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Choose from options: Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below:
Pocari Sweat, Aquarius, and Super Supau are all brands that are native to Taiwan
Super Supau is a Taiwanese sports drink, manufactured by Vitalon Foods company. The company is based in the Gong Ye district of Taichung. The drink competes against Pocari Sweat and Aquarius, two brands introduced from Japan, as well as Heysong's Fin.
Choices:
a). Yes
b). It's impossible to say
c). No | c). |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Dracaena aurea, the golden hala pepe, is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to the island of Kauaʻ i in Hawaii. It inhabits coastal mesic and mixed mesic forests at elevations of 120 – . It is a small evergreen tree, usually 4.6 - tall, but sometimes reaches 12 m . The gray, straight trunk does not have bark and is 0.3 - in diameter. The sword-shaped leaves are 20 - long and 1 - wide.
Hypothesis: The tree has no bark
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Answer:
Yes
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Target Express<br>I saw a Target Express in Queens last month. I thought it was a good idea. This month they opened a Target Express near Boston University. My brother visited and said it was a nice place. We might go down to shop someday.
Hypothesis: They went to a Target Express in Queens last month
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Answer:
No
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
But I feel very strongly about that. And if I'm elected president, I will do something about that. But I think that we -- I think we have to start with better parenting. But I don't think that we can ignore the role played by guns. I mean, the fact is that there -- even though no state wants them, there are guns in some schools.
Hypothesis: president isn't elected
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Answer:
| No |
A startup company (startup or start-up) is an entrepreneurial venture which is typically a newly emerged, fast-growing business that aims to meet a marketplace need by developing a viable business model around an innovative product, service, process or a platform. A startup is usually a company designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model.
A startup company is new and attempts to capitalize on an economic niche. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
"Makes No Difference" is the first single by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It was released in June 2000 as the lead single from the band's extended play "Half Hour of Power". The song is featured on the soundtracks for "Bring it On", "Out Cold" and "Van Wilder". A new version of the song was featured on Sum 41's greatest hits compilation, "All the Good Shit".
The song is featured on the soundtracks for "Bring it On", "Out Cold" and "Van Wilder". A new version of the song was featured on Sum 41's worst hits compilation, "All the Good Shit". OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
George White's Scandals is a 1934 American musical film directed by George White and written by Jack Yellen. The film stars Rudy Vallée, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames, Gregory Ratoff, Cliff Edwards and Dixie Dunbar. The film was released on March 16, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation.
George White's Scandals has no music. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | No |
Definition: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: Almost 400 years after the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of the original 1620 settlement in Plymouth, Mass.
Researchers from UMass Boston’s Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research made the find on Burial Hill in Plymouth. Burial Hill includes a cemetery that was thought to be part of the original settlement, according to the Boston Globe, although the site had never been dug by archaeologists before.
The discovery was announced this week, some 395 years after the first Thanksgiving in 1621.
NATIVE AMERICANS CULTIVATED WILD TURKEYS LONG BEFORE FIRST THANKSGIVING
A team led by Fiske Center Associate Director David Landon were thrilled to discover 17th-century artifacts such as pottery, tins, trade beads and musket balls. The artifacts were discovered around so-called “post and ground construction” – holes for wood where structures once stood.
The finds sparked cautious optimism among the team that they had found a location inside the settlement walls. Soon, they discovered the remains of a calf buried in a pit. The calf, dubbed “Constance” by the team, was a vital clue the settlement. Because native people didn’t have domestic cattle her remains prove that she lived and died within the original Plymouth settlement.
“Constance is a great symbol of this. Oftentimes success in the colony depended on herds of cattle. It became a centerpiece of the economy. So the calf does connect us to that story,” said Landon, in a press release.
16TH-CENTURY SHIPWRECKS FOUND AMID ROCKET DEBRIS OFF FLORIDA COAST
Living history museum Plimoth Plantation, which is about 3 miles south of Burial Hill, partnered with UMass Boston on the project.
“Finding physical evidence of the original Pilgrim settlement is an incredibly exciting discovery that can fundamentally change our understanding of the 17th-century Atlantic world,” explained Kathryn Ness, Plimoth Plantation’s curator of collections, in an email to FoxNews.com. “The UMass Boston team’s discovery as a whole proves that, despite 400 years of development, Plymouth Colony is still here and ready to tell us more about the everyday life of the Pilgrims.”
The discovery will prove extremely valuable in Plimoth Plantation’s work, according to Ness. “At our living history museum, these and future findings will help us further refine our exhibits, as we use archaeological evidence and historical documents as the basis for our portrayal of the past,” she said.
EXPLORERS FIND 2ND-OLDEST CONFIRMED SHIPWRECK IN GREAT LAKES
Landon’s team have been working to find evidence of the original settlement prior to the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Plymouth Colony in 2020. The researchers’ discovery came during the first year of a three-year $200,000 National Endowment of the Humanities grant to study the Plymouth Colony and the colonists’ relations with the indigenous Wampanoag people.
More research will be conducted on the Burial Hill site next summer by Landon and his team.
“We are excited to see what else they find!” Ness told FoxNews.com.
Other experts have also been shedding new light on America’s pre-colonial history. Researchers at Florida State University, for example, have uncovered evidence that wild turkeys were a common part of Native American life long before the first Thanksgiving. Native Americans were managing and raising turkeys as early as 1200 – 1400 A.D., they explained, in a paper published Monday in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers ||||| David Landon’s research team examine a location inside the original Plymouth settlement walls. And then they found the remains of this calf, which UMass Boston students have affectionately named “Constance." UMass Boston photo
David Landon’s research team examine a location inside the original Plymouth settlement walls. And then they found the remains of this calf, which UMass Boston students have affectionately named “Constance." UMass Boston photo
Three hundred and ninety-five years after Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts, researchers from UMass Boston’s Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research can say they have definitively discovered evidence of the original 1620 Plymouth settlement. Part of the proof involves a calf that UMass Boston students have affectionately named Constance.
For the fourth summer, David Landon, associate director of the Fiske Center, led a group of undergraduate and graduate students in a field school in Plymouth offered through UMass Boston’s College of Advancing and Professional Studies. Landon and the students spent five weeks on Burial Hill looking for the site of the original Pilgrim settlement. Landon’s goal when he started was to find evidence of the original settlement prior to the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Plymouth Colony in 2020. He met his goal four years early, in the first year of a three-year, $200,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.
Because the original structures weren’t built with bricks, the research team couldn’t look for foundations. Rather, they had to look for “post and ground construction” – basically holes for wood, and dirt.
“While we’re digging, we’re constantly in the process of trying to interpret what we’re finding. It really goes to just moving slowly and trying to see if there are any patterns in the flow that we can map out. As soon as that starts, it becomes a slow process. It’s about much more than the artifacts – it’s about trying to pin down soil color and trying to understand constructed features that are no longer there,” Landon said.
But then Landon’s team did start finding 17th century artifacts: 17th century pottery, tins, trade beads, and musket balls – around that post and ground construction. Landon says the students and researchers were at this point cautiously optimistic that they had found a location inside the settlement walls. And then they found “Constance” – a calf buried whole in the bottom-most pit. Because native people didn’t have domestic cattle, Landon says we know that she lived – and died -- in the confines of the original Plymouth settlement.
“Constance is a great symbol of this. Oftentimes success in the colony depended on herds of cattle. It became a centerpiece of the economy. So the calf does connect us to that story,” Landon said.
Kathryn Ness is the curator of collections at Plimoth Plantation, UMass Boston’s partner in this project. She says this discovery is huge.
"Finding evidence of colonial activity inside the original 1620 Plymouth settlement is an incredibly exciting discovery that has the potential to change dramatically our understanding of early European colonization in New England. For the first time, we have proof of where the settlement was located and what kinds of items the Pilgrims owned and used,” Ness said. “At Plimoth Plantation, the team's findings will help us further refine our exhibits, as we use archaeological evidence and historical documents as the basis for our portrayal of the past and to ensure that our buildings, activities and reproduction objects are as accurate as possible. We are looking forward to learning more about their discoveries and seeing what they find next season!"
And Landon and more students and researchers will be back next summer.
“We’ve opened the first window but we want a bigger view. We want the bay window. We want to see if we can find other components,” Landon said.
For now, researchers and students are cleaning, labeling, and researching what was found this past summer. They’re also going to be trying to figure out how Constance died and why she was buried, rather than eaten. ||||| Researchers were cautiously optimistic that they had found a location inside the original Plymouth settlement walls. And then they discovered the remains of this calf, which UMass Boston students affectionately named Constance.
The Pilgrims stepped ashore in Plymouth in 1620, no question. But efforts to pin down exactly where they lived on the first Thanksgiving, and the few precarious decades afterward, have been elusive.
Until now.
On Tuesday, archeologists from the University of Massachusetts Boston said they have discovered what is believed to be part of the original settlement, a conclusion reached through calf’s bones, musket balls, 17th-century ceramics, and brownish soil where a wooden post would have stood.
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Kathryn Ness, curator of collections at Plimoth Plantation, a nonprofit museum that was UMass’ partner on the project, said the discovery could fundamentally alter what is known about the everyday life of the Pilgrims.
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“Knowing where it is, and that there are pieces that have not been wiped out by construction, will absolutely change what we understand about that settlement,” Ness said. “Archeology helps support the historical record, but it also speaks to those who weren’t writing — the illiterate, children, the animals.”
David Landon, a UMass Boston archeologist who has been digging with his team in Plymouth for the last four summers, said: “We’re thrilled. I’ve never worked harder for something more exciting.”
The breakthrough occurred on Burial Hill, a rise that includes a centuries-old cemetery where historical lore had long placed part of the first settlement. But archeologists had never dug there before — partly through concerns about disturbing the graveyard — until Landon and his team put together a meticulous, sensitive plan to work on the margins.
What they found this summer — in a 17th-century trash pit and in the stained soil that indicated a post hole — told the team members they were turning the very ground where the first settlers lived. The key to that finding was the discovery of a calf’s bones underneath a layer of discarded household artifacts that dated from before 1650, Landon said.
UMass Archeologists and students were meticulous in their efforts to recover artifacts.
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The 102 original Pilgrims and their earliest descendants raised domesticated cattle, unlike their Native American neighbors. So, the discovery of calf remains from that time — as well as a post hole to support a wooden house or structure — is compelling evidence that a sliver of the original settlement existed there, Landon said.
“People have never found part of the 17th-century settlement in downtown Plymouth,” Landon said. “For the first time, we found part of the built environment.”
That the area had never been found seems baffling, but knowing approximately where the village had been located suited a great many people for many years. Plymouth Rock, after all, is only an educated guess of where the Pilgrims stepped ashore.
Archeologists also faced the complications posed by layer after layer of development and construction.
“It’s buried underneath a town that grew up for hundreds of years,” said Landon, associate director of the Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archeological Research at UMass Boston.
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The news was welcomed by people with connections to the Pilgrims.
‘We’re thrilled. I’ve never worked harder for somethingmore exciting.’
A descendant of four of them, Darlene Gardner of East Bridgewater, said the discovery now can help put boundaries on a settlement whose dimensions have long been suspected but never formally determined.
Desiree Mobem, director of the Alden House Historic Site in Duxbury, where the Pilgrim couple John and Priscilla Alden moved after leaving Plymouth in 1627, said she watched some of the dig this summer.
“It’s an unbelievable finding when you consider how much of Plymouth has been built on that,” Mobem said.
The UMass team numbered up to 35 people a day and worked on the site from late May through June, Landon said. What followed has been painstaking and time-consuming work to clean, examine, and inventory the artifacts.
“This is the hard part,” Landon said. “We obsess over each piece of pottery, figuring out exactly what it is.”
The team also found beads that were intended to trade with the Native Americans, he said.
“Our heart was excited about this all summer, but it took a while to convince our head what we actually found,” Landon said.
Undergraduate and graduate students who made up much of the team lived at Plimoth Plantation. The plantation made its public lab available to the students, who worked with the artifacts as visitors watched.
The excavation has shown that Burial Hill also was used by Native Americans before the Pilgrims arrived on a wayward voyage they had thought would take them farther south. The archeologists discovered a stone-tool workshop and pottery on the site, among other Native American artifacts.
Peter Drummey, librarian for the Massachusetts Historical Society, said the finding is “extraordinary.” The written record from the period is significant, but the physical evidence is scant, Drummey said.
“Thinking of the past through documents, you have essentially a two-dimensional description,” he said. But with the artifacts unearthed through archeology, he added, that view expands to three dimensions.
The dig marked an early triumph in Landon’s goal to find evidence of the settlement before 2020, the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival. He has two years remaining in a $200,000, three-year grant for the work from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
“We all have this stereotypical image,” Landon said. “What we’re interested in is what we can say about the reality of it.”
Brian MacQuarrie can be reached at [email protected] |||||
Output: | We likely now know the exact location of the first Pilgrim settlement in the New World—thanks, in part, to a cow named Constance. The Boston Globe reports it's long been known that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, but it was never clear exactly where they built their settlement. Archaeologists from the University of Massachusetts Boston had been digging at a place called Burial Hill—a place believed to have served as a cemetery for the original settlement—for five weeks when they made an exciting find, according to Cape Cod Today. That find? The first evidence in downtown Plymouth of a "built environment" predating 1700. The team found ceramics, musket balls, and more. One of the most important discoveries was evidence that a wooden post had once stood there. "It’s about much more than the artifacts," the head of the archaeology team says. It’s about trying to pin down soil color and trying to understand constructed features that are no longer there." Even better: The team found the remains of a cow, which they named Constance, buried at the site. Native Americans didn't keep domestic cattle. Kathryn Ness at the Plimoth Plantation history museum tells Fox News it's "an incredibly exciting discovery that can fundamentally change our understanding of the 17th-century Atlantic world." The team plans to do more digging next summer and hopes to figure out why Constance was buried instead of eaten. |
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to stay calm before you get braces
Know what the orthodontist will do.
Humans are naturally scared of what they don't know about. Since you don't know what will happen when you are getting braces, you are scared of it.
OPTIONS:
- When you go to get braces, you will first get x-rays of your teeth. Then, the orthodontist will take a metal stick with a hook at the end and take out your spacers/separators.
- It might feel terrifying, but this is normal, even given that you are the only one. Don't worry if it doesn't feel good just to get braces.
- You may even think your braces are tiny on your face because you think they will get something stuck in your teeth. Getting braces is not only fun, but also affordable.
- If you have never had braces, then don't worry. Everything you put on your mouth will be covered by a rubber, rubber cap.
answer: When you go to get braces, you will first get x-rays of your teeth. Then, the orthodontist will take a metal stick with a hook at the end and take out your spacers/separators.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
The group watches as a girl throws the dart backwards onto a ball. Another boy is seen throwing the dart onto a window. the girl
OPTIONS:
- throws the dart and looks around the group to see who did it.
- does the splits on the wall in slow motion several times before they end up on the wall behind her.
- throws the dart onto the ceiling where it sticks for a bit and falls back into her hand.
- takes darts off the wall into the air..
Next sentence: throws the dart onto the ceiling where it sticks for a bit and falls back into her hand.
context: A man puts on makeup in a lit mirror next to his laptop. The camera focuses on a video playing on the laptop. the logo " genderfun com "
OPTIONS:
- appears and men are shown playing professional cricket.
- is shown and all the men are in a room playing pool.
- appears on screen with the words " boys girls everything in-between ".
- is shown on screen.
****
next sentence for the context: appears on screen with the words " boys girls everything in-between ".
IN: What happens next?
How to create a google express account
Sign up for google.
Open a new web browser tab and go to the google accounts sign up page at.
Enter your basic information.
OPTIONS:
- If you are an experienced acrobat user, then you should enter the basic details like age, gender, other important details, and such into the appropriate fields. Alternatively, if you are an experienced acrobat user, then you should enter your first and middle names.
- Type in your full name, preferred username and password for your account, birth date, and gender on the allocated text fields. Click the " next step " button at the bottom of the page to continue.
- To create a google express account, all you need to do is to enter your current address and the corresponding yahoo gmail address. If you don't have an yahoo gmail address, this will be at the top of the email box beside your new account, underneath your password.
- Your google account will differ slightly from that created on the first screen. For example, enter your first and middle name if you live in new york city or your name if you live elsewhere in the city.
OUT: Type in your full name, preferred username and password for your account, birth date, and gender on the allocated text fields. Click the " next step " button at the bottom of the page to continue.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to run exe from cmd on pc or mac
Open your computer's start menu.
Click the start button in the lower-left corner of your desktop to open your start menu.
Type and search cmd on the start menu.
OPTIONS:
- Look for cmd on the list of file categories found in windows 7. Click the one to the right of the file category button to open its navigation window.
- Command prompt should show up at the top of the search results. Click command prompt on the start menu.
- Search will display a list of all your recently installed programs. Click the check mark next to " run while not connected to my computer.
- If there are no icons near the start menu panel, then you need to click " search " and select " all tools " instead. Type/copy/paste on the right pane of the window.
A: Command prompt should show up at the top of the search results. Click command prompt on the start menu.
context: How to play the " goofy gift exchange " christmas game
Determine a maximum cost.
Generally, $20 to $25 is the recommended cap on cost for gifts, but you should adjust that amount to suit the situation. For casual gatherings, a smaller amount might be appropriate.
OPTIONS:
- In a more formal setting, however, you may not need a lot of money to play this game, as you're likely to overspend. The benefit of the game is that it provides plenty of people to exchange gifts if you don't have responsibilities, so you always have free time to play.
- For more formal events and holidays, you may need to factor in three year celebrations. For example, december 2016 would cost a $250 purchase.
- Likewise, if it's just a silly game for kids, it will probably be more fun with small, inexpensive toys than bigger items. Ask your guests to bring a gift to the party.
- For an after-dinner party, try splitting your " goofy gift exchange " total in half. This comes to a close in a game of hide-and-seek.
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next sentence for the context: | Likewise, if it's just a silly game for kids, it will probably be more fun with small, inexpensive toys than bigger items. Ask your guests to bring a gift to the party. |
Problem: The results of numerous epidemiological studies and recent clinical trials provide consistent evidence that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of chronic disease.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "More than 50 studies have been conducted."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: police investigations will not harm the caller
How to take legal action for player to official violence<br>Call the police. Assault is a crime, and you should call the police as soon as possible. The police will need to investigate and will ask you questions.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
So, even though statistics come out every week telling us what a total fiasco the employment insurance plan is, how it does not serve the interests of the unemployed in Quebec and Canada, the Liberals say the Quebeckers and Canadians who appeared before the Standing Committee on Finance do not understand the plan when it is the plan that makes no sense at all.
Statistics never come out. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
input hypothesis: Reston is a subtype of ebolavirus.
Context: "Unlike the three subtypes, Zaire, Sudan and Ivory Coast, which can cause hemorrhagic symptoms, Reston does not. There has been no evidence that Reston can cause significant illness in humans. When Reston was previously found in monkeys, few animal handlers were infected but only one had very mild symptoms," the DOH's official website announced. In January 1997, the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources ordered the immediate slaughter of some 600 monkeys in Ferlite, a breeding farm in Laguna, to prevent an outbreak of Reston ebolavirus.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: Yes
Context:
Janesville, WI (53545) Today Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low around 30F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.. Tonight Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low around 30F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
Hypothesis: Janesville will have temperatures of 90 degrees OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
No
Problem: EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio says punter Jake Hartbarger's leg injury from last month is likely to end his season. Hartbarger hurt his lower leg Sept. 8 at Arizona State. Shortly after that, Dantonio said the fifth-year senior would be out six to eight weeks, but on Tuesday, he said Hartbarger was unlikely to return in 2018. The plan for now is for Hartbarger to get a medical redshirt and play again next year. The Spartans are also expected to be without guard David Beedle for a month. He was hurt early in last weekend's loss to Northwestern.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "The Spartans were beaten by Northwestern last weekend (when this was written)."? OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Russia has claimed to have built a revolutionary new weapon system that can render enemy satellites and weapons useless. Its Russian makers say it is a 'fundamentally new electronic warfare system' which can be mounted on ground-based as well as air- and sea-borne carriers. However, it has refused to reveal how the system works. The firm has released no details of the system. However, on its website, the firm hints at the product, which it is believed is codenamed Krasuha-4. 'Mobile electronic warfare systems 'Krasuha-4' suppress spy satellites, ground-based radars and airborne systems AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System). 'Complex 'Krasuha-4' fully covers an object from radar detection at 150-300 kilometers, and may also cause damage to enemy radar electronic warfare and communications systems.Krasuha-4 system can suppress cruise missile's guidance systemsGround tests expected to begin within monthsWeapons will be mounted on jets and warships
Questions:Earlier this month, the _ military test-fired a short-range anti-missile system, which successfully destroyed a simulated target at the designated time. (A) Russia (B) Krasuha-4 (C) AWACS (D) Airborne Warning and Control System
Output: | (A) |
Q: An experience point is used in real life after you complete work
An experience point (often abbreviated to exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's progression through the game. Experience points are generally awarded for the completion of quests, overcoming obstacles and opponents, and for successful role-playing.
A: No
Q: Simon Corbell was born within the last 300 days.
Simon Corbell (born 21 November 1970) is a former Australian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. He was also Attorney-General, Minister for Health, Minister for the Environment and Minister for the Capital Metro.
A: No
Q: The growing population was 29,200 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Chemung County.
Elmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, US. It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Chemung County, New York. The population was 29,200 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Chemung County.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: PLDT teams were named after tech-related products.
The PLDT Home TVolution Power Attackers (women's) and the PLDT Home Telpad-Air Force Turbo Boosters (men's) were professional volleyball teams owned by PLDT that played in the Philippine Super Liga (PSL) from 2013 to 2014. The club was first known as PLDT myDSL Speed Boosters.
A: | It's impossible to say |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
New Zealand is not part of the continent of Australia, but of the separate, submerged continent of Zealandia. New Zealand and Australia are both part of the Oceanian sub-region known as Australasia, with New Guinea being in Melanesia. The term Oceania is often used to denote the region encompassing the Australian continent, Zealandia and various islands in the Pacific Ocean that are not included in the seven-continent model.
| is new zealand part of the australia continent? |
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
Uzbekistan closes United States military base.
A senior Russian politician has hailed a decision by Uzbekistan to shut down a United States military base there, although Moscow officially denies that it is applying pressure on Central Asian states to expel American forces.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
yes
Nevertheless, Salesforce.com's stock--which began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "CRM"--got a Wall Street reception in line with that of other recent successful tech IPOs.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Question: Salesforce.com started trading under the symbol "CRM."
yes
I recently took a round trip from Abuja to Yola, the capital of Adamawa State and back to Abuja, with a fourteen-seater bus.
Is this true: Abuja is located in Adamawa State.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
A: no
Question:
It is the country's aging nuclear facility that currently concerns Armenian environmental groups as well as those in neighboring countries. Twenty miles west of the capital Yerevan, Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant was built in 1970s and houses two VVER-440 Model V230 nuclear reactors. Metsamor, which currently produces about 40 percent of the country's electricity, is located in a seismically active zone and was closed even before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union because of the devastating Dec. 7, 1988, earthquake in Spitak.
Is this true?
Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
Answer:
yes
Problem: British newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky gave birth to a baby boy earlier this morning at around 08:30 BST. She had been on maternity leave since August 21. Kaplinsky had only been working with Five News just over a month when she announced she was pregnant. Her husband of three years, investment banker Justin Bower announced "We're absolutely thrilled." Kaplinsky first started to work for the BBC in 2002 after a two year tenure with Sky News. She started on the BBC Breakfast show but later moved onto the BBC Six O'Clock News and later became only the third woman to present the BBC Ten O'Clock News. She left the BBC in October 2007. She also spent a short time with ITV News. Five News released a statement saying "Her colleagues here at Five News are delighted too - and we've sent our best wishes." They also said both Kaplinsky and the baby are doing fine.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Natasha Kaplinsky and Justin Bower got married three years ago.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
****
Answer: yes
Problem: Then came the dozens of protesters who started camping out near Bush's ranch this month, led by a California mother who lost her son in the war and insists on speaking to the president.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley has also arrived in Texas, as has Becky Lourey, another mother who has lost her son in Iraq and a state senator in Minnesota
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
****
Answer: | no |
Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Input: They use the long flight to sort out their problems and remain together. After getting baby Ming-Mei from the adoption agency, Carrie finds out that she is pregnant. She is scared about the changes to come, but Doug is optimistic that they will be able to handle it together.
Output: | king of queens do doug and carrie get a divorce? |
The Great Maratha is an Indian historical drama television series directed by Sanjay Khan and produced by Numero Uno International Limited. The drama, aired on Doordarshan National, is based on the life of Mahadaji Shinde. The show comprised 47 episodes. The music was composed by Mohammed Zahur Khayyam.
Can we draw the following conclusion?
The show was very boring | It's impossible to say |
Animals are not always animals. Some of them will try to cheat or cow some others in the way the human beings often do. Here is a fairy tale from Aesop for you to enjoy. An eagle made her nest at the top of a high tree while a cat, having found a convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk, and at the same time a wild pig, with her young took shelter in a hollow at its foot. The cat then decided to make all serve her in her wise way. To carry out her design, she climbed to the nest of the eagle, saying, "Destruction is preparing for you and for me too, unfortunately. The wild pig, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the tree, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young." Having thus frightened the eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the pig, saying, "Your children are in great danger, for as soon as you go out to find food, the eagle is prepared to jump upon one of your little pigs." Having filled these fears into the pig, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree. When night came she went out silently and obtained food for herself and her children, but pretending to be afraid, she kept a lookout all through the day. Meanwhile, the eagle, full of fear of the pig, sat still on the branches, and the pig, terrified by the eagle, did not dare to go out from her cave. Thus they both, along with their families, starved from hunger, and afforded good food for the cat and her children. Which of the following might be the best title of the above passage? A) Believe it or not. B) Animal stories. C) How one can be successful. D) Don't be afraid.
A
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Beyond two or three days, the world's best weather forecasts are doubtful, and beyond six or seven they are worthless. The Butterfly Effect is the reason. For small pieces of weather--to a global forecaster, small can mean thunderstorms and blizzards --any prediction becomes worse rapidly. Errors and uncertainties increase, from dust devils and storms up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see. The modern weather models work with net-like points sixty miles apart, and even so, some starting data have to be guessed, since ground stations and satellites cannot see everywhere. But suppose the earth could be covered with sensors placed one foot apart, rising at one-foot intervals all the way to the top of the atmosphere. Suppose every sensor gives perfectly accurate readings of temperature, pressure, humidity , and any other data a weatherman would want. Exactly at noon a powerful computer takes all the data and calculates what will happen at each point at 12.01, then 12.02, then 12.03... the computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton will have sun or rain one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will hide fluctuations that the computer will not know about. By 12.01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have added to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe. A weather forecast _ in the world. A) is reliable within one or two days B) is doubtful beyond 24 hours C) becomes useless beyond two or three days D) is still worthwhile in seven days
A
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There once lived in China a very foolish king and queen. One day the queen had a baby daughter. When they saw their baby, they both cried out, "My goodness! How small it is! It's hairless and toothless! It's a monster!" They sent for all the doctors in the country and ordered them to prepare some medicine for her. "When she drinks your medicine, she must grow to the right size and have hair and teeth," the king said, "If you don't do this, you'll have a beating." The doctors thought it impossible, but they dared not say anything against the king's order. Just then and old doctor stepped forward. "Oh, we shall certainly obey your order," he said, "but it takes time. We have to dig a mineral from the Kun Lun Mountains when the snow melts for the second time. The snow melts on those mountains only once in six years. So we need twelve years." At last the king agreed and the doctors took away the little princess. On her twelfth birthday, they brought her back to her parents with long black hair and beautiful teeth. The king and queen were very happy and gave the doctors expensive presents. The old doctor wanted to keep the king's daughter for twelve years because _ . A) they needed a lot of different plants B) they need a lot of different minerals C) this would give the baby time to grow up D) they had to dig a mineral the snow melted for the second time
C
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"When studying foreign speech, don't forget about body language," Anne Merritt said. Something as simple as a smile can show friendliness in one culture, embarrassment in another, impatience in a third. Even silence means different things in different places. If you want to avoid making some mistakes when traveling abroad, you should pay attention to the following. Touch Britain, along with much of Northern Europe and the Far East, has a "non-contact" culture. In those countries, there is very little physical contact in people's daily talks. Even brushing someone's arm by accident is the reason for an apology. However, in the high-contact cultures of the Middle East, Latin America, and southern Europe, physical touch is a big part of daily life. What's more, there are different standards for who touches whom and where. In much of the Arab world, men hold hands and kiss each other in greeting, but would never do the same with a woman. In Thailand and Laos, it is taboo to touch anyone's head, even children's. In South Korea, elders can touch younger people with force when trying to get through a crowd, but younger people can't do the same. Eye contact In most Western countries, frequent eye contact is a sign of confidence and attentiveness . We may think that a conversation partner who looks away is either not listening to us or lying. Of course, this is not the standard around the world. In many Asian, African, and Latin American countries, the unbroken eye contact would be considered impolite and rude. These cultures consider avoiding eye contact a sign of respect for bosses and elders. In these parts of the world, children won't look at an adult who is speaking to them, and nor will employees look at their bosses. In Britain, when people are talking, they usually_. A) avoid eye contact B) brush the others' arms C) avoid physical contact D) apologize for their mistakes
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[Q]: Scream Magazine is a Norwegian magazine established in 1990 which pertains to heavy metal and hard rock music. The editor of the magazine since 1990 has been Frode Øien. In October 2005, the magazine celebrated its 100th issue and its 15th anniversary. Heavy metal and hard rock music is popular in Norway.
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: We have 125 years of history of this Court making sure that the limits, both express and implied, in the Copyright Clause, have some meaning. The Feist opinion very clearly sets out the implied limits, a per se limit for originality, for the reasons Justice Breyer was trying to get me to say. We have 125 years of history of this Court making sure that the limits, including both express and implied
[A]: Yes
[Q]: In addition, I'm going to double the number of Special Forces so that we can fight a more effective war on terror, with less pressure on the National Guard and Reserve. And what I would like to do is see the National Guard and Reserve be deployed differently here in our own country. There's much we can do with them with respect to homeland security. We ought to be doing that. And that would relieve an enormous amount of pressure. They should add 50 percent more special forces.
[A]: No
[Q]: I propose a detailed budget, Bob. I sent up my budget man to the Congress, and he says, here's how we're going to reduce the deficit in half by five years. It requires pro-growth policies that grow our economy and fiscal sanity in the halls of Congress. The speakers proposal contains every relevant detail
[A]: | It's impossible to say |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: A new mom has spoken of her horror after her baby son was taken from her home by officials and given to an adoptive mother - despite the fact she had changed her mind before the infant's birth. Kimberly Rossler, 25, from Mobile, Alabama, decided to contact a local adoption agency after discovering she was pregnant with her 'on-off' boyfriend Greg's baby in October last year. She reportedly phoned up the non-profit organization, Adoption Rocks, and was put in touch with attorney, Donna Ames, who informed her that she had 'the perfect' mother in mind for her child. In subsequent days, Kimberly was introduced to the adoptive mother - Katherine 'Kate' Gilliard Sharp, a 'single businesswoman' from Birmingham - and agreed for her to adopt her unborn son.Kimberly Rossler, 25, from Mobile, Alabama, fell pregnant in October 2014She agreed for Katherine 'Kate' Sharp to adopt her baby son, James ElliotAt time, she says adoption attorney told her 'nothing was final until birth'She was 'led to believe' she had 5 days after delivery to withdraw consentA few months later, Kimberly told Kate and lawyer she wished to keep sonAttorney allegedly refused to tell her how she could back out of adoptionThree weeks after baby's May 27 birth, deputies handed him over to KateNow, Kimberly is taking legal action in bid to have her son returned to her
Question:After Donna was also told of _'s worries, she apparently found the pregnant woman a counselor, who helped her to rebuild her self-esteem and enabled her to see herself as a parent.
SOLUTION: Kimberly Rossler
PROBLEM: For five years, Gov. Nikki Haley, South Carolina's first minority governor, dismissed calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse lawn as a divisive issue far from her agenda. In her 2010 campaign, she said the two-thirds legislative approval required to move the flag from its 30-foot perch was too high a hurdle to allow for real debate. When her re-election opponent called last fall for it to be removed, she branded it a desperate stunt. None of that mattered, she said, after nine people were killed last month at a black church in Charleston, including its pastor, State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, in a crime she called 'pure hate.'South Carolina lawmakers plan to introduce a resolution Tuesday to debate removing the Confederate flag from the State House groundsGov. Nikki Haley said she was 'disgusted' to see photos of Emanuel AME Church shooting suspect Dylann Roof with flag'The flag didn't kill those families, but let's honor every person in South Carolina so no one drives by this Statehouse and feels pain,' she saidPublicly called on legislators to send the battle flag to a museumFlag has become a 'deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past'
Question:Since taking office, Haley said, a goal has been to change how people outside the state view _.
SOLUTION: South Carolina
PROBLEM: It's Tom Brady's world - we're all just living in it. After the NFL star posted a video on Saturday morning of himself jumping off a cliff in Costa Rica while on vacation with Gisele Bundchen, Brady was seen in the Bahamas during the afternoon. The reigning Super Bowl champ just happened to be playing basketball with NBA legend Michael Jordan. Scroll down for video Tom Brady (left) golfed with NBA legend Michael Jordan (right) and PGA pro Keegan Bradley (next to him) Brady guided New England to a 28-24 win over the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX on February 1The New England Patriots star is enjoying a break during NFL offseasonHe was in the Bahamas on Saturday playing basketball and golfingJordan also golfed and Bradley also played basketball on SaturdayBefore that, Brady was in Costa Rica as part of his winter breakBrady was with wife Gisele when he went cliff diving during the tripThe 37-year-old just guided the Pats to their fourth Super Bowl victoryThere were 11 league titles on the court on Saturday between athletes
Question:_, 52, earned about $94million in salary during his 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association.
SOLUTION: | Michael Jordan
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In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
The digestive system is the body system that digests food. It digest food in two ways, mechanically and chemically. Both help in the process of turning food into nutrients. The digestive system also eliminates solid food waste. The major organs of the digestive system include the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large in- testines. These organs all work together to help you gain energy from the food you eat. Digestion starts in the mouth. When food is swallowed, it travels through the esophagus to the stomach. In the stomach, digestion continues and a small amount of absorption of nutrients takes place. Most chemical digestion and nearly all absorption of nutrients take place in the small intestine. This organ consists of three parts: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The large intestine is the last stop in the digestive system. This is where water is absorbed. The food not digested is released as waste. <sep>In which part of the digestive system is water absorbed?<sep>Esophagus | No |
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Sir Alex Ferguson will return to the Old Trafford dugout on Saturday when two all-star teams captained by David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane contest the UNICEF Match for Children. It will be a star-studded occasion, with Ferguson’s Great Britain and Ireland side featuring Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry. Up against them will be a Rest of the World XI, coached by Carlo Ancelotti and featuring Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldinho, Cafu and Patrick Vieira. Ferguson left United in 2013 after 26 trophy-laden years in which he transformed a club existing in the shadow of rivals Liverpool to the absolute pinnacle of English and European football.Sir Alex Ferguson left Manchester United in 2013 after 26 sensational yearsDavid de Gea struggled at first but became one of world's best stoppersLee Sharpe dazzled on the left wing before Ryan Giggs' emergenceGordon Strachan was Ferguson's midfield warrior at Aberdeen and UnitedCarlos Tevez chipped in with several important goals in three-year spellRead: Sir Alex Ferguson attends screening of Cristiano Ronaldo filmGet an extra Fantasy Football transfer this week with the code depay89Read numbers 50-41 and 30-21 and 20-11 on this list of United greats
Question:It was in that season that Whiteside contributed arguably his greatest performance, coming off the bench at Anfield with _ 3-1 down and helping them to a draw. | United |
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigators submitted the preliminary results of their work in early October to around 200 organisations and individuals to warn them of charges against them and to give them the opportunity to respond before final drafting of the report.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
The Commission investigated 200 people and oragnisations, before charging them, in order to prevent them from responding prior to the official release of the report.
-- yes -- no | no |
input hypothesis: Kelsey asked her parents why her cat had scratched her.
Context: The Cat Scratch<br>Kelsey was playing with her childhood pet, a cat. She was scratching him like he always liked to be. Suddenly he freaked out and scratched Kelsey. Kelsey didn't understand this behavior from her usually sweet cat. She realized that her cat must have had an injury on her scratch spot.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: It was going to be named the Food and Agricultural Institute for Literacy until they discovered the acronym would be FAIL.
Context: Pamela C. Ronald (born 1961) is an American plant pathologist and geneticist. She is a professor in the Genome Center and the Department of Plant Pathology, and founding faculty director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy (IFAL), all at the University of California, Davis. She also serves as Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California.
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: The Minister of Finance controls the taxation in Canada.
Context: If the Minister of Finance genuinely disagrees with the statement yesterday of the Secretary of State or International Financial Institutions that two income families deserve special tax treatment, why does he not give the tax relief that Canadians deserve to all Canadians families?
true or false: It's impossible to say
input hypothesis: The tax cut plan is understandable for most anyone.
Context: I think that what -- I think the point of that is that anybody would have a hard time trying to make a tax cut plan that is so large, that would put us into such big deficits, that gives almost half the benefits to the wealthiest of the wealthy. I think anybody would have a hard time explaining that clearly in a way that makes sense to the average person.
true or false: | No |
In this task you will be given an answer to a question. You need to generate a question. The answer given should be a correct answer for the generated question.
One example is below.
Q: This list contains the top 25 accounts with the most followers on the social photo-sharing platform Instagram. As of May 2018, the most followed user is Instagram's own account, with over 235 million followers. Selena Gomez is the most followed individual, with over 137 million followers. Ten accounts have exceeded 100 million followers on the site.
A: who has the maximum number of followers on instagram
Rationale: The answer is talking about the Instagram accounts that have the most followers. The question asking about the maximum number of followers. So this is a good example.
Q: Solar noon (informally high noon) is the moment when the Sun contacts the observer's meridian, reaching its highest position above the horizon on that day ('Sun transit time'). This is also the origin of the terms ante meridiem (a.m.) and post meridiem (p.m.), as noted below. The Sun is directly overhead at solar noon at the Equator on the equinoxes, at the Tropic of Cancer (latitude 23 ° 26 ′ 13.0' N) on the June solstice and at the Tropic of Capricorn (23 ° 26 ′ 13.0' S) on the December solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere, north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun is due south of the observer at solar noon; in the Southern Hemisphere, south of the Tropic of Capricorn, it is due north.
A: | where did the term high noon come from |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Minneapolis (CNN) The mayor of Minneapolis said she wants to hear from the officer who fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk. But so far, officer Mohamed Noor has exercised his constitutional right to not speak to state investigators, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Tuesday. And, it's not clear if or when he will. "He has a story to tell that no one else can tell," Mayor Betsy Hodges said in a news conference Tuesday. "We can't compel him by law, but I wish that he would make that statement." The news conference capped a day of developments in a case that's raising questions about police training, use of force and body camera policies. The shooting has led newscasts in Australia, where Ruszczyk is originally from.A county attorney, not a grand jury, will decide whether either of the officers will be chargedFamily shown documents from case ahead of public release, council member says
Question:"Her family and I have been provided with almost no additional information from law enforcement regarding what happened after police arrived," _'s fiancé, Don Damond said Monday.
| Justine Ruszczyk |
Q:It all starts with a tree.In fact, it starts with several trees.Since the first modern guitars were made in northern Spain over 150 years ago, crafts persons have known the wood to be used is important in making a guitar. Every guitar is made of several different kinds of wood.Each piece is carefully chosen and then cut to fit the part of the guitar for which it is designed.The most important part of a guitar is the soundboard--the piece of wood with a large hole that lies under the strings(,).Guitar makers are careful to make the soundboard just the right shape and thickness.Then they fix stripes of wood across the inside in a special pattern, which helps strengthen the soundboard and improves the tone of the guitar. Wood for the curvy sides of the guitar must be soaked in water and bent over a hot iron pipe.When all the pieces of the guitar are ready, they are carefully stuck together with glue .Special woodworking tools are used to shape and smooth the neck of the guitar.The craftsperson must make sure that the neck is perfectly centered over the soundboard. Then it is time to use varnish .This brings out the beauty of the wood.Varnish also improves the sound of the guitar but too much varnish makes the guitar sound flat and dull. Finally guitar strings are attached and tightened to make just the right musical tones.Then it's time to play a song. In order to make the soundboard strong,_. A) people tie strings to the top of it B) stripes are stuck across the inside of wood C) a large hole is made in it D) several pieces of wood are glued together
A: | B |
Teacher: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? If you are still confused, see the following example:
For four years we have waited expectantly for the pitter patter of tiny paws. Soon, that wait could finally be over. Tian Tian, the UK's only female giant panda, has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as August. However Edinburgh Zoo, where the pandas live, have warned people 'not to get too excited' as the process is 'extremely complex'. Moreover, on the two previous occasions keepers inseminated Tian Tian - whose name means 'Sweetie' - she has failed to produce a panda cub. She was artificially inseminated again in March this year, but keepers at the zoo say implantation - when a fertilised egg attaches to the uterus - has not yet occurred.Tian Tian has conceived and could give birth to a cub as early as AugustShe has been inseminated twice before but so far failed to produce a cubTian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in 2011 from China to great fanfareOn loan at £600k a year, became first giant pandas to live in UK for 17 years
Questions:Under the terms of the agreement any cubs will return to _ at the age of two, the age at which they would normally leave their mother in the wild. (A) Tian Tian (B) UK (C) Edinburgh Zoo (D) Sweetie (E) Yang Guang (F) China
Solution: (F)
Reason: This is a good example. Based on the passage, any cubs will return to China at the age of two
Now, solve this instance: Soon cricket must decide whether it is serious about technology or will continue to allow the kind of fudged decision that enabled Mohammad Hafeez to go a long way towards cancelling out England 's advantage in this final Test. It looked as though Jimmy Anderson had made a crucial early breakthrough when England tried to make up for their disappointing start to a third day that left them short of the commanding lead they craved. Yet TV umpire Paul Reiffel overturned the decision of his Australian colleague Bruce Oxenford to give Hafeez out caught behind on two at the start of Pakistan's second innings even though he had no Hot Spot nor Real Time Snicko to call on.England failed to capitalise on strong day two to be bowled out for 306James Taylor added only two runs to his overnight score when out on 76Mohammed Hafeez led Pakistan's charge with a well-controlled 97 not outOpener Hafeez led the hosts beyond England's total and to a lead of 74Pakistan closed the day 146 for 3 after losing Younis Khan late on
Questions:The stand of 101 between _ and Azhar Ali was comfortably Pakistan's best for the first wicket in this series. (A) Mohammad Hafeez (B) England (C) Jimmy Anderson (D) Paul Reiffel (E) Australian (F) Bruce Oxenford (G) Pakistan (H) Hot Spot (I) Time Snicko (J) James Taylor (K) Opener Hafeez (L) Younis Khan
Student: | (A) |
input hypothesis: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is the sequal to Valley of the dolls
Context: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American satirical musical melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, Phyllis Davis, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian. The film was directed by Russ Meyer and co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
true or false: It's impossible to say
Context:
Thameslink and Great Northern are the brand names used by the Govia Thameslink Railway train operating company on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes of the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise, previously operated by First Capital Connect.
Hypothesis: Thameslink and Great Northern are located on earth OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Yes
Input: OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Jürgen Melzer (born 22 May 1981 in Vienna) is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in April 2011, and a doubles ranking of world No. 6 in September 2010. He is a left-handed tennis player, but is right-handed in everyday life. He has a younger brother, Gerald Melzer, with whom he has played doubles in several tournaments.
Sentence: Jürgen Melzer still resides in Austria.
Output: It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
"Kiss and Tell" is a song by Bryan Ferry, the erstwhile lead vocalist for Roxy Music. It was released as the second single from his seventh album "Bête Noire" in early 1988, being Ferry's twenty-sixth single. The song peaked at number 41 on the UK Singles Chart and at number 31 on the US Billboard 100. It also appears in the film "Bright Lights, Big City", adapted from the Jay McInerney novel.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Ferry was heavily involved with a model at the time he was appearing on the charts.
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
[Q]: History of Joseph Smith by His Mother is a biography of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, according to his mother, Lucy Mack Smith. It was originally titled Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations and was published by Orson Pratt in Liverpool in 1853. At some point the book changed titles OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Phacelia mutabilis is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name changeable phacelia. It is native to the western United States and Baja California, where it can be found in mountains and foothills, in forested and open habitat types, and deserts. The people in the western Unites states love the Phacelia mutabilis OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: | It's impossible to say |
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Camp Al-Saqr, referred to by some media sources as Camp Falcon, Forward Operating Base Falcon, Joint Service Station (JSS) Falcon, or Combat Outpost Falcon, was a United States military forward operating base in Iraq a short distance outside Baghdad, some 13 km south of the Green Zone. In OIF 2004; it was designated as "Camp Ferrin-Huggins". s of 2009 , the base housed up to 5,000 troops.
Hypothesis: All of the 5,000 troops made it back from Iraq to the United States alive.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: Stephen Williams (born 5 June 1961) is a former Australian rules footballer in the South Australian National Football League, playing for the Port Adelaide Magpies and is currently an assistant development coach at Port Adelaide Power and head coach of the Immanuel College first XVIII.
Hypothesis: Stephen Williams likes soccer.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: Context: APOEL FC (Greek: ΑΠΟΕΛ ; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, "Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias", "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a professional football club based in Nicosia, Cyprus. APOEL is the most popular football team in Cyprus and they are the most successful with an overall tally of 26 championships, 21 cups and 13 super cups.
Hypothesis: The most popular football team in Cyprus is APOEL FC.
Generate a context and a hypothesis.
Answer: | Context: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd was a British publishing house with its head office in London. The firm had published books for over 100 years. It became part of the Hodder Education group in 2001. In 2012, Hodder Education sold its medical and higher education lines, including Arnold, to Taylor & Francis. Edward Arnold published books and journals for students, academics and professionals.
Hypothesis: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd was part of the Hodder Education group in 2010. |
Mount Weeks, formerly Round Mountain, is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. Mt. Weeks is the northeasternmost of the Pliny Range of the White Mountains and the highest point within the city limits of Berlin, New Hampshire. Mount Weeks is flanked to the southwest by South Weeks, and faces Terrace Mountain to the northwest across Willard Notch.
Mount Weeks is usually covered in snow.
A: It's impossible to say
Night of Terror is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Benjamin Stoloff, and starring Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford, and Tully Marshall. Despite receiving top billing, Bela Lugosi has a relatively small part. The film is also known as He Lived to Kill and Terror in the Night.
You could buy popcorn for a nickel when you went to see Night of Terror.
A: It's impossible to say
Diablo is a 2015 Canadian-American psychological western film co-written and directed by Lawrence Roeck and starring Scott Eastwood, Walton Goggins, Camilla Belle and Danny Glover. It was the first Western starring Eastwood, the son of Western icon Clint Eastwood.
Clint Eastwood has a son.
A: | Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
how did luther describe some people who followed christ?, Context: In 1542, Luther read a Latin translation of the Qur'an. He went on to produce several critical pamphlets on Islam, which he called "Mohammedanism" or "the Turk". Though Luther saw the Muslim faith as a tool of the devil, he was indifferent to its practice: "Let the Turk believe and live as he will, just as one lets the papacy and other false Christians live." He opposed banning the publication of the Qur'an, wanting it exposed to scrutiny.
false
Where was the Sugauli Treaty negotiated?, Context: The aggressive policies of Lord Wellesley and the Marquis of Hastings led to the Company gaining control of all India (except for the Punjab and Sindh), and some part of the then kingdom of Nepal under the Sugauli Treaty. The Indian Princes had become vassals of the Company. But the expense of wars leading to the total control of India strained the Company's finances. The Company was forced to petition Parliament for assistance. This was the background to the Charter Act of 1813 which, among other things:
Sugauli
Many local groups have corruption metrics, why are they different?, Context: A number of parties have collected survey data, from the public and from experts, to try and gauge the level of corruption and bribery, as well as its impact on political and economic outcomes. A second wave of corruption metrics has been created by Global Integrity, the International Budget Partnership, and many lesser known local groups. These metrics include the Global Integrity Index, first published in 2004. These second wave projects aim to create policy change by identifying resources more effectively and creating checklists toward incremental reform. Global Integrity and the International Budget Partnership each dispense with public surveys and instead uses in-country experts to evaluate "the opposite of corruption" – which Global Integrity defines as the public policies that prevent, discourage, or expose corruption. These approaches compliment the first wave, awareness-raising tools by giving governments facing public outcry a checklist which measures concrete steps toward improved governance.
| metrics include the Global Integrity Index
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In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Brock Turner was seen by two other students sexually assaulting the woman in 2016
A lawyer for a former US student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has launched an appeal to have the ruling overturned.
Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail in 2016 for assaulting the woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house a year earlier.
The sentencing judge was widely criticised for leniency and removed from office by voters in June.
On Tuesday, his lawyer argued there had been insufficient evidence to convict.
Turner, a champion swimmer, was found guilty of three felony charges.
His lawyer Eric Multhaup told justices at a California appeals court that there was no evidence to prove at what point the woman became unconscious, US media report.
He said the jury had had to "speculate" and had "filled in the blanks" to reach their conclusion.
Mr Multhaup described his client's actions as "outercourse", meaning a sexual act while clothed, as opposed to intent to rape.
Deputy Attorney General Alisha Carlile argued that there had been "ample" evidence for the convictions.
The appeals court judges appeared sceptical of Mr Multhaup's arguments, the Associated Press news agency reported. They are expected to reach their decision within 90 days.
Turner, 22, was not present during Tuesday's hearing.
Although prosecutors had sought a six-year term, Turner was sentenced to six months and released after serving only three. He was placed on the sex-offenders register for life.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Anger at the sentence sparked a campaign to have Judge Aaron Persky recalled
The case sparked a debate in the US about sexual assault and whether white men from wealthy backgrounds are treated more favourably by courts.
Outrage at the sentencing was compounded by a letter from Turner's father saying his son's life would "never be the one that he dreamed about... a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20-plus years of life".
The victim, who has remained anonymous, directly addressed Turner in court and made a moving impact statement that was widely read online.
Judge Aaron Persky was later removed from his post by voters in Santa Clara County following a campaign to unseat him.
He said he had no regrets about the case and had been bound by sentencing and probation guidelines.
Judge Persky was cleared of misconduct by the California Commission on Judicial Performance. ||||| SAN JOSE — A lawyer for a former Stanford swimmer whose conviction on sexual assault charges led to the extremely rare recall of a judge tried to convince an appellate court Tuesday to overturn his client’s conviction — on the novel grounds that the athlete wanted “outercourse” with his intoxicated victim, not intercourse.
“Outercourse,” his lawyer Eric S. Multhaup explained to the three poker-faced justices, is sexual contact while fully clothed. Turner had his clothes on when he was caught by two Swedish graduate students making thrusting motions on top of a half-naked, intoxicated, unconscious woman, his lawyer noted.
The hearing is the latest development in a high-profile case that led last month to the recall of the judge, who gave Turner what many considered a lenient six-month jail sentence for the sexual assault outside a campus fraternity party in 2015. It was the first time in 86 years that voters have recalled a judge in California.
Although Turner wound up serving only three months, he is required under a state law to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life because of his conviction on the charge of attempting to rape an intoxicated person. The jury also found Turner guilty of two counts of digital penetration. He has moved back to Ohio and was not at Tuesday’s hearing.
Multhaup focused Tuesday on trying to convince the justices to overturn the attempted rape charge, arguing there wasn’t sufficient evidence for the jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Turner never intended to rape the woman, he said.
But the justices appeared skeptical of his argument. The panel has 90 days — until late October — to issue a ruling.
“I absolutely don’t understand what you are talking about,” Justice Franklin D. Elia said, adding that the law “requires the jury verdict to be honored.”
“We are not in a position to say (of the jury), you should have gone a different way.”
Justice Adrienne Grover tried to clarify Multhaup’s argument. “You’re saying (the jury) made unreasonable inferences?”
“Yes!” Multhaup said. ”They filled in the blanks.”
But Elia didn’t seem to buy it.
Related Articles Brock Turner: Justices reject ‘outercourse’ argument, upholds conviction “Intent is rarely proved by direct evidence,” he said, noting that it’s typically based on circumstantial evidence. “You can’t surgically remove things and look at them separately.”
Assistant Attorney General Alisha Carlile didn’t mince words. She argued that Multhaup had presented a “far-fetched version of events” that didn’t support the facts of the case.
The Stanford law school professor who led the campaign to recall Judge Aaron Persky said Turner had a chance to make that argument at trial, but did not.
“Now, he has a brand new story,” Michele Dauber said in a phone interview Tuesday, contending that Turner, who testified in his own defense, lied on the stand. “It’s inappropriate to ask the appeals court to substitute its judgment for the jury.” ||||| Brock Turner leaves the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, Calif., on Sept. 2, 2016. (Photo: Dan Honda, AP)
Lawyers for Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer whose conviction and sentencing cast a national spotlight on treatment of sexual assault cases, sought a new trial Tuesday before a three-judge panel in San Jose, California.
The judges should rule on the request within 90 days.
In papers filed in December, his lawyers said the initial trial was “a detailed and lengthy set of lies.” Although Turner has been released from jail, a new trial could help overturn his mandatory lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender.
Turner, 22, was convicted in March 2016 of assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person and related charges stemming from an attack outside a Stanford fraternity in January 2015.
The victim, identified as Emily Doe, read an emotional 7,000-word statement during the sentencing detailing the impact to her life and the horror of the 2015 attack. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner, who could have faced 14 years in prison, to six months behind bars.
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The sentencing outraged victims' rights advocates. And Turner served only about half of that time due to good behavior in jail.
The victim statement, however, quickly went viral, drawing more than 10 million views within four days and resonating with thousands of sexual assault survivors across the nation.
The state legislature noticed, and later that year Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that toughens penalties for attacks on unconscious victims.
Last month, Persky became the first California jurist recalled from the bench in 86 years.
Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2uNNSIB ||||| | Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted in 2016 of sexually assaulting a woman outside a 2015 campus party, wasn't interested in intercourse but rather "outercourse," his lawyer claims. Eric S. Multhaup—who's hoping to overturn Turner's conviction for the attempted rape of an intoxicated person, which came with a lifelong requirement to register as a sex offender in addition to a three-month prison stay—argued Tuesday that Turner was seeking fully clothed sexual contact when he was found thrusting on a half-naked, unconscious woman. Per USA Today, Multhaup appeared before a three-judge panel in San Jose, claiming that Turner had his clothes on and never intended to rape his victim. The "poker-faced justices ... appeared skeptical of his argument," reports the San Jose Mercury News. Indeed, Justice Franklin D. Elia announced, "I absolutely don't understand what you are talking about." Multhaup went on to argue that the jury had insufficient evidence to convict—he said it was unclear when the intoxicated victim known as Emily Doe fell unconscious—and improperly "filled in the blanks" in the case, per the BBC. "Intent is rarely proved by direct evidence," Elia responded, citing reliance on circumstantial evidence, per the Mercury News. "We are not in a position to say [of the jury], you should have gone a different way," he added, while Deputy Attorney General Alisha Carlile said there was "ample" evidence to convict. Turner, 22, lives in Ohio and wasn't present for the hearing, which follows the June ousting of his sentencing judge. A ruling is expected by late October. |
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Question: It is a united church established on 29 November 1970 by bringing together the main Protestant churches working in northern India ; it is a province of the worldwide Anglican Communion .
Answer: The Church of North India ( CNI ) , the dominant United denomination in northern India , is a united church established on 29 November 1970 by bringing together the Anglican and Protestant churches working in northern India ; it is a province of the worldwide Anglican Communion .
Question: Berkeley High School is a public high school in the Berkeley Unified School District .
Answer: Berkeley High School is a public high school in the Berkeley Unified School District , and the only public high school in the city of Berkeley , California , United States .
Question: In chemistry , curing is the name of a process that strengthens the links between polymers .
Answer: | Curing is a chemical process employed in polymer chemistry and process engineering that produces the toughening or hardening of a polymer material by cross-linking of polymer chains .
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In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
what has the better chloroplasts, Context: The alga Cyanophora, a glaucophyte, is thought to be one of the first organisms to contain a chloroplast. The glaucophyte chloroplast group is the smallest of the three primary chloroplast lineages, being found in only 13 species, and is thought to be the one that branched off the earliest. Glaucophytes have chloroplasts that retain a peptidoglycan wall between their double membranes, like their cyanobacterial parent. For this reason, glaucophyte chloroplasts are also known as muroplasts. Glaucophyte chloroplasts also contain concentric unstacked thylakoids, which surround a carboxysome - an icosahedral structure that glaucophyte chloroplasts and cyanobacteria keep their carbon fixation enzyme rubisco in. The starch that they synthesize collects outside the chloroplast. Like cyanobacteria, glaucophyte chloroplast thylakoids are studded with light collecting structures called phycobilisomes. For these reasons, glaucophyte chloroplasts are considered a primitive intermediate between cyanobacteria and the more evolved chloroplasts in red algae and plants.
red algae
What is sometimes combined with an RPG tube to keep from harming the user?, Context: Rocket-propelled grenades can be—and often are—used against hovering helicopters (e.g., by Somali militiamen during the Battle of Mogadishu (1993)). Firing an RPG at steep angles poses a danger to the user, because the backblast from firing reflects off the ground. In Somalia, militia members sometimes welded a steel plate in the exhaust end of an RPG's tube to deflect pressure away from the shooter when shooting up at US helicopters. RPGs are used in this role only when more effective weapons are not available.
a steel plate in the exhaust end
What does the first P in "AP-HP" stand for?, Context: Health care and emergency medical service in the city of Paris and its suburbs are provided by the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), a public hospital system that employs more than 90,000 people (including practitioners, support personnel, and administrators) in 44 hospitals. It is the largest hospital system in Europe. It provides health care, teaching, research, prevention, education and emergency medical service in 52 branches of medicine. The hospitals receive more than 5.8 million annual patient visits.
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TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: Washington (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April, according to House Republican officials. The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump repeatedly said he would force Mexico to pay for the construction of the wall along the border, though in October, Trump suggested for the first time that Mexico would reimburse the US for the cost of the wall. Trump defended that proposal Friday morning in a tweet, saying the move to use congressional appropriations was because of speed.The Trump transition team says his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations processThe move would break a key campaign promise when Trump promised to force Mexico to pay for the wall
Question:According to the bank of _, Mexico received $24.8 billion in remittance payments in 2015.
SOLUTION: Mexico
PROBLEM: Genealogists have made an error in compiling the family tree of Hillary Clinton and she is in fact linked to a poor Welsh mining family, an expert claimed As she kicks off her bid to enter the White House, Hillary Clinton could claim that her path to the presidency began some 160 years ago in the little-known Welsh parish of Ystradyfodwg – if she can pronounce it, that is. For while the US Democrat has previously spoken of her British ancestry, a definitive family tree has revealed her links to a poor mining community in the Welsh Valleys. Ystradyfodwg, pronounced Ust-rady-vod-ug, was the home of Mrs Clinton's great grandmother - a woman who showed a determination, similar to that of the former First Lady, to struggle through poverty and eventually emigrate to America with her family.A definitive family tree of Hillary Clinton reveals her Welsh ancestorsThey lived in a poor mining district called Ystradyfodwg, now RhonddaFamily emigrated to Pennsylvania where Mrs Clinton's grandmother Hannah Jones was born - one of four children out of 14 born to surviveHannah Jones then eloped with Hugh Rodham - Mrs Clinton's grandfather - to marry because his family probably disproved of her poor background
Question:In fact Mrs Clinton's steely resolve to get to the _ and make history as the first female president, can be seen in the actions of her female ancestors, who even defied social conventions through the years.
SOLUTION: White House
PROBLEM: (CNN) -- Miles Craigwell is a 21st-century warrior. The armor has come off, the helmet lays on the side of the field. Gone are his gridiron days -- this is rugby sevens and it's as fast as it is brutal. "We're modern-day gladiators," the 27-year-old told CNN's Rugby Sevens Worldwide show. "We are out there fighting, we are brotherhood, together, we're teammates. We hit each other for one another and we have each others' backs, so I think that sums it up very much." Craigwell knows all about being in a battle -- after an impressive college career at Brown University, he was tipped for big things when he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.Miles Craigwell plays rugby sevens for the United StatesHe was drafted by NFL team Miami Dolphins after collegeCraigwell failed to make the grade and took up rugby insteadU.S. welcomes sevens circuit to Las Vegas in January
Question:Sevens is a non-stop sport, with games divided into seven-minute halves -- a world away from the stop-start nature of the _.
SOLUTION: | NFL
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Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Athens, Greece (CNN) President Barack Obama issued a warning Tuesday against "crude nationalism" in the wake of Donald Trump's victory, saying during a news conference on his final overseas trip that the President-elect had tapped into a "troubling" strain of rhetoric playing on Americans' fears of globalization to win the presidency. Speaking in Athens, Obama said he recognized an "anger and fear in the American population" over threats of mechanization and globalization, but that Republican officials didn't use facts when making their case about the US economy. "You've seen some of the rhetoric among Republican elected officials and activists and media. Some of it pretty troubling and not necessarily connected to facts, but being used effectively to mobilize people," Obama said at a news conference alongside Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. "And obviously, President-elect Trump tapped into that particular strain within the Republican Party and then was able to broaden that enough and get enough votes to win the election."Obama said he recognized an "anger and fear in the American population"Obama's final international trip takes him to Greece, Germany and Peru
Questions:Obama is on a week-long, three-stop foreign swing that has taken new urgency following _'s election. (A) Athens (B) Greece (C) CNN (D) Barack Obama (E) Donald Trump (F) Americans (G) Obama (H) American (I) Republican (J) US (K) Greek (L) Alexis Tsipras (M) Republican Party (N) Germany (O) Peru
Student: | (E) |
Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
CLOSE Skip in Skip x Embed x Share The California rapper posted a rant on Instagram saying the "Roots" remake by History Channel that debuted on Memorial Day is offensive. He says he wishes more positive films and TV shows would be made about African-Americans. USA TODAY
Snoop Dogg performs in New York on May 3, 2016. (Photo: Jamie McCarthy, Getty Images for AOL)
Rapper and actor Snoop Dogg is calling for a boycott of the new Roots miniseries in an expletive-filled social media post.
In the video on Instagram and Twitter, Snoop Dogg rails about the remake of Roots, which premieres Monday as a four-night series on History, A&E and Lifetime channels.
The remake is based on ABC's landmark 1977 miniseries of the same name, taken from author Alex Haley's 1976 novel, which explored the horrors of American slavery.
"I'm sick of this. ... How the (expletive) they gonna put Roots on Memorial Day?" a subdued Snoop Dogg asks in the selfie video. "They just going to keep beating that (expletive) into our heads as to how they did us, huh?"
Warning: Video contains extensive profanity.
Message 💫👍🏾🕊🕊 A video posted by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on May 30, 2016 at 8:55am PDT
He takes exception to the portrayal of slavery in Roots and the movie 12 Years A Slave, which won the best picture Oscar in 2014 and a best supporting actress award for Lupita Nyong'o.
"I don't understand America. They just want to keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago. But guess what? We're taking the same abuse," he says. "Think about that part. When you all going to make a (expletive) series about the success that black folks is having. The only success we have is Roots and 12 Years A Slave?"
(Photo: Casey Crafford)
Snoop Dogg says he won't watch Roots and calls upon other African-Americans to follow suit.
"Let's create our own (expletive) based on today. How we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what's real," he says.
USA TODAY has reached out to the History Channel for comment.
Earlier, Roots co-executive producer LeVar Burton, who played the central character in the 1977 miniseries, enslaved protagonist Kunta Kinte, told USA TODAY that the remake was needed as part of a national discussion.
"We are clearly engaged in the conversation in America and it's one where everybody needs to be involved," Burton says. "If you are living in America right now, then the story of slavery is relevant to you, because it's shaped the country and the culture in which you live, whether you want to admit that or not."
(Photo: ABC)
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1sHlILq ||||| Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg lambasts Roots remake: 'I can't watch it' Rapper says he is sick of films and TV shows that depict historical racial abuse against African Americans when they are still ‘taking the same abuse’ Snoop Dogg arrives at the premiere of Coach Snoop. Photograph: Jerod Harris/Getty Images
The remake of Roots has gained widespread critical acclaim – but not from Snoop Dogg, who posted a short video on Instagram on Monday criticising the show, and suggesting that African Americans should not watch it.
In the video, the rapper said that he was fed up with watching films and TV shows that depicted the abuse of black Americans. “12 Years a Slave, Roots, Underground, I can’t watch none of that shit,” Snoop Dogg said, also taking aim at the Steve McQueen-directed Oscar-winning film and the WGN TV series about slaves in Georgia escaping via an underground railroad, which was recently renewed for a second season.
Roots remake: seminal slavery narrative still resonates in revamped miniseries Read more
“They just want to keep showing us the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago,” said Snoop Dogg. “But guess what – we’re taking the same abuse. Think about that part. Why don’t y’all go and make a muthafuckin’ series about the success that black folks is having?”
The rapper is at least leading by example, with a current web series on AOL called Coach Snoop, which follows the Snoop Youth Football League. Snoop Dogg set up the league with the aim of getting inner-city children aged between five and 13 involved in football, and is its coach and commissioner.
Roots, meanwhile, revisits one of the most successful shows in US television history for the Black Lives Matter era. British actor Malachi Kirby stars as enslaved Gambian warrior Kunta Kinte in the first episode, which aired in America on Sunday. The show is executive produced by LeVar Burton, who played Kunta Kinte in the original 70s miniseries, which was based on the book by Malcolm X biographer Alex Haley.
Snoop Dogg concluded that he would not watch Roots, and advised his fans to avoid it. “Let’s create our own shit based on today, how we living and how we inspire people today. Black is what’s real. Fuck that old shit.” ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. |||||
| To Snoop Dogg, Roots, 12 Years a Slave, Underground, and other depictions of slavery apparently aren't important history lessons, but attempts to rub black people's faces in the oppression they suffered centuries ago. In an expletive-filled Instagram video, the rapper urges fans to steer clear of the History Channel's Roots remake, People reports. "They gonna just keep beating that [expletive] in our heads of how they did us, huh?" he says. "They just want to keep showing the abuse that we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago. But, guess what? We taking the same abuse." He then wonders: "When you all going to make a [expletive] series about the success black folks is having?" Many Instagram commenters strongly disagreed with Snoop. "If the main theme one gets out of Roots is people getting beat then they may be viewing the series with tunnel vision and miss the resilience, strength, and humanity of a people in the face of unimaginable conditions," wrote "monecho1." Before Snoop's comments, Roots remake co-producer LeVar Burton, who starred in the original series, told USA Today that the new series should be part of the national conversation. "If you are living in America right now, then the story of slavery is relevant to you, because it's shaped the country and the culture in which you live, whether you want to admit that or not," he said. The Guardian notes that Snoop said black people should create works based on "how we inspire people today" and is walking it like he talks it: He's starring in the Coach Snoop reality series about the Snoop Youth Football League, which he set up to help inner-city children. |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
One example: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution is here: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Now, solve this: With roots in A.M. Los Angeles and A.M. New York, Live began as The Morning Show, hosted by Regis Philbin and Cyndy Garvey; the show rose to national prominence as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, when Philbin was joined by Kathie Lee Gifford. That incarnation of the program ran for 12 years and continuing as Live with Regis and Kelly for another decade before Ripa, after hosting with guest co-hosts for nearly a year, was paired with former NFL star Michael Strahan. The franchise has had longstanding success and has won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show and Outstanding Talk Show Hosts. On January 19, 2016, the show was renewed through the 2019--20 season. On February 12, 2016, a special episode focused on Ripa's 15 years as part of the program. On April 18, 2016, Strahan and ABC announced that he was leaving the show to join ABC's Good Morning America full-time. On May 1, 2017, it was announced that Ryan Seacrest would join Ripa as her new permanent co-host, succeeding Strahan.
Solution: | is live with kelly and ryan still on? |
"I'm Not the One" is a song by the American rock band The Cars, from their fourth album, "Shake It Up". It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals, Benjamin Orr singing the 'You Know Why' phrase, with the whole group repeating "going round and round" as backing vocals throughout the song.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
"I'm Not the One" has backing vocal lines. | Yes |
[Q]: The Northern Transcon, a route operated by the BNSF Railway, traverses the most northerly route of any railroad in the western United States. This route was originally part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway and Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway systems, merged into the Burlington Northern Railroad system in 1970. The Northern Transcon operates in America.
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Kevin Byrne is the Assembly member for the 94th District of the New York State Assembly. He is a registered Republican who successfully ran with the Republican, Conservative, Independence, and Reform Party endorsements. The district includes portions of Putnam and Westchester counties in the Hudson Valley. The 94th District of the New York State Assembly includes areas in the Hudson Valley.
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Invincible is the final studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson, released on October 30, 2001, by Epic Records. Similar to Jackson's previous material, "Invincible" explores themes such as love, romance, isolation, media criticism, and social issues. It was Jackson's sixth studio album released through Epic, and his final studio album released before his death in 2009. Michael Jackson had 5 albums released through Epic, the last in 2001.
[A]: No
[Q]: Chris Vance (born May 1, 1962) is an American politician, a two-term member of the King County Council and a former member of the Washington State Legislature. Vance is also a former chair of the Washington State Republican Party. He and his wife Ann raised their son and daughter in Auburn, Washington. Vance lost his U.S. Senate bid to Patty Murray in 2016. Chris Vance has two children.
[A]: | Yes |
Q: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Azwan Elias arrived in America this summer filled with excitement and eagerness to learn. Everyone who knows him says he is wise beyond his 17 years, that he is destined to lead others in his restive homeland of Iraq. He set foot on U.S. soil for the first time in June, part of a group of young Iraqis chosen for a State Department-sponsored leadership program. But the hopes in his heart vanished as fast as they had blossomed. He was forced to watch from afar as militants from ISIS, which calls itself the Islamic State, pressed into northern Iraq, steamrolling Mosul, the nation's second largest city, and then chunks of Ninevah province.Azwan Elias came to America as part of a State Department leadership programBack home in Iraq, his family fled ISIS persecution of the YazidisSeparated from his family, Azwan fears returning to his homelandHe watched the slaughter of his people from afar
Questions:If he could get permission to stay in _, he would be safe. (A) Azwan Elias (B) America (C) Iraq (D) Iraqis (E) State Department (F) ISIS (G) Islamic State (H) Mosul (I) Ninevah (J) Yazidis (K) Azwan
A: | (B) |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Q: Speed is an important aspect of motion. It is a measure of how fast or slow something moves. To determine speed you must know two things. First, you must know how far something travels. Second, you need to know how long it takes to travel that far. Speed can be calculated using this formula: speed = distance time A familiar example is the speed of a car. In the U.S., this is usually expressed in miles per hour. Think about a trip you and your family made in the car. Maybe the trip covered 120 miles and it took 3 hours. What was the cars speed? speed = 120 mi = 40 mi/h 3h The speed of a car may also be expressed in kilometers per hour (km/h). The SI unit for speed is meters per second (m/s). This is the unit of measure a scientist would use. <sep>What is speed?<sep>When something moves
A: No
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Q: At length, as I entered the pass, the huge rocks began to close around in all their wild, mysterious impressiveness, when suddenly, as I was gazing eagerly about me, a drove of gray hairy beings came in sight, lumbering toward me with a kind of boneless, wallowing motion like bears. I never turn back, though often so inclined, and in this particular instance, amid such surroundings, everything seemed singularly unfavorable for the calm acceptance of so grim a company. Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species. They proved to be nothing more formidable than Mono Indians dressed in the skins of sage-rabbits. Both the men and the women begged persistently for whisky and tobacco, and seemed so accustomed to denials that I found it impossible to convince them that I had none to give. Excepting the names of these two products of civilization, they seemed to understand not a word of English; but I afterward learned that they were on their way to Yosemite Valley to feast awhile on trout and procure a load of acorns to carry back through the pass to their huts on the shore of Mono Lake. <sep>What color were the rabbit skins?<sep>Sage rabbits
A: Yes
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Q: The Reconquest: The aim of the Crusades in Spain was the eviction of the Muslims. After the recovery of Jerusalem in 1099, it took four hundred years of sieges and battles, treaties, betrayals, and yet more battles, before Christian kings and warlords succeeded in subduing the Moors. On 10 September 1229, a Catalan army led by King Jaume I of Aragón and Catalunya took the Mallorcan shore near the present-day resort of Santa Ponça. The defenders retreated inside the walls of Palma, but on the last day of 1229 the city fell, and pockets of resistance throughout the island were also defeated. Jaume I proved to be an enlightened ruler who profited from the talents of the Moors — converted by force to Christianity — as well as of the island's large Jewish and Genoese trading communities. Mallorca prospered. The Moors on Menorca speedily agreed to pay an annual tribute to Aragón and were left in peace. The island's tranquility lasted until 1287, when Alfonso III of Aragón, smarting over a series of humiliations at the hands of his nobles, found a pretext for invasion. The Moors were defeated and expelled or killed. In contrast to Mallorca, Menorca's economy was devastated for decades. Jaume I died after reigning in Aragón for six decades, but he made the cardinal error of dividing between his sons the lands he had fought for so long to unite. At first this resulted in an Independent Kingdom of Mallorca, under Jaume II, followed by Sanç and Jaume III. But family rivalry triggered the overthrow of Jaume III by his cousin Pedro IV, who then seized the Balearics for Aragón. Attempting a comeback, Jaume was killed in battle near Llucmajor in 1349. A newly unified Christian Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, completed the Reconquest, defeating the only Moorish enclave left on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, in 1492. However, the centralized kingdom failed to incorporate the Balearics politically or economically. <sep>What was the purpose of the many battles in Spain and how long did it take<sep>The purpose of the battle was to rid of the muslims which took about 400 years
A: | Yes
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Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Which English school system is less difficult to get into?, Context: A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive schools were introduced on an experimental basis in the 1940s and became more widespread from 1965. About 90% of British secondary school pupils now attend comprehensive schools. They correspond broadly to the public high school in the United States and Canada and to the German Gesamtschule.[citation needed]
| comprehensive school |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
When land is cleared, habitats are lost. It may be cleared for agriculture. It may also be used for building new homes or businesses. Within the past 100 years, the amount of land used for agriculture has almost doubled. Land used for grazing cattle has more than doubled. Many wetlands have also been lost to agriculture. The U.S. has lost almost all the natural tall-grass prairies. Thee areas of tall thick grass have virtually disappeared. These areas of land had thick fertile soil. Their grasses had very deep root systems. These deep and thick roots reduced the amount of soil erosion. They also were home to many plants and animals. Prairies were wonderful places. They were home to colorful flowers, prairie dogs, and herds of bison. <sep>Why may land be cleared?<sep>Agriculture | Yes |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Q: Kendrick, DeGeneres, 'SNL' co-stars have Leslie Jones' back
Skip Ad Ad Loading... x Embed x Share Leslie Jones' website was vandalized on Wednesday, but the Ghostbusters star has yet to comment on the trolling. There has been, however, no lack of support from Jones' fans, who have been sending her uplifting messages since the attack. USA TODAY
The trolls just couldn't let Leslie Jones end the summer on a positive note after her stint as Team USA's most vocal fan in Rio.
After hackers reportedly posted personal data such as nude photos and identification to her site, JustLeslie.com, Twitter fans came out to show their love for Jones (again) and question how we ended up here again (again).
Her Ghostbusters director, Paul Feig, issued an angry response: "What's happening to @Lesdoggg is an absolute outrage. Alt right, haters, trolls, "comedians," whoever the (expletive) you all are, you're just sad."
Here's what else Twitter had to say about the latest attacks on Jones.
Love for Lesdoggg
@Lesdoggg, no one deserves this—least of all someone who brings us so much joy. I'm with you. -H — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 25, 2016
I was terrified when I did SNL. Leslie Jones went out of her way to be open, warm, friendly, funny all week. She is a GEM. — Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) August 25, 2016
.@Lesdoggg you are beautiful & talented & bring laughter into a world that desperately needs it. You are also my friend & I support you. — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) August 25, 2016
.@Lesdoggg only someone with tremendous strength can endure being put in a position to evoke positive change and you are superhero powerful. — Michael Chiklis (@MichaelChiklis) August 25, 2016
Hands off Leslie!
May many (more) bad things befall the cowards who've attacked my friend, @Lesdoggg. They are the worst of humanity, where she is the best. — Taran Killam (@TaranKillam) August 24, 2016
Yo real talk though..LEAVE LESLIE JONES ALONE!!! She has done nothing to deserve the treatment these BUTT holes are giving her! @Lesdoggg — Jay Pharoah (@JayPharoah) August 24, 2016
This situation is beyond messed up, to put it diplomatically
I truly don't know why people are so hateful towards @Lesdoggg. Why? She's talented and wonderful. Why are people so pressed to be awful? — Gabby SidiBae (@GabbySidibe) August 24, 2016
This @Lesdoggg attack is troubling. The rampant racism percolating in society right now is shameful and sad. She made a movie, that's it! — octavia spencer (@octaviaspencer) August 24, 2016
these acts against leslie jones....are sickening. its racist & sexist. it's disgusting. this is hate crimes. this aint "kids joshing round" — Questlove Gomez (@questlove) August 24, 2016
Do not give your eyeballs to this racist, hate-filled, misogynoir crime. I #StandWithLeslie ❤️ — KATY PERRY (@katyperry) August 24, 2016
How can anyone look @ what's happened to Leslie Jones today/the past few weeks and NOT see proof of how horrifyingly WoC are treated online? — Sam Escobar (@myhairisblue) August 24, 2016
Leslie Jones was viscously cyber-attacked and Ryan Lochte is gonna be on Dancing with the Stars. What the hell is wrong with us? — Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) August 24, 2016
(For the record, USA TODAY Sports is reporting Lochte is indeed doing DWTS.)
No good deed goes unpunished
Leslie Jones just spent 2 weeks cheering on American athletes of all genders, races, sexualities, and religions... and comes back to this. — Charles Clymer (@cmclymer) August 24, 2016
Revenge is best served onscreen
on SNL next season Leslie Jones should have a full episode of her remaking every iconic scene from every movie the hackers grew up watching. — cartier burgundy (@cartierburgundy) August 24, 2016
Leslie Jones in... the Terminator! Leslie Jones in... Back To The Future! Leslie Jones in... Beverly Hills Cop! As the hackers cry and cry. — Ian MacIntyre (@MrIanMacIntyre) August 24, 2016
Or on a magazine cover
Leslie Jones better get a Vanity Fair cover out of this — Super Natural Psycho (@snpsnpsnp) August 24, 2016
... Or in a court of law
FYI sharing stolen intimate photos like @Lesdoggg 's is illegal. You are participating in a sex crime. — Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) August 24, 2016
Whoever hacked @Lesdoggg's site needs to be arrested & prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And then some. #LeslieJones — Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) August 24, 2016
I hope Leslie Jones finds them and sues them out of their moms basements. — Neil Miller (@rejects) August 24, 2016
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2bo2ljR ||||| Leslie Jones FBI On the Case
FBI On the Case for Leslie Jones' Hackers
EXCLUSIVE
The FBI is now on the hunt for the hackers who violated SNL's Leslie Jones ... TMZ has learned.
Sources familiar with the situation tell us, the FBI is developing a strategy for tracking down the person or people who hacked into her iCloud and cell phone and posted nude photos and personal information on her website.
It's unclear whether agents from the West Coast or East Coast will launch the investigation ... Leslie lives in both New York and L.A.
From what we can gather, this is exclusively an FBI investigation ... we've checked with both the NYPD and the LAPD and they don't have the case. |||||
A: | Hollywood is rallying behind Leslie Jones after a hacker leaked nude photos and other personal info about her. "Yo real talk though..LEAVE LESLIE JONES ALONE!!! She has done nothing to deserve the treatment these BUTT holes are giving her!" tweeted Jay Pharoah on Wednesday. His was just one of many tweets supporting Jones, which came from her Saturday Night Live co-stars, SNL guests, and other celebrities, USA Today reports. "I truly don't know why people are so hateful towards @Lesdoggg. Why?" tweeted Gabourey Sidibe. "She's talented and wonderful. Why are people so pressed to be awful?" Several people called out the racism inherent in the attacks on Jones; Questlove went so far as to call the hack a "hate crime." Milo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart editor who was at the center of Twitter attacks against Jones last month, told CNNMoney in a statement: "I'm distressed to hear that Leslie Jones has been hacked and naked pictures of her have been posted online." The FBI is investigating the hack, TMZ reports. Jones has not commented on it, and her personal website was still offline as of Thursday morning. |
Over the last 30 years, Bangkok, once a small fishing village, has transformed into a rich, concrete, high-rise city that it is today. The spreading metropolis and its population of 12 million now produces 35 per cent of Thailand's economic wealth. As a magnet for foreign companies, Bangkok attracts many overseas managers and business people from different fields, including tourism, automobiles and electronics. The city's population of foreigners is in the high hundreds of thousands, with tens of thousands of Japanese, Chinese and western employees working alongside hundreds of thousands of Burmese who mostly do unskilled jobs shunned by Thais. For those used to the good life, the variety and quality of the city's food is a key attraction, says one US manager, before listing many of his favourite Italian, Mexican and, of course, Thai restaurants. Most offer quality meals for less than the cost of a takeaway sandwich in London. Great choice and value can be found in Bangkok's other attractions, too. For overseas business people who enjoy shopping in luxury and air-conditioned comfort, the city has hundreds of modern shopping malls. Some foreigners, however, prefer the charms of Chatuchak Market, where anything can be bought at a good price by the skilled bargainer. When the time comes to talk business many overseas business people prefer to move out of the markets and onto the golf course. Thailand has thousands of courses, which can provide a welcome break from the busy and noisy city life. But most business people go to the golf course because it's the perfect place to discuss the next big deal. Because of the fast-paced life some foreign business people see Bangkok as a place to stay for the short term, rather than a lifetime. Australian computer software designer Sarah Huang is seven months pregnant but still working full-time in her Bangkok office. She says the city is "definitely a place I want to stay for the next five, ten years". Nannies and home help are affordable, but high fees for quality... The main purpose of the passage is to A) explain the reasons for Bangkok's rapid economic growth over the past 30 years B) promote the many attractions Bangkok has to offer tourists visiting the city C) describe the attractions of living in Bangkok for foreign business people D) compare the lifestyles of Burmese workers and foreign business people in Bangkok
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Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
Q: Love Never Dies is a romantic musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Glenn Slater and a book by Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth and Slater. It is a sequel to the long-running musical The Phantom of the Opera and was loosely adapted from Forsyth's novel The Phantom of Manhattan (1999).
A: | is there a sequel to the phantom of the opera? |
Q: Fatburger serves fast food.
Fatburger Inc. is an American fast casual restaurant chain. Its tagline is "The Last Great Hamburger Stand". While it is a fast food restaurant, the food is cooked and made to order. Some Fatburger restaurants have a liquor license, as well as Fat Bars. Its franchise headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California. In addition to the United States, the chain operates in 19 other countries.
A: Yes
Q: Rhondda Cynon Raff is a borough in South Wales.
Cantref Reservoir is the middle of the three reservoirs in the Taff Fawr valley in Wales. It is owned by Welsh Water. It is located in the Brecon Beacons National Park, mostly in the Powys unitary authority area and within the historic county boundaries of Breconshire. Part of the south west corner is in the Rhondda Cynon Taff unitary authority area.
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson did not win any award
Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson is an award winning Icelandic stage and film actor who starred in and co-wrote 2011's "Either Way", Ragnar Bragason's "Metalhead" and Baltasar Kormákur's "The Deep". Gunnarsson stars in the film Rams which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. He also stars in the upcoming American film "Autumn Lights".
A: No
Q: FOB Iskandariyah operated for at least 6 years
Forward Operating Base Iskandariyah (Arabic:إسكندرية), or FOB Iskandariyah, was a United States military forward operating base located on the grounds of the Musayyib Power Plant and the banks of the Euphrates River, north of the town of Musayyib, Babil Governorate, Iraq from 2003 to 2009.
A: | Yes |
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
[Q]: The cute red ball rolled over to the blue ball and said hello. The blue ball was scared and went to cry to the green ball. The green ball laughed at the blue ball. Then the green ball told the orange ball that blue ball was stupid. Most felt this was not good to do and so they punished the green ball by taking away all his air. From that day on everyone saw the air-less green ball and knew that they could not do or say any bad things. This is how the trouble started. The purple ball used the fear of everyone to become the leader that they all feared. The purple ball was mean to everyone. Until one day the red ball spoke up and got all the other colored balls together and they took the air from the purple ball and put it in the green ball. Sadly, the green ball had been without air for too long and was dead. <sep>Why was everyone afraid to say bad things?<sep>Because they saw the green was airless because he said the blue ball was stupid
[A]: No
[Q]: Iwasaki's careful respect for the Long Beach program and its lawyers earned him the political capital he needed to complete his takeover in a matter of weeks. "The Long Beach program had strong support in the community so in a situation like that, one has to recognize that it's not like a takeover where I have all the answers and I know best," Iwasaki said. "The people in the community who are working there have the contacts and the knowledge that will allow service to continue." Things have gone less smoothly across town. There, Dudovitz, a longtime poverty lawyer and executive director of the San Fernando Valley's 36-year-old legal aid program, continues to struggle with his hostile takeover of the neighboring San Gabriel-Pomona Valleys service area one year after it was accomplished. On the bright side, Dudovitz has extended his respected program to clients in the San Gabriel-Pomona Valley, and he now operates on a much larger budget, $6.5 million last year. However, his clash with the old San Gabriel program resulted in litigation, bitter feelings and a mission that some say is not clearly focused on serving poor people. "It was a difficult situation that was probably mishandled by everyone," a longtime observer of the public interest community said of the San Fernando Valley-San Gabriel-Pomona Valley merger. "There are very few people who come out as the heroes. Personalities got involved when they shouldn't have. Things were said that caused bad feelings and couldn't be unsaid." Iwasaki's merger with the smaller, 48-year-old Long Beach program was friendly and fast, and no one - not even Long Beach board members - lost a job. When it was over, Iwasaki had $1 million more in federal dollars and two new offices. Long Beach clients regained services they had lost years ago when federal budget cuts and dwindling grants reduced the staff of 15 lawyers to five and cut immigration and consumer law programs. Iwasaki said, "[I judged the transition] better than I could have hoped for." <sep>In the eyes of the public interest community, was Dudovitz's hostile takeover well-handled?<sep>Struggle
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Zakariya Essabar, a Moroccan citizen, moved to Germany in February 1997 and to Hamburg in 1998, where he studied medical technology. Soon after moving to Hamburg, Essabar met Binalshibh and the others through a Turkish mosque. Essabar turned extremist fairly suddenly, probably in 1999, and reportedly pressured one acquaintance with physical force to become more religious, grow a beard, and compel his wife to convert to Islam. Essabar's parents were said to have made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to sway him from this lifestyle. Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, he would travel to Afghanistan to communicate the date for the attacks to the al Qaeda leadership. Mounir el Motassadeq, another Moroccan, came to Germany in 1993, moving to Hamburg two years later to study electrical engineering at theTechnical University. A witness has recalled Motassadeq saying that he would kill his entire family if his religious beliefs demanded it. One of Motassadeq's roommates recalls him referring to Hitler as a "good man" and organizing film sessions that included speeches by Bin Laden. Motassadeq would help conceal the Hamburg group's trip to Afghanistan in late 1999. Abdelghani Mzoudi, also a Moroccan, arrived in Germany in the summer of 1993, after completing university courses in physics and chemistry. Mzoudi studied in Dortmund, Bochum, and Muenster before moving to Hamburg in 1995. Mzoudi described himself as a weak Muslim when he was home in Morocco, but much more devout when he was back in Hamburg. In April 1996, Mzoudi and Motassadeq witnessed the execution of Atta's will. During the course of 1999, Atta and his group became ever more extreme and secretive, speaking only in Arabic to conceal the content of their conversations. 87 When the four core members of the Hamburg cell left Germany to journey to Afghanistan late that year, it seems unlikely that they already knew about the planes operation; no evidence connects them to al Qaeda before that time. Witnesses have attested, however, that their pronouncements reflected ample predisposition toward taking some action against the United States. In short, they fit the bill for Bin Laden, Atef, and KSM. Going to Afghanistan The available evidence indicates that in 1999, Atta, Binalshibh, Shehhi, and Jarrah decided to fight in Chechnya against the Russians. <sep>Who traveled to Afghanistan shortly before the 9/11 attacks?<sep>Binalshibh
[A]: | No
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Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to introduce numbers to kindergartners
Teach counting.
Teach children to count from one to ten; most can remember the ten numbers fairly easily and learn to recite them, like a song or rhyme. Practice this basic skill at every opportunity.
Choose from: - Many children learn best when they are using their sense of touch. Let children touch the items they have been counting.; - Teaching children to count to ten is an excellent way to teach new information to kindergartners, especially adults. You can also practice counting numbers that involve a combination of hand-eye coordination, fourth-finger coordination, and shoehorn coordination.; - Make the rules clear in your classroom. Do not make new rules just to get kids to learn.; - After 4-6 months of age, children will be proficient enough to really learn the correct numbers. Teach young children how to count aloud.; | Many children learn best when they are using their sense of touch. Let children touch the items they have been counting. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Paul put the despised watch away And laid out before him his array Of stones and metals, and when the morning Struck the stones to their best adorning, He chose the brightest, and this new watch Was so light and thin it seemed to catch The sunlight's nothingness, and its gleam. Topazes ran in a foamy stream Over the cover, the hands were studded With garnets, and seemed red roses, budded. The face was of crystal, and engraved Upon it the figures flashed and waved With zircons, and beryls, and amethysts. It took a week to make, and his trysts At night with the Shadow were his alone. Paul swore not to speak till his task was done. The night that the jewel was worthy to give. Paul watched the long hours of daylight live To the faintest streak; then lit his light, And sharp against the wall's pure white The outline of the Shadow started Into form. His burning-hearted Words so long imprisoned swelled To tumbling speech. Like one compelled, He told the lady all his love, And holding out the watch above His head, he knelt, imploring some Littlest sign. The Shadow was dumb. <sep>To whom did Paul want to give the jeweled watch to?<sep>To no-one
Output: | No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
[Q]: How did CBS Records form a relationship with Tree International Publishing?, Context: In 1989, CBS Records re-entered the music publishing business by acquiring Nashville music publisher Tree International Publishing for more than $30 million.
[A]: acquiring
[Q]: What is a concern when using the computer?, Context: Seemingly, multitasking would cause a computer that is switching between several programs to run more slowly, in direct proportion to the number of programs it is running, but most programs spend much of their time waiting for slow input/output devices to complete their tasks. If a program is waiting for the user to click on the mouse or press a key on the keyboard, then it will not take a "time slice" until the event it is waiting for has occurred. This frees up time for other programs to execute so that many programs may be run simultaneously without unacceptable speed loss.
[A]: multitasking would cause a computer that is switching between several programs to run more slowly
[Q]: Who was the final new player to be added to the Cubs in 2015?, Context: On November 2, 2014, the Cubs announced that Joe Maddon had signed a five-year contract to be the 54th manager in team history. On December 10, 2014, Maddon announced that the team had signed free agent Jon Lester to a 6-year, $155 million contract. Many other trades and acquisitions occurred during the off season. The opening day lineup for the Cubs contained five new players including rookie right fielder Jorge Soler. Rookies Kris Bryant and Addison Russell were in the starting lineup by mid-April, and rookie Kyle Schwarber was added in mid-June. The Cubs finished the 2015 season with a record of 97–65, third best in the majors. On October 7, in the 2015 National League Wild Card Game, Jake Arrieta pitched a complete game shutout and the Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 4–0.
[A]: | Kyle Schwarber
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Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?
Context:
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis prepares to welcome Vice President Mike Pence to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Dec. 20. EFE-EPA/Erik S. Lesser US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Gen. James Mattis will leave the post of defense secretary. "General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February, after having served my Administration as Secretary of Defense for the past two years," Trump wrote on Twitter.
Hypothesis: US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has been to Canada. | It's impossible to say |
TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
PROBLEM: New Legitimacy: Organized crime was soon to have a formidable adversary in its bid to control Las Vegas — corporate cash. Though Las Vegas had developed a powerful local economy, few major outside investments were made in the city, due primarily to mob infiltration and its inherent ties to illegal activities. That would change dramatically with the 1966 arrival of billionaire Howard Hughes. A legitimate businessman, Hughes was nonetheless eccentric and dramatic, a style suited to the Las Vegas ethos. True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn's penthouse. Several weeks later he was asked — then ordered — to vacate the room to make room for high rollers, whereupon he promptly bought the property and fired the management. Thus began Hughes' legendary three-year, $300-million Las Vegas buying spree. When it was over, Hughes owned six casinos, an airport, and an airline, along with numerous plots of land stretching from the Strip to the mountains. Hughes' actions would have beneficial repercussions, both immediate and lasting. Because of the new legitimacy Las Vegas acquired from Hughes' investments, established companies such as Hilton Hotels bought into the gaming business, and their influence helped draw a line in the desert sand between legitimate operations and mob casinos, where illegal skimming of profits was rampant. That, combined with the formation of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, would signal the beginning of the end for heavy mob influence in the city. Las Vegas with a Vision As corporations moved in and the mob was slowly pushed out, a new Las Vegas emerged. The legitimization of gambling led to its increased legalization across the US. What was once a sure thing became much more competitive. Casino operators had to reassess the nature of their business. The first to really do so was Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas resident and owner of the Golden Nugget. In the mid-1980s, Wynn began plans to reinvigorate Las Vegas with a new resort. He bought several Strip properties — the Silver Slipper and Castaways among them — and demolished them to make way for a new kind of resort — Mirage — which became an instant success. <sep>What did Hughes do to show his style and his dramatic side?<sep>Cloistered himself in the Desert Inn penthouse
SOLUTION: Yes
PROBLEM: After more than a year of effort, attorneys with Northwest Justice Project earlier this week told 25 families in a mobile home park here that they can keep their homes and no longer need to fear eviction. The East Wenatchee City Council has entered into an Interlocal Agreement with the Wenatchee Housing Authority authorizing the Authority to purchase and maintain the Mobile Park Plaza mobile home park. Located just north of the Wenatchee Valley Mall, the park had been threatened with closure for more than a year. "We cannot say enough about how relieved we are that this is over," said Manuel Luna, one of the residents of Mobile Park Plaza. "We were afraid that no solution would be found, and that our families would have no place to go. We are very grateful for the help of our attorneys. Without them, we would not have saved our homes. We are also thankful for the help of the Housing Authority, the City Council and Mayor Steve Lacy." Formerly owned by local businessman Dan Jennings, Mobile Park Plaza had been home to 45 low-income families, many of them Latino farm workers. In October 2000 Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park effective November 30, 2001. While some park residents decided to move, others, including 25 families, organized an informal association to relocate or save their homes. Unable to afford private legal counsel, the families asked for help from legal services attorneys at the Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services. In the succeeding months, these attorneys worked with representatives of the Greater Wenatchee Housing Authority, the state Office of Community Development, Chelan County, the City of East Wenatchee, state legislators, Jennings and others to secure funding and find a solution. "There seemed to be a never-ending set of obstacles," said Patrick Pleas, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project. "Mr. Jennings had financial considerations, the City had growth and economic development considerations, and the State and Housing Authority had their own concerns. Thankfully, hard work and good will from all parties allowed us to find a solution that works for everyone." Northwest Justice Project and Columbia Legal Services are non-profit organizations that provide civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout Washington state. Members of the state's Access to Justice Network, these organizations work with thousands of volunteer attorneys to ensure that justice is available to those who face critical legal problems and can't afford private legal counsel. <sep>Why did some residents of Mobile Park Plaza decide to move?<sep>Because Jennings gave the park residents notice of his intent to close the park
SOLUTION: Yes
PROBLEM: Magnets are able to place a force on certain materials. This force is called a magnetic force. The force a magnet exerts is a little different from the forces you may normally think about. You exert a force on a book when you lift it. You also exert a force on the pedals of your bicycle. In both those cases, those forces cause a change. The change you see in both these cases is called motion. Magnets, too, can produce change. They can produce motion just like you do. Unlike you, magnets do not have to touch something to exert a force. A magnetic force is exerted over a distance. Thats right, a magnet can push or pull certain items without ever touching them. Thats how the maglev train works. Do you know another type of force that does not require objects to touch? These forces are known as non-contact forces. Another type of non-contact force you may be familiar with is gravity. Gravity too can cause changes in motion. Gravity holds our moon in orbit without touching it. <sep>The force you exert on your bike pedals that causes change is called what?<sep>Motion
SOLUTION: | Yes
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Q: Mr Speaker has only one foot.
Mr. Speaker, since the problems of InterCanadian are directly related to his mishandling of the Onex bid to acquire Air Canada and Canadian Airlines, does the Minister of Transport not have a responsibility to step in now in order to save the 900 jobs his incompetence has jeopardized?
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
Q: Righting Wrongs is a Hong Kong film.
Righting Wrongs (, aka Above the Law) is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed by Corey Yuen, who also co-stars. The film stars Yuen Biao and Cynthia Rothrock. This is the one of Yuen Biao's better known films that he made without film industry compatriots Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Q: valerie isn't a name
Earlier this year reporter Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to name the US-government source who identified a member of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Valerie Plame.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: No
Q: san fransico is mentioned
E_Tomlinson (1). DP_San Francisco 1. LOB_Cincinnati 5, San Francisco 7. 2B_Suarez (7), Blandino (2), B.Crawford (9). HR_Suarez (7), Belt (8). CS_Hamilton (2). S_Mahle (3). HBP_by Blach (Schebler). Advertisement Umpires_Home, Joe West; First, Doug Eddings; Second, Marty Foster; Third, Mark Ripperger. T_2:53. A_37,809 (41,915).
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Lille (CNN) -- A year that began in uncertainty for Roger Federer ended with a historic title for the 17-time grand slam champion and his country. When Federer defeated Richard Gasquet of France 6-4 6-2 6-2 in front of another record crowd Sunday, it gave Federer a maiden Davis Cup title at the not so tender age of 33. The visitors prevailed 3-1 in the best-of-five match series. Switzerland had never before won team tennis' most prestigious event, playing in one previous final in 1992 when Federer was merely 11. "For me personally, obviously I'm unbelievably happy because I've been playing in this competition for probably almost 15 years now," Federer told reporters as he sat among his teammates. "At the end of the day I wanted it more for the guys.Switzerland wins its first Davis Cup title after Roger Federer routs Richard GasquetThe Swiss win the series 3-1 in Lille to disappoint most of the large crowd in northern FranceFederer has won almost everything in his career, just missing an Olympic singles goldHe got support from Stan Wawrinka, who shone in his two matches this weekend
Questions:"You saw how well Roger was playing, how he just killed _ today," said Wawrinka. (A) Lille (B) CNN (C) Roger Federer (D) Federer (E) Richard Gasquet (F) France (G) Davis Cup (H) Switzerland (I) Swiss (J) Olympic (K) Stan Wawrinka
Student: | (E) |
Teacher:In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: What can potentially cause problems in America?, Context: Nutritionism is the view that excessive reliance on food science and the study of nutrition can lead to poor nutrition and to ill health. It was originally credited to Gyorgy Scrinis, and was popularized by Michael Pollan. Since nutrients are invisible, policy makers rely on nutrition experts to advise on food choices. Because science has an incomplete understanding of how food affects the human body, Pollan argues, nutritionism can be blamed for many of the health problems relating to diet in the Western World today.
Student: | Nutritionism |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Consider Input: what is the memory viewing a bunch of at the end?, Context: A computer's memory can be viewed as a list of cells into which numbers can be placed or read. Each cell has a numbered "address" and can store a single number. The computer can be instructed to "put the number 123 into the cell numbered 1357" or to "add the number that is in cell 1357 to the number that is in cell 2468 and put the answer into cell 1595." The information stored in memory may represent practically anything. Letters, numbers, even computer instructions can be placed into memory with equal ease. Since the CPU does not differentiate between different types of information, it is the software's responsibility to give significance to what the memory sees as nothing but a series of numbers.
Output: numbers
Input: Consider Input: Which of the following did not occur in the 20th century: urbanization, the spread of the Ottoman Empire, or wars?, Context: South Slavic historically formed a dialect continuum, i.e. each dialect has some similarities with the neighboring one, and differences grow with distance. However, migrations from the 16th to 18th centuries resulting from the spread of Ottoman Empire on the Balkans have caused large-scale population displacement that broke the dialect continuum into many geographical pockets. Migrations in the 20th century, primarily caused by urbanization and wars, also contributed to the reduction of dialectal differences.
Output: spread of Ottoman Empire
Input: Consider Input: when was the program halted, Context: The success of the first two landings allowed the remaining missions to be crewed with a single veteran as Commander, with two rookies. Apollo 13 launched Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in April 1970, headed for the Fra Mauro formation. But two days out, a liquid oxygen tank exploded, disabling the Service Module and forcing the crew to use the LM as a "life boat" to return to Earth. Another NASA review board was convened to determine the cause, which turned out to be a combination of damage of the tank in the factory, and a subcontractor not making a tank component according to updated design specifications. Apollo was grounded again, for the remainder of 1970 while the oxygen tank was redesigned and an extra one was added.
| Output: remainder of 1970
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[Q]: I think a lot of times we just spend aid and say we feel better about it and it ends up being spent the wrong way, and there's some pretty egregious examples recently. One being Russia, where we had IMF loans that ended up in the pockets of a lot of powerful people and didn't help the nation. Russia didn't receive any IMF loans.
[A]: No
[Q]: Help to support Christian Aid by making a donation or you can attend events being held in Gainsborough. On Tuesday, May 15, a Cream Tea for Christian Aid will be served from 3pm to 5pm at All Saints Parish Church and tickets are now available from the All Saints Church Cafe and on Sunday, May 19, a number of events are taking place at St Stephen's Methodist Church from 8.30am. Christian Aid has only jews
[A]: No
[Q]: Visiting Grandpa<br>Tyler visits his grandpa on Saturday. He meets grandpa at the nursing home. They drive to the park. Grandpa tells stories while they feed ducks. Tyler treats grandpa to ice cream before driving home. tyler visited his grandpa on a saturday
[A]: Yes
[Q]: How to do shoulder exercises in yoga<br>Try some simple breathing exercises first. This pose will help you exercise shoulder muscles you don't use often and will prepare you for higher-intensity workouts later. [substeps] Lie flat on your stomach with your arms at your sides. Stand on your head and don't take any breaths.
[A]: | No |
Context:
The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) oversees the dissemination of real-time trade and quote information (market data) in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX) listed securities (stocks and bonds). It is currently chaired by Emily Kasparov of the Chicago Stock Exchange, the first woman and the youngest chair elected to the position.
Hypothesis: Emily Kasparov has no work associated with the Chicago Stock Exchange.
No
Context:
Sierpe River (Spanish: "Rio Sierpe") is a river of Costa Rica. Boat traffic is common with both locals and tourists. A broad range of wildlife can be seen from the American Crocodile, various other reptile species, and exotic fish and birds. It joins the Rio Terraba.
Hypothesis: the locals love to move around on water vehicles
It's impossible to say
Context:
Christopher Seton Abele (born January 28, 1967) is an American businessman and Democratic Party politician. He is the current Milwaukee County Executive. Abele is the son of American businessman John Abele, the co-founder of Boston Scientific. Abele serves as a trustee of the Argosy Foundation, a charitable trust established with an endowment from his father.
Hypothesis: Christopher Seton Abele is the co-founder of Boston Scientific
| No |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Ex Input:
What do you need in addition to the LaserDisc in order to experience surround sound?, Context: Only one 5.1 surround sound option exists on a given LaserDisc (either Dolby Digital or DTS), so if surround sound is desired, the disc must be matched to the capabilities of the playback equipment (LD Player and Receiver/Decoder) by the purchaser. A fully capable LaserDisc playback system includes a newer LaserDisc player that is capable of playing digital tracks, has a digital optical output for digital PCM and DTS audio, is aware of AC-3 audio tracks, and has an AC-3 coaxial output; an external or internal AC-3 RF demodulator and AC-3 decoder; and a DTS decoder. Many 1990s A/V receivers combine the AC-3 decoder and DTS decoder logic, but an integrated AC-3 demodulator is rare both in LaserDisc players and in later A/V receivers.
Ex Output:
playback equipment
Ex Input:
Which of these Greeks knows more about physics: Joseph Sifakis or John Iliopoulos?, Context: As of 2007, Greece had the eighth highest percentage of tertiary enrollment in the world (with the percentages for female students being higher than for male) while Greeks of the Diaspora are equally active in the field of education. Hundreds of thousands of Greek students attend western universities every year while the faculty lists of leading Western universities contain a striking number of Greek names. Notable modern Greek scientists of modern times include Dimitrios Galanos, Georgios Papanikolaou (inventor of the Pap test), Nicholas Negroponte, Constantin Carathéodory, Manolis Andronikos, Michael Dertouzos, John Argyris, Panagiotis Kondylis, John Iliopoulos (2007 Dirac Prize for his contributions on the physics of the charm quark, a major contribution to the birth of the Standard Model, the modern theory of Elementary Particles), Joseph Sifakis (2007 Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize" of Computer Science), Christos Papadimitriou (2002 Knuth Prize, 2012 Gödel Prize), Mihalis Yannakakis (2005 Knuth Prize) and Dimitri Nanopoulos.
Ex Output:
John Iliopoulos
Ex Input:
What are function, characteristics and genetics grouped into?, Context: While all dogs are genetically very similar, natural selection and selective breeding have reinforced certain characteristics in certain populations of dogs, giving rise to dog types and dog breeds. Dog types are broad categories based on function, genetics, or characteristics. Dog breeds are groups of animals that possess a set of inherited characteristics that distinguishes them from other animals within the same species. Modern dog breeds are non-scientific classifications of dogs kept by modern kennel clubs.
Ex Output:
| broad categories
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Consider the question. The peanuts were sealed for freshness, so where were they placed?
Options:
- jar
- peanut shells
- carnival
- ballpark
- bought at grocery store
If the answer is 'jar'; explain the reasoning: | Peanuts must be filled in an airtight container. Jars are airtight containers. Peanuts must be sealed in a jar. |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
Declarations of war by Great Britain and the United Kingdom -- A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation and another. In the United Kingdom, only the monarch has the power to declare war and peace, under the royal prerogative. There have been no declarations of war since the Second World War, though British Armed Forces have taken part in armed conflict on numerous occasions nonetheless.
Output: | does the prime minister have the power to declare war |
Stagnant scientific education endangers U.S. economic leadership, says a report by leading business and science figures. Released at a congressional meeting attended by senators and Congress members of both parties, the report updates a 2005 science education report that led to moves to double federal research funding. Nevertheless, the Rising Above the Gathering Stormreview finds little improvement in U.S. elementary and secondary technical education since then. "Our nation's future has worsened," concludes the report panel headed by former Lockheed chief Martin Norman Augustine. The report "paints a discouraging future for America if it were to continue on the _ path it has been following'': * U.S. K-12 education in mathematics and science ranks 48thworldwide. * 49%of U.S. adults don't know how long it takes for the Earth to circle the sun. Although US school achievement scores have stagnated, harming the economy as employers look elsewhere for competent workers, the report says that other nations have made gains. If the USA's students matched Finland's, for example, analysis suggests the US economy would grow 9%-16%. "The real point is that we have to have a well-educated workforce to create opportunities for young people," says Charles Vest,head of the National Academy of Engineering, a report sponsor. "Otherwise, we don't have a chance." "The current economic crisis makes the link between education and employment very clear,'' says Steven Newton of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland. In 2007, however, an analysis led by B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University found that worries about US science education were overblown . It saw three times more science and engineering college graduates than job openings each year. Other reports have found top science and engineering students migrating to better-paying jobs in finance, law and medicine since the 1900s. We can conclude from what Charles Vest says that _ . A) he is satisfied with America's science education B) improving science education helps the growth of the U. S. economy C) American young people have no chance to find good-paying jobs D) Finland's students are not as good as the USA's students in school achievement
B
Today, I felt terrible. My head was full of problems, burdens and confusion. I decided to take a walk even though I didn't know where I would go. The most extraordinary thing happened when I was on this walk. I saw an old man sitting on a chair. He was a seller of second-hand shoes. I thought he looked at least seventy years old. He seemed so tired and nobody was buying his shoes. I wanted to give him something but I had not brought anything with me. Then, a little girl came toward him. I heard the child say, "Grandfather, may I polish your shoes?" That old man took pity on her and he gave her a shoe to polish. The girl said, "I polish the shoe because I need money to buy my brother a new school uniform." I heard this and tears came to my eyes. The old man answered, "Oh, little girl. Just stop doing this. Come with me and I will buy you a school uniform." Then they walked to a market and I followed them behind. There he bought her a school uniform. The girl said, "Thank you so much for doing this. May God bless you." Then she left, leaving the old man smiling. He walked away from the market, but I stopped him. I whispered in his ear, "You are a hero! Thank you for your kindness!" As I walked away, I glanced back and I could see him still smiling. My own sadness disappeared and was chased away by the light of this kind act. I began realizing that I have a lot to be thankful for. I hope, some day, I can show my appreciation of what I have by following the example of the old man who only had a little, but shared it beautifully with someone who had nothing. Why did the girl offer to polish shoes for the old man? A) She took pity on him. B) She wanted to take care of him. C) She meant to be friendly to him. D) She expected to get help from him.
D
With the development of society and economy, animals and their habitats are getting pushed aside as households decrease in size and increase in number. Small numbers of people per household on average use more energy and goods per person. Greater numbers of households require more natural resources for construction. The possible result of this problem may be _ natural resources to meet consumer demand without endangering habitats important to biodiversity. Personal freedom and social choice may come at huge environmental cost. Direct costs include visible damage to animal habitats and plant life. Indirect costs include the release of more greenhouse gases. The effects of such "personal freedom and social choice" have already surfaced in south-west China's Wolong Nature Reserve. In Wolong, they found that a reduced average household size was directly tied to an increase in homes, and thus an increase in the amount of firewood consumed for cooking and heating. The rise in wood fuel use has contributed to disappearance of forests and to the loss of habitats for giant pandas. Curious about whether other parts of the world were experiencing similar phenomena, they got the support of a team of researchers including Stanford's Paul Ehrlich, well-known for his population studies, to find out the household dynamics in 141 countries between 1985 and 2000. Their study proved that the difficult choice of Wolong is part of a global trend. In the 76 countries considered biodiversity "hotspots", such as the United States, Brazil, Australia, and Kenya, the number of households grew by 3.1% every year, while the population increased just 1.8%. Meanwhile, the number of people per home dropped from 4.7 to 4.0. The decline in household size has resulted in 155 million additional households in hotspot countries, almost always limiting biodiversity. In the 10 non-hotspot countries -- those without high-density areas of animal and plant species -- similar results were found, though on a lesser scale. Even in countries experiencing... It can be learned from the passage that China's Wolong Nature Reserve _ A) is facing the same threat as many other parts of the world B) sets a good example in protecting animals C) is a place where giant pandas and their habitats are not affected D) is a place where animals and their habitats are seriously damaged
| A |
It would force countries in the region to choose between the United States and Japan -- or maybe between Japan and China . And it would collapse whatever promise the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) holds as a vehicle to assure American commercial access to the booming Pacific markets . To risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . This is not to deny the Administration 's understandable frustration with a persistently huge Japanese trade surplus.
Can we say the following?
APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
yes
On Feb. 1, 1945, the Polish government made Warsaw its capital, and an office for urban reconstruction was set up.
Can we say the following?
Warsaw remained Poland's capital after the war.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
no
Zhao was arrested at 1:45 p.m. EST without resistance on charges of disorderly conduct; other more serious charges could be filed. However, Allen Doody of U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has indicated plans to deport Zhao back to Australia within a few days without charges. "We do not plan to charge him," Doody said. Zhao is dual-nationality Chinese-Australian, who entered the US legally on his Australian passport less than a week ago.
Can we say the following?
Zhao is an American citizen.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
no
The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Can we say the following?
The United States has asked member states of the International Energy Agency to provide oil.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
| no |
instruction:
In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
question:
Barcelona's 1-0 La Liga victory against Celta Vigo on Sunday evening featured one of the most bizarre incidents of the season so far. With the score at 1-0 following Jeremy Mathieu's 73rd minute header, tempers flared between Celta striker Fabian Orellana and Sergio Busquets as the Barcelona midfielder attempted to waste time during the closing stages. Orellana remonstrated angrily with the match officials before grabbing a lump of grass from the floor and throwing it in the direction of Busquets. Fabian Orellana collects a lump of grass from the ground before throwing it towards Sergio Busquets The Celta Vigo striker aims his throw in Busquets' direction during the closing stages of the matchFabian Orellana was angered by Sergio Busquets' time-wasting tacticsCelta Vigo striker threw lump of turf towards the Barcelona starBarcelona needed a Jeremy Mathieu header to earn 1-0 win
Questions:As seems to be the midfielder's nature, _ made the most of the incident, grabbing his eye despite the clutch of turf clearly striking him on the neck. (A) Barcelona (B) La Liga (C) Celta Vigo (D) Jeremy Mathieu (E) Celta (F) Fabian Orellana (G) Sergio Busquets (H) Orellana
answer:
(G)
question:
Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- With Texas Gov. Rick Perry threatening to cement his standing atop the national polls, his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination aggressively sought to undermine his conservative credentials on Monday during the first-ever CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida. Perry repeatedly found himself in the crosshairs, as the field of candidates took turns attacking his positions on illegal immigration, Social Security, and his controversial 2007 push to vaccinate Texas schoolgirls against human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose standing among Republicans has slipped dramatically since Perry entered the race, said she was "offended" by Perry's executive order, which included an opt-out provision for parents who did not want the vaccine.NEW: Perry finds himself in the crosshairs as GOP candidates attack his positionsBachmann accuses Perry of helping a drug company through a vaccination orderRomney on Perry: Being dealt aces does not make a good poker playerPerry calls for Social Security reform but drops "Ponzi scheme" label
Questions:_ also said that the executive order was a mistake and he should have worked with the legislature instead of issuing it. (A) Tampa (B) Florida (C) CNN (D) Texas (E) Rick Perry (F) Republican (G) Tea Party (H) Social Security (I) Minnesota (J) Michele Bachmann (K) Republicans (L) GOP (M) Bachmann (N) Romney (O) Ponzi scheme
answer:
(E)
question:
Washington (CNN) -- For both presidential campaigns, Republican Mitt Romney's choice of Wisconsin congressman and conservative star Paul Ryan as his running mate was like Christmas come early. Conservatives wanted one of their own on Romney's ticket and they got that in Ryan, who has emerged as their ideological leader on the Hill on fiscal and budget matters. The choice also helps satisfy Republican strategists who felt Romney needed to not only stress how President Barack Obama has failed in that role, but also better articulate what the GOP candidate would do if elected. "Ryan is a great choice. He energizes an already motivated party to a further degree and will help clarify the differing visions between the two campaigns for the country," said Phil Musser, a GOP strategist who in 2007 was a senior adviser to Romney's presidential campaign. "There are big choices, and in making the selection, Romney is showing that he believes America is ready for the choice."Both sides got what they wanted in Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mateConservatives celebrate Ryan's selection; choice helps shore up some support for RomneyDemocrats quick to attack Ryan's selection as proof of Romney's conservative visionPolitical experts say both sides will battle over how to introduce Ryan to American public
Questions:But even more troubling, Romney's unfavorable numbers were creeping up after weeks of attacks by the _ campaign and those supporting it. (A) Washington (B) CNN (C) Republican (D) Mitt Romney (E) Wisconsin (F) Paul Ryan (G) Christmas (H) Romney (I) Ryan (J) Hill (K) Barack Obama (L) GOP (M) Phil Musser (N) America (O) American
answer:
| (K)
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In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
One example: Property tax -- Property tax or 'house tax' is a local tax on buildings, along with appurtenant land. It is and imposed on the Possessor (not the custodian of property as per 1978, 44th amendment of constitution). It resembles the US-type wealth tax and differs from the excise-type UK rate. The tax power is vested in the states and is delegated to local bodies, specifying the valuation method, rate band, and collection procedures. The tax base is the annual rental value (ARV) or area-based rating. Owner-occupied and other properties not producing rent are assessed on cost and then converted into ARV by applying a percentage of cost, usually four percent. Vacant land is generally exempt. Central government properties are exempt. Instead a 'service charge' is permissible under executive order. Properties of foreign missions also enjoy tax exemption without requiring reciprocity. The tax is usually accompanied by service taxes, e.g., water tax, drainage tax, conservancy (sanitation) tax, lighting tax, all using the same tax base. The rate structure is flat on rural (panchayat) properties, but in the urban (municipal) areas it is mildly progressive with about 80% of assessments falling in the first two brackets.
Solution is here: is house tax and property tax are same
Explanation: The question generated asks whether the house tax and property tax are the same and can be answered by reading the passage. Additionally, it has a binary answer and hence the generated question is correct.
Now, solve this: Faster-than-light -- The phase velocity of an electromagnetic wave, when traveling through a medium, can routinely exceed c, the vacuum velocity of light. For example, this occurs in most glasses at X-ray frequencies. However, the phase velocity of a wave corresponds to the propagation speed of a theoretical single-frequency (purely monochromatic) component of the wave at that frequency. Such a wave component must be infinite in extent and of constant amplitude (otherwise it is not truly monochromatic), and so cannot convey any information. Thus a phase velocity above c does not imply the propagation of signals with a velocity above c.
Solution: | can phase velocity be greater than speed of light |
How to dilute tea tree oil
Create an all-purpose cleaner.
Mix 20-25 drops of tea tree oil with 1/4 cup water and 1/2 cup of distilled white vinegar in a spray bottle. Shake the mixture well before using.
OPTIONS:
- Seal the bottle and shake it well to dissolve the ingredients. Dish soap or dishwashing soap works especially well here.
- Use a cloth to wipe the cleaning solution off of the can. The tea tree oil is a water-based cleanser designed for use on damp, dirty or stinky surfaces.
- You can spray this mixture onto different surfaces, and then wipe the surface down with a clean cloth. This cleaner can be used as an all purpose, non-toxic cleaner in kitchens and bathrooms.
- Apply all-purpose cleaner to dirty stained areas. Use the spray bottle or your hands to spread the vinegar over the stained area.
You can spray this mixture onto different surfaces, and then wipe the surface down with a clean cloth. This cleaner can be used as an all purpose, non-toxic cleaner in kitchens and bathrooms.
question: Complete the next sentence:
He begins to take some rapid steps to give himself so leverage for a jump he is trying to make. He takes off into the air as he begins the jump. he
OPTIONS:
- lands very lightly, not a drop of blood from his jump.
- people jumps from the highest point of the sand castle and we see new features as he gets closer to the top.
- lands well and lands up against a rock that is in front of him.
- lands on the ground as he completes the jump.
answer: lands on the ground as he completes the jump.
Problem: Write the next sentence for:
How to catch a runaway dog
Follow the dog.
If you are with the dog when it runs away, discretely follow it and keep it in view without chasing it or being too obvious. At some point, the dog will stop to check out a smell or dodge a person and that is a potential time to move in closer.
OPTIONS:
- Try not to make it evident that you are tracking the dog or it will see your pursuit as a game of chase and run even faster. Entice the dog with tasty treats.
- If this happens (though you might not be interested in this version of the game), follow that faint trail until you get behind it. At this point, don't worry about pursuing after the dog alone.
- This is because the dog is already cornered and will very likely ignore this then rush to the rescue. Hold the approaching dog by its collar or leash.
- In effect, you are following and monitoring the dog to see what it is doing and running away. Even if it is not paying attention to you, it will tend to ignore you and you will only have to continue tracking it..
Next sentence: Try not to make it evident that you are tracking the dog or it will see your pursuit as a game of chase and run even faster. Entice the dog with tasty treats.
context: One of the dancers does a front flip while the other throws the stick in the air and catches it. they
OPTIONS:
- finish and an intro of a singing video waxes up.
- continue to go back and fourth on the heel steps.
- continue dancing as they fling their sticks and catch them in their hands as they coordinate themselves.
- continue to spin in their seats as the cue ping sounds.
****
next sentence for the context: continue dancing as they fling their sticks and catch them in their hands as they coordinate themselves.
IN: What happens next?
A guy sits and talks inside. The credits of the clip are shown. A man surfs on a body of walk. a male
OPTIONS:
- surfs on a body of walk in the beach.
- talks on a body of walk.
- surfs shirtless on a body of walk.
- pulls a duffel bag.
OUT: pulls a duffel bag.
question: Complete the next sentence:
A rider goes around a turn and plants his foot in the dirt to stabilize. The rider accelerates out of a turn on his motorcycle. the rider
OPTIONS:
- mows a long and winding back yard.
- moves through a hand traffic jam.
- springs back street he started through.
- goes over a jump on his motorcycle.
answer: | goes over a jump on his motorcycle. |
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A video leads into several clips of a man performing tricks with a dog. the man
OPTIONS:
- jumps up high in the air and then begins a series of tricks as well as tricks with a leg up.
- is seen wrapping in a gift while the camera captures him from several angles.
- throws the frisbee to the dog the helps catch it and begins to walk around while the dog walks around him.
- continues performing tricks with the dog as the camera captures him from several angles as well as others doing tricks with their dogs.
OUT: continues performing tricks with the dog as the camera captures him from several angles as well as others doing tricks with their dogs.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
A man is talking in a stable as he feeds a horse beside him. He talks extensively about the benefits of horse riding. He mounts a saddle onto the horse. he
OPTIONS:
- snaps his reins repeatedly as he gallops up a set of horse railings.
- grabs a bottle squirting it onto the horse, helping him through the process.
- then leads the horse out, feeding him an apple as he continues to speak.
- takes off his fly and fetches a horse shirt from a box.
****
Answer:
then leads the horse out, feeding him an apple as he continues to speak.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
A man runs the bases, and then begins walking. A naked man runs onto the field and is chased by several officials. the playing teams
OPTIONS:
- then engage in a game of lacrosse.
- run around the field in a bloody game.
- pause as they watch the streaker.
- are shown in the field, playing against each other in a game of kickball.
A: pause as they watch the streaker.
How to create an impressive pan sauce for almost any meat
Cook food at high heat on a stove top pan.
Pan sauces require fond, the caramelized chunks of food left in the pan after high heat cooking. If using a low or indirect cooking method (steaming, poaching, boiling, slow baking etc.
OPTIONS:
- ) you can add these ingredients to the pan at a fairly high temperature as you brush away the pieces of meat with a cooking brush or scrubbing. Pan sauces give off a robust and delicious aroma.
- ), consider stealing some pieces of the meat specifically for this purpose. This also works well with meats not cooked in a pan, such as steaks on a grill.
- ), you may find you can improve the taste of your food using the low amount of caramelized pieces. Place your small small pot on top of stove top heat.
- ), the serving size should be responsible. High heat will burn fat and keep the meat brown.
), consider stealing some pieces of the meat specifically for this purpose. This also works well with meats not cooked in a pan, such as steaks on a grill.
question: Complete the next sentence:
How to make an organic sports drink
Make ginger water first.
Add a little more than 2 cups (0.48 liters) of water to a small pot. Heat the water to boiling.
OPTIONS:
- Set a timer and make sure to find the exact temperature that you want your liquid to be before serving it to your guests. For example, instead of making a ginger drink with ginger water, you can serve milk and water first.
- Use a spoon to stir the ginger in the water. Ginger water is often added to smoothies or packed with carbs, making it good for this purpose.
- Scrub the ginger clean, then cut it into pieces. Add the pieces to the water, and let it boil for about 15 minutes.
- Add 5 scoops (400ml) of ginger water. Let the water boil, then add the boiling water.
answer: Scrub the ginger clean, then cut it into pieces. Add the pieces to the water, and let it boil for about 15 minutes.
IN: What happens next?
A close up of a hookah is seen that leads to another man. the man
OPTIONS:
- grabs the hose and takes a hit from the hookah.
- strikes the hookah hard around several objects on the spot.
- pushes the hookah into a mouth and pulls the smoke away.
- smokes the hookah from nose to nose while looking back to the camera.
OUT: | grabs the hose and takes a hit from the hookah. |
How to save a relationship<br>Consider when things went wrong. If you are at a critical juncture, you can probably figure out when things started going off the rails, even just a little bit. Think about when the problem started, so you can figure out how to approach the discussion with your partner.
Based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "If a person thinks about it, they can usually figure out when things started going off the rails."? | Yes |
St Estevam is an Island in Ilhas, Goa, India. St Estevam is known also 'Juvem' and in the past was known as 'Shakecho Juvo' - the isle of vegetables - known for its long, seven-ridged, light green ladyfingers. Therefore the people of Juvem came to be nicknamed 'bhende'.
St Estevam has a population of around 5,000 people. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: It's impossible to say
"Puritan" (ACM-16/MMA-16) was built for the United States Army as U.S. Army Mine Planter (USAMP) "Col. Alfred A. Maybach" MP-13. The ship was transferred to the United States Navy and classified as an auxiliary minelayer. "Puritan" was never commissioned and thus never bore the "United States Ship" (USS) prefix showing status as a commissioned ship of the U.S. Navy.
"Puritan" was a ship built for the United States Army. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: Yes
Micromeria is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, with a center of diversity in the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands. It is sometimes placed within the genus "Satureja". The name is derived from the Greek words
plants in the genus Satureja are widespread across Europe OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
A: | Yes |
Q: Togo has a population of 1 billion.
Togo ( ), officially the Togolese Republic (French: "République togolaise" ), is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital Lomé is located. Togo covers 57,000 km2 , making it one of the smallest countries in Africa, with a population of approximately /1e6 round 1 million.
A: No
Q: Belinda Jo Carlisle went solo sometime after 1958.
Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter. She gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of The Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands of all time, and went on to have a prolific career as a solo act.
A: Yes
Q: Two of Arnold Rampersad's works have been finalists for different awards.
Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is a biographer and literary critic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965. The first volume (1986) of his "Life of Langston Hughes" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and his "Ralph Ellison: A Biography" was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award.
A: Yes
Q: Holding the Fort recorded a total of twenty episodes.
Holding the Fort is an ITV situation comedy starring Peter Davison, Patricia Hodge and Matthew Kelly. It was an early product of the writing team of Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Three series were recorded, a total of twenty episodes, first aired between 1980 and 1982, concurrent with Davison also starring in "Doctor Who". It was made for the ITV network by LWT
A: | Yes |
You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
A West Tennessee nonprofit organization will use a $300,000 federal grant to hire an attorney and a Spanish-speaking paralegal to help provide legal assistance to domestic violence victims. The U.S. Department of Justice two-year grant will begin Oct. 1, which is the start of domestic violence awareness month. U.S. Rep. John Tanner announced Monday that the grant was awarded to West Tennessee Legal Services of Jackson. The organization provides legal assistance and advocacy in 17 counties. "This award will offer assistance as we look for whatever ways possible to stop domestic violence and help the women, men and children who are victims of abuse," Tanner said in a news statement. The organization doesn't have a staff member who speaks Spanish and the need is increasing with growing Hispanic populations, said the organization's executive director Steven Xanthopoulos. He estimated the money will help handle at least another 180 cases next year. The group closes about 2,500 cases a year. The money was timed well because the legal group had recently lost about $120,000 in grant money due to a decrease in the poverty population in West Tennessee in Census 2000, Xanthopoulos said. "The drop in poverty is a good thing, but there is still a great need out there," he said. "So this was a very good thing." Having legal representation at divorce and child custody hearings is important in helping victims leave abusive and sometimes dangerous situations, said Margaret Cole, executive director of Wo/Men's Resource and Rape Assistance Program in Jackson. Her organization and Northwest Safeline are partners in the grant. Northwest Safeline, based in Dyersburg, is a family violence intervention project that serves Dyer, Obion, Lake and Crockett counties. <sep>What organization is partnered with Northwest Safeline for a grant?<sep>Wo/Men's Resource and Rape Assistance Program
Output: | Yes |
The 2011–12 Seattle Redhawks men's basketball team represented the Seattle University in the 2011–12 college basketball season. This was head coach Cameron Dollar's 3rd season at Seattle U. The Redhawks played their home games at KeyArena as Independent members of Division I. They finished 12–15 overall.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
The Redhawk's best season was in 2011 - 2012 | It's impossible to say |
Instructions: In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
Input: RIAA Certification -- A Gold record is a single or album that has sold 500,000 units (records, tapes or compact discs). The award was launched in 1958; originally, the requirement for a Gold single was one million units sold and a Gold album represented $1 million in sales (at wholesale value, around a third of the list price). In 1975, the additional requirement of 500,000 units sold was added for Gold albums. Reflecting growth in record sales, the Platinum award was added in 1976 for albums selling one million units, and singles selling two million units. The Multi-Platinum award was introduced in 1984, signifying multiple Platinum levels of albums and singles. In 1989, the sales thresholds for singles were reduced to 500,000 for Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum, reflecting a decrease in sales of singles. In 1992, RIAA began counting each disc in a multi-disc set as one unit toward certification. Reflecting additional growth in music sales, the Diamond award was instituted in 1999 for albums or singles selling ten million units. Because of these changes in criteria, the sales level associated with a particular award depends on when the award was made.
Output: | is gold the highest an album can go |
Jessica Litman, a law professor at Michigan's Wayne State University, has specialized in copyright law and Internet law for more than 20 years.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
Jessica Litman is a law professor. | yes |
Write the next sentence in the following story.
The man on the inside lane of the track starts running very fast and then jumps into a sand pit. The other man runs past the sand pit. the man | that jumped steps out of the sand pit and walks to the side. |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Let me give you an example: The Inheritance Cycle is a series of fantasy books written by Christopher Paolini.
The answer to this example can be: The Inheritance Cycle is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini.
Here is why: The output sentence elaborates on the input sentence without changing its general meaning e.g. "tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels".
OK. solve this:
Fuzz bass ( also called " bass overdrive " or " bass distortion " ) is a style of playing the electric bass .
Answer: | Fuzz bass , also called " bass overdrive " or " bass distortion " , is a style of playing the electric bass or modifying its signal that produces a buzzy , distorted , overdriven sound , which the name implies in an onomatopoetic fashion . |
Peter Chelsom (born 20 April 1956) is a British film director, writer, and actor. He has directed such films as "Hector and the Search for Happiness", "Serendipity", and "Shall We Dance?" Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy, The Directors Guild Of America, and The Writers Guild Of America.
Based on that paragraph can we conclude that this sentence is true?
Peter Chelsom (born 20 April 1936) is a British film director, writer, and actor. | No |
The 1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game was an NCAA college football game held on September 25, 1982, during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania, between the then-#2 Nebraska Cornhuskers (coached by Tom Osborne) and then-#8 Penn State Nittany Lions (coached by Joe Paterno).
Can we infer the following?
The 1982 football game was held in September.
Choose from: +Yes. +It's impossible to say. +No.
The answer is: | Yes |
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
No, because -- and I know this is difficult, but it goes like this. And this is the best I can put it, other than what I tried to do in my opinion. We have articles. We have a situation where the declarants, the quoted individuals, have apparently denied -- either denied, I guess -- I'm not sure about this.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: They earn £600000 a year
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
Bewitch (1945–1959) was a Thoroughbred race horse born in 1945 at Calumet Farm, Kentucky, United States in the same crop in which the stallion Bull Lea produced Citation and Coaltown. Each of them was eventually inaugurated into the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame. Bewitch was the only filly of the three.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Bewitch was treated kindly
****
Answer:
It's impossible to say
Problem:
Read the following paragraph and determine if the hypothesis is true:
In New York<br>Yannick was happy to visit New York city. He sent daily emails to his friends in France to update them. They asked him if he dared going up the Empire State building. Yannick didn't like heights but he accepted the challenge. He went up and sent them many beautiful pictures.
OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
Hypothesis: Yannick sent daily emails while on his visit
****
Answer:
| Yes |
In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Q: Who, based on the evidence given, began his professional football career first: John Elway or Peyton Manning?, Context: Peyton Manning became the first quarterback ever to lead two different teams to multiple Super Bowls. He is also the oldest quarterback ever to play in a Super Bowl at age 39. The past record was held by John Elway, who led the Broncos to victory in Super Bowl XXXIII at age 38 and is currently Denver's Executive Vice President of Football Operations and General Manager.
A: John Elway
****
Q: Where is the second campus of Yale?, Context: Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and twelve professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, including the Yale Bowl, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut, and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $25.6 billion as of September 2015, the second largest of any educational institution.The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States.
A: western New Haven
****
Q: Which number is smaller, the people working in finances in London before mid-2007, or 480?, Context: London's largest industry is finance, and its financial exports make it a large contributor to the UK's balance of payments. Around 325,000 people were employed in financial services in London until mid-2007. London has over 480 overseas banks, more than any other city in the world. Over 85 percent (3.2 million) of the employed population of greater London works in the services industries. Because of its prominent global role, London's economy had been affected by the Late-2000s financial crisis. However, by 2010 the City has recovered; put in place new regulatory powers, proceeded to regain lost ground and re-established London's economic dominance. The City of London is home to the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange, and Lloyd's of London insurance market.
A: | 480
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
[EX Q]: (CNN) Over the past eight years, President Barack Obama has advanced strong executive actions and federal rules that have provided millions of people with better wages, better benefits and stronger protections in the workplace. On Friday, a new president will move into the Oval Office. He will face a stark choice -- expand on those efforts or destroy them. Despite years of flat wages and exploding fixed costs such as housing, education and health care, Republicans in Congress have long refused even to consider legislation to create new economic opportunity for families. Initiatives such as raising the federal minimum wage and guaranteeing paid family leave for workers have languished despite bipartisan, state-level initiatives and broad support for these kinds of policies among Americans of both parties.Elizabeth Warren: Obama's executive actions, regulations boosted wages, benefits and workplace protectionsShe says Trump has said he'll erase Obama's executive actions, but workers need them
Question:The political campaign is over, and _ is poised to assume the presidency.
[EX A]: Trump
[EX Q]: Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Morgan Schneiderlin from Southampton taking the club's summer spending towards £80million. The France midfielder, who wanted to leave St Mary's last summer, joins Old Trafford in a deal worth £25m to end one of the summer's longest running transfer sagas. The 25-year-old has signed a four-year deal with an option for a fifth and joins Bastian Schweinsteiger, who was also announced on Monday, Matteo Darmian and Memphis Depay as the club's other big-money arrivals ahead of the new season. 'I am delighted to be a Manchester United player,' Schneiderlin told manutd.com. 'Once I learned that United were interested in signing me, it was a very easy decision to make.Morgan Schneiderlin has joined Manchester United from SouthamptonThe midfielder completed his £25million move to Old Trafford on MondayHe joins Bastian Schweinsteiger in signing for Louis van Gaal's sideCLICK HERE to see how Manchester United could line up next season
Question:United had been in discussions with Southampton for several weeks about _ as the south coast club held out for as much money as possible.
[EX A]: Morgan Schneiderlin
[EX Q]: Hartlepool defender Scott Harrison wasted no time in taking advantage of a stricken referee as he used the official’s vanishing spray during the clash with Oxford United. Referee Patrick Miller tumbled to the deck during the game at the Kassam Stadium before players from both sides surrounded him to check he was alright. However, 21-year-old Harrison saw the incident as his chance to have a go with the spray himself. Team-mate Neil Austin picked up the canister after it had fallen out of the pocket of the official as he fell to the floor. Referee Patrick Miller tumbles to the deck during the game at the Kassam Stadium on Wednesday nightReferee Patrick Miller tumbled to the deck during a League Two clashHartlepool defender Scott Harrison took advantage of the incidentHe borrowed the vanishing spray to draw a line round the stricken officialMiller was carried off on a stretcher as Hartlepool beat Oxford 2-0
Question:Hartlepool are rooted to the bottom of _, but team spirit is certainly not an issue as he amused his fellow team-mates.
[EX A]: | League Two
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IN: What happens next?
How to fry oysters
Shop for oysters from september to april.
Select oysters during spawning season when they are their milkiest and most delicious. While oysters are available year-round, the best are available during this window.
OPTIONS:
- Always shop for oysters from february through october. Know that oysters are more delicious when they are good during this time.
- Produce two to three oysters, ready to be fried. Oysters taken from february to september come in three stages: firm, soft, and frothy.
- At most buy oysters from the garden supply store. Many stores now offer discounted live oysters.
- Shop for oysters at fish specialty markets for the freshest selection. Your local organic grocer may also have fresh oysters.
OUT: Shop for oysters at fish specialty markets for the freshest selection. Your local organic grocer may also have fresh oysters.
Problem: How does the next paragraph end?
How to control cholesterol without statins
Lower your cholesterol intake.
The mayo clinic recommends that people eat 300 milligrams or less of cholesterol per day. For people with heart disease, the recommended amount is even lower, at 200 milligrams per day.
OPTIONS:
- This allows you to manage cholesterol, weight, and risk factors more effectively. Speak to your doctor about reducing or eliminating cholesterol if you have heart or pancreatic problems.
- For those with allergies, go for 300 milligrams or less, or 1 1/2 grams daily. For people with diabetes, eat 250 milligrams of cholesterol per day.
- Food the correct size to reduce cholesterol intake is about 1/5 ounces per pound. One ounce of meat, poultry, eggs, or low-fat dairy should be good.
- You can reduce the amount of cholesterol you eat by : Using egg substitutes instead of eating eggs. The yolk is high in cholesterol.
A: You can reduce the amount of cholesterol you eat by : Using egg substitutes instead of eating eggs. The yolk is high in cholesterol.
IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
How to speak russian
Learn the russian alphabet.
The alphabet is a good place to start when you're learning to speak russian. Russian is a phonetic language, which means that more or less every russian letter corresponds to a single sound.
OPTIONS:
- To get comfortable in the lexicon, you will want to familiarize yourself with the letters in russian. This will help you spell each letter in russian correctly, to prevent slovenly letters and to connect the letters in russian to your overall pronunciation and pronunciation.
- To get really comfortable with the russian alphabet, try learning the russian alphabet in russian using dictionaries like russian alphabet books or english literature. Try to learn the language and make sure that you understand it in russian before you start.
- Lexicon would be formed when gersteins do not speak russian, or pronounced ,' swaskebzkachu' as if the letters were arabic. Russian create a variety of russian sounds, including : Hand-clapping in russian.
- Once you have learned to pronounce every letter of the alphabet correctly, learn what other sounds the letters can make for example o can be a sometimes in russian. The russian alphabet is derived from the cyrillic alphabet and consists of 33 letters, including 11 vowels , 20 consonants and 2 letters which make no sound, but make a word sound harder or softer.
OUT: Once you have learned to pronounce every letter of the alphabet correctly, learn what other sounds the letters can make for example o can be a sometimes in russian. The russian alphabet is derived from the cyrillic alphabet and consists of 33 letters, including 11 vowels , 20 consonants and 2 letters which make no sound, but make a word sound harder or softer.
Question:
Multi-choice problem: Continue writing the next sentence for the following:
How to make a pet grave marker
Go to your local hardware store.
Purchase a nicely colored and intact brick.
Decide whether or not you'll add the pet's name to the brick.
OPTIONS:
- If you do, paint the animal's name onto one of the long sides of the brick. Use outdoor paint, so that it endures.
- It might be " john, " " mary, " " mary's pet, " etc. You'll find nothing fitting the situation.
- Having a picture of the desired pet on the brick will greatly reduce the crowds of visitors to your grave site. Cut the brick to the desired measurements.
- Some people even make pigmented bricks with blood in them, but some people don't. Lay a brick down on a gently flat surface.
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Answer:
If you do, paint the animal's name onto one of the long sides of the brick. Use outdoor paint, so that it endures.
Problem: What happens next in this paragraph?
An ad for vidal sassoon appears. We then see their curling iron and hot roller set. a demonstration
OPTIONS:
- of the braking techniques of hitler's first razor.
- shows how to plan with the round rollers, an which is demonstrated slowly.
- , they again add iron to hot roller.
- is shown for how to set and use the hot rollers and iron on a woman's hair.
A: is shown for how to set and use the hot rollers and iron on a woman's hair.
A red dartboard is shown on a wall. a young person
OPTIONS:
- demonstrates colored sponge paints on a board.
- then dips a pie pan in ketchup from a large pot onto a plate and he rinses the pie with a red sponge.
- is crash dancing in front of the dartboard.
- gathers up darts and throws them back at board, and repeats.
| gathers up darts and throws them back at board, and repeats. |
I went to the Chinatown market in London last Sunday. The first thing I did was to go to one of the Chinese green grocers' shops. As soon as I entered the shop, I smelt mixtures of Chinese spices and saw the new season's fruits. My son wanted a bag of sweets, so we popped into the shop next door which sells many kinds of candy. There's a lot of noise in the Chinatown market and you will see many tourists too. There are a lot of cars and trucks that never stop beeping. While people are loading and unloading their goods, most of them have their cars and trucks parked in the middle of the road. This causes great inconvenience for other drivers. Can you imagine that? After we had done all our shopping, my son and I went to a restaurant for lunch. We enjoyed our meal very much. But the shopping made us both very tired at the end. We headed down the road to catch our bus home. My son and I enjoyed riding in the bus. We also enjoyed looking at different buildings and people walking by dressed in fancy outfits. Although Chinatown can be a busy place to shop, I do enjoy going there now and then. I can buy some of my necessities, and I can also look and browse around the other shops and department stores where I can indulge myself with some nice things. Chinatown is located in the heart of central London where you can find tons of shops and other places to amuse you. And for me, I certainly don't mind going back there again soon. The author probably didn't go to a _ . A) restaurant B) grocery C) clothing store D) sweets shop
C
Below are pages adapted from, _ Sochi Volunteers * 5 December 2013 Sochi 2014 Volunteer Team is Prepared for Games On international Volunteer Day, 5 December, the Organizing Committee of the Winter Games in Sochi presented the national "Sochi 2014 Volunteer Team", The Sochi 2014 Volunteer Team is complete, consisting of 25,000 volunteers from 26 volunteer centers across Russia as well as global volunteers. * 6 August 2013 Sochi 2014 Sochi 2014 volunteer s meet athletics stars in Moscow Approximately 2,000 Sochi 2014 volunteers will take part in the staging of the World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Moscow from 10-18 August. * 30 May 2013 "Sochi 2014"volunteers on the presentation of the Olympic and Paralympic medals In St. Petersburg during the 11th"Sport Accord", Annual International Sports Convention was held on the presentation of the Olympic and Paralympic medals. * 11 March 2013 Sochi 2014 Volunteer Training Program Launched across Russia On March 11, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee launched a large-scale project for training 25,000 volunteers for the 2014Games in Sochi. Sochi Culture Activities * International Ballet Stars Gala, 29 January 2014 Year of Russian Culture in the United Kingdom and Year of British Culture. * Sochi 2014 Culture Olympiad to Present History of Sports in Russia, 20 December 2013 As part of the Year of the of the Museum of the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad the " Training the Strength of the Body, Sports and the Romanov Family " exhibition will be open starting from 21 December at the Sochi Art Museum. * Sochi 2014 Cultural Program Culminates in Grand Finale, 16 December 2013 The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has presented an entertaining Cultural Program for the guests and participants of the Olympic Games. * Sochi 2014 Games Fans' Anthem will Unite Spectators in the Stands, 31 October 2013 100 days before the start of the first ever Olympic Winter Games in Russia, the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad and General Partner of the Games Sberbank have... Which of the following statements is true? A) The 25 ,000 volunteers were from Russia. B) Winners of Cultural Program Competition weren't known until 19 September 2013. C) From August,25 to September,8,you were able to enjoy Winter Games in Sochi. D) Few of the cultural activities were intended for creating atmosphere of Sochi Winter Games.
B
Q: A GRANDMOTHER, Michelle Riotton, 78, survived after falling down a mountain valley. She set off for a walk alone dressed only in a light jacket and trousers. "I slipped into a valley!" said Mrs Riotton, who said the fall happened in a deep forest close to her home village. It was warm and sunny when the accident happened, but temperatures dropped to very low when night fell, and it rained. "I wasn't afraid," said Mrs Riotton. "But I was worried that my children and grandchildren would become too worried about me." Mrs Riotton said she covered herself in leaves when feeling cold, taking very small bites of two biscuits which she had in her pocket and drinking rainwater which fell down her face. She spent six nights before she was found on Saturday. She was lying at the bottom of the valley, which was less than a mile from her home. The search had once been stopped, but Patrice Fossard, one of her neighbors, insisted that the search continue. "There was no way we could give up her, even if deep inside we felt we had little hope of finding her alive," said Mr Fossard. "It was a miracle that Michelle was finally found." Mrs Riotton said she would be taking life easier from now on. "Enough is enough!" she said. "No more forests -- don't want to visit one again." A mountain policeman said walking alone in the mountain was not recommended and that Mrs Riotton should have carried a mobile phone with her. "The mountains are particularly dangerous at this time of year as sunny afternoons can quickly change into cold, wet and stormy evenings." he said. "Anybody walking into the mountains should carry safety equipment and be prepared for any kind of emergency." Michelle Riotton covered herself with leaves to _ . A) keep warm during her suffering B) prevent the harmful animals C) make herself noticed by others D) avoid getting wet in the rain
A: A
(Question)
Cafe Hub Next to the Castle lies The Hub, home of the Edinburgh International Festival and one of the most talked about spots in town. Our cafe is open every day for mouth-watering lunches, snacks and fine dining. Come in and enjoy the atmosphere of The Hub or watch the world go by from our beautiful terrace. The Hub, Castlehill, Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Open every day from 9:30 a. m. till late. Tel: 0131 473 2067 www. thehub-edinburgh. Com Farm World Enjoy being "A Farmer for a Day". Join in delivering and feeding our spring babies--bottle feeding sessions twice daily. Fun for all family. Horse Rides, BMX Bikes Cross Country Course, Tractor Ride through 600 acres, New Adventure Playground, Nature Trails. Full details on website. Open: May---Oct Wednesdays to Saturdays and daily during school holidays 11 a. m. ----5 p. m. Tel: 01797 0260256/260321 www. Farmworld-rye. co. uk Enter the Europe-wide student competition! Are you curious, creative and energetic? Are you interested in the new media? Are you between 12 and 19 years of age? Then Join Multimedia 2010 is for you! Your challenge will be to build a team and develop a multimedia presentation in English----based on one of three different topics. You can register between May 1 and Nov. 15, 2010 and will have to turn in your entry before Dec. 15, 2010. The rewards are wonderful:PS150 000in prize for schools and teams and the chance to attend a European student camp ---- plus new experiences, an opportunity to make friends throughout Europe! You'll have to register first if you want _ . A) to enjoy delicious food B) to try Tractor Ride through 600 acres C) to enter the Europe-wide student competition D) to watch the world go by from the beautiful terrace
(Answer)
| C |
*Question*
If music makes you smarter, and exercise helps brain function, can exercising to music really boost brainpower? Some researchers said it could. Volunteers who listened to Vivaldi~ "Four Seasons" while working out on a treadmill did much better on a test of verbal ability than when they exercised without music, a team at prefix = st1 /OhioStateUniversityfound. "Evidence suggests that exercise improves the cognitive performance of people with coronary artery disease ," said psychologist Charles Emery, who led the study. "And listening to music is thought to enhance brainpower. We wanted to put the _ together," Emery added in a statement. Writing in the latest issue of the journal Heart & Lung, Emery and colleagues said they studied 33 men and women taking part in a cardiac rehabilitation program after having bypass surgery, angioplasty or other procedures to treat clogged arteries. The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and mentally after working out with or without the music. But their improvement on the verbal fluency test doubled after listening to music on the treadmills ."Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nervous system, and these changes may have a direct effect on cognitive ability," Emery said. "Listening to music may influence cognitive function through different pathways in the brain. The combination of music and exercise may stimulate and increase cognitive arousal while helping to organize cognitive output." Emery said he now wanted to test people using music of their own choice. "We used The Four Seasons' because of its moderate tempo and positive effects on medical patients in previous research," Emery said. "But given the range of music preferences among patients, it's especially important to evaluate the influence of other types of music on cognitive outcomes." If we can combine music and exercise, we can _ A) stimulate and increase cognitive arousal while have difficulty in organizing cognitive output B) neither stimulate and increase cognitive arousal nor help to organize cognitive output C) help to organize cognitive output at the expense of cognitive arousal D) stimulate and increase cognitive arousal as well as help to organize cognitive output
**Answer**
D
*Question*
"Plants were expected to get larger with increased carbon dioxide in atmosphere, but changes in temperature, humidity and nutrient availability seem to trumped the benefits of increased carbon dioxide," said researchers from the National University of Singapore. 45 percent of the species studied now reach smaller adult sizes than they did in the past. The researchers pointed out that warmer temperatures and changing habitats, caused by climate change, are possible reasons for shrinking creatures. "We do not yet know the mechanisms involved, or why some organism are getting smaller while others are unaffected," the researchers said. "Until we understand more, we could be risking negative consequences that we can't yet quantify." The change was big in coldblooded animals. Only two decades of warmer temperatures were enough to make reptiles smaller. An increase of 1 degree centigrade caused nearly a 10 percent increase in metabolism . Greater use of energy resulted in tiny tortoises and little lizards. Fish are smaller now too. Though overfishing has played a part in reducing numbers, experiments show that warmer temperatures also stop fish growth. There is a recent report on warmer temperatures' negative effects on plankton , the base of the marine ecosystem. Warmblooded animals weren't immune from the size change caused by climate change. Many birds are now smaller. Mammals have been miniaturized too. Soay sheep are thinner. Red deer are weaker. And polar bears are smaller, compared with historical records. This is not the first time this has happened in Earth's history. 55 million years ago, a warming event similar to the current climate change caused bees, spiders and ants to shrink by 50 to 75 percent over several thousand years. That event happened over a long time than the current climate change. The speed of modern climate change could mean organisms may not respond or adapt quickly enough, especially those with long generation times. So, it is likely that more negative influences of climate... Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? _ A) Why do some species become smaller? B) Species become smaller as climate warms C) Climate change has many negative effects D) How does temperature change in Earth's history?
**Answer**
B
*Question*
Sam Berns wasn't like any other boy. He was 17 and he had an aging disease known as progeria. "Even though I have many difficulties in my life, I don't want people to feel bad for me," Sam said during a TED talk. Progeria affects approximately one in every 4 million to 8 million newborns. Right now, there are only about 200 children living with it worldwide. The genetic change tied to _ causes those with the disease to produce the protein progerin, which blocks normal cell function. His view on life is extremely inspiring. He had to face challenges no one else could even dream of. As children with progeria age rapidly, they suffer from a loss of body fat and hair and an inability to gain weight. That didn't keep Sam down, though. "All in all, I don't waste energy feeling bad for myself," Sam said. "I surround myself with people that I want to be with. And I keep moving forward." This boy from Boston was so amazing, famous people and athletes wanted to take him under their own. Last Saturday night could have been an amazing moment for Sam. One of his favorite teams, the New England Patriots, wanted to make him their honorary captain during a playoff game. Instead, it just was't meant to be. Sam passed away before he had a chance to stand next to his team, so they held a moment of silence before the game for him. Sam's unbelievable view on life, and his deep effect on others, is hard to forget. He was presented with so many challenges in life but he wasn't afraid to face them. Be more like Sam, this wonderful teen. Surround yourself with positive people, love them and move forward. According to the passage, Sam Berns was a boy _ . A) of great intelligence B) of complete failure C) with an optimistic view on life D) with a passive view on life
**Answer**
| C |
Cara Anthony covers restaurants and retail for the Belleville News-Democrat, where she works to answer readers' questions about restaurant openings, business closures and the best new dishes in the metro-east. She attended Althoff Catholic High School in Belleville and grew up in East St. Louis.
Anthony spent her youth in Illinois
A: Yes
How to retain customers<br>Learn what your customers want. If you want customers to return to your business again and again, it's important that you learn to read your customer base and understand what you offer the market. Why would people choose your place of business over others? Customers return to businesses for one, and hopefully more, of three basic reasons : [substeps] The perception that your business offers a deal.
The article claims there are more than three basic reasons why customers return to businesses.
A: No
Hail<br>Tim drove an expensive car. Tim was driving across the country. Tim entered a hail storm. Tim did not want to damage his nice car. Tim parked under an underpass and waited for the storm to pass.
tim is severely depressed
A: | It's impossible to say |
Detailed Instructions: You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
See one example below:
Problem: Powdered sugar, also called confectioners' sugar, icing sugar, and icing cake, is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powdered state. It usually contains a small amount of anti-caking agent to prevent clumping and improve flow. Although most often produced in a factory, powdered sugar can also be made by processing ordinary granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, or by crushing it by hand in a mortar and pestle.
Solution: is confectionary sugar the same as powdered sugar?
Explanation: The question is a yes/no question, and it is answerable based on the given passage.
Problem: The team's only World Series appearance came in 1982. After winning the ALCS against the California Angels, the Brewers faced off against the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, losing 4--3. In 2011, the Brewers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the NLDS 3--2, but lost in the NLCS to the eventual World Series champion Cardinals 4--2.
Solution: | have the milwaukee brewers ever won a championship? |
Vivekananda Degree College is the only Degree college in Ichoda Mandal which is established in 2006 and is affiliated to Kakatiya University of Telangana, India. The college has its campus at Ichoda, Adilabad. The college runs degree courses in Computer Science, Arts, Science, Commerce and Management.
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The college has dormitories for its students. | It's impossible to say |
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
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Washington (CNN) NAACP President Cornell William Brooks derided Donald Trump Wednesday, saying his recent comments about African-Americans were "an insulting degree of ignorance and/or insensitivity." On Tuesday, the Republican presidential nominee said African-American communities in the US are "absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before." "We're going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever," Trump told a nearly all-white crowd during a rally in North Carolina. Brooks said Trump's assertion ignores "the fact that African-Americans were lynched, African-Americans were forced to drink out of colored water fountains, ride the back of the bus, were enslaved in this country ... demonstrates a profound ignorance of history and insensitivity to what we are going through at this very moment.""(It) demonstrates a profound ignorance of history," he saidTrump has tried to reach out to the black community
Question:King, who is black, said the word as he argued that African-_ cannot achieve success by emulating white people, as they will remain "negroes."
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Americans
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Dr. Conrad Murray defended his appellate lawyer from "a slew of disparaging remarks" just days before she files the appeal of the doctor's involuntary manslaughter conviction in Michael Jackson's death. CNN has obtained sections of that 300-page appeal, including the defense argument that the trial judge erred by not allowing the testimony of Dr. Arnold Klein, a dermatologist the defense contended addicted Jackson to Demerol in his last weeks. Murray's appeal, which will be filed Monday, also argues that prosecutors never proved Jackson was hooked up to an IV drip of the drug that killed him. The defense theory was that Jackson had administered the fatal dosage himself while the doctor was away.Murray calls from jail citing "injustice" done to appeal lawyerAppeal lawyer Valerie Wass " took a personal hit for me," Murray tells CNNMurray witnessed Wass and trial lawyer Michael Flanagan argue at the jailWass will file Murray's appeal on Monday
Question:"The evidence is consistent with a scenario in which _ quickly self-injected the lethal bolus dose of propofol while appellant was outside the bedroom," the appeal contends.
answer:
Michael Jackson
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The money keeps growing but the odds are shortening as the richest fight of all time looks set to break the half-billion-dollar barrier. Both Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are impressing video-watchers and hand-picked visitors to their gyms in Las Vegas and Los Angeles respectively with their dedication and work rate. But a dramatic improvement in the speed and power of the PacMan’s sparring and pad-hitting in the ring have caught the eye of the so-called ‘smart money’ gamblers. Floyd Mayweather's fight with Manny Pacquiao on May 2 is set to break the half-billion-dollar barrier Pacquiao, who was a 3/1 shot when betting opened, is now down to 2/1 at best.Manny Pacquiao has caught the eye of 'smart money' gamblers... he was a 3/1 shot when betting opened, but now he is down to 2/1Floyd Mayweather and Pacquiao set to meet in the richest fight of all timeMayweather started as the red-hot favourite but has now cooled to 2/3Mayweather: Pacquiao is reckless and makes a lot of mistakesMeanwhile, Gennady Golovkin is in Carl Froch's line of fire
Question:Almost everyone else avoids _ like poison but it’s the kind of challenge which excites Carl.
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| Gennady Golovkin
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Please answer the following question: Welcome to the world of multitasking -- a place where the measure of a person is how many jobs they can perform at the same time. In fact, if experts are to be believed, multitasking is a disastrous idea. One of the opponents of multitasking is Dr. Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University. "People who multitask frequently are less able to pay attention; they're worse at managing their memory." he said. In his opinion, the loss that we get with multitasking is harmless in some situations, for example, part of doing business in the digital world: but you can't do serious work like writing, thinking or solving an important problem this way. You do worse even as you think you're doing better. All the time the research points to a simple fact: the brain cannot cope. When you stop midway through composing a report to check an email, you force your brain to stop and regroup. It is like pressing the pause button during a movie, meaning the film takes longer to watch. And as for Dr. Nass, the problems extend beyond the brain. Young people who frequently multitask are not as socially and emotionally healthy as those who don't. They just feel more emotionally satisfied and the feeling is so good and they are bound to desire it again. Todd Oppenheimer, a writer said "We've become a very short-term society and don't reward people for taking a lot of time on something." He fears we may end up losing the next generation of great thinkers. "It's really unfortunate because the long-term challenges of our world -- environmental issues, financial issues -- require people to think wisely about the long-term consequences of what they do. And it's no coincidence that the kind of people who do think long-term don't multitask." According to Dr. Nass, multitasking _ . A) makes the performance emotionally affected only B) contributes to memorizing various things C) may result in losing the next generation of great thinkers D) can be performed using digital tools
A: | D |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
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Problem: Timothy likes to play sports. He spends his time after school playing basketball and baseball. Sometimes Timothy pretends he is a famous baseball pitcher for his favorite team with his friends. He plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. Timothy also plays pretend when he is alone. He has an imaginary friend named Sean. Sean is an elephant who watches television with Timothy. Mandy likes playing baseball but she also likes to paint. Mandy's favorite class at school is art. She likes making pictures of flowers. Her teacher says she is a good artist. She painted a picture of a tree for her teacher. There were red and yellow leaves on it. It had apples on it. When Andrew goes home after baseball, he likes to eat a snack. He eats carrots and bananas. If he is a good boy his mom, Mrs. Smith, sometimes gives him milk and cookies. Afterwards, Andrew finishes his homework. <sep>Who does Timothy play with?<sep>Basketball and baseball
Solution: No
Explanation: Based on the passage Timothy plays with his friends Mandy and Andrew. So, the given answer is incorrect and the output should be "No".
Problem: One look at Fred Rooney, and you just know he's the good guy. A trace of childish innocence in his face gives the lanky Bethlehem lawyer a Jimmy Stewart-like quality of quiet trust. In black jeans and button-down shirt, he's a kind of folk hero in the south Bethlehem melting pot where he's crafted a law practice catering to working-class families - mostly Latino - in the shadow of the hulkish remnants of Bethlehem Steel. A two-hour drive away, at City University of New York Law School in Queens, Rooney spends several days a week helping upstart lawyers develop storefront practices that, like his, provide legal representation to folks who can't afford a $250-an-hour legal counselor. Kristin Booth Glen, the law school's dean, took one look at Rooney and knew he was the right person to head the innovative Community Legal Resources Network. ''Fred's so low-key, he's Midwestern in effect,'' says Glen, a former New York Supreme Court judge. ''He captivates people, he inspires loyalty.'' For bringing legal representation to the poor and a host of other social causes, including finding medical care for seriously ill children in Latin America, the Moravian College Alumni Association has chosen Rooney for its prestigious Haupert Humanitarian Award. The award, given to only a select few alumni, will be presented at 7:30 tonight at a reception on Moravian's Priscilla Payne Hurd campus. Moravian, where he was an undergraduate in the early 1970s, inspired Rooney's deep sense of social justice. The son of a Bethlehem Steel executive in New York, he came to the Bethlehem campus from an affluent upbringing on Long Island. The young Rooney might have set his sights on Washington, D.C., like his uncle, former U.S. Rep. Fred Rooney of Bethlehem. After all, politics run in the Rooney family. His brother, state Rep. T.J. Rooney of Bethlehem, is a power in the state Legislature and the Democratic Party. But on a trip to Colombia when he was a junior at Moravian, the child of privilege saw human suffering, malnutrition and poverty the likes of which he had never imagined. ''I couldn't understand why we live this way and they live that way,'' Rooney recalled. ''It's been the guiding light of my life ever since.'' After graduating in CUNY Law School's first class in 1986, he took a job with Lehigh Valley Legal Services. <sep>Who crafted a law practice catering to working-class families who are mostly Latino?<sep>Fred Rooney
Solution: | Yes |
Read the text and determine if the sentence is true:
How to give gifts unconditionally<br>Find a gift that means something about the other person to you. Be proud of what you choose. Don't just buy something because it is in the bargain bin or because it was the most expensive item in the store.
Sentence: A gift is better if it comes from the heart. | Yes |
Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a context passage, a question about that paragraph, and a possible answer to that question. The task is to check the validity of the answer. Answer with "Yes" or "No".
Input: How would the universe look without gravity? It would have no planets and no stars. Thats how it looked when it was young. When the universe was young, there was only gas and dust. From this gas and dust, everything we now see was made. How were stars and planets created from just gas and dust? The answer is gravity. The same gravity that holds you down on Earth. The same force that causes your pencil to roll off your desk. The same force that causes it to fall to the floor. The invisible force of gravity caused dust and gas particles to be pulled together. This force is what formed all the objects in our solar system. This force formed the smallest moons. It also formed our Sun. This force caused more than just our solar system to form. It caused all the other solar systems to form. It caused the formation of all the galaxies of the universe. <sep>Did gravity cause more than one solar system to form?<sep>No one knows
Output: | No |
Q: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Parliament ended with the most tremendous, tetchy – tearful! – squabble: should Speaker Bercow's future be decided by secret ballot? It became a day of wondrous hysteria, tantrums, moist hankies and (for the time being) survival for this stinker of a Speaker. Labour MPs and a handful of men on the Weirdo Right insisted that a secret ballot would be 'undemocratic'. Moderate Tories and Lib Dems argued that MPs openly voting against Bercow feared the Squeaker's tyrannical vengeance crashing about their ears. Scroll down for video Speaker John Bercow (pictured) fought back tears as a motion to vote on a secret ballot to unseat him was defeated 228 to 202MPs voted on 'secret ballot' to unseat John Bercow as Commons speakerLabour MPs and some on right said such a vote would be undemocraticHe fought back tears as the motion was defeated by 228 votes to 202The announcement was met with rapturous applause by labour MPs
Question:_ were therefore hauled back from the furthest ends of the kingdom to save the Speaker for socialism.
A: | Labour MPs |
Teacher:In this task, you are given Wikipedia articles on a range of topics, we ask you to write a question based on the content of the articles that can be answered in a binary manner i.e. True or False.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Air gun laws -- Although the federal government does not normally regulate air guns, some state and local governments do; the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence has compiled a list of states and selected municipalities that regulate air guns, finding that 23 states and the District of Columbia regulate air guns to some degree. Two states (New Jersey and Rhode Island) define all non-powder guns as firearms; one state (Illinois) defines certain high-power and/or large calibre non-powder guns as firearms; three states (Connecticut, Delaware and North Dakota) define non-powder guns as dangerous weapons (but not firearms). The remaining states which regulate air guns impose age restrictions on possession, use, or transfer of non-powder guns, and/or explicitly regulate possession of non-powder guns on school grounds.
Student: | can i buy an air rifle from america |
You will be given a passage, and your task is to generate a Yes/No question that is answerable based on the given passage.
The golden goal or golden point is a rule used in association football, bandy, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, floorball and korfball to decide the winner of a match (typically a knock-out match) in which scores are equal at the end of normal time. It is a type of sudden death. Under this rule, the game will end when a goal or point is scored; the team that scores that goal or point during extra time will be the winner. Introduced formally in 1992, though with some history before that, the rule ceased to apply to most FIFA-authorized football games in 2004. The similar silver goal supplemented the golden goal between 2002 and 2004. | does golden goal apply in the world cup? |
Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American feature film director, best known for her debut feature film, "Boys Don't Cry" (1999). Her second feature, "Stop-Loss", was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008. Her most recent feature film, "Carrie", was released on October 18, 2013.
Choose your answer: based on the paragraph above can we conclude that "Kimberly Ane Peirce was not born in august"?
OPT: (1). Yes; (2). It's impossible to say; (3). No;
I think the answer is | (1). |
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In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
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A Facebook prank in which a man trolls his racist, xenophobic, and homophobic 'friend' by commenting on every single one of the guy's posts and calling him out for his ignorant views has taken the internet by storm - likely because everyone can relate to seeing these types of comments in their news feeds. In the amusing series of exchanges, which the man behind the hoax have admitted he made up to mock the current political firestorm among conservatives and liberals, a user named 'Robert Graves' relentlessly baits his ultra-conservative friend, 'Brendan Sullivan', by repeatedly mocking his offensive posts. 'Can't believe Kim Davis story has disappeared. She stood up for what she believed in. But now gay marriage has been forced upon this great nation,' Brendan wrote in one post, to which Robert responded: 'Why do you care so much? Worrying about what a couple of gay dudes do in the privacy of their own homes in about the gayest thing a guy can do.'A user named 'Robert Graves' relentlessly baited his ultra-conservative friend, 'Brendan Sullivan', by repeatedly mocking his offensive postsTheir fake exchanges caused a stir on the internet because nearly everyone can relate to having an ignorant Facebook friend like 'Brendan'The prankster came clean about the hoax today, saying he fabricated it to make fun of the political firestorm between liberals and conservatives
Questions:I must say, that is a grading scale like no other I have seen before,' wrote _. (A) Robert Graves (B) Brendan Sullivan (C) Kim Davis (D) Brendan (E) Facebook
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(A)
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Texas Governor Rick Perry's former chairman Sam Clovis has joined forces with Donald Trump as the race to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee got its first defection last night. Clovis, an influential Conservative activist, college professor and talk-show host is now a member of Trump's team. In a sign that the GOP front-runner is being taken seriously on the campaign trail, Clovis, has become national co-chair and senior policy adviser for the Property tycoon turned politician. Earlier this week, Clovis quit the Perry campaign, after hinting that it was facing a host of difficulties. The Trump campaign relished announcing the defection on Tuesday night, as it is a huge blow to Governor Perry who has run into financial difficulty and has been forced to stop paying staff.Sam Clovis has joined forces with Donald Trump as he jumps shipClovis left the Rick Perry campaign, after hinting it was facing difficultiesPerry has run into financial difficulty and has stopped paying staffClovis said he was 'humbled and honored' to take on the role for TrumpTrump's campaign hopes to use Clovis 'expansive expertise in economics'
Questions:In most polls, _ is far ahead of his rivals and his brash style appears to be a winner with supporters. (A) Texas (B) Rick Perry (C) Sam Clovis (D) Donald Trump (E) Republican Party (F) Clovis (G) Conservative (H) GOP (I) Perry
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(D)
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The boot of the Ford saloon was very cramped, and the 46-year-old man trapped inside it was suffering from intense claustrophobia. It was also very hot, and the contorted exertions he had undergone to remove his jacket had made him hotter still. A kidnap victim? No. Unlikely as it may seem, the man shut in the boot had chosen to be there. He had met neither the people driving him, nor their colleagues in the accompanying car in front, but they represented his only hope of escaping death. If they failed, he would be taken back to Moscow, interrogated and then shot in a killing-room deep in the dark heart of the headquarters of his employer, the dreaded KGB. Safety would come if they reached Finland, which was only a few miles away. But first, the small convoy had to pass through five frontier controls, all of which were manned by zealous Soviet guards.Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB colonel, made a dramatic escape to the WestHidden in the boot of a car, he was successfully smuggled into FinlandGordievsky had worked as an informant for MI6 for the three years prior
Questions:All the way, they were tailed by a _ car, which they knew they would have to lose if they were to rescue their best ever agent. (A) Ford (B) Moscow (C) KGB (D) Finland (E) Soviet (F) Oleg Gordievsky (G) West (H) Gordievsky (I) MI6
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[Q]: Emperor and Galilean (in Norwegian: "Kejser og Galilæer" ) is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. Although it is one of the writer's lesser known plays, on several occasions Henrik Ibsen called "Emperor and Galilean" his major work. "Emperor and Galilean" is written in two complementary parts with five acts in each part and is Ibsen's longest play. Emperor and Galilean has 10 acts. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: Yes
[Q]: Invincible is the final studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson, released on October 30, 2001, by Epic Records. Similar to Jackson's previous material, "Invincible" explores themes such as love, romance, isolation, media criticism, and social issues. It was Jackson's sixth studio album released through Epic, and his final studio album released before his death in 2009. Invincible was re-released. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: It's impossible to say
[Q]: Sportivo Atlético Club is an Argentine sports club, from the city of Las Parejas, in the Santa Fe Province. Although many sports are practised in the club, it is mostly known for its football and basketball teams. The football squad currently plays in the Torneo Argentino B, the regionalised 4th division of the Argentine football league system). The basketball team does not play in the Torneo Argentino B. OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: No
[Q]: The 2008 Lux Style Awards, officially known as the 7th Lux Style Awards ceremony, presented by the Lux Style Awards honours the best films of 2008 and took place at the DHA Golf Club, Karachi on 29th Oct, 08. This year, the city of lights played host to the Pakistani Film Industry. 6th Lux Style Awards ceremony took place at the DHA Golf club, Karachi on 28th of October OPTIONS:
- Yes
- It's impossible to say
- No
[A]: | It's impossible to say |
Teacher:In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Among the entities, try to find the best entity that is most likely to fill in "_" and classify the answers based on options.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: (CNN) Winter arrived early in Tokyo this year as the Japanese capital woke up to snowfall in November for the first time in over five decades. An unusually cold air mass passing over the city pushed temperature down 10 degrees Celsius overnight -- from an average of 11°C (50°F) to 1°C (34 °F). The Japan Meteorological Agency said it was the first time snow had fallen in November in central Tokyo since 1962, according to NHK, the country's national broadcaster. Surprised city dwellers shared pictures and videos of the rare weather on social media. Instagram user Chloe Chia filmed her Tokyo window view excited by the unseasonal snow.The last time it snowed in Tokyo in November it was 1962Temperatures dropped massively over-nightTrains were delayed during the morning rush hour
Questions:It may be another 50 years until _ sees snow in November again. (A) Tokyo (B) Japanese (C) Celsius (D) Japan Meteorological Agency (E) NHK (F) Instagram (G) Chloe Chia
Student: | (A) |
In this task, we ask you to elaborate the sentence without changing its general meaning. You can do so by explaining further the input sentence, using more precise wording, adding qualifiers and auxiliary information etc.
Q: Christian metal , also known as ' white metal ' , is a form of heavy metal music which a Christian band makes to praise Jesus .
A: | Christian metal , also known as white metal , Jesus metal or heavenly metal , is a form of heavy metal music usually defined by its message using song lyrics as well as the dedication of the band members to Christianity . |
Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Problem:The International Cricket Council has withdrawn Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar from the remainder of the limited-overs series between India and South Africa because of 'extremist' threats The ICC claimed on Monday that an 'extreme' group threatened to prevent him from officiating in the last game in Mumbai. 'Under the present circumstances, it will be unreasonable to expect from Aleem that he will be able to perform his duties to the best of his abilities,' they said in a statement. 'As such, he has been withdrawn and his replacement will be announced in due course.' Dar officiated in the first three games of the five one day international series which South Africa lead 2-1 and was also due to stand in the fourth match in Chennai on Thursday and in Mumbai on Sunday.Pakistani umpire was due to stand in final two ODIs against South AfricaICC says 'it is unreasonable to expect Aleem will be able to perform his duties'It follows protests against India and Pakistan renewed cricketing relations
Question:The two countries have not met in a Test match since India beat Pakistan 1-0 at home in 2007 though _ did play a one-day series in India in 2012-13.
Solution: | Pakistani |
Problem: The 54-year-old man from London, who was not otherwise identified, was located following cooperation with British authorities, police said in a statement.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
The 54-year-old man resides in London.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
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Answer: yes
Problem: IKEA offers fantastic and affordable solutions for your home furnishing needs.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Ikea is a home.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
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Answer: no
Problem: On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
A patrol car was attacked by the San Carlos Battalion.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
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Answer: no
Problem: Mental health problems in children and adolescents are on the rise, the British Medical Association has warned, and services are ill-equipped to cope.
Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Mental health problems increase in the young.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- no
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Answer: | yes |
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