied only to the German "race" and specifically to the Nazis and thus, in Davies' words, were anti-humanist humanists. Such a reading of Heidegger's thought is itself deeply controversial; Heidegger includes his own views and critique of Humanism in Letter On Humanism. Davies acknowledges that after the horrific experiences of the wars of the 20th century "it should no longer be possible to formulate phrases like 'the destiny of man' or the 'triumph of human reason' without an instant consciousness of the folly and brutality they drag behind them". For "it is almost impossible to think of a crime that has not been committed in the name of human reason". Yet, he continues, "it would be unwise to simply abandon the ground occupied by the historical humanisms. For one thing humanism remains on many occasions the only available alternative to bigotry and persecution. The freedom to speak and write, to organise and campaign in defence of individual or collective interests, to protest and disobey: all these can only be articulated in humanist terms."
Question: In what year was the book humanism published?
Answer: 1997
Question: In what century was the horrific wars?
Answer: 20th century
Question: What is the only alternative to bigotry and persecution on many occasions?
Answer: humanism
Question: Who wrote the book humanism?
Answer: Tony Davies
Question: What year was the book humanism forgotten?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What century had no wars?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the only alternative to compassion and empathy on many occasions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who destroyed the book humanism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Russian philosopher Heidegger consider himself on the model of the ancient Greeks?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In March 2013 Mendes said he would not return to direct the next film in the series, then known as Bond 24; he later recanted and announced that he would return, as he found the script and the plans for the long-term future of the franchise appealing. In directing Skyfall and Spectre, Mendes became the first director to oversee two consecutive Bond films since John Glen directed The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill in 1987 and 1989. Skyfall writer John Logan resumed his role of scriptwriter, collaborating with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who returned for their sixth Bond film.[N 4] The writer Jez Butterworth also worked on the script, alongside Mendes and Craig. Dennis Gassner returned as the film's production designer, while cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema took over from Roger Deakins. In July 2015 Mendes noted that the combined crew of Spectre numbered over one thousand, making it a larger production than Skyfall. Craig is listed as co-producer.
Question: Who was the last person to direct two James Bond movies in a row before Mendes?
Answer: John Glen
Question: Who served as production designer for Spectre?
Answer: Dennis Gassner
Question: Who did Hoyte van Hoytema replace as cinematographer?
Answer: Roger Deakins
Question: Which two consecutive Bond films did Mendes direct?
Answer: Skyfall and Spectre
Question: Which film had a larger production staff, Spectre or Skyfall?
Answer: Spectre
Question: Which Bond film is Daniel Craig listed as a co-producer?
Answer: Spectre
Question: Who directed The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill?
Answer: John Glen
Question: Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have worked on how many Bond films?
Answer: six
Question: Who said he would return to direct Bond 24 in March 2013?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who did not find the long-term future of the franchise appealing?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who became the first director to oversee three consecutive Bond films?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The combined crew of what movie numbered over three thousand?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The NES uses a custom-made Picture Processing Unit (PPU) developed by Ricoh. All variations of the PPU feature 2 kB of video RAM, 256 bytes of on-die "object attribute memory" (OAM) to store the positions, colors, and tile indices of up to 64 sprites on the screen, and 28 bytes of on-die palette RAM to allow selection of background and sprite colors. The console's 2 kB of onboard RAM may be used for tile maps and attributes on the NES board and 8 kB of tile pattern ROM or RAM may be included on a cartridge. The system has an available color palette of 48 colors and 6 grays. Up to 25 simultaneous colors may be used without writing new values mid-frame: a background color, four sets of three tile colors and four sets of three sprite colors. The NES palette is based on NTSC rather than RGB values. A total of 64 sprites may be displayed onscreen at a given time without reloading sprites mid-screen. The standard display resolution of the NES is 256 horizontal pixels by 240 vertical pixels.
Question: Who developed Nintendo's PPU?
Answer: Ricoh
Question: How many kb of Video RAM did the PPU have?
Answer: 2
Question: The system has how many colors available on it?
Answer: 48
Question: How many grays could be used as well?
Answer: 6
Question: What is the standard display resolution of the NES?
Answer: 256 horizontal pixels by 240 vertical pixels
Question: Who developed Nintendo's SPU?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many mb of Video RAM did the PPU have?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The system didn't have how many colors available on it?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many blacks could be used as well?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is not the standard display resolution of the NES?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Ronald Inden writes that by the 8th century CE symbols of Hindu gods "replaced the Buddha at the imperial centre and pinnacle of the cosmo-political system, the image or symbol of the Hindu god comes to be housed in a monumental temple and given increasingly elaborate imperial-style puja worship". Although Buddhism did not disappear from India for several centuries after the eighth, royal proclivities for the cults of Vishnu and Shiva weakened Buddhism's position within the sociopolitical context and helped make possible its decline.
Question: What cults weakened Buddhism in India?
Answer: Vishnu and Shiva
Question: What replaced Buddha in ruling centers?
Answer: Hindu gods
Question: What kind of temples were built for Hindu Gods?
Answer: monumental
Question: What was the style of worship of Hindu Gods?
Answer: elaborate
Question: By what dentury did Buddhism disappear form much of India?
Answer: eighth |
Context: Czech syntax has a subject–verb–object sentence structure. In practice, however, word order is flexible and used for topicalization and focus. Although Czech has a periphrastic passive construction (like English), colloquial word-order changes frequently produce the passive voice. For example, to change "Peter killed Paul" to "Paul was killed by Peter" the order of subject and object is inverted: Petr zabil Pavla ("Peter killed Paul") becomes "Paul, Peter killed" (Pavla zabil Petr). Pavla is in the accusative case, the grammatical object (in this case, the victim) of the verb.
Question: What is the sentence structure of Czech syntax?
Answer: subject–verb–object
Question: Because word order is flexible in Czech, what does it tend to actually be used for?
Answer: topicalization and focus
Question: What kind of passive construction does Czech have?
Answer: periphrastic
Question: What happens to the subject and object to produce a passive voice in Czech?
Answer: inverted
Question: What case is the grammatical object of a verb?
Answer: accusative
Question: What sentence structure is used in Pavla?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Is word order fixed or flexible in Pavla?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is word order used for in Pavla?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do colloquial word-order changes produce in Pavla sentences?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What case is the grammatical verb object in Pavla?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: During the top 11 week, due to a mix-up with the contestants' telephone number, voting was repeated on what was normally the result night, with the result reveal postponed until the following night.
Question: During what week was there a problem with voting?
Answer: top 11 week
Question: When did the results show happen?
Answer: the following night |
Context: The AFL currently runs as under the single-entity model, with the league owning the rights to the teams, players, and coaches. The single-entity model was adopted in 2010 when the league emerged from bankruptcy. Prior to that, the league followed the franchise model more common in North American professional sports leagues; each team essentially operated as its own business and the league itself was a separate entity which in exchange for franchise fees paid by the team owners provided rules, officials, scheduling and the other elements of organizational structure. A pool of money is allotted to teams to aid in travel costs.
Question: In what year did the AFL begin operating under the single-entity model?
Answer: 2010
Question: Who owns the rights to the players under the single-entity model?
Answer: the league
Question: What model of ownership is commonly used in American professional sports?
Answer: franchise model |
Context: Along with the desire for independence, tensions between Hindus and Muslims had also been developing over the years. The Muslims had always been a minority within the subcontinent, and the prospect of an exclusively Hindu government made them wary of independence; they were as inclined to mistrust Hindu rule as they were to resist the foreign Raj, although Gandhi called for unity between the two groups in an astonishing display of leadership. The British, extremely weakened by the Second World War, promised that they would leave and participated in the formation of an interim government. The British Indian territories gained independence in 1947, after being partitioned into the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. Following the controversial division of pre-partition Punjab and Bengal, rioting broke out between Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims in these provinces and spread to several other parts of India, leaving some 500,000 dead. Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan (which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively). In 1971, Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan and East Bengal, seceded from Pakistan.
Question: What position did Muslims have in the Indian population?
Answer: minority
Question: What effect of independence did Muslims distrust?
Answer: Hindu rule
Question: What did the British form in preparation to leaving India?
Answer: interim government
Question: How many people died in the rioting over divisions of Bengal and Punjab?
Answer: 500,000
Question: How many people migrated between the newly created countries of India and Pakistan?
Answer: 12 million |
Context: The desert zone also accounts for about a third of the state's surface area. The Chihuahuan Desert is an international biome that also extends into the neighboring Mexican state of Coahuila and into the U.S. states of Texas and New Mexico. The desert zone is mainly of flat topography with some small mountain ranges that run north to south. The desert in the state varies slightly with a small variant in climate. The lower elevations of the desert zone are found in the north along the Rio Grande which experience hotter temperatures in the summer and winter while the southern portion of the desert zone experiences cooler temperatures due to its higher elevation. The Samalayuca dunes cover an area of about 150 km2; it is an impressive site of the Chihuahuan Desert and is a protected area by the state due to unique species of plants and animals.
Question: The desert zone accounts for how much of the state's surface area?
Answer: about a third
Question: The Chihuahuan Desert also extends into which neighboring Mexican state?
Answer: Coahuila
Question: The desert zone's topography is mostly what shape?
Answer: flat
Question: Lower elevations and higher temperature are found in which region of the state; north, south, east, or west?
Answer: north
Question: Which well-known river runs in the northern part of the state?
Answer: Rio Grande |
Context: The depression had devastating effects in virtually every country, rich or poor. International trade plunged by half to two-thirds, as did personal income, tax revenue, prices and profits. Cities all around the world were hit hard, especially those dependent on heavy industry. Construction was virtually halted in many countries. Farming and rural areas suffered as crop prices fell by roughly 60 percent. Facing plummeting demand with few alternate sources of jobs, areas dependent on primary sector industries suffered the most.
Question: Where did the depression cause negative effects?
Answer: virtually every country
Question: How much did international trade fall?
Answer: by half to two-thirds,
Question: What happened to construction during the Depression?
Answer: virtually halted in many countries
Question: How far did crop prices fall?
Answer: 60 percent |
Context: East of the divide the Missouri River, which is formed by the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers near Three Forks, flows due north through the west-central part of the state to Great Falls. From this point, it then flows generally east through fairly flat agricultural land and the Missouri Breaks to Fort Peck reservoir. The stretch of river between Fort Benton and the Fred Robinson Bridge at the western boundary of Fort Peck Reservoir was designated a National Wild and Scenic River in 1976. The Missouri enters North Dakota near Fort Union, having drained more than half the land area of Montana (82,000 square miles (210,000 km2)). Nearly one-third of the Missouri River in Montana lies behind 10 dams: Toston, Canyon Ferry, Hauser, Holter, Black Eagle, Rainbow, Cochrane, Ryan, Morony, and Fort Peck.
Question: What rivers form the Missouri River?
Answer: Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin rivers
Question: Near where do the rivers form up for the Missouri river merging?
Answer: Three Forks
Question: Which direction does the water flow in this area?
Answer: north
Question: Which year was the Fort Peck Reservoir designated a National Scenic River?
Answer: 1976 |
Context: The two travel to the hotel and discover White's secret room where they find co-ordinates pointing to Oberhauser's operations base in the desert. They travel by train to the nearest station, but are once again confronted by Hinx; they engage in a fight throughout the train in which Mr Hinx is eventually thrown off the train by Bond with Swann's assistance. After arriving at the station, Bond and Swann are escorted to Oberhauser's base. There, he reveals that Spectre has been staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the Nine Eyes programme. In return Spectre will be given unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes. Bond is tortured as Oberhauser discusses their shared history: after the younger Bond was orphaned, Oberhauser's father, Hannes, became his temporary guardian. Believing that Bond supplanted his role as son, Oberhauser killed his father and staged his own death, subsequently adopting the name Ernst Stavro Blofeld and going on to form Spectre. Bond and Swann escape, destroying the base in the process, leaving Blofeld to apparently die during the explosion.
Question: What method of transportation is used to get to Oberhauser's base?
Answer: train
Question: Who is the link between Oberhauser and Bond?
Answer: Hannes
Question: What did Oberhauser call himself after he faked his death?
Answer: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Question: After staging his own death, what name did Hanz Oberhauser begin to use?
Answer: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Question: Who has an operations base in the forest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who has been creating a need for the Ten Eyes programme?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who will be given unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Ten Eyes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Swann is tortured as who discusses their shared history?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Oberhauser killed whose mother?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Pope John XXIII offered to mediate between US President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Both men applauded the pope for his deep commitment to peace. Khrushchev would later send a message via Norman Cousins and the letter expressed his best wishes for the pontiff's ailing health. John XXIII personally typed and sent a message back to him, thanking him for his letter. Cousins, meanwhile, travelled to New York City and ensured that John would become Time magazine's 'Man of the Year'. John XXIII became the first Pope to receive the title, followed by John Paul II in 1994 and Francis in 2013.
Question: John XXIII offered to mediate between who?
Answer: US President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev
Question: When was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: October 1962
Question: Who expressed best wishes for the pope's health?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Question: John XXIII became the first pope to receive what title?
Answer: Time magazine's 'Man of the Year'
Question: Who was the latest pope to hold the title of 'Man of the Year?'
Answer: Francis
Question: Who did Pope John Paul II offer to mediate between during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Norman Cousins applaud Pope John Paul II for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why did JFK send a letter to Pope John Paul II?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Pope John Paul II send to JFK personally?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What title did Time magazine give to JFK in 1994?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The retail trade in Cork city includes a mix of both modern, state of the art shopping centres and family owned local shops. Department stores cater for all budgets, with expensive boutiques for one end of the market and high street stores also available. Shopping centres can be found in many of Cork's suburbs, including Blackpool, Ballincollig, Douglas, Ballyvolane, Wilton and Mahon Point. Others are available in the city centre. These include the recently[when?] completed development of two large malls The Cornmarket Centre on Cornmarket Street, and new the retail street called "Opera Lane" off St. Patrick's Street/Academy Street. The Grand Parade scheme, on the site of the former Capitol Cineplex, was planning-approved for 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) of retail space, with work commencing in 2016. Cork's main shopping street is St. Patrick's Street and is the most expensive street in the country per sq. metre after Dublin's Grafton Street. As of 2015[update] this area has been impacted by the post-2008 downturn, with many retail spaces available for let.[citation needed] Other shopping areas in the city centre include Oliver Plunkett St. and Grand Parade. Cork is also home to some of the country's leading department stores with the foundations of shops such as Dunnes Stores and the former Roches Stores being laid in the city. Outside the city centre is Mahon Point Shopping Centre.
Question: What types of retail offerings are found in Cork?
Answer: state of the art shopping centres and family owned local shops
Question: What happened after the economy dropped off around 2008?
Answer: many retail spaces available for let
Question: What major department stores gottheir starts in Cork?
Answer: Dunnes Stores and the former Roches Stores
Question: When will work on the Grand Parade begin?
Answer: 2016
Question: How large is the retail space in the Grand Parade proposed to be?
Answer: 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2)
Question: What is mostly a mix of family owned shops?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What mostly caters to expensive boutiques?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What nearby suburbs need to come to cork for shopping centers?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What area was effected by the economic growth of 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What large mall is located in Ballyvolane?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What site was Ballincollig built on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much retail space was Mahon Point approved for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year will work begin on Mahon Point?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Opera Lane considered after Dublin Grafton Street?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The NES dropped the hardwired controllers, instead featuring two custom 7-pin ports on the front of the console. Also in contrast to the Famicom, the controllers included with the NES were identical to each other—the second controller lacked the microphone that was present on the Famicom model and possessed the same START and SELECT buttons as the primary controller. Some NES localizations of games, such as The Legend of Zelda, which required the use of the Famicom microphone in order to kill certain enemies, suffered from the lack of hardware to do so.
Question: How many pins did the controller ports have on the NES?
Answer: 7
Question: Unlike the Famicom, the NES controllers possessed what consistent feature?
Answer: identical
Question: The second controller possessed the START and SELECT buttons as what other device?
Answer: primary controller
Question: What did the Legend of Zelda require in certain instances to kill enemies?
Answer: Famicom microphone
Question: How many pins did the controller ports have on the SNES?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Unlike the Famicom, the SNES controllers possessed what consistent feature?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The second controller possessed the ON and OFF buttons as what other device?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Legend of Link require in certain instances to kill enemies?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Serious American students of theology and divinity, particularly in New England, regarded Hebrew as a classical language, along with Greek and Latin, and essential for study of the Old Testament in the original words. The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language (as was common in other schools), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew (in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים (Urim and Thummim) on the Yale seal. Stiles' greatest challenge occurred in July 1779 when hostile British forces occupied New Haven and threatened to raze the College. However, Yale graduate Edmund Fanning, Secretary to the British General in command of the occupation, interceded and the College was saved. Fanning later was granted an honorary degree LL.D., at 1803, for his efforts.
Question: When was Ezra Stiles president of Yale?
Answer: 1778 to 1795
Question: What course did Ezra Stiles require freshmen to take?
Answer: Hebrew
Question: When did the British threaten to take over the college?
Answer: July 1779
Question: Who saved Yale from the British raid?
Answer: Edmund Fanning
Question: What degree was Edmund Fanning given for his services?
Answer: an honorary degree LL.D
Question: When was Ezra Stiles vice president of Yale?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What course did Ezra Stiles require seniors to take?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did the British threaten to destroy the college?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who saved Yale from the French raid?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What degree was Edmund Fanning stripped of for his services?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Protein digestion occurs in the stomach and duodenum in which 3 main enzymes, pepsin secreted by the stomach and trypsin and chymotrypsin secreted by the pancreas, break down food proteins into polypeptides that are then broken down by various exopeptidases and dipeptidases into amino acids. The digestive enzymes however are mostly secreted as their inactive precursors, the zymogens. For example, trypsin is secreted by pancreas in the form of trypsinogen, which is activated in the duodenum by enterokinase to form trypsin. Trypsin then cleaves proteins to smaller polypeptides.
Question: Where does protein digestion occur?
Answer: in the stomach and duodenum
Question: What are the three main enzymes that break down food?
Answer: pepsin secreted by the stomach and trypsin and chymotrypsin
Question: What are digestive enzymes mostly secreted as?
Answer: inactive precursors, the zymogens
Question: What are dipeptidases broken down into?
Answer: amino acids
Question: What organ secretes chymotrypsin?
Answer: the pancreas |
Context: 31st Street begins on the West Side at the West Side Yard, while 32nd Street, which includes a segment officially known as Korea Way between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan's Koreatown, begins at the entrance to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. On the East Side, both streets end at Second Avenue at Kips Bay Towers and NYU Medical Center which occupy the area between 30th and 34th Streets. The Catholic church of St. Francis of Assisi is situated at 135–139 West 31st Street. At 210 West is the Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist, part of St. John the Baptist Church on 30th Street. At the corner of Broadway and West 31st Street is the Grand Hotel. The former Hotel Pierrepont was located at 43 West 32nd Street, The Continental NYC tower is at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 32nd Street. 29 East 32nd Street was the location of the first building owned by the Grolier Club between 1890 and 1917.
Question: Where does 31st Street begin?
Answer: West Side Yard
Question: Which church is situated at 135-139 West 31st Street?
Answer: Catholic church of St. Francis of Assisi
Question: Who owned the building at 29 East 32nd Street between 1890 and 1917?
Answer: Grolier Club
Question: The corner of Broadway and West 31st Street is home to what business?
Answer: Grand Hotel
Question: Which religios center is located at 210 West?
Answer: Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist |
Context: In the Ottoman Empire, these ideological reforms did not take place and these views did not integrate into common thought until much later. As well, there was no spread of this doctrine within the New World and the advanced civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Mohican, Delaware, Huron and especially the Iroquois. The Iroquois philosophy in particular gave much to Christian thought of the time and in many cases actually inspired some of the institutions adopted in the United States: for example, Benjamin Franklin was a great admirer of some of the methods of the Iroquois Confederacy, and much of early American literature emphasized the political philosophy of the natives.
Question: In what area did these ideological reforms not take place until much later?
Answer: Ottoman Empire
Question: Whose philosophy gave much to Christian thought of the time?
Answer: The Iroquois philosophy
Question: Who was a great admirer of some of the methods of the Iroquois Confederacy?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Question: What area did ideological reforms take place much earlier?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where in the New World was this doctrine spread?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who modeled some of the methods of the Huron?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Whose literature emphasize the religious philosophy of the natives?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Aztec civilizations inspire in the US?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did early Mohican literature focus on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who admired the methods of the Incan Confederacy?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened when methods of the Iroquois Confederacy were introduced to the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What viewpoint influenced doctrine within the New World at the time?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The standard connectors were deliberately intended to enforce the directed topology of a USB network: Type-A receptacles on host devices that supply power and Type-B receptacles on target devices that draw power. This prevents users from accidentally connecting two USB power supplies to each other, which could lead to short circuits and dangerously high currents, circuit failures, or even fire. USB does not support cyclic networks and the standard connectors from incompatible USB devices are themselves incompatible.
Question: What do Type-A receptacles do on host devices?
Answer: supply power
Question: What do Type-b receptacles do on target devices?
Answer: draw power
Question: What do the receptacles prevent user from doing?
Answer: from accidentally connecting two USB power supplies to each other
Question: What networks do USB not support?
Answer: cyclic networks |
Context: With its growing popularity, professional wrestling has attracted attention as a subject of serious academic study and journalistic criticism. Many courses, theses, essays, and dissertations have analyzed wrestling's conventions, content, and its role in modern society. It is often included as part of studies on theatre, sociology, performance, and media. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a course of study on the cultural significance of professional wrestling, and anthropologist Heather Levi has written an ethnography about the culture of lucha libre in Mexico.
Question: What other areas has wrestling garnered interest from?
Answer: academic study and journalistic criticism
Question: What areas of study is wrestling talked about in?
Answer: theatre, sociology, performance, and media
Question: What did Heather Levi write?
Answer: an ethnography about the culture of lucha libre
Question: What college has a course about the cultural impact of wrestling?
Answer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Context: In addition, LaserDisc videos sometimes exhibit a problem known as "crosstalk". The issue can arise when the laser optical pickup assembly within the player is out of alignment or because the disc is damaged or excessively warped, but it could also occur even with a properly functioning player and a factory-new disc, depending on electrical and mechanical alignment problems. In these instances, the issue arose due to the fact that CLV discs require subtle changes in rotating speed at various points during playback. During a change in speed, the optical pickup inside the player might read video information from a track adjacent to the intended one, causing data from the two tracks to "cross"; the extra video information picked up from that second track shows up as distortion in the picture which looks reminiscent of swirling "barber poles" or rolling lines of static.
Question: When does "crosstalk" occur?
Answer: when the laser optical pickup assembly within the player is out of alignment or because the disc is damaged or excessively warped
Question: What problem can be caused by a player becoming out of alignment?
Answer: "crosstalk"
Question: How does "crosstalk" appear to the viewer?
Answer: swirling "barber poles" or rolling lines of static |
Context: Very few early Byzantine mosaics survived the Iconoclastic destruction of the 8th century. Among the rare examples are the 6th-century Christ in majesty (or Ezekiel's Vision) mosaic in the apse of the Church of Hosios David in Thessaloniki that was hidden behind mortar during those dangerous times. Nine mosaic panels in the Hagios Demetrios Church, which were made between 634 and 730, also escaped destruction. Unusually almost all represent Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, often with suppliants before him.
Question: How many Byzantine mosaics survived past the 8th century?
Answer: Very few
Question: The mosaic in the church in Thessaloniki is know as what?
Answer: Christ in majesty (or Ezekiel's Vision)
Question: Why was Christ in majesty protected from the iconoclastic destruction?
Answer: hidden behind mortar
Question: When were the panels in the Hagios Demetrios Church created?
Answer: between 634 and 730
Question: What is common about the surviving mosaics from the 7th-9th centuries?
Answer: almost all represent Saint Demetrius |
Context: Late in the 19th century, Paris hosted two major international expositions: the 1889 Universal Exposition, was held to mark the centennial of the French Revolution and featured the new Eiffel Tower; and the 1900 Universal Exposition, which gave Paris the Pont Alexandre III, the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais and the first Paris Métro line. Paris became the laboratory of Naturalism (Émile Zola) and Symbolism (Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine), and of Impressionism in art (Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir.)
Question: What type of art did Courbet, Manet, Monet and Renoir create?
Answer: Impressionism
Question: What was the purpose of the 1889 Universal Exposition?
Answer: to mark the centennial of the French Revolution
Question: Where was the Eiffel Tower revealed?
Answer: 1889 Universal Exposition
Question: What type of art was created by Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine?
Answer: Symbolism |
Context: There are 29 isotopes of copper. 63Cu and 65Cu are stable, with 63Cu comprising approximately 69% of naturally occurring copper; they both have a spin of 3⁄2. The other isotopes are radioactive, with the most stable being 67Cu with a half-life of 61.83 hours. Seven metastable isotopes have been characterized, with 68mCu the longest-lived with a half-life of 3.8 minutes. Isotopes with a mass number above 64 decay by β−, whereas those with a mass number below 64 decay by β+. 64Cu, which has a half-life of 12.7 hours, decays both ways.
Question: How many isotopes are there of copper?
Answer: 29
Question: What are the two stable isotopes of cooper?
Answer: 63Cu and 65Cu
Question: Which isotope makes up about 69% of natural copper?
Answer: 63Cu
Question: What is the half life of the copper isotope 68mCu?
Answer: 3.8 minutes
Question: What is the half life of the copper isotope 67Cu?
Answer: 61.83 hours
Question: How many isotopes are missing in copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What are the two dangerous isotopes of copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which isotope makes up about 74% of natural copper?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the half life of the supernatural isotope 68mCu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the orbital period of the copper isotope 67Cu?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Ben Goldacre has argued that regulators – such as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK, or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States – advance the interests of the drug companies rather than the interests of the public due to revolving door exchange of employees between the regulator and the companies and friendships develop between regulator and company employees. He argues that regulators do not require that new drugs offer an improvement over what is already available, or even that they be particularly effective.
Question: Who argued against regulators?
Answer: Ben Goldacre
Question: Who argued that drug regulators were greater serving the interests of the drug companies than the patients?
Answer: Ben Goldacre
Question: The business friendships between which parties have been criticized?
Answer: regulator and company employees
Question: Goldacre argued that which party didn't require that new drugs be improved at all?
Answer: regulators
Question: Who argued against the public?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who argued that drug regulators were greater serving the interests of patients than the drug companies?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The business friendships between which parties have been praised?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The FDA argued that which party didn't require that new drugs be improved at all?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who argues that regulators do not require that new regulators offer an improvement?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Konbaung kings extended Restored Toungoo's administrative reforms, and achieved unprecedented levels of internal control and external expansion. For the first time in history, the Burmese language and culture came to predominate the entire Irrawaddy valley. The evolution and growth of Burmese literature and theatre continued, aided by an extremely high adult male literacy rate for the era (half of all males and 5% of females). Nonetheless, the extent and pace of reforms were uneven and ultimately proved insufficient to stem the advance of British colonialism.
Question: What language eventually came to power in the Irrawaddy valley ?
Answer: Burmese language
Question: What was the literacy rate for the Burmese people during the big period of artistic growth?
Answer: half of all males and 5% of females
Question: Did changes move along at a uniform pace for the Burmese people?
Answer: pace of reforms were uneven and ultimately proved insufficient
Question: What country was Burma a colony of ?
Answer: British
Question: What are the kings of the Konbaung monarchy famed for in their rule?
Answer: Konbaung kings extended Restored Toungoo's administrative reforms, and achieved unprecedented levels of internal control and external expansion |
Context: ^10 Sub-groups of Slovenes include Prekmurians, Hungarian Slovenes, Carinthian Slovenes, Venetian Slovenes, Resians, and the extinct Carantanians and Somogy Slovenes.
Question: What sub-groups of Slovenes are extinct?
Answer: Carantanians and Somogy Slovenes
Question: What are the current sub-groups of Slovenes?
Answer: Prekmurians, Hungarian Slovenes, Carinthian Slovenes, Venetian Slovenes, Resians
Question: What is a subgroup of Hungarians?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which five groups are now extinct?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What happened to most of the Slovenes subgroups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many subgroups of Slovenes are there?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The American Civil War caught both sides unprepared. The Confederacy hoped to win by getting Britain and France to intervene, or else by wearing down the North's willingness to fight. The U.S. sought a quick victory focused on capturing the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. The Confederates under Robert E. Lee tenaciously defended their capital until the very end. The war spilled across the continent, and even to the high seas. Most of the material and personnel of the South were used up, while the North prospered.
Question: What was the Confederate overall strategy to win the Civil War?
Answer: getting Britain and France to intervene
Question: What was the Union's original war aim?
Answer: capturing the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia
Question: Who led the Confederate forces defending Richmond throughout the war?
Answer: Robert E. Lee
Question: How did the war effect both sides?
Answer: the material and personnel of the South were used up, while the North prospered
Question: What was the Confederate overall strategy to lose the Civil War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What wasn't the Union's original war aim?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who led the Confederate forces not defending Richmond throughout the war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How didn't the war effect both sides?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In Raleigh many tourists visit the Capital, African American Cultural Complex, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NCSU, Haywood Hall House & Gardens, Marbles Kids Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of History, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, Raleigh City Museum, J. C. Raulston Arboretum, Joel Lane House, Mordecai House, Montfort Hall, and the Pope House Museum. The Carolina Hurricanes NHL hockey team is also located in the city.
Question: What Hockey team is located in Raleigh?
Answer: Carolina Hurricanes
Question: What league do the Carolina Hurricanes belong to?
Answer: NHL
Question: What Hall of Fame is located in Raleigh?
Answer: North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
Question: What arboretum is located in Raleigh?
Answer: J. C. Raulston Arboretum |
Context: The third-largest university in the state, the University of Central Oklahoma, is located just north of the city in the suburb of Edmond. Oklahoma Christian University, one of the state's private liberal arts institutions, is located just south of the Edmond border, inside the Oklahoma City limits.
Question: Which university is the third-largest in the state?
Answer: University of Central Oklahoma
Question: Which private university is located near the Edmond border?
Answer: Oklahoma Christian University |
Context: Windows 8 was released to a mixed critical reception. Although reaction towards its performance improvements, security enhancements, and improved support for touchscreen devices was positive, the new user interface of the operating system was widely criticized for being potentially confusing and difficult to learn (especially when used with a keyboard and mouse instead of a touchscreen). Despite these shortcomings, 60 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold through January 2013, a number which included both upgrades and sales to OEMs for new PCs.
Question: What about Windows 8 was well received?
Answer: its performance improvements, security enhancements, and improved support for touchscreen devices
Question: What were the perceived problems with the new Windows 8 user interface?
Answer: being potentially confusing and difficult to learn
Question: How many Windows 8 licenses were purchased by January 2013?
Answer: 60 million
Question: What about Windows 9 was well received?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What about Windows 8 was poorly received?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the perceived problems with the old Windows 8 user interface?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the perceived problems with the new Windows 9 user interface?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Windows 8 licenses were purchased by January 2012?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After World War II Hudson's realized that the limited parking space at its downtown skyscraper would increasingly be a problem for its customers. The solution in 1954 was to open the Northland Center in nearby Southfield, just beyond the city limits. It was the largest suburban shopping center in the world, and quickly became the main shopping destination for northern and western Detroit, and for much of the suburbs. By 1961 the downtown skyscraper accounted for only half of Hudson's sales; it closed in 1986. The Northland Center Hudson's, rebranded Macy's in 2006 following acquisition by Federated Department Stores, was closed along with the remaining stores in the center in March 2015 due to the mall's high storefront vacancy, decaying infrastructure, and financial mismanagement.
Question: In what year did Hudson's address the issue of parking within cities?
Answer: 1954
Question: What was the store called in Southfield?
Answer: Northland Center
Question: In what year did the Hudson's skyscraper close?
Answer: 1986
Question: What company purchased the Northland Center in 2006?
Answer: Federated Department Stores
Question: What was the Northfield Center renamed after it's purchase by another company?
Answer: Macy's
Question: In what year didn't Hudson's address the issue of parking within cities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did Hudson's address the issue of parking outside of cities?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the store called in Northfield?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Hudson's skyscraper open?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What company purchased the Northland Center in 2016?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following speculation that Sony was working on a 'slim' model, Sony officially announced the PS3 CECH-2000 model on August 18, 2009, at the Sony Gamescom press conference. New features included a slimmer form factor, decreased power consumption, and a quieter cooling system. It was released in major territories by September 2009. As part of the release for the slim model, the console logo ceased using the "Spider-Man font" (the same font used for the title of Sony's Spider-Man 3) and the capitalized PLAYSTATION 3. It instead reverted to a more traditional PlayStation- and PlayStation 2-like 'PlayStation 3' logo with "PS3" imprinted on the console. Along with the redesigning of the console and logo, the boot screen of all consoles changed from "Sony Computer Entertainment" to "PS3 PlayStation 3", with a new chime and the game start splash screen being dropped. The cover art and packaging of games was also changed.
Question: What was the model number of the slim version of the PlayStation 3?
Answer: CECH-2000
Question: What font was discontinued with the release of the slim model?
Answer: Spider-Man font
Question: What would customers notice about the sound of the new, improved cooling system?
Answer: quieter
Question: What did the boot screen on the game consoles read before Sony changed it to "PS3 PlayStation 3"?
Answer: "Sony Computer Entertainment"
Question: What did Sony change about the PS3 games along with the packaging in 2009?
Answer: cover art
Question: Sony announce what model on April 18, 2009?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did Sony announce the PS4 CECH-2000?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What model included increased power consumption?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What model stopped using the "Batman font"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What model included a louder cooling system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the model number of the thick version of the PlayStation 3?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What font was continued with the release of the slim model?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What would customers notice about the sound of the new, improved heating system?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the boot screen on the game consoles read after Sony changed it to "PS3 PlayStation 3"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Sony change about the PS3 games along with the packaging in 2008?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Plumage is regularly moulted; the standard plumage of a bird that has moulted after breeding is known as the "non-breeding" plumage, or—in the Humphrey-Parkes terminology—"basic" plumage; breeding plumages or variations of the basic plumage are known under the Humphrey-Parkes system as "alternate" plumages. Moulting is annual in most species, although some may have two moults a year, and large birds of prey may moult only once every few years. Moulting patterns vary across species. In passerines, flight feathers are replaced one at a time with the innermost primary being the first. When the fifth of sixth primary is replaced, the outermost tertiaries begin to drop. After the innermost tertiaries are moulted, the secondaries starting from the innermost begin to drop and this proceeds to the outer feathers (centrifugal moult). The greater primary coverts are moulted in synchrony with the primary that they overlap. A small number of species, such as ducks and geese, lose all of their flight feathers at once, temporarily becoming flightless. As a general rule, the tail feathers are moulted and replaced starting with the innermost pair. Centripetal moults of tail feathers are however seen in the Phasianidae. The centrifugal moult is modified in the tail feathers of woodpeckers and treecreepers, in that it begins with the second innermost pair of feathers and finishes with the central pair of feathers so that the bird maintains a functional climbing tail. The general pattern seen in passerines is that the primaries are replaced outward, secondaries inward, and the tail from center outward. Before nesting, the females of most bird species gain a bare brood patch by losing feathers close to the belly. The skin there is well supplied with blood vessels and helps the bird in incubation.
Question: What is regularly moulted?
Answer: Plumage
Question: What is the standard plumage of a bird that has moulted after breeding?
Answer: "non-breeding" plumage
Question: How often does moulting occur in most species?
Answer: annual
Question: What type of birds may moult only once every few years?
Answer: large birds of prey |
Context: Many Islamic anti-Masonic arguments are closely tied to both antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, though other criticisms are made such as linking Freemasonry to al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah). Some Muslim anti-Masons argue that Freemasonry promotes the interests of the Jews around the world and that one of its aims is to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to rebuild the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. In article 28 of its Covenant, Hamas states that Freemasonry, Rotary, and other similar groups "work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions ..."
Question: What do Islamic anti-masonics link Freemasonry to?
Answer: al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah
Question: Why do muslim anti-masonics believe that the Freemasons want to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
Answer: rebuild the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem
Question: What is another group that anti-masonic muslims link to zionism?
Answer: Rotary
Question: What are most of the arguements by anti-masonic muslims centered on?
Answer: antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
Question: Who's interests are the muslin anti-masonics afraid that the Freemasons are protecting?
Answer: Jews
Question: What do many Islamic and anti-Masonic argue about Freemasonry?
Answer: linking Freemasonry to al-Masih ad-Dajjal (the false Messiah)
Question: Some Muslims argue that Freemasonry promotes what?
Answer: the interests of the Jews
Question: What article states that Freemasonry work in the interest of Zionism?
Answer: article 28
Question: What do Islamic Masonics link Freemasonry to?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Why do Muslim Masonics believe that the Freemasons want to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another group that Masonic Muslims link to Islam?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who's interests are the muslin anti-masonics afraid that the Freemasons are hurting?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What article states that Freemasonry work in the interest of humanity?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Catalan dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation. The terms "Catalan" and "Valencian" (respectively used in Catalonia and the Valencian Community) are two different varieties of the same language. There are two institutions regulating the two standard varieties, the Institute of Catalan Studies in Catalonia and the Valencian Academy of the Language in Valencia.
Question: What is the division of Catalan dialects?
Answer: Eastern and Western
Question: What is the basic difference between the dialects?
Answer: pronunciation
Question: What is the differenctiation between Catalan and Valencian?
Answer: different varieties
Question: What are Catalan and Valencian assumed to be?
Answer: the same language
Question: What are Catalan and Valencian considered to be in the language?
Answer: two standard varieties |
Context: Like many major American cities, Boston has seen a great reduction in violent crime since the early 1990s. Boston's low crime rate since the 1990s has been credited to the Boston Police Department's collaboration with neighborhood groups and church parishes to prevent youths from joining gangs, as well as involvement from the United States Attorney and District Attorney's offices. This helped lead in part to what has been touted as the "Boston Miracle". Murders in the city dropped from 152 in 1990 (for a murder rate of 26.5 per 100,000 people) to just 31—not one of them a juvenile—in 1999 (for a murder rate of 5.26 per 100,000).
Question: Since the early 1990's, Boston has had less of what type of crime?
Answer: violent crime
Question: Boston police and local groups make an effort toprevent youth from doing what?
Answer: joining gangs
Question: The Boston Miracle is the name for the reduction in what crime from 1990 to 1999?
Answer: Murders
Question: What was the murder rate in Boston in 1990?
Answer: 26.5 per 100,000 |
Context: Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico, sometimes called the Basin of Mexico. This valley is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt in the high plateaus of south-central Mexico. It has a minimum altitude of 2,200 meters (7,200 feet) above sea level and is surrounded by mountains and volcanoes that reach elevations of over 5,000 metres (16,000 feet). This valley has no natural drainage outlet for the waters that flow from the mountainsides, making the city vulnerable to flooding. Drainage was engineered through the use of canals and tunnels starting in the 17th century.
Question: What is the minimum height in meters of the region Mexico City is located in?
Answer: 2,200
Question: Where is Mexico City located?
Answer: Valley of Mexico
Question: How high do the mountains get in Mexico City's region?
Answer: 5,000 metres (16,000 feet)
Question: Why is Mexico City vulnerable to flooding?
Answer: no natural drainage outlet for the waters that flow from the mountainsides
Question: How does the city prevent flooding?
Answer: canals and tunnels |
Context: Following the elections of 1973, the constitution of Swaziland was suspended by King Sobhuza II who thereafter ruled the country by decree until his death in 1982. At this point Sobhuza II had ruled Swaziland for 61 years, making him the longest ruling monarch in history. A regency followed his death, with Queen Regent Dzeliwe Shongwe being head of state until 1984 when she was removed by Liqoqo and replaced by Queen Mother Ntfombi Tfwala. Mswati III, the son of Ntfombi, was crowned king on 25 April 1986 as King and Ingwenyama of Swaziland.
Question: In what year was the constitution of Swaziland suspended?
Answer: 1973
Question: Who ruled Swaziland in the late 1970s?
Answer: King Sobhuza II
Question: When did King Sobhuza II die?
Answer: 1982
Question: Who was the head of state of Swaziland after King Sobhuza II
Answer: Queen Regent Dzeliwe Shongwe
Question: Which monarch of Swaziland was crownd in April 1986?
Answer: Mswati III
Question: who suspended Swazilands constitution in the 19th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When was the son ofDzeliwe Shongwe crowned king?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who ruled Swaziland starting in 1973 and ending 1982?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What rerent ruled for 61 years in Swaziland?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: South West England has a favoured location when the Azores High pressure area extends north-eastwards towards the UK, particularly in summer. Coastal areas have average annual sunshine totals over 1,600 hours.
Question: How many hours of sunshine does the South West England region get each year?
Answer: over 1,600
Question: What region of England benefits from the extension of the Azores High pressure area?
Answer: South West England |
Context: During 734 BC the Phoenicians, a sea trading people from the north of ancient Canaan, built a small settlement on the natural harbor of Palermo. Some sources suggest they named the settlement "Ziz." It became one of the three main Phoenician colonies of Sicily, along with Motya and Soluntum. However, the remains of the Phoenician presence in the city are few and mostly preserved in the very populated center of the downtown area, making any excavation efforts costly and logistically difficult. The site chosen by the Phoenicians made it easy to connect the port to the mountains with a straight road that today has become Corso Calatifimi. This road helped the Phoenicians in trading with the populations that lived beyond the mountains that surround the gulf.
Question: What did Phoenicans name their settlement in 734BC?
Answer: "Ziz."
Question: Besides Ziz, what other two major settlements belonged to the Phoenicians
Answer: Motya and Soluntum
Question: Why cant artifacts from the Phoenicians be easily excavated?
Answer: remains of the Phoenician presence in the city are few and mostly preserved in the very populated center of the downtown area
Question: What is the current name of the road the Phoenicians used for trading?
Answer: Corso Calatifimi
Question: Who built a settlement on the hatbor of Palermo?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where did the Phoenicians build a harbor in 734 AD
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the modern day port of Ziz?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What road helped the Phoenicians trade with the Arabs?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What were the other tewo Canaanite colonies of Sicily?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 1984, he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his "services to the study of economics". He was the first recipient of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize in 1984. He also received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 from President George H. W. Bush. In 2011, his article "The Use of Knowledge in Society" was selected as one of the top 20 articles published in The American Economic Review during its first 100 years.
Question: Hayek became a member of which group in 1984?
Answer: Order of the Companions of Honour
Question: For what reason was Hayek inducted into the order?
Answer: services to the study of economics
Question: What award was Hayek the first to receive?
Answer: Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize
Question: Who awarded Hayek the Medal of Freedom?
Answer: President George H. W. Bush
Question: Which of Hayek's articles received recognition in 2011?
Answer: The Use of Knowledge in Society |
Context: Life with PlayStation, released on September 18, 2008 to succeed Folding@home, was retired November 6, 2012. Life with PlayStation used virtual globe data to display news and information by city. Along with Folding@home functionality, the application provided access to three other information "channels", the first being the Live Channel offering news headlines and weather which were provided by Google News, The Weather Channel, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, among other sources. The second channel was the World Heritage channel which offered historical information about historical sites. The third channel was the United Village channel. United Village was designed to share information about communities and cultures worldwide. An update allowed video and photo viewing in the application. The fourth channel was the USA exclusive PlayStation Network Game Trailers Channel for direct streaming of game trailers.
Question: Life was able to personalize information for users by what location division?
Answer: city
Question: On what date was Life with PlayStation shut down?
Answer: November 6, 2012
Question: For weather updates from The Weather Channel, which of Life's channels would you have visited?
Answer: Live Channel
Question: What's was Life's channel that delivered information about history topics?
Answer: World Heritage
Question: What didn't Life with PlayStation take the place of?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Life wasn't able to personalize information for users by what location division?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: On what date was Life with PlayStation continued?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: For weather updates from The Weather Channel, which of Life's channels wouldn't you have visited?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's was Life's channel that delivered information about current topics?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Following the death in 1473 of James II, the last Lusignan king, the Republic of Venice assumed control of the island, while the late king's Venetian widow, Queen Catherine Cornaro, reigned as figurehead. Venice formally annexed the Kingdom of Cyprus in 1489, following the abdication of Catherine. The Venetians fortified Nicosia by building the Venetian Walls, and used it as an important commercial hub. Throughout Venetian rule, the Ottoman Empire frequently raided Cyprus. In 1539 the Ottomans destroyed Limassol and so fearing the worst, the Venetians also fortified Famagusta and Kyrenia.
Question: In what year did James II die?
Answer: 1473
Question: Who assumed control of the island after the death of James II?
Answer: Republic of Venice
Question: In what year did Venice formally annex the kingdom of Cyprus?
Answer: 1489
Question: Which empire frequently raided Cyprus during Venetian rule?
Answer: Ottoman Empire
Question: In what year did the Ottomans destroy Limassol?
Answer: 1539 |
Context: Writing in 1998 Kurt Jonassohn and Karin Björnson stated that the CPPCG was a legal instrument resulting from a diplomatic compromise. As such the wording of the treaty is not intended to be a definition suitable as a research tool, and although it is used for this purpose, as it has an international legal credibility that others lack, other definitions have also been postulated. Jonassohn and Björnson go on to say that none of these alternative definitions have gained widespread support for various reasons.
Question: In 1998 it was written that the CPPCG was a legal entity resulting in which type of compromise?
Answer: a diplomatic compromise
Question: Rather than a definition, the text of the treaty is considered as what type of tool?
Answer: a research tool
Question: What does the treaty possess that others lack?
Answer: international legal credibility
Question: The writers Jonassohn and Bjornson cite various reasons for the lack of widespread support of what?
Answer: alternative definitions
Question: What caused was written Jonassohn and Bjornson to become a legal instrument?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of tool is the definition considered rather than a definition?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the definition possess that others lack?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What has not gaind widespread support according to the CPPCG?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who stated that the CPPCG was a research tool?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Suffering (Pāli: दुक्ख dukkha; Sanskrit दुःख duḥkha) is also a central concept in Buddhism. The word roughly corresponds to a number of terms in English including suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness, sorrow, affliction, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress, misery, and frustration. Although the term is often translated as "suffering", its philosophical meaning is more analogous to "disquietude" as in the condition of being disturbed. As such, "suffering" is too narrow a translation with "negative emotional connotations"[web 9] that can give the impression that the Buddhist view is pessimistic, but Buddhism seeks to be neither pessimistic nor optimistic, but realistic. In English-language Buddhist literature translated from Pāli, "dukkha" is often left untranslated, so as to encompass its full range of meaning.[note 8]
Question: The term dukkha corresponds to what English terms?
Answer: suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness, sorrow, affliction, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress, misery, and frustration
Question: Dukkha is often translated as suffering, but the philosophical meaning of dukkha of more closely related to what term?
Answer: disquietude
Question: Buddhism seeks to be neither pessimistic or optimistic, but what?
Answer: realistic
Question: Suffering is a central concept in what?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: The philosophical meaning of suffering is close what term?
Answer: disquietude
Question: The condition of being disturbed is what?
Answer: disquietude
Question: In translation what term is often left untranslated to keep of fuller definition?
Answer: dukkha |
Context: Beginning in the 1940s and continuing into the 1970s, the bureau investigated cases of espionage against the United States and its allies. Eight Nazi agents who had planned sabotage operations against American targets were arrested, and six were executed (Ex parte Quirin) under their sentences. Also during this time, a joint US/UK code-breaking effort (the Venona project)—with which the FBI was heavily involved—broke Soviet diplomatic and intelligence communications codes, allowing the US and British governments to read Soviet communications. This effort confirmed the existence of Americans working in the United States for Soviet intelligence. Hoover was administering this project but failed to notify the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) until 1952. Another notable case is the arrest of Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in 1957. The discovery of Soviet spies operating in the US allowed Hoover to pursue his longstanding obsession with the threat he perceived from the American Left, ranging from Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) union organizers to American liberals.
Question: When did the FBI begin investigating espionage?
Answer: 1940s
Question: How many Nazis were arrested?
Answer: Eight
Question: What project broke Soviet codes?
Answer: the Venona project
Question: What agency did Hoover not tell about the code break and the discoveries gained from it?
Answer: CIA
Question: What did the bureau investigate before the 1940s?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many Italian agents were arrested?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What project broke Nazi codes?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What agency did Hoover inform about the code break right away?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What stopped Hoover from pursuing his obsession with the threat from the American Left?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The first season of American Idol debuted as a summer replacement show in June 2002 on the Fox network. It was co-hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman.
Question: What network aired the first season of American Idol?
Answer: Fox
Question: What year did American Idol first debut?
Answer: 2002
Question: Who was Ryan Seacrests co-host in the first season of American Idol?
Answer: Brian Dunkleman
Question: When did American Idol debut?
Answer: June 2002
Question: What network did American Idol debut on?
Answer: Fox
Question: Who co-hosted American Idol?
Answer: Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman |
Context: American comic books have adopted the character type for stories of their own like the mutant-villain Silver Samurai of Marvel Comics. The design of this character preserves the samurai appearance; the villain is “Clad in traditional gleaming samurai armor and wielding an energy charged katana” (Buxton, 2013). Not only does the Silver Samurai make over 350 comic book appearances, the character is playable in several video games, such as Marvel Vs. Capcom 1 and 2. In 2013, the samurai villain was depicted in James Mangold’s film The Wolverine. Ten years before the Wolverine debuted, another film helped pave the way to ensure the samurai were made known to American cinema: A film released in 2003 titled The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise, is inspired by the samurai way of life. In the film, Cruise’s character finds himself deeply immersed in samurai culture. The character in the film, “Nathan Algren, is a fictional contrivance to make nineteenth-century Japanese history less foreign to American viewers”.(Ravina, 2010) After being captured by a group of samurai rebels, he becomes empathetic towards the cause they fight for. Taking place during the Meiji Period, Tom Cruise plays the role of US Army Captain Nathan Algren, who travels to Japan to train a rookie army in fighting off samurai rebel groups. Becoming a product of his environment, Algren joins the samurai clan in an attempt to rescue a captured samurai leader. “By the end of the film, he has clearly taken on many of the samurai traits, such as zen-like mastery of the sword, and a budding understanding of spirituality”. (Manion, 2006)
Question: In what company's comics did Silver Samurai appear?
Answer: Marvel
Question: What is Silver Samurai's weapon?
Answer: an energy charged katana
Question: How many comic books has Silver Samurai appeared in?
Answer: over 350
Question: Who starred in The Last Samurai?
Answer: Tom Cruise
Question: Who did Tom Cruise play in The Last Samurai?
Answer: US Army Captain Nathan Algren |
Context: Hayek’s concept of the market as a spontaneous order has been recently applied to ecosystems to defend a broadly non-interventionist policy. Like the market, ecosystems contain complex networks of information, involve an ongoing dynamic process, contain orders within orders, and the entire system operates without being directed by a conscious mind. On this analysis, species takes the place of price as a visible element of the system formed by a complex set of largely unknowable elements. Human ignorance about the countless interactions between the organisms of an ecosystem limits our ability to manipulate nature. Since humans rely on the ecosystem to sustain themselves, we have a prima facie obligation to not disrupt such systems. This analysis of ecosystems as spontaneous orders does not rely on markets qualifying as spontaneous orders. As such, one need not endorse Hayek’s analysis of markets to endorse ecosystems as spontaneous orders.
Question: What has Hayek's views on the market been used to defend?
Answer: non-interventionist policy
Question: What is the term used to describe the obligation for humans to avoid disrupting the ecosystem?
Answer: prima facie
Question: What are ecosystems views to be?
Answer: spontaneous orders
Question: One might still support spontaneous orders without agreeing with which of Hayek's assessments?
Answer: analysis of markets
Question: What is limited by the ignorance of humanity?
Answer: our ability to manipulate nature |
Context: An 1855 paper on the "introduction" of species, written by Alfred Russel Wallace, claimed that patterns in the geographical distribution of living and fossil species could be explained if every new species always came into existence near an already existing, closely related species. Charles Lyell recognised the implications of Wallace's paper and its possible connection to Darwin's work, although Darwin did not, and in a letter written on 1–2 May 1856 Lyell urged Darwin to publish his theory to establish priority. Darwin was torn between the desire to set out a full and convincing account and the pressure to quickly produce a short paper. He met Lyell, and in correspondence with Joseph Dalton Hooker affirmed that he did not want to expose his ideas to review by an editor as would have been required to publish in an academic journal. He began a "sketch" account on 14 May 1856, and by July had decided to produce a full technical treatise on species. His theory including the principle of divergence was complete by 5 September 1857 when he sent Asa Gray a brief but detailed abstract of his ideas.
Question: When was the "Introduction of Species" paper written?
Answer: 1855
Question: Who wrote the "Introduction of Species" paper?
Answer: Alfred Russel Wallace
Question: How did Wallace claim that patterns in the distribution of species could be explained?
Answer: if every new species always came into existence near an already existing, closely related species
Question: Which scientist recognized the possible validity and implications of Wallace's paper?
Answer: Charles Lyell
Question: When did Lyell ask Darwin to publish his theory to give it priority?
Answer: 1–2 May 1856 |
Context: The stagnation and decline, Stephen Lee argues, was relentless after the death of Suleiman in 1566, interrupted by a few short revivals or reform and recovery. The decline gathered speed so that the Empire in 1699 was, "a mere shadow of that which intimidated East and West alike in 1566." Although there are dissenting scholars, most historians point to "degenerate Sultans, incompetent Grand Viziers, debilitated and ill-equipped armies, corrupt officials, avaricious speculators, grasping enemies, and treacherous friends." The main cause was a failure of leadership, as Lee argues the first 10 sultans from 1292 to 1566, with one exception, had performed admirably. The next 13 sultans from 1566 to 1703, with two exceptions, were lackadaisical or incompetent rulers, says Lee. In a highly centralized system, the failure at the center proved fatal. A direct result was the strengthening of provincial elites who increasingly ignored Constantinople. Secondly the military strength of European enemies grew stronger and stronger, while the Ottoman armies and arms scarcely improved. Finally the Ottoman economic system grew distorted and impoverished, as war caused inflation, world trade moved in other directions, and the deterioration of law and order made economic progress difficult.
Question: Who argues that there was steep decline and stagnation after the death of Suleiman?
Answer: Stephen Lee
Question: In what year did Suleiman die?
Answer: 1566
Question: By what year was it argued that the Ottoman empire was merely "a shadow" of what it was in 1566?
Answer: 1699
Question: Beginning and ending with what years does Lee argue that the rules of the Empire were incompetent?
Answer: 1566 to 1703
Question: What factor caused inflation in the Ottoman empire?
Answer: war |
Context: The Attalid dynasty of Pergamum lasted little longer; a Roman ally until the end, its final king Attalus III died in 133 BC without an heir, and taking the alliance to its natural conclusion, willed Pergamum to the Roman Republic. The final Greek resistance came in 88 BC, when King Mithridates of Pontus rebelled against Rome, captured Roman held Anatolia, and massacred up to 100,000 Romans and Roman allies across Asia Minor. Many Greek cities, including Athens, overthrew their Roman puppet rulers and joined him in the Mithridatic wars. When he was driven out of Greece by the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who laid siege to Athens and razed the city. Mithridates was finally defeated by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) in 65 BC. Further ruin was brought to Greece by the Roman civil wars, which were partly fought in Greece. Finally, in 27 BC, Augustus directly annexed Greece to the new Roman Empire as the province of Achaea. The struggles with Rome had left Greece depopulated and demoralised. Nevertheless, Roman rule at least brought an end to warfare, and cities such as Athens, Corinth, Thessaloniki and Patras soon recovered their prosperity.
Question: Who was the final king of the Attalid dynasty?
Answer: Attalus III
Question: When did Attalus III die?
Answer: 133 BC
Question: Who willed Pergamum to the Roman Republic?
Answer: Attalus III
Question: In what year was the final Greek resistance?
Answer: 88 BC
Question: Who led the final Greek resistance?
Answer: Mithridates of Pontus |
Context: In 1528 the bishop lost secular power over both Neder- and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Charles V combined the Seventeen Provinces (the current Benelux and the northern parts of France) as a personal union. This ended the prince-bishopric Utrecht, as the secular rule was now the lordship of Utrecht, with the religious power remaining with the bishop, although Charles V had gained the right to appoint new bishops. In 1559 the bishopric of Utrecht was raised to archbishopric to make it the religious center of the Northern ecclesiastical province in the Seventeen provinces.
Question: What year did the bishop lose power
Answer: In 1528 the bishop lost secular power over both Neder- and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Question: What did Charles V combine
Answer: Charles V combined the Seventeen Provinces (the current Benelux and the northern parts of France) as a personal union
Question: What did the loss of power end
Answer: the prince-bishopric Utrecht, as the secular rule was now the lordship of Utrecht, with the religious power remaining with the bishop
Question: What was the bishop of Utrecht raised to
Answer: In 1559 the bishopric of Utrecht was raised to archbishopric to make it the religious center of the Northern ecclesiastical province in the Seventeen provinces
Question: Who lost power in the 15th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who replaced the bishop?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What bishopric was raised archbishopric in the 15th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the religious center of Norther Europe?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Although Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli honored Mary as the Mother of God in the 16th century, they did so less than Martin Luther. Thus the idea of respect and high honor for Mary was not rejected by the first Protestants; but, they came to criticize the Roman Catholics for venerating Mary. Following the Council of Trent in the 16th century, as Marian veneration became associated with Catholics, Protestant interest in Mary decreased. During the Age of the Enlightenment any residual interest in Mary within Protestant churches almost disappeared, although Anglicans and Lutherans continued to honor her.
Question: For what practice did the first Protestants criticize the Roman Catholics?
Answer: venerating Mary
Question: In which century did the Council of Trent occur?
Answer: 16th
Question: Which Protestant churches still honor Mary?
Answer: Anglicans and Lutherans
Question: During which historical era did Protestant interest in Mary almost disappear?
Answer: Age of the Enlightenment
Question: Marian veneration became associated with which Christians after the Council of Trent?
Answer: Catholics
Question: In what century did Martin Luther honor Mary as the Mother of God?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In which century was the Council of Trent ended?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Protestant churches began honoring Mary before the 16th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: During what Age did Calvin and Huldrych Zwingli form the Council of Trent?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The "Neo-Eriksonian" identity status paradigm emerged in later years[when?], driven largely by the work of James Marcia. This paradigm focuses upon the twin concepts of exploration and commitment. The central idea is that any individual's sense of identity is determined in large part by the explorations and commitments that he or she makes regarding certain personal and social traits. It follows that the core of the research in this paradigm investigates the degrees to which a person has made certain explorations, and the degree to which he or she displays a commitment to those explorations.
Question: What identity status paradigm emerged due to the work of James Marcia?
Answer: Neo-Eriksonian
Question: The Neo-Eriksonian identity status paradigm focuses on what twin concepts?
Answer: exploration and commitment
Question: In the Neo-Eriksonian identity status paradigm, exploration and commitments determine what in large part?
Answer: any individual's sense of identity
Question: What identity status emerged very early on?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The neo-Eriksonian identity status is based on what opposing concepts?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is determined largely by the exploration and commitments that one makes regarding certain groups?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Exploration and commitment of what determine a person's social identity?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Tristan is primarily known for its wildlife. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because there are 13 known species of breeding seabirds on the island and two species of resident land birds. The seabirds include northern rockhopper penguins, Atlantic yellow-nosed albatrosses, sooty albatrosses, Atlantic petrels, great-winged petrels, soft-plumaged petrels, broad-billed prions, grey petrels, great shearwaters, sooty shearwaters, Tristan skuas, Antarctic terns and brown noddies. Tristan and Gough Islands are the only known breeding sites in the world for the Atlantic petrel (Pterodroma incerta; IUCN status EN). Inaccessible Island is also the only known breeding ground of the Spectacled Petrel (Procellaria conspicillata; IUCN Vulnerable). The Tristan albatross (IUCN status CR) is known to breed only on Gough and Inaccessible Islands: all nest on Gough except for one or two pairs who nest on Inaccessible Island.
Question: Who has identified the island as an Important Antarctic Area?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: There are 13 species of resident land birds on the islands and how many species of breeding seabirds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: There are 2 species of breeding seabirds on the island and how many species of resident land birds?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is the only known breeding site of the Tristan Petrel?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is Gough primarily known for?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: An important civic sculpture in Detroit is "The Spirit of Detroit" by Marshall Fredericks at the Coleman Young Municipal Center. The image is often used as a symbol of Detroit and the statue itself is occasionally dressed in sports jerseys to celebrate when a Detroit team is doing well. A memorial to Joe Louis at the intersection of Jefferson and Woodward Avenues was dedicated on October 16, 1986. The sculpture, commissioned by Sports Illustrated and executed by Robert Graham, is a 24-foot (7.3 m) long arm with a fisted hand suspended by a pyramidal framework.
Question: Who sculpted the Spirit of Detroit?
Answer: Marshall Fredericks
Question: When was the Joe Louis memorial dedicated?
Answer: October 16, 1986
Question: Who commissioned the Joe Luis memorial?
Answer: Sports Illustrated
Question: Who sculpted the Joe Louis memorial?
Answer: Robert Graham
Question: How long is the Joe Louis memorial?
Answer: 24-foot |
Context: The apse mosaic of the Gelati Monastery is a rare example of mosaic use in Georgia. Began by king David IV and completed by his son Demetrius I of Georgia, the fragmentary panel depicts Theotokos flanked by two archangels. The use of mosaic in Gelati attests to some Byzantine influence in the country and was a demonstration of the imperial ambition of the Bagrationids. The mosaic covered church could compete in magnificence with the churches of Constantinople. Gelati is one of few mosaic creations which survived in Georgia but fragments prove that the early churches of Pitsunda and Tsromi were also decorated with mosaic as well as other, lesser known sites. The destroyed 6th century mosaic floors in the Pitsunda Cathedral have been inspired by Roman prototypes. In Tsromi the tesserae are still visible on the walls of the 7th-century church but only faint lines hint at the original scheme. Its central figure was Christ standing and displaying a scroll with Georgian text.
Question: In what country is the the Gelati Monastery located?
Answer: Georgia
Question: Who started construction on the Gelati Monastery?
Answer: king David IV
Question: Who eventually oversaw completion of the Gelati Monastery?
Answer: Demetrius I of Georgia
Question: Who was the central theme of the mosaics at Tsromi?
Answer: Christ |
Context: While he was imprisoned in the castle of Fardajan near Hamadhan, Avicenna wrote his famous "Floating Man" – literally falling man – thought experiment to demonstrate human self-awareness and the substantiality and immateriality of the soul. Avicenna believed his "Floating Man" thought experiment demonstrated that the soul is a substance, and claimed humans cannot doubt their own consciousness, even in a situation that prevents all sensory data input. The thought experiment told its readers to imagine themselves created all at once while suspended in the air, isolated from all sensations, which includes no sensory contact with even their own bodies. He argued that, in this scenario, one would still have self-consciousness. Because it is conceivable that a person, suspended in air while cut off from sense experience, would still be capable of determining his own existence, the thought experiment points to the conclusions that the soul is a perfection, independent of the body, and an immaterial substance. The conceivability of this "Floating Man" indicates that the soul is perceived intellectually, which entails the soul's separateness from the body. Avicenna referred to the living human intelligence, particularly the active intellect, which he believed to be the hypostasis by which God communicates truth to the human mind and imparts order and intelligibility to nature. Following is an English translation of the argument:
Question: Where was Avicenna once imprisoned?
Answer: the castle of Fardajan
Question: What did Avicenna write while he was imprisoned?
Answer: "Floating Man"
Question: What was the soul according to Avicenna?
Answer: a substance
Question: How is the soul perceived according to Avicenna's work "Floating Man"?
Answer: intellectually
Question: How did Avicenna want man to think of themselves as?
Answer: suspended in the air, isolated from all sensations
Question: What did Avicenna write after being released from a castle near Hamahhan?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Avicenna believe proved the soal had no substance?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Who believe existance required sensory data input?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is dependant on the body?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Avicenna believe humans communicated with God?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where was Avicenna twice imprisoned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did Avicenna read while he was imprisoned?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How is the soul perceived according to Avicenna's work "Floating Woman"?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How did Avicenna want woman to think of themselves as?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The cheerful crowds visiting bomb sites were so large they interfered with rescue work, pub visits increased in number (beer was never rationed), and 13,000 attended cricket at Lord's. People left shelters when told instead of refusing to leave, although many housewives reportedly enjoyed the break from housework. Some people even told government surveyors that they enjoyed air raids if they occurred occasionally, perhaps once a week. Despite the attacks, defeat in Norway and France, and the threat of invasion, overall morale remained high; a Gallup poll found only 3% of Britons expected to lose the war in May 1940, another found an 88% approval rating for Churchill in July, and a third found 89% support for his leadership in October. Support for peace negotiations declined from 29% in February. Each setback caused more civilians to volunteer to become unpaid Local Defence Volunteers, workers worked longer shifts and over weekends, contributions rose to the £5,000 "Spitfire Funds" to build fighters, and the number of work days lost to strikes in 1940 was the lowest in history.:60–63,67–68,75,78–79,215–216
Question: What drink was never rationed?
Answer: beer
Question: How many people attended cricket at Lord's?
Answer: 13,000
Question: What percent of Briton's expected to lose the war?
Answer: 3%
Question: What was Churchill's highest rating?
Answer: 89%
Question: What were Spitfire Funds used for?
Answer: to build fighters |
Context: During the American Civil War, American cotton exports slumped due to a Union blockade on Southern ports, and also because of a strategic decision by the Confederate government to cut exports, hoping to force Britain to recognize the Confederacy or enter the war. This prompted the main purchasers of cotton, Britain and France, to turn to Egyptian cotton. British and French traders invested heavily in cotton plantations. The Egyptian government of Viceroy Isma'il took out substantial loans from European bankers and stock exchanges. After the American Civil War ended in 1865, British and French traders abandoned Egyptian cotton and returned to cheap American exports,[citation needed] sending Egypt into a deficit spiral that led to the country declaring bankruptcy in 1876, a key factor behind Egypt's occupation by the British Empire in 1882.
Question: When did the American cotton industry fail?
Answer: American Civil War
Question: What action of the Union damaged the southern cotton exports?
Answer: Union blockade
Question: To what county's cotton did European buyers turn due to the American Civil War?
Answer: Egyptian
Question: What characteristic of American cotton attracted buyers after the end of the Civil war?
Answer: cheap
Question: What did the abandonment of Egyptian cotton mean to the Egyptian economy?
Answer: bankruptcy
Question: When did the Egyptian cotton industry fall?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What action of the Union damaged the French cotton exports?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: To what country's cotton did Southern buyers turn due to the American Civil War?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What characteristic of Egyptian cotton attracted buyers after the end of the Civil war?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the abandonment of Southern cotton mean to the Egyptian economy?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Washington University School of Medicine, founded in 1891, is highly regarded as one of the world's leading centers for medical research and training. The School ranks first in the nation in student selectivity. Among its many recent initiatives, The Genome Center at Washington University (directed by Richard K. Wilson) played a leading role in the Human Genome Project, having contributed 25% of the finished sequence. The School pioneered bedside teaching and led in the transformation of empirical knowledge into scientific medicine. The medical school partners with St. Louis Children's Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital (part of BJC HealthCare), where all physicians are members of the school's faculty.
Question: When was the Washington University School of Medicine founded?
Answer: 1891
Question: Where does the Washington University School of Medicine rank in student selectivity?
Answer: first
Question: Who is the director of the Genome Center at Washington University?
Answer: Richard K. Wilson
Question: How much of a contribution did the Genome Center at Washington University make in sequencing the Human Genome Project?
Answer: 25%
Question: What hospitals partner with the Washington University School of Medicine?
Answer: St. Louis Children's Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Question: Who directs the Washington University School of Medicine?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Washington University School of Medicine partner with St. Louis Children's Hospital?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year did the Washington University School of Medicine partner with Barnes-Jewish Hospital?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was St. Louis Children's Hospital founded?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: In what year was Barnes-Jewish Hospital founded?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Apple's HyperCard scripting language provided Macintosh computer users with a means to design databases of slides, animation, video and sounds from LaserDiscs and then to create interfaces for users to play specific content from the disc through software called LaserStacks. User-created "stacks" were shared and were especially popular in education where teacher-generated stacks were used to access discs ranging from art collections to basic biological processes. Commercially available stacks were also popular with the Voyager company being possibly the most successful distributor.
Question: Which of Apple's programming languages allowed users to ceatively manipulate LaserDiscs?
Answer: HyperCard
Question: What did LaserStacks software enable Mac users to do?
Answer: play specific content from the disc
Question: Where were "stacks" created with the LaserStack software used?
Answer: in education
Question: Which commercial company was LaserStack's most successful distributor?
Answer: Voyager |
Context: Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is named after the Christian saint, Monica. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, Sawtelle on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south. Santa Monica is well known for its affluent single-family neighborhoods but also has many neighborhoods consisting primarily of condominiums and apartments. Over two-thirds of Santa Monica's residents are renters. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736.
Question: What type of city is Santa Monica?
Answer: beachfront
Question: What part of Los Angeles County is it located in?
Answer: western
Question: What is Santa Monica named after?
Answer: Christian saint, Monica
Question: Approximately how many residents of Santa Monica rent their property?
Answer: two-thirds
Question: What was the population in 2010 according to the Census Bureau?
Answer: 89,736
Question: How many renters are there in Santa Monica?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What lies to the west of Santa Monica?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How many condominiums are there in Santa Monica?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What's the population of Brentwood?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of city is Pacific Palisades?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Beginning with Immanuel Kant, German idealists such as G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, and Arthur Schopenhauer dominated 19th-century philosophy. This tradition, which emphasized the mental or "ideal" character of all phenomena, gave birth to idealistic and subjectivist schools ranging from British idealism to phenomenalism to existentialism. The historical influence of this branch of idealism remains central even to the schools that rejected its metaphysical assumptions, such as Marxism, pragmatism and positivism.
Question: What was the ethnicity of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling?
Answer: German
Question: In what century did Hegel write?
Answer: 19th
Question: Along with British idealism and existentialism, what philosophy was influenced by the German idealistic tradition?
Answer: phenomenalism
Question: Along with positivism and pragmatism, what philosophy rejected idealism's metaphysical views but what nevertheless influenced by it?
Answer: Marxism
Question: Whose philosophy did Immanuel Kant write against?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What schools of thought were contrary to British idealism?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the first British idealist?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Hegel wrote about what philosophy that rejected metaphysical assumptions?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: When did Marxism dominate philosophy?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In 2006, Morgan Stanley purchased 20 acres (8.1 ha) directly north of the Showboat Atlantic City Hotel and Casino for a new $2 billion plus casino resort. Revel Entertainment Group was named as the project's developer for the Revel Casino. Revel was hindered with many problems, with the biggest setback to the company being in April 2010 when Morgan Stanley, the owner of 90% of Revel Entertainment Group, decided to discontinue funding for continued construction and put its stake in Revel up for sale. Early in 2010 the New Jersey state legislature passed a bill offering tax incentives to attract new investors and complete the job, but a poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind released in March 2010 showed that three of five voters (60%) opposed the legislation, and two of three of those who opposed it "strongly" opposed it. Ultimately, Governor Chris Christie offered Revel $261 million in state tax credits to assist the casino once it opened. As of March 2011[update], Revel had completed all of the exterior work and had continued work on the interior after finally receiving the funding necessary to complete construction. It had a soft opening in April 2012, and was fully open by May 2012. Ten months later, in February 2013, after serious losses and a write-down in the value of the resort from $2.4 billion to $450 million, Revel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It was restructured but still could not carry on and re-entered bankruptcy on June 19, 2014. It was put up for sale, however as no suitable bids were received the resort closed its doors on September 2, 2014.
Question: In what year did Morgan Stanley purchase land for a new casino resort?
Answer: 2006
Question: How much land did Morgan Stanley purchase?
Answer: 20 acres
Question: Who was named as the developer for Morgan Stanley's casino resort?
Answer: Revel Entertainment Group
Question: What percentage of ownership did Morgan Stanley hold in Revel Entertainment Group?
Answer: 90%
Question: Who offered Revel $261 million in state tax credits?
Answer: Governor Chris Christie |
Context: The first visible-spectrum (red) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak, Jr., while working at General Electric Company. Holonyak first reported his LED in the journal Applied Physics Letters on the December 1, 1962. M. George Craford, a former graduate student of Holonyak, invented the first yellow LED and improved the brightness of red and red-orange LEDs by a factor of ten in 1972. In 1976, T. P. Pearsall created the first high-brightness, high-efficiency LEDs for optical fiber telecommunications by inventing new semiconductor materials specifically adapted to optical fiber transmission wavelengths.
Question: At what global company was the first visible-spectrum LED developed?
Answer: General Electric Company
Question: What GE employee developed the visible-spectrum LED?
Answer: Nick Holonyak, Jr.
Question: What color is associated with the visible-spectrum LED?
Answer: red
Question: What color LED was later created in 1972?
Answer: yellow
Question: What graduate student of Holonyak created the yellow LED?
Answer: M. George Craford
Question: At what global company was the first non-visible-spectrum LED developed?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What GE employee developed the non-visible-spectrum LED?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color is associated with the non-visible-spectrum LED?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What color non-LED was later created in 1972?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What graduate student of Holonyak created the yellow non-LED?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: The Office of the Federal Register publishes the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and United States Statutes at Large, among others. It also administers the Electoral College.
Question: What office publishes the Federal Register?
Answer: The Office of the Federal Register
Question: What office administers the Electoral College?
Answer: The Office of the Federal Register
Question: Which office publishes the Code of Federal Regulations?
Answer: The Office of the Federal Register
Question: Which office publishes the United States Statutes at Large?
Answer: The Office of the Federal Register
Question: What does the Electoral College publish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What code is the Electoral College responsible for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What statutes does the Electoral College publish?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Does the Electoral College only publish the US Statutes at Large only or are there others?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What office does the Electoral College administer?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Bell worked extensively in medical research and invented techniques for teaching speech to the deaf. During his Volta Laboratory period, Bell and his associates considered impressing a magnetic field on a record as a means of reproducing sound. Although the trio briefly experimented with the concept, they could not develop a workable prototype. They abandoned the idea, never realizing they had glimpsed a basic principle which would one day find its application in the tape recorder, the hard disc and floppy disc drive and other magnetic media.
Question: What famous lab did Bell spend time working for?
Answer: Volta
Question: What type of energy did Bell investigate at the Volta Laboratory?
Answer: magnetic
Question: The magnetic field is part of what sort of recorder?
Answer: tape recorder |
Context: However, this was not always the case; in the early 20th century, once it became apparent that the "sport" was worked, pro wrestling was looked down on as a cheap entertainment for the uneducated working class — an attitude that still exists to varying degrees today. The French theorist Roland Barthes was among the first to propose that wrestling was worthy of deeper analysis, in his essay "The World of Wrestling" from his book Mythologies, first published in 1957. Barthes argued that it should be looked at not as a scamming of the ignorant, but as spectacle; a mode of theatric performance for a willing, if bloodthirsty, audience. Wrestling is described as performed art which demands an immediate reading of the juxtaposed meanings. The logical conclusion is given least importance over the theatrical performers of the wrestlers and the referee. According to Barthes, the function of a wrestler is not to win: it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of them and to give the audience a theatrical spectacle. This work is considered a foundation of all later study.
Question: What impact did the revelation of wrestling being "fixed" have?
Answer: looked down on as a cheap entertainment for the uneducated working class
Question: When was Roland Barthes book published?
Answer: 1957
Question: What did Barthes believe a wrestler give the audience?
Answer: a theatrical spectacle
Question: What was the name of Roland Barthes' essay?
Answer: "The World of Wrestling" |
Context: Bacterial infections may be treated with antibiotics, which are classified as bacteriocidal if they kill bacteria, or bacteriostatic if they just prevent bacterial growth. There are many types of antibiotics and each class inhibits a process that is different in the pathogen from that found in the host. An example of how antibiotics produce selective toxicity are chloramphenicol and puromycin, which inhibit the bacterial ribosome, but not the structurally different eukaryotic ribosome. Antibiotics are used both in treating human disease and in intensive farming to promote animal growth, where they may be contributing to the rapid development of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations. Infections can be prevented by antiseptic measures such as sterilizing the skin prior to piercing it with the needle of a syringe, and by proper care of indwelling catheters. Surgical and dental instruments are also sterilized to prevent contamination by bacteria. Disinfectants such as bleach are used to kill bacteria or other pathogens on surfaces to prevent contamination and further reduce the risk of infection.
Question: What type of antibiotics called bacterocidal?
Answer: if they kill bacteria
Question: What kind of antibiotics are used for prevention of bacterial growth
Answer: bacteriostatic
Question: Besides in treating human disease where else are antibiotics used?
Answer: in intensive farming to promote animal growth
Question: What is the drawback of using antibiotics if agriculture?
Answer: rapid development of antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations
Question: What is common prevention method of infections in medicine?
Answer: sterilizing |
Context: Captain John Charles Marshall and Thomas Gilbert visited the islands in 1788. The islands were named for Marshall on Western charts, although the natives have historically named their home "jolet jen Anij" (Gifts from God). Around 1820, Russian explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern and the French explorer Louis Isidore Duperrey named the islands after John Marshall, and drew maps of the islands. The designation was repeated later on British maps.[citation needed] In 1824 the crew of the American whaler Globe mutinied and some of the crew put ashore on Mulgrave Island. One year later, the American schooner Dolphin arrived and picked up two boys, the last survivors of a massacre by the natives due to their brutal treatment of the women.:2
Question: Who arrived at the Marshall Islands in 1788?
Answer: Captain John Charles Marshall and Thomas Gilbert
Question: What do natives of the Marshall Islands call their country?
Answer: jolet jen Anij
Question: Which Russian was involved in naming the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Question: Which French citizen was involved in naming the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Louis Isidore Duperrey
Question: At what island did the Globe arrive in 1824?
Answer: Mulgrave
Question: Who notably accompanied John Charles Marshall to the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Thomas Gilbert
Question: In what year did Marshall and Gilbert go to the islands?
Answer: 1788
Question: What is the traditional name of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: jolet jen Anij
Question: What is the English translation of the traditional name of the Marshall Islands?
Answer: Gifts from God
Question: On what island did mutinous American whalers land in 1824?
Answer: Mulgrave Island |
Context: The most common source of new genes in eukaryotic lineages is gene duplication, which creates copy number variation of an existing gene in the genome. The resulting genes (paralogs) may then diverge in sequence and in function. Sets of genes formed in this way comprise a gene family. Gene duplications and losses within a family are common and represent a major source of evolutionary biodiversity. Sometimes, gene duplication may result in a nonfunctional copy of a gene, or a functional copy may be subject to mutations that result in loss of function; such nonfunctional genes are called pseudogenes.:7.6
Question: What is the most common source of new genes in eukaryotic lineages?
Answer: gene duplication
Question: What creates copy number variation of an existing gene in the genome?
Answer: gene duplication
Question: What are the genes that result from eukaryotic gene duplication called?
Answer: paralogs
Question: What type of copy can gene duplication sometimes result in?
Answer: nonfunctional
Question: What are functional copies of a gene which have a loss of function due to mutation called?
Answer: pseudogenes |
Context: Public buildings generally varied between the extremes of plain boxes with grid windows and Italian Late Renaissance palaces, depending on budget. Somerset House in London, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1776 for government offices, was as magnificent as any country house, though never quite finished, as funds ran out. Barracks and other less prestigious buildings could be as functional as the mills and factories that were growing increasingly large by the end of the period. But as the period came to an end many commercial projects were becoming sufficiently large, and well-funded, to become "architectural in intention", rather than having their design left to the lesser class of "surveyors".
Question: Somerset House was designed by whom?
Answer: Sir William Chambers
Question: In what year was Somerset House designed?
Answer: 1776
Question: Commercial projects in the late period tended to be "architectural" in what way?
Answer: "architectural in intention"
Question: What was considered a lesser class of designers?
Answer: surveyors
Question: What government building was finished in 1776?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: All what types of prestigious buildings worse functional as mills and factories?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What do commercial projects early in them. Tend to be?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What type of building like Renaissance palaces regardless of budget?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: A key component common to all CPUs is the program counter, a special memory cell (a register) that keeps track of which location in memory the next instruction is to be read from.
Question: A special memory cell of a CPU is called what?
Answer: a register
Question: A register of a CPU keeps track of what?
Answer: which location in memory the next instruction is to be read from
Question: What is a component that all CPUs have?
Answer: the program counter |
Context: The Lempel–Ziv (LZ) compression methods are among the most popular algorithms for lossless storage. DEFLATE is a variation on LZ optimized for decompression speed and compression ratio, but compression can be slow. DEFLATE is used in PKZIP, Gzip and PNG. LZW (Lempel–Ziv–Welch) is used in GIF images. Also noteworthy is the LZR (Lempel-Ziv–Renau) algorithm, which serves as the basis for the Zip method.[citation needed] LZ methods use a table-based compression model where table entries are substituted for repeated strings of data. For most LZ methods, this table is generated dynamically from earlier data in the input. The table itself is often Huffman encoded (e.g. SHRI, LZX). Current LZ-based coding schemes that perform well are Brotli and LZX. LZX is used in Microsoft's CAB format.
Question: What compression methods are among the most popular?
Answer: Lempel–Ziv (LZ)
Question: What is used in PKZIP, Gzip and PNG?
Answer: DEFLATE
Question: What serves as the basis of the Zip method?
Answer: LZR
Question: What is a current LZ based coding scheme that does well?
Answer: Brotli
Question: What is used in Microsoft's CAB format?
Answer: LZX
Question: What speed methods are among the most popular?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is used in PKZIP, LZR, and Huffman?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What serves as the dynamically generated table for the Zip method?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is a current LZ based CAB that does well?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is used in Microsoft's DEFLATE format?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: There is a debate about how and to what extent different dietary factors— such as intake of processed carbohydrates, total protein, fat, and carbohydrate intake, intake of saturated and trans fatty acids, and low intake of vitamins/minerals—contribute to the development of insulin and leptin resistance. In any case, analogous to the way modern man-made pollution may possess the potential to overwhelm the environment's ability to maintain homeostasis, the recent explosive introduction of high glycemic index and processed foods into the human diet may possess the potential to overwhelm the body's ability to maintain homeostasis and health (as evidenced by the metabolic syndrome epidemic).
Question: The debate regarding factors influencing the development of insulin and leptin is not just about how, but also about what other factor?
Answer: to what extent
Question: Other than processed foods, what else was recently introduced to the human diet?
Answer: high glycemic index
Question: What is an example of the body's ability to maintain homeostasis being overwhelmed?
Answer: metabolic syndrome epidemic |
Context: Primarily starting in the mid-1960s, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture associated with the King's Road, Chelsea and Carnaby Street. The role of trendsetter was revived during the punk era. In 1965 London's political boundaries were expanded to take into account the growth of the urban area and a new Greater London Council was created. During The Troubles in Northern Ireland, London was subjected to bombing attacks by the Provisional IRA. Racial inequality was highlighted by the 1981 Brixton riot.
Question: What was the root cause of the Brixton riot in 1981?
Answer: Racial inequality
Question: In what year was the Greater London Council formed?
Answer: 1965
Question: In what period was London a symbol of trend-setting and youth?
Answer: the mid-1960s
Question: During "The Troubles", who waged assaults via bombings on London?
Answer: the Provisional IRA
Question: Why was the Greater London Council established?
Answer: the growth of the urban area |
Context: Napoleon's triumph at Marengo secured his political authority and boosted his popularity back home, but it did not lead to an immediate peace. Bonaparte's brother, Joseph, led the complex negotiations in Lunéville and reported that Austria, emboldened by British support, would not acknowledge the new territory that France had acquired. As negotiations became increasingly fractious, Bonaparte gave orders to his general Moreau to strike Austria once more. Moreau and the French swept through Bavaria and scored an overwhelming victory at Hohenlinden in December 1800. As a result, the Austrians capitulated and signed the Treaty of Lunéville in February 1801. The treaty reaffirmed and expanded earlier French gains at Campo Formio. Britain now remained the only nation that was still at war with France.
Question: Where did the victory for Napoleon that secured his political power and increased his popularity in France occur?
Answer: Marengo
Question: Where did the negotiations with Austria led by Napoleon's brother take place?
Answer: Lunéville
Question: What was the name of the general ordered by Napoleon to launch another attack against Austria?
Answer: Moreau
Question: What was the name of the treaty signed by the Austrians as a result of their defeat at Hohenlinden?
Answer: the Treaty of Lunéville
Question: Where did Moreau achieve his major victory against Austria in December 1800?
Answer: Hohenlinden |
Context: In 1979, the committees began the redistribution of land in the Jefara plain, continuing through 1981. In May 1980, measures to redistribute and equalize wealth were implemented; anyone with over 1000 dinar in his bank account saw that extra money expropriated. The following year, the GPC announced that the government would take control of all import, export and distribution functions, with state supermarkets replacing privately owned businesses; this led to a decline in the availability of consumer goods and the development of a thriving black market.
Question: Where did land redistribution begin in 1979?
Answer: Jefara plain
Question: When did the Jefara plain land redistribution end?
Answer: 1981
Question: What was the maximum amount of money a person could have in their bank account without having it expropriated in 1980?
Answer: 1000 dinar
Question: As a result of the 1981 laws putting the government in control of commerce, what began to thrive?
Answer: black market
Question: What took the place of private businesses in 1981?
Answer: state supermarkets |
Context: To symbolize their bond with the papacy, the pope gives each newly appointed cardinal a gold ring, which is traditionally kissed by Catholics when greeting a cardinal (as with a bishop's episcopal ring). The pope chooses the image on the outside: under Pope Benedict XVI it was a modern depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus, with Mary and John to each side. The ring includes the pope's coat of arms on the inside.[citation needed]
Question: What does the pope give to a new Cardinal?
Answer: a gold ring
Question: Who decides on the design of the item given to new Cardinals?
Answer: the pope
Question: What does the pope give to each retiring cardinal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does the silver ring symbolize?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is traditionally kissed by Athiests when greeting a cardinal?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What includes the cardinal's coat of arms?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What image did Pope John Paul II depict on the outside of the ring?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: After dynastic quarrels however, there was a Christian reconquest in 1072. The family who returned the city to Christianity were called the Hautevilles, including Robert Guiscard and his army, who is regarded as a hero by the natives. It was under Roger II of Sicily that Norman holdings in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian Peninsula were promoted from the County of Sicily into the Kingdom of Sicily. The Kingdom's capital was Palermo, with the King's Court held at the Palazzo dei Normanni. Much construction was undertaken during this period, such as the building of Palermo Cathedral. The Kingdom of Sicily became one of the wealthiest states in Europe.
Question: Who is considered a hero by natives for ending Muslim control of Palermo?
Answer: Robert Guiscard
Question: What was the family name who returned Palermo to Christianity after reconquest in 1072?
Answer: Hautevilles
Question: Where was the Kings Court held in the Kingdom of Sicily?
Answer: Palazzo dei Normanni
Question: How did the Kingdom of Sicily compare monetarily with the other European staes?
Answer: one of the wealthiest states in Europe
Question: What reconquest occured in the 10th century?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Arab family fought in the reconquest?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Under who's rule was the kingdom of Sicily turned into the county of Sicily?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What Catherdral was built prior to the reconquest?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Galicia is further divided into 53 comarcas, 315 municipalities (93 in A Coruña, 67 in Lugo, 92 in Ourense, 62 in Pontevedra) and 3,778 parishes. Municipalities are divided into parishes, which may be further divided into aldeas ("hamlets") or lugares ("places"). This traditional breakdown into such small areas is unusual when compared to the rest of Spain. Roughly half of the named population entities of Spain are in Galicia, which occupies only 5.8 percent of the country's area. It is estimated that Galicia has over a million named places, over 40,000 of them being communities.
Question: How many comarcas does Galicia consist of?
Answer: 53
Question: How many municipalities?
Answer: 315
Question: How many parishes?
Answer: 3,778
Question: How many of its numerous named locations are communities?
Answer: 40,000 |
Context: Like his predecessor Pius XII, Paul VI put much emphasis on the dialogue with all nations of the world through establishing diplomatic relations. The number of foreign embassies accredited to the Vatican doubled during his pontificate. This was a reflection of a new understanding between Church and State, which had been formulated first by Pius XI and Pius XII but decreed by Vatican II. The pastoral constitution Gaudium et spes stated that the Catholic Church is not bound to any form of government and willing to cooperate with all forms. The Church maintained its right to select bishops on its own without any interference by the State.
Question: What number doubled during Paul Vi's papacy?
Answer: foreign embassies
Question: Who did Paul Vi want to maintain a continuing dialogue with?
Answer: nations
Question: What document states that the Catholic church is not subject to any particlar government?
Answer: Gaudium et spes
Question: Who did the church retain the right to elect without interference from the state in its constitutional document?
Answer: bishops
Question: What organization officially outlined the church's relationship to state?
Answer: Vatican II |
Context: The county has several museums; those at Bath include the American Museum in Britain, the Museum of Bath Architecture, the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, the Jane Austen Centre, and the Roman Baths. Other visitor attractions which reflect the cultural heritage of the county include: Claverton Pumping Station, Dunster Working Watermill, the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Nunney Castle, The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare, King John's Hunting Lodge in Axbridge, Blake Museum Bridgwater, Radstock Museum, Museum of Somerset in Taunton, the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury, and Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum.
Question: What some of the Museums in Bath
Answer: American Museum in Britain, the Museum of Bath Architecture, the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, the Jane Austen Centre, and the Roman Baths
Question: What are some other attractions
Answer: Claverton Pumping Station, Dunster Working Watermill, the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Nunney Castle, The Helicopter Museum in Weston-super-Mare
Question: Where is the Museum of Somerset
Answer: in Taunton
Question: What is the name of the museum in Glastonbury
Answer: the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury
Question: What is the largest museum in Somerset?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the smallest museum in Somerset?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is the most visited museum in Somerset?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Somerset museum has the most valuable collection?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which Somerset museum has the most extensive collection?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In addition to having evolved, for the most part, separately from one another and with distinct individual histories, the Latin-based regional Romance languages of Italy are also better classified as separate languages rather than true "dialects" due to the often high degree in which they lack mutual intelligibility. Though mostly mutually unintelligible, the exact degree to which the regional Italian languages are mutual unintelligible varies, often correlating with geographical distance or geographical barriers between the languages, with some regional Italian languages that are closer in geographical proximity to each other or closer to each other on the dialect continuum being more or less mutually intelligible. For instance, a speaker of purely Eastern Lombard, a language in Northern Italy's Lombardy region that includes the Bergamasque dialect, would have severely limited mutual intelligibility with a purely standard Italian speaker and would be nearly completely unintelligible to a speaker of a pure Sicilian language variant. Due to Eastern Lombard's status as a Gallo-Italic language, an Eastern Lombard speaker may, in fact, have more mutual intelligibility with a Occitan, Catalan, or French speaker than a standard Italian or Sicilian language speaker. Meanwhile, a Sicilian language speaker would have an greater degree of mutual intelligibility with a speaker of the more closely related Neapolitan language, but far less mutual intelligibility with a person speaking Sicilian Gallo-Italic, a language that developed in isolated Lombard emigrant communities on the same island as the Sicilian language.
Question: What is a major reason why the Latin-based regional Romance languages of Italy should be regarded as independent languages rather than dialects of each other?
Answer: they lack mutual intelligibility
Question: From what region of Italy does the Eastern Lombard dialect hail?
Answer: Lombardy
Question: What language family does Eastern Lombard belong to?
Answer: Gallo-Italic
Question: What type of language is Sicilian?
Answer: Neapolitan
Question: What language was spoken by Lombard immigrants to Sicily?
Answer: Sicilian Gallo-Italic
Question: Rather than separate languages, what are the Romance languages better classified as?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Where is Western Lombard spoken?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With who would a Sicilian speaker have a lesser degree of mutual intelligibility?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: With who would a Sicilian speaker have a lesser degree of mutual unintelligibility?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which language developed in popular Lombard communities in the same place as the Sicilian language?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Gene nomenclature has been established by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) for each known human gene in the form of an approved gene name and symbol (short-form abbreviation), which can be accessed through a database maintained by HGNC. Symbols are chosen to be unique, and each gene has only one symbol (although approved symbols sometimes change). Symbols are preferably kept consistent with other members of a gene family and with homologs in other species, particularly the mouse due to its role as a common model organism.
Question: What committee has established gene nomenclature for every known human gene?
Answer: HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC)
Question: How can the gene nomenclature be accessed?
Answer: through a database maintained by HGNC
Question: How many symbols does each gene have?
Answer: only one
Question: With what is it preferred that symbols are kept consistent with?
Answer: homologs in other species
Question: What type of model does the mouse play a role for?
Answer: common model |
Context: Although colloquially Delhi and New Delhi as names are used interchangeably to refer to the jurisdiction of NCT of Delhi, these are two distinct entities, and the latter is a small part of the former.
Question: What are the two terms colloquially used to refer to the jurisdiction of NCT of Delhi?
Answer: Delhi and New Delhi
Question: New Delhi is a small part of what larger territory?
Answer: Delhi
Question: Delhi and New Delhi are colloquially used to refer to what jurisdiction?
Answer: NCT of Delhi
Question: What is one name used to refer to the jurisdiction of NCT of Delhi?
Answer: Delhi |
Context: Updated Motorola CPUs made a faster machine possible, and in 1987 Apple took advantage of the new Motorola technology and introduced the Macintosh II at $5500, powered by a 16 MHz Motorola 68020 processor. The primary improvement in the Macintosh II was Color QuickDraw in ROM, a color version of the graphics language which was the heart of the machine. Among the many innovations in Color QuickDraw were the ability to handle any display size, any color depth, and multiple monitors. The Macintosh II marked the start of a new direction for the Macintosh, as now for the first time it had an open architecture with several NuBus expansion slots, support for color graphics and external monitors, and a modular design similar to that of the IBM PC. It had an internal hard drive and a power supply with a fan, which was initially fairly loud. One third-party developer sold a device to regulate fan speed based on a heat sensor, but it voided the warranty. Later Macintosh computers had quieter power supplies and hard drives.
Question: Whose technology did Apple take advantage of when introducing the Macintosh II?
Answer: Motorola
Question: What powered the Macintosh II?
Answer: a 16 MHz Motorola 68020 processor
Question: How much did the Macintosh II sell for?
Answer: $5500
Question: What marked the start of a new direction for Macintosh?
Answer: The Macintosh II
Question: What was the Macintosh II's new modular design similar to?
Answer: the IBM PC
Question: Whose technology did Apple take advantage of when introducing the Macintosh I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What powered the Macintosh I?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: How much did the Macintosh I sell for?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What marked the end of a new direction for Macintosh
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the Macintosh I's new modular design similar to?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Another action in 1917 that is of note was the armistice signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk. As a condition for peace, the treaty by the Central Powers conceded huge portions of the former Russian Empire to Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire, greatly upsetting nationalists and conservatives. The Bolsheviks made peace with the German Empire and the Central Powers, as they had promised the Russian people prior to the Revolution. Vladimir Lenin's decision has been attributed to his sponsorship by the foreign office of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, offered by the latter in hopes that with a revolution, Russia would withdraw from World War I. This suspicion was bolstered by the German Foreign Ministry's sponsorship of Lenin's return to Petrograd. The Western Allies expressed their dismay at the Bolsheviks, upset at:
Question: When was the armistice signed between Russia and Central powers?
Answer: 1917
Question: What did Central powers concede in exchange for peace?
Answer: huge portions of the former Russian Empire to Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire
Question: Who did the Bolsheviks make peace with?
Answer: the German Empire
Question: What were Vladimir Lenin's decisions caused by?
Answer: his sponsorship by the foreign office of Wilhelm II
Question: Who did the German sponsorship of Lenin's Petrograd upset?
Answer: Western Allies |
Context: Following the discovery of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Wii version of Twilight Princess, an exploit known as the "Twilight Hack" was developed, allowing the execution of custom code from a Secure Digital (SD) card on the console. A properly designed save file would cause the game to load unsigned code, which could include Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) programs and homebrew Wii applications. Versions 3.3 and 3.4 of the Wii Menu prevented copying exploited save files onto the console until circumvention methods were discovered, and version 4.0 of the Wii Menu patched the vulnerability.
Question: What kind of error was found in Twilight Princess for Wii?
Answer: buffer overflow vulnerability
Question: What does ELF stand for?
Answer: Executable and Linkable Format
Question: Which issue of the Wii Menu fixed the issue with Twilight Princess?
Answer: 4.0
Question: What was the name of the hack discovered?
Answer: Twilight Hack
Question: What versions of the Wii Menu prevented copying the exploited files?
Answer: 3.3 and 3.4
Question: What version of the Wii patched the hack vulnerability?
Answer: 4.0
Question: What kind of error was found in Twilight Princess for SD?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What does Wii mean?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which issue of the Wii Menu fixed the issue with the Wii Menu?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What was the name of the console discovered?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What version of ELF patched the hack vulnerability?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: In May 2012, Sony Music filed charges against the website IsoHunt. The plaintifs claims in the court document filed at the supreme court of British Columbia: "The IsoHunt Websites have been designed and are operated by the defendants with the sole purpose of profiting from rampant copyright infringement which defendants actively encourage, promote, authorize, induce, aid, abet, materially contribute to and commercially profit from."
Question: In May 2012, ABC Music filed charged against whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Which document was filed at the supreme court of the China?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The website IconicHunt had charges filed against them by whom?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: The website IsoHunt filed charges against Sony Music in what year?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: From 2006, the growth of the city extended into "green wedges" and beyond the city's urban growth boundary. Predictions of the city's population reaching 5 million people pushed the state government to review the growth boundary in 2008 as part of its Melbourne @ Five Million strategy. In 2009, Melbourne was less affected by the Late-2000s financial crisis in comparison to other Australian cities. At this time, more new jobs were created in Melbourne than any other Australian city—almost as many as the next two fastest growing cities, Brisbane and Perth, combined, and Melbourne's property market remained strong, resulting in historically high property prices and widespread rent increases.
Question: Was Melbourne more or less affected by the Late-2000s financial crisis in comparison to other Australian cities?
Answer: less affected
Question: Which market in Melbourne remained strong during the Late-2000s financial crisis and resulted in historically high property prices and rent increases?
Answer: property market
Question: After Melbourne, which were the next two fastest growing Australian cities in 2009?
Answer: Brisbane and Perth
Question: What is the name given to Melbourne's population strategy that was revised in 2008?
Answer: Melbourne @ Five Million strategy |
Context: The music of the Romantic era, from roughly the first decade of the 19th century to the early 20th century, was characterized by increased attention to an extended melodic line, as well as expressive and emotional elements, paralleling romanticism in other art forms. Musical forms began to break from the Classical era forms (even as those were being codified), with free-form pieces like nocturnes, fantasias, and preludes being written where accepted ideas about the exposition and development of themes were ignored or minimized. The music became more chromatic, dissonant, and tonally colorful, with tensions (with respect to accepted norms of the older forms) about key signatures increasing. The art song (or Lied) came to maturity in this era, as did the epic scales of grand opera, ultimately transcended by Richard Wagner's Ring cycle.
Question: Increased attention to extended melodic lines characterized what era?
Answer: Romantic
Question: When did the Romantic era end?
Answer: the early 20th century
Question: Free-form pieces like nocturnes and preludes were a break from what era?
Answer: Classical
Question: Tensions about what increased during the Romantic era?
Answer: key signatures
Question: What is a name for an art song?
Answer: Lied |
Context: Sociological attention to emotion has varied over time. Emilé Durkheim (1915/1965) wrote about the collective effervescence or emotional energy that was experienced by members of totemic rituals in Australian aborigine society. He explained how the heightened state of emotional energy achieved during totemic rituals transported individuals above themselves giving them the sense that they were in the presence of a higher power, a force, that was embedded in the sacred objects that were worshipped. These feelings of exaltation, he argued, ultimately lead people to believe that there were forces that governed sacred objects.
Question: Who discussed the idea of a collective effervescence?
Answer: Emilé Durkheim
Question: What society was studied to describe the notion of collective effervescence?
Answer: Australian aborigine society
Question: Durkheim saw collective effervescence in what Australian aboriginal activity?
Answer: totemic rituals
Question: What is another term for collective effervescence?
Answer: emotional energy
Question: Who didn't discuss the idea of a collective effervescence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What society was studied to describe the notion of collective non-effervescence?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: Durkheim saw collective effervescence in what Australian non-aboriginal activity?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What is another term for collective non-effervescence?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Red was also a badge of rank. During the Song dynasty (906–1279), officials of the top three ranks wore purple clothes; those of the fourth and fifth wore bright red; those of the sixth and seventh wore green; and the eighth and ninth wore blue. Red was the color worn by the royal guards of honor, and the color of the carriages of the imperial family. When the imperial family traveled, their servants and accompanying officials carried red and purple umbrellas. Of an official who had talent and ambition, it was said "he is so red he becomes purple."
Question: During what years did the Song dynasty occur?
Answer: 906–1279
Question: Which number of ranks wore purple clothing in the Song dynasty?
Answer: three
Question: What color did sixth rank Song dynasty officials wear?
Answer: green
Question: What ranks in the Song dynasty wore blue?
Answer: eighth and ninth
Question: What dynasty took place from 909-1276?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What did the Song dynasty say about an official who had talent?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What officials of the top three ranks wore bright red?
Answer: Unanswerable
Question: What officials of the fourth and fifth rank wore purple?
Answer: Unanswerable |
Context: Typical American families did not fare as well, nor did those "wealthy-but-not wealthiest" families just beneath the pyramid's top. On the other hand, half of the poorest families did not have wealth declines at all during the crisis. The Federal Reserve surveyed 4,000 households between 2007 and 2009, and found that the total wealth of 63 percent of all Americans declined in that period. 77 percent of the richest families had a decrease in total wealth, while only 50 percent of those on the bottom of the pyramid suffered a decrease.
Question: How many of the poorest families did not have any wealth decline during the financial crisis?
Answer: half
Question: In a Federal Reserve survey of 4,000 households, what percent reported wealth decline between 2007 and 2009?
Answer: 63
Question: How many of the richest families had a decrease in total wealth between 2007 and 2009?
Answer: 77
Question: How many families at the bottom of the pyramid had a decrease in total wealth between 2007 and 2009?
Answer: 50
Question: Which families experienced the least decline in wealth between 2007 and 2009?
Answer: poorest families |
Context: Peace negotiations at the Congress of Paris resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Paris on 30 March 1856. In compliance with article III, Russia restored to the Ottoman Empire the city and citadel of Kars in common with "all other parts of the Ottoman territory of which the Russian troop were in possession". Russia ceded some land in Bessarabia at the mouth of the Danube to Moldavia. By article IV The United Kingdom, France, Sardinia and Turkey restored to Russia "the towns and ports of Sevastopol, Balaklava, Kamish, Eupatoria, Kerch, Jenikale, Kinburn, as well as all other territories occupied by the allied troops". In conformity with article XI and XIII, the Tsar and the Sultan agreed not to establish any naval or military arsenal on the Black Sea coast. The Black Sea clauses weakened Russia, and it no longer posed a naval threat to the Ottomans. The principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia were nominally returned to the Ottoman Empire; in practice they became independent. The Great Powers pledged to respect the independence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire.:432–33
Question: Where was the Treaty of Paris signed?
Answer: the Congress of Paris
Question: What year was the Treaty of Paris signed?
Answer: 1856
Question: Who agreed to not have any military arsenal on the Black Sea coast?
Answer: the Tsar and the Sultan
Question: Who were the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia later return to?
Answer: the Ottoman Empire
Question: Who returned towns and seaports to Russia?
Answer: The United Kingdom, France, Sardinia and Turkey |