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Live performances
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On what date did Minaj perform on the 'Ellen DeGeneres Show'?
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Starships (song)
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"On February 26, 2012, Minaj performed the single live for the first time along with \"Moment 4 Life\", \"Turn Me On\" and \"Super Bass\" at the 2012 NBA All-Star Game.",
"Minaj also performed the single on the eleventh season of \"American Idol\" results show on March 29, 2012, and on \"Today\" on April 6.",
"Minaj performed the song in a mash-up with \"Right by My Side\" at \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\" on May 10, 2012.",
"Minaj also performed the single on her Pink Friday Tour.",
"The song was also the encore song of Minaj's ."
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Meaning
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What type of painting was Soft Construction with Boiled Beans?
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
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"This painting expresses the destruction during the Spanish Civil War.",
"The monster in this painting is self-destructive just as a Civil War is.",
"This painting is not meant to depict choosing sides although Dalí had many reasons to choose sides in the Spanish Civil War.",
"His sister was tortured and imprisoned by communist soldiers fighting for the Republic and his good friend from art school was murdered by a fascist firing squad.",
"Dalí also made this painting look very realistic and yet continued to bring in surreal concepts.",
"Although humans do not have the potential to look like the creatures in this painting, it retains a realistic feel, reminding the viewer of the levity of the ideas behind it.",
"Dalí also brought ideas of tradition to this piece with a beautiful Catalonian sky, creating contrast to the idea of revolution.",
"There are many boiled beans in this painting.",
"Dalí is quoted as saying the reason he included boiled beans was \"one could not imagine swallowing all that unconscious meat without the presence of some mealy and melancholy vegetable.\"",
"By this he meant that there were many hardships in the war so the Spanish citizens had to do their best to deal with their problems.",
"He played with themes of love, eating, and the war and how they are all related."
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Abstract
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What is association football commonly known as?
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Association football
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"Association football, commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.",
"It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport.",
"The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end.",
"The object of the game is to score by using any part of the body besides the arms and hands to get the football into the opposing goal.",
"The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while it is in play and then only in their penalty area.",
"Outfield players mostly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may use their head or torso to strike the ball instead.",
"The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins.",
"If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout depending on the format of the competition.",
"The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by The Football Association in 1863.",
"Association football is governed internationally by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA; ) which organises a World Cup every four years."
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Restaurants
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Who runs the restraunt?
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Eiffel Tower
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"The tower has two restaurants: \"Le 58 tour Eiffel\", on the first floors and the \"Le Jules Verne\", a gourmet restaurant on the second floor, with a private lift.",
"This restaurant has one star in the Michelin Red Guide.",
"It is run by the multi-Michelin star chef Alain Ducasse."
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History
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How did Walter Cannon derive homeostasis?
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Physiology
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"The study of human physiology dates back to at least 420 BC to the time of Hippocrates, also known as the father of medicine.",
"The critical thinking of Aristotle and his emphasis on the relationship between structure and function marked the beginning of physiology in Ancient Greece, while Claudius Galenus (c. 126–199 AD), known as Galen, was the first to use experiments to probe the functions of the body.",
"Galen was the founder of experimental physiology.",
"Jean Fernel, a French physician, introduced the term \"physiology\" in 1525.",
"In the 19th century, physiological knowledge began to accumulate at a rapid rate, in particular with the 1838 appearance of the Cell theory of Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann.",
"It radically stated that organisms are made up of units called cells.",
"Claude Bernard's (1813–1878) further discoveries ultimately led to his concept of \"milieu interieur\" (internal environment), which would later be taken up and championed as \"homeostasis\" by American physiologist Walter Cannon.",
"In the 20th century, biologists also became interested in how organisms other than human beings function, eventually spawning the fields of comparative physiology and ecophysiology.",
"Major figures in these fields include Knut Schmidt-Nielsen and George Bartholomew.",
"Most recently, evolutionary physiology has become a distinct subdiscipline."
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Cambridge rules
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Where are the revised rules located?
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Football
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"In 1848, at Cambridge University, Mr. H. de Winton and Mr. J.C. Thring, who were both formerly at Shrewsbury School, called a meeting at Trinity College, Cambridge with 12 other representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury.",
"An eight-hour meeting produced what amounted to the first set of modern rules, known as the \"Cambridge rules\".",
"No copy of these rules now exists, but a revised version from circa 1856 is held in the library of Shrewsbury School.",
"The rules clearly favour the kicking game.",
"Handling was only allowed \"when a player catches the ball directly from the foot\" entitling them to a free kick and there was a primitive offside rule, disallowing players from \"loitering\" around the opponents' goal.",
"The Cambridge rules were not widely adopted outside English public schools and universities (but it was arguably the most significant influence on the Football Association committee members responsible for formulating the rules of Association football)."
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Abstract
|
What is the movie Capitain Phillips?
|
Captain Phillips (film)
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"Captain Phillips (film)Captain Phillips is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi.",
"The film is based on the true story of the 2009 \"Maersk Alabama\" hijacking, an incident during which merchant mariner Captain Richard Phillips was taken hostage by pirates in the Indian Ocean led by Abduwali Muse.",
"The screenplay was written by Billy Ray, and is based on the 2010 book \"A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea\" by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty.",
"Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca served as producers on the project.",
"It premiered at the 2013 New York Film Festival, and was theatrically released on October 11, 2013.",
"The film emerged as a box office success with earnings of over $217 million against a budget of $55 million.",
"In 2014, \"Captain Phillips\" received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Abdi, but did not win in any of the categories."
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Apology and condolences by the Prime Minister and Emperor of Japan
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What day was the 50th anniversary of the Surrender of Japan?
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Nanking Massacre
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"On August 15, 1995, the fiftieth anniversary of the Surrender of Japan, the Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama gave the first clear and formal apology for Japanese actions during the war.",
"He apologized for Japan's wrongful aggression and the great suffering that it inflicted in Asia.",
"He offered his heartfelt apology to all survivors and to the relatives and friends of the victims.",
"That day, the prime minister and the Japanese Emperor Akihito pronounced statements of mourning at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan.",
"The emperor offered his condolences and expressed the hope that such atrocities would never be repeated.",
"Iris Chang, author of \"The Rape of Nanking\", criticized Murayama for not providing the written apology that had been expected.",
"She said that the people of China \"don't believe that an... unequivocal and sincere apology has ever been made by Japan to China\" and that a written apology from Japan would send a better message to the international community."
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Early National Park Service years (1933–1982)
|
What happened at the Statue of Liberty on D-Day?
|
Statue of Liberty
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"Early National Park Service years (1933–1982).",
"In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the statue transferred to the National Park Service (NPS).",
"In 1937, the NPS gained jurisdiction over the rest of Bedloe's Island.",
"With the Army's departure, the NPS began to transform the island into a park.",
"The Works Progress Administration (WPA) demolished most of the old buildings, regraded and reseeded the eastern end of the island, and built granite steps for a new public entrance to the statue from its rear.",
"The WPA also carried out restoration work within the statue, temporarily removing the rays from the statue's halo so their rusted supports could be replaced.",
"Rusted cast-iron steps in the pedestal were replaced with new ones made of reinforced concrete; the upper parts of the stairways within the statue were replaced, as well.",
"Copper sheathing was installed to prevent further damage from rainwater that had been seeping into the pedestal.",
"The statue was closed to the public from May until December 1938.",
"During World War II, the statue remained open to visitors, although it was not illuminated at night due to wartime blackouts.",
"It was lit briefly on December 31, 1943, and on D-Day, June 6, 1944, when its lights flashed \"dot-dot-dot-dash\", the Morse code for V, for victory.",
"New, powerful lighting was installed in 1944–1945, and beginning on V-E Day, the statue was once again illuminated after sunset.",
"The lighting was for only a few hours each evening, and it was not until 1957 that the statue was illuminated every night, all night.",
"In 1946, the interior of the statue within reach of visitors was coated with a special plastic so that graffiti could be washed away.",
"In 1956, an Act of Congress officially renamed Bedloe's Island as Liberty Island, a change advocated by Bartholdi generations earlier.",
"The act also mentioned the efforts to found an American Museum of Immigration on the island, which backers took as federal approval of the project, though the government was slow to grant funds for it.",
"Nearby Ellis Island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument by proclamation of President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.",
"In 1972, the immigration museum, in the statue's base, was finally opened in a ceremony led by President Richard Nixon.",
"The museum's backers never provided it with an endowment to secure its future and it closed in 1991 after the opening of an immigration museum on Ellis Island.",
"Beginning December 26, 1971, 15 anti-Vietnam war veterans occupied the statue, flying a US flag upside down from her crown.",
"They left December 28 following a Federal Court order.",
"The statue was also several times taken over briefly by demonstrators publicizing causes such as Puerto Rican independence, opposition to abortion, and opposition to US intervention in Grenada.",
"Demonstrations with the permission of the Park Service included a Gay Pride Parade rally and the annual Captive Baltic Nations rally.",
"A powerful new lighting system was installed in advance of the American Bicentennial in 1976.",
"The statue was the focal point for Operation Sail, a regatta of tall ships from all over the world that entered New York Harbor on July 4, 1976, and sailed around Liberty Island.",
"The day concluded with a spectacular display of fireworks near the statue."
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Plot
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What does Sam tell Suzy?
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Moonrise Kingdom
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"In September 1965, on a New England island called New Penzance, 12-year-old orphan Sam Shakusky is attending a Khaki Scout summer camp, Camp Ivanhoe, led by Scoutmaster Randy Ward.",
"Suzy Bishop, also 12, lives on the island with her parents, Walt and Lauraboth attorneysand her three younger brothers in a house called Summer's End.",
"Sam and Suzy, both introverted, intelligent, and mature for their age, met in the summer of 1964 during a church performance of \"Noye's Fludde\" and have been pen pals since then.",
"Having fallen in love over the course of their correspondence, they have made a secret pact to reunite and run away together.",
"Sam brings camping equipment, and Suzy brings her binoculars, six books, her cat, and her brother's battery-powered record player.",
"They hike, camp, and fish together in the wilderness with the goal of reaching a secluded cove on the island.",
"They are confronted by a group of Khaki Scouts who try to capture them, and during the resulting altercation Suzy injures one of the Scouts with scissors and Camp Ivanhoe's dog is killed by a stray shot from a bow and arrow wielded by one of the Scouts.",
"The Scouts flee, and Sam and Suzy hike to the cove, which they name Moonrise Kingdom.",
"They set up camp, and go swimming.",
"Later, while drying off, they begin dancing to Françoise Hardy in their underwear.",
"As the romantic tension between them grows, they kiss repeatedly.",
"Suzy's parents, Scoutmaster Ward, the Scouts from Camp Ivanhoe, and Island Police Captain Duffy Sharp find Sam and Suzy in their tent at the cove.",
"Suzy's parents take her home and when Sharp contacts the foster parents he is told that they no longer wish to house Sam.",
"He stays with Sharp while they await the arrival of \"Social Services\"an otherwise nameless woman with plans to place Sam in a \"juvenile refuge\" and to explore the possibility of treating him with electroshock therapy.",
"The Camp Ivanhoe Scouts have a change of heart and decide to help the couple.",
"Together, they paddle to neighboring St. Jack Wood Island to seek out the help of Cousin Ben, an older relative of one of the Scouts.",
"Ben works at Fort Lebanon, a larger Khaki Scout summer camp located on St. Jack Wood Island and run by Commander Pierce, who is Ward's boss and views Ward as incompetent.",
"Ben decides that the best available option is to try to get Sam and Suzy aboard a crabbing boat anchored off the island so that Sam can work as a crewman and avoid Social Services, but before leaving he performs a \"wedding\" ceremony, which he admits is not legally binding.",
"Sam and Suzy never make it onto the crabbing boat, and instead are pursued by Suzy's parents, Captain Sharp, Social Services, and the Scouts of Fort Lebanon under the command of Scoutmaster Ward, who displays great leadership after Commander Pierce is incapacitated.",
"A violent hurricane and flash flood strike only three days after Sam and Suzy first ran away from home and, after many twists and turns, Sharp apprehends Sam and Suzy on the steeple of the church in which they first met.",
"The steeple is destroyed by lightning, but everyone survives.",
"During the storm, Sharp decides to become Sam's legal guardian, thus saving Sam from the orphanage, as well as allowing him to remain on New Penzance Island and maintain contact with Suzy.",
"At Summer's End, Sam is painting a landscape of Moonrise Kingdom.",
"Suzy and her brothers are called to dinner.",
"Sam tells Suzy, \"See you tomorrow\", and slips out through the window to join Sharp in his patrol car."
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Symbolism
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When "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegrante A second before Awakening" created?
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Salvador Dalí
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"Dalí employed extensive symbolism in his work.",
"For instance, the hallmark \"melting watches\" that first appear in \"The Persistence of Memory\" suggest Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed.",
"The idea for clocks functioning symbolically in this way came to Dalí when he was staring at a runny piece of Camembert cheese on a hot August day.",
"The elephant is also a recurring image in Dalí's works.",
"It first appeared in his 1944 work \"Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening\".",
"The elephants, inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture base in Rome of an elephant carrying an ancient obelisk, are portrayed \"with long, multijointed, almost invisible legs of desire\" along with obelisks on their backs.",
"Coupled with the image of their brittle legs, these encumbrances, noted for their phallic overtones, create a sense of phantom reality.",
"\"The elephant is a distortion in space\", one analysis explains, \"its spindly legs contrasting the idea of weightlessness with structure.\"",
"\"I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.\"",
"—Salvador Dalí, in Dawn Ades, \"Dalí and Surrealism\".",
"The egg is another common Dalíesque image.",
"He connects the egg to the prenatal and intrauterine, thus using it to symbolize hope and love; it appears in \"The Great Masturbator\" and \"The Metamorphosis of Narcissus\".",
"\"The Metamorphosis of Narcissus\" also symbolized death and petrification.",
"Various other animals appear throughout his work as well: ants point to death, decay, and immense sexual desire; the snail is connected to the human head (he saw a snail on a bicycle outside Freud's house when he first met Sigmund Freud); and locusts are a symbol of waste and fear."
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Production
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In which area of the world is the most maple syrup produced?
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Maple syrup
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"Maple syrup production is centred in northeastern North America; however, given the correct weather conditions, it can be made wherever suitable species of maple trees grow.",
"A maple syrup production farm is called a \"sugarbush\" or \"sugarwood\".",
"Sap is often boiled in a \"sugar house\" (also known as a \"sugar shack,\" \"sugar shanty,\" or \"cabane à sucre\"), a building louvered at the top to vent the steam from the boiling sap.",
"Maples are usually tapped beginning at 30 to 40 years of age.",
"Each tree can support between one and three taps, depending on its trunk diameter.",
"The average maple tree will produce of sap per season, up to per day.",
"This is roughly equal to 7% of its total sap.",
"Seasons last for four to eight weeks, depending on the weather.",
"During the day, starch stored in the roots for the winter rises through the trunk as sugary sap, allowing it to be tapped.",
"Sap is not tapped at night because the temperature drop inhibits sap flow, although taps are typically left in place overnight.",
"Some producers also tap in autumn, though this practice is less common than spring tapping.",
"Maples can continue to be tapped for sap until they are over 100 years old."
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Intimachay and the Royal Feast of the Sun
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Where is Intimachay located?
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Machu Picchu
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"Intimachay is a special cave designed to celebrate and observe the Royal Feast of the Sun.",
"This festival was only to be celebrated by nobility in the Incan month of Capac Raymi and was associated with the December solstice.",
"The festival would begin earlier in the month and would conclude on the solstice.",
"On this day, boys of nobility would be initiated into manhood by conducting an ear-piercing ritual as they watched the sun rise from within the cave.",
"Architecturally, Intimachay is the most significant structure located at Machu Picchu.",
"Its entrances, walls, steps and windows are all comprised with some of the finest masonry found in Incan Empire.",
"The cave also includes a unique tunnel-like window which cannot be found in any other Incan structure.",
"This window was strategically constructed to only allow sunlight into the cave for a span of several days around the time of the December solstice.",
"For this reason, the cave was inaccessible for much of the year.",
"Intimachay is located on the eastern side of Machu Picchu, just north of the \"Condor Stone.\"",
"Many of the caves surrounding this area were prehistorically used as tombs, yet there is no evidence to suggest that it too was a burial ground."
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Pink teddy bear
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What is missing from the teddy bear?
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Breaking Bad
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"A motif within the second season is the image of a damaged teddy bear and its missing eye.",
"The teddy bear first appears at the end of the music video \"Fallacies\" for Jesse's band \"TwaüghtHammër\", which was released as a webisode in February 2009 leading to the second season.",
"The teddy bear can also be spotted on the mural on Jane's bedroom wall during the final episode of the second season, further connecting the crash to Jane.",
"It is seen in flashforwards during four episodes, the titles of which, when put together in order, form the sentence \"Seven Thirty-Seven down over ABQ\".",
"The flashforwards are shot in black and white, with the sole exception of the pink teddy bear, which is an homage to the film \"Schindler's List\", in which the color red is used to distinguish a little girl in a coat.",
"At the end of the season, Walter indirectly helps cause the midair collision of two airplanes; the pink teddy bear is then revealed to have fallen out of one of the planes and into the White family's pool.",
"Vince Gilligan called the plane accident an attempt to visualize \"all the terrible grief that Walt has wrought upon his loved ones\" and \"the judgment of God.",
"\"In the first episode of the third season, the NTSB fishes the teddy bear out of his pool and Walt later finds the missing eye in the pool filter.",
"Television critic Myles McNutt has called it \"a symbol of the damage feels responsible for,\" and \"The A.V.",
"Club\" commented that \"the pink teddy bear continues to accuse.\"",
"Fans and critics have compared the appearance of the teddy bear's face to an image of Gus Fring's face in the fourth season finale.",
"The teddy bear was auctioned off, among other memorabilia, on September 29, 2013, the air date of the show finale.",
"On October 29 of the same year, Aaron Paul posted production pictures of Cranston posing with the teddy bear on Instagram."
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Terminology
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Where is the term "Red sauce" used?
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Ketchup
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"The term used for the sauce varies.",
"\"Ketchup\" (sometimes spelled \"catsup\" in American English, called \"a failed attempt at Anglicization\") is the dominant term in American English and Canadian English, with \"catsup\" being the prominent term in some southern US states.",
"In these dialects, \"tomato sauce\" refers to pasta sauce, and is not a synonym for ketchup.",
"\"Tomato sauce\" is more common in Commonwealth English (e.g., Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa).",
"In British English, the two terms are interchangeable.",
"\"Red sauce\" is used in Welsh English, Scottish English, Irish English and some parts of England, such as the Black Country, and in South London, often contrasting with brown sauce with which it is often served but in Canadian and American English, \"red sauce\" refers to red spicy sauces (or sweet and sour sauce) and is not a synonym for ketchup.",
"The etymology of the word \"ketchup\" is unclear, with multiple competing theories:"
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Casualties
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How many deaths were during Wietnam War
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Vietnam War
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"Estimates of the number of casualties vary, with one source suggesting up to 3.8 million violent war deaths.195,000–430,000 South Vietnamese civilians died in the war.",
"50,000–65,000 North Vietnamese civilians died in the war.",
"The Army of the Republic of Vietnam lost between 171,331 and 220,357 men during the war.",
"The official US Department of Defense figure was 950,765 communist forces killed in Vietnam from 1965 to 1974.",
"Defense Department officials believed that these body count figures need to be deflated by 30 percent.",
"In addition, Guenter Lewy assumes that one-third of the reported \"enemy\" killed may have been civilians, concluding that the actual number of deaths of communist military forces was probably closer to 444,000.",
"A detailed demographic study calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related deaths for all of Vietnam.",
"Between 200,000 and 300,000 Cambodians died during the war.",
"About 60,000 Laotians also died, and 58,220 U.S. service members were killed."
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First "Impressionist" exhibition
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Who is credited for creating the term "impressionism"?
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Claude Monet
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"Monet and Impressionism.",
"First \"Impressionist\" exhibition.",
"From the late 1860s, Monet and other like-minded artists met with rejection from the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts which held its annual exhibition at the Salon de Paris.",
"During the latter part of 1873, Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley organized the Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs (Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers) to exhibit their artworks independently.",
"At their first exhibition, held in April 1874, Monet exhibited the work that was to give the group its lasting name.",
"\"Impression, Sunrise\" was painted in 1872, depicting a Le Havre port landscape.",
"From the painting's title the art critic Louis Leroy, in his review, \"L'Exposition des Impressionnistes,\" which appeared in Le Charivari, coined the term \"Impressionism\".",
"It was intended as disparagement but the Impressionists appropriated the term for themselves. "
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Builders
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Who was in charge of building the Opera di Santa Maria Maggiore?
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Leaning Tower of Pisa
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" One possible builder is Gerardo di Gerardo.",
"His name appears as a witness to the above legacy of Berta di Bernardo as \"Master Gerardo\", and as a worker whose name was Gerardo.",
" A more probable builder is Diotisalvi, because of the construction period and the structure's affinities with other buildings in Pisa.",
"But he usually signed his works, and there is no signature by him in the bell tower.",
" Giovanni di Simone was heavily involved in the completion of the tower, under the direction of Giovanni Pisano, who at the time was master builder of the Opera di Santa Maria Maggiore.",
"He could be the same Giovanni Pisano who completed the belfry tower."
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Abstract
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Which year of the Grammy Awards did the song "We Are Young" win Song of the Year?
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We Are Young
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"\"We Are Young\" is a song recorded by American band Fun featuring Janelle Monáe, for their second studio album \"Some Nights\" (2012).",
"It was released on September 20, 2011 as the lead single from \"Some Nights\".",
"Musically, \"We Are Young\" is an anthem that incorporates the genres of indie pop, alternative rock, and power pop.",
"The song received generally positive reviews from music critics, with many noting the song as a breakthrough for the indie genre and praising the song's catchiness.",
"\"We Are Young\" has attained commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in several countries.",
"The track initially only gained attention from online media, although it did receive its first commercial radio airplay on Tampa Bay alternative radio station, 97X, debuting on September 19, 2011.",
"However, it was soon covered by the television show \"Glee\".",
"With the \"Glee\" version having success on the charts, the song was licensed for use in a Chevrolet Sonic commercial that aired during Super Bowl XLVI.",
"The single song propelled the band into mainstream success, topping the digital charts in February 2012 and becoming a crossover hit, peaking at number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 through airplay on contemporary hit radio stations, topping the chart for six weeks straight.",
"It is also the first song to log seven weeks of 300,000 or more in digital sales, a record that was previously held by Eminem's \"Love the Way You Lie\" (2010).",
"\"We Are Young\" has been certified five-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and is both Fun and Monáe's first charting single on the Hot 100, as well as their first number-one single.",
"The song also topped the Hot 100 Airplay chart with 120 million impressions in seven weeks, becoming the first group since Destiny's Child's \"Survivor\" (2001) to do so.",
"The song was named 99th on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 Songs of All-time.",
"An accompanying music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld at David Sukonick Concert Hall in Los Angeles.",
"It features the group performing on a stage at a bar where a riot breaks out.",
"As part of promotion for the song, it was performed at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the American late night television show \"Conan\", and was used as the opening song at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards.",
"The song is featured in the music video game, \"Rock Band Blitz\".",
"The song won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 55th Grammy Awards, where it was also a nominee for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance."
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Abstract
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What is the time period after Britain defeated Napoleon?
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Napoleonic Wars
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"The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of wars between Napoleon's French Empire and opposing coalitions led by Great Britain.",
"As a continuation of the wars sparked by the French Revolution of 1789, they revolutionized European armies and played out on an unprecedented scale, mainly owing to the application of modern mass conscription.",
"French power rose quickly as Napoleon's armies conquered much of Europe but collapsed rapidly after France's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812.",
"Napoleon was defeated in 1814; he returned and was finally defeated in 1815 at Waterloo, and all France's gains were taken away by the victors.",
"Before a final victory against Napoleon, five of seven coalitions saw defeat at the hands of France.",
"France defeated the first and second coalitions during the French Revolutionary Wars, the third (notably at Austerlitz), the fourth (notably at Jena, Eylau, and Friedland) and the fifth coalition (notably at Wagram) under the leadership of Napoleon.",
"These great victories gave the French Army a sense of invulnerability, especially when it approached Moscow.",
"But after the retreat from Russia, in spite of incomplete victories, France was defeated by the sixth coalition at Leipzig, in the Peninsular War at Vitoria and at the hands of the seventh coalition at Waterloo.",
"The wars resulted in the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire and sowed the seeds of nascent nationalism in Germany and Italy that would lead to the two nations' respective consolidations later in the century.",
"Meanwhile, the global Spanish Empire began to unravel as French occupation of Spain weakened Spain's hold over its colonies, providing an opening for nationalist revolutions in Spanish America.",
"As a direct result of the Napoleonic wars, the British Empire became the foremost world power for the next century, thus beginning \"Pax Britannica\".",
"No consensus exists about when the French Revolutionary Wars ended and the Napoleonic Wars began.",
"An early candidate is 9 November 1799, the date of Bonaparte's coup seizing power in France.",
"However, the most common date is 18 May 1803, when renewed war broke out between Britain and France, ending the one-year-old Peace of Amiens, the only period of general peace in Europe between 1792 and 1814.",
"Most actual fighting ceased following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo on 18 June 1815, although skirmishing continued as late as 3 July 1815 at the Battle of Issy.",
"The Second Treaty of Paris officially ended the wars on 20 November 1815."
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Abstract
|
What did The Act of Killing win?
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The Act of Killing
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"The Act of Killing (, meaning \"Butcher\") is a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, and co-directed by Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian.",
"It is a Danish-British-Norwegian co-production, presented by Final Cut for Real in Denmark and produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen.",
"The executive producers were Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, Joram ten Brink, and Andre Singer.",
"It is a Docwest project of the University of Westminster.",
"It won the 2013 European Film Award for Best Documentary, the Asia Pacific Screen Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.",
"\"The Act of Killing\" won best documentary at the 2014 BAFTA awards.",
"In accepting the award, Oppenheimer asserted that the United States and the United Kingdom have \"collective responsibility\" for \"participating in and ignoring\" the crimes, which was omitted from the video BAFTA posted online.",
"After a screening for US Congress members, Oppenheimer demanded that the US acknowledge its role in the killings."
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[
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Sculptural features
|
What is one of the legends tied to the sculpture?
|
Lincoln Memorial
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"The sculpture has been at the center of two urban legends.",
"Some have claimed that the face of General Robert E. Lee was carved onto the back of Lincoln's head, and looks back across the Potomac toward his former home, Arlington House, now within the bounds of Arlington National Cemetery.",
"Another popular legend is that Lincoln is shown using sign language to represent his initials, with his left hand shaped to form an \"A\" and his right hand to form an \"L\", the president's initials.",
"The National Park Service denies both legends.",
"However, historian Gerald Prokopowicz writes that, while it is not clear that sculptor Daniel Chester French intended Lincoln's hands to be formed into sign language versions of his initials, it is possible that French did intend it, because he was familiar with American Sign Language, and he would have had a reason to do so, that is, to pay tribute to Lincoln for having signed the federal legislation giving Gallaudet University, a university for the deaf, the authority to grant college degrees.",
"The National Geographic Society's publication, \"Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C.\" states that Daniel Chester French had a son who was deaf and that the sculptor was familiar with sign language.",
"Historian James A. Percoco has observed that, although there are no extant documents showing that French had Lincoln's hands carved to represent the letters \"A\" and \"L\" in American Sign Language, \"I think you can conclude that it's reasonable to have that kind of summation about the hands.\""
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Science and technology
|
What year was Tycho Brache born?
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Sweden
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"Tycho Brahe, born in 1546 in an area of present-day Sweden which was then Denmark, made the careful astronomic observations upon which Kepler proved and quantified the heliocentric Copernican solar system.",
"In the 18th century Sweden's scientific revolution took off.",
"Previously, technical progress had mainly come from mainland Europe.",
"In 1739, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded, with people such as Carolus Linnaeus and Anders Celsius as early members.",
"Many of the companies founded by early pioneers still remain major international brands.",
"Gustaf Dalén founded AGA, and received the Nobel Prize for his sun valve.",
"Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and instituted the Nobel Prizes.",
"Lars Magnus Ericsson started the company bearing his name, Ericsson, still one of the largest telecom companies in the world.",
"Jonas Wenström was an early pioneer in alternating current and is along with Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla credited as one of the inventors of the three-phase electrical system.",
"The traditional engineering industry is still a major source of Swedish inventions, but pharmaceuticals, electronics and other high-tech industries are gaining ground.",
"Tetra Pak was an invention for storing liquid foods, invented by Erik Wallenberg.",
"Losec, an ulcer medicine, was the world's best-selling drug in the 1990s and was developed by AstraZeneca.",
"More recently Håkan Lans invented the Automatic Identification System, a worldwide standard for shipping and civil aviation navigation.",
"A large portion of the Swedish economy is to this day based on the export of technical inventions, and many large multinational corporations from Sweden have their origins in the ingenuity of Swedish inventors.",
"Swedish inventors held 41,735 patents in the United States , according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.",
"As a nation, only ten other countries hold more patents than Sweden."
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Japanese declaration of war
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When was a declaration of war on the United States printed in Japanese newspapers?
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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"The attack took place before any formal declaration of war was made by Japan, but this was not Admiral Yamamoto's intention.",
"He originally stipulated that the attack should not commence until thirty minutes after Japan had informed the United States that peace negotiations were at an end.",
"The Japanese tried to uphold the conventions of war while still achieving surprise, but the attack began before the notice could be delivered.",
"Tokyo transmitted the 5,000-word notification (commonly called the \"14-Part Message\") in two blocks to the Japanese Embassy in Washington, but transcribing the message took too long for the Japanese ambassador to deliver it in time.",
"(In fact, U.S. code breakers had already deciphered and translated most of the message hours before he was scheduled to deliver it.)",
"The final part of the \"14 Part Message\" is sometimes described as a declaration of war.",
"While it neither declared war nor severed diplomatic relations, it was viewed by a number of senior U.S government and military officials as a very strong indicator that negotiations were likely to be terminated and that war might break out at any moment.",
"A declaration of war was printed on the front page of Japan's newspapers in the evening edition of December 8, but not delivered to the U.S. government until the day after the attack.",
"For decades, conventional wisdom held that Japan attacked without any official warning of a break in relations only because of accidents and bumbling that delayed the delivery of a document hinting at war to Washington.",
"In 1999, however, Takeo Iguchi, a professor of law and international relations at International Christian University in Tokyo, discovered documents that pointed to a vigorous debate inside the government over how, and indeed whether, to notify Washington of Japan's intention to break off negotiations and start a war, including a December 7 entry in the war diary saying, \"our deceptive diplomacy is steadily proceeding toward success.\"",
"Of this, Iguchi said, \"The diary shows that the army and navy did not want to give any proper declaration of war, or indeed prior notice even of the termination of negotiations ... and they clearly prevailed.\""
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Literary works
|
Who is the lover of Veronica in "Hidden Faces"?
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Salvador Dalí
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"Under the encouragement of poet Federico García Lorca, Dalí attempted an approach to a literary career through the means of the \"pure novel\".",
"In his literary production \"Hidden Faces\" (1944), Dalí describes, in vividly visual terms, the intrigues and love affairs of a group of dazzling, eccentric aristocrats who, with their luxurious and extravagant lifestyle, symbolize the decadence of the 1930s.",
"The Comte de Grainsalles and Solange de Cléda pursue an awkward love affair, but property transactions, interwar political turmoil, the French Resistance, his marriage to another woman and her responsibilities as a landowner and businesswoman drive them apart.",
"It is variously set in Paris, rural France, Casablanca in North Africa and Palm Springs in the United States.",
"Secondary characters include ageing widow Barbara Rogers, her bisexual daughter Veronica, Veronica's sometime female lover Betka, and Baba, a disfigured US fighter pilot.",
"The novel concludes at the end of the Second World War, with Solange dying before Grainsalles can return to his former property and reunite with her His other, nonfictional literary works include \"The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí\" (1942), \"Diary of a Genius\" (1952–63), and \"Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution \" (1927–33)."
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Composition and lyrical interpretation
|
What are the genres of "We are young"?
|
We Are Young
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"",
"\"We Are Young\" is a power ballad that combines the genres of indie pop, alternative rock, and power pop.",
"The song is written in the key of F major, based almost entirely on the 50s progression (I vi IV V) with the exception of its bridge, and follows a tempo of 116 beats per minute, changing to 92 bpm from the pre chorus to the end.",
"The song has a slow hip hop groove from the first chorus onward, and the song in its entirety is in common time.",
"The instrumentation of the original mix session consists of drums, bass guitar, synth bass, electric guitars, synths, piano, horns and other brass, and a hugh amount of vocal tracks, as well as the rough mix and two reference tracks, by Queen and Kanye West, that are both muted in the final master.",
"In the song, \"careful arrangements layer sharp, bright piano melodies with big, booming drums and multiple vocal harmonies.\"",
"Ruess shifts from \"vulnerable verbal tumbling in the song's sonically sparse intro to the grandiose declaration, 'Tonight, we are young / So let's set the world on fire / We can burn brighter than the sun' in the massive chorus.\"",
"According to \"Spin\", the song incorporates a \"marrying fist-pump stadium rock to the prim indie-pop of Grizzly Bear's \"Two Weeks,\" keeping the deliberate beats and soaring melodies but replacing choirboy primness with a percussive whomp.\"",
"Andrew Unterberger of \"Popdust\" compared the song's chorus to that of Pat Benatar's \"Love Is a Battlefield\" and Supergrass' \"Alright,\" and noted that nearly every word in the chorus is imbued with maximum passion and importance.",
"Tim Jonze Guardian.co.uk described the chorus as anthemic and compared it to work done by Arcade Fire and stated that the lyrics were \"life-affirming and fit for a teen movie soundtrack.",
"\"Lead singer Nate Ruess says the lyrics were inspired by one specific night, after \"my worst drinking night of all time.\"",
"Ruess told \"Rolling Stone\" that he was kicked out of a taxi cab for puking all over it.",
"\"The cabbie was demanding all this money, and all I could do was stand on the corner with my head against the wall.",
"It took me another day before I was a functioning adult and could actually write down the verses,\" he said."
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Performing arts
|
What mythology is Indian theatre often based on?
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India
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"Indian music ranges over various traditions and regional styles.",
"Classical music encompasses two genres and their various folk offshoots: the northern Hindustani and southern Carnatic schools.",
"Regionalised popular forms include filmi and folk music; the syncretic tradition of the \"bauls\" is a well-known form of the latter.",
"Indian dance also features diverse folk and classical forms.",
"Among the better-known folk dances are the \"bhangra\" of the Punjab, the \"bihu\" of Assam, the \"chhau\" of West Bengal and Jharkhand,\"Garba\" and \"Dandiya\" of Gujarat, \"sambalpuri\" of Odisha, \"ghoomar\" of Rajasthan, and the \"lavani\" of Maharashtra.",
"Eight dance forms, many with narrative forms and mythological elements, have been accorded classical dance status by India's National Academy of Music, Dance, and Drama.",
"These are: \"bharatanatyam\" of the state of Tamil Nadu, \"kathak\" of Uttar Pradesh, \"kathakali\" and \"mohiniyattam\" of Kerala,\" kuchipudi\" of Andhra Pradesh, \"manipuri\" of Manipur, \"odissi\" of Odisha, and the \"sattriya\" of Assam.",
"Theatre in India melds music, dance, and improvised or written dialogue.",
"Often based on Hindu mythology, but also borrowing from medieval romances or social and political events, Indian theatre includes the \"bhavai\" of Gujarat, the \"jatra\" of West Bengal, the \"nautanki\" and \"ramlila\" of North India, \"tamasha\" of Maharashtra, \"burrakatha\" of Andhra Pradesh, \"terukkuttu\" of Tamil Nadu, and the \"yakshagana\" of Karnataka."
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0
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Musical structure
|
In the song "I'll Tell You", what chord is played during the opening melody?
|
I Want to Hold Your Hand
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"The song is in the key of G and opens on \"I'll tell you\" with a D-B, B-D melody note drop and rise over a I (G) chord.",
"Controversy exists over the landmark chord that Lennon stated McCartney hit on the piano while they were composing the song.",
"Marshall considers it is the minor vi (Em) chord (the third chord in the I-V7-vi (G-D7-Em) progression).",
"Everett is of the same opinion.",
"Pedler claims, however, that more surprising is the melody note drop from B to F# against a III7 (B7) chord on \"understand\".",
"Music theorists are divided over whether this chord is a iii (Bm), a B major, or a B7 or even a B5 power chord with no major or minor defining third."
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[
0
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Questions of authenticity
|
Which two studios produce The Bachelor?
|
The Bachelor (U.S. TV series)
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"On February 26, 2009, in an exclusive interview between \"The Bachelor\" Season 13 contestant Megan Parris, and Steve Carbone, Megan commented that the producers edit the footage to create a fictional storyline.",
"\"I don't think producers showed any real conversation I had with anyone...",
"The viewers fail to realize that editing is what makes the show... You'll hear someone make one comment and then they'll show a clip of somebody's face to make it look like \"that\" is their facial reaction to that statement, but really, somebody made that face the day before to something else.",
"It's just piecing things together to make a story.",
"\"On March 26, 2009, Megan Parris argued that not only was the show scripted, but that producers bullied contestants into saying things to the camera that contestants did not want to say.",
"\"'There's nothing real about it,' she said of the show's trademark \"confessionals,\" in which contestants talk to the camera about the latest goings-on.",
"\"It is scripted,\" she said.",
"\"They basically will call you names, berate you, curse at you until they get you to say what they want you to say.\"",
"Both ABC and Warner Bros., the studio that produces \"The Bachelor,\" had no comment.",
"\"On March 15, 2010, creator Mike Fleiss appeared on \"20/20\" and said that he develops contestants into characters that will cater to his audience's tastes and that they \"need fair share of villains every season.\"",
"Fleiss has come under fire for admitting that \"The Bachelor\" has less to do with reality than it does making good television.",
"On February 24, 2012, during the taping of \"The Women Tell All\" episode of \"The Bachelor,\" a private conversation between contestant Courtney Robertson and a show producer went public when microphones were accidentally left on in between camera takes.",
"The conversation revealed the producer's role as a coach encouraging Robertson to fake certain emotions for the camera which she was not feeling."
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Habitats
|
Yosemite is home to how many species of vertebrates?
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Yosemite National Park
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"With its scrubby sun-baked chaparral, stately groves of pine, fir, and sequoia, and expanses of alpine woodlands and meadows, Yosemite National Park preserves a Sierra Nevada landscape as it prevailed before Euro-American settlement.",
"In contrast to surrounding lands, which have been significantly altered by logging, the park still contains some of old-growth forest.",
"Taken together, the park's varied habitats support over 250 species of vertebrates, which include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.",
"Along much of Yosemite's western boundary, habitats are dominated by mixed coniferous forests of Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, Incense-cedar, White Fir, Douglas Fir, and a few stands of Giant Sequoia, interspersed by areas of Black Oak and Canyon Live Oak.",
"A relatively high diversity of wildlife species is supported by these habitats, because of relatively mild, lower-elevation climate and the mixture of habitat types and plant species.",
"Wildlife species typically found in these habitats include American black bear, Bobcat, Cougar, Gray fox, Mule deer, Mountain kingsnake, Gilbert's skink, White-headed Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, Spotted Owl, and a wide variety of bat species.",
"In the case of bats, large snags are important as roost sites.",
"Going higher in elevation, the coniferous forests become purer stands of Red Fir, Western White Pine, Jeffrey Pine, Lodgepole Pine, and the occasional Foxtail pine.",
"Fewer wildlife species tend to be found in these habitats, because of their higher elevation and lower complexity.",
"Species likely to be found include Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Chickaree, Fisher, Steller's Jay, Hermit Thrush, and Northern Goshawk.",
"Reptiles are not common, but include Rubber Boa, western fence lizard, and Northern Alligator Lizard.",
"As the landscape rises, trees become smaller and more sparse, with stands broken by areas of exposed granite.",
"These include Lodgepole Pine, Whitebark Pine, and Mountain Hemlock that, at highest elevations, give way to vast expanses of granite as treeline is reached.",
"The climate in these habitats is harsh and the growing season is short, but species such as Pika, Yellow-bellied Marmot, White-tailed Jackrabbit, Clark's Nutcracker, and Black Rosy Finch are adapted to these conditions.",
"Also, the treeless alpine habitats are the areas favored by Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep.",
"This species, however, is now found in the Yosemite area only around Tioga Pass, where a small, reintroduced population exists.",
"At a variety of elevations, meadows provide important, productive habitat for wildlife.",
"Animals come to feed on the green grasses and use the flowing and standing water found in many meadows.",
"Predators, in turn, are attracted to these areas.",
"The interface between meadow and forest is also favored by many animal species because of the proximity of open areas for foraging and cover for protection.",
"Species that are highly dependent upon meadow habitat include Great Grey Owl, Willow Flycatcher, Yosemite Toad, and Mountain Beaver."
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5
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Ancient objections
|
Who stated the twins objection (that with close birth times, personal outcomes can be very different)?
|
Astrology
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"Cicero stated the twins objection (that with close birth times, personal outcomes can be very different), later developed by Saint Augustine.",
"He argued that since the other planets are much more distant from the earth than the moon, they could have only very tiny influence compared to the moon's.",
"He also argued that if astrology explains everything about a person's fate, then it wrongly ignores the visible effect of inherited ability and parenting, changes in health worked by medicine, or the effects of the weather on people.",
"Plotinus argued that since the fixed stars are much more distant than the planets, it is laughable to imagine the planets' effect on mankind should depend on their position with respect to the zodiac.",
"He also argues that the interpretation of the moon's conjunction with a planet as good when the moon is full, but bad when the moon is waning, is clearly wrong, as from the moon's point of view, half of her surface is always in sunlight; and from the planet's point of view, waning should be better, as then the planet sees some light from the moon, but when the moon is full to us, it is dark, and therefore bad, on the side facing the planet.",
"Favorinus argued that it was absurd to imagine that stars and planets would affect human bodies in the same way as they affect the tides, and equally absurd that small motions in the heavens cause large changes in people's fates.",
"Sextus Empiricus argued that it was absurd to link human attributes with myths about the signs of the zodiac.",
"Carneades argued that belief in fate denies free will and morality; that people born at different times can all die in the same accident or battle; and that contrary to uniform influences from the stars, tribes and cultures are all different."
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Critical response
|
What did the Atlantic write about Moonrise Kingdom?
|
Moonrise Kingdom
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"Critical response.",
"\"Moonrise Kingdom\" received widespread acclaim; review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 94% based on reviews from 223 critics, with an average score of 8.2/10.",
"Review aggregation website Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 84 (out of 100), based on 43 reviews, indicating \"universal acclaim\".",
"Peter Bradshaw of \"The Guardian\" gives the film 4 stars out of 5, calling it \"another sprightly confection of oddities, attractively eccentric, witty and strangely clothed.\"",
"Christopher Orr of \"The Atlantic\" wrote that \"Moonrise Kingdom\" \"captures the texture of childhood summers, the sense of having a limited amount of time in which to do unlimited things\" and is \"Anderson's best live-action feature\" because \"it takes as its primary subject matter odd, precocious children, rather than the damaged and dissatisfied adults they will one day become.",
"\"Kristen M. Jones of \"Film Comment\" wrote that the film \"has a spontaneity and yearning that lend an easy comic rhythm\", but it also has a \"rapt quality, as if we are viewing the events through Suzy's binoculars or reading the story under the covers by a flashlight.\""
] |
[
0
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Mexico
|
What toppings are on a Mexican burger?
|
Hamburger
| true | 9FOOD
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[
0
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[
"In Mexico, burgers (called \"hamburguesas\") are served with ham and slices of American cheese (locally called \"queso americano\") fried on top of the meat patty.",
"The toppings include avocado, jalapeño slices, shredded lettuce, onion and tomato.",
"The bun has mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard.",
"In certain parts are served with bacon, which can be fried or grilled along with the meat patty.",
"A slice of pineapple is also a usual option, and the variation is known as a \"Hawaiian hamburger\".",
"Some restaurants' burgers also have barbecue sauce, and others also replace the ground patty with sirloin, Al pastor meat, barbacoa or a fried chicken breast.",
"Many burger chains from the United States can be found all over Mexico, including Carl's Jr., Sonic, as well as global chains such as McDonald's and Burger King."
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[
0
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Cast
|
The part of Alphonse Simone in "American Hustle" was played by whom?
|
American Hustle
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"Several of the characters are fictional versions of specific real-life counterparts:",
" Christian Bale as Irving Rosenfeld (based on Melvin Weinberg )",
" Bradley Cooper as FBI Agent Richard \"Richie\" DiMaso (based on Anthony Amoroso, Jr.)",
" Amy Adams as Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly (based on Evelyn Knight)",
" Jeremy Renner as Mayor Carmine Polito (based on Angelo Errichetti)",
" Jennifer Lawrence as Rosalyn Rosenfeld (based on Cynthia Marie Weinberg)",
" Louis C.K.",
"as Stoddard Thorsen",
" Jack Huston as Pete Musane",
" Saïd Taghmaoui as Irving's Sheikh Plant",
" Michael Peña as Paco Hernandez / Sheikh Abdullah",
" Shea Whigham as Carl Elway",
" Erica McDermott as Carl Elway's Assistant / Addie Abrams",
" Alessandro Nivola as Anthony Amado",
" Elisabeth Röhm as Dolly Polito (based on Dolores \"Dodie\" Errichetti)",
" Colleen Camp as Brenda",
" Paul Herman as Alfonse Simone",
" Anthony Zerbe as a US Senator from New Jersey (based on US Senator Harrison A.",
"\"Pete\" Williams)",
" Robert De Niro (uncredited) as Victor Tellegio (based on mobster Vincent Alo)"
] |
[] |
Government and politics
|
Who were the top two candidates for the Chilean presidency in 2010?
|
Chile
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"The current Constitution of Chile was approved in a national plebiscite —regarded as \"highly irregular\" by some observers— in September 1980, under the military government of Augusto Pinochet.",
"It entered into force in March 1981.",
"After Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the constitution was amended to ease provisions for future amendments to the Constitution.",
"In September 2005, President Ricardo Lagos signed into law several constitutional amendments passed by Congress.",
"These include eliminating the positions of appointed senators and senators for life, granting the President authority to remove the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces, and reducing the presidential term from six to four years.",
"The Congress of Chile has a 38-seat Senate and a 120-member Chamber of Deputies.",
"Senators serve for eight years with staggered terms, while deputies are elected every 4 years.",
"The current Senate has a 20–18 split in favor of the opposition coalition.",
"The last congressional elections were held on 13 December 2009, concurrently with the presidential election.",
"The current lower house-the Chamber of Deputies-contains 58 members of the governing center-right coalition, 54 from the center-left opposition and 8 from small parties or independents.",
"The Congress is located in the port city of Valparaíso, about west of the capital, Santiago.",
"Chile's congressional elections are governed by a binomial system that, for the most part, rewards the two largest representations equally, often regardless of their relative popular support.",
"Parties are thus forced to form wide coalitions and, historically, the two largest coalitions (Concertación and Alianza) split most of the seats.",
"Only if the leading coalition ticket out-polls the second place coalition by a margin of more than 2-to-1 does the winning coalition gain both seats, which tends to lock the legislative in a roughly 50-50 split.",
"Chile's judiciary is independent and includes a court of appeal, a system of military courts, a constitutional tribunal, and the Supreme Court of Chile.",
"In June 2005, Chile completed a nationwide overhaul of its criminal justice system.",
"The reform has replaced inquisitorial proceedings with an adversarial system more similar to that of the United States.",
"In the 2001 congressional elections, the conservative Independent Democratic Union (UDI) surpassed the Christian Democrats for the first time to become the largest party in the lower house.",
"In the 2005 parliamentary election, both leading parties, the Christian Democrats and the UDI lost representation in favor of their respective allies Socialist Party (which became the biggest party in the Concertación block) and National Renewal in the right-wing alliance.",
"In the last legislative elections in Chile, the Communist Party won 3 out of 120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 30 years (the Communist Party was not allowed to exist as such during the dictatorship).",
"Chileans voted in the first round of presidential elections on 13 December 2009.",
"None of the four presidential candidates got more than 50 percent of the vote.",
"As a result, the top two candidates, center-left Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia coalition's Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle and center-right Coalición por el Cambio coalition's Sebastián Piñera, competed in a run-off election on 17 January 2010, which Piñera won.",
"This was Chile's fifth presidential election since the end of the Pinochet era.",
"All five have been judged free and fair.",
"The president is constitutionally barred from serving consecutive terms."
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Military
|
what are the contested territorial disputes that are border to Brazil?
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Brazil
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7
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"The armed forces of Brazil are the second-largest in Latin America, consist of the Brazilian Army, the Brazilian Navy, and the Brazilian Air Force with a total of 371,199 active personnel.",
"The Army has 235,978 active personnel.",
"The Military Police (States' Military Police) is described as an ancillary force of the Army by the constitution, but is under the control of each state's governor.",
"The Navy once operated some of the most powerful warships in the world with the two dreadnoughts, which sparked a South American dreadnought race between Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.",
"Today, it is a green water force and one of the ten navies that possesses an aircraft carrier.",
"The Air Force has about 700 manned aircraft in service.",
"Brazil has not been invaded since 1865 during the Paraguayan War.",
"Additionally, Brazil has no contested territorial disputes with any of its neighbours and neither does it have rivalries, like Chile and Bolivia have with each other.",
"Since 1648 the Brazilian Armed Forces have been relied upon to fight in defense of Brazilian sovereignty and to suppress civil rebellions.",
"The Brazilian military has also three times intervened militarily to overthrow the Brazilian government.",
"It has built a tradition of participating in UN peacekeeping missions such as in Haiti and East Timor."
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[
0
] |
Online games
|
What games did Playniac create?
|
Kung Fu Panda
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[
0
] |
[
"Two popular online games, \"The Adversary\" and \"The Field of Fiery Danger\", were created by Playniac to accompany the movie release.",
"\"The Adversary\" is based on the moment where the main character Po, voiced by Jack Black, attacks a punchbag and underestimates its response.",
"\"The Field of Fiery Danger\" is based on scenes where Po accidentally falls into the pit of fire spouting tubes and also the moment where the kung fu master Shifu realizes that the only way to get through to Po is with food.",
"Both games have 20 challenging levels and were featured as game of the week on the Nickelodeon web site."
] |
[
0
] |
Background and release
|
How helped write the song "Set Fire to the Rain" with Adele?
|
Set Fire to the Rain
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
1
] |
[
"",
"\"Set Fire to the Rain\" was written by Adele and Fraser T Smith while the production was handled by Smith.",
"On 28 October, during an interview with \"Billboard\", Columbia Records revealed that \"Rumour Has It\" would be released as the third single from the album and serviced to pop and adult contemporary radio.",
"However, the release of the song was scrapped and \"Set Fire to the Rain\" was released as the third US-single on 21 November 2011.",
"A spokesperson for Columbia, Pete Cosenza stated: \"Our research found more programmer preference for 'Set Fire to the Rain'.",
"[...] Both 'Rumour' and 'Fire' came back strong, but 'Fire' was a bit stronger.",
"[...] It's a better plan to go with 'Fire' over 'Rumour' at pop and adult radio.",
"[...] Everyone, from radio to the buying public, seems to be on board.\""
] |
[
5
] |
Apoenzymes
|
How is apoenzyme known as a protein?
|
Biomolecule
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
0,
1
] |
[
"An apoenzyme (or, generally, an apoprotein) is the protein without any small-molecule cofactors, substrates, or inhibitors bound.",
"It is often important as an inactive storage, transport, or secretory form of a protein.",
"This is required, for instance, to protect the secretory cell from the activity of that protein.",
"Apoenzymes becomes active enzymes on addition of a cofactor.",
"Cofactors can be either inorganic (e.g., metal ions and iron-sulfur clusters) or organic compounds, (e.g., flavin and heme).",
"Organic cofactors can be either prosthetic groups, which are tightly bound to an enzyme, or coenzymes, which are released from the enzyme's active site during the reaction."
] |
[
5
] |
Abstract
|
Who confirmed the true nature of galaxies?
|
Nebula
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
3
] |
[
"A nebula (from Latin: \"cloud\"; pl.",
"\"nebulae\" or \"nebulæ\", with ligature, or \"nebulas\") is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases.",
"Originally, \"nebula\" was a name for any diffuse astronomical object, including galaxies beyond the Milky Way.",
"The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the \"Andromeda Nebula\" (and spiral galaxies in general as \"spiral nebulae\") before the true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble and others.",
"Nebulae are often star-forming regions, such as in the Eagle Nebula.",
"This nebula is depicted in one of NASA's most famous images, the \"Pillars of Creation\".",
"In these regions the formations of gas, dust, and other materials \"clump\" together to form larger masses, which attract further matter, and eventually will become massive enough to form stars.",
"The remaining materials are then believed to form planets, and other planetary system objects."
] |
[
3
] |
Financing the war
|
How many men were Austrian and Russian soldiers in 1813?
|
Napoleonic Wars
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
2
] |
[
"A key element in British success was its ability to mobilize the nation's industrial and financial resources and apply them to defeating France.",
"With a population of 16 million Britain was barely half the size of France with 30 million.",
"In terms of soldiers the French advantage was offset by British subsidies that paid for a large proportion of the Austrian and Russian soldiers, peaking at about 450,000 men in 1813.",
"By the terms of the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1803, Britain paid a subsidy of ₤1.5 million pounds for every 100,000 Russian soldiers in the field.",
"Most important, the British national output remained strong and the well-organized business sector channeled products into what the military needed.",
"Britain used its economic power to expand the Royal Navy, doubling the number of frigates and increasing the number of large ships of the line by 50%, while increasing the roster of sailors from 15,000 to 133,000 in eight years after the war began in 1793.",
"France, meanwhile, saw its navy shrink by more than half.",
"The system of smuggling finished products into the continent undermined French efforts to ruin the British economy by cutting off markets.",
"Subsidies to Russia and Austria kept them in the war.",
"The British budget in 1814 reached £66,000,000, including £10 million for the Royal Navy, £40 million for the army, £10 million for the allies, and £38 million as interest on the national debt.",
"The national debt soared to £679 million, more than double the GDP.",
"It was willingly supported by hundreds of thousands of investors and tax payers, despite the higher taxes on land and a new income tax.",
"The whole cost of the war came to £831 million.",
"By contrast the French financial system was inadequate and Napoleon's forces had to rely in part on requisitions from conquered lands."
] |
[
5
] |
Historical accuracy
|
How many people in the crew were dedicated Nazis?
|
Das Boot
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
0
] |
[
"In the film, there is only one ardent Nazi in the crew of 40, namely the First Watch Officer (referred to comically in one scene as \"Unser Hitlerjugendführer\", \"Our Hitler Youth Leader\"), with the rest of the officers either indifferent or, in the Captain's case, openly cynical.",
"The enlisted sailors and non-commissioned officers are portrayed as apolitical.",
"In his book \"Iron Coffins\", former U-boat commander Herbert A. Werner states that the selection of naval personnel based on their loyalty to the party occurred only later in the war (from 1943 onward), when the U-boats were suffering high casualties.",
"At that stage in the war, morale was surely declining and this degree of skepticism may have occurred.",
"In support of \"Das Boot\" on this subject, U-Boat historian Michael Gannon maintains that the U-boat navy was one of the least pro-Nazi branches of the German armed forces.",
"Even though the beginning and the end of the film occur in the port of La Rochelle, it does not correspond historically.",
"The submarine base in La Rochelle was not functional before November 1941, and at the time of the film the port was dried up.",
"Moreover, none of the British fighter-bombers of late 1941 to early 1942 had the range to bomb La Rochelle from bases in the U.K.; however, it is possible the fighters were carrier-based and not land based.",
"While Saint-Nazaire was the base used in the novel, the film was changed to La Rochelle because its appearance had not changed to such a large degree in the years since World War II.",
"In real life, the \"U-96\" was based at Saint-Nazaire in late 1941.",
"It survived this period, but much like its on-screen fate, it actually was sunk by Allied bombers at its berth in Wilhelmshaven in March 1945."
] |
[
5
] |
Chemical structure
|
Who invented chemical bonds and molecular orbitals?
|
Chemistry
| true | 8SCIENCE
|
[
6
] |
[
"",
"[[File:Rutherford gold foil experiment results.svg|right|upright|thumb|\"Top:\" Expected results: alpha particles passing through the plum pudding model of the atom undisturbed.<br>\"Bottom:\" Observed results: a small portion of the particles were deflected, indicating a small, concentrated charge.",
"]]At the turn of the twentieth century the theoretical underpinnings of chemistry were finally understood due to a series of remarkable discoveries that succeeded in probing and discovering the very nature of the internal structure of atoms.",
"In 1897, J. J. Thomson of Cambridge University discovered the electron and soon after the French scientist Becquerel as well as the couple Pierre and Marie Curie investigated the phenomenon of radioactivity.",
"In a series of pioneering scattering experiments Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester discovered the internal structure of the atom and the existence of the proton, classified and explained the different types of radioactivity and successfully transmuted the first element by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles.",
"His work on atomic structure was improved on by his students, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and Henry Moseley.",
"The electronic theory of chemical bonds and molecular orbitals was developed by the American scientists Linus Pauling and Gilbert N. Lewis.",
"The year 2011 was declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Chemistry.",
"It was an initiative of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and involves chemical societies, academics, and institutions worldwide and relied on individual initiatives to organize local and regional activities."
] |
[
3
] |
Dishes
|
Are uddon noodles a summer or winter dish?
|
Udon
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
0
] |
[
"Like many Japanese noodles, udon noodles are served chilled in the summer and hot in the winter.",
"Toppings are chosen to reflect the seasons.",
"Most toppings are added without much cooking, although some are deep-fried.",
"Many of these dishes may also be prepared with soba."
] |
[] |
Alternate history
|
In the episode "Days of Infamy", what country carries out an attack in the morning?
|
Attack on Pearl Harbor
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
4
] |
[
"\"Days of Infamy\" is a novel by Harry Turtledove in which the Japanese attack on Hawaii is not limited to a strike on Pearl Harbor, but is instead a full-scale invasion and eventual occupation after U.S. forces are driven off the islands (something one of the key planners of the attack, Commander Minoru Genda, wanted but the senior officers realized was impossible).",
"The many viewpoint characters (a Turtledove trademark) are drawn from Hawaiian civilians (both white and Japanese) as well as soldiers and sailors from both Japan and the USA.",
"Turtledove has to date written one sequel, \"The End of the Beginning\".",
" The airstrike and Hawaii-invasion premise of \"Days of Infamy\" was earlier used in the first episode of the anime OVA series \"Konpeki no Kantai\".",
"In the episode, Japan carries out the attack in the early hours of the morning, having perfected night carrier operations.",
"The raid begins with a flare drop by pathfinders.",
"The entire base (including the repair facilities) and a number of supply ships in the harbor are destroyed by daybreak.",
"As for the main body of the Pacific Fleet, the Combined Fleet regroups and annihilates them while they return to Pearl Harbor.",
"The episode, which is divided into three stages in the series' game version, ends with Japanese troops landing at all islands in Hawaii."
] |
[
0
] |
Annual events
|
How many Garden festivals have taken place at Epcot?
|
Epcot
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
3
] |
[
"Epcot hosts a number of special events during the year:",
"The Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival, inaugurated in 1993, uses specially-themed floral displays throughout the park, including topiary sculptures of Disney characters.",
"Guests can meet gardening experts and learn new ideas they can use in their own home gardens.",
"The 18th annual event was scheduled for March 2 – May 15.",
"Each event takes more than a full year to plan and more than 20,000 cast member hours.",
"The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, inaugurated in 1995, draws amateur and professional gourmets to sample delicacies from all around the world, including nations that do not have a permanent presence in World Showcase.",
"Celebrity chefs are often on-hand to host the events.",
"In 2008, the festival featured the Bocuse d'Or USA, the American semifinal of the biennial Bocuse d'Or cooking competition.",
"Holidays Around the World is Epcot's annual holiday celebration.",
"The World Showcase pavilions feature storytellers describing their nation's holiday traditions, and three nightly performances of the \"Candlelight Processional\" featuring an auditioned mass choir and a celebrity guest narrating the story of Christmas.",
"During \"Holidays Around the World,\" Illuminations: Reflections of Earth features a special extended ending.",
"On New Years Eve, the park offers a variety of additional entertainment including live DJ dance areas throughout the park and a special New Years Eve countdown edition of ."
] |
[
5
] |
History
|
Who moved the "Mona Lisa" to the Palace of Versailles?
|
Mona Lisa
| false | 3ART
|
[
9
] |
[
"Leonardo da Vinci began painting the \"Mona Lisa\" in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy.",
"Although the Louvre states that it was \"doubtless painted between 1503 and 1506\", the art historian Martin Kemp says there is some difficulty in confirming the actual dates with certainty.",
"According to Leonardo's contemporary, Giorgio Vasari, \"after he had lingered over it four years, left it unfinished\".",
"Leonardo, later in his life, is said to have regretted \"never having completed a single work\".",
"In 1516 Leonardo was invited by King François I to work at the Clos Lucé near the king's castle in Amboise.",
"It is believed that he took the \"Mona Lisa\" with him and continued to work after he moved to France.",
"Art historian Carmen C. Bambach has concluded that da Vinci probably continued refining the work until 1516 or 1517.",
"On his death the painting was inherited, among other works, by his pupil and assistant Salaì.",
"The king bought the painting for 4,000 \"écus\" and kept it at Palace of Fontainebleau, where it remained until given to Louis XIV.",
"Louis XIV moved the painting to the Palace of Versailles.",
"After the French Revolution, it was moved to the Louvre, but spent a brief period in the bedroom of Napoleon in the Tuileries Palace.",
"During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) it was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal.",
"During World War II, the painting was again removed from the Louvre and taken safely, first to Château d'Amboise, then to the Loc-Dieu Abbey and Château de Chambord, then finally to the Ingres Museum in Montauban."
] |
[
3
] |
Release
|
What year was the Matrix first released?
|
The Matrix
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
1
] |
[
"",
"\"The Matrix\" was released on , 1999.",
"After its DVD release, it was the first DVD to sell more than one million copies in the US, and went on to be the first to sell more than three million copies in the US.",
"By , 2003, one month after \"The Matrix Reloaded\" DVD was released, the sales of \"The Matrix\" DVD had exceeded 30 million copies.",
"The Ultimate Matrix Collection was released on HD DVD on , 2007 and on Blu-ray on , 2008.",
"The film was also released standalone in a 10th anniversary edition Blu-ray in the Digibook format on , 2009, 10 years to the day after the film was released theatrically."
] |
[
0
] |
Block signals
|
What do volleyball players do to hide block signals from the opposing team?
|
Beach volleyball
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
1
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
0
] |
Old age, 1513–19
|
Where is da Vinci's grave?
|
Leonardo da Vinci
| true | 3ART
|
[
13,
14
] |
[
"From September 1513 to 1516, under Pope Leo X, Leonardo spent much of his time living in the Belvedere in the Vatican in Rome, where Raphael and Michelangelo were both active at the time.",
"In October 1515, Francis I of France recaptured Milan.",
"On December 19, Leonardo was present at the meeting of Francis I and Pope Leo X, which took place in Bologna.",
"Leonardo was commissioned to make for Francis a mechanical lion which could walk forward, then open its chest to reveal a cluster of lilies.",
"In 1516, he entered François' service, being given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé near the king's residence at the royal Château d'Amboise.",
"It was here that he spent the last three years of his life, accompanied by his friend and apprentice, Count Francesco Melzi, and supported by a pension totalling 10,000 scudi.",
"Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, on May 2, 1519.",
"Francis I had become a close friend.",
"Vasari records that the king held Leonardo's head in his arms as he died, although this story, beloved by the French and portrayed in romantic paintings by Ingres, Ménageot and other French artists, as well as by Angelica Kauffman, may be legend rather than fact.",
"Vasari states that in his last days, Leonardo sent for a priest to make his confession and to receive the Holy Sacrament.",
"In accordance with his will, sixty beggars followed his casket.",
"Melzi was the principal heir and executor, receiving as well as money, Leonardo's paintings, tools, library and personal effects.",
"Leonardo also remembered his other long-time pupil and companion, Salai and his servant Battista di Vilussis, who each received half of Leonardo's vineyards, his brothers who received land, and his serving woman who received a black cloak \"of good stuff\" with a fur edge.",
"Leonardo da Vinci was buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in Château d'Amboise, in France.",
"Some 20 years after Leonardo's death, Francis was reported by the goldsmith and sculptor Benevenuto Cellini as saying: \"There had never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher.\""
] |
[
4
] |
Analysis and commentary
|
Who said that Zuckenberg is a bigger influence on Modern Family than Norman Lear?
|
Modern Family
| false | 1TV
|
[
0
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
3
] |
Western politics and society
|
Which intelligence agency did Louis de Wohl work for?
|
Astrology
| true | 8SCIENCE
|
[
3
] |
[
"Cultural impact.",
"Western politics and society.",
"In the West, political leaders have sometimes consulted astrologers.",
"Louis de Wohl worked as an astrologer for the British intelligence agency MI5, after it was claimed that Hitler used astrology to time his actions.",
"The War Office was \"interested to know what Hitler's own astrologers would be telling him from week to week\".",
"In fact, de Wohl's predictions were so inaccurate that he was soon labelled a \"complete charlatan\" and it was later shown that Hitler considered astrology to be \"complete nonsense\".",
"After John Hinckley's attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, first lady Nancy Reagan commissioned astrologer Joan Quigley to act as the secret White House astrologer.",
"However, Quigley's role ended in 1988 when it became public through the memoirs of former chief of staff, Donald Regan.",
"There was a boom in interest in astrology in the late 1960s.",
"The sociologist Marcello Truzzi described three levels of involvement of \"Astrology-believers\" to account for its revived popularity in the face of scientific discrediting.",
"He found that most astrology-believers did not claim it was a scientific explanation with predictive power.",
"Instead, those superficially involved, knowing \"next to nothing\" about astrology's 'mechanics', read newspaper astrology columns, and could benefit from \"tension-management of anxieties\" and \"a cognitive belief-system that transcends science\".",
"Those at the second level usually had their horoscopes cast and sought advice and predictions.",
"They were much younger than those at the first level, and could benefit from knowledge of the language of astrology and the resulting ability to belong to a coherent and exclusive group.",
"Those at the third level were highly involved and usually cast horoscopes for themselves.",
"Astrology provided this small minority of astrology-believers with a \"\"meaningful\" view of their universe and them an \"understanding\" of their place in it.\"",
"This third group took astrology seriously, possibly as a \"sacred canopy\", whereas the other two groups took it playfully and irreverently.",
"In 1953, sociologist Theodor W. Adorno conducted a study of the astrology column of a Los Angeles newspaper as part of a project examining mass culture in capitalist society.",
"Adorno believed that popular astrology, as a device, invariably led to statements which encouraged conformity, and that astrologers who went against conformity with statement discouraging performance at work etc.",
"would risk losing their jobs.",
"Adorno concluded that astrology was a large-scale manifestation of systematic irrationalism, where individuals were subtly being led to believe that the author of the column was addressing them directly through the use of flattery and vague generalisations.",
"Adorno drew a parallel with the phrase opium of the people, by Karl Marx, by commenting \"occultism is the metaphysic of the dopes\".",
"A 2005 Gallup poll and a 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that 25% of U.S. adults believe in astrology."
] |
[] |
Release and promotion
|
What was the first song released from Take Care by Drake?
|
Take Care (album)
| false | 0MUSIC
|
[
0
] |
[
"The first track Drake released was \"Dreams Money Can Buy\" on May 20, 2011 through his October's Very Own blog.",
"Drake mentioned this song was \"A Story of Dreams, mixed with reality,\" and that this was not his first single off the album but that it would be included on \"Take Care\".",
"On June 9, 2011, a second track titled \"Marvins Room\" was released via his blog.",
"Drake initially stated that the song would not be featured on \"Take Care\", but because of the song's unexpected success, prompting it was released as a digital and radio single on July 22, 2011 and will be on \"Take Care\".",
"\"Trust Issues\" was then released shortly after on his blog, but is confirmed not to be on the album via Drake's Twitter.",
"He explained that the song was an idea he had from I'm On One and made it \"just for fun.\"",
"However, in an interview, Drake stated that Trust Issues, along with Dreams Money Can Buy, will be included in the Birthday Edition of the album.",
"On September 10, 2011, Drake released a new song titled \"Club Paradise\" on his October's Very Own blog.",
"\"Dropping this for our boy Avery...this was his favorite sh*t during the recording process.",
"2 more songs coming tonight as well.",
"ovoxo,\" he wrote on his blog.",
"On September 11, 2011, Drake released another track entitled \"Free Spirit\" featuring Rick Ross and blogged that another was to be released that night, as well.",
"Later that night he released a remix of Waka Flocka Flame's \"Round of Applause\".",
"On September 23, 2011, Drake released the official album cover to \"Take Care\".",
"On October 20, 2011, an unfinished version of \"The Real Her\" featuring only Lil Wayne was leaked online.",
"On October 8, 2011, Drake announced on his OVO blog that \"Take Care\" would be pushed back until November 15 because of three sample clearances (Take Care, Cameras, & Practice).",
"It was originally to be released on his 25th birthday, October 24, 2011.",
"The Club Paradise Tour was revealed to start in November on Twitter.",
"However, It was revealed that the tour was delayed until after Christmas/New Year break so Drake could perform at more schools.",
"A “chopped and screwed” version of the album remixed by OG Ron C titled \"Chop Care\" was released on November 29, 2011, and received over 1 million downloads in the first 48 hours.",
"It was featured on a variety of media blogs, magazines, and newspapers.",
"It was included on year-end lists by several publications, including The New York Times which gave major praise."
] |
[
0
] |
Foreign relations
|
In how many countries does Norway operate an embassy?
|
Norway
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0
] |
[
"Norway maintains embassies in 86 countries.",
"60 countries maintain an embassy in Norway, all of them in the capital, Oslo.",
"Norway is a founding member of the United Nations (UN), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Council of Europe and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).",
"Norway issued applications for accession to the European Union (EU) and its predecessors in 1962, 1967 and 1992, respectively.",
"While Denmark, Sweden and Finland obtained membership, the Norwegian electorate rejected the treaties of accession in referenda in 1972 and 1994.",
"After the 1994 referendum, Norway maintained its membership in the European Economic Area (EEA), an arrangement granting the country access to the internal market of the Union, on the condition that Norway implements those of the Union's pieces of legislation which are deemed relevant (of which there were approximately seven thousand by 2010) Successive Norwegian governments have, since 1994, requested participation in parts of the EU's co-operation that go beyond the provisions of the EEA agreement.",
"Non-voting participation by Norway has been granted in, for instance, the Union's Common Security and Defence Policy, the Schengen Agreement, and the European Defence Agency, as well as 19 separate programmes.",
"Norway contributes to international development.",
"In addition, it participated in the 1990s brokering of the Oslo Accords, an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.",
"These were unsuccessful."
] |
[
5
] |
Box lacrosse
|
What is box lacrosse?
|
Lacrosse
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
0
] |
[
"Box lacrosse is played by teams of six on a hockey rink where the ice has been removed or covered by artificial turf, or in an indoor soccer or lacrosse field.",
"The enclosed playing area is called a box, in contrast to the open playing field of the traditional game.",
"This version of the game was introduced in the 1930s to promote business for hockey arenas, and within several years had nearly supplanted field lacrosse in Canada.",
"Box lacrosse is played at the highest level by the \"Senior A\" divisions of the Canadian Lacrosse Association and the National Lacrosse League (NLL).",
"The National Lacrosse League employs some minor rule changes from the Canadien Lacrosse Association (CLA) rules.",
"Notably, the games are played during the winter.",
"The NLL games consist of four fifteen-minute quarters compared with three periods of twenty minutes each (similar to ice hockey) in CLA games (multiple 15-minute OT periods for tied games, until whoever scores first).",
"NLL players may use only sticks with hollow shafts, while CLA permits solid wooden sticks.",
":The goals in box lacrosse are much smaller than field lacrosse, traditionally wide by tall in box, and wide by tall in the NLL.",
"Also, the goaltender wears much more protective padding, including a massive chest protector and armguard combination known as \"uppers\", large shin guards known as leg pads (both of which must follow strict measurement guidelines), and ice hockey-style masks or lacrosse helmets.",
"Also, at the professional level, box lacrosse goaltenders often use traditional wooden sticks outside of the NLL, which does not allow wooden sticks.",
"This makes Box Lacrosse faster and rougher than the traditional Field Lacrosse.",
"The style of the game is quick, accelerated by the close confines of the floor and a shot clock.",
"The shot clock requires the attacking team to take a shot on goal within 30 seconds of gaining possession of the ball.",
"In addition, players must advance the ball from their own defensive end to the offensive side of the floor within 10 seconds.",
"Box lacrosse is also a much more physical game.",
"Since cross checking is legal in box lacrosse, players wear rib pads in addition to the shoulder and elbow pads that field lacrosse players wear.",
"Box lacrosse players wear a different type of helmet as well, a hockey helmet with a box lacrosse cage.",
"For most penalties, the offending player is sent to the penalty box and his team has to play without him (thus lacking one player) for a short amount of time.",
"Most penalties last for two minutes, unless a five-minute major penalty has been assessed.",
"What separates box lacrosse (and ice hockey) from other sports is that at the top levels of professional and junior lacrosse, a five-minute major penalty is given and the players are not ejected for participating in a fight."
] |
[
0
] |
Series overview
|
With whom does the town's only hope lie?
|
Once Upon a Time (TV series)
| true | 1TV
|
[
2
] |
[
"The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales and other stories that were transported to the \"real world\" town and robbed of their original memories by the Evil Queen Regina (Lana Parrilla), using a powerful curse obtained from Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle).",
"The residents of Storybrooke have lived an unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own lack of aging.",
"The town's only hope lies with a bail bonds-woman and bounty hunter named Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), the daughter of Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), who was transported from the Enchanted Forest within the fairy tale world as an infant before she could be cursed.",
"As such, she is the only person who can break the curse and restore the characters' lost memories.",
"She is aided by her son, Henry (Jared S. Gilmore), with whom she has recently reunited after giving him up for adoption upon his birth, and his book of fairy tales which holds the key to ending the curse.",
"Henry is also the adopted son of Regina, mayor of Storybrooke, who is actually Henry's step-great-grandmother, providing a source of both conflict and common interest between the two women.",
"Episodes usually have one segment that details the characters' past lives, which when serialized, adds a piece to the puzzle about the characters and their connection to the events that preceded the curse and its consequences.",
"The other, set in the present day, follows a similar pattern with a different outcome but also offers similar insights."
] |
[] |
Frame
|
Why were crosspieces made from maple rather than beech starting in 1970?
|
Mona Lisa
| true | 3ART
|
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3
] |
[
"Because the \"Mona Lisa\"'s poplar support expands and contracts with changes in humidity, the picture has experienced some warping.",
"In response to warping and swelling experienced during its storage during World War II, and to prepare the picture for an exhibit to honor the anniversary of Leonardo's 500th birthday, the \"Mona Lisa\" was fitted in 1951 with a flexible oak frame with beech crosspieces.",
"This flexible frame, which is used in addition to the decorative frame described below, exerts pressure on the panel to keep it from warping further.",
"In 1970, the beech crosspieces were switched to maple after it was found that the beechwood had been infested with insects.",
"In 2004–2005, a conservation and study team replaced the maple crosspieces with sycamore ones, and an additional metal crosspiece was added for scientific measurement of the panel's warp.",
"The \"Mona Lisa\" has had many different decorative frames in its history, owing to changes in taste over the centuries.",
"In 1909, the Comtesse de Béhague gave the portrait its current frame, a Renaissance-era work consistent with the historical period of the \"Mona Lisa\".",
"The edges of the painting have been trimmed at least once in its history to fit the picture into various frames, but no part of the original paint layer has been trimmed."
] |
[
1
] |
Religion
|
Religion was an important part of life for which court?
|
Forbidden City
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
0
] |
[
"Religion was an important part of life for the imperial court.",
"In the Qing dynasty, the Palace of Earthly Harmony became a place of Manchu Shamanist ceremony.",
"At the same time, the native Chinese Taoist religion continued to have an important role throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties.",
"There were two Taoist shrines, one in the imperial garden and another in the central area of the Inner Court.",
"Another prevalent form of religion in the Qing dynasty palace was Buddhism.",
"A number of temples and shrines were scattered throughout the Inner Court, including that of Tibetan Buddhism or Lamaism.",
"Buddhist iconography also proliferated in the interior decorations of many buildings.",
"Of these, the Pavilion of the Rain of Flowers is one of the most important.",
"It housed a large number of Buddhist statues, icons, and mandalas, placed in ritualistic arrangements."
] |
[] |
Event horizon
|
From the inside of an event horizon of a black hole, what can escape?
|
Black hole
| true | 8SCIENCE
|
[
0,
1
] |
[
"The defining feature of a black hole is the appearance of an event horizon—a boundary in spacetime through which matter and light can only pass inward towards the mass of the black hole.",
"Nothing, not even light, can escape from inside the event horizon.",
"The event horizon is referred to as such because if an event occurs within the boundary, information from that event cannot reach an outside observer, making it impossible to determine if such an event occurred.",
"As predicted by general relativity, the presence of a mass deforms spacetime in such a way that the paths taken by particles bend towards the mass.",
"At the event horizon of a black hole, this deformation becomes so strong that there are no paths that lead away from the black hole.",
"To a distant observer, clocks near a black hole appear to tick more slowly than those further away from the black hole.",
"Due to this effect, known as gravitational time dilation, an object falling into a black hole appears to slow down as it approaches the event horizon, taking an infinite time to reach it.",
"At the same time, all processes on this object slow down, for a fixed outside observer, causing emitted light to appear redder and dimmer, an effect known as gravitational redshift.",
"Eventually, at a point just before it reaches the event horizon, the falling object becomes so dim that it can no longer be seen.",
"On the other hand, an indestructible observer falling into a black hole does not notice any of these effects as he crosses the event horizon.",
"According to his own clock, which appears to him to tick normally, he crosses the event horizon after a finite time without noting any singular behaviour.",
"In particular, he is unable to determine exactly when he crosses it, as it is impossible to determine the location of the event horizon from local observations.",
"The shape of the event horizon of a black hole is always approximately spherical.",
"For non-rotating (static) black holes the geometry is precisely spherical, while for rotating black holes the sphere is somewhat oblate."
] |
[
0
] |
Early life
|
What mental illness do historians hypotesize that Jackson Pollock may have had?
|
Jackson Pollock
| false | 3ART
|
[
16
] |
[
"Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, the youngest of five sons.",
"His parents, Stella May (née McClure) and LeRoy Pollock, were born and grew up in Tingley, Iowa and were educated at Tingley High School.",
"Pollock's mother is interred at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa.",
"His father had been born with the surname McCoy but took the surname of his adoptive parents, neighbors who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other.",
"Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; they were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent, respectively.",
"LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government, moving for different jobs.",
"Jackson grew up in Arizona and Chico, California.",
"While living in Echo Park, California, he enrolled at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, from which he was expelled.",
"He already had been expelled in 1928 from another high school.",
"During his early life, Pollock explored Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father.",
"In 1930, following his older brother Charles Pollock, he moved to New York City, where they both studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League.",
"Benton's rural American subject matter had little influence on Pollock's work, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were more lasting.",
"From 1938 to 1942, during the Great Depression, Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project.",
"Trying to deal with his established alcoholism, from 1938 through 1941 Pollock underwent Jungian psychotherapy with Dr. Joseph Henderson and later with Dr. Violet Staub de Laszlo in 1941-1942.",
"Henderson engaged him through his art, encouraging Pollock to make drawings.",
"Jungian concepts and archetypes were expressed in his paintings.",
"Recently historians have hypothesized that Pollock might have had bipolar disorder."
] |
[
0
] |
Ethnicity
|
What proportion of citizens identify as Viet or Kinh?
|
Vietnam
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0
] |
[
"According to the 2009 census, the dominant Viet or Kinh ethnic group constituted nearly 73.6 million people, or 85.8% of the population.",
"The Kinh population is concentrated mainly in the alluvial deltas and coastal plains of the country.",
"A largely homogeneous social and ethnic group, the Kinh possess significant political and economic influence over the country.",
"However, Vietnam is also home to 54 ethnic minority groups, including the Hmong, Dao, Tay, Thai, and Nùng.",
"Many ethnic minorities – such as the Muong, who are closely related to the Kinh – dwell in the highlands, which cover two-thirds of Vietnam's territory.",
"Before the Vietnam War, the population of the Central Highlands was almost exclusively Degar (including over 40 tribal groups); however, Ngô Đình Diệm's South Vietnamese government enacted a program of resettling Kinh in indigenous areas.",
"The Hoa (ethnic Chinese) and Khmer Krom people are mainly lowlanders.",
"As Sino-Vietnamese relations soured in 1978 and 1979, some 450,000 Hoa left Vietnam."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped tube called a snorkel, and usually fins?
|
Snorkeling
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
0
] |
[
"Snorkeling (British and Commonwealth English spelling: snorkelling) is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped tube called a snorkel, and usually fins.",
"In cooler waters, a wetsuit may also be worn.",
"Use of this equipment allows the snorkeler to observe underwater attractions for extended periods of time with relatively little effort.",
"Snorkeling is a popular recreational activity, particularly at tropical resort and scuba diving locations.",
"The primary appeal is the opportunity to observe underwater life in a natural setting without the complicated equipment and training required for scuba diving.",
"It appeals to all ages because of how little effort there is, and without the exhaled bubbles of scuba-diving equipment.",
"It is the basis of the two surface disciplines of the underwater sport of finswimming.",
"Snorkeling is also used by scuba divers when on the surface, in underwater sports such as underwater hockey and underwater rugby, and as part of water-based searches conducted by search and rescue teams."
] |
[
0
] |
Recording sessions
|
What date did the Beatles perform their Rooftop Concert at the Apple Building?
|
Let It Be
| false | 0MUSIC
|
[
4
] |
[
"A week later the band agreed to Harrison's terms for returning to the group, which included abandoning the cold and cavernous soundstage at Twickenham.",
"Sessions resumed on 22 January when the Beatles moved to Apple Studios.",
"Multi-track recording began on that date and continued until 31 January.",
"Harrison brought in keyboardist Billy Preston to ease tensions and supplement the band for the live performances.",
"Preston worked with the Beatles throughout their stay at Apple Studios.",
"The live concert idea culminated with the Beatles and Preston performing on 30 January on the rooftop of the Beatles' Apple Building at 3 Savile Row before a small audience of friends and employees.",
"The performance was cut short by the police after complaints about noise.",
"The complete concert has circulated among bootleg collectors for many years.",
"Three numbers recorded at the rooftop concert, \"Dig a Pony\", \"I've Got a Feeling\" and \"One After 909\", do appear on the album, while several spoken parts of the concert appear between tracks that were recorded in studio.",
"The band played hundreds of songs during the \"Get Back\"/\"Let It Be\" sessions.",
"Aside from original songs ultimately released on the \"Let It Be\" album, there were early versions of many songs that appeared on \"Abbey Road\", including \"Mean Mr. Mustard\", \"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window\", \"Sun King\", \"Polythene Pam\", \"Golden Slumbers\", \"Carry That Weight\", \"Something\", \"Maxwell's Silver Hammer\", \"Oh!",
"Darling\", \"Octopus's Garden\", and \"I Want You (She's So Heavy)\".",
"Still others would eventually end up on Beatles' solo albums, including Lennon's \"Jealous Guy\" (called \"Child of Nature\" at the time and originally written and rehearsed for the \"White Album\") and \"Gimme Some Truth\", Harrison's \"All Things Must Pass\", \"Isn't It a Pity\", \"Let It Down\" and \"Hear Me Lord\", and McCartney's \"Another Day\", \"Teddy Boy\", \"Junk\" (originally written for the \"White Album\") and \"The Back Seat of My Car\".",
"Much of the band's attention was focused on a broad range of covers, extended jams on 12-bar blues, and occasional new efforts such as Lennon's uncompleted \"Madman\".",
"These included classical pieces such as Samuel Barber's \"Adagio for Strings\", jazz standards such as \"Ain't She Sweet\", and an encyclopaedic array of songs from the early rock and roll era such as \"Stand By Me\", \"Words of Love\", \"Lonely Sea\", \"Bésame Mucho\" by Mexican composer Consuelo Velázquez (a song that was part of The Beatles' repertoire in the early days) and \"Blue Suede Shoes\".",
"Multiple Bob Dylan songs were also played, including \"Positively 4th Street\", \"All Along the Watchtower\" and \"I Shall Be Released\".",
"Only a handful of these were complete performances; the vast majority were fragmentary renditions with at most a verse or two of misremembered lyrics.",
"The rehearsals and recording sessions were filmed and formed the basis of the Beatles' film of the same name.",
"Two songs appearing on the album were not recorded during the Apple Studios sessions.",
"\"Across the Universe\" had been recorded at EMI Studios in February 1968, and \"I Me Mine\" was not recorded until January 1970 after John Lennon's unannounced departure from the group."
] |
[
0
] |
Home media
|
Name the 3 countries where the Blu-ray package of all four seasons including "The Final Break" has been released.
|
Prison Break
| false | 1TV
|
[
7
] |
[
"The DVD and Blu-ray Disc sets of each season were released after their television broadcast in various regions.",
"At the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that the complete first season of \"Prison Break\" was to be released on Blu-ray in early 2007.",
"The release date was later announced to be November 13, 2007 and \"Prison Break\" became the first television show to be released on Blu-ray Disc by Fox.",
"The Blu-ray box set contains six discs and includes all the DVD box set's special features.",
"A DVD set containing the first three seasons was released on May 19, 2008 in Region 2.",
"The television movie, \"\", was included in the Season 4 set in Regions 2 and 4, but was released separately in Region 1.",
"\"The Final Break\" was later released separately in Regions 2 and 4.",
"In France, Germany and the United Kingdom, a Blu-ray package of all four seasons including \"The Final Break\" has been released.",
"Over a year after its initial release, Season 4 was later re-issued in Region 4 without \"The Final Break\" included."
] |
[
4
] |
Geology
|
In the Mesozoic era, which formations were re-exposed?
|
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
10
] |
[
"The majority of rocks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are Late Precambrian rocks that are part of the Ocoee Supergroup formation.",
"This group consists of metamorphosed sandstones, phyllites, schists, and slate.",
"Early Precambrian rocks are not only the oldest rocks in the park but also the dominant rock type in sites such as the Raven Fork Valley and upper Tuckasegee River between Cherokee and Bryson City.",
"They primarily consist of metamorphic gneiss, granite, and schist.",
"Cambrian sedimentary rocks can be found among the bottom of the Foothills to the northwest and in limestone coves such as Cades Cove.",
"One of the most visited attractions in the mountains is Cades Cove which is a window or an area where older rocks made out of sandstone surround the valley floor of younger rocks made out of limestone.",
"The oldest rocks in the Smokies are the Precambrian gneiss and schists which were formed over a billion years ago from the accumulation of marine sediments and igneous rock.",
"In the Late Precambrian period, the primordial ocean expanded and the more recent Ocoee Supergroup rocks formed from the accumulation of eroding land mass onto the continental shelf.",
"At the end of the Paleozoic era, the ocean deposited a thick layer of marine sediments which left behind sedimentary rock.",
"During the Ordovician period, the collision of North American and African plates initiated the Alleghenian orogeny that created the Appalachian range.",
"The Mesozoic era was dictated by the rapid erosion of softer sedimentary rocks and re-exposed the older Ocoee Supergroup formations."
] |
[] |
Name and signature
|
When was the name Rembrandt introduced as the artists name?
|
Rembrandt
| false | 3ART
|
[
1
] |
[
"",
"\"Rembrandt\" is a modification of the spelling of the artist's first name that he introduced in 1633.",
"Roughly speaking, his earliest signatures (ca.",
"1625) consisted of an initial \"R\", or the monogram \"RH\" (for Rembrant Harmenszoon; i.e.",
"\"Rembrant, the son of Harmen\"), and starting in 1629, \"RHL\" (the \"L\" stood, presumably, for Leiden).",
"In 1632, he used this monogram early in the year, then added his patronymic to it, \"RHL-van Rijn\", but replaced this form in that same year and began using his first name alone with its original spelling, \"Rembrant\".",
"In 1633 he added a \"d\", and maintained this form consistently from then on, proving that this minor change had a meaning for him (whatever it might have been).",
"This change is purely visual; it does not change the way his name is pronounced.",
"Curiously enough, despite the large number of paintings and etchings signed with this modified first name, most of their documents that mentioned him during his lifetime retained the original \"Rembrant\" spelling.",
"(Note: the rough chronology of signature forms above applies to the paintings, and to a lesser degree to the etchings; from 1632, presumably, there is only one etching signed \"RHL-v. Rijn,\" the large-format \"Raising of Lazarus,\" B 73).",
"His practice of signing his work with his first name, later followed by Vincent van Gogh, was probably inspired by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo who, then as now, were referred to by their first names alone."
] |
[
2
] |
Plot
|
What does Arbor do in the final scene?
|
The Selfish Giant (2013 film)
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
15
] |
[
"The film follows the lives of Arbor and Swifty, teenage boys growing up in an impoverished area of Bradford, northern England.",
"Arbor suffers from hyperactivity disorder, which often gets him into trouble even when it is not his intention.",
"When the boys are suspended from school after a fight, they decide to earn money collecting and selling scrap metal.",
"They quickly realize that stealing copper from telecom, railway, and power utilities proves quite lucrative.",
"They sell their scrap to a local scrap dealer, Kitten.",
"Kitten owns a horse and competes in amateur harness racing.",
"Kitten allows Swifty to work with the horse, once he realizes Swifty's surprising affection for and natural talent with horses.",
"Kitten also lets the boys borrow the horse and a cart to collect scrap metal.",
"Arbor is jealous of Kitten's kindness toward Swifty.",
"Arbor decides to steal a piece of scrap from Kitten and sell it, along with some other scrap, to a dealer in Huddersfield.",
"The plan ends up backfiring, Arbor is refused at the other dealer and unsuccessfully makes a deal with some men who offer to sell the scrap for him.",
"Kitten finds out and physically intimidates Arbor into stealing a specific piece of high voltage electric power transmission wire to make up for his loss.",
"The boys are not fully aware of the dangers of high voltage wire, and when Swifty goes to cut the wire, he is electrocuted and killed.",
"Arbor is devastated and Kitten is arrested, telling the police he is responsible and allowing Arbor to escape blame.",
"He sits resolutely outside Swifty's mother's house until, after several rejections, she allows him to hug her and share their pain.",
"In a final scene, Arbor takes care of the horse Swifty loved."
] |
[
0
] |
Competitive strategy
|
How does one score a zero in a diving competition?
|
Diving
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
6
] |
[
"To win dive meets, divers create a dive list in advance of the meet.",
"To win the meet the diver must accumulate more points than other divers.",
"Often, simple dives with low DDs will look good to spectators but will not win meets.",
"The competitive diver will attempt the highest DD dives possible with which they can achieve consistent, high scores.",
"If divers are scoring 8 or 9 on most dives, it may be a sign of their extreme skill, or it may be a sign that their dive list is not competitive, and they may lose the meet to a diver with higher DDs and lower scores.",
"In competition, divers must submit their lists beforehand, and once past a deadline (usually when the event is announced or shortly before it begins) they cannot change their dives.",
"If they fail to perform the dive announced, even if they physically cannot execute the dive announced or if they perform a more difficult dive, they will receive a score of zero.",
"Under exceptional circumstances, a redive may be granted, but these are exceedingly rare (usually for very young divers just learning how to compete, or if some event outside the diver's control has caused them to be unable to perform).",
"In the Olympics or other highly competitive meets, many divers will have nearly the same list of dives as their competitors.",
"The importance for divers competing at this level is not so much the DD, but how they arrange their list.",
"Once the more difficult rounds of dives begin it is important to lead off with a confident dive to build momentum.",
"They also tend to put a very confident dive in front of a very difficult dive to ensure that they will have a good mentality for the difficult dive.",
"Most divers have pre-dive and post-dive rituals that help them either maintain or regain focus.",
"Coaches also play a role in this aspect of the sport.",
"Many divers rely on their coaches to help keep their composure during the meet.",
"In a large meet coaches are rarely allowed on the deck to talk to their athlete so it is common to see coaches using hand gestures to communicate.",
"There are some American meets which will allow changes of the position of the dive even after the dive has been announced immediately before execution, but these are an exception to the rules generally observed internationally.",
"Generally, NCAA rules allow for dives to be changed while the diver is on the board, but the diver must request the change directly after the dive is announced.",
"This applies especially in cases where the wrong dive is announced.",
"If the diver pauses during his or her hurdle to ask for a change of dive, it will be declared a balk and the change of dive will not be permitted.",
"Under FINA law, no dive may be changed after the deadline for the dive-sheet to be submitted (generally a period ranging from one hour to 24 hours, depending on the rulings made by the event organiser).",
"It is the diver's responsibility to ensure that the dive-sheet is filled in correctly, and also to correct the referee or announcer before the dive if they describe it incorrectly.",
"If a dive is performed which is as submitted but not as (incorrectly) announced, it is declared failed and scores zero according to a strict reading of the FINA law.",
"But in practice, a re-dive would usually be granted in these circumstances."
] |
[
5
] |
First use: commercial pier and entertainment
|
During the 1920s, what was the average number of annual visits to the Pier?
|
Navy Pier
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
8
] |
[
"Even as Chicago Municipal Pier was being built, mass-produced automobiles and trucks were beginning to wreak havoc on the package freight and passenger steamboat industries of Lake Michigan.",
"The Pier proved to be much more successful as a public gathering place.",
"In the 1920s, the Pier expanded to have its own streetcar line, a theater, and an emergency room.",
"It gained wide recognition in 1922 by hosting the \"Pageant of Progress.\"",
"In 1927 the Pier was officially named Navy Pier in honor of the Naval personnel that served there during WWI.",
"In this period, the Pier was described as a summer playground, with recreational facilities that included picnicking areas, dining pavilions, a dance hall, auditorium, and children's playground.",
"A radio station.",
"WCFL, operated from the north tower of the auditorium.",
"During the 1920s, it is estimated that an average of 3.2 million visitors frequented the Pier annually.",
"This decade is sometimes called the Pier's \"Golden Age\".",
"The advent of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, as well as the increased use of trucks and automobiles, resulted in the decline of freight and passenger ship activity; however, cultural and recreational use of the Pier continued.",
"In 1933, the Century of Progress Exposition (World's Fair) on the lakefront also drew many conventions and visitors to the Pier.",
"During the 1930s, the Pier also housed various New Deal agencies."
] |
[
0
] |
Shoes
|
What is the disimilarities between a slider shoe and a non sliding shoe's design?
|
Curling
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
1
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
0
] |
Reheating
|
What changes when an oven is used?
|
Peking duck
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
2
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
2,
0
] |
Cake decorating
|
What do commercial bakeries do to lard to introduce air bubbles?
|
Cake
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
4
] |
[
" decorating.",
"A finished cake is often enhanced by covering it with icing, or frosting, and toppings such as sprinkles, which are also known as \"jimmies\" in certain parts of the United States and \"hundreds and thousands\" in the United Kingdom.",
"Frosting is usually made from powdered (icing) sugar, sometimes a fat of some sort, milk or cream, and often flavorings such as vanilla extract or cocoa powder.",
"Some decorators use a rolled fondant icing.",
"Commercial bakeries tend to use lard for the fat, and often whip the lard to introduce air bubbles.",
"This makes the icing light and spreadable.",
"Home bakers either use lard, butter, margarine or some combination thereof.",
"Sprinkles are small firm pieces of sugar and oils that are colored with food coloring.",
"In the late 20th century, new cake decorating products became available to the public.",
"These include several specialized sprinkles and even methods to print pictures and transfer the image onto a cake.",
"Special tools are needed for more complex cake decorating, such as piping bags or syringes, and various piping tips.",
"To use a piping bag or syringe, a piping tip is attached to the bag or syringe using a coupler.",
"The bag or syringe is partially filled with icing which is sometimes colored.",
"Using different piping tips and various techniques, a cake decorator can make many different designs.",
"Basic decorating tips include open star, closed star, basketweave, round, drop flower, leaf, multi, petal, and specialty tips.",
"Royal icing, marzipan (or a less sweet version, known as almond paste), fondant icing(also known as sugarpaste) and buttercream are used as covering icings and to create decorations.",
"Floral sugarcraft or wired sugar flowers are an important part of cake decoration.",
"Cakes for special occasions, such as wedding cakes, are traditionally rich fruit cakes or occasionally Madeira cakes, that are covered with marzipan and iced using royal icing or sugar-paste.",
"They are finished with piped borders (made with royal icing) and adorned with a piped message, wired sugar flowers, hand-formed fondant flowers, marzipan fruit, piped flowers, or crystallized fruits or flowers such as grapes or violets."
] |
[
0
] |
Population increase
|
What happened to populatoin after 1740?
|
Industrial Revolution
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
0
] |
[
"According to Robert Hughes in \"The Fatal Shore\", the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.",
"The population of England had more than doubled from 8.3 million in 1801 to 16.8 million in 1850 and, by 1901, had nearly doubled again to 30.5 million.",
"As living conditions and health care improved during the 19th century, Britain's population doubled every 50 years.",
"Europe's population increased from about 100 million in 1700 to 400 million by 1900.",
"The Industrial Revolution was the first period in history during which there was a simultaneous increase in population and in per capita income."
] |
[
0
] |
History
|
What ingredients are differnt in some cakes?
|
Cake
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
3
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[
"The term \"cake\" has a long history.",
"The word itself is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse word \"kaka\".",
"Although clear examples of the difference between cake and bread are easy to find, the precise classification has always been elusive.",
"For example, banana bread may be properly considered either a quick bread or a cake.",
"The Greeks invented beer as a leavener, frying fritters in olive oil, and cheesecakes using goat's milk.",
"In ancient Rome, basic bread dough was sometimes enriched with butter, eggs, and honey, which produced a sweet and cake-like baked good.",
"Latin poet Ovid refers to the birthday of him and his brother with party and cake in his first book of exile, \"Tristia\".",
"Early cakes in England were also essentially bread: the most obvious differences between a \"cake\" and \"bread\" were the round, flat shape of the cakes, and the cooking method, which turned cakes over once while cooking, while bread was left upright throughout the baking process.",
"Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain."
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Writing
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In Fight Club, which actor thought his character was too one-dimensional
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Fight Club
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[
"Screenwriter Jim Uhls started working on an early draft of the adapted screenplay, which excluded a voice-over because the industry perceived at the time that the technique was \"hackneyed and trite\".",
"When Fincher joined the film, he thought that the film should have a voice-over, believing that the film's humor came from the narrator's voice.",
"The director described the film without a voice-over as seemingly \"sad and pathetic\".",
"Fincher and Uhls revised the script for six to seven months and by 1997 had a third draft that reordered the story and left out several major elements.",
"When Pitt was cast, he was concerned that his character, Tyler Durden, was too one-dimensional.",
"Fincher sought the advice of writer-director Cameron Crowe, who suggested giving the character more ambiguity.",
"Fincher also hired screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker for assistance.",
"The director invited Pitt and Norton to help revise the script, and the group drafted five revisions in the course of a year.",
"Chuck Palahniuk praised the faithful film adaptation of his novel and applauded how the film's plot was more streamlined than the book's.",
"Palahniuk recalled how the writers debated if film audiences would believe the plot twist from the novel.",
"Fincher supported including the twist, arguing, \"If they accept everything up to this point, they'll accept the plot twist.",
"If they're still in the theater, they'll stay with it.\"",
"Palahniuk's novel also contained homoerotic overtones, which the director included in the film to make audiences uncomfortable and accentuate the surprise of the film's twists.",
"The bathroom scene where Tyler Durden bathes next to the narrator is an example of the overtones; the line, \"I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need,\" was meant to suggest personal responsibility rather than homosexuality.",
"Another example is the scene at the beginning of the film in which Tyler Durden puts a gun barrel down the narrator's mouth.",
"The narrator finds redemption at the end of the film by rejecting Tyler Durden's dialectic, a path that diverged from the novel's ending in which the narrator is placed in a mental institution.",
"Norton drew parallels between redemption in the film and redemption in \"The Graduate\", indicating that the protagonists of both films find a middle ground between two divisions of self.",
"Fincher considered the novel too infatuated with Tyler Durden and changed the ending to move away from him: \"I wanted people to love Tyler, but I also wanted them to be OK with his vanquishing.\""
] |
[] |
Geography
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Which country is a transcontinetal country?
|
Turkey
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] |
[
"Turkey is a transcontinental Eurasian country.",
"Asian Turkey (made up largely of Anatolia), which includes 97% of the country, is separated from European Turkey by the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles.",
"European Turkey comprises 3% of the country.",
"The territory of Turkey is more than 1,600 kilometres (1,000 mi) long and 800 km (500 mi) wide, with a roughly rectangular shape.",
"It lies between latitudes 35° and 43° N, and longitudes 25° and 45° E. Turkey's area, including lakes, occupies 783,562 square kilometres (300,948 sq mi), of which 755,688 square kilometres (291,773 sq mi) are in Southwest Asia and 23,764 square kilometres (9,174 sq mi) in Europe.",
"Turkey is the world's 37th-largest country in terms of area.",
"The country is encircled by seas on three sides: the Aegean Sea to the west, the Black Sea to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.",
"Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara in the northwest.",
"The European section of Turkey, East Thrace, forms the borders of Turkey with Greece and Bulgaria.",
"The Asian part of the country, Anatolia, consists of a high central plateau with narrow coastal plains, between the Köroğlu and Pontic mountain ranges to the north and the Taurus Mountains to the south.",
"Eastern Turkey has a more mountainous landscape and is home to the sources of rivers such as the Euphrates, Tigris and Aras, and contains Mount Ararat, Turkey's highest point at 5,137 metres (16,854 ft), and Lake Van, the largest lake in the country.",
"Turkey is divided into seven census regions: Marmara, Aegean, Black Sea, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, Southeastern Anatolia and the Mediterranean.",
"The uneven north Anatolian terrain running along the Black Sea resembles a long, narrow belt.",
"This region comprises approximately one-sixth of Turkey's total land area.",
"As a general trend, the inland Anatolian plateau becomes increasingly rugged as it progresses eastward.",
"Turkey's varied landscapes are the product of complex earth movements that have shaped the region over thousands of years and still manifest themselves in fairly frequent earthquakes and occasional volcanic eruptions.",
"The Bosphorus and the Dardanelles owe their existence to the fault lines running through Turkey that led to the creation of the Black Sea.",
"There is an earthquake fault line across the north of the country from west to east, along which a major earthquake occurred in 1999."
] |
[] |
Abstract
|
What did Time call the number one TV series in 2012?
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Parks and Recreation
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[
"Parks and Recreation is an American comedy television series on the NBC television network, starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a perky, mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana.",
"Conceived by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, the series debuted on April 9, 2009 and is currently airing its sixth season, which began on September 26, 2013.",
"The show was renewed for a seventh season by NBC on January 19, 2014.",
"It uses a single-camera, mockumentary filming style, with the implication being that a documentary crew is filming everyone.",
"The ensemble and supporting cast features Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Paul Schneider, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, Rob Lowe, Jim O'Heir, and Retta.",
"The writers researched local California politics for the show, and consulted with urban planners and elected officials.",
"Poehler's character of Leslie Knope underwent minor changes after the first season in response to audience feedback that she seemed unintelligent and \"ditzy\".",
"The writing staff tried to incorporate current events into their episodes, such as a government shutdown in Pawnee inspired by the real-life global financial crisis.",
"Several guest stars have been featured in the show, and these characters often appear in multiple episodes.",
"\"Parks and Recreation\" received generally mixed reviews during its first season.",
"However, after a reapproach to its format and tone, its second and subsequent seasons received much higher critical acclaim.",
"\"Parks and Recreation\" has received several awards and nominations, including a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series, four Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe win for Poehler's performance, and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.",
"In \"Time\"s 2012 year-end lists issue, \"Parks and Recreation\" was named the number one television series.",
"In 2013, after receiving four consecutive nominations in the category, \"Parks and Recreation\" won the Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy.",
"\"Parks and Recreation\" has regularly been a part of NBC's \"Comedy Night Done Right\" programming during their Thursday night prime-time block."
] |
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Other fermented dairy products
|
What are the fermented dairy products that is listed?
|
Yogurt
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|
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1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11
] |
[
" Amasi",
" Chal",
" Curd",
" Filmjölk",
" Kefir",
" Kumis",
" Ryazhenka",
" Shanklish",
" Skyr",
" Smetana",
" Varenets",
" Viili"
] |
[
0
] |
Description and rules
|
Goal posts are located where?
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Netball
| true | 4SPORT
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] |
[
"The objective of a game is to score more goals than the opposition.",
"Goals are scored when a team member positioned in the attacking shooting circle shoots the ball through the goal ring.",
"The goal rings are in diameter and sit atop -high goal posts that have no backboards.",
"A -radius semi-circular \"shooting circle\" is an area at each end of the court.",
"The goal posts are located within the shooting circle.",
"Each team defends one shooting circle and attacks the other.",
"The netball court is long, wide, and divided lengthwise into thirds.",
"The ball is usually made of leather or rubber, measures in circumference, and weighs .",
"A normal game consists of four 15-minute quarters and can be played outdoors or in a covered stadium.",
"Each team is allowed seven players on the court.",
"Each player is assigned a specific position, which limits their movement to a certain area of the court.",
"A \"bib\" worn by each player contains a two letter abbreviation of indicating this position.",
"Only two positions are permitted in the attacking shooting circle, and can therefore shoot for a goal.",
"Similarly, only two positions are permitted in the defensive shooting circle; they try to prevent the opposition from shooting goals.",
"Other players are restricted to two thirds of the court, with the exception of the Centre, who may move anywhere on the court except for a shooting circle.",
"At the beginning of every quarter and after a goal has been scored, play starts with a player in the centre position passing the ball from the centre of the court.",
"These \"centre passes\" alternate between the teams, regardless of which team scored the last goal.",
"When the umpire blows the whistle to restart play, four players from each team can move into the centre third to receive the pass.",
"The centre pass must be caught or touched in the centre third.",
"The ball is then moved up and down the court through passing and must be touched by a player in each adjacent third of the court.",
"Players can hold the ball for only three seconds at any time.",
"It must be released before the foot they were standing on when they caught it touches the ground again.",
"Contact between players is only permitted if it does not impede an opponent or the general play.",
"When defending a pass or shot players must be at least away from the player with the ball.",
"If illegal contact is made, the player who contacted cannot participate in play until the player taking the penalty has passed or shot the ball.",
"If the ball is held in two hands and either dropped or a shot at goal is missed, the same player cannot be the first to touch it unless it first rebounds off the goal."
] |
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Abstract
|
Which president signed the Yosemite Grant in 1864?
|
Yosemite National Park
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|
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[
"Yosemite National Park ( ) is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in the central eastern portion of the U.S. state of California.",
"The park, which is managed by the National Park Service, covers an area of and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain.",
"Over 3.7 million people visit Yosemite each year: most spend their time in the seven square miles (18 km2) of Yosemite Valley.",
"Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity.",
"Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness.",
"Yosemite was central to the development of the national park idea.",
"First, Galen Clark and others lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately leading to President Abraham Lincoln's signing the Yosemite Grant in 1864.",
"Later, John Muir led a successful movement to establish a larger national park encompassing not just the valley, but surrounding mountains and forests as well - paving the way for the United States national park system.",
"Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada, and the park supports a diversity of plants and animals.",
"The park has an elevation range from and contains five major vegetation zones: chaparral/oak woodland, lower montane forest, upper montane forest, subalpine zone, and alpine.",
"Of California's 7,000 plant species, about 50% occur in the Sierra Nevada and more than 20% within Yosemite.",
"There is suitable habitat or documentation for more than 160 rare plants in the park, with rare local geologic formations and unique soils characterizing the restricted ranges many of these plants occupy.",
"The geology of the Yosemite area is characterized by granitic rocks and remnants of older rock.",
"About 10 million years ago, the Sierra Nevada was uplifted and then tilted to form its relatively gentle western slopes and the more dramatic eastern slopes.",
"The uplift increased the steepness of stream and river beds, resulting in formation of deep, narrow canyons.",
"About 1 million years ago, snow and ice accumulated, forming glaciers at the higher alpine meadows that moved down the river valleys.",
"Ice thickness in Yosemite Valley may have reached during the early glacial episode.",
"The downslope movement of the ice masses cut and sculpted the U-shaped valley that attracts so many visitors to its scenic vistas today."
] |
[] |
Moon race
|
Which year celebrated Apollo 11's 40th anniversary?
|
Apollo 11
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[
"The Soviet Union was secretly attempting to compete with the US in landing a man on the Moon but had been hampered by repeated failures in development of a launcher comparable to the Saturn V. Meanwhile, they tried to beat the US to return lunar material to the Earth by means of unmanned probes.",
"On July 13, three days before Apollo 11's launch, they launched Luna 15, which reached lunar orbit before Apollo 11.",
"During descent, a malfunction caused Luna 15 to crash in Mare Crisium about two hours before Armstrong and Aldrin took off from the surface.",
"The Jodrell Bank Observatory radio telescope in England was later discovered to have recorded transmissions from Luna 15 during its descent, and this was published in July 2009 on the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11."
] |
[] |
Rib steak
|
What part of an animal is rib steak from?
|
Steak
| false | 9FOOD
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[
0
] |
[
"A rib steak is a beef steak sliced from the rib primal of a beef animal, with rib bone attached.",
"In the United States, the term rib eye steak is used for a rib steak with the bone removed; however in some areas, and outside the U.S., the terms are often used interchangeably.",
"The rib eye or \"ribeye\" was originally, as the name implies, the center best portion of the rib steak, without the bone."
] |
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0
] |
Abstract
|
Do palate cleansing salads exist?
|
Salad
| false | 9FOOD
|
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10
] |
[
"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."
] |
[] |
Rhythmic gymnastics
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In gymnastics, which elements are combined?
|
Gymnastics
| true | 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."
] |
[] |
Artistry
|
Which techniques did they employ?
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Mexican muralism
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21
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[
"Mexican populist art production from the 1920s to the 1950s is often grouped under the name of “Escuela Mexicana de Pintura (y Escultura) (Mexican School of Painting and Sculpture), coined in the 1930s by art historians and critics.",
"The term is not well-defined as it does not distinguish among some important stylistic and thematic difference, there is no firm agreement which artists belong to it nor if muralism should be considered part of it or separate.",
"It is not a school in the classic sense of the word as it includes work by more than one generation and with different styles that sometimes clash.",
"However, it does involve a number of important characteristics.",
"Mexican School mural painting was a combination of public ideals and artistic aesthics “positioned as a constituent of the official public sphere.” Three formal components of official Mexican muralism are defined as:1) Direct participation in official publicity and discourse2) Reciprocal integration of the visual discourse of the mural to an array of communicative practices participant in defining official publicity (including a variety of scriptural genres, but also public speech, debate and provocative public “event”)3) The development and public thematizing of a social-realist aesthetic (albeit multiform in character) as the visual register for the public sense of the mural work and as the doxic, or unquestioned, limits for public dispute over the representational space of the mural imageMost painters in this school worked in Mexico City or other cities in Mexico, working almost uninterrupted on projects and/or as teachers, generally with support of the government.",
"Most were concerned with the history and identity of Mexico and politically active.",
"Most art from this school was not created for direct sale but rather for diffusion in both Mexico and abroad.",
"Most were formally trained, often studying in Europe and/or in the Academy of San Carlos.",
"A large quantity of murals were produced in most of the country from the 1920s to 1970, generally with themes related to politics and nationalism focused often on the Mexican Revolution, mestizo identity and Mesoamerican cultural history.",
"These served as a form of cohesion among members of the movement.",
"The political and nationalistic aspects had little directly to do with the Mexican Revolution, especially in the later decades.",
"The goal was more to glorify it and its results as a means to legitimatize the post Revolution government.",
"The other political orientation was that of Marxism, especially class struggle.",
"This was strongest in the early movement with Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros all avowed communists.",
"The political messages became less radical but they remained firmly to the left.",
"Much of the mural production glorified the indigenous aspect of Mexican culture, considering it an important factor in the creation of modern Mexico.",
"This was added with the idea of reexamining the country’s history from a different perspective.",
"One other aspect that most of the muralists shared was a rejection of the idea that art was only for the elite, but rather as a benefit for the masses.",
"The murals took on monumental status because of where they were situated, mostly on the walls of colonial era government buildings and the themes that were painted.",
"The mural painters of Mexico freely shared ideas and techniques as they were a closely knit group.",
"However, the work of each was distinctive as the government did not set style and artists can generally be deduced without looking at signatures.",
"Techniques included the revival of old techniques such as the fresco, painting on freshly plastered walls and encaustic or hot wax painting .",
"Others used mosaics and high fire ceramics, as well as metal parts, and layers of cement.",
"The most innovative of the artists was Siqueiros who worked with pyroxlene, a commercial enamel and Duco (used to paint cars), resins, asbestos, old machinery and was one of the first to use airbrush for artistic purposes.",
"He pored, sprayed, dripped and splattered paint for the effects they created haphazardly."
] |
[] |
Viscosity
|
What addition to ketchup makes it flow more freely?
|
Ketchup
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[
0
] |
[
"Tomato ketchup has an additive, usually xanthan gum, which gives the condiment a pseudoplastic or \"shear thinning\" property.",
"This increases the viscosity of the ketchup considerably with a relatively small amount added - usually 0.5%.",
"- which can make it difficult to pour from a container.",
"However, the shear thinning property of the gum ensures that when a force is applied to the ketchup it will lower the viscosity enabling the sauce to flow.",
"A common method to getting ketchup out of the bottle involves inverting the bottle and shaking it or hitting the bottom with the heel of the hand, which causes the ketchup to flow rapidly.",
"A technique involves inverting the bottle and forcefully tapping its upper neck with two fingers (index and middle finger together).",
"Specifically, with a Heinz ketchup bottle, one taps the 57 circle on the neck.",
"This helps the ketchup flow by applying the correct shearing force.",
"These techniques work because of how pseudoplastic fluids behave: their viscosity (resistance to flow) decreases with increasing shear rate.",
"The faster the ketchup is sheared (by shaking or tapping the bottle), the more fluid it becomes.",
"After the shear is removed the ketchup thickens to its original viscosity."
] |
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0
] |
2008–09: "Lights" and "The Listening"
|
What record label did Lights sign to in 2008?
|
Lights (musician)
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2
] |
[
"Starting in early 2008, Lights toured cities in the Great Lakes region, in both Canada and the United States.",
"In late 2008, she toured the United States.",
"In August 2008, Lights signed a record deal with Toronto based label Underground Operations.",
"She also signed an American partnership deal with Warner Bros. along with Doghouse Records.",
"Around the same time, her song \"Drive My Soul\" got to No.18 in the Canadian Hot 100.",
"After signing with them, her EP was released in stores on September 16.",
"Her second single, \"February Air,\" sold 12,000 copies.",
"In early 2008, \"February Air\" was in a commercial for Old Navy.",
"It was later released in December 2008.",
"In Ten Second Epic's song \"Every Day\" from their album Hometown, Lights contributed vocals and appeared in their music video.",
"The song appeared on the \"Big Shiny Tunes 14\" compilation album and the music video was nominated for Best Independent Music Video at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards.",
"She is also featured on the soundtrack (songs \"Ben\" and \"Climbing\") for the 2008 Canadian film \"One Week\", starring Joshua Jackson.",
"She was a guest vocalist on the album \"A Shipwreck in the Sand\", released in 2009 by post-hardcore band Silverstein from Burlington, Ontario.",
"In 2009, Lights released her third single to Canadian radio stations called \"Ice\" with a homemade video released on her MySpace.",
"She also released a second video for \"Ice\" in Canada on November 10, 2009.",
"It was released in the United States on November 11, 2009.",
"On August 10, 2009, her music video for \"Saviour\" was released.",
"In an interview for the musical website Hall-Musique, Lights announced she was hoping to release her debut album in Europe by early 2010.",
"In March, Lights was named on the American music website Shred News's 10 \"Artists to Watch in 2010.",
"\"While touring in the summer of 2009 on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour, Lights's single \"Saviour\" premiered on Canadian radio stations on July 6, 2009.",
"The song is from her first full-length album, \"The Listening\", which was released on September 22 in Canada.",
"It was released on October 6 in the United States after she left Underground Operations, for her own record label, Lights Music Inc.",
"The cover for the album was also released.",
"According to Lights, the entire artwork was inspired by \"Watchmen\", \"28 Days Later\", and \"Sailor Moon\".",
"In September 2009, Lights toured with the British band Keane on their Canadian/Pacific Northwest tour.",
"In late 2009, Lights toured all around the United States and Canada with Stars of Track and Field."
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0
] |
Plot
|
Who plays Hank in the movie Before the Midnight?
|
Before Midnight (film)
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1
] |
[
"Nine years after the conclusion of \"Before Sunset\", Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy) are a couple and parents to twin girls conceived when they got together for the second time.",
"Jesse is also struggling to maintain his relationship with his teenage son, Hank (Davey-Fitzpatrick), who lives in Chicago with Jesse's ex-wife and who, after spending the summer with Jesse and Céline on the Greek Peloponnese peninsula, is being dropped off at the airport to fly home.",
"Jesse has continued to find success as a novelist, while Céline is at a career crossroads, considering a job with the French government.",
"After dropping off Hank at the airport, the couple discuss their worries about Hank having a healthy childhood and Céline deciding what to do with her career, before returning to the house of their Greek friend, Patrick (Lassally).",
"Over dinner they discuss ideas about love and life, and the other people staying with them buy Jesse and Céline a hotel room for that night so they can have some time alone.",
"While walking to the hotel, the couple reminisce about how they met and how their lives have changed since then.",
"When they arrive at the hotel, however, the two have a vicious argument, as both of them pour out their fears about a present and future together.Céline eventually storms out of the hotel room, telling Jesse she doesn't think she loves him anymore before sitting in the hotel's outdoor restaurant alone.",
"Jesse joins her and playfully tries to explain to her how things can be different from tonight.",
"Céline initially finds his attempts childish, saying that their fantasies will never match the imperfect reality their relationship constantly goes through.",
"Jesse then proclaims his love to her, saying that he loves her unconditionally and is not sure what else she could want from a relationship.",
"Céline suddenly resumes Jesse's joke and the two seem to reconcile."
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3
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Tempering
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Why does properly processed chocolate have a uniform sheen and crisp bite?
|
Chocolate
| false | 9FOOD
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3
] |
[
"The final process is called \"tempering\".",
"Uncontrolled crystallization of cocoa butter typically results in crystals of varying size, some or all large enough to be clearly seen with the naked eye.",
"This causes the surface of the chocolate to appear mottled and matte, and causes the chocolate to crumble rather than snap when broken.",
"The uniform sheen and crisp bite of properly processed chocolate are the result of consistently small cocoa butter crystals produced by the tempering process.",
"The fats in cocoa butter can crystallize in six different forms (polymorphous crystallization).",
"The primary purpose of tempering is to assure that only the best form is present.",
"The six different crystal forms have different properties.",
"As a solid piece of chocolate, the cocoa butter fat particles are in a crystalline rigid structure that gives the chocolate its solid appearance.",
"Once heated, the crystals of the polymorphic cocoa butter will be able to break apart from the rigid structure and allow the chocolate to obtain a more fluid consistency as the temperature increases.",
"This is known as the melting process.",
"When the heat is removed, the cocoa butter crystals will become rigid again and come closer together, allowing the chocolate to solidify.",
"This temperature in which the crystals obtain enough energy to break apart from their rigid conformation would depend on the milk fat content in the chocolate and the shape of the fat molecules as well as the form of the cocoa butter fat.",
"Chocolate with a higher fat content will melt at a lower temperature.",
"Making chocolate considered \"good\" is about forming as many type V crystals as possible.",
"This provides the best appearance and texture and creates the most stable crystals, so the texture and appearance will not degrade over time.",
"To accomplish this, the temperature is carefully manipulated during the crystallization.",
"Generally, the chocolate is first heated to to melt all six forms of crystals.",
"Next, the chocolate is cooled to about , which will allow crystal types IV and V to form.",
"At this temperature, the chocolate is agitated to create many small crystal \"seeds\" which will serve as nuclei to create small crystals in the chocolate.",
"The chocolate is then heated to about to eliminate any type IV crystals, leaving just type V. After this point, any excessive heating of the chocolate will destroy the temper and this process will have to be repeated.",
"However, there are other methods of chocolate tempering used.",
"The most common variant is introducing already tempered, solid \"seed\" chocolate.",
"The temper of chocolate can be measured with a chocolate temper meter to ensure accuracy and consistency.",
"A sample cup is filled with the chocolate and placed in the unit which then displays or prints the results.",
"Two classic ways of manually tempering chocolate are:",
" Working the molten chocolate on a heat-absorbing surface, such as a stone slab, until thickening indicates the presence of sufficient crystal \"seeds\"; the chocolate is then gently warmed to working temperature.",
" Stirring solid chocolate into molten chocolate to \"inoculate\" the liquid chocolate with crystals (this method uses the already formed crystals of the solid chocolate to \"seed\" the molten chocolate).",
"Chocolate tempering machines (or temperers) with computer controls can be used for producing consistently tempered chocolate, particularly for large volume applications."
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1
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Attraction history
|
When was Rockslide added to Studio Tour?
|
Universal Studios Hollywood
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
2
] |
[
"In 1965, The War Lord Tower opened as one of the first attractions in the theme park.",
"This was followed by the opening of the Animal Actors School Stage in 1970.",
"In 1974, the Rockslide staged event was added to the Studio Tour.",
"The following year The Land of a Thousand Faces opened on the Upper Lot.",
"In 1979, The Battle of Galactica replaced Rockslide as a staged event on the Studio Tour.",
"The Flintstones Show opened, replacing the Star Trek Adventure.",
"In 1996, opened.",
"In 1997, two shows were replaced: The Land Before Time show replaced Rocky and Bullwinkle Live; and Totally Nickelodeon replaced The Flintstones Show.",
"Just one year after it opened, The Land Before Time show was replaced with Coke Soak.",
"In 1999, T2 3-D: Battle Across Time and a Chicken Run Walkthrough opened on the upper lot.",
"Additionally, Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue was closed.",
"In 2000, the Rugrats Magic Adventure replaced Totally Nickelodeon.",
"In 2001, the Nickelodeon Blast Zone opened.",
"Also in 2001, Animal Planet Live replaced the Animal Actors School Stage.",
"In 2 replaced The Mummy Returns: Chamber of Doom.",
"The following year, Fear Factor Live replaced Spider-Man Rocks.",
"In 2007, Universal's House of Horrors opened, replacing Van Helsing: Fortress Dracula.",
"Both Lucy: A Tribute and Back to the Future: The Ride were closed, prior to being replaced in 2008 by The Simpsons Ride and The Universal Story Museum respectively.",
"Also in 2008, the Nickelodeon Blast Zone was rebranded to The Adventures of Curious George.",
"In 2009, Creature from the Black Lagoon: The Musical replaced Fear Factor Live in the Upper Lot.",
"In 2010, the Special Effects Stages and Backdraft attractions were closed to make way for Transformers: The Ride which was announced in 2008 (Special Effects Stages was moved to the former Creature From The Black Lagoon building and reopened as Special Effects Stage).",
"King Kong 360 3-D also opened.",
"On May 24, 2012, Transformers: The Ride opened on the Lower Lot.",
"On December 31, 2012, Universal Studios Hollywood closed for , the attraction at Universal Studios Florida, set to come in the April of 2014.",
"Universal Studios Hollywood has plans to open The Wizarding World of Harry Potter which will feature the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride sometime in 2015-2016."
] |
[
2
] |
Other "great depressions"
|
When was the real turning point for the worst in Russia's economic history?
|
Great Depression
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
3
] |
[
"Other economic downturns have been called a \"great depression\", but none had been as widespread, or lasted for so long.",
"Various nations have experienced brief or extended periods of economic downturns, which were referred to as \"depressions\", but none have had such a widespread global impact.",
"The collapse of the Soviet Union, and the breakdown of economic ties which followed, led to a severe economic crisis and catastrophic fall in the standards of living in the 1990s in post-Soviet states and the former Eastern Bloc, which was even worse than the Great Depression.",
"Even before Russia's financial crisis of 1998, Russia's GDP was half of what it had been in the early 1990s, and some populations are still poorer than they were in 1989, including Ukraine, Moldova, Central Asia, and the Caucasus."
] |
[
2
] |
Literature and theatre
|
Who established the basis of the modern Italian Language
|
Italy
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0
] |
[
"The basis of the modern Italian language was established by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, whose greatest work, the Divine Comedy, is considered among the foremost literary statements produced in Europe during the Middle Ages.",
"There is no shortage of celebrated literary figures in Italy: Giovanni Boccaccio, Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni, Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, and Petrarch, whose best-known vehicle of expression, the sonnet, was created in Italy.",
"Prominent philosophers include Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giambattista Vico.",
"Modern literary figures and Nobel laureates are nationalist poet Giosuè Carducci in 1906, realist writer Grazia Deledda in 1926, modern theatre author Luigi Pirandello in 1936, poets Salvatore Quasimodo in 1959 and Eugenio Montale in 1975, satirist and theatre author Dario Fo in 1997.",
"Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel, \"The Adventures of Pinocchio\", is the most celebrated children's classic by an Italian author.",
"Italian theatre can be traced back to the Roman tradition which was heavily influenced by the Greek; as with many other literary genres, Roman dramatists tended to adapt and translate from the Greek.",
"For example, Seneca's \"Phaedra\" was based on that of Euripides, and many of the comedies of Plautus were direct translations of works by Menander.",
"During the 16th century and on into the 18th century, Commedia dell'arte was a form of improvisational theatre, and it is still performed today.",
"Travelling troupes of players would set up an outdoor stage and provide amusement in the form of juggling, acrobatics, and, more typically, humorous plays based on a repertoire of established characters with a rough storyline, called \"canovaccio\"."
] |
[
3
] |
Geography
|
How many islands are in Indonesia?
|
Indonesia
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0,
1
] |
[
"Indonesia lies between latitudes 11°S and 6°N, and longitudes 95°E and 141°E.",
"It consists of 17,508 islands, about 6,000 of which are inhabited.",
"These are scattered over both sides of the equator.",
"The largest are Java, Sumatra, Borneo (shared with Brunei and Malaysia), New Guinea (shared with Papua New Guinea), and Sulawesi.",
"Indonesia shares land borders with Malaysia on Borneo, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea, and East Timor on the island of Timor.",
"Indonesia shares maritime borders across narrow straits with Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Palau to the north, and with Australia to the south.",
"The capital, Jakarta, is on Java and is the nation's largest city, followed by Surabaya, Bandung, Medan, and Semarang.",
"At 1,919,440 square kilometers (741,050 sq mi), Indonesia is the world's 15th-largest country in terms of land area and world's 7th-largest country in terms of combined sea and land area.",
"Its average population density is 134 people per square kilometer (347 per sq mi), 79th in the world, although Java, the world's most populous island, has a population density of 940 people per square kilometer (2,435 per sq mi).",
"At , Puncak Jaya in Papua is Indonesia's highest peak, and Lake Toba in Sumatra its largest lake, with an area of 1,145 square kilometers (442 sq mi).",
"The country's largest rivers are in Kalimantan, and include the Mahakam and Barito; such rivers are communication and transport links between the island's river settlements.",
"Indonesia's location on the edges of the Pacific, Eurasian, and Australian tectonic plates makes it the site of numerous volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.",
"Indonesia has at least 150 active volcanoes, including Krakatoa and Tambora, both famous for their devastating eruptions in the 19th century.",
"The eruption of the Toba supervolcano, approximately 70,000 years ago, was one of the largest eruptions ever, and a global catastrophe.",
"Recent disasters due to seismic activity include the 2004 tsunami that killed an estimated 167,736 in northern Sumatra, and the Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006.",
"However, volcanic ash is a major contributor to the high agricultural fertility that has historically sustained the high population densities of Java and Bali.",
"Lying along the equator, Indonesia has a tropical climate, with two distinct monsoonal wet and dry seasons.",
"Average annual rainfall in the lowlands varies from , and up to in mountainous regions.",
"Mountainous areas – particularly in the west coast of Sumatra, West Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua – receive the highest rainfall.",
"Humidity is generally high, averaging about 80%.",
"Temperatures vary little throughout the year; the average daily temperature range of Jakarta is ."
] |
[
5
] |
Dalí museums and permanent exhibitions
|
What city is the Dali Universe located in?
|
Salvador Dalí
| false | 3ART
|
[
4
] |
[
"Dalí Theatre and Museum – Figueres, Catalonia, Spain",
"Salvador Dalí House-Museum - Port Lligat, Catalonia, Spain",
"Gala Dalí House-Museum - Púbol, Catalonia, Spain",
"Salvador Dali Museum – St Petersburg, Florida, USA",
"Dalí Universe – Venice, Italy ",
"Espace Dalí – Paris, France",
"Dalí, permanent exhibition - Berlin, Germany"
] |
[
0
] |
Corporate sponsorships
|
Who sponsored Universe of Energy?
|
Epcot
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
1
] |
[
"Each pavilion was initially sponsored by a corporation which helped fund its construction and maintenance in return for the corporation's logos and some marketing elements appearing throughout the pavilion.",
"For example, Universe of Energy was sponsored by Exxon from 1982 to 2004, and The Land was sponsored by Kraft from 1982 to 1993, then Nestlé from 1993 to 2009.",
"Each pavilion contains a private \"VIP area\" for its sponsor with offices, lounges, and reception areas hidden away from regular park guests.",
"While some pavilions still retain active sponsorships, in recent years several pavilions have lost sponsorships due to lack of interest from partner companies in renewing expiring agreements.",
"After General Electric left Horizons in 1993, it closed for a couple of years, then reopened temporarily while neighboring attractions Universe of Energy and World of Motion were renovated.",
"Horizons closed permanently on January 9, 1999 and was demolished in the summer of 2000 to make room for the opening of Mission: SPACE on October 9, 2003.",
"Metlife sponsored Wonders of Life from 1989 to 2001, until that area was closed.",
"However, the Wonders Of Life pavilion is still mostly intact and is used for both the Flower and Garden Festival and the Food and Wine Festival.",
"Current active sponsorships include the following:",
"Test Track opened in the former World of Motion pavilion and is currently sponsored by Chevrolet",
" is currently sponsored by Hewlett-Packard",
"Spaceship Earth is currently sponsored by Siemens which also sponsors the park's nighttime show .",
"Living with the Land is currently sponsored by Chiquita.",
"Individual small attractions and exhibits within the Innoventions pavilions are sponsored by various companies including IBM, Liberty Mutual, Coca-Cola, Velcro, and others."
] |
[
3
] |
Pacific (1942–43)
|
When were the Japanese defeated in WWII?
|
World War II
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
15
] |
[
"Pacific (1942–43).",
"By the end of April 1942, Japan and its ally Thailand had almost fully conquered Burma, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, and Rabaul, inflicting severe losses on Allied troops and taking a large number of prisoners.",
"Despite stubborn resistance at Corregidor, the US possession of the Philippines was eventually captured in May 1942, forcing its government into exile.",
"On 16 April, in Burma 7,000 British soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division.",
"Japanese forces also achieved naval victories in the South China Sea, Java Sea and Indian Ocean, and bombed the Allied naval base at Darwin, Australia.",
"The only real Allied success against Japan was a Chinese victory at Changsha in early January 1942.",
"These easy victories over unprepared opponents left Japan overconfident, as well as overextended.",
"In early May 1942, Japan initiated operations to capture Port Moresby by amphibious assault and thus sever communications and supply lines between the United States and Australia.",
"The Allies, however, prevented the invasion by intercepting and defeating the Japanese naval forces in the Battle of the Coral Sea.",
"Japan's next plan, motivated by the earlier Doolittle Raid, was to seize Midway Atoll and lure American carriers into battle to be eliminated; as a diversion, Japan would also send forces to occupy the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.",
"In early June, Japan put its operations into action but the Americans, having broken Japanese naval codes in late May, were fully aware of the plans and force dispositions and used this knowledge to achieve a decisive victory at Midway over the Imperial Japanese Navy.",
"With its capacity for aggressive action greatly diminished as a result of the Midway battle, Japan chose to focus on a belated attempt to capture Port Moresby by an overland campaign in the Territory of Papua.",
"The Americans planned a counter-attack against Japanese positions in the southern Solomon Islands, primarily Guadalcanal, as a first step towards capturing Rabaul, the main Japanese base in Southeast Asia.",
"Both plans started in July, but by mid-September, the Battle for Guadalcanal took priority for the Japanese, and troops in New Guinea were ordered to withdraw from the Port Moresby area to the northern part of the island, where they faced Australian and United States troops in the Battle of Buna-Gona.",
"Guadalcanal soon became a focal point for both sides with heavy commitments of troops and ships in the battle for Guadalcanal.",
"By the start of 1943, the Japanese were defeated on the island and withdrew their troops.",
"In Burma, Commonwealth forces mounted two operations.",
"The first, an offensive into the Arakan region in late 1942, went disastrously, forcing a retreat back to India by May 1943.",
"The second was the insertion of irregular forces behind Japanese front-lines in February which, by the end of April, had achieved mixed results."
] |
[
2
] |
Resorts
|
What hotels does the resort feature?
|
Universal Orlando
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
0
] |
[
"The resort features three official on-site hotels: Loews Royal Pacific Hotel, the Hard Rock Hotel, and Loews Portofino Bay Hotel & Spa.",
"All three hotels are located in close proximity to the Universal Orlando theme parks.",
"The hotels offer guests free water taxi or shuttle bus service to the Universal Orlando theme parks.",
"Another benefit is that the guest room key works as an \"Express Pass\", allowing the guest to bypass the Stand-by line at participating attractions.",
"Theme park guests who are not staying at the Universal official hotels are able to purchase \"Express Passes\" at an additional cost."
] |
[
0
] |
Boxer rankings
|
What criteria are boxers ranked by?
|
Boxing
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
0
] |
[
"There are various organizations and websites, that rank boxers in both weight class and pound-for-pound manner.",
" BoxRec (ratings)",
" The Ring (ratings)",
" ESPN (ratings)",
" Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (Ratings)"
] |
[
0
] |
Reaction in the Balkan States
|
Who persuaded the king to revise the constitution?
|
Balkan Wars
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
5
] |
[
"Serbia was frustrated in the north by Austria-Hungary's incorporation of Bosnia.",
"In March 1909, Serbia was forced to accept the annexation and restrain anti-Habsburg agitation by Serbian nationalists.",
"Instead, the Serbian government looked to formerly Serb territories in the south, notably \"Old Serbia\" (the Sanjak of Novi Pazar and the province of Kosovo).",
"On 15 August 1909 the Military League, a group of Greek officers, took action against the government to reform their country's national government and reorganize the army.",
"The League found itself unable to create a new political system, until the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser.",
"Venizelos persuaded the king to revise the constitution and asked the League to disband in favor of a National Assembly.",
"In March 1910 the Military League dissolved itself.",
"Bulgaria, which had secured Ottoman recognition of her independence in April 1909 and enjoyed the friendship of Russia, also looked to districts of Ottoman Thrace and Macedonia.",
"In August 1910 Montenegro followed Bulgaria's precedent by becoming a kingdom."
] |
[
3
] |
History
|
Its origins are traced back to the Chinese hot pot known what?
|
Shabu-shabu
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
2
] |
[
"",
"\"Shabu-shabu\" was introduced in Japan in the 20th century with the opening of the restaurant \"Suehiro\"[http://www.e-suehiro.com/history/] in Osaka, where the name was invented.",
"Its origins are traced back to the Chinese hot pot known as \"shuan yang rou\".",
"\"Shabu-shabu\" is most similar to the original Chinese version when compared to other Japanese dishes (\"nabemono\") such as \"sukiyaki\" .",
"Suehiro registered the name as a trademark in 1955.",
"Together with \"sukiyaki\", \"shabu-shabu\" is a common dish in tourist hot-spots, especially in Tokyo, but also in local Japanese neighborhoods (colloquially called \"Little Tokyos\") in countries such as the United States and Canada."
] |
[
0
] |
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