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Space Shuttle program (1972–2011) | How long did the Space Shuttle program last? | NASA | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Space Shuttle program (1972–2011).",
"The Space Shuttle became the major focus of NASA in the late 1970s and the 1980s.",
"Planned as a frequently launchable and mostly reusable vehicle, four space shuttle orbiters were built by 1985.",
"The first to launch, \"Columbia\", did so on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first space flight by Yuri Gagarin.",
"Its major components were a spaceplane orbiter with an external fuel tank and two solid fuel launch rockets at its side.",
"The external tank, which was bigger than the spacecraft itself, was the only component that was not reused.",
"The shuttle could orbit in altitudes of 185–643 km (115–400 miles) and carry a maximum payload (to low orbit) of 24,400 kg (54,000 lb).",
"Missions could last from 5 to 17 days and crews could be from 2 to 8 astronauts.",
"On 20 missions (1983–98) the Space Shuttle carried Spacelab, designed in cooperation with the ESA.",
"Spacelab was not designed for independent orbital flight, but remained in the Shuttle's cargo bay as the astronauts entered and left it through an airlock.",
"Another famous series of missions were the launch and later successful repair of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 and 1993, respectively.",
"In 1995 Russian-American interaction resumed with the Shuttle-Mir missions (1995–1998).",
"Once more an American vehicle docked with a Russian craft, this time a full-fledged space station.",
"This cooperation has continued with Russia and the United States as the two of the biggest partners in the largest space station built: the International Space Station (ISS).",
"The strength of their cooperation on this project was even more evident when NASA began relying on Russian launch vehicles to service the ISS during the two-year grounding of the shuttle fleet following the 2003 Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" disaster.",
"The Shuttle fleet lost two orbiters and 14 astronauts in two disasters: \"Challenger\" in 1986, and \"Columbia\" in 2003.",
"While the 1986 loss was mitigated by building the Space Shuttle \"Endeavour\" from replacement parts, NASA did not build another orbiter to replace the second loss.",
"NASA's Space Shuttle program had 135 missions when the program ended with the successful landing of the Space Shuttle \"Atlantis\" at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011.",
"The program spanned 30 years with over 300 astronauts sent into space."
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Architecture | Which architectural influence of Union Station pays homage to a feature occurring within the last 200 years. | Union Station (Washington, D.C.) | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Architect Daniel H. Burnham, assisted by Pierce Anderson, was inspired by a number of different architectural styles.",
"Classical elements included the Arch of Constantine (exterior, main façade) and the great vaulted spaces of the Baths of Diocletian (interior); prominent siting at the intersection of two of Pierre L'Enfant's avenues, with an orientation that faced the United States Capitol just five blocks away; a massive scale, including a façade stretching more than 600 feet and a waiting room ceiling 96 feet above the floor; stone inscriptions and allegorical sculpture in the Beaux-Arts style; expensive materials such as marble, gold leaf, and white granite from a previously unused quarry.",
"In the Attic block, above the main cornice of the central block, stand six colossal statues (modeled on the Dacian prisoners of the Arch of Constantine) created by Louis St. Gaudens.",
"These are entitled \"The Progress of Railroading\" and their iconography expresses the confident enthusiasm of the American Renaissance movement: Prometheus (for Fire), Thales (for Electricity), Themis (for Freedom and Justice), Apollo (for Imagination and Inspiration), Ceres (for Agriculture) and Archimedes (for Mechanics).",
"The substitution of Agriculture for Commerce in a railroad station iconography vividly conveys the power of a specifically American lobbying bloc.",
"St. Gaudens also created the 26 centurions for the station's main hall.",
"Burnham drew upon a tradition, launched with the 1837 Euston railway station in London, of treating the entrance to a major terminal as a triumphal arch.",
"He linked the monumental end pavilions with long arcades enclosing loggias in a long series of bays that were vaulted with the lightweight fireproof Guastavino tiles favored by American Beaux-Arts architects.",
"The final aspect owed much to the Court of Heroes at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, where Burnham had been coordinating architect.",
"The setting of Union Station’s façade at the focus of converging avenues in a park-like green setting is one of the few executed achievements of the City Beautiful movement: elite city planning that was based on the \"goosefoot\" (\"patte d'oie\") of formal garden plans made by Baroque designers such as André Le Nôtre.",
"The station held a full range of dining rooms and other services, including barber shops and a mortuary.",
"Union Station was equipped with a presidential suite which is now occupied by a restaurant."
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Division of Korea (1954–present) | When did North Korea declare it 'is not restrained by the North-South declaration on non-aggression.'? | Korean War | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"Division of Korea (1954–present).",
"The Korean Armistice Agreement provided for monitoring by an international commission.",
"Since 1953, the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC), composed of members from the Swiss and Swedish Armed Forces, has been stationed near the DMZ.",
"In April 1975, South Vietnam's capital was captured by the North Vietnamese army.",
"Encouraged by the success of Communist revolution in Indochina, Kim Il-sung saw it as an opportunity to invade the South.",
"Kim visited China in April of that year, and met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to ask for military aid.",
"Despite Pyongyang's expectations, however, Beijing refused to help North Korea for another war in Korea.",
"Since the armistice, there have been numerous incursions and acts of aggression by North Korea.",
"In 1976, the axe murder incident was widely publicized.",
"Since 1974, four incursion tunnels leading to Seoul have been uncovered.",
"In 2010, a North Korean submarine torpedoed and sank the South Korean corvette ROKS \"Cheonan\", resulting in the deaths of 46 sailors.",
"Again in 2010, North Korea fired artillery shells on Yeonpyeong island, killing two military personnel and two civilians.",
"After a new wave of U.N. sanctions, on 11 March 2013, North Korea claimed that it had invalidated the 1953 armistice.",
"On 13 March 2013, North Korea confirmed it ended the 1953 Armistice and declared North Korea \"is not restrained by the North-South declaration on non-aggression.\"",
"On 30 March 2013, North Korea stated that it had entered a \"state of war\" with South Korea and declared that \"The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over.\"",
"Speaking on 4 April 2013, the United States Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, informed the press that Pyongyang had \"formally informed\" the Pentagon that it had \"ratified\" the potential usage of a nuclear weapon against South Korea, Japan and the United States of America, including Guam and Hawaii.",
"Hagel also stated that the US would deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-ballistic missile system to Guam, due to a credible and realistic nuclear threat from North Korea."
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Feather | What did visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston compare the feather to? | Forrest Gump | false | 6MOVIES
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"Various interpretations have been suggested for the feather present at the opening and conclusion of the film.",
"Sarah Lyall of \"The New York Times\" noted several opinions that were made about the feather: \"Does the white feather symbolize the unbearable lightness of being?",
"Forrest Gump's impaired intellect?",
"The randomness of experience?\"",
"Hanks interpreted the feather as: \"Our destiny is only defined by how we deal with the chance elements to our life and that's kind of the embodiment of the feather as it comes in.",
"Here is this thing that can land anywhere and that it lands at your feet.",
"It has theological implications that are really huge.\"",
"Sally Field compared the feather to fate, saying: \"It blows in the wind and just touches down here or there.",
"Was it planned or was it just perchance?\"",
"Visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston compared the feather to an abstract painting: \"It can mean so many things to so many different people.",
"\"The feather is stored in a book titled \"Curious George\", Forrest's favorite book, which his mother read to him, connecting the scene's present time with his childhood in the 1940s.",
"The placement of the feather in the book is directly on a picture of the monkey walking on a tightrope.",
"Whether that was intentional or not, it is very symbolic.",
"The feather also has a correlation with Jenny's constant obsession with \"becoming a bird and flying far far away\" due to the abuse (sexual and physical) she endured from her father.",
"She goes as far in the film as to ask Forrest \"if jumped off the bridge, could [she fly?\""
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Rhythmic gymnastics | Do men or women compete in rhythmic gymnastics? | Gymnastics | false | 4SPORT
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"Only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics although there is a new version of this discipline for men being pioneered in Japan (see Men's rhythmic gymnastics).",
"This is a sport that combines elements of ballet, gymnastics, dance, and apparatus manipulation.",
"The sport involves the performance of five separate routines with the use of five apparatus; ball, ribbon, hoop, clubs, rope—on a floor area, with a much greater emphasis on the aesthetic rather than the acrobatic.",
"There are also group routines consisting of 5 gymnasts and 5 apparatuses of their choice.",
"Rhythmic routines are scored out of a possible 30 points; the score for artistry (choreography and music) is averaged with the score for difficulty of the moves and then added to the score for execution.",
"International competitions are split between Juniors, under sixteen by their year of birth; and Seniors, for women sixteen and over again by their year of birth.",
"Gymnasts in Russia and Europe typically start training at a very young age and those at their peak are typically in their late teens (15–19) or early twenties.",
"The largest events in the sport are the Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships, World Cup and Grand-Prix Series."
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Background | Which island was attacked by bombers? | Battle of Midway | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"Japan had attained its initial strategic goals quickly, taking the Philippines, Malaya, Singapore, and the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia); the latter, with its vital oil resources, was particularly important to Japan.",
"Because of this, preliminary planning for a second phase of operations commenced as early as January 1942.",
"However, there were strategic disagreements between the Imperial Army and Imperial Navy, and infighting between the Navy's GHQ and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Combined Fleet, such that a follow-up strategy was not formed until April 1942.",
"Admiral Yamamoto finally succeeded in winning the bureaucratic struggle with a thinly veiled threat to resign, after which his plan for the Central Pacific was adopted.",
"Yamamoto's primary strategic goal was the elimination of America's carrier forces, which he perceived as the principal threat to the overall Pacific campaign.",
"This concern was acutely heightened by the Doolittle Raid on 18 April 1942, in which 16 US Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bombers launched from bombed targets in Tokyo and several other Japanese cities.",
"The raid, while militarily insignificant, was a severe psychological shock to the Japanese and showed the existence of a gap in the defenses around the Japanese home islands as well as the accessibility of Japanese territory to American bombers.",
"This, and other successful hit-and-run raids by American carriers in the South Pacific, showed that they were still a threat, although seemingly reluctant to be drawn into an all-out battle.",
"Yamamoto reasoned that another attack on the main U.S Naval base at Pearl Harbor would induce all of the American fleet to sail out to fight, including the carriers.",
"However, due to the strength of American land-based air power on the Hawaiian Islands, he judged that it was too risky to attack Pearl Harbor directly.",
"Instead, Yamamoto selected Midway, a tiny atoll at the extreme northwest end of the Hawaiian Island chain, approximately from Oahu.",
"Midway was not especially important in the larger scheme of Japan's intentions, but the Japanese felt the Americans would consider Midway a vital outpost of Pearl Harbor and would therefore be compelled to defend it vigorously.",
"The U.S. did consider Midway vital; after the battle, establishment of a U.S. submarine base on Midway allowed submarines operating from Pearl Harbor to refuel and reprovision, extending their radius of operations by .",
"In addition to serving as a seaplane base, Midway's airstrips also served as a forward staging point for bomber attacks on Wake Island."
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Awards and nominations | Which award was Prison Break's first nomination? | Prison Break | true | 1TV
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"Following a successful airing of the series' first thirteen episodes, \"Prison Break\" was nominated for its first award, the 2005 People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama.",
"The series won the award in January 2006, beating other nominees in the same category, \"Commander in Chief\" and \"Criminal Minds\".",
"In January 2006, the show had two nominations at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards, which were Best Drama Television Series and Best Actor in a Drama Television Series for Wentworth Miller's performance.",
"The show's lead actor, Wentworth Miller, received another nomination for his performance in the first season at the 2005 Saturn Awards for Best Actor on Television.",
"Likewise, the series was nominated for 2005 Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series.",
"At the 2006 Television Critics Association Awards, the show was nominated for Best New Drama Series.",
"Nominations for technical awards include the 2006 Eddie Award for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television (Mark Helfrich for the pilot episode), and the 2006 Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music (Ramin Djawadi).",
"In December 2006, Robert Knepper was nominated for the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television."
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Abstract | What distinguishes a Main course salad from an Appetizer salad? | Salad | false | 9FOOD
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"Salad is a popular ready-to-eat dish often containing leafy vegetables, usually served chilled or at a moderate temperature and often served with a sauce or dressing.",
"Salads may also contain ingredients such as fruit, grain, meat, seafood and sweets.",
"Though many salads use raw ingredients, some use cooked ingredients.",
"Most salads are served cold, although some, such as south German potato salad, are served warm.",
"Some consider the warmth of a dish a factor that excludes it from the salad category calling the warm mixture a casserole, a sandwich topping or more specifically, name it for the ingredients which comprise it.",
"Leafy vegetable salads are generally served with a dressing, as well as various garnishes such as nuts or croutons, and sometimes with meat, fish, pasta, cheese, eggs, or whole grains.",
"Salads may be served at any point during a meal, such as:",
"Appetizer salads, light salads to stimulate the appetite as the first course of the meal.",
"Side salads, to accompany the main course as a side dish.",
"Main course salads, usually containing a portion of heartier fare, such as chicken breast or slices of beef.",
"Palate-cleansing salads, to settle the stomach after the main course.",
"Dessert salads, sweet versions often containing fruit, gelatin and/or whipped cream."
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Gertrude Stein, Académie Matisse, and the Cone sisters | Matisse and Picasso often painted which gender in their younger years? | Henri Matisse | true | 3ART
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"Around April 1906 he met Pablo Picasso, who was 11 years younger than Matisse.",
"The two became lifelong friends as well as rivals and are often compared; one key difference between them is that Matisse drew and painted from nature, while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination.",
"The subjects painted most frequently by both artists were women and still life, with Matisse more likely to place his figures in fully realised interiors.",
"Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas.",
"During the first decade of the twentieth century, the Americans in Paris— Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's wife Sarah—were important collectors and supporters of Matisse's paintings.",
"In addition Gertrude Stein's two American friends from Baltimore, the Cone sisters Claribel and Etta, became major patrons of Matisse and Picasso, collecting hundreds of their paintings and drawings.",
"The Cone collection is now exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art.",
"While numerous artists visited the Stein salon, many of these artists were not represented among the paintings on the walls at 27 rue de Fleurus.",
"Where Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso's works dominated Leo and Gertrude Stein's collection, Sarah Stein's collection particularly emphasised Matisse.",
"Contemporaries of Leo and Gertrude Stein, Matisse and Picasso became part of their social circle and routinely joined the gatherings that took place on Saturday evenings at 27 rue de Fleurus.",
"Gertrude attributed the beginnings of the Saturday evening salons to Matisse, remarking:\"More and more frequently, people began visiting to see the Matisse paintings—and the Cézannes: Matisse brought people, everybody brought somebody, and they came at any time and it began to be a nuisance, and it was in this way that Saturday evenings began.",
"\"'Among Pablo Picasso's acquaintances who also frequented the Saturday evenings were: Fernande Olivier (Picasso's mistress), Georges Braque, André Derain, the poets Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin (Apollinaire's mistress and an artist in her own right), and Henri Rousseau.",
"His friends organised and financed the \"Académie Matisse\" in Paris, a private and non-commercial school in which Matisse instructed young artists.",
"It operated from 1907 until 1911.",
"Hans Purrmann and Sarah Stein were amongst several of his most loyal students.",
"Matisse spent seven months in Morocco from 1912 to 1913, producing about 24 paintings and numerous drawings.",
"His frequent orientalist topics of later paintings, such as odalisques, can be traced to this period."
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The periodic table and a natural number for each element | What did Mendeleev claim about the first periodic table? | Atomic number | false | 8SCIENCE
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"The periodic table and a natural number for each element.",
"Loosely speaking, the existence or construction of a periodic table of elements creates an ordering of the elements, and so they can be numbered in order.",
"Dmitri Mendeleev claimed that he arranged his first periodic tables in order of atomic weight (\"Atomgewicht\").",
"However, in consideration of the elements' observed chemical properties, he changed the order slightly and placed tellurium (atomic weight 127.6) ahead of iodine (atomic weight 126.9).",
"This placement is consistent with the modern practice of ordering the elements by proton number, \"Z\", but that number was not known or suspected at the time.",
"A simple numbering based on periodic table position was never entirely satisfactory, however.",
"Besides the case of iodine and tellurium, later several other pairs of elements (such as argon and potassium, cobalt and nickel) were known to have nearly identical or reversed atomic weights, thus requiring their placement in the periodic table to be determined by their chemical properties.",
"However the gradual identification of more and more chemically similar lanthanide elements, whoise atomic number was not obvious, led to inconsistency and uncertainty in the periodic numbering of elements at least from lutetium (element 71) onwards (hafnium was not known at this time).",
"[[File:Henry Moseley.jpg|140px|thumb|Henry Moseley helped develop the concept of atomic number by showing experimentally (1913) that Van den Broek's 1911 hypothesis combined with the Bohr model nearly correctly predicted atomic X-ray emissions.]]"
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Categories | Into what three major categories can the elements be classified into? | Periodic table | false | 8SCIENCE
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"The elements can be conveniently classified according to their shared physical and chemical properties into the major categories of metals, metalloids and nonmetals.",
"Metals are generally located to the left and bottom of the periodic table.",
"They are ordinarily shiny, highly conducting solids which form alloys with one another and salt-like ionic compounds with nonmetals.",
"Nonmetals are located to the right and top.",
"They are mostly coloured or colourless insulating gases that form covalent compounds with one another.",
"In between metals and nonmetals are metalloids, which have intermediate or mixed properties.",
"Metal and nonmetals can be further classified into similar subcategories that show a left to right gradation in metallic to non-metallic properties.",
"The metals are divided into the highly reactive alkali metals, through the less reactive alkaline earth metals, lanthanides and actinides, via the archetypal transition metals, and ending in the physically and chemically weak other metals.",
"The nonmetals are simply subdivided into the polyatomic nonmetals which, being nearest the metalloids, show some incipient metallic character; the diatomic nonmetals, which are essentially nonmetallic; and the monatomic noble gases, which are almost completely inert and nonmetallic.",
"Specialized groupings such as the refractory metals and the noble metals, which are subsets (in this example) of the transition metals, are also known and occasionally denoted.",
"Placing the elements into categories and subcategories based on shared properties is imperfect.",
"There is a spectrum of properties within each category and it is not hard to find overlaps at the boundaries, as is the case with most classification schemes.",
"Beryllium, for example, is classified as an alkaline earth metal although its amphoteric chemistry and tendency to mostly form covalent compounds are both attributes of a chemically weak or other metal.",
"Radon is classified as a nonmetal and a noble gas yet has some cationic chemistry that is more characteristic of a metal.",
"Other classification schemes are possible such as the division of the elements into mineralogical occurrence categories, or crystalline structures.",
"Categorising the elements in this fashion dates back to at least 1869 when Hinrichs wrote that simple boundary lines could be drawn on the periodic table to show elements having like properties, such as the metals and the nonmetals, or the gaseous elements."
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Production | When was the Indonesian murders? | The Act of Killing | true | 6MOVIES
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"In 2001, while conducting interviews for their 2003 film \"The Globalisation Tapes\", Oppenheimer and Cynn began delving into the Indonesian killings of 1965–66.",
"After moving up the ranks of those involved with the killings, Oppenheimer's interviews led him to meet Anwar Congo in 2005.",
"The film was shot mostly in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, between 2005 and 2011.",
"After seeing an early preview of \"The Act of Killing\", filmmakers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris signed on as executive producers.",
"The name \"Anonymous\" appears 49 times under 27 different crew positions in the credits.",
"These crew members still fear revenge from the death-squad killers."
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Self-portrait | Who did Michelangelo depict himself as in "The Last Judgement"? | The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) | false | 3ART
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"Some have hypothesized that Michelangelo depicted himself in the flayed skin of St. Bartholomew (see below) based on feelings of contempt Michelangelo may have had for being commissioned to paint \"The Last Judgment.\"",
"Michelangelo often drew himself in a way where he had lost all his power and might.",
"He questioned over thoughts of dying and the Day of Judgement, which is seen as a reference to this work.",
"Michelangelo was in his late sixties when he finished this painting, and it has been argued that the peeling of Bartholomew signifies the peeling of the flesh awaiting a new rebirth.",
"The bearded figure of St. Bartholomew holding the skin was theorized to depict the satirist and erotic writer Pietro Aretino, who had tried to extort a valuable drawing from Michelangelo; this theory has been conclusively refuted because the conflict between Michelangelo and zed Aretino did not occur until 1545, seven years after the fresco's completion."
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Myths about creation | How many different myths are there about the brownie's origin? | Chocolate brownie | true | 9FOOD
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"There are three main myths about the creation of the brownie.",
"The first, that a chef accidentally added melted chocolate to biscuit dough.",
"The second, a cook forgot to add flour to the batter.",
"And thirdly, the most popular belief, that a housewife did not have baking powder and improvised with this new treat.",
"It was said that she was baking for guests and decided to serve these flattened cakes to them.",
"All three myths have gained popularity throughout the years."
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Abstract | What's the main cause of chemical bonding? | Electron | false | 8SCIENCE
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"The electron (symbol: ) is a subatomic particle with a negative elementary electric charge.",
"Electrons belong to the first generation of the lepton particle family, and are generally thought to be elementary particles because they have no known components or substructure.",
"The electron has a mass that is approximately 1/1836 that of the proton.",
"Quantum mechanical properties of the electron include an intrinsic angular momentum (spin) of a half-integer value in units of \"ħ\", which means that it is a fermion.",
"Being fermions, no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state, in accordance with the Pauli exclusion principle.",
"Electrons also have properties of both particles and waves, and so can collide with other particles and can be diffracted like light.",
"Experiments with electrons best demonstrate this duality because electrons have a tiny mass.",
"Many physical phenomena involve electrons in an essential role, such as electricity, magnetism, and thermal conductivity, and they also participate in gravitational, electromagnetic and weak interactions.",
"An electron in space generates an electric field surrounding it.",
"An electron moving relative to an observer generates a magnetic field.",
"External magnetic fields deflect an electron.",
"Electrons radiate or absorb energy in the form of photons when accelerated.",
"Laboratory instruments are capable of containing and observing individual electrons as well as electron plasma using electromagnetic fields, whereas dedicated telescopes can detect electron plasma in outer space.",
"Electrons have many applications, including electronics, welding, cathode ray tubes, electron microscopes, radiation therapy, lasers, gaseous ionization detectors and particle accelerators.",
"Interactions involving electrons and other subatomic particles are of interest in fields such as chemistry and nuclear physics.",
"The Coulomb force interaction between positive protons inside atomic nuclei and negative electrons composes atoms.",
"Ionization or changes in the proportions of particles changes the binding energy of the system.",
"The exchange or sharing of the electrons between two or more atoms is the main cause of chemical bonding.",
"British natural philosopher Richard Laming first hypothesized the concept of an indivisible quantity of electric charge to explain the chemical properties of atoms in 1838; Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney named this charge 'electron' in 1891, and J. J. Thomson and his team of British physicists identified it as a particle in 1897.",
"Electrons can also participate in nuclear reactions, such as nucleosynthesis in stars, where they are known as beta particles.",
"Electrons may be created through beta decay of radioactive isotopes and in high-energy collisions, for instance when cosmic rays enter the atmosphere.",
"The antiparticle of the electron is called the positron; it is identical to the electron except that it carries electrical and other charges of the opposite sign.",
"When an electron collides with a positron, both particles may be totally annihilated, producing gamma ray photons. "
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Iberian Peninsula line | What percentage of marzipan must be almond paste? | Marzipan | true | 9FOOD
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"Another possible geographic origin is in Spain, then known as Al-Andalus.",
"In Toledo (850-900, though more probably 1150 during the reign of Alfonso VII) this specialty was known as \"Postre Regio\" instead of \"Mazapán\") and there are also mentions in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights of an almond paste eaten during Ramadan and as an aphrodisiac.",
"Mazapán is Toledo's most famous dessert, often created for Christmas, and has PGI status.",
"Almonds have to be at least 50% of the total weight, following the directives of \"Mazapán de Toledo\" regulator counseil.",
"Another idea to support this line is the important tradition of another Spanish almond-based Christmas confectionery, the turron.",
"Under EU law, marzipan must have a minimum almond oil content of 14% and a maximum moisture content of 8.5%.",
"Optional additional ingredients are rosewater, honey, pistachios, preservatives, and sometimes hazelnut.",
"In the U.S., marzipan is not officially defined, but it is generally made with a higher ratio of sugar to almonds than almond paste.",
"One brand, for instance, has 28% almonds in its marzipan, and 45% almonds in its almond paste.",
"However, in Sweden and Finland almond paste refers to a marzipan that contains 50% ground almonds, a much higher quality than regular marzipan.",
"In Germany, Lübecker Marzipan is known for its quality.",
"It contains 66% almonds.",
"The original manually produced Mozartkugeln are made from green pistachio marzipan."
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Abstract | What year did construction begin at Disneyland? | Disneyland | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17, 1955.",
"It is the only theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney.",
"It was originally the only attraction on the property; its name was changed to Disneyland Park to distinguish it from the expanding complex in the 1990s.",
"Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s.",
"He initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit; however, he soon realized that the proposed site was too small.",
"After hiring a consultant to help him determine an appropriate site for his project, Walt bought a site near Anaheim in 1953.",
"Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a special televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17, 1955.",
"Since its opening, Disneyland has undergone a number of expansions and renovations, including the addition of New Orleans Square in 1966, Bear Country (now Critter Country) in 1972, and Mickey's Toontown in 1993.",
"Disney California Adventure Park was built on the site of Disneyland's original parking lot and opened in 2001.",
"Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with over 650 million guests since it opened.",
"In 2011, the park hosted approximately 16.14 million guests, making it the second most visited park in the world that calendar year.",
"According to a March 2005 report from the Disney Company, there are 65,700 jobs supported by the Disneyland Resort, which includes, at the Resort itself, 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees (that is, independent contractors or their employees)."
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Abstract | How is popcorn able to pop? | Popcorn | false | 9FOOD
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"Popcorn, also known as popping corn, is a type of corn (maize, \"Zea mays var.",
"everta\") that expands from the kernel and puffs up when heated.",
"Popcorn is able to pop because, like amaranth grain, sorghum, quinoa, and millet, its kernels have a hard moisture-sealed hull and a dense starchy interior.",
"Pressure builds inside the kernel, and a small explosion (or \"pop\") is the end result.",
"Some strains of corn are now cultivated specifically as popping corns.",
"There are various techniques for popping corn.",
"Along with prepackaged popcorn, which is generally intended to be prepared in a microwave oven, there are small home appliances for popping corn.",
"These methods require the use of minimally processed popping corn.",
"A larger-scale, commercial popcorn machine was invented by Charles Cretors in the late 19th century.",
"Unpopped popcorn is considered nonperishable and will last indefinitely if stored in ideal conditions.",
"Depending on how it is prepared and cooked, some consider popcorn to be a health food, while others caution against it for a variety of reasons.",
"Popcorn can also have non-food applications, ranging from holiday decorations to packaging materials."
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At auction | When was the painting last shown in America? | Jackson Pollock | false | 3ART
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"Art market.",
"At auction.",
"In 1973, Blue Poles \"(Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952),\" was purchased by the Australian Whitlam Government for the National Gallery of Australia for US $2 million (A$1.3 million at the time of payment).",
"At the time, this was the highest price ever paid for a modern painting.",
"The painting is now one of the most popular exhibits in the gallery.",
"It was a centerpiece of the Museum of Modern Art's 1998 retrospective in New York, the first time the painting had been shown in America since its purchase.",
"In November 2006, Pollock's \"No.",
"5, 1948\" became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of $140,000,000.",
"Another artist record was established in 2004, when \"No.",
"12\" (1949), a medium-sized drip painting that had been shown in the United States Pavilion at the 1950 Venice Biennale, fetched $11.7 million at Christie's, New York.",
"In 2012, \"Number 28, 1951,\" one of the artist’s combinations of drip and brushwork in shades of silvery gray with red, yellow and shots of blue and white, also sold at Christie's, New York, for $20.5 million—$23 million with fees—within its estimated range of $20 million to $30 million.",
"In 2013 Pollock's \"Number 19\" (1948) was sold by Christies for a reported $58,363,750 during an auction that ultimately reached $495 million total sales in one night which Christies reports as a record to date as the most expensive auction of contemporary art."
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Overview of equestrian activities | What sorts of riding activities can you do with a horse that are non-competitive and recreational? | Equestrianism | true | 4SPORT
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"Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch.",
"They are also used in competitive sports including, but not limited to, dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, and rodeo.",
"(See additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples.)",
"Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows, where horses perform in a wide variety of disciplines.",
"Horses (and other equids such as mules and donkeys) are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as fox hunting, trail riding or hacking.",
"There is public access to horse trails in almost every part of the world; many parks, ranches, and public stables offer both guided and independent riding.",
"Horses are also used for therapeutic purposes, both in specialized paraequestrian competition as well as non-competitive riding to improve human health and emotional development.",
"Horses are also driven in harness racing, at horse shows and in other types of exhibition, historical reenactment or ceremony, often pulling carriages.",
"In some parts of the world, they are still used for practical purposes such as farming.",
"Horses continue to be used in public service: in traditional ceremonies (parades, funerals), police and volunteer mounted patrols, and for mounted search and rescue."
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Recurring cast | Who is Rocky's brother in the show The New Normal? | The New Normal (TV series) | true | 1TV
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" Jackie Hoffman as Frances, David's mother",
" Barry Bostwick as Marty, David's father",
" Mary Kay Place as Colleen, Bryan's mother",
" Marlo Thomas as Nancy Niles, Jane's boss",
" Cheri Oteri as Carla, Bryan and David's baby consultant",
" John Stamos as Brice, Jane's love interest and co-worker at Niles and Windsor Realtors",
" Michael Hitchcock as Gary, the head of the surrogacy firm",
" John Benjamin Hickey as Father Michael",
"Sterling Sulieman as Clint, Rocky's brother"
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Proteins | How many standard amino acids are there? | Biochemistry | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Proteins are very large molecules – macro-biopolymers – made from monomers called \"amino acids\".",
"There are 20 standard amino acids, each containing a carboxyl group, an amino group, and a side-chain (known as an \"R\" group).",
"The \"R\" group is what makes each amino acid different, and the properties of the side-chains greatly influence the overall three-dimensional conformation of a protein.",
"When amino acids combine, they form a special bond called a peptide bond through dehydration synthesis, and become a polypeptide, or protein.",
"In order to determine whether two proteins are related, or in other words to decide whether they are homologous or not, scientists use sequence-comparison methods.",
"Methods like Sequence Alignments and Structural Alignments are powerful tools that help scientists identify homologies between related molecules.",
"The relevance of finding homologies among proteins goes beyond forming an evolutionary pattern of protein families.",
"By finding how similar two protein sequences are, we acquire knowledge about their structure and therefore their function."
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Music video | On what date did "What Makes You Beautiful" premiere? | What Makes You Beautiful | false | 0MUSIC
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"The music video for \"What Makes You Beautiful\" was directed by John Urbano.",
"Filmed for two days in July 2011, it premiered on 19 August 2011.",
"On each of the five days preceding the video's premiere, One Direction posted a teaser trailer of the video online.",
"Each teaser showed footage from the video and behind the scenes, and one member of the band announcing how many days were left until the video premiere.",
"The video opens with One Direction spending time on a Malibu, California beach inter cut with scenes of them driving an orange campervan.",
"During the second verse, a group of three girls joins the band at the beach; in Styles' bridge solo, he intimately sings to one girl individually.",
"During the final choruses the band and girls are shown sitting around a fire, lighting sparklers and taking photographs.",
"On video sharing website MUZU TV, the video was the fourth most-watched music video of 2011 in the UK.",
"The video won two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Pop Video and Most Share-Worthy Video, and earned the group the award for Best New Artist on 6 September 2012.",
"As of March 2014, the music video has garnered almost 500 million Vevo views.",
"In 2012, a blogger at BuzzFeed noticed similarities between the video and pop punk band Blink-182's video for \"All the Small Things\" — the video was filmed on Santa Monica Beach and is shot from the same camera angle as in \"What Makes You Beautiful\", leading media outlets to joke that the band parodied One Direction eleven years prior to their formation."
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Third use: college classroom | Navy Peir went to which college after the war? | Navy Pier | true | 2TRAVEL
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"With the war over, Navy Pier went to the University of Illinois, which used the facility beginning in 1946 for a two-year undergraduate program primarily serving returning veterans.",
"From the former Navy staff, Caveny stayed as the Undergraduate Division Dean, and Wolleson as the Dean of Students.",
"During its University of Illinois days, Navy Pier was also the site of a string of public events.",
"The International Exhibitions of the early 1960s drew attractions from around the world, including circus and folkloric dance acts, arts and crafts, and international cuisine.",
"In 1965, the University moved to the Chicago Circle campus, and the Pier again fell into disuse."
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Kuiper belt | Do dwarf plants exist in the Kuiper belt? | Solar System | true | 8SCIENCE
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"The Kuiper belt is a great ring of debris similar to the asteroid belt, but consisting mainly of objects composed primarily of ice.",
"It extends between 30 and 50 AU from the Sun.",
"Though it is estimated to contain anything from dozens to thousands of dwarf planets, it is composed mainly of small Solar System bodies.",
"Many of the larger Kuiper belt objects, such as Quaoar, Varuna, and Orcus, may prove to be dwarf planets with further data.",
"There are estimated to be over 100,000 Kuiper belt objects with a diameter greater than 50 km, but the total mass of the Kuiper belt is thought to be only a tenth or even a hundredth the mass of Earth.",
"Many Kuiper belt objects have multiple satellites, and most have orbits that take them outside the plane of the ecliptic.",
"The Kuiper belt can be roughly divided into the \"classical\" belt and the resonances.",
"Resonances are orbits linked to that of Neptune (e.g.",
"twice for every three Neptune orbits, or once for every two).",
"The first resonance begins within the orbit of Neptune itself.",
"The classical belt consists of objects having no resonance with Neptune, and extends from roughly 39.4 AU to 47.7 AU.",
"Members of the classical Kuiper belt are classified as cubewanos, after the first of their kind to be discovered, , and are still in near primordial, low-eccentricity orbits."
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Location and visiting | What year did the government cede the islands in New York? | Statue of Liberty | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Access and attributes.",
"Location and visiting.",
"The statue is situated in Upper New York Bay on Liberty Island, south of Ellis Island.",
"Both islands were ceded by New York to the federal government in 1800.",
"As agreed in an 1834 compact between New York and New Jersey that set the state border at the bay's midpoint, the original islands remain New York territory despite their location on the New Jersey side of the state line.",
"Land created by reclamation at Ellis is New Jersey territory.",
"No charge is made for entrance to Statue of Liberty National Monument, but there is a cost for the ferry service that all visitors must use, as private boats may not dock at the island.",
"A concession was granted in 2007 to Statue Cruises to operate the transportation and ticketing facilities, replacing Circle Line, which had operated the service since 1953.",
"The ferries, which depart from Liberty State Park in Jersey City and Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, also stop at Ellis Island when it is open to the public, making a combined trip possible.",
"All ferry riders are subject to security screening, similar to airport procedures, prior to boarding.",
"Visitors intending to enter the statue's base and pedestal must obtain a complimentary museum/pedestal ticket along with their ferry ticket.",
"Those wishing to climb the staircase within the statue to the crown purchase a special ticket, which may be reserved up to a year in advance.",
"A total of 240 people per day are permitted to ascend: ten per group, three groups per hour.",
"Climbers may bring only medication and cameras—lockers are provided for other items—and must undergo a second security screening."
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Cultural significance | Which magazine created E.B.? | Man at the Crossroads | true | 3ART
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"The Rockefeller-Rivera dispute has become an emblem of the relationship of politics, aesthetics, creative freedom and economic power.",
"The American poet Archibald MacLeish's 1933 collection \"Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City\" was inspired by the incident.",
"It included six \"irony-laden\" poems about the mural in which both Rockefeller and Rivera were criticised.",
"\"The New Yorker\" magazine published E. B.",
"White's poem \"I paint what I see: A ballad of artistic integrity\" on May 20, 1933, an imaginary debate between Rockefeller and Rivera.",
"It has been discussed or dramatized in a number of films dealing with the politics of art.",
"The events are dramatized in the American films \"Cradle Will Rock\" and \"Frida\", both set in the 1930s.",
"In \"Cradle Will Rock\", the painting we see is identical to the Mexican version.",
"When it is smashed, only the fragment of plaster containing the depiction of syphilis remains.",
"It is also discussed in the Tamil film \"Anbe Sivam\", in which an Indian Communist argues with a supporter of the capitalist system."
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Tourism in recent years | What was the reason for visitors for checking the rules before crossing the border? | Victoria Falls | true | 2TRAVEL
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"By the end of the 1990s almost 300,000 people were visiting the falls annually, and this was expected to rise to over a million in the next decade.",
"Unlike the game parks, Victoria Falls has more Zimbabwean and Zambian visitors than international tourists; the attraction is accessible by bus and train, and is therefore comparatively inexpensive to reach.",
"The two countries permit tourists to make day trips from each side and visas can be obtained at the border posts.",
"Costs vary from US$45-US$80 (as of 01 December 2013).",
"Visitors with single entry visas will need to purchase a visa each time they cross the border.",
"Regular changes in visa regulations mean visitors should check the rules before crossing the border.",
"A famous feature is the naturally formed Devil's Pool, near the edge of the falls on Livingstone Island on the Zambian side.",
"When the river flow is at a certain level, usually between September and December, a rock barrier forms an eddy with minimal current, allowing adventurous swimmers to splash around in relative safety a few feet from the point where the water cascades over the falls.",
"Occasional deaths have been reported when people have slipped over the rock barrier.",
"The numbers of visitors to the Zimbabwean side of the falls has historically been much higher than the number visiting the Zambia side, due to the greater development of the visitor facilities there.",
"However, the number of tourists visiting Zimbabwe began to decline in the early 2000s as political tensions between supporters and opponents of president Robert Mugabe increased.",
"In 2006, hotel occupancy on the Zimbabwean side hovered at around 30%, while the Zambian side was at near-capacity, with rates in top hotels reaching US$630 per night.",
"The rapid development has prompted the United Nations to consider revoking the Falls' status as a World Heritage Site.",
"In addition, problems of waste disposal and a lack of effective management of the falls' environment are a concern."
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Chart performance | The reaction to I Won't Give Up surprised who? | I Won't Give Up | true | 0MUSIC
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"While the song debuted at number 8 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, it immediately hit the top spot on the Hot Digital Songs chart selling 229,000 downloads for its first week.",
"On the Hot 100, the track's launch is the highest for a male pop/rock singer-songwriter since David Cook burst in at number 3 with \"The Time of My Life\" the week of June 7, 2008, after he was crowned \"American Idol\" champion.",
"On Adult Pop Songs it began at number 36.",
"On the week of October 18, 2012, the song became the \"Greatest Gainer\" on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart, reaching number 7.",
"After the success, his manager Bill Silva commented: \"What surprised us is how the fans reacted.",
"We didn't pre-promote the single, we didn't go to radio with it, and this song did 229,000 units its first week in the U.S.",
"There was clearly something resonant about the song, and it immediately shifted the strategy for what the rollout of the album was going to be.\"",
"The song has sold 3,113,000 copies in the US.",
"Internationally, the song also achieved success.",
"In Austria, the song debuted at number 23 on the Ö3 Austria Top 40 chart, on March 23, 2012.",
"Later, the song jumped to number 22, before falling for two consecutive weeks, until it reached again number 22, on April 20, 2012.",
"Later, the song reached number 20, before climbing to number 17.",
"On May 11, 2012, the song fell to number 21, but the next week the song peaked at number 12.",
"It spent 22 weeks on the chart.",
"In Netherlands, the song was a big hit, debuting at number 52 on the Dutch Top 40 chart, on January 7, 2012.",
"After climbing the charts for six consecutive weeks and reaching number 11, the song fell for two consecutive weeks, until it climbed to number 10.",
"The song kept on climbing for 2 weeks, until it peaked at number 3, on April 21, 2012.",
"It spent a total of 32 consecutive weeks on the chart.",
"In the UK, the song debuted at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart week of March 24, 2012, and peaked at number 11.",
"It remained for 30 weeks on the chart and became the 46th biggest selling single of 2012."
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World War Two | what year did moore resign? | Henry Moore | true | 3ART
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"At the outbreak of the Second World War the Chelsea School of Art was evacuated to Northampton and Moore resigned his teaching post.",
"During the war, Moore produced powerful drawings of Londoners sleeping in the London Underground while sheltering from the Blitz.",
"Kenneth Clark, the chairman of the War Artists' Advisory Committee,WAAC, had previously tried to recruit Moore as a full-time salaried war artist and now agreed to purchase some of the shelter drewings and issued contracts for further examples.",
"The shelter drawings WAAC acquired were completed between the autumn of 1940 and the spring of 1941 and are regarded as among the finest products of the WAAC scheme.",
"In August 1941 WAAC commissioned Moore to drew miners working underground at the Wheldale Colliery in Yorkshire, where his father had worked at the start of the century.",
"Whereas Moore drew the people in the shelters as passively waiting the all-clear he shows the miners aggressively working the coal-faces.",
"These drawings helped to boost Moore's international reputation, particularly in America where examples were included in the WAAC \"Britain at War\" exhibition which toured North America throughout the war.",
"After their Hampstead home was hit by bomb shrapnel in September 1940, Moore and Irina moved out of London to live in a farmhouse called Hoglands in the hamlet of Perry Green near Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.",
"This was to become Moore's home and workshop for the rest of his life.",
"Despite acquiring significant wealth later in life, Moore never felt the need to move to larger premises and, apart from the addition of a number of outbuildings and studios, the house changed little over the years.",
"In 1943 he received a commission from the Church of St. Matthew, Northampton, to carve a Madonna and Child; this sculpture was the first in an important series of family-group sculptures."
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Block signals | What are hand signals used in beach volleyball | Beach volleyball | true | 4SPORT
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"Beach volleyball players use hand signals to indicate the type of block they intend to make.",
"Block signals are made behind the back to hide them from the opposing team.",
"They are usually given with both hands by the serving player's partner prior to the serve, with each hand referring to the type of block that should be put up against an attack from the corresponding opponent.",
"A player may also \"wiggle\" or \"flash\" one block signal to indicate which opponent to serve to.",
"If the server is the designated blocker, he or she may run up to the net to block after serving.",
"Otherwise, the signaling player will perform the block.",
"Block signals may also be given during a rally while the opposing team is preparing their attack."
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Home media | Blackfish was released on which date in the UK? | Blackfish (film) | false | 6MOVIES
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"",
"\"Blackfish\" was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 26, 2013 in the UK (Region 2, PAL).",
"Its US release was on November 12, 2013.",
"The documentary was broadcast on CNN on October 24, 2013.",
"After the broadcast, CNN aired an Anderson Cooper special with Jack Hanna, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Naomi Rose and Jack Hurley.",
"This was followed by a special edition of \"Crossfire\" with \"Blackfish\" associate producer Tim Zimmermann debating Grey Stafford, a conservationist, zoologist, and member of the International Marine Animal Trainers Association.",
"The documentary aired on BBC Four in the UK on November 21, 2013 as part of the \"Storyville\" documentary series."
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Literature | When did Spyri die? | Switzerland | false | 5COUNTRY
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"As the Confederation, from its foundation in 1291, was almost exclusively composed of German-speaking regions, the earliest forms of literature are in German.",
"In the 18th century, French became the fashionable language in Bern and elsewhere, while the influence of the French-speaking allies and subject lands was more marked than before.",
"Among the classics of Swiss German literature are Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854) and Gottfried Keller (1819–1890).",
"The undisputed giants of 20th century Swiss literature are Max Frisch (1911–91) and Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90), whose repertoire includes \"Die Physiker\" (The Physicists) and \"Das Versprechen\" (), released in 2001 as a Hollywood film.",
"Prominent French-speaking writers were Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) and Germaine de Staël (1766–1817).",
"More recent authors include Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947), whose novels describe the lives of peasants and mountain dwellers, set in a harsh environment and Blaise Cendrars (born Frédéric Sauser, 1887–1961).",
"Also Italian and Romansh-speaking authors contributed but in more modest way given their small number.",
"Probably the most famous Swiss literary creation, \"Heidi\", the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Alps, is one of the most popular children's books ever and has come to be a symbol of Switzerland.",
"Her creator, Johanna Spyri (1827–1901), wrote a number of other books around similar themes."
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Abstract | What was the cause of William McKinley's death? | Assassination of William McKinley | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"The 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, was shot and fatally wounded on September 6, 1901, inside the Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.",
"McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist.",
"The President died on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds.",
"McKinley had been elected for a second term in 1900.",
"He enjoyed meeting the public, and was reluctant to accept the security available to his office.",
"The Secretary to the President, George B. Cortelyou, feared an assassination attempt would take place during a visit to the Temple of Music, and twice took it off the schedule.",
"McKinley restored it each time.",
"Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic of 1893 and turned to anarchism, a political philosophy whose adherents had recently killed foreign leaders.",
"Regarding McKinley as a symbol of oppression, Czolgosz felt it was his duty as an anarchist to kill him.",
"Unable to get near McKinley during the earlier part of the presidential visit, Czolgosz shot McKinley twice as the President reached to shake his hand in the reception line at the temple.",
"One bullet grazed McKinley; the other entered his abdomen and was never found.",
"McKinley initially appeared to be recovering, but took a turn for the worse on September 13 as his wounds became gangrenous, and died early the next morning; Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him.",
"After McKinley's murder, for which Czolgosz was put to death in the electric chair, the United States Congress passed legislation to officially charge the Secret Service with the responsibility for protecting the president."
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Costume design | Who was responsible for the creation of a three-dimensional model of Tom Hardy's face? | The Dark Knight Rises | true | 6MOVIES
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"Costume design.",
"Costume designer Lindy Hemming explained that Bane uses a mask to inhale an analgesic gas, which, in director Christopher Nolan's words, \"keeps his pain just below the threshold so he can function.\"",
"In designing Bane's costume, Hemming needed it to look \"like an amalgam of all sorts of bits and pieces he cobbled together, as he passed through some very remote places.",
"We made parts of his vest, for example, from fragments of an old military tent.",
"His clothes are militaristic, but are not in any way a uniform.\"",
"Hemming also designed Bane's mask to look \"animalistic\".",
"Costume effects supervisor Graham Churchyard created a three-dimensional model of actor Tom Hardy's face and skull to design the mask, allowing the mask to perfectly conform to the contours of Hardy's face.",
"Hemming personally designed Bane's coat, which she admitted took two years to complete.",
"Taking inspiration from a Swedish army jacket and a frock coat from the French Revolution, it was designed to make Bane look like equal parts dictatorial and revolutionary.",
"The design was difficult as Hemming struggled to find a tailor in Los Angeles who could work with shearling.",
"The Batsuit consisted of 110 separate pieces, each of which had to be replicated dozens of times over the course of the production.",
"The base layer was made of a polyester mesh that is utilized by the military and high-tech sports manufacturers because of its breathability and moisture-wicking properties.",
"Molded pieces of flexible urethane were then attached to the mesh, to form the overall body armor plating.",
"Carbon fiber panels were placed inside the sections on the legs, chest and abdomen.",
"The cowl was sculpted from a cast of Bale's face and head to become a perfect fit for Christian Bale.",
"The suit remained unchanged for the film since \"The Dark Knight\".",
"In creating Selina Kyle's catsuit, two layers of material were used, with the outer layer being polyurethane coated spandex, embossed with a hexagonal pattern.",
"The catsuit also consisted of elbow-length gloves, a utility belt, and thigh-high boots with spike heels."
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Government finance | How much of a bailout did the Portuguese government receive? | Portugal | false | 5COUNTRY
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"The Portuguese government is heavily indebted, and received a 78 billion euro bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in May 2011.",
"The ratio of Portugal’s debt to its overall economy, was 107 percent when it received the bailout.",
"As part of the deal, the country agreed to cut its budget deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2010 to 5.9 percent in 2011, 4.5 percent in 2012 and 3 percent in 2013.",
"After the bailout was announced, the Portuguese government headed by Pedro Passos Coelho managed to implement measures with the intention of improve the State's financial situation, including tax hikes, a freeze of civil service-related lower-wages and cuts of higher-wages by 14.3%, on top of the government's spending cuts.",
"The Portuguese government also agreed to eliminate its golden share in Portugal Telecom which gave it veto power over vital decisions.",
"In 2012, all public servants had already seen an average wage cut of 20% relative to their 2010 baseline, with cuts reaching 25% for those earning more than 1,500 euro per month.",
"The IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank said in September 2012 that Portugal’s debt would peak at 124 percent of gross domestic product in 2014.",
"The IMF previously said in July 2012 that Portugal’s debt would peak at about 118.5 percent of GDP in 2013.",
"In September 2013, the Portuguese Government reviewed again the public debt of Portugal for 2013 to 127.8 percent, after a peak of 130.9 percent in that month.",
"A report released in January 2011 by the Diário de Notícias and published in Portugal by Gradiva, had demonstrated that in the period between the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and 2010, the democratic Portuguese Republic governments encouraged over-expenditure and investment bubbles through unclear Public–private partnerships and funding of numerous ineffective and unnecessary external consultancy and advisory of committees and firms.",
"This allowed considerable slippage in state-managed public works and inflated top management and head officer bonuses and wages.",
"Persistent and lasting recruitment policies boosted the number of redundant public servants.",
"Risky credit, public debt creation, and European structural and cohesion funds were mismanaged across almost four decades.",
"After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, it was known in 2008–2009 that two Portuguese banks (Banco Português de Negócios (BPN) and Banco Privado Português (BPP)) had been accumulating losses for years due to bad investiments, embezzlement and accounting fraud.",
"The case of BPN was particularly serious because of its size, market share, and the political implications - Portugal's then current President, Cavaco Silva, and some of his political allies, maintained personal and business relationships with the bank and its CEO, who was eventually charged and arrested for fraud and other crimes.",
"In the grounds of avoiding a potentially serious financial crisis in the Portuguese economy, the Portuguese government decided to give them a bailout, eventually at a future loss to taxpayers and to the Portuguese people in general."
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Beverages | What do you mix with water to make dugh? | Yogurt | true | 9FOOD
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"Dugh (\"dawghe\" in Neo-Aramaic), ayran or dhallë is a yogurt-based, salty drink popular in Iran, Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Republic of Macedonia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.",
"It is made by mixing yogurt with water and (sometimes) salt.",
"The same drink is known as \"doogh\" in Iran; \"tan\" in Armenia; \"laban ayran\" in Syria and Lebanon; \"shenina\" in Iraq and Jordan; \"laban arbil\" in Iraq; \"majjiga\" (Telugu), \"majjige\" (Kannada), and \"moru\" (Tamil and Malayalam) in South India; namkeen \"lassi\" in Punjab and all over Pakistan.",
"A similar drink, doogh, is popular in the Middle East between Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq; it differs from ayran by the addition of herbs, usually mint, and is sometimes carbonated, commonly with carbonated water.",
"Borhani (or Burhani) is a spicy yogurt drink popular in Bangladesh and parts of Bengal.",
"It is usually served with kacchi biryani at weddings and special feasts.",
"Key ingredients are yogurt blended with mint leaves (mentha), mustard seeds and black rock salt (Kala Namak).",
"Ground roasted cumin, ground white pepper, green chili pepper paste and sugar are often added.",
"Lassi (Hindi: लस्सी, Urdu: لسی) is a yogurt-based beverage originally from the Indian subcontinent that is usually slightly salty or sweet.",
"Lassi is a staple in Punjab.",
"In some parts of the subcontinent, the sweet version may be commercially flavored with rosewater, mango or other fruit juice to create a very different drink.",
"Salty lassi is usually flavored with ground, roasted cumin and red chilies; this salty variation may also use buttermilk, and in India is interchangeably called \"ghol\" (Bengal), \"mattha\" (North India), \"majjige\" (Karnataka), \"majjiga\" (Andhra Pradesh), \"moru\" (Tamil Nadu and Kerala), \"Dahi paani\" (Odisha), \"tak\" (Maharashtra), or \"chaas\" (Gujarat).",
"Lassi is very widely drunk in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.",
"Mango Lassi is a popular drink at Indian restaurants in US.",
"In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, an unsweetened and unsalted yogurt drink usually called simply \"jogurt\" is a popular accompaniment to \"burek\" and other bakery products.",
"Sweetened yogurt drinks are the usual form in Europe (including the UK) and the US, containing fruit and added sweeteners.",
"These are typically called \"drinking / drinkable yogurt\", such as Yop and BioBest Smoothie.",
"Also available are \"yogurt smoothies\", which contain a higher proportion of fruit and are more like smoothies.",
"In Ecuador, yogurt smoothies flavored with native fruit are served with pan de yuca as a common type of fast food.",
"Also in Turkey, yogurt-soup or \"Yayla Çorbası\" is a popular way of consuming yogurt.",
"The soup is a mix of yogurt, rice, flour and dried mint."
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Mission controls | Which French facility is responsible for monitoring the International Space Station? | International Space Station | true | 8SCIENCE
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"The components of the ISS are operated and monitored by their respective space agencies at mission control centres across the globe, including:",
" Roskosmos's Mission Control Center at Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, controls the Russian Orbital Segment which handles Guidance, Navigation & Control for the entire Station., in addition to individual Soyuz and Progress missions.",
" ESA's ATV Control Centre, at the Toulouse Space Centre (CST) in Toulouse, France, controls flights of the unmanned European Automated Transfer Vehicle.",
" JAXA's JEM Control Centre and HTV Control Centre at Tsukuba Space Centre (TKSC) in Tsukuba, Japan, are responsible for operating the Japanese Experiment Module complex and all flights of the 'White Stork' HTV Cargo spacecraft, respectively.",
" NASA's Mission Control Center at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA, serves as the primary control facility for the United States segment of the ISS and also controlled the Space Shuttle missions that visited the station.",
" NASA's Payload Operations and Integration Center at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, coordinates payload operations in the USOS.",
" ESA's Columbus Control Centre at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, manages the European \"Columbus\" research laboratory.",
" CSA's MSS Control at Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada, controls and monitors the Mobile Servicing System, or Canadarm2."
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Response | When did the film premiere? | Wake in Fright | false | 6MOVIES
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"The world premiere of \"Wake in Fright\" (as \"Outback\") occurred at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, held in May.",
"Ted Kotcheff was nominated for a Golden Palm Award.",
"The film opened commercially in France on 22 July 1971, Great Britain on 29 October 1971, Australia during the same month and the United States on 20 February 1972.",
"\"Wake in Fright\" received generally excellent reviews throughout the world and found a favourable public response in France (where it ran for five months) and in the United Kingdom.",
"However, despite receiving such critical support at Cannes and in Australia, \"Wake in Fright\" suffered poor domestic box-office returns.",
"Although there were complaints that the film's distributor, United Artists, had failed to promote the film successfully, it was also thought that the film was “perhaps too uncomfortably direct and uncompromising to draw large Australian audiences\".",
"During an early Australian screening, one man stood up, pointed at the screen and protested \"That's not us!",
"\", to which Jack Thompson yelled back \"Sit down, mate.",
"It is us.",
"\"The un-restored version of \"Wake in Fright\" received a three stars (out of four) rating from the American film reviewer Leonard Maltin in his \"2006 Movie Guide\", while Brian McFarlane, writing in 1999 in \"The Oxford Companion to Australian Film\", said that it was “almost uniquely unsettling in the history of new Australian Cinema”.",
"Askmen.com echoed these sentiments, citing that \"it's not hard to see why the dusty savagery and clown-faced surrealism of Ted Kotcheff's fourth feature was never shown on telly at the time.",
"\"Following the film's restoration, \"Wake in Fright\" screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2009 when it was selected as a Cannes Classic title by the head of the department, Martin Scorsese.",
"\"Wake in Fright\" is one of only two films ever to screen twice in the history of the festival.",
"Scorsese said, \"\"Wake in Fright\" is a deeply -- and I mean deeply -- unsettling and disturbing movie.",
"I saw it when it premiered at Cannes in 1971, and it left me speechless.",
"Visually, dramatically, atmospherically and psychologically, it's beautifully calibrated and it gets under your skin one encounter at a time, right along with the protagonist played by Gary Bond.",
"I'm excited that \"Wake in Fright\" has been preserved and restored and that it is finally getting the exposure it deserves.",
"\"Roger Ebert reviewed the re-release and said \"It's not dated.",
"It is powerful, genuinely shocking and rather amazing.",
"It comes billed as a 'horror film' and contains a great deal of horror, but all of the horror is human and brutally realistic.\"",
"Don Groves of SBS gave the film four stars out of five, claiming that \"\"Wake in Fright\" deserves to rank as an Australian classic as it packs enormous emotional force, was bravely and inventively directed, and features superb performances. \"",
"Rex Reed, an early advocate of \"Wake in Fright\", praised the film's restoration as \"the best movie news of the year\", and said it \"may be the greatest Australian film ever made\".",
"Currently, the film has a rating of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 42 reviews."
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Nutritional value | How many grams of saturated fat are in a small popcorn? | Popcorn | false | 9FOOD
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"Air-popped popcorn is naturally high in dietary fiber and antioxidants, low in calories and fat, and free of sugar and sodium.",
"This can make it an attractive snack to people with dietary restrictions on the intake of calories, fat, and/or sodium.",
"For the sake of flavor, however, large amounts of fat, sugar, and sodium are often added to prepared popcorn, which can quickly convert it to a very poor choice for those on restricted diets.",
"One particularly notorious example of this first came to public attention in the mid-1990s, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest produced a report about \"Movie Popcorn\", which became the subject of a widespread publicity campaign.",
"The movie theaters surveyed used coconut oil to pop the corn, and then topped it with butter or margarine.",
"\"A medium-size buttered popcorn\", the report said, \"contains more fat than a breakfast of bacon and eggs, a Big Mac and fries, and a steak dinner combined.\"",
"The practice continues today.",
"For example, according to DietFacts.com, a small popcorn from Regal Cinema Group (the largest theater chain in the United States) still contains 29 g of saturated fat.",
"the equivalent of a full day-and-a-half's reference daily intake."
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Abstract | Where was the This in Not a Film made? | This Is Not a Film | true | 6MOVIES
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"This Is Not a Film () is an Iranian documentary film by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb.",
"It was released on 28 September 2011 in France, distributed by Kanibal Films Distribution.",
"The film was smuggled from Iran to Cannes in a flash drive hidden inside a birthday cake.",
"It was specially screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and later at the New York Film Festival, and others.",
"It also took part in the International Competition of the 27th Warsaw International Film Festival."
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Bacon mania | What type of online club has Bobby Flay endorsed? | Bacon | false | 9FOOD
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" mania.",
"The United States and Canada have seen an increase in the popularity of bacon and bacon related recipes, dubbed \"bacon mania\".",
"The sale of bacon in the U.S. has increased significantly since 2011.",
"Sales climbed 9.5% in 2013, making it an all-time high of nearly $4 billion in U.S.",
"In a survey conducted by Smithfield, 65% of Americans would support bacon as their \"national food.\"",
"Dishes such as bacon explosion, chicken fried bacon, and chocolate-covered bacon have been popularised over the internet, as has using candied bacon.",
"Recipes spread quickly through both countries' national media, culinary blogs, and YouTube.",
"Restaurants have organized and are organizing bacon and beer tasting nights, \"The New York Times\" reported on bacon infused with Irish whiskey used for Saint Patrick's Day cocktails, and celebrity chef Bobby Flay has endorsed a \"Bacon of the Month\" club online, in print, and on national television.",
"Commentators explain this surging interest in bacon by reference to what they deem American cultural characteristics.",
"Sarah Hepola, in a 2008 article in Salon.com, suggests a number of reasons, one of them being that eating bacon in the modern, health-conscious world is an act of rebellion: \"Loving bacon is like shoving a middle finger in the face of all that is healthy and holy while an unfiltered cigarette smoulders between your lips.\"",
"She also suggests bacon is sexy (with a reference to Sarah Katherine Lewis' book \"Sex and Bacon\"), kitsch, and funny.",
"Hepola concludes by saying that \"Bacon is American\".",
"Alison Cook, writing in the \"Houston Chronicle\", argues the case of bacon's American citizenship by referring to historical and geographical uses of bacon.",
"Early American literature echoes the sentiment—in Ebenezer Cooke's 1708 poem \"The Sot-Weed Factor\", a satire of life in early colonial America, the narrator already complains that practically all the food in America was bacon-infused."
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In popular culture | How old was the Sistine chapel when it fell? | Sistine Chapel ceiling | true | 3ART
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"In many works, the painting of God and Adam are parodied.",
"See The Creation of Adam for more.",
"In the film \"2012\", the entire College of Cardinals are seen praying silently under the ceiling.",
"The ceiling then starts to crack, commencing at the point where God's and Adam's fingers nearly touch, dividing the two.",
"In \"\", the Sistine chapel is seen falling after 500 years.",
"In Pastafarianism, a parody of the painting is shown as the Flying Spaghetti Monster reaching a noodly appendage out to Adam.",
"Playwright Neil Simon's quote about the Sistine floor-\"If no one took any risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.",
"\"",
"The 1965 film \"The Agony and the Ecstasy\" features the story of Michelangelo and his travails in painting the Sistine Chapel.",
"He is portrayed in the film by Charlton Heston.",
"In the 2009 film \"Angels & Demons\" and also in the 2000 book on which the film is based, the chapel is featured throughout the story."
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Lands | When did Holidayland close at Disneyland Park? | Disneyland | true | 2TRAVEL
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"Disneyland Park consists of eight themed \"lands\" and a number of concealed backstage areas, and occupies approximately .",
"The park opened with \"Main Street, U.S.A.\", \"Adventureland\", \"Frontierland\", \"Fantasyland\", and \"Tomorrowland\", and has since added New Orleans Square in 1966, Bear Country (later Critter Country) in 1972, and Mickey's Toontown in 1993.",
"In 1957, Holidayland, opened to the public with a recreation area including a circus and baseball diamond, but was closed in late 1961.",
"It is often referred to as the \"lost\" land of Disneyland.",
"Throughout the park are 'Hidden Mickeys', representations of Mickey Mouse heads inserted subtly into the design of attractions and environmental decor.",
"An elevated berm supports the narrow gauge Disneyland Railroad that circumnavigates the park."
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Abstract | When was "Kung Fu Panda 2" released? | Kung Fu Panda | false | 6MOVIES
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"Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy wuxia film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.",
"It was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb, and stars the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Ian McShane, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, Dan Fogler, and Michael Clarke Duncan.",
"Set in a version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic talking animals, the plot revolves around a bumbling panda named Po who aspires to be a kung fu master.",
"When an evil kung fu warrior is foretold to escape from prison, Po is unwittingly named the chosen one destined to bring peace to the land, much to the chagrin of the resident kung fu warriors.",
"The idea for the film was conceived by Michael Lachance, a DreamWorks Animation executive.",
"The film was originally intended to be a parody, but director Stevenson decided instead to shoot an action comedy wuxia film that incorporates the hero's journey narrative archetype for the lead character.",
"The computer animation in the film was more complex than anything DreamWorks had done before.",
"As with most DreamWorks animated films, Hans Zimmer (collaborating with John Powell this time) scored \"Kung Fu Panda\".",
"He visited China to absorb the culture and get to know the China National Symphony Orchestra as part of his preparation.",
"A sequel, \"Kung Fu Panda 2\", was released on May 26, 2011, along with a television series, \"\" later that same year as a part of a franchise.",
"The third installment called \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" will debut in December 23, 2015.",
"\"Kung Fu Panda\" premiered in the United States on June 6, 2008, and has since received very favorable reviews from critics and much of the movie-going public.",
"The film currently garners an 88% \"Certified Fresh\" approval rating from review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.",
"\"Kung Fu Panda\" opened in 4,114 theaters, grossing $20.3 million on its opening day and $60.2 million on its opening weekend, resulting in the number one position at the box office.",
"The film became DreamWorks' biggest opening for a non-sequel film, the highest grossing animated film of the year worldwide, and also had the fourth-largest opening weekend for a DreamWorks animated film at the American and Canadian box office, behind \"Shrek 2\", \"Shrek the Third\", and \"Shrek Forever After\"."
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Abstract | Explain the show NCIS. | NCIS (TV series) | true | 1TV
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"NCIS (TV series)NCIS is an American police procedural drama television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.",
"The concept and characters were initially introduced in two episodes of the CBS series \"JAG\" (season eight episodes \"Ice Queen\" and \"Meltdown\").",
"The show, a spin-off from \"JAG\", premiered on September 23, 2003, on CBS.",
"To date it has aired for ten full seasons and has gone into broadcast syndication on USA Network.",
"Donald P. Bellisario is co-creator, along with Don McGill, as well as executive producer.",
"\"NCIS\" was originally referred to as Navy NCIS during season one; \"Navy\" was later dropped from the title.",
"In season seven, \"NCIS\" led to a spin-off series, \"\", starring Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J.",
"In 2011, \"NCIS\" was voted America’s favorite television show.",
"The series finished its tenth season as the most-watched television series in the U.S. during the 2012–13 TV season.",
"On March 13, 2014, CBS renewed the series for a twelfth season."
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Biblical narrative | Why did David order Uriah to the front lines of battle? | Bathsheba | false | 3ART
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"The meaning of the Hebrew form of the name \"Bathsheba\" is \"daughter of the oath\", \"bat\" meaning daughter.",
"The second part of the name appears in as \"shua\" (signifying \"wealth\") (compare ).",
"Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam (, who is called Ammiel in ).",
"Her father is identified by some scholars with Eliam mentioned in as the son of Ahithophel, who is described as the Gilonite.",
"(See King David's Warriors.",
")Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.",
"(United Kingdom of Israel and Judah).",
"The story of David's seduction of Bathsheba, told in , is omitted in Chronicles.",
"The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.",
"He immediately desired her and later made her pregnant.",
"In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army (with whom he was on campaign) in the hope that Uriah would re-consummate his marriage and think that the child was his.",
"Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service.",
"Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops.",
"After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy (where he was more likely to die).",
"David had Uriah himself carry the message that ordered his death.",
"After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.",
"David's action was displeasing to the Lord, who accordingly sent Nathan the prophet to reprove the king.",
"After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor (II Samuel 12:1-6), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba.",
"The king at once confessed his sin and expressed sincere repentance.",
"Bathsheba's child by David was struck with a severe illness and died a few days after birth, which the king accepted as his punishment.",
"Nathan also noted that David's house would be cursed with turmoil because of this murder.",
"This came to pass years later when one of David's much-loved sons, Absalom, led an insurrection that plunged the kingdom into civil war.",
"Moreover, to manifest his claim to be the new king, Absalom had sexual intercourse in public with ten of his father's concubines, which could be considered a direct, tenfold divine retribution for David's taking the woman of another man.",
"(II Samuel 16:20–23) In David's old age, Bathsheba secured the succession to the throne of her son Solomon, instead of David's eldest surviving son Adonijah.",
"Some commentators have written that Bathsheba may have written at least part of Proverbs 31 as suggested by the postulated connections between King Lemuel aka King Solomon.",
"The story of David's adultery sets up the context for the penitential Psalm 51 (50), also known as \"Miserere\" (\"Have mercy on me, O God\")."
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Season 4 | What did Stella talk about to Ted's proposal? | How I Met Your Mother | true | 1TV
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"Stella says yes to Ted's proposal.",
"Robin takes a new job in Japan, but quickly resigns and returns to New York to attend Ted's wedding, after realizing how much she misses her friends.",
"Stella leaves Ted at the altar to get back together with Tony (Jason Jones), the father of her daughter.",
"Barney struggles with his feelings for Robin as his company shifts him to the management team of a new acquisition, Goliath National Bank (GNB), where Marshall has accepted a position.",
"Marshall and Lily move to their new apartment and debate over whether or not they're ready to have children.",
"Robin becomes roommates with Ted and gets a job as an anchor for a 4 AM news show after Barney sends out her video resume.",
"Ted and Robin decide to sleep together constantly so they will not fight over each other's bad co-living habits.",
"Barney attempts to make them stop fighting to prevent this, revealing to Ted his love for Robin.",
"Ted finds out Lily has sabotaged all of his relationships with anyone she does not approve of and indirectly may have inspired his breakup with Robin.",
"Robin and Ted end up talking about it, causing their friendship to begin moving toward a positive note.",
"After Barney finally sleeps with his 200th woman (and rubs it in the face of the childhood bully who taunted him into pursuing it), he begins to question the purpose of the remainder of his life, leaving him more certain of his feelings for Robin.",
"Ted, while carrying the yellow umbrella, bumps into Stella and Tony.",
"Tony later decides to visit him, sympathizing with Ted over his loss of Stella.",
"Tony offers him a job as a professor of architecture, which Ted initially turns down.",
"In the season finale Robin finds out that Barney loves her, and initially refuses to commit to anything but a sex-only relationship; they seemingly end up together anyway.",
"Ted decides that being an architect is leading nowhere, and finally decides instead to become a college professor.",
"The finale ends with Ted preparing to teach his first class and Future Ted revealing to his children that one of the women in the class is their mother."
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Production design | What 1995 Japanese cyberpunk film had a strong influence on The Matrix? | The Matrix | false | 6MOVIES
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"In the film, the code that comprises the Matrix itself is frequently represented as downward-flowing green characters.",
"This code utilizes a custom typeface designed by Simon Whiteley, which includes mirror images of half-width kana characters and Western Latin letters and numerals.",
"The color green reflects the green tint commonly used on early monochrome computer monitors.",
"Lynne Cartwright, the Visual Effects Supervisor at Animal Logic, supervised the creation of the film's opening title sequence, as well as the general look of the Matrix code throughout the film, in collaboration with Lindsey Fleay and Justen Marshall.",
"The portrayal resembles the opening credits of the 1995 Japanese cyberpunk film, \"Ghost in the Shell\", which had a strong influence on the \"Matrix\" series (see below).",
"It was also used in the subsequent films, on the related website, and in the game \"\", and its drop-down effect is reflected in the design of some posters for the \"Matrix\" series.",
"The code received the Runner-up Award in the 1999 Jesse Garson Award for In-film typography or opening credit sequence.",
"\"The Matrix\"s production designer, Owen Paterson, used methods to distinguish the \"real world\" and the Matrix in a pervasive way.",
"The production design team generally placed a bias towards the Matrix code's distinctive green color in scenes set within the simulation, whereas there is an emphasis on the color blue during scenes set in the \"real world\".",
"In addition, the Matrix scenes' sets were slightly more decayed, monolithic, and grid-like, to convey the cold, logical and artificial nature of that environment.",
"For the \"real world\", the actors' hair was less styled, their clothing had more textile content, and the cinematographers used longer lenses to soften the backgrounds and emphasize the actors.",
"The \"Nebuchadnezzar\" was designed to have a patched-up look, instead of clean, cold and sterile space ship interior sets as used on films like \"Star Trek\".",
"The wires were made visible to show the ship's working internals, and each composition was carefully designed to convey the ship as \"a marriage between Man and Machine\".",
"For the scene when Neo wakes up in the pod connected to the Matrix, the pod was constructed to look dirty, used, and sinister.",
"During the testing of a breathing mechanism in the pod, the tester went into hypothermia in under eight minutes, so the pod had to be heated.",
"Kym Barrett, costume designer, said that she defined the characters and their environment by their costume.",
"For example, Reeves' office costume was designed for Thomas Anderson to look uncomfortable, disheveled, and out of place.",
"Barrett sometimes used three types of fabric for each costume, and also had to consider acting practicality.",
"The actors needed to perform martial art actions in their costume, hang upside-down without people seeing up their dress, or work the wires when strapped to the harnesses.",
"For Trinity, Barrett experimented with how each fabric absorbs and reflects different types of light, and was eventually able to make Trinity's costume mercury-like and oil-slick to suit the character.",
"For the Agents, their costume was designed to create a secret service, undercover look, resembling the film \"JFK\".",
"The sunglasses, a staple to the film's aesthetics, were commissioned for the film to designer Richard Walker from sunglass maker Blinde Design."
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Ethnic groups | What percentage of ethnic minorities does China have? | China | false | 5COUNTRY
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"China officially recognizes 56 distinct ethnic groups, the largest ofwhich are the Han Chinese, who constitute about 91.51% of the totalpopulation.",
"The Han Chinese – the world's largest single ethnic group – outnumber other ethnic groups in every provincial-level division except Tibet and Xinjiang.",
"Ethnic minorities account for about 8.49% of the population of China, according tothe 2010 census.",
"Compared with the 2000 population census, the Han population increased by 66,537,177 persons, or 5.74%, while the population of the 55 national minorities combined increased by 7,362,627 persons, or 6.92%.",
"The 2010 census recorded a total of 593,832 foreign citizens living in China.",
"The largest such groups were from South Korea (120,750), theUnited States (71,493) and Japan (66,159)."
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Noodles | What shape should Ramen noodles come out as? | Ramen | false | 9FOOD
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"Most noodles are made from four basic ingredients: wheat flour, salt, water, and \"kansui\", which is essentially a type of alkaline mineral water, containing sodium carbonate and usually potassium carbonate, as well as sometimes a small amount of phosphoric acid.",
"Originally, \"kansui\" was named after the water from Inner Mongolia's Lake Kan which contained large amounts of these minerals and was said to be perfect for making these noodles.",
"Making noodles with \"kansui\" lends them a yellowish hue as well as a firm texture.",
"Eggs may also be substituted for \"kansui\".",
"Some noodles are made with neither eggs nor \"kansui\" and should only be used for yakisoba.",
"Ramen comes in various shapes and lengths.",
"It may be thick, thin, or even ribbon-like, as well as straight or wrinkled."
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Evolution | Provide examples of gymnosperms. | Botany | true | 8SCIENCE
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"The chloroplasts of plants have a number of biochemical, structural and genetic similarities to cyanobacteria, (commonly but incorrectly known as \"blue-green algae\") and are thought to be derived from an ancient endosymbiotic relationship between an ancestral eukaryotic cell and a cyanobacterial resident.",
"The algae are a polyphyletic group and are placed in various divisions, some more closely related to plants than others.",
"There are many differences between them in features such as cell wall composition, biochemistry, pigmentation, chloroplast structure and nutrient reserves.",
"The algal division Charophyta, sister to the green algal division Chlorophyta, is considered to contain the ancestor of true plants.",
"The Charophyte class Charophyceae and the land plant sub-kingdom Embryophyta together form the monophyletic group or clade Streptophytina.",
"Nonvascular land plants are embryophytes that lack the vascular tissues xylem and phloem.",
"They include mosses, liverworts and hornworts.",
"Pteridophytic vascular plants with true xylem and phloem that reproduced by spores germinating into free-living gametophytes evolved during the Silurian period and diversified into several lineages during the late Silurian and early Devonian.",
"Representatives of the lycopods have survived to the present day.",
"By the end of the Devonian period, several groups, including the lycopods, sphenophylls and progymnosperms, had independently evolved \"megaspory\" – their spores were of two distinct sizes, larger megaspores and smaller microspores.",
"Their reduced gametophytes developed from megaspores retained within the spore-producing organs (megasporangia) of the sporophyte, a condition known as endospory.",
"Seeds consist of an endosporic megasporangium surrounded by one or two sheathing layers (integuments).",
"The young sporophyte develops within the seed, which on germination splits to release it.",
"The earliest known seed plants date from the latest Devonian Famennian stage.",
"Following the evolution of the seed habit, seed plants diversified, giving rise to a number of now-extinct groups, including seed ferns, as well as the modern gymnosperms and angiosperms.",
"Gymnosperms produce \"naked seeds\" not fully enclosed in an ovary; modern representatives include conifers, cycads, \"Ginkgo\", and Gnetales.",
"Angiosperms produce seeds enclosed in a structure such as a carpel or an ovary.",
"Ongoing research on the molecular phylogenetics of living plants appears to show that the angiosperms are a sister clade to the gymnosperms."
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Cell theory | What process includes the phonoomenon of energy flow in cells? | Biology | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Foundations of modern biology.",
"Cell theory.",
"Cell theory states that the cell is the fundamental unit of life, and that all living things are composed of one or more cells or the secreted products of those cells (e.g.",
"shells).",
"All cells arise from other cells through cell division.",
"In multicellular organisms, every cell in the organism's body derives ultimately from a single cell in a fertilized egg.",
"The cell is also considered to be the basic unit in many pathological processes.",
"In addition, the phenomenon of energy flow occurs in cells in processes that are part of the function known as metabolism.",
"Finally, cells contain hereditary information (DNA), which is passed from cell to cell during cell division."
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Abstract | What did Van Gogh call the Bedroom in Arles? | Bedroom in Arles | false | 3ART
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"Bedroom in Arles (; ) is the title given to each of three similar paintings by 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.",
"Van Gogh's own title for this composition was simply \"The Bedroom\" (French: \"La Chambre à coucher\").",
"There are three authentic versions described in his letters, easily discernible from one another by the pictures on the wall to the right.",
"The painting depicts Van Gogh's bedroom at 2, Place Lamartine in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, known as his Yellow House.",
"The door to the right was opening to the upper floor and the staircase; the door to the left served the guest room he held prepared for Gauguin.",
"The window in the front wall was looking to Place Lamartine and its public gardens.",
"This room was not rectangular but trapezoid with an obtuse angle in the left hand corner of the front wall and an acute angle at the right.",
"Van Gogh evidently did not spend much time on this problem, he simply indicated that there was a corner, somehow."
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Track listing | What is the title of the track following the 4th title on "Some Nights"? | Some Nights | true | 0MUSIC
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"Deluxe edition:",
"\"Out on the Town\" (4:21)",
"\"We Are Young\" (featuring Janelle Monáe) (acoustic) (4:32)",
"\"Carry On\" (acoustic) (4:08)",
"\"Why Am I the One\" (acoustic) (4:22)",
"\"We Are Young\" (featuring Janelle Monáe) (Alvin Risk Remix) (4:09)"
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Abstract | Who was the right for stronger. | Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) | true | 0MUSIC
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"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)\"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)\" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson and the titular song from her fifth studio album, \"Stronger\" (2011).",
"Originally titled as \"What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)\", the song served as the album's second single on January 17, 2012 through RCA Records.",
"Written by Jörgen Elofsson, Ali Tamposi, and David Gamson, with additional writing and production by Greg Kurstin, \"Stronger\" is an uptempo song which draws from the genres of pop rock, dance-pop, and electropop.",
"Its lyrical content mainly explores themes of empowerment and recovery following a heartbreak, with the chorus inspired by a Friedrich Nietzsche quotation: \"That which does not kill us makes us stronger.",
"\"Upon its release, \"Stronger\" was met with positive reviews from music critics, who considered it to be the musical highlight of \"Stronger\".",
"Clarkson's vocal performance and song's production received particular praise, while criticism targeted the song's lyrical content.",
"Commercially, \"Stronger\" became her most successful single to date.",
"In the United States, it became her third song to top the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart for three non-consecutive weeks, surpassing \"A Moment Like This\" (2002) and \"My Life Would Suck Without You\" (2009) as her longest-running number one single on the chart.",
"It also topped fifteen other \"Billboard\" charts, including Adult Pop Songs, Adult Contemporary, Hot Dance Club Songs, and Pop Songs charts, more than any other song Clarkson has ever released.",
"Internationally, \"Stronger\" topped the national charts of Poland and Slovakia and attained a top-ten position in over fifteen countries around the world, eventually selling over five million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time.",
"Its success helped its parent album to sustain commercial longevity for over a year.",
"\"Stronger\" merited consideration for several industry awards—including three Grammy Award nominations, and a World Music Award nomination.",
"The song's accompanying music video was filmed by Shane Drake, which incorporates the theme of a global flash mob dance, featuring submitted videos of people dancing to the song.",
"The music video garnered positive reception from critics who felt that its overall impact was exuberant.",
"It earned Clarkson a nomination for a MuchMusic Video Award.",
"With its continued success, she performed \"Stronger\" on several live award shows and television appearances around the world, debuting it during the first season of the \"The X Factor\" (U.S.) and performing it on the 37th season of \"Saturday Night Live\", the 2012 MuchMusic Video Awards, and the 2012 American Music Awards.",
"Clarkson also included the song in the set list of her Stronger Tour and on the encore set of her 2012 Summer Tour with The Fray."
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Glaciers | How many years did the Holocene last? | Climate change | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Glaciers are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change.",
"Their size is determined by a mass balance between snow input and melt output.",
"As temperatures warm, glaciers retreat unless snow precipitation increases to make up for the additional melt; the converse is also true.",
"Glaciers grow and shrink due both to natural variability and external forcings.",
"Variability in temperature, precipitation, and englacial and subglacial hydrology can strongly determine the evolution of a glacier in a particular season.",
"Therefore, one must average over a decadal or longer time-scale and/or over a many individual glaciers to smooth out the local short-term variability and obtain a glacier history that is related to climate.",
"A world glacier inventory has been compiled since the 1970s, initially based mainly on aerial photographs and maps but now relying more on satellites.",
"This compilation tracks more than 100,000 glaciers covering a total area of approximately 240,000 km2, and preliminary estimates indicate that the remaining ice cover is around 445,000 km2.",
"The World Glacier Monitoring Service collects data annually on glacier retreat and glacier mass balance.",
"From this data, glaciers worldwide have been found to be shrinking significantly, with strong glacier retreats in the 1940s, stable or growing conditions during the 1920s and 1970s, and again retreating from the mid-1980s to present.",
"The most significant climate processes since the middle to late Pliocene (approximately 3 million years ago) are the glacial and interglacial cycles.",
"The present interglacial period (the Holocene) has lasted about 11,700 years.",
"Shaped by orbital variations, responses such as the rise and fall of continental ice sheets and significant sea-level changes helped create the climate.",
"Other changes, including Heinrich events, Dansgaard–Oeschger events and the Younger Dryas, however, illustrate how glacial variations may also influence climate without the orbital forcing.",
"Glaciers leave behind moraines that contain a wealth of material—including organic matter, quartz, and potassium that may be dated—recording the periods in which a glacier advanced and retreated.",
"Similarly, by tephrochronological techniques, the lack of glacier cover can be identified by the presence of soil or volcanic tephra horizons whose date of deposit may also be ascertained."
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Aboriginal peoples | Traits of Candadian Aboriginal? | Canada | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Aboriginal peoples.",
"Archaeological studies and genetic analyses have indicated a human presence in the northern Yukon region from 24,500 BC, and in southern Ontario from 7500 BC.",
"The Paleo-Indian archeological sites at Old Crow Flats and Bluefish Caves are two of the oldest sites of human habitation in Canada.",
"The characteristics of Canadian Aboriginal societies included permanent settlements,agriculture, complex societal hierarchies, and trading networks.",
"Some of these cultures had collapsed by the time European explorers arrived in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, and have only been discovered through archeological investigations.",
"The aboriginal population at the time of the first European settlements is estimated to have been between 200,000 and two million, with a figure of 500,000 accepted by Canada's Royal Commission on Aboriginal Health.",
"As a consequence of the European colonization, Canada's aboriginal peoples suffered from repeated outbreaks of newly introduced infectious diseases such as influenza, measles, and smallpox (to which they had no natural immunity), resulting in a forty- to eighty-percent population decrease in the centuries after the European arrival.",
"Aboriginal peoples in present-day Canada include the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.",
"The Métis are a mixed-blood people who originated in the mid-17th century when First Nations and Inuit people married European settlers.",
"In general, the Inuit had more limited interaction with European settlers during the colonization period."
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Track listing | How many instrumental versions are there? | Where Have You Been | false | 0MUSIC
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";Digital download",
"\"Where Have You Been\" — 4:03",
";The Calvin Harris Extended Remix - Digital download",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (The Calvin Harris Extended Remix) — 6:01",
";Germany, Austria and Switzerland CD single ",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Album Version) — 4:02",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hector Fonseca Radio Edit) — 3:57",
";International Remixes EP",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hardwell Club Mix) — 6:34",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Papercha$er Remix) — 6:35",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hector Fonseca Radio Edit) — 3:57",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Vice Edit) — 3:39",
";U.S. Remixes EP",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hardwell Club Mix) — 6:34",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hardwell Instrumental) — 6:34",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Papercha$er Remix) — 6:35",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Papercha$er Instrumental) — 6:34",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hector Fonseca Radio Edit) — 3:56",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hector Fonseca Remix) — 8:00",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Hector Fonseca Dub) — 6:38",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Vice Club Mix) — 5:35",
"\"Where Have You Been\" (Vice Instrumental) — 5:36"
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Personnel | Who played piano on "Rolling in the Deep"? | Rolling in the Deep | false | 0MUSIC
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"Vocals – Adele",
"Songwriting - Paul Epworth & Adele Adkins",
"Production, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion and backing vocals – Paul Epworth ",
"Mixing – Tom Elmhirst",
"Mixing assistant – Dan Parry",
"Recording – Mark Rankin",
"Piano – Neil Cowley",
"Drums – Leo Taylor",
"Mastering – Tom Coyne",
"Credits adapted from liner notes:"
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Synopsis | What institute's culture of sexual harassment and sexual assault culminated with "The Invisible War"? | The Invisible War | true | 6MOVIES
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"",
"\"The Invisible War\" features interviews with veterans from multiple branches of the United States Armed Forces who recount the events surrounding their assaults.",
"Their stories show many common themes, such as the lack of recourse to an impartial justice system, reprisals against survivors instead of against perpetrators, the absence of adequate emotional and physical care for survivors, the unhindered advancement of perpetrators' careers, and the forced expulsion of survivors from service.",
"Interspersed with these first person testimonies are interviews with advocates, journalists, mental health professionals, active duty and retired generals, Department of Defense officials, and members of the military justice system.",
"The film also includes footage, often shot by the veterans themselves, which documents their lives and continuing struggles in the aftermath of their assaults.",
"In the film's most prominent narrative, Coast Guard veteran Seaman Kori Cioca struggles to earn benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay for the many medical difficulties that have resulted from her rape.",
"With the help of attorney Susan L. Burke, Cioca, along with other survivors featured in the film, brings a civil suit against the Department of Defense alleging a failure to adequately address sexual assault within the military.",
"Other past incidents of sexual abuse recounted in the film include the 1991 Navy Tailhook scandal, the 1996 Army Aberdeen scandal, and the 2003 Air Force Academy scandal.",
"\"The Invisible War\" uses these examples to argue that the military has consistently made empty promises to address its high rate of sexual assault.",
"These stories culminate with an examination of the previously unreported culture of sexual harassment and sexual assault at the prestigious Marine Barracks Washington.",
"The survivors and advocates featured in the film call for changes to the way the military handles sexual assault, such as shifting prosecution away from unit commanders, who often are either friends with assailants or are assailants themselves."
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Saccharides | For what action do saccharides provide fuel? | Biomolecule | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates with only one simple sugar.",
"They essentially contain an aldehyde or ketone group in their structure.",
"The presence of an aldehyde group in a monosaccharide is indicated by the prefix \"aldo-\".",
"Similarly, a ketone group is denoted by the prefix \"keto-\".",
"Examples of monosaccharides are the hexoses glucose, fructose, and galactose and pentoses, ribose, and deoxyribose Consumed fructose and glucose have different rates of gastric emptying, are differentially absorbed and have different metabolic fates, providing multiple opportunities for 2 different saccharides to differentially affect food intake.",
"Most saccharides eventually provide fuel for cellular respiration.",
"Disaccharides are formed when two monosaccharides, or two single simple sugars, form a bond with removal of water.",
"They can be hydrolyzed to yield their saccharin building blocks by boiling with dilute acid or reacting them with appropriate enzymes.",
"Examples of disaccharides include sucrose, maltose, and lactose.",
"Polysaccharides are polymerized monosaccharides, or complex carbohydrates.",
"They have multiple simple sugars.",
"Examples are starch, cellulose, and glycogen.",
"They are generally large and often have a complex branched connectivity.",
"Because of their size, polysaccharides are not water-soluble, but their many hydroxy groups become hydrated individually when exposed to water, and some polysaccharides form thick colloidal dispersions when heated in water.",
"Shorter polysaccharides, with 3 - 10 monomers, are called oligosaccharides.",
"A fluorescent indicator-displacement molecular imprinting sensor was developed for discriminating saccharides.",
"It successfully discriminated three brands of orange juice beverage.",
"The change in fluorescence intensity of the sensing films resulting is directly related to the saccharide concentration."
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Mounted archery | Who made a threat that was responsible for China expanding into the Ordos reigon? | Archery | true | 4SPORT
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"Central Asian tribesmen (after the domestication of the horse) and American Plains Indians (after gaining access to horses) became extremely adept at archery on horseback.",
"Lightly armoured, but highly mobile archers were excellently suited to warfare in the Central Asian steppes, and they formed a large part of armies that repeatedly conquered large areas of Eurasia.",
"Shorter bows are more suited to use on horseback, and the composite bow enabled mounted archers to use powerful weapons.",
"Empires throughout the Eurasian landmass often strongly associated their respective \"barbarian\" counterparts with the usage of the bow and arrow, to the point where powerful states like the Han Dynasty referred to their neighbours, the Xiong-nu, as \"Those Who Draw the Bow\" For example, Xiong-nu mounted bowmen made them more than a match for the Han military, and their threat was at least partially responsible for Chinese expansion into the Ordos region, to create a stronger, more powerful buffer zone against them.",
"It is possible that \"barbarian\" peoples were responsible for introducing archery or certain types of bows to their \"civilized\" counterparts—the Xiong-nu and the Han being one example.",
"Similarly, short bows seem to have been introduced to Japan by northeast Asian groups."
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Common block signals | The blocker uses what information to decide to block? | Beach volleyball | true | 4SPORT
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"Closed fist",
"No block should be attempted for the opponent on that side of the court, also known as \"pull-off\"",
"One finger",
"The blocker should block an opponent's \"line\" attack, or a ball hit toward the nearest sideline",
"Two fingers",
"The blocker should block an opponent's \"angle\" attack, or a ball hit diagonally from the net and across the court",
"Open hand",
"The blocker should block \"ball\", deciding how to block based upon the opposing team's set, and the hitter's approach and arm-swing technique.",
"Common block signals.",
"Note: In Europe closed fist and open hand signals have the opposite meaning of blocking.",
"If the partner is showing the closed fist the blocker should block \"ball\" and open hand means that the blocker should \"pull-off\" the net."
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1900–1960 | From where did Moses get funded? | Central Park | true | 2TRAVEL
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"Following completion, the park quickly slipped into decline.",
"One of the main reasons for this was the lack of interest of the Tammany Hall political machine, which was the largest political force in New York at the time.",
"Around the turn of the 20th century, the park faced several new challenges.",
"Cars were becoming commonplace, bringing with them their burden of pollution, and people's attitudes were beginning to change.",
"No longer were parks to be used only for walks and picnics in an idyllic environment, but now also for sports, and similar recreation.",
"Following the dissolution of the Central Park Commission in 1870 and Andrew Green's departure from the project, and the death of Vaux in 1895, the maintenance effort gradually declined, and there were few, if any, attempts to replace dead trees, bushes and plants, or worn-out lawn.",
"For several decades, authorities did little or nothing to prevent vandalism and the littering of the park.",
"All of this changed in 1934, when Republican Fiorello La Guardia was elected mayor of New York City and unified the five park-related departments then in existence.",
"Robert Moses was given the task of cleaning up the park.",
"Moses, about to become one of the mightiest men in New York City, took over what was essentially a relic, a leftover from a bygone era.",
"According to historian Robert Caro in his 1974 book \"The Power Broker\":",
"\"Lawns, unseeded, were expanses of bare earth, decorated with scraggly patches of grass and weeds, that became dust holes in dry weather and mud holes in wet….",
"The once beautiful Mall looked like a scene of a wild party the morning after.",
"Benches lay on their backs, their legs jabbing at the sky...\"",
"In a single year, Moses managed to clean up Central Park and other parks in New York City.",
"Lawns and flowers were replanted, dead trees and bushes were replaced, walls were sandblasted, and bridges repaired.",
"Another dramatic change was Moses's removal of the \"Hoover Valley\" shantytown, whose site was transformed into the Great Lawn.",
"Major redesigning and construction also was carried out: for instance, the Croton Lower Reservoir was filled in so the Great Lawn could be created.",
"The Greensward Plan's purpose of creating an idyllic landscape was combined with Moses' vision of a park to be used for recreational purposes—19 playgrounds, 12 ball fields, and handball courts were constructed.",
"Moses also managed to secure funds from the New Deal program, as well as donations from the public."
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Analysis and commentary | Do the shows writers and actors agree that Mark Zuckerberg may be a greater influence on "Modern Family" than Norman Lear? | Modern Family | false | 1TV
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"In \"The New York Times\", Bruce Feiler called attention to how the show depicts the increasing way communications technology shapes the way people perceive others, even family members. \"",
"is surely the first family comedy that incorporates its own hashtag of simultaneous self-analysis directly into the storyline,\" he writes.",
"\"Mark Zuckerberg may be a greater influence on \"Modern Family\" than Norman Lear.",
"\"The show's writers and actors agree.",
"\"We used to talk about how cellphones killed the sitcom because no one ever goes to anyone's house anymore\" for routine information, Abraham Higginbotham told Feiler.",
"\"We embrace technology so it's part of the story.\"",
"Ty Burrell draws on Fran Lebowitz's observation that there is no institution other than media.",
"\"I had this little flash of Phil—and me—that we are parsing our personality together externally from how people perceive us.",
"\"James Parker said that \"The American family circa 2011 is, after all, an acutely self-conscious and self-interrogating unit: How does one 'parent'?",
"Who does what, which 'role'?",
"Is Dad sufficiently dad-like and Mom enough of a mom?\"",
"he writes.",
"\"\"Modern Family\" taps right into all this, the cameras that lurch through its three households producing the sensation of a wild and shaky experiment, recorded for purposes educational or scientific.",
"\"In a 2014 article in \"Slate\", the site's podcast executive producer, Andy Bowers, a resident of Los Angeles's Westside, where the show films most of its exteriors, praised the series for its realistic depiction of life in that part of the city.",
"\"f you live around here and watch the show, it's easy to forget these people are fictional.",
"They feel like real neighbors who inhabit the same world we do, much more so than any other TV show I've ever seen.\"",
"Many of the show's locations were familiar to him as places he regularly visited or passed.",
"In addition to its accurate depiction of the area's physical landscape, Bowers added, it was a realistic depiction of its social and cultural landscape:\"Modern Family\" has been called a culturally-defining series.",
"Eric Stonestreet voiced his opinion on the social implications of the show and what the support means to him."
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Chart performance | What number on the BillboardHot 100 chart did the song, "I Won't Give Up," debut? | I Won't Give Up | false | 0MUSIC
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"While the song debuted at number 8 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, it immediately hit the top spot on the Hot Digital Songs chart selling 229,000 downloads for its first week.",
"On the Hot 100, the track's launch is the highest for a male pop/rock singer-songwriter since David Cook burst in at number 3 with \"The Time of My Life\" the week of June 7, 2008, after he was crowned \"American Idol\" champion.",
"On Adult Pop Songs it began at number 36.",
"On the week of October 18, 2012, the song became the \"Greatest Gainer\" on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart, reaching number 7.",
"After the success, his manager Bill Silva commented: \"What surprised us is how the fans reacted.",
"We didn't pre-promote the single, we didn't go to radio with it, and this song did 229,000 units its first week in the U.S.",
"There was clearly something resonant about the song, and it immediately shifted the strategy for what the rollout of the album was going to be.\"",
"The song has sold 3,113,000 copies in the US.",
"Internationally, the song also achieved success.",
"In Austria, the song debuted at number 23 on the Ö3 Austria Top 40 chart, on March 23, 2012.",
"Later, the song jumped to number 22, before falling for two consecutive weeks, until it reached again number 22, on April 20, 2012.",
"Later, the song reached number 20, before climbing to number 17.",
"On May 11, 2012, the song fell to number 21, but the next week the song peaked at number 12.",
"It spent 22 weeks on the chart.",
"In Netherlands, the song was a big hit, debuting at number 52 on the Dutch Top 40 chart, on January 7, 2012.",
"After climbing the charts for six consecutive weeks and reaching number 11, the song fell for two consecutive weeks, until it climbed to number 10.",
"The song kept on climbing for 2 weeks, until it peaked at number 3, on April 21, 2012.",
"It spent a total of 32 consecutive weeks on the chart.",
"In the UK, the song debuted at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart week of March 24, 2012, and peaked at number 11.",
"It remained for 30 weeks on the chart and became the 46th biggest selling single of 2012."
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Modern quantum theory | What was Einstein at the height of in 1917? | Albert Einstein | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Einstein was displeased with quantum theory and mechanics (the very theory he helped create), despite its acceptance by other physicists, stating that God \"is not playing at dice.\"",
"Einstein continued to maintain his disbelief in the theory, and attempted unsuccessfully to disprove it until he died at the age of 76.",
"In 1917, at the height of his work on relativity, Einstein published an article in \"Physikalische Zeitschrift\" that proposed the possibility of stimulated emission, the physical process that makes possible the maser and the laser.",
"This article showed that the statistics of absorption and emission of light would only be consistent with Planck's distribution law if the emission of light into a mode with n photons would be enhanced statistically compared to the emission of light into an empty mode.",
"This paper was enormously influential in the later development of quantum mechanics, because it was the first paper to show that the statistics of atomic transitions had simple laws.",
"Einstein discovered Louis de Broglie's work, and supported his ideas, which were received skeptically at first.",
"In another major paper from this era, Einstein gave a wave equation for de Broglie waves, which Einstein suggested was the Hamilton–Jacobi equation of mechanics.",
"This paper would inspire Schrödinger's work of 1926."
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Abstract | How do bodyweight categories differ for men and women? | Olympic weightlifting | true | 4SPORT
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"Olympic weightlifting, also called Olympic-style weightlifting, or weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.",
"The two competition lifts in order are the snatch and the clean and jerk.",
"Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category.",
"Bodyweight categories are different for women and men.",
"A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to \"total\", and therefore receives an \"incomplete\" entry for the competition.",
"The clean and press was once a competition lift, but was discontinued due to difficulties in judging proper form.",
"In comparison with other strength sports, which test limit strength (with or without lifting aids), Olympic weightlifting tests aspects of human ballistic limits (explosive strength) and are therefore executed faster—and with more mobility and a greater range of motion during their execution - than other lifts.",
"Properly executed, the snatch and the clean and jerk are both dynamic and explosive while appearing graceful, especially when viewed from a recording at a slowed speed.",
"While there are relatively few competitive Olympic weightlifters (or more simply \"lifters\"), the lifts and their components are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength."
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Big mountain and freeride | Where does Tailgate Alaska take place? | Snowboarding | false | 4SPORT
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"A big mountain contest is one that takes place in open terrain, and challenges riders to find their way down the mountain with the most style and difficulty.",
"Big mountain events usually take place in powder snow conditions in closed off areas of resorts or in the backcountry.",
"There are a number of big mountain events in Europe, the United States and in New Zealand and this aspect of snowboarding competition is quickly rising in popularity.",
"Snowboarders consider Alaska the pinnacle of this style of riding, being featured in some of the most popular snowboarding videos and has given rise to one of the sport's most popular events, Tailgate Alaska, a yearly gathering of riders on Alaska's Thompson Pass."
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Lyrics | What songs are about lovers on the Take Care album? | Take Care (album) | true | 0MUSIC
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"The album's subject matter expands on \"Thank Me Later\"s theme of ambivalence and conflicted feelings toward fame.",
"Drake's lyrics on \"Take Care\" address failed romances, missed connections, relationship with friends and family, maintaining balance with growing wealth and fame, concerns about leading a hollow life, the passage of young adulthood, and despondency.",
"The album's slower songs generally explore themes of loneliness, heartbreak, and mistrust.",
"The topic of women is prevalent on the album, with songs that address past and potential lovers (\"Marvins Room\", \"The Real Her\") and songs about revering (\"Make Me Proud\") and lavishing them (\"We'll Be Fine\").",
"Juan Edgardo Rodriguez of No Ripcord denotes women as \"the main force in his songs - he’s consciously aware about what it takes to love them, but simply decides to thrust aside the guidelines because he's on an entirely different stratosphere from any female average joe.",
"\"The album's expositional content is interpreted by critics in relation to contemporary society.",
"\"Newsday\"s Glenn Gamboa views that Drake's \"emotional self-doubt and realizations about [...] success\", along with the album's melancholy mood, \"capturtoday's zeitgeist of uncertainty and diminishing expectations.\"",
"Music journalist Ann Powers cites Drake's \"predicament — the inability to locate oneself within everyday power relations\" as \"one that's afflicted existential antiheroes throughout modernity.\"",
"She denotes his point of view as that of a \"biracial upper middle-class kid [... from a position of privilege that few rappers would occupy\", and finds his subject matter culturally significant, stating \"melancholia is that of the overly sated [...",
"But Drake's relentless focus on the point where money empties out happiness isn't merely autobiographical.",
"It's emblematic of our moment of crashed markets and occupied streets, and it speaks to a generation beginning to question whether the All-American, celebrity-endorsed credit card lifestyle will make them anything but bankrupt.\"",
"Pitchfork Media's Ryan Dombal compares his \"unrepentant navel-gazing and obsession with lost love\" to Marvin Gaye's 1978 album \"Here, My Dear\", adding that Drake's \"penchant for poetic oversharing\" makes him \"an apt avatar\" for the Information Age.",
"Drake's songwriting is characterized by wistful introspection, existential contemplation, and minimal boasting, with lyrics that convey frankness, vulnerability, melancholia, and narcissism.",
"Andy Gill of \"The Independent\" writes that he \"eschews anger or threat for a weariness shadowed by wistful regret.\"",
"Music journalist Greg Kot comments that Drake does not \"indulge in the macho poses that have dominated mainstream hip-hop for decades, and blurthe line between singing and rhyming\", adding that he \"makes his rhymes sound conversational, matter of fact, like he’s talking to the listener one-one-one\".",
"Tim Sendra of Allmusic notes that his \"introspective tone [... is only rarely punctured by aggressive tracks, boasts, and/or come-ons.\"",
"Drake's persona on songs shows traits of sincerity, self-doubt, regret, passive-aggressiveness, and self-absorption.",
"Kazeem Famuyide of \"The Source\" explains his conflicted persona as being \"arrogant enough to know his place as one of the most successful artist in hip-hop, and comfortable enough to realize his own faults in his personal life.\"",
"Jon Dolan of \"Rolling Stone\" writes that Drake \"collaps many moods – arrogance, sadness, tenderness and self-pity – into one vast, squish-souled emotion.\"",
"Kevin Ritchie of \"NOW\" notes \"an overwhelming sense of alienation, and sadness\" on \"Take Care\", calling it \"an idiosyncratic, aggressively self-conscious and occasionally sentimental album\"."
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Bicycle Touring | What event originated in the year 1891? | Cycling | true | 4SPORT
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"Bicycle Touring.",
"Bicycles are used for recreation at all ages.",
"Bicycle touring, also known as cyclotourism, involves touring and exploration or sightseeing by bicycle for leisure.",
"A brevet or randonnée is an organized long-distance ride.",
"One popular Dutch pleasure is the enjoyment of relaxed cycling in the countryside of the Netherlands.",
"The land is very flat and full of public bicycle trails where cyclists are not bothered by cars and other traffic, which makes it ideal for cycling recreation.",
"Many Dutch people subscribe every year to an event called \"fietsvierdaagse\" — four days of organised cycling through the local environment.",
"Paris–Brest–Paris (PBP), which began in 1891, is the oldest bicycling event still run on a regular basis on the open road, covers over and imposes a 90-hour time limit.",
"Similar if smaller institutions exist in many countries."
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Premise | How many years was Alicia a stay-at-home mother? | The Good Wife | false | 1TV
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"The series focuses on Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), whose husband Peter Florrick (Chris Noth), a former Cook County state's attorney, has been jailed following a very public sex and corruption scandal.",
"Alicia returns to her old job as a litigator (having taken 13 years out to be a stay-at-home mother) to provide for her two children.",
"The series was partly inspired by the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, as well as by other prominent American political sex scandals, particularly those of John Edwards and Bill Clinton:"
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Awards and nominations | In what category was the only Emmy nomination and win for "Gilmore Girls"? | Gilmore Girls | false | 1TV
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"",
"\"Gilmore Girls\" received an American Film Institute Award and two Viewers For Quality Television Awards, and was named New Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association.",
"The show won an Emmy for its only nomination: 2004's Outstanding Makeup for a Series for the episode \"The Festival of Living Art\".",
"The show's actors have received many awards for their work on the series.",
"Graham won two Family Television Awards, and she won Teen Choice Award for Best TV Mom twice.",
"Alexis Bledel won a Young Artist Award and a Family Television Award.",
"The series also won a Family Television Award for New Series, and was named Best Family TV Drama Series by the Young Artist Awards."
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Release and promotion | When did Coldplay perform the song "Viva la Vida" live for the first time? | Viva la Vida | false | 0MUSIC
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"",
"\"Viva la Vida\" was initially released only with iTunes Store pre-orders of \"Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends\" on 7 May 2008 – the \"new edit\" version of the song – which led to the song's temporary exclusion from the UK Singles Chart.",
"It was released as a download-only single on 25 May 2008, and a physical CD single in Europe on 29 July 2008 to coincide with the release of the single's music videos.",
"\"Viva la Vida\" was well-downloaded in the internet, becoming iTunes' best-selling song of 2008.",
"From 24 December 2008 to 5 January 2009 an official remix of the song by producer Stuart Price, named the \"Thin White Duke Mix\", was given away for free as a Christmas gift via the band's website.",
"The song was used as part of Apple Inc.'s iPod + iTunes advertisement campaign.",
"Coldplay performed the song live for the first time at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.",
"It has since gone on to make many media appearances, including being featured throughout the episode from the paranormal drama \"Medium\", as a song played on the radio in the episode \"We're Not in Kansas Anymore\" from the teen drama \"90210\", used as bumper music on Bill Bennett's \"Morning in America\" radio talk show, and on the international soundtrack to the Brazilian soap opera \"A Favorita\" which helped push \"Viva la Vida\" up the charts in Brazil, where the telenovela been shown.",
"\"Viva la Vida\" was the entrance music for Birmingham City Football Club during the 2009–2010 season, but was quickly dropped after negative response by the supporters.",
"In 2009, Solange Knowles covered the song.",
"Lady Gaga also covered the song for BBC Radio 1.",
"A live version of the song appeared on Coldplay's 2009 live album \"LeftRightLeftRightLeft\".",
"Pet Shop Boys also performed the song live on their 2009 Pandemonium Tour and the song appeared on their Christmas EP.",
"It was also used in an episode entitled \"Million Dollar Maybe\" of \"The Simpsons\".",
"The song was covered in the seventh series of \"The X Factor\" by the boyband One Direction in 2010."
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Avatar: World of Pandora | When was construction started for Disney's Animal Kingdom's "Avatar"-based section? | Disney's Animal Kingdom | true | 2TRAVEL
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"In September 2011, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts announced plans to partner with filmmaker James Cameron, his Lightstorm Entertainment production company, and Fox Filmed Entertainment to develop attractions based on Cameron's \"Avatar\" film franchise exclusively for Disney theme parks.",
"The first installation is planned for Disney's Animal Kingdom in the form of an \"Avatar\"-based section of the park.",
"While no specifics were announced, the new area was described as being several acres in size and costing an estimated $400 million to build, a scale similar to Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park in California.",
"Components from the upcoming second and third films in the \"Avatar\" series will be featured, along with new designs not seen in any of the films.",
"Construction began on January 10, 2014."
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Description | Where is Soft Construction with Boiled Beans located? | Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) | false | 3ART
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"This is a painting made with oil on canvas that is located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.",
"Dalí painted it in 1936, but there were studies found of it that dated back to 1934.",
"It is a picture of a geometric monster type creature and connected to a similar monster.",
"The two creatures appear to be two parts of the same creature so that it appears to be wrestling itself.",
"All over the background and on parts of the monster are boiled beans that look as though they are melting.",
"The monster stands on trees and a brown wooden box.",
"The background is a blue sky with clouds, that are darker in some parts and lighter in others."
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Nutrients and the nutritional importance of rice | Why is purple rice colored as it is? | Rice | true | 9FOOD
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"Nutrition and health.",
"Nutrients and the nutritional importance of rice.",
"Rice is the staple food of over half the world's population.",
"It is the predominant dietary energy source for 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific, 9 countries in North and South America and 8 countries in Africa.",
"Rice provides 20% of the world’s dietary energy supply, while wheat supplies 19% and maize (corn) 5%.",
"A detailed analysis of nutrient content of rice suggests that the nutrition value of rice varies based on a number of factors.",
"It depends on the strain of rice, that is between white, brown, black, red and purple varieties of rice – each prevalent in different parts of the world.",
"It also depends on nutrient quality of the soil rice is grown in, whether and how the rice is polished or processed, the manner it is enriched, and how it is prepared before consumption.",
"An illustrative comparison between white and brown rice of protein quality, mineral and vitamin quality, carbohydrate and fat quality suggests that neither is a complete nutrition source.",
"Between the two, there is a significant difference in fiber content and minor differences in other nutrients.",
"Brilliantly colored rice strains, such as purple rice, derive their color from anthocyanins and tocols.",
"Scientific studies suggest that these color pigments have antioxidant properties that may be useful to human health.",
"In purple rice bran, hydrophilic antioxidants are in greater quantity and have higher free radical scavenging activity than lipophilic antioxidants.",
"Anthocyanins and γ-tocols in purple rice are largely located in the inner portion of purple rice bran.",
"Comparative nutrition studies on red, black and white varieties of rice suggest that pigments in red and black rice varieties may offer nutritional benefits.",
"Red or black rice consumption was found to reduce or retard the progression of atherosclerotic plaque development, induced by dietary cholesterol, in mammals.",
"White rice consumption offered no similar benefits, and the study claims this to be due to absent antioxidants in red and black varieties of rice."
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Commission | How much was Rivera paid for his work on Rockefeller Center? | Man at the Crossroads | false | 3ART
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"The Rockefellers wanted to have a mural put on the ground-floor wall of Rockefeller Center.",
"Nelson Rockefeller wanted Henri Matisse or Pablo Picasso to do it because he favored their modern style, but neither was available.",
"Diego Rivera was one of Nelson Rockefeller's mother's favorite artists and therefore was commissioned to create the huge mural.",
"He was given a theme: \"Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future.\"",
"Rockefeller wanted the painting to make people pause and think.",
"Rivera was to be paid $21,000 for the work.",
"He was officially commissioned by Todd-Robertson-Todd Engineering, the development agents for the building.",
"The full commission envisaged three murals.",
"\"Man at the Crossroads\" would be in the center.",
"It would be flanked by \"The Frontier of Ethical Evolution\" and \"The Frontier of Material Development\".",
"The central composition was intended to contrast Capitalism and Socialism.",
"This basic compositional idea was approved by Rockefeller."
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Abstract | Who was Bathsheba's son? | Bathsheba | true | 3ART
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"According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (, \"Bat Sheva\", \"daughter of the oath\") (, \"ابنة القسم\") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.",
"She is most known for the Bible story in which King David took her to sleep with him.",
"Bathsheba was a daughter of Eliam, one of David's \"thirty\" (2 Sam.",
"23:34; cf 1 Chr.",
"3:5); Eliam was the son of Ahitophel, one of David's chief advisors.",
"Ahitophel was from Giloh (Josh.",
"15:51;cf 2 Sam.",
"15:12), a city of Judah, and thus Bathsheba was from David's own tribe and the granddaughter of one of David's closest advisors (2 Sam.15:12).\"",
"She was the mother of Solomon, who succeeded David as king, making her the Queen Mother."
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Release | What was the release date for the film Silver Linings Playbook? | Silver Linings Playbook | true | 6MOVIES
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"The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, where it won the People's Choice Award.",
"It received a limited release in the United States on November 16, 2012, opening wider later that week.",
"It also opened at the 2012 Mumbai Film Festival on October 18, 2012.",
"The Weinstein Company initially planned an unusually wide release for \"Silver Linings Playbook\", going nationwide on an estimated 2,000 screens.",
"They were encouraged by positive reviews and hoping to capitalize on Thanksgiving to do more business.",
"Instead, they took a more slow-burn approach, opening in fewer theaters, expanding gradually, in a strategy to build up word-of-mouth support.",
"Continuing the slow release the film expanded to 700 theaters on December 25."
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Blocks | What are the different regions of the periodic table referred to? | Periodic table | false | 8SCIENCE
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"The different regions of the periodic table are sometimes referred to as \"blocks\" in recognition of the sequence in which the electron shells of the elements are filled.",
"Each block is named according to the subshell in which the \"last\" electron notionally resides.",
"The s-block comprises the first two groups (alkali metals and alkaline earth metals) as well as hydrogen and helium.",
"The p-block comprises the last six groups which are groups 13 to 18 in IUPAC (3A to 8A in American) and contains, among other elements, all of the metalloids.",
"The d-block comprises groups 3 to 12 in IUPAC (or 3B to 2B in American group numbering) and contains all of the transition metals.",
"The f-block, usually offset below the rest of the periodic table, comprises the lanthanides and actinides."
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Vétheuile | Where was Monet living in the spring of 1880? | Claude Monet | false | 3ART
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"After several difficult months following the death of Camille, Monet began to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century.",
"During the early 1880s, Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside.",
"These began to evolve into series of pictures in which he documented the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons.",
"Monet's friend Ernest Hoschedé became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium.",
"After the death of Camille Monet in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil, Alice Hoschedé helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel.",
"She took them to Paris to live alongside her own six children, Blanche, (who married Jean Monet), Germaine, Hoschedé, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques.",
"In the spring of 1880, Alice Hoschedé and all the children left Paris and rejoined Monet at Vétheuil.",
"In 1881, all of them moved to Poissy, which Monet hated.",
"In April 1883, looking out the window of the little train between Vernon and Gasny, he discovered Giverny in Normandy.",
"Monet, Alice Hoschedé and the children moved to Vernon, then to the house in Giverny, where he planted a large garden and where he painted for much of the rest of his life.",
"Following the death of her estranged husband, Monet married Alice Hoschedé in 1892."
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Bird anatomy | Where are scales located on the bodies of birds? | Anatomy | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Birds are tetrapods but though their hind limbs are used for walking or hopping, their front limbs are wings covered with feathers and adapted for flight.",
"Birds are endothermic, have a high metabolic rate, a light skeletal system and powerful muscles.",
"The long bones are thin, hollow and very light.",
"Air sac extensions from the lungs occupy the centre of some bones.",
"The sternum is wide and usually has a keel and the caudal vertebrae are fused.",
"There are no teeth and the narrow jaws are adapted into a horn-covered beak.",
"The eyes are relatively large, particularly in nocturnal species such as owls.",
"They face forwards in predators and sideways in ducks.",
"The feathers are outgrowths of the epidermis and are found in localized bands from where they fan out over the skin.",
"Large flight feathers are found on the wings and tail, contour feathers cover the bird's surface and fine down occurs on young birds and under the contour feathers of water birds.",
"The only cutaneous gland is the single uropygial gland near the base of the tail.",
"This produces an oily secretion that waterproofs the feathers when the bird preens.",
"There are scales on the legs and feet and claws on the tips of the toes."
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Development | The characteristics for each character in the pilot were based on what book? | Gossip Girl | false | 1TV
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"The \"Gossip Girl\" book series was originally supposed to be adapted into a film starring Lindsay Lohan with head \"Gilmore Girls\" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.",
"When the film project did not get off the ground, Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz took over the project to create a television series.",
"As of October 2006, Schwartz was working on the pilot.",
"He said: \"I was very skeptical.",
"I don't want to do \"The O.C.",
"NYC\".",
"But I thought the books were smart.",
"The characters are worldly in a way that Orange County kids aren't.\"",
"The characteristics for each character in the pilot were based on the first \"Gossip Girl\" book.",
"In January 2007, the show was given the green light by The CW."
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Influence | What year did Jean Michel Jarre perform a live concert in front of the Forbidden City? | Forbidden City | false | 2TRAVEL
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"The Forbidden City, the culmination of the two-thousand-year development of classical Chinese and East Asian architecture, has been influential in the subsequent development of Chinese architecture, as well as providing inspiration for many artistic works.",
"Some specific examples include:",
"Depiction in art, film, literature and popular culture",
"The Forbidden City has served as the scene to many works of fiction.",
"In recent years, it has been depicted in films and television series.",
"Some notable examples include:",
" \"The Forbidden City\" (1918), a fiction film about a Chinese emperor and an American.",
" \"The Last Emperor\" (1987), a biographical film about Puyi, was the first feature film ever authorised by the government of the People's Republic of China to be filmed in the Forbidden City.",
" \"Marco Polo\" a joint NBC and RAI TV miniseries broadcast in the early 1980s, was filmed inside the Forbidden City.",
"Note, however, that the present Forbidden City did not exist in the Yuan dynasty, when Marco Polo met Kublai Khan.",
"Performance venue",
"The Forbidden City has also served as a performance venue.",
"However, its use for this purpose is strictly limited, due to the heavy impact of equipment and performance on the ancient structures.",
"Almost all performances said to be \"in the Forbidden City\" are held outside the palace walls.",
" Giacomo Puccini's opera, \"Turandot\", the story of a Chinese princess, was performed at the Imperial Shrine just outside the Forbidden City for the first time in 1998.",
" In 1997, Greek-born composer and keyboardist Yanni performed a live concert in front of the Forbidden City.",
"The concert was recorded and later released as part of the \"Tribute\" album.",
" In 2001, the Three Tenors, Spanish singers Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti sang in front of Forbidden City main gate as one of their performances.",
" In 2004, the French musician Jean Michel Jarre performed a live concert in front of the Forbidden City, accompanied by 260 musicians, as part of the \"Year of France in China\" festivities."
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Shoes | What is the difference between a slider shoe and a non sliding shoe's design? | Curling | false | 4SPORT
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"Curling shoes are similar to ordinary athletic shoes except that they have dissimilar soles; the \"slider shoe\" is designed for the off foot (or sliding foot) and the \"non-sliding shoe\" for the hack foot.",
"The \"slider shoe\" is designed to slide and typically has a Teflon sole.",
"It is worn by the thrower during delivery from the hack and by sweepers or the skip to glide down the ice when sweeping or otherwise traveling down the sheet quickly.",
"Stainless steel was once common for slider soles, and \"red brick\" sliders with lateral blocks of PVC on the sole are also available.",
"Most shoes have a full-sole sliding surface, but some shoes have a sliding surface covering only the outline of the shoe and other enhancements with the full-sole slider.",
"Some shoes have small disc sliders covering the front and heel portions or only the front portion of the foot, which allow more flexibility in the sliding foot for curlers playing with tuck deliveries.",
"When a player is not throwing, the player's slider shoe can be temporarily rendered non-slippery by using a slip-on gripper.",
"Ordinary athletic shoes may be converted to sliders by using a step-on or slip-on Teflon slider or by applying electrical or gaffer tape directly to the sole or over a piece of cardboard.",
"This arrangement often suits casual or beginning players.",
"The \"non-sliding shoe\", or \"hack foot shoe,\" is worn by the thrower on the hack foot during delivery and is designed to grip.",
"It may have a normal athletic shoe sole or a special layer of rubbery material applied to the sole of a thickness to match the sliding shoe.",
"The toe of the hack foot shoe may also have a rubberised coating on the top surface or a flap that hangs over the toe to reduce wear on the top of the shoe as it drags on the ice behind the thrower."
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Development | When was sesame oil and tofu first used by vendors? | Pho | true | 9FOOD
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"In the late 1920s, various vendors experimented with (a seasoning made of ground cinnamon, star anise, , and clove), sesame oil, tofu, and even \"Lethocerus indicus\" extract (\"\").",
"This \"\" failed to enter the mainstream.",
"\"\", served with beef cooked rare, had been introduced by 1930.",
"Chicken pho appeared in 1939, possibly because beef was not sold at the markets on Mondays and Fridays at the time.",
"With the Partition of Vietnam in 1954, over a million people fled North Vietnam for the South.",
"Pho, previously unpopular in the South, suddenly took off.",
"No longer confined to northern culinary traditions, variations in meat and broth appeared, and additional garnishes, such as lime, bean sprouts, culantro ('), cinnamon basil ('), and Hoisin sauce ('), became standard fare. '",
"also began to rival fully cooked \"\" in popularity.",
"Meanwhile, in North Vietnam, private pho restaurants were nationalized (\"\") and began serving pho noodles made from old rice, while street vendors were expected to use noodles made of imported potato flour.",
"During the so-called \"\" after the War, state-owned pho eateries served a meatless variety of the dish known as \"pilotless pho\" ('), in reference to the U.S. military's .",
"The broth consisted of boiled water with MSG added for taste, as there were often shortages on various foodstuffs like meat and rice during that period.",
"Bread or cold rice was often served as a side dish, leading to the present-day practice of dipping ' in pho."
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Live performances | In what way did Rihanna use the "cleopatra" style in her performance? | Where Have You Been | true | 0MUSIC
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"Rihanna performed \"Where Have You Been\" for the first time live at the 2012 Post-Grammy Charity Fundraiser, along with \"We Found Love\", on February 13, 2012.",
"On April 15, 2012, Rihanna performed the song at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, again with \"We Found Love\".",
"On May 5, 2012, Rihanna performed the song on \"Saturday Night Live\" in the United States.",
"The performance featured an aesthetic similar to that of the music video; the \"SNL\" set was decorated in a \"One Thousand and One Nights\" fashion.",
"Rihanna and her backup dancers performed a highly choreographed dance routine, the same as the music video, and wore Arabian inspired outfits.",
"She also performed the song at the 2012 Robin Hood Benefit in New York.",
"The performance was in \"Cleopatra\" style.",
"The singer performed the song on \"American Idol\"'s season 11 finale on May 23, 2012.",
"Rihanna performed \"Where Have You Been\" at Radio 1's Hackney Weekend on June 24, 2012, as the tenth song on the set list.",
"The performance featured a giant sphinx on the stage."
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Video game | Why is it speculated that there won't be an Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 release of the Dexter game? | Dexter (TV series) | false | 1TV
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"Other media.",
"Video game.",
"A video game based on \"Dexter\" developed by Icarus Studios and based on the events of season one, was released on September 13, 2009.",
"It is available for the iPhone platform in the iTunes App Store.",
"The game was released on the iPad on October 15, 2010, and on PC on February 15, 2011.",
"The cast and crew of \"Dexter\" have been very supportive, with some of the cast providing full voice work for the game, including Michael C. Hall.",
"The game has received many positive reviews, including an 8/10 from IGN.",
"No additional content for the game has been released or announced as planned.",
"Plans to release the game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 seem to have been cancelled, as there has been no recent information regarding expansion of the game onto these platforms."
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Mendeleev's table | What characteristic of Mendeleev's periodic table implicitly predicted the properties of elements that had not yet been discovered? | Periodic table | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev and German chemist Julius Lothar Meyer independently published their periodic tables in 1869 and 1870, respectively.",
"Mendeleev's table was his first published version; that of Meyer was an expanded version of his (Meyer's) table of 1864.",
"They both constructed their tables by listing the elements in rows or columns in order of atomic weight and starting a new row or column when the characteristics of the elements began to repeat.",
"The recognition and acceptance afforded to Mendeleev's table came from two decisions he made.",
"The first was to leave gaps in the table when it seemed that the corresponding element had not yet been discovered.",
"Mendeleev was not the first chemist to do so, but he was the first to be recognized as using the trends in his periodic table to predict the properties of those missing elements, such as gallium and germanium.",
"The second decision was to occasionally ignore the order suggested by the atomic weights and switch adjacent elements, such as tellurium and iodine, to better classify them into chemical families.",
"With the development of theories of atomic structure, it became apparent that Mendeleev had unintentionally listed the elements in order of increasing atomic number or nuclear charge.",
"The significance of atomic numbers to the organization of the periodic table was not appreciated until the existence and properties of protons and neutrons became understood.",
"Mendeleev's periodic tables used atomic weight instead of atomic number to organize the elements, information determinable to fair precision in his time.",
"Atomic weight worked well enough in most cases to (as noted) give a presentation that was able to predict the properties of missing elements more accurately than any other method then known.",
"Substitution of atomic numbers, once understood, gave a definitive, integer-based sequence for the elements, still used today even as new synthetic elements are being produced and studied."
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U.S. Nielsen ratings | When did the Vampire Diaries first air on TV? | The Vampire Diaries | true | 1TV
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"The series premiere on September 10, 2009 gave The CW its biggest series premiere scoring 4.91 million viewers.",
"Adding in DVR numbers, the ratings for the premiere swelled to an official 5.7 million viewers.",
"The following is a table for the seasonal rankings, based on average total estimated viewers per episode of \"The Vampire Diaries\".",
"\"Rank\" refers to how \"The Vampire Diaries\" rated compared to the other television series which aired during prime time hours."
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Reheating | What is the duck rinsed with in the last step? | Peking duck | false | 9FOOD
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"Whole Peking Ducks can be ordered as takeaways.",
"The ducks can be reheated at home with an oven, grill or boiling oil.",
"When an oven is used, the duck is heated at a temperature of 150 °C (300 °F) for 20 minutes, and then at 160 °C (325 °F) for another 10 minutes.",
"The grilling method involves filling the duck with boiling water before placing it on a griddle, 70 cm (28 in) above the cooking fire.",
"The boiling water is replaced every 3–4 minutes until the duck's skin is piping hot.",
"To reheat the Peking Duck with oil, the duck is sliced into thin pieces and placed in a strainer held over a wok of boiling oil.",
"The duck is then rinsed several times with the oil."
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Derivative works | Who created "Glad Day"? | Vitruvian Man | false | 3ART
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"The \"Vitruvian Man\" has inspired a number of derivative works:",
" Cesare Cesariano (1521) who edited the important 1521 edition of \"De Architectura\" of Vitruvius (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have provided the illustrations for this edition).",
" Albrecht Dürer (1528) in his book \"Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion\" (four books on human proportions)",
" Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo (1554)",
" Heinrich Lautensack (1618)",
" William Blake (1795) \"Glad Day\", now known as \"Albion rose\".",
"This representation is without the circle and square.",
" The Italian 1 euro coin"
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The Grand Bazaar today | How many people work at the Grand Bazaar? | Grand Bazaar, Istanbul | true | 2TRAVEL
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"Today the Grand Bazaar is a thriving complex, employing 26,000 people visited by between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily, and one of the major landmarks of Istanbul.",
"It must compete with modern shopping malls common in Istanbul, but its beauty and fascination represent a formidable advantage for it.",
"The head of the Grand Bazaar Artisans Association claimed that the complex was in 2011 - the year of its 550th birthday - the most visited monument in the world.",
"A restoration project starting in 2012 should renew its infrastructure, heating and lighting systems.",
"Moreover, the \"han\"s inside the Market will be renovated and later additions will be demolished.",
"This project should finally solve the big problems of the market: for example, in the whole Bazaar there is no proper toilet facility.",
"Moreover, the lacks of controls in the past years allowed many dealers to remove columns and skive walls in their shops to gain space: This, together with the substitution of lead (stolen in the last years) with concrete on the market's roof, has created a great hazard when the earthquake expected in Istanbul in the next years will occur.",
"The Grand Bazaar is opened each day except Sundays and bank holidays from 9:00 until 19:00."
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SeaWorld Orlando | Which year did Seaworld Orlando open? | SeaWorld | true | 2TRAVEL
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" Orlando.",
"SeaWorld Orlando opened on December 15, 1973, and had crowds topping 5,400 on its opening day.",
"\"One Ocean\", a new Shamu show which premiered April 22, 2011, is hosted here, along with \"Clyde and Seamore Take Pirate Island\", an adventure with two sea lions, and \"Blue Horizons\", the park's dolphin show.",
"The park contains 3 roller coasters: Kraken, a floorless coaster based on the mythical sea creature, Manta, a coaster designed to simulate how manta rays move, and the Shamu Express, a coaster oriented to kids located in Shamu's Happy Harbor.",
"It is also home to the original Journey to Atlantis Water Coaster.",
"SeaWorld After Dark is SeaWorld Orlando's night program, featuring the fireworks show \"Reflections\", a sea lions show \"Sea Lions Tonite\" and Shamu show \"Shamu Rocks\"."
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Regional competition | What amusement park is located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania? | Hersheypark | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Regional competition includes:",
"DelGrosso's Amusement Park, located in Tipton, Pennsylvania",
"Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, located near Allentown, Pennsylvania",
"Kennywood Park, located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania",
"Knoebels Amusement Resort, located in Elysburg, Pennsylvania",
"Six Flags America, located near Baltimore, Maryland",
"Six Flags Great Adventure, located in Jackson, New Jersey",
"Dutch Wonderland, located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania",
"Sesame Place, located in Langhorne, Pennsylvania"
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Music | Who scored Fruitvale Station? | Fruitvale Station | true | 6MOVIES
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"The musical score to \"Fruitvale Station\" was composed by Ludwig Göransson.",
"Also a USC graduate, Göransson said of the scoring process: \"Ryan and I talked a lot about how sound design was going to have a huge role in the movie and very early on I got sent the actual sound recordings of the Bart Train.",
"I manipulated the train sound and made it almost feel like a dark ambient synth sound and I used it almost throughout the whole Bart platform scene.",
"The other element in the score is lots of layered and manipulated guitars sounding almost like haunting pads.\"",
"Coogler added: \"One thing that we always wanted to be conscious of with the score, was to make sure that it always felt organic.",
"A lot of the film would play without score, so Ludwig made sure that whenever we brought score in came out of sounds in the environment.\"",
"A soundtrack album, \"Fruitvale Station – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack\", was be released digitally on September 24, 2013 and on CD October 15, 2013 through Lakeshore Records."
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Geography | What is the most densely populated part of Canada? | Canada | false | 5COUNTRY
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"Canada occupies a major northern portion of North America, sharing land borders with the contiguous United States to the south (the longest border between two countries in the world) and the US state of Alaska to the northwest.",
"Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean.",
"Greenland is to the northeast, while Saint Pierre and Miquelon is south of Newfoundland.",
"By total area (including its waters), Canada is the second-largest country in the world, after Russia.",
"By land area alone, Canada ranks fourth.",
"The country lies between latitudes 41° and 84°N, and longitudes 52° and 141°W.",
"Since 1925, Canada has claimed the portion of the Arctic between 60° and 141°W longitude, but this claim is not universally recognized.",
"Canada is home to the world's northernmost settlement, Canadian Forces Station Alert, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5°N – which lies from the North Pole.",
"Much of the Canadian Arctic is covered by ice and permafrost.",
"Canada has the longest coastline in the world, with a total length of ; additionally, its border with the United States is the world's longest land border, stretching .",
"Since the end of the last glacial period, Canada has consisted of eight distinct forest regions, including extensive boreal forest on the Canadian Shield.",
"Canada has around 31,700 large lakes, more than any other country, containing much of the world's fresh water.",
"There are also fresh-water glaciers in the Canadian Rockies and the Coast Mountains.",
"Canada is geologically active, having many earthquakes and potentially active volcanoes, notably Mount Meager, Mount Garibaldi, Mount Cayley, and the Mount Edziza volcanic complex.",
"The volcanic eruption of the Tseax Cone in 1775 was among Canada's worst natural disasters, killing 2,000 Nisga'a people and destroying their village in the Nass River valley of northern British Columbia.",
"The eruption produced a lava flow, and, according to Nisga'a legend, blocked the flow of the Nass River.",
"Canada's population density, at , is among the lowest in the world.",
"The most densely populated part of the country is the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor, situated in Southern Quebec and Southern Ontario along the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River.",
"Average winter and summer high temperatures across Canada vary from region to region.",
"Winters can be harsh in many parts of the country, particularly in the interior and Prairie provinces, which experience a continental climate, where daily average temperatures are near −15 °C (5 °F), but can drop below with severe wind chills.",
"In noncoastal regions, snow can cover the ground for almost six months of the year, while in parts of the north snow can persist year-round.",
"Coastal British Columbia has a temperate climate, with a mild and rainy winter.",
"On the east and west coasts, average high temperatures are generally in the low 20s °C (70s °F), while between the coasts, the average summer high temperature ranges from , with temperatures in some interior locations occasionally exceeding ."
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"The IWUF placed a bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have wushu included in future Olympic Games, but did not meet with success.",
"However, the IOC allowed China to organize an international wushu event during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but this event is not one of the 28 official Olympic sports, nor is it a demonstration event.",
"Instead, it was called the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Wushu Tournament.",
"Wushu was one of 8 sports that was considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics.",
"On May 29, 2013, Wushu's bid was rejected."
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