Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.
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Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- Beyond skateboards, Silicon Valley and hippies, California has a trendsetting streak of a different kind.
Sent 2: The state has been first to pass major public health initiatives that have spread throughout the country.
Sent 3: California was first to require smog checks for clean air, pass anti-tobacco initiatives and bike helmets laws.
Sent 4: While these laws were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.
Sent 5: The Golden State was first to ban smoking in workplaces, bars and restaurants in 1998.
Sent 6: Now similar rules exist throughout the country.
Sent 7: Some advocates tout the state as a forward-thinking vanguard in which its health and safety laws are routinely emulated by other states.
Sent 8: "There have been progressive legislations in tobacco, environment and obesity prevention," said Mark Horton, a lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.
Sent 9: "In some respect, the rest of the country looks to California as a laboratory for moving forward with those various types of initiatives."Sent 10: But some critics liken the Golden State to a nanny state.
Sent 11: California has 151,002 health and safety laws.
Sent 12: "It never ends," said Laer Pearce, who works in public affairs in Orange County.
Sent 13: "Every year, several hundred bills come through and dozens of them tell us how to live our lives."Sent 14: Starting in January, 760 new California laws went into effect -- for example, the importing of shark fins is prohibited, student athletes are required to have medical clearance after suffering a head injury, teens are banned from using tanning booths and the sale of caffeinated beer is forbidden.
Sent 15: There's a perception that California has "more folks who are health-oriented and more health-minded," said Horton, former director of the California Department of Public Health.
Sent 16: It's not just workout fanatics hanging out at Muscle Beach, Sierra Club members hiking mountains or the uber-health-conscious touting organic foods.
Sent 17: Californians in general tend to have healthier habits, ranking 10th for physical activity, fourth for healthy blood pressure and fifth for a diet high in fruits and vegetables compared with other states, according to America's Health Rankings. 
Question: What was the initial feeling about these major public health initiatives?.

Answer: Were met with skepticism and ridicule, they've often become standard practice in other states.


Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Romans: Legend says Rome was founded by Romulus, sired with twin brother Remus by Mars of a Vestal Virgin and abandoned on the Palatine Hill to be suckled by a she-wolf.
Sent 2: Historians agree with the mythmakers that the site and traditional founding date of 753 b.c.
Sent 3: are just about right.
Sent 4: Under Etruscan domination, Rome had been a monarchy until a revolt in 510 b.c.
Sent 5: established a patrician republic, which lasted five centuries.
Sent 6: In contrast to other Italian cities weakened by internal rivalries and unstable government, Rome drew strength from a solid aristocracy of consuls and senate ruling over plebeians proud of their Roman citizenship and only rarely rebellious.
Sent 7: Recovering quickly from the Gallic invasion of 390 b.c.
Sent 8: , the Romans took effective control of the peninsula by a military conquest reinforced by a network of roads with names that exist to this day: Via Appia, Flaminia, Aurelia.
Sent 9: All roads did indeed lead to — and from — Rome.
Sent 10: By 250 b.c.
Sent 11: , the city's population had grown to an impressive 100,000.
Sent 12: Roman power extended throughout the Mediterranean with a victory in the Punic Wars against Carthage (now Tunisia) and conquests in Macedonia, Asia Minor, Spain, and southern France.
Sent 13: The rest of Italy participated only by tax contributions to the war effort and minor involvement in commerce and colonization.
Sent 14: Resentment surfaced when former Etruscan or Greek cities such as Capua, Syracuse, and Taranto supported Hannibal's invasion in 218 b.c.
Sent 15: Rome followed up defeat of the Carthaginians with large-scale massacres and enslavement of their Italian supporters.
Sent 16: The Third and final Punic War ended in 149 b.c.
Sent 17: , though national solidarity was still a long way off.
Sent 18: Under Julius Caesar, elected in 59 b.c. 
Question: What leader gave Rome national solidarity?.

Answer: Julius Caesar.


Question: Paragraph- Sent 1: (CNN) -- German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, whose nearly priceless collection was confiscated because it was suspected to contain pieces looted by the Nazis, died Tuesday and left the masterpieces to a Swiss museum.
Sent 2: One day after Gurlitt's death at the age of 81, the Museum of Fine Arts Bern announced that Gurlitt had named it "his unrestricted and unfettered sole heir."Sent 3: The news came as a surprise, the museum said Wednesday, because Gurlitt had never had any connection to it.
Sent 4: The museum's directors are delighted at the news, they said in a statement, but also recognize that there are outstanding legal and ethical questions surrounding the collection.
Sent 5: Gurlitt had undergone major heart surgery and was hospitalized for many weeks, his representative said in a statement.
Sent 6: Gurlitt grabbed the attention of the art world when German prosecutors seized more than 1,200 paintings from his Munich apartment in 2012, including works by Picasso and Matisse.
Sent 7: The collection was confiscated as part of an investigation into tax fraud, but then it was thought that some of the paintings may have been works that were looted by the Nazis.
Sent 8: Just last month, part of the collection was returned to Gurlitt as part of a deal with Germany's cultural authorities and the Bavarian Justice Ministry.
Sent 9: Under the agreement, works owned by Gurlitt that were not under suspicion were returned to him.
Sent 10: Those suspected of being stolen were to be held securely while a task force investigates their provenance -- and will be returned to their original Jewish owners or their descendants if a claim is proven.
Sent 11: Gurlitt's representative said that with the art collector's death, the investigation into the collection ceases.
Sent 12: The court that was handling the investigation proceedings will now function as an estate court in the case. 
Question: Why did German prosecutors initially seize over 1,200 paintings from Gurlitt's apartment?.

Answer:
As part of an investigation into tax fraud.


