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DVD releases
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Who has the license to put out the DVD of Rules of Engagement in Region 1?
|
Rules of Engagement (TV series)
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"Sony Pictures Home Entertainment owns the rights to release DVDs in Region 1.",
"The fifth season of the series was made available beginning February 7, 2012, exclusively as a made-on-demand release from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, in conjunction with amazon.com.",
"Similarly, the sixth season received a MOD release from online retailers, on October 2, 2012.",
"Paramount Pictures, in conjunction with CBS Home Entertainment, will start releasing the series on DVD internationally in 2011.",
"Season One was released in the UK (Region 2 DVD) on April 4, 2011.",
"Note: Following the events of Charlie Sheen’s departure from \"Two and a Half Men\", CBS ordered an additional two episodes for \"Rules of Engagement\"’s fifth season, bringing the total number of episodes to 26 from the initial 24 ordered.",
"Despite the episodes, \"Scavenger Hunt\" and \"Cheating,\" airing during the sixth season, they were originally produced for the fifth season, and are included in the fifth season collection.",
"Therefore, the sixth season’s DVD release features the 13 episodes produced over that time period, versus the 15 that were broadcast by CBS."
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Scientific research
|
What data is used to determine whether lengthy human spaceflight and space colonisation can be done?
|
International Space Station
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"The ISS provides a platform to conduct scientific research that cannot be performed in any other way.",
"While small unmanned spacecraft can provide platforms for zero gravity and exposure to space, space stations offer a long term environment where studies can be performed potentially for decades, combined with ready access by human researchers over periods that exceed the capabilities of manned spacecraft.",
"The Station simplifies individual experiments by eliminating the need for separate rocket launches and research staff.",
"The wide variety of research fields include astrobiology, astronomy, human research including space medicine and life sciences, physical sciences, materials science, space weather, and weather on Earth (meteorology).",
"Scientists on Earth have access to the crew's data and can modify experiments or launch new ones, benefits generally unavailable on unmanned spacecraft.",
"Crews fly expeditions of several months duration, providing approximately 160-man-hours a week of labour with a crew of 6.",
"Kibō is intended to accelerate Japan's progress in science and technology, gain new knowledge and apply it to such fields as industry and medicine.",
"To detect dark matter and answer other fundamental questions about our universe, engineers and scientists from all over the world built the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which NASA compares to the Hubble telescope, and says could not be accommodated on a free flying satellite platform due in part to its power requirements and data bandwidth needs.",
"On 3 April 2013, NASA scientists reported that hints of dark matter may have been detected by the \"Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer\".",
"According to the scientists, \"The first results from the space-borne Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer confirm an unexplained excess of high-energy positrons in Earth-bound cosmic rays.",
"\"The space environment is hostile to life.",
"Unprotected presence in space is characterised by an intense radiation field (consisting primarily of protons and other subatomic charged particles from the solar wind, in addition to cosmic rays), high vacuum, extreme temperatures, and microgravity.",
"Some simple forms of life called extremophiles, including small invertebrates called tardigrades can survive in this environment in an extremely dry state called desiccation.",
"Medical research improves knowledge about the effects of long-term space exposure on the human body, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, and fluid shift.",
"This data will be used to determine whether lengthy human spaceflight and space colonisation are feasible.",
"As of 2006, data on bone loss and muscular atrophy suggest that there would be a significant risk of fractures and movement problems if astronauts landed on a planet after a lengthy interplanetary cruise, such as the six-month interval required to travel to Mars.",
"Medical studies are conducted aboard the ISS on behalf of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).",
"Prominent among these is the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity study in which astronauts perform ultrasound scans under the guidance of remote experts.",
"The study considers the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions in space.",
"Usually, there is no physician on board the ISS and diagnosis of medical conditions is a challenge.",
"It is anticipated that remotely guided ultrasound scans will have application on Earth in emergency and rural care situations where access to a trained physician is difficult."
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Origin
|
Where did Kipferl orginate?
|
Croissant
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"The Kipferl, ancestor of the croissant, has been documented in Austria going back at least as far as the 13th century, in various shapes.",
"The Kipferl can be made plain or with nut or other fillings (some consider the rugelach a form of Kipferl).",
"The \"birth\" of the croissant itself – that is, its adaptation from the plainer form of Kipferl, before the invention of Viennoiserie – can be dated with some precision to at latest 1839 (some say 1838), when an Austrian artillery officer, August Zang, founded a Viennese bakery (\"Boulangerie Viennoise\") at 92, rue de Richelieu in Paris.",
"This bakery, which served Viennese specialities including the Kipferl and the Vienna loaf, quickly became popular and inspired French imitators (and the concept, if not the term, viennoiserie, a 20th-century term for supposedly Vienna-style pastries).",
"The French version of the Kipferl was named for its crescent (\"croissant\") shape and has become a identifiable shape across the world.",
"Alan Davidson, editor of the \"Oxford Companion to Food\", found no printed recipe for the present-day croissant in any French recipe book before the early 20th century; the earliest French reference to a croissant he found was among the \"fantasy or luxury breads\" in Payen's \"Des substances alimentaires\", 1853.",
"However, early recipes for non-laminated croissants can be found in the nineteenth century and at least one reference to croissants as an established French bread appeared as early as 1850.",
"Zang himself returned to Austria in 1848 to become a press magnate, but the bakery remained popular for some time after, and was mentioned in several works of the time: \"This same M. Zank ...founded around 1830 , in Paris, the famous Boulangerie viennoise\".",
"Several sources praise this bakery's products: \"Paris is of exquisite delicacy; and, in particular, the succulent products of the Boulangerie Viennoise\"; \"which seemed to us as fine as if it came from the Viennese bakery on the rue de Richelieu\".",
"By 1869, the croissant was well established enough to be mentioned as a breakfast staple, and in 1872, Charles Dickens wrote (in his periodical \"All the Year Round\") of: the workman's pain de ménage and the soldier's pain de munition, to the dainty croissant on the boudoir tableThe puff pastry technique which now characterizes the croissant was already mentioned in the late 17th century, when La Varenne's \"Le Cuisinier françois\" gave a recipe for it in the 1680 – and possibly earlier – editions.",
"It was typically used, not on its own, but for shells holding other ingredients (as in a vol-au-vent).",
"But it does not appear to be mentioned in relation to the croissant until the twentieth century."
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Curry in the West Indies
|
Curry dishes at Caribbean restaurants use what type of ingredients?
|
Curry
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" in the West Indies.",
"In the West Indies, curry is a very popular dish.",
"The Indian indentured servants that were brought over from India by different European powers, brought this dish, as well as their culture, to the West Indies.",
"In Jamaica and Trinidad, curried goat is prominently featured.",
"Curry can be found at both inexpensive and upscale Caribbean restaurants, and ingredients can range from chicken or vegetables to shellfish such as shrimp and scallops.",
"Examples of curries in the West Indies include:",
" Jamaica: Especially curried chicken, goat, fish and shrimp.",
" Trinidad and Tobago: Most notably curried chicken, duck, goat, beef (eaten by Muslims and Christians) shrimp, and curry aloo, along with various curried wild meats.",
" Guyana: Chicken curry, goat curry, duck curry, shrimp curry, beef curry (eaten by Muslims and Christians), aloo curry (potato), fish (different varieties) curry, etc."
] |
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Coating
|
Is metal on metal deposition a reasonable way to prevent corrosion?
|
Electrochemistry
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2
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"Metals can be coated with paint or other less conductive metals (\"passivation\").",
"This prevents the metal surface from being exposed to electrolytes.",
"Scratches exposing the metal substrate will result in corrosion.",
"The region under the coating adjacent to the scratch acts as the anode of the reaction.",
"See Anodizing"
] |
[] |
Overview
|
According to the experts, what number of years did the High Renaissance occur?
|
High Renaissance
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"Since the late eighteenth century, the High Renaissance has been taken to refer to a short (c. 30-year) period of exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, principally Rome, capital of the Papal States, under Pope Julius II.",
"Assertions about where and when the period begins and ends vary, but in general the best-known exponents of painting of the High Renaissance, include Leonardo da Vinci, early Michelangelo and Raphael.",
"Extending the general rubric of Renaissance culture, the visual arts of the High Renaissance were marked by a renewed emphasis upon the classical tradition, the expansion of networks of patronage, and a gradual attenuation of figural forms into the style later termed Mannerism.",
"The paintings in the Vatican by Michelangelo and Raphael are said by some scholars such as Stephen Freedberg to represent the culmination of High Renaissance style in painting, because of the ambitious scale of these works, coupled with the complexity of their composition, closely observed human figures, and pointed iconographic and decorative references to classical antiquity, can be viewed as emblematic of the High Renaissance.",
"In more recent years, art historians have characterised the High Renaissance as a movement as opposed to a period, one amongst several different experimental attitudes towards art in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.",
"This movement is variously characterised as conservative; as reflecting new attitudes towards beauty; a deliberate process of synthesising eclectic models, linked to fashions in literary culture; and reflecting new preoccupations with interpretation and meaning ."
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0
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Authenticity issues
|
What proves the authenticity of a Pollock painting?
|
Jackson Pollock
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3,
4
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"In 2003, twenty-four Pollock-esque paintings and drawings were found in a locker in Wainscott, New York.",
"An inconclusive debate continues about whether or not these works are Pollock originals.",
"Physicists have argued over whether fractals can be used to authenticate the paintings.",
"This would require an analysis of geometric consistency of the paint splatters in Pollock's work at a microscopic level, and would be measured against the finding that patterns in Pollock's paintings increased in complexity with time.",
"Analysis of the synthetic pigments shows that some were not patented until the 1980s, and therefore that it is highly improbable that Pollock could have used such paints.",
"In 2006 a documentary, \"Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?\"",
"was made concerning Teri Horton, a truck driver who in 1992 bought an abstract painting for five dollars at a thrift store in California.",
"This work may be a lost Pollock painting but its authenticity is debated."
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0
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Plot
|
What does the bachelor do with the winning candidate?
|
The Bachelor (U.S. TV series)
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1
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"As the show is designed, the series revolves around a single bachelor (deemed eligible) who starts with a pool of romantic interests (typically 25) from whom the bachelor is expected to select a wife.",
"During the course of the season, the bachelor eliminates candidates (see The elimination process), with the bachelor proposing marriage to his final selection.",
"The participants travel to romantic and exotic locations for their adventures, and the conflicts in the series, both internal and external, stem from the elimination-style format of the show.",
"The above description is a general guideline.",
"In practice, the show does not always follow its designed structure, and those variations are often a source of drama and conflict.",
" A candidate who was eliminated returns to the show to plead her case to the bachelor.",
" A bachelor distributes more roses or fewer roses than planned.",
" A bachelor eliminates both women in a two-on-one date.",
" A bachelor eliminates a woman outside of a rose ceremony.",
" The bachelor chooses to pursue a relationship with his final selection rather than propose marriage.",
"The two most notable cases where the bachelor violated the premise of the show are Brad Womack, who selected neither of his final two women, and Jason Mesnick, who in the \"After the Final Rose\" episode broke off his engagement and proposed to the first runner-up.",
"(The two are now married.)"
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0
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Foreign relations
|
Where do most countries have embassies in the US?
|
United States
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"The United States has an established structure of foreign relations.",
"It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and New York City is home to the United Nations Headquarters.",
"It is a member of the G8, G20, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.",
"Almost all countries have embassies in Washington, D.C., and many have consulates around the country.",
"Likewise, nearly all nations host American diplomatic missions.",
"However, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Bhutan, and the Republic of China (Taiwan) do not have formal diplomatic relations with the United States (although the U.S. still supplies Taiwan with military equipment).",
"The United States has a \"special relationship\" with the United Kingdom and strong ties with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Israel, and several European countries, including France and Germany.",
"It works closely with fellow NATO members on military and security issues and with its neighbors through the Organization of American States and free trade agreements such as the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.",
"In 2008, the United States spent a net $25.4 billion on official development assistance, the most in the world.",
"As a share of America's large gross national income (GNI), however, the U.S. contribution of 0.18% ranked last among 22 donor states.",
"By contrast, private overseas giving by Americans is relatively generous.",
"The U.S. exercises full international defense authority and responsibility for three sovereign nations through Compact of Free Association with Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau, all of which are Pacific island nations which were part of the U.S.-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands beginning after World War II, and gained independence in subsequent years."
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Knots and line handling
|
What is a reef knot?
|
Sailing
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"The tying and untying of knots and hitches as well as the general handling of ropes and lines are fundamental to the art of sailing.",
"The RYA basic 'Start Yachting' syllabus lists the following knots and hitches:",
"figure-eight knot — stopper knot",
"round turn and two half hitches — secure the end of a rope to a fixed object",
"bowline — used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope",
"It also lists securing a line around a cleat and the use of winches and jamming cleats.",
"The RYA Competent Crew syllabus adds the following to the list above, as well as knowledge of the correct use of each: ",
"clove hitch — securing lines running along a series of posts",
"rolling hitch — rigging a stopper to relax the tension on a sheet",
"reef knot — joining two ends of a single line to bind around an object",
"single and double sheet bend — joining two ropes of different diameters",
"In addition it requires competent crewmembers to understand 'taking a turn' around a cleat and to be able to make cleated lines secure.",
"Lines and halyards need to be coiled neatly for stowage and reuse.",
"Dock lines need to be thrown and handled safely and correctly when coming alongside, up to a buoy, and when anchoring, as well as when casting off and getting under way."
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0
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Young Turk revolution
|
When did Austria-Hungary annex the de jure Ottoman province of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
|
Balkan Wars
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"It is no surprise that the \"Young Turk\" revolution occurred in the troubled European provinces of the Empire.",
"There the threat to its integrity was the most pronounced, and the need for reforms was most evident.",
"When the revolt broke out, it was supported by intellectuals, the army, and almost all the ethnic minorities of the Empire, and forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to re-adopt the long defunct Ottoman constitution of 1876, ushering in the Second Constitutional Era.",
"Hopes were raised among the Balkan ethnicities of reforms and autonomy, and elections were held to form a representative, multi-ethnic, Ottoman parliament.",
"However, following the Sultan's attempted counter-coup, the liberal element of the Young Turks was sidelined and the nationalist element became dominant.",
"At the same time, in October 1908, Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity of the Ottoman political upheaval to annex the \"de jure\" Ottoman province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878 (see \"Bosnian Crisis\"), and Bulgaria declared itself a fully independent kingdom.",
"The Greeks of the autonomous Cretan State proclaimed unification with Greece, though the opposition of the Great Powers prevented the latter action from taking practical effect."
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Track listings
|
The Audien Luvstep Mix had a running time of what length?
|
As Long as You Love Me (Justin Bieber song)
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18
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"Digital download",
"\"As Long As You Love Me\" (feat.",
"Big Sean) – 3:49",
"Digital Remixes EP",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Ferry Corsten Remix) - 5:42",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Ferry Corsten Club Dub) - 4:58",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Ferry Corsten Radio Mix) - 3:31",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Audiobot Remix) - 5:04",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Audiobot Instrumental) - 5:04",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Audiobot Radio Mix) - 3:55",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Paulo & Jackinsky Club Mix) - 7:41",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Paulo & Jackinsky Dub) - 7:26",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (Paulo & Jackinsky Radio Mix) - 3:55",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (feat.",
"Big Sean) (Audien Dubstep Radio Mix) - 4:03",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (feat.",
"Big Sean) (Audien Dubstep Mix) - 4:37",
" \"As Long As You Love Me\" (feat.",
"Big Sean) (Audien Luvstep Mix) - 4:37"
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[
0
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Ratings
|
How many episodes accounted for the season during Glees first season?
|
Glee (TV series)
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3
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"The pilot episode of \"Glee\" averaged 9.62 million viewers, and the following eleven episodes attained between 6.10 and 7.65 million.",
"The mid-season finale was watched by 8.13 million viewers, with the show returning in April 2010 to a season high of 13.66 million viewers.",
"The following six episodes attained between 11.49 and 12.98 million viewers, falling to 8.99 million for the penultimate episode \"Funk\".",
"Viewing figures rose to 11.07 million viewers for the season finale, giving \"Glee\" the highest finale rating for a new show in the 2009–10 television season.",
"Only the first twenty episodes of the first season were accounted for when calculating the season average due to the final two episodes airing outside the traditional sweeps period.",
"On February 6, 2011, after the Super Bowl, \"Glee\" received its highest ever ratings, with over 26.8 million tuning in to see the special episode, with a peak of 39.5 million.",
"In 2011, \"Glee\" generated $2 million advertising revenue per half hour.",
"In 2012, the show was the fourth-highest revenue earning show of the year, with US$2.83 million ad revenue per half hour, behind \"Two and a Half Men\", \"The X Factor (U.S.)\" and \"American Idol\"."
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5
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Double-stranded RNA
|
Double-stranded RNA contains how many strands?
|
RNA
| true | 8SCIENCE
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[
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"Double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is RNA with two complementary strands, similar to the DNA found in all cells.",
"dsRNA forms the genetic material of some viruses (double-stranded RNA viruses).",
"Double-stranded RNA such as viral RNA or siRNA can trigger RNA interference in eukaryotes, as well as interferon response in vertebrates."
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5
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Division of Korea (1954–present)
|
Who was the North Korean leader who ordered the invasion of South Korea?
|
Korean War
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"Division of Korea (1954–present).",
"The Korean Armistice Agreement provided for monitoring by an international commission.",
"Since 1953, the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC), composed of members from the Swiss and Swedish Armed Forces, has been stationed near the DMZ.",
"In April 1975, South Vietnam's capital was captured by the North Vietnamese army.",
"Encouraged by the success of Communist revolution in Indochina, Kim Il-sung saw it as an opportunity to invade the South.",
"Kim visited China in April of that year, and met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to ask for military aid.",
"Despite Pyongyang's expectations, however, Beijing refused to help North Korea for another war in Korea.",
"Since the armistice, there have been numerous incursions and acts of aggression by North Korea.",
"In 1976, the axe murder incident was widely publicized.",
"Since 1974, four incursion tunnels leading to Seoul have been uncovered.",
"In 2010, a North Korean submarine torpedoed and sank the South Korean corvette ROKS \"Cheonan\", resulting in the deaths of 46 sailors.",
"Again in 2010, North Korea fired artillery shells on Yeonpyeong island, killing two military personnel and two civilians.",
"After a new wave of U.N. sanctions, on 11 March 2013, North Korea claimed that it had invalidated the 1953 armistice.",
"On 13 March 2013, North Korea confirmed it ended the 1953 Armistice and declared North Korea \"is not restrained by the North-South declaration on non-aggression.\"",
"On 30 March 2013, North Korea stated that it had entered a \"state of war\" with South Korea and declared that \"The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over.\"",
"Speaking on 4 April 2013, the United States Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, informed the press that Pyongyang had \"formally informed\" the Pentagon that it had \"ratified\" the potential usage of a nuclear weapon against South Korea, Japan and the United States of America, including Guam and Hawaii.",
"Hagel also stated that the US would deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-ballistic missile system to Guam, due to a credible and realistic nuclear threat from North Korea."
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Abstract
|
A song was leaked in late 2010 with speculation that the lyrics were towards the singer's x-boyfrined Travie McCoy.
|
Part of Me (Katy Perry song)
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"Part of Me (Katy Perry song)\"Part of Me\" is a song by American recording artist Katy Perry, released as the lead single from \"\", the March 2012 re-release of her August 2010 album, \"Teenage Dream\".",
"It was written by Perry and Bonnie McKee, with production and additional writing by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Cirkut.",
"The song was not included on the original edition of \"Teenage Dream\" because Perry felt that it did not fit the composition of the album.",
"A demo of the song leaked online in late 2010, amid speculation that the lyrics were directed to the singer's ex-boyfriend Travie McCoy.",
"\"Part of Me\" was re-worked and officially released on February 13, 2012, through Capitol Records with artwork by art director Gavin Taylor and photography by Mary Ellen Matthews.",
"The production draws inspiration from several genres, including house music, dance-pop, and power pop; reviewers compared it to Jessie J's 2011 single \"Domino\", and Perry's 2010 singles \"Firework\" and \"California Gurls\".",
"Its lyrics describe a female protagonist who declares herself as un-breakable and strong following a break-up.",
"Contemporary music critics praised the song's production and gave it mixed-to-positive reviews, although some criticized Perry's vocals.",
"Many theorized that the lyrics addressed Perry's divorce from Russell Brand, although Perry stated it was not about him since it was written in early 2010.",
"\"Part of Me\" was a commercial success.",
"It was the twentieth song to debut at number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, Perry's seventh number-one single on the chart, and her ninth consecutive number-one single on the \"Billboard \" Hot Dance Club Songs chart.",
"The single debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and Canada, and has been certified Platinum in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.",
"Marketing campaigns for Adidas and \"\" have featured it.",
"An accompanying music video was filmed at the United States Marine Corps' Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California.",
"The video depicts Perry enlisting in the Marines following a heartbreak.",
"It garnered generally positive reviews for Perry's \"Girl Power\" message, but drew criticism from feminist author Naomi Wolf, who denounced it as military propaganda.",
"Perry debuted the first televised performance of song on at the 54th Grammy Awards, and has also performed the song at the ECHO Awards, the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards, and \"American Idol\"."
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[] |
Singles
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Which court is more narrow, singles or doubles?
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Badminton
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"The singles court is narrower than the doubles court, but the same length.",
"Since one person needs to cover the entire court, singles tactics are based on forcing the opponent to move as much as possible; this means that singles strokes are normally directed to the corners of the court.",
"Players exploit the length of the court by combining lifts and clears with drop shots and net shots.",
"Smashing tends to be less prominent in singles than in doubles because the smasher has no partner to follow up his effort and is thus vulnerable to a skillfully placed return.",
"Moreover, frequent smashing can be exhausting in singles where the conservation of a player's energy is at a premium.",
"However, players with strong smashes will sometimes use the shot to create openings, and players commonly smash weak returns to try to end rallies.",
"In singles, players will often start the rally with a forehand high serve or with a flick serve.",
"Low serves are also used frequently, either forehand or backhand.",
"Drive serves are rare.",
"At high levels of play, singles demands extraordinary fitness.",
"Singles is a game of patient positional manoeuvring, unlike the all-out aggression of doubles."
] |
[] |
Reception and contest
|
How many winners are allowed for the contest!
|
Starships (song)
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3
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"MTV's John Mitchell criticized the video's postponed release, finding it strange that the video for the album's third single, \"Beez in the Trap\", was released before that of \"Starships\".",
"On May 28, 2012, a \"Starships\" video campaign was announced on Minaj's official website.",
"It asked fans to record a video of themselves performing \"Starships\" by singing, dancing or with a musical instrument.",
"Minaj will then select 5 winners.",
"The contest winners won tickets and passes to meet Minaj on her Pink Friday Tour.",
"The song won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video in September 2012."
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Etymology
|
What emperor used the name between 1804 and 1813?
|
Vietnam
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"The name \"Việt Nam\" () is a variation of \"Nam Việt\" (; literally \"Southern Việt\"), a name that can be traced back to the Triệu Dynasty of the 2nd century BC.",
"The word \"Việt\" originated as a shortened form of Bách Việt (), a word applied to a group of peoples then living in southern China and Vietnam.",
"The form \"Vietnam\" () is first recorded in the 16th-century oracular poem \"Sấm Trạng Trình\".",
"The name has also been found on 12 steles carved in the 16th and 17th centuries, including one at Bao Lam Pagoda in Haiphong that dates to 1558.",
"Between 1804 and 1813, the name was used officially by Emperor Gia Long.",
"It was revived in the early 20th century by Phan Bội Châu's \"History of the Loss of Vietnam\", and later by the Vietnamese Nationalist Party.",
"The country was usually called Annam until 1945, when both the imperial government in Huế and the Viet Minh government in Hanoi adopted \"Việt Nam\".",
"Since the use of Chinese characters was discontinued in 1918, the alphabetic spelling of Vietnam is official."
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Magnetic resonance angiography
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What procedure is used to generate pictures of veins?
|
Magnetic resonance imaging
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"Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) generates pictures of the arteries to evaluate them for stenosis (abnormal narrowing) or aneurysms (vessel wall dilatations, at risk of rupture).",
"MRA is often used to evaluate the arteries of the neck and brain, the thoracic and abdominal aorta, the renal arteries, and the legs (called a \"run-off\").",
"A variety of techniques can be used to generate the pictures, such as administration of a paramagnetic contrast agent (gadolinium) or using a technique known as \"flow-related enhancement\" (e.g., 2D and 3D time-of-flight sequences), where most of the signal on an image is due to blood that recently moved into that plane, see also FLASH MRI.",
"Techniques involving phase accumulation (known as phase contrast angiography) can also be used to generate flow velocity maps easily and accurately.",
"Magnetic resonance venography (MRV) is a similar procedure that is used to image veins.",
"In this method, the tissue is now excited inferiorly, while the signal is gathered in the plane immediately superior to the excitation plane—thus imaging the venous blood that recently moved from the excited plane."
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0
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Debris removal
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What type of acid was dropped from helicopters after the Chernobyl disaster to curb any risk of explosion?
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Chernobyl disaster
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"The worst of the radioactive debris was collected inside what was left of the reactor, much of it shoveled in by liquidators wearing heavy protective gear (dubbed \"bio-robots\" by the military); these workers could only spend a maximum of 40 seconds at a time working on the rooftops of the surrounding buildings because of the extremely high doses of radiation given off by the blocks of graphite and other debris.",
"The reactor itself was covered with bags of sand, lead and boric acid dropped from helicopters: some 5,000 metric tons of material were dropped during the week that followed the accident.",
"At the time there was still fear that the reactor could re-enter a self-sustaining nuclear chain-reaction and explode again, and a new containment structure was planned to prevent rain entering and triggering such an explosion, and to prevent further release of radioactive material.",
"This was the largest civil engineering task in history, involving a quarter of a million construction workers who all reached their official lifetime limits of radiation.",
"By December 1986, a large concrete sarcophagus had been erected to seal off the reactor and its contents.",
"A unique \"clean up\" medal was given to the workers.",
"Many of the vehicles used by the \"liquidators\" remain parked in a field in the Chernobyl area.",
"During the construction of the sarcophagus, a scientific team re-entered the reactor as part of an investigation dubbed \"Complex Expedition\", to locate and contain nuclear fuel in a way that could not lead to another explosion.",
"These scientists manually collected cold fuel rods, but great heat was still emanating from the core.",
"Rates of radiation in different parts of the building were monitored by drilling holes into the reactor and inserting long metal detector tubes.",
"The scientists were exposed to high levels of radiation and radioactive dust.",
"After six months of investigation, in December 1986, they discovered with the help of a remote camera an intensely radioactive mass in the basement of Unit Four, more than two metres wide and weighing hundreds of tons, which they called \"the elephant's foot\" for its wrinkled appearance.",
"The mass was composed of sand, glass and a large amount of nuclear fuel that had escaped from the reactor.",
"The concrete beneath the reactor was steaming hot, and was breached by solidified lava and spectacular unknown crystalline forms termed chernobylite.",
"It was concluded that there was no further risk of explosion."
] |
[
0
] |
Series overview
|
How is the child killed?
|
Falling Skies
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[
"",
"\"Falling Skies\" tells the story of the aftermath of a global invasion by extraterrestrials (including mechanical attack drones called \"mechs\", a species of green-skinned six-legged beings known as \"Skitters\" that appear to control the mechs, and a third mysterious species known as the Overlords, or \"espheni\", presumably the actual engineers of the invasion and the masters of the Skitters).",
"Within a few days the invaders neutralized the world's power grid and technology, destroyed the militaries of all the world's countries, and killed over 90% of the human population.",
"The aliens' objectives are not explained, though the aliens try to round up children between the ages of 8 and 18 and attach a biomechanical obedience device onto (and into) their spines, referred to as a \"harness\".",
"The harness controls the child's mind, and forcibly removing it generally kills the child.",
"The story begins six months after the invasion and follows a group of survivors who band together to fight back.",
"The group, known as the Second Massachusetts (an allusion to a historical regiment from the Continental Army), is led by retired U.S. Army Captain Dan Weaver and Boston University history professor Tom Mason who, while in search of his son Ben, must put his extensive knowledge of military history into practice as one of the leaders of the resistance movement."
] |
[
5
] |
Reception
|
What was the rating given to "The Dark Knight Rises" by IGN?
|
The Dark Knight Rises
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"",
"\"The Dark Knight Rises\" received mostly positive reviews from critics; Rotten Tomatoes sampled 304 reviewers and judged 88% of the reviews to be positive.",
"Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 78 (out of 100) based on 45 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be \"generally favorable reviews\".",
"CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film an A grade.",
"\"The Telegraph\" granted the film a maximum score of five stars, stating that it is \"a superhero film without a superhero,\" comparing it with \"The Godfather Part II\" and praising Hardy's performance as well as the film's intricate plot and narrative.",
"Kenneth Turan of the \"Los Angeles Times\" thought the film was \"potent, persuasive and hypnotic\" and that it was \"more than an exceptional superhero movie, it is masterful filmmaking by any standard.\"",
"\"The Playlists\" Todd Gilchrist wrote \"A cinematic, cultural and personal triumph, \"The Dark Knight Rises\" is emotionally inspiring, aesthetically significant and critically important for America itself – as a mirror of both sober reflection and resilient hope.\"",
"IGN gave it a 9 out of 10, noting similarities in tone and theme to \"Batman Begins\" over the trilogy's second installment \"The Dark Knight\", but also describing Bane as \"that bit less interesting to watch\" than Ledger's Joker, despite praising his \"menacing voice\" and \"body language-driven performance\".",
"\"The Guardian\" scored the film four out of five stars, calling it a film of \"granite, monolithic intensity\", yet also calling it a \"hammy, portentous affair\".",
"Andrew O'Hehir of \"Salon\" writes \"if \"The Dark Knight Rises\" is a fascist film, it's a great fascist film, and arguably the biggest, darkest, most thrilling and disturbing and utterly balls-out spectacle ever created for the screen\".",
"Roger Ebert of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" gave the film three out of four stars, stating \"the film begins slowly with a murky plot and too many new characters, but builds to a sensational climax.\"",
"Film critic Richard Roeper gave the film an \"A\", calling it \"a majestic, gorgeous, brutal and richly satisfying epic\", and citing the final scenes of the picture as \"the best five minutes of any film this year.\"",
"The London Film Review gave the film a B and said \"Nolan's film is a reminder that superheroes aren't merely a frivolous distraction, but an embodiment of our best selves.\"",
"The film was crowned by \"Forbes\" as the best modern comic book superhero adaption on screen, outranking both its main summer blockbuster competitor, \"Marvel's The Avengers\", and the trilogy's previous installment \"The Dark Knight\".",
"\"The Daily Mail\" Chris Tookey said that the film was bloated and overly long, and criticized the sombre tone and lack of humor, despite praising the film's visually-impressive set pieces.",
"CNN's Tom Charity said the film was a \"disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series\" and called it Nolan's worst film.",
"Anthony Lane of \"The New Yorker\" says that the \"story is dense, overlong, and studded with references that will make sense only to those intimate with Nolan's previous excursions into Batmanhood\".",
"In reaction to fan backlash to some of the negative reviews, Rotten Tomatoes chose to disable user commentary for the film leading up to its release.",
"Some fans had threatened violence against critics while others threatened to take down the websites of movie critics who had given the film a negative review."
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[
0
] |
Organism cloning
|
What is another name for cloning?
|
Cloning
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"Organism cloning (also called reproductive cloning) refers to the procedure of creating a new multicellular organism, genetically identical to another.",
"In essence this form of cloning is an asexual method of reproduction, where fertilization or inter-gamete contact does not take place.",
"Asexual reproduction is a naturally occurring phenomenon in many species, including most plants (see vegetative reproduction) and some insects.",
"Scientists have made some major achievements with cloning, including the asexual reproduction of sheep and cows.",
"There is a lot of ethical debate over whether or not cloning should be used.",
"However, cloning, or asexual propagation, has been common practice in the horticultural world for hundreds of years."
] |
[
0
] |
Universities and schools
|
When did fencing originate?
|
Fencing
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|
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0
] |
[
"Fencing has a long history with universities and schools for at least 500 years.",
"At least one style of fencing, Mensur in Germany, is practiced only within universities.",
"University students compete internationally at the World University Games.",
"The United States holds two national level university tournaments including the NCAA championship and the USACFC National Championships tournaments in the USA and the BUCS fencing championships in the United Kingdom.",
"Equipment costs and the relatively small scale of the sport limits university fencing to a small number of schools.",
"National fencing organizations have set up programs to encourage more students to fence.",
"Examples include the Regional Youth Circuit program in the USA and the Leon Paul Youth Development series in the UK.",
"In recent years, attempts have been made to introduce fencing to a wider and younger audience, by using foam and plastic swords, which require much less protective equipment.",
"This makes it much less expensive to provide classes, and makes it easier to take fencing to a wider range of schools than traditionally has been the case.",
"There is even a competition series in Scotland – the Plastic-and-Foam Fencing FunLeague – specifically for Primary and early Secondary school-age children using this equipment.",
"The UK hosts two national competitions in which schools compete against each other directly: the Public Schools Fencing Championship, a competition only open to Independent Schools, and the Scottish Secondary Schools Championships, open to all secondary schools in Scotland.",
"It contains both teams and individual events and is highly anticipated.",
"Schools organise matches directly against one another and school age pupils can compete individually in the British Youth Championships.",
"Many universities in Ontario, Canada have fencing teams that participate in an annual inter-university competition called the OUA Finals."
] |
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2
] |
Opening and operation
|
On what day did Union Station first open?
|
Union Station (Washington, D.C.)
| true | 2TRAVEL
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4
] |
[
"When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced in 1901 that they planned to build a new union terminal, the city had two reasons to celebrate.",
"The decision meant that both railroads would soon remove their trackwork and terminals from the National Mall.",
"Though changes there appeared only gradually, the consolidation of the depots allowed the creation of the Mall as it appears today.",
"Secondly, the plan to bring all the city's railroads under one roof promised that Washington would finally have a station both large enough to handle large crowds and impressive enough to befit the city's role as the federal capital.",
"Union Station opened on October 27, 1907, with the arrival of a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger train from Pittsburgh.",
"The terminal quickly became the portal to the Capitol.",
"At no time was it busier than during World War II, when as many as 200,000 people passed through in a single day.",
"For most of its existence, Union Station served as a hub, with service of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Southern Railway.",
"The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad provided a link to Richmond, Virginia, about to the south, where major north-south lines of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad provided service to the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida."
] |
[
0
] |
Soup
|
What are the seasons included to ramen?
|
Ramen
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|
[
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[
"Ramen soup is generally made from stock based on chicken or pork, combined with a variety of ingredients such as kombu (kelp), katsuobushi (skipjack tuna flakes), niboshi (dried baby sardines), beef bones, shiitake, and onions, and then flavored with salt, miso, or soy sauce.",
"Other styles that have emerged later on include curry ramen and other flavors.",
"The resulting combination is generally divided into four categories (although new and original variations often make this categorisation less clear-cut):",
" Shio (\"salt\") ramen is probably the oldest of the four and is a pale, clear, yellowish broth made with plenty of salt and any combination of chicken, vegetables, fish, and seaweed.",
"Occasionally pork bones are also used, but they are not boiled as long as they are for \"tonkotsu\" ramen, so the soup remains light and clear.",
"Chāshū is sometimes swapped for lean chicken meatballs, and pickled plums and kamaboko (a slice of processed fish roll sometimes served as a frilly white circle with a pink or red spiral called narutomaki) are popular toppings as well.",
"Noodle texture and thickness varies among \"shio\" ramen, but they are usually straight rather than curly.",
" (豚骨, \"pork bone\"; not to be confused with tonkatsu) ramen usually has a cloudy white colored broth.",
"It is similar to the Chinese \"baitang\" (白湯) and has a thick broth made from boiling pork bones, fat, and collagen over high heat for many hours, which suffuses the broth with a hearty pork flavor and a creamy consistency that rivals milk, melted butter or gravy (depending on the shop).",
"Most shops, but not all, blend this pork broth with a small amount of chicken and vegetable stock and/or soy sauce.",
"The noodles are thin and straight, and it is often served with beni shoga (pickled ginger).",
"In recent years the latest trend in \"tonkotsu\" toppings is \"māyu\" (sesame oil), a blackish, aromatic oil made from either charred crushed garlic or Sesame seeds.",
"It is a specialty of Kyushu, particularly Hakata-ku, Fukuoka (hence sometimes called \"Hakata ramen\").",
"Shōyu (\"soy sauce\") ramen typically has a clear brown broth, based on a chicken and vegetable (or sometimes fish or beef) stock with plenty of soy sauce added resulting in a soup that is tangy, salty, and savory yet still fairly light on the palate.",
"Shōyu ramen usually has curly noodles rather than straight ones, but this is not always the case.",
"It is often adorned with marinated bamboo shoots or \"menma\", green onions, \"kamaboko\" (fish cakes), \"nori\" (seaweed), boiled eggs, bean sprouts and/or black pepper; occasionally the soup will also contain chili oil or Chinese spices, and some shops serve sliced beef instead of the usual chāshū.",
" Miso ramen is a relative newcomer, having reached national prominence around 1965.",
"This uniquely Japanese ramen, which was developed in Hokkaido, features a broth that combines copious amounts of miso and is blended with oily chicken or fish broth – and sometimes with \"tonkotsu\" or lard – to create a thick, nutty, slightly sweet and very hearty soup.",
"Miso ramen broth tends to have a robust, tangy flavor, so it stands up to a variety of flavorful toppings: spicy bean paste or \"tōbanjan\" (豆瓣醤), butter and corn, leeks, onions, bean sprouts, ground pork, cabbage, sesame seeds, white pepper, and chopped garlic are common.",
"The noodles are typically thick, curly, and slightly chewy.",
"Seasonings commonly added to ramen are black pepper, butter, chili pepper, sesame seeds, and crushed garlic.",
"Soup recipes and methods of preparation tend to be closely guarded secrets.",
"Some restaurants also offer a system known as \"kae-dama\" (替え玉), where customers who have finished their noodles can request a \"refill\" (for a few hundred yen more) to be put into their remaining soup."
] |
[
0
] |
Personnel
|
Who did the choral arrangements of Across the Universe, The Long and Winding Road, and I Me Mine?
|
Let It Be
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"The Beatles",
"George Harrison – lead and rhythm guitars, acoustic guitar on \"For You Blue\" and \"I Me Mine\", tambura on \"Across the Universe\", tuned-down six-string electric guitar on \"Two of Us\" and \"Maggie Mae\", lead vocals on \"I Me Mine\" and \"For You Blue\", backing vocals.",
"John Lennon – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar on \"Get Back\", lap steel guitar on \"For You Blue\", acoustic guitar on \"Two of Us\", \"Across the Universe\" and \"Maggie Mae\", six-string bass guitar on \"Dig It\", \"Let It Be\" and \"The Long and Winding Road\", whistling on \"Two of Us\".",
"Paul McCartney – lead and backing vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar on \"Two of Us\" and \"Maggie Mae\", piano on \"Dig It\", \"Across the Universe\", \"Let It Be\", \"The Long and Winding Road\", and \"For You Blue\", Hammond organ and electric piano on \"I Me Mine\", maracas on \"Let It Be\".",
"Ringo Starr – drums, percussion on \"Across the Universe\".",
"Additional musicians",
"Richard Anthony Hewson – string and brass arrangements on \"I Me Mine\" and \"The Long and Winding Road\"",
"John Barham – choral arrangements on \"Across the Universe\", \"I Me Mine\" and \"The Long and Winding Road\"",
"George Martin – shaker on \"Dig It\", string and brass arrangements on \"Let It Be\", production",
"Linda McCartney – backing vocals on \"Let It Be\"",
"Billy Preston – electric piano on \"Dig a Pony\", \"I've Got a Feeling\", \"One After 909\", \"The Long and Winding Road\", and \"Get Back\", Hammond organ on \"Dig It\" and \"Let It Be\"",
"Brian Rogers – string and brass arrangements on \"Across the Universe\"",
"Production",
"Glyn Johns – audio engineering, mixing",
"Alan Parsons – assistant engineer",
"Phil Spector – \"re-producer\" (final overdubs), final mixing"
] |
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3
] |
Critical reception
|
How did Desert News react to the film Blackfish?
|
Blackfish (film)
| true | 6MOVIES
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[
1
] |
[
"The review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes said 98% of 94 critics gave the film a positive review, with the site's consensus stating, \"\"Blackfish\" is an aggressive, impassioned documentary that will change the way you look at performance killer whales.\"",
"The \"Deseret News\" called it \"a gripping example of documentary filmmaking at its finest\".",
"At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 83 based on 33 reviews.",
"After the film's release, former SeaWorld trainer Bridgette Pirtle said the final film was \"a complete ‘180’ from what was originally presented to me.\"",
"Mark Simmons, one of Tilikum's first trainers, believed few of his interview comments were used \"ecause the things I said flew in the face of the movie’s clear agenda.",
"What I contributed did not support Gabriela or Tim Zimmerman’s intent with the film.”In January 2014, the family of the late trainer Dawn Brancheau said neither it nor the foundation named after her were affiliated with the film, and that they did not believe it accurately reflected Brancheau or her experiences."
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5
] |
First law
|
What did Faraday conclude based on his electrochemical experiments?
|
Electrochemistry
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|
[
0
] |
[
"Faraday concluded after several experiments on electrical current in non-spontaneous process, the mass of the products yielded on the electrodes was proportional to the value of current supplied to the cell, the length of time the current existed, and the molar mass of the substance analyzed.",
"In other words, the amount of a substance deposited on each electrode of an electrolytic cell is directly proportional to the quantity of electricity passed through the cell.",
"Below is a simplified equation of Faraday's first law:",
"formula_7",
"Where",
"\"m\" is the mass of the substance produced at the electrode (in grams),",
"\"Q\" is the total electric charge that passed through the solution (in coulombs),",
"\"n\" is the valence number of the substance as an ion in solution (electrons per ion),",
"\"M\" is the molar mass of the substance (in grams per mole)."
] |
[
0
] |
"Pain perdu"
|
Why is french toast called "lost bread"?
|
French toast
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|
[
1
] |
[
"In France, Belgium, New Orleans, Acadiana and the Congo, French toast is called \"pain perdu\", which means \"lost bread\" in French.",
"It is called \"lost bread\" because it is a way to reclaim stale or \"lost\" bread.",
"The hard bread is softened by dipping in a mixture of milk and eggs, and then fried.",
"The bread is sliced on a bias and dipped into a mixture of egg, milk, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.",
"The slices are pan-fried in butter and traditionally dusted with powdered sugar and served with jam or syrup on the side.",
"In New Orleans, \"pain perdu\" is a local variation of French toast and often shows up on menus as \"Lost Bread\".",
"It is made from leftover New Orleans–style French bread.",
"The bread resembles a French baguette, but has a crunchier exterior and a lighter interior and is usually fried in oil.",
"It is eaten for breakfast in New Orleans.",
"In France, \"pain perdu\" is considered to be a dessert, a breakfast as well as an afternoon tea snack (\"goûter\").",
"In Quebec, French toast is called \"pain doré\", which means \"golden bread\"."
] |
[
1
] |
Architecture
|
Why were churches constructed in Norway 1,000 years ago?
|
Norway
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
2
] |
[
"With expansive forests, Norway has had a tradition of building in wood.",
"Many of today's most interesting new buildings are made of wood, reflecting the strong appeal that this material continues to hold for Norwegian designers and builders.",
"With Norway's conversion to Christianity some 1,000 years ago, churches were constructed.",
"Stonework architecture was introduced from Europe for the most important structures, beginning with the construction of Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim.",
"In the early Middle Ages, wooden stave churches were constructed throughout Norway.",
"Many of them have survived and represent Norway's most unique contribution to architectural history.",
"A fine example is Urnes Stave Church, which is now on UNESCO's World Heritage List.",
"Another notable example of wooden architecture are buildings at the Bryggen Wharf in Bergen, consisting of a row of narrow wooden structures along the quayside.",
"In the 17th century, under the Danish monarchy, cities and villages such as Kongsberg and Røros were established.",
"The city had a church built in the Baroque style.",
"Traditional wooden buildings were constructed in Røros which have survived changes since then.",
"After Norway's union with Denmark was dissolved in 1814, Oslo became the capital.",
"The architect Christian H. Grosch designed the earliest parts of the University of Oslo, the Oslo Stock Exchange, and many other buildings and churches constructed in that early national period.",
"At the beginning of the 20th century, the city of Ålesund was rebuilt in the Art Nouveau style, influenced by styles of France.",
"The 1930s, when functionalism dominated, became a strong period for Norwegian architecture.",
"It is only since the late 20th century that Norwegian architects have achieved international renown.",
"One of the most striking modern buildings in Norway is the Sami Parliament in Kárášjohka, designed by Stein Halvorson and Christian Sundby.",
"Its debating chamber is an abstract timber version of a \"lavvo,\" the traditional tent used by the nomadic Sami people."
] |
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1
] |
Critical response
|
"Dallas Buyers Club" received universal acclaim during its debut when?
|
Dallas Buyers Club
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[
0
] |
[
"Upon its premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, \"Dallas Buyers Club\" received universal acclaim by critics and audiences, who greatly praised the film for its acting (particularly for McConaughey and Leto), screenplay and direction.",
"Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 93% based on reviews from 177 critics, with an average score of 7.7 out of 10, with the site's consensus stating, \"\"Dallas Buyers Club\" rests squarely on Matthew McConaughey's scrawny shoulders, and he carries the burden gracefully with what might be a career-best performance.\"",
"On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 reviews from film critics, the film has a rating score of 84 based on 45 reviews, indicating universal acclaim.",
"Richard Corliss of \"Time\" magazine considered McConaughey's portrayal to be a \"bold, drastic and utterly persuasive inhabiting of a doomed fighter\", remarking that \"if the camera occasionally suffers a fashionable case of the jitters, the movie transcends its agitated verismo to impart dramatic and behavioral truth\".",
"Leto's portrayal of Rayon, a drug-addicted trans woman with AIDS who befriends McConaughey's character Ron Woodroof, received critical acclaim.",
"The writers created Rayon, to show \"Woodroof’s gradual acceptance of a subculture he had dismissed.\"",
"\"Time\"'s Richard Corliss noted, \"Leto captures the sweet intensity and almost saintly good humor of a glamorous, poignant and downright divoon creature — a blithe Camille who may surrender her health but never her panache.\"",
"Leto was awarded a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a variety of film critics' circle awards, including his first Academy Award.",
"After the Academy award, the casting of a non-transgender actor, as opposed to a transgender actor, was widely critiqued as a missed opportunity, with some LGBT activists criticizing the choice as misogynistic.",
"The \"L.A. Times\" compared the issue to white actors appropriating, and exploiting, people of color roles of East Asians, and Africans in the past; and \"The Guardian\" noted transgender actors are often relegated to roles such as prostitutes, corpses and \"freaks.\""
] |
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2
] |
Early history and cancellation
|
"Family Guy" debuted to 22 million viewers following which annual ratings machine?
|
Family Guy
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|
[
1
] |
[
"",
"\"Family Guy\" officially premiered after Fox's broadcast of Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999, with \"Death Has a Shadow\".",
"The show debuted to 22 million viewers, and immediately generated controversy regarding its adult content.",
"The show returned on April 11, 1999, with \"I Never Met the Dead Man\".",
"\"Family Guy\" garnered decent ratings in Fox's 8:30 pm slot on Sunday, scheduled between \"The Simpsons\" and \"The X-Files\".",
"At the end of its first season, the show was No.",
"33 in the Nielsen ratings, with 12.8 million households tuning in.",
"The show launched its second season in a new time slot, Thursday at 9 pm, on September 23, 1999.",
"\"Family Guy\" was pitted against NBC's \"Frasier\", and the series' ratings declined sharply.",
"Fox removed \"Family Guy\" from the network's permanent schedule, and began airing episodes irregularly.",
"The show returned on March 7, 2000, at 8:30 pm on Tuesdays, but was constantly beaten in the ratings by the new breakout hit \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\", coming in at No.",
"114 in the Nielsen Ratings with 6.320 million households tuning in.",
"Fox announced that the show had been canceled in 2000, at the end of the second season.",
"However, following a last-minute reprieve, Fox announced on July 24, 2000, its intention to order 13 additional episodes of \"Family Guy\" to form a third season.",
"The show returned November 8, 2001, once again in a tough time slot: Thursday nights at 8:00 pm ET.",
"This slot brought it into competition with \"Survivor\" and \"Friends\".",
"(This situation was later referenced in \"\").",
"During its second- and third-season runs, Fox frequently moved the show around to different days and time slots with little or no notice and, consequently, the show's ratings suffered.",
"Upon Fox's annual unveiling of its 2002 fall line-up on May 15, 2002, \"Family Guy\" was absent.",
"Fox announced that the show had been officially canceled shortly thereafter."
] |
[] |
Usage in media
|
Alcott and Rice skated to Dancing on Ice on what date?
|
Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
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|
[
11
] |
[
"Cultural impact.",
"Usage in media.",
"\"Stronger\" was also used in various forms of media.",
"It was used in a 2011 Toyota Camry advertisement which stars Clarkson singing the song with her co-stars Chris Berman, Andrew Zimmern, and James Lipton.",
"Amber Riley, Naya Rivera, and Heather Morris performed the song on the season three episode of \"Glee\" titled \"On My Way\", which aired on February 21, 2012.",
"Raymund Flandez of \"The Wall Street Journal\" described the trio's performance as \"fine, fierce and fabulous.\"",
"Their version of \"Stronger\" debuted on the Hot 100 at number 66 on the week ending March 3, 2012 as \"What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)\".",
"The song was featured in \"Suburgatory\" and was used in advertisements promoting the second season of the USA Network series \"Fairly Legal\".",
"It was also featured in a playable piece in the Harmonix video game \"Rock Band Blitz\", \"Rock Band 3\" and \"Dance Central 3\".",
"On May 6, 2012, a video of some of the patients and hospital staff of Seattle Children's hematology oncology unit dancing to the song were uploaded in YouTube to represent their fight against cancer.",
"The video became a viral hit and has been featured by \"Time\" and CBS News.",
"On February 26, 2012, Chemmy Alcott and Sean Rice skated to the song on Dancing on Ice.",
"Maria Menounos and Derek Hough danced to the song in the fourteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.",
"The instrumental version has been used as background music to the promotion and the opening theme to the 2013 MDA Show of Strength telethon."
] |
[
0
] |
Setting
|
What was once where Hell's Kitchen is now filmed?
|
Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series)
| true | 1TV
|
[
6
] |
[
"For the show's first two seasons, the \"Hell's Kitchen\" restaurant set itself was housed in the former studios of Los Angeles television station KCOP at 915 North La Brea Avenue, in Hollywood, which at one time hosted production of game shows \"Tic Tac Dough\" and \"The Joker's Wild\".",
"Originally the studio was put up for sale, but in the end they were retooled for the production of \"Hell's Kitchen\".",
"The dining room area was the location of the former KCOP news studios, and living quarters for the contestants were built on behind the restaurant.",
"Before season three, the Hell's Kitchen facility was moved to Century Studios at 3322 La Cienega Place in Los Angeles.",
"Since the fourth season, Hell's Kitchen's venue has been located at 8660 Hayden Place in Culver City.",
"According to Arthur Perkins, the soundstage is only open for audience members when filming is taking place.",
"The studio sits on the former location of the famous RKO Forty Acres backlot, which was used in movies such as Gone With The Wind and television series such as \"The Andy Griffith Show\" and \"The Adventures of Superman\".",
"The studio building sits on the location of the military camp seen in the television series \"Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.",
"\"."
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4,
0
] |
Attractions
|
What has St Ann Street been referred to?
|
Bourbon Street
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
15
] |
[
"Though largely quiet during the day, Bourbon Street comes alive at night, particularly during the French Quarter's many festivals.",
"Most popular among these is the annual Mardi Gras celebration, when Bourbon Street teems with hundreds of thousands of tourists.",
"Local open container laws in the French Quarter allow drinking alcoholic beverages in the street.",
"Popular drinks include the hurricane cocktail, resurrection cocktail and Huge Ass Beers - a large plastic cup of draft beer marketed to tourists at a low price.",
"The most visited section of Bourbon Street is \"Upper Bourbon Street\", an eight-block section of popular tourist attractions.",
"Among the tourist attractions are bars, restaurants,souvenir shops and strip clubs.",
"There are also a number of gay bars.",
"Most bars are located in the central section of Bourbon Street.",
"Popular bars include Pat O'Brien's, Johnny White's, The Famous Door, Spirits on Bourbon, Razzoo and The Cats Meow.",
"Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo is located on the corner of St Ann.",
"Arguably the most popular restaurant on Bourbon Street is Galatoire's.",
"However, Jean Laffite's Blacksmith Shop and The Old Absinthe House are also popular.",
"The upper end of Bourbon Street near Canal Street is home to many of the French Quarter's strip clubs.",
"These include Rick's Cabaret, Temptations, and Larry Flynt's Barely Legal Club.",
"The section of Bourbon Street from the intersection of St. Ann Street caters to New Orleans' thriving gay community, featuring such clubs as New Orleans' largest gay nightclub, The Bourbon Pub, and Oz.",
"St. Ann Street has been referred to as \"the Velvet Line\", in reference to it being the edge or boundary line of the gay community in the French Quarter.",
"Cafe-Lafitte-In-Exile is the oldest gay bar in the country.",
"The intersection of Bourbon Street and St. Ann Street is also the center of Southern Decadence, commonly referred to as the \"Gay Mardi Gras\" and attracts upwards of 100,000 participants over Labor Day weekend."
] |
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0
] |
X-ray binaries
|
What is the term for a period of low X-ray emissions?
|
Black hole
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] |
[
"X-ray binaries are binary star systems that are luminous in the X-ray part of the spectrum.",
"These X-ray emissions are generally thought to be caused by one of the component stars being a compact object accreting matter from the other (regular) star.",
"The presence of an ordinary star in such a system provides a unique opportunity for studying the central object and determining if it might be a black hole.",
"If such a system emits signals that can be directly traced back to the compact object, it cannot be a black hole.",
"The absence of such a signal does, however, not exclude the possibility that the compact object is a neutron star.",
"By studying the companion star it is often possible to obtain the orbital parameters of the system and obtain an estimate for the mass of the compact object.",
"If this is much larger than the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit (that is, the maximum mass a neutron star can have before collapsing) then the object cannot be a neutron star and is generally expected to be a black hole.",
"The first strong candidate for a black hole, Cygnus X-1, was discovered in this way by Charles Thomas Bolton, Louise Webster and Paul Murdin in 1972.",
"Some doubt, however, remained due to the uncertainties resultant from the companion star being much heavier than the candidate black hole.",
"Currently, better candidates for black holes are found in a class of X-ray binaries called soft X-ray transients.",
"In this class of system the companion star is relatively low mass allowing for more accurate estimates in the black hole mass.",
"Moreover, these systems are only active in X-ray for several months once every 10–50 years.",
"During the period of low X-ray emission (called quiescence), the accretion disc is extremely faint allowing for detailed observation of the companion star during this period.",
"One of the best such candidates is V404 Cyg."
] |
[
0
] |
History
|
When did Leonardo da Vinci start painting the Mona Lisa?
|
Mona Lisa
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|
[
0
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
2
] |
Personal life
|
How did Beau Bokan propose to his future wife named Lights?
|
Lights (musician)
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|
[
3
] |
[
"While at a Taking Back Sunday concert, Beau Bokan, the lead vocalist of metalcore band Blessthefall, asked a mutual friend of Lights if they would introduce the two.",
"The couple started dating soon after.",
"On August 30, 2011, Lights became engaged to Bokan.",
"As his proposal, Bokan made fortune cookies for Lights, with one containing the fortune of \"Will You Marry Me?\"",
"They were married on May 12, 2012.",
"On November 4, 2013, the couple announced that Lights was pregnant with their first child via Twitter and Facebook.",
"Lights and her sister were pregnant at the same time.",
"On February 15, 2014, Lights gave birth to their daughter, Rocket Wild Bokan."
] |
[
5
] |
Abstract
|
Who does Andy Dufresne befriend during his time at the prison?
|
The Shawshank Redemption
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
2
] |
[
"The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.",
"Adapted from the Stephen King novella \"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption\", the film tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who spends 19 years in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover despite his claims of innocence.",
"During his time at the prison, he befriends a fellow inmate, Ellis Boyd \"Red\" Redding, and finds himself protected by the guards after the warden begins using him in his money laundering operation.",
"Despite a lukewarm box office reception that barely recouped its budget, the film received multiple award nominations and favorable reviews from critics for its acting and realism.",
"It has since enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television, VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray.",
"It was included in the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition."
] |
[
3
] |
Abstract
|
What gives the opposing team a free throw?
|
Basketball
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|
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] |
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"Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court.",
"The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and high mounted to a backboard at each end.",
"Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.",
"A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play.",
"A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points (known commonly as a \"3 pointer\" or \"three\") if the player is behind the three-point line.",
"The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time (overtime) may be issued when the game ends with a draw.",
"The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it while walking or running or throwing it to a team mate.",
"It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling.",
"Violations are called \"fouls\".",
"A personal foul is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball.",
"A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or coach.",
"A technical foul gives the opposing team a free throw, and the opposing team also retains possession of the ball.",
"As well as many techniques for shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding, basketball has specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures (player positioning).",
"Typically, the tallest members of a team will play \"center\", \"power forward\" or \"small forward\" positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed play \"point guard\" or \"shooting guard\"."
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[
0
] |
Members of Congress
|
Who is Maines representative for the democratic party?
|
The Invisible War
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|
[
0
] |
[
" Chellie Pingree, (D, Maine)",
" Louise Slaughter (D, New York)",
" Mike Turner (R, Ohio)",
" Loretta Sanchez (D, California)",
" Jackie Speier (D, California)",
" Ted Poe (R, Texas)",
" Susan Davis, (D, California)",
" Niki Tsongas, (D, Massachusetts)"
] |
[
3
] |
Literature
|
In what century did Indian writers take a new interest in social questions and psychological descriptions?
|
India
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|
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6
] |
[
"The earliest literary writings in India, composed between 1400 BCE and 1200 CE, were in the Sanskrit language.",
"Prominent works of this Sanskrit literature include epics such as the \"Mahābhārata\" and the \"Ramayana\", the dramas of Kālidāsa such as the \"Abhijñānaśākuntalam\" (\"The Recognition of Śakuntalā\"), and poetry such as the \"Mahākāvya\".",
"Kamasutra, the famous book about sexual intercourse also originated in India.",
"Developed between 600 BCE and 300 CE in South India, the \"Sangam\" literature, consisting of 2,381 poems, is regarded as a predecessor of Tamil literature.",
"From the 14th to the 18th centuries, India's literary traditions went through a period of drastic change because of the emergence of devotional poets such as Kabīr, Tulsīdās, and Guru Nānak.",
"This period was characterised by a varied and wide spectrum of thought and expression; as a consequence, medieval Indian literary works differed significantly from classical traditions.",
"In the 19th century, Indian writers took a new interest in social questions and psychological descriptions.",
"In the 20th century, Indian literature was influenced by the works of Bengali poet and novelist Rabindranath Tagore."
] |
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0
] |
Ireland
|
In 1530, how many religious houses were in Ireland?
|
Dissolution of the Monasteries
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] |
[
"The dissolutions in Ireland followed a very different course from those in England and Wales.",
"There were around 400 religious houses in Ireland in 1530—many more, relative to population and material wealth than in England and Wales.",
"In marked distinction to the situation in England, in Ireland the houses of friars had flourished in the 15th century, attracting popular support and financial endowments, undertaking many ambitious building schemes, and maintaining a regular conventual and spiritual life.",
"They constituted around half of the total number of religious houses.",
"Irish monasteries, by contrast, had experienced a catastrophic decline in numbers, such that by the 16th century only a minority maintained the daily observance of the Divine Office.",
"Henry's direct authority, as Lord of Ireland and from 1541 as King of Ireland, only extended to the area of the Pale immediately around Dublin.",
"Outside this area, he could only proceed by tactical agreement with clan chiefs and local lords.",
"Nevertheless, Henry was determined to carry through a policy of dissolution in Ireland—and in 1537 introduced legislation into the Irish Parliament to legalise the closure of monasteries.",
"The process faced considerable opposition, and only sixteen houses were suppressed.",
"Henry remained resolute however, and from 1541 as part of the Tudor conquest of Ireland he continued to press for the area of successful dissolution to be extended.",
"For the most part, this involved making deals with local lords, under which monastic property was granted away in exchange for allegiance to the new Irish Crown; and consequently Henry acquired little if any of the wealth of the Irish houses.",
"By the time of Henry's death (1547) around half of the Irish houses had been suppressed; but many continued to resist dissolution until well into the reign of Elizabeth I, and some houses in the West of Ireland remained active until the early 17th century.",
"In 1649, Oliver Cromwell led a Parliamentary army seeking to subjugate Ireland, and systematically sought out and destroyed former monastic houses.",
"Subsequently, however, sympathetic landowners housed monks or friars close to several ruined religious houses, allowing them a continued covert existence during the 17th and 18th centuries, subject to the dangers of discovery and legal ejection or imprisonment."
] |
[
5
] |
Development
|
What books inspired the traits of all the characters?
|
Gossip Girl
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|
[
8
] |
[
"The \"Gossip Girl\" book series was originally supposed to be adapted into a film starring Lindsay Lohan with head \"Gilmore Girls\" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.",
"When the film project did not get off the ground, Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz took over the project to create a television series.",
"As of October 2006, Schwartz was working on the pilot.",
"He said: \"I was very skeptical.",
"I don't want to do \"The O.C.",
"NYC\".",
"But I thought the books were smart.",
"The characters are worldly in a way that Orange County kids aren't.\"",
"The characteristics for each character in the pilot were based on the first \"Gossip Girl\" book.",
"In January 2007, the show was given the green light by The CW."
] |
[
0
] |
Awards and nominations
|
When was Knepper nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Rolein a Series?
|
Prison Break
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|
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7
] |
[
"Following a successful airing of the series' first thirteen episodes, \"Prison Break\" was nominated for its first award, the 2005 People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama.",
"The series won the award in January 2006, beating other nominees in the same category, \"Commander in Chief\" and \"Criminal Minds\".",
"In January 2006, the show had two nominations at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards, which were Best Drama Television Series and Best Actor in a Drama Television Series for Wentworth Miller's performance.",
"The show's lead actor, Wentworth Miller, received another nomination for his performance in the first season at the 2005 Saturn Awards for Best Actor on Television.",
"Likewise, the series was nominated for 2005 Saturn Award for Best Network Television Series.",
"At the 2006 Television Critics Association Awards, the show was nominated for Best New Drama Series.",
"Nominations for technical awards include the 2006 Eddie Award for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television (Mark Helfrich for the pilot episode), and the 2006 Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music (Ramin Djawadi).",
"In December 2006, Robert Knepper was nominated for the 2006 Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television."
] |
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2
] |
Drive hunt captures
|
Does SeaWorld collect dolphins from the wild currently?
|
SeaWorld
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|
[
4
] |
[
"In response to criticism leveled at SeaWorld and other marine parks by the award-winning documentary film \"The Cove\" which accuses them of obtaining dolphins obtained in drive hunts, SeaWorld spokesperson Fred Jacobs stated that, \"We think we're being unfairly criticized for something we're opposed to.\"",
"He adds that, \"SeaWorld opposes the dolphin hunts documented in \"The Cove\".",
"We do not purchase any animals from these hunts.",
"More than 80 percent of the marine mammals in our care were born in our parks.",
"We haven't collected a dolphin from the wild in decades.\"",
"Since 1993 there have been no permits issued to facilities in the United States to import dolphins acquired through drive hunt methods.",
"Marilee Menard, the executive director of the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums, has also stated that she believes that \"The Cove\" filmmakers are \"misrepresenting that the majority of zoos and aquariums with dolphins around the world are taking these animals.\""
] |
[] |
Music video
|
In the second verse, who performs One Direction's bridge solo?
|
What Makes You Beautiful
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
5
] |
[
"The music video for \"What Makes You Beautiful\" was directed by John Urbano.",
"Filmed for two days in July 2011, it premiered on 19 August 2011.",
"On each of the five days preceding the video's premiere, One Direction posted a teaser trailer of the video online.",
"Each teaser showed footage from the video and behind the scenes, and one member of the band announcing how many days were left until the video premiere.",
"The video opens with One Direction spending time on a Malibu, California beach inter cut with scenes of them driving an orange campervan.",
"During the second verse, a group of three girls joins the band at the beach; in Styles' bridge solo, he intimately sings to one girl individually.",
"During the final choruses the band and girls are shown sitting around a fire, lighting sparklers and taking photographs.",
"On video sharing website MUZU TV, the video was the fourth most-watched music video of 2011 in the UK.",
"The video won two MTV Video Music Awards for Best Pop Video and Most Share-Worthy Video, and earned the group the award for Best New Artist on 6 September 2012.",
"As of March 2014, the music video has garnered almost 500 million Vevo views.",
"In 2012, a blogger at BuzzFeed noticed similarities between the video and pop punk band Blink-182's video for \"All the Small Things\" — the video was filmed on Santa Monica Beach and is shot from the same camera angle as in \"What Makes You Beautiful\", leading media outlets to joke that the band parodied One Direction eleven years prior to their formation."
] |
[
3
] |
Season 4
|
Did Ben and Leslie end their relationship first or did Leslie become Ben's campaign manager first?
|
Parks and Recreation
| true | 1TV
|
[
0,
6
] |
[
"With Ben's encouragement, Leslie decides to run for city council, and the two end their relationship.",
"Leslie hires Andy as her assistant.",
"Patricia Clarkson appears as Ron's first ex-wife, \"Tammy One\", who uses her power as an IRS employee to trick Ron into thinking he's being audited and temporarily takes complete control over his life.",
"Tom and Jean-Ralphio's company, Entertainment 720, quickly blows through massive amounts of promotional funding while performing little actual work; the company goes out of business and Tom returns to his old job.",
"After struggling to move on both personally and professionally, Ben and Leslie get back together, and Ben sacrifices his job to save Leslie from losing hers.",
"The scandal leads her political advisors to abandon Leslie's campaign, and the Parks Department volunteers to become her new campaign staff.",
"Ben agrees to be Leslie's campaign manager.",
"Leslie's ex-boyfriend Dave (Louis C.K.)",
"reappears and unsuccessfully attempts to win Leslie back.",
"Leslie's campaign faces myriad setbacks against her main opponent, Bobby Newport (Paul Rudd), and his famous campaign manager Jennifer Barkley (Kathryn Hahn).",
"Ann and Tom begin an extremely rocky romantic relationship.",
"April takes on more responsibility in the department, shouldering much of Leslie's usual work.",
"In the season finale, Jennifer offers Ben a job in Washington, which he reluctantly accepts, and after the race is initially called for Newport, Leslie wins the position in a recount."
] |
[] |
Production
|
Who did Jeunet want to play Amelie originally?
|
Amélie
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
0
] |
[
"In his DVD commentary, Jeunet explains that he originally wrote the role of Amélie for the English actress Emily Watson; in the original draft, Amélie's father was an Englishman living in London.",
"However, Watson's French was not strong, and when she became unavailable to shoot the film, owing to a conflict with the filming of \"Gosford Park\", Jeunet rewrote the screenplay for a French actress.",
"Audrey Tautou was the first actress he auditioned having seen her on the poster for \"Venus Beauty Institute\".",
"The movie was filmed mainly in Paris.",
"The Café des 2 Moulins (15 Rue Lepic, Montmartre, Paris) where Amélie works is a real place.",
"The filmmakers made use of computer-generated imagery and a digital intermediate.",
"The studio scenes were filmed in the Coloneum Studio in Cologne (Germany).",
"The film shares many of the themes in the plot with second half of the 1994 film \"Chungking Express\"."
] |
[
3
] |
Safety
|
What should happen to fruits or vegetables that have come in contact with raw meat?
|
Fruit
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|
[
7
] |
[
"For food safety, the CDC recommends proper fruit handling and preparation to reduce the risk of food contamination and foodborne illness.",
"Fresh fruits and vegetables should be carefully selected.",
"At the store, they should not be damaged or bruised and pre-cut pieces should be refrigerated or surrounded by ice.",
"All fruits and vegetables should be rinsed before eating.",
"This recommendation also applies to produce with rinds or skins that are not eaten.",
"It should be done just before preparing or eating to avoid premature spoilage.",
"Fruits and vegetables should be kept separate from raw foods like meat, poultry, and seafood, as well as utensils that have come in contact with raw foods.",
"Fruits and vegetables, if they are not going to be cooked, should be thrown away if they have touched raw meat, poultry, seafood or eggs.",
"All cut, peeled, or cooked fruits and vegetables should be refrigerated within two hours.",
"After a certain time, harmful bacteria may grow on them and increase the risk of foodborne illness."
] |
[
0
] |
Biased mutation
|
What types of mutation are usually selected against?
|
Evolution
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|
[
8
] |
[
"In addition to being a major source of variation, mutation may also function as a mechanism of evolution when there are different probabilities at the molecular level for different mutations to occur, a process known as mutation bias.",
"If two genotypes, for example one with the nucleotide G and another with the nucleotide A in the same position, have the same fitness, but mutation from G to A happens more often than mutation from A to G, then genotypes with A will tend to evolve.",
"Different insertion vs. deletion mutation biases in different taxa can lead to the evolution of different genome sizes.",
"Developmental or mutational biases have also been observed in morphological evolution.",
"For example, according to the phenotype-first theory of evolution, mutations can eventually cause the genetic assimilation of traits that were previously induced by the environment.",
"Mutation bias effects are superimposed on other processes.",
"If selection would favor either one out of two mutations, but there is no extra advantage to having both, then the mutation that occurs the most frequently is the one that is most likely to become fixed in a population.",
"Mutations leading to the loss of function of a gene are much more common than mutations that produce a new, fully functional gene.",
"Most loss of function mutations are selected against.",
"But when selection is weak, mutation bias towards loss of function can affect evolution.",
"For example, pigments are no longer useful when animals live in the darkness of caves, and tend to be lost.",
"This kind of loss of function can occur because of mutation bias, and/or because the function had a cost, and once the benefit of the function disappeared, natural selection leads to the loss.",
"Loss of sporulation ability in a bacterium during laboratory evolution appears to have been caused by mutation bias, rather than natural selection against the cost of maintaining sporulation ability.",
"When there is no selection for loss of function, the speed at which loss evolves depends more on the mutation rate than it does on the effective population size, indicating that it is driven more by mutation bias than by genetic drift."
] |
[
0
] |
Description
|
What are the years Salvador Dali was active in?
|
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)
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|
[
1
] |
[
"This is a painting made with oil on canvas that is located in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.",
"Dalí painted it in 1936, but there were studies found of it that dated back to 1934.",
"It is a picture of a geometric monster type creature and connected to a similar monster.",
"The two creatures appear to be two parts of the same creature so that it appears to be wrestling itself.",
"All over the background and on parts of the monster are boiled beans that look as though they are melting.",
"The monster stands on trees and a brown wooden box.",
"The background is a blue sky with clouds, that are darker in some parts and lighter in others."
] |
[
0
] |
Sound effects and music
|
Who composed "The Matrix's" score?
|
The Matrix
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
3
] |
[
"Dane A. Davis was responsible for creating the sound effects for the film.",
"The fight scenes sound effects, such as the whipping sounds of punches, came from using junk to create noises and capturing them, then editing the sounds.",
"The sound of the pod containing a human baby closing required almost fifty sounds put together.",
"The film's score was composed by Don Davis.",
"He noted that mirrors appear frequently in the film: reflections of the blue and red pills are seen in Morpheus's glasses; Neo's capture by Agents is viewed through the rear-view mirror of Trinity's Triumph Speed Triple motorcycle; Neo observes a broken mirror mending itself; reflections warp as a spoon is bent; the reflection of a helicopter is visible as it approaches a skyscraper.",
"Davis focused on this theme of reflections when creating his score, alternating between sections of the orchestra and attempting to incorporate contrapuntal ideas.",
"Davis' score combines orchestral, choral and synthesizer elements; the balance between these elements varies depending on whether humans or machines are the dominant subject of a given scene.",
"In addition to Davis' score, \"The Matrix\" soundtrack also features music from acts such as Rammstein, Rob Dougan, Rage Against the Machine, Propellerheads, Ministry, Deftones, Monster Magnet, The Prodigy, Rob Zombie, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Marilyn Manson."
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[
3
] |
Composition
|
What is Carly Rae Jespen's vocal range?
|
Call Me Maybe
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
6
] |
[
"Melody Lau of \"Rolling Stone\" wrote that \"Call Me Maybe\" is a \"Taylor Swift meets Robyn\" song.",
"Jon O'Brien of Allmusic stated that the songs of \"Curiosity\" recall the bubblegum pop era of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, and added that \"Call Me Maybe\" is a combination of teen pop and synthpop with \"a chorus that just about straddles that fine line between sugary sweet and sickly.\"",
"Tiffany Lee of Yahoo!",
"Music deemed it as an instant summer hit, and added that \"Call Me Maybe\" has \"a good beat, great melody and catchy lyrics; something you and your friends can belt out in the car while driving to the beach, a party, and pretty much anywhere.\"",
"Jon Caramanica of \"The New York Times\" wrote that the song is \"breezy and sweet, an eyelash-fluttering flirtation run hard through the Disney-pop model of digitized feelings and brusque, chipper arrangements.",
"\"According to Musicnotes.com, \"Call Me Maybe\" is written in the key of G major with a moderate tempo of 120 beats per minute.",
"Jepsen's vocals span from G3 to C5, and the song follows a key progression of Cmaj7–G/D–Cmaj7–G/D."
] |
[
0
] |
Reception
|
How was The Terminator reviewed by AllMusic?
|
The Terminator
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
0
] |
[
"Online music database AllMusic praised the score of the film, referring to it as \"underrated highlight\" of \"The Terminator\" and referred to it as a \"marvelous synthesizer score\".",
"The review stated that the second half of the album featuring the pop songs was \"generic\".",
"The review praised the \"Definitive Edition\" version of the album which featured the entire film score, opining that it \"comprises some of the best science fiction-oriented film music of recent decades.\""
] |
[
5
] |
In culture
|
How many total pieces are included in the Space Needle Lego Set?
|
Space Needle
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
16
] |
[
"Being a major symbol of the Pacific Northwest, the Space Needle has made numerous appearances in films, TV shows and other works of fiction.",
"A few examples of films include \"It Happened at the World's Fair\" (1962), where it was used as a filming location, and \"Sleepless in Seattle\" (1993).",
"In the 1974 film \"The Parallax View\", the inside and outside platforms of the observation deck are the setting for a political assassination, and there's a brief chase on the roof above it.",
"In the 1999 film \"\", it served as a base of operations for the villain Doctor Evil with the word Starbucks written across its saucer after his henchman Number 2 shifted the organization's resources toward the coffee company.",
"It is also featured prominently in \"Chronicle\" (2012), and is a key element in the film's climax.",
"In TV shows, one of the most prominent showings is in the series \"Frasier\" where an outline of it appears in the opening credits and the base of it is visible from the high-rise condo although the view is really a composite image as there are no high rise condos in the right area of that height.",
"It also appears in nearly every episode of the Seattle-set series \"Grey's Anatomy\", often in helicopter fly-by shots.",
"The Space Needle also makes appearances in Nickelodeon TV show \"iCarly\" where it can be seen with other surrounding buildings in the Seattle area.",
"Other TV appearances include The History Channel's \"Life After People\" where it collapses after 200 years because of corrosion.",
"It was also destroyed in the TV miniseries \"10.5\" when a 7.9 earthquake hits Seattle.",
"The movie mistakenly portrays the Needle as crumbling concrete, though the structure is actually made of iron and it would have survived a 7.9 earthquake in real life.",
"The needle is also featured in some episodes of \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\", such as the episode \"Storms\" where Bill Nye uses the lightning rod on top of it as an example of conducting lightning strikes.",
"It also appears many times as a refuge for the hero of \"Dark Angel\".",
"In video games, it has been used to represent Seattle in \"Pilotwings 64\" and \"Rock Band\" and it appears in the Seattle Circuit reverse of \"Gran Turismo 4\".",
"The Space Needle and the area around it also appear in the last campaign mission of \"World in Conflict\" as the site of the Soviet invasion force's last stand.",
"The Space Needle is in the map \"Seattle\" of Godzilla: Saves the Earth, for the original Xbox.",
"The Space Needle has been used for some other purposes as well, including a large 57 piece Lego construction set of it that has been released as part of Lego Architecture's structures.",
"The Needle is also featured on the logo of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC.",
"The Space Needle is featured in \".\""
] |
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5
] |
Home media releases
|
On what date did the region 2 DVD come out?
|
The Vampire Diaries
| true | 1TV
|
[
3
] |
[
"Season one was released on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4 and on Blu-ray in Regions A and B.",
"Both United States versions include commentary by cast and crew members on selected episodes, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes, webisodes, and a downloadable audiobook of L.J.",
"Smith's \"The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening\".",
"It was released on DVD in Region 2 on August 23, 2010.",
"Following that release, Region 1 began selling DVDs on August 31, 2010, and Region 3 on September 1, 2010.",
"In Region A, it was released on Blu-ray on August 31, 2010.",
"Region B's releases varied; United Kingdom on August 23, 2010, Brazil on August 26, 2010 and Australia on September 1, 2010.",
"\"The Vampire Diaries Season 2\" will be available in DVD and Blu-ray on August 30, 2011.",
"Region B's releases varied; United Kingdom on August 22, 2011, Brazil on August 25, 2011.",
"\"The Vampire Diaries: Season 3\" will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on September 11 and A and on September 5, 2012 for Regions 4 and B.",
"The Vampire Diaries: Season 4 is available on DVD and Blu-ray in A as of September 15, 2013."
] |
[
0
] |
Derivative works
|
The 1521 edition of De Archietectura was created by who?
|
Vitruvian Man
| true | 3ART
|
[
1
] |
[
"The \"Vitruvian Man\" has inspired a number of derivative works:",
" Cesare Cesariano (1521) who edited the important 1521 edition of \"De Architectura\" of Vitruvius (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have provided the illustrations for this edition).",
" Albrecht Dürer (1528) in his book \"Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion\" (four books on human proportions)",
" Pietro di Giacomo Cataneo (1554)",
" Heinrich Lautensack (1618)",
" William Blake (1795) \"Glad Day\", now known as \"Albion rose\".",
"This representation is without the circle and square.",
" The Italian 1 euro coin"
] |
[
3
] |
Abstract
|
How much did it cost to make Dallas Buyers Club?
|
Dallas Buyers Club
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
5
] |
[
"Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack.",
"Matthew McConaughey stars as the real-life AIDS patient Ron Woodroof, who smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas when he found them effective at improving his symptoms, distributing them to fellow sufferers by establishing the \"Dallas Buyers Club\" while facing opposition from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).",
"\"Dallas Buyers Club\" premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically on November 1, 2013, entering wide release on November 22.",
"The film received acclaim from critics, and won numerous accolades – most recognizing the performances of McConaughey and Jared Leto, including the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making it the first film since \"Mystic River\" (2003) to win both awards.",
"It also won Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 86th Academy Awards, and received a nomination for Best Picture.",
"it grossed over $32 million in box office revenue against a budget of $5 million."
] |
[
5
] |
Biblical narrative
|
Why did David and Bathsheba's child die?
|
Bathsheba
| true | 3ART
|
[
19
] |
[
"The meaning of the Hebrew form of the name \"Bathsheba\" is \"daughter of the oath\", \"bat\" meaning daughter.",
"The second part of the name appears in as \"shua\" (signifying \"wealth\") (compare ).",
"Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam (, who is called Ammiel in ).",
"Her father is identified by some scholars with Eliam mentioned in as the son of Ahithophel, who is described as the Gilonite.",
"(See King David's Warriors.",
")Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.",
"(United Kingdom of Israel and Judah).",
"The story of David's seduction of Bathsheba, told in , is omitted in Chronicles.",
"The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.",
"He immediately desired her and later made her pregnant.",
"In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army (with whom he was on campaign) in the hope that Uriah would re-consummate his marriage and think that the child was his.",
"Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service.",
"Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops.",
"After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy (where he was more likely to die).",
"David had Uriah himself carry the message that ordered his death.",
"After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.",
"David's action was displeasing to the Lord, who accordingly sent Nathan the prophet to reprove the king.",
"After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor (II Samuel 12:1-6), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba.",
"The king at once confessed his sin and expressed sincere repentance.",
"Bathsheba's child by David was struck with a severe illness and died a few days after birth, which the king accepted as his punishment.",
"Nathan also noted that David's house would be cursed with turmoil because of this murder.",
"This came to pass years later when one of David's much-loved sons, Absalom, led an insurrection that plunged the kingdom into civil war.",
"Moreover, to manifest his claim to be the new king, Absalom had sexual intercourse in public with ten of his father's concubines, which could be considered a direct, tenfold divine retribution for David's taking the woman of another man.",
"(II Samuel 16:20–23) In David's old age, Bathsheba secured the succession to the throne of her son Solomon, instead of David's eldest surviving son Adonijah.",
"Some commentators have written that Bathsheba may have written at least part of Proverbs 31 as suggested by the postulated connections between King Lemuel aka King Solomon.",
"The story of David's adultery sets up the context for the penitential Psalm 51 (50), also known as \"Miserere\" (\"Have mercy on me, O God\")."
] |
[
1
] |
Military personnel
|
Who were the brigadier generals?
|
The Invisible War
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
4,
5
] |
[
" Major General Mary Kay Hertog, Director, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office",
" Dr. Kaye Whitley, Former Director, Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office",
" Rear Admiral Anthony Kurta, Director, Military Plans and Policy",
" General Claudia Kennedy, US Army (Retired)",
" Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, US Air Force (Retired)",
" Brigadier General Loree Sutton, M.D., US Army (Retired)",
" Major General Dennis Laich, US Army (Retired)"
] |
[
3
] |
Names of the Sphinx
|
How often is the Great Sphinx referred to by ancient Egyptians?
|
Great Sphinx of Giza
| true | 3ART
|
[
0
] |
[
"It is not known by what name the creators called their statue, as the Great Sphinx does not appear in any known inscription of the Old Kingdom, and there are no inscriptions anywhere describing its construction or its original purpose.",
"In the New Kingdom, the Sphinx was called \"Hor-em-akhet\" (; Hellenized: \"Harmachis\"), and the pharaoh Thutmose IV (1401–1391 or 1397–1388 BC) specifically referred to it as such in his Dream Stele.",
"The commonly used name \"Sphinx\" was given to it in classical antiquity, about 2000 years after the accepted date of its construction, by reference to a Greek mythological beast with a lion's body, a woman's head and the wings of an eagle (although, like most Egyptian sphinxes, the Great Sphinx has a man's head and no wings).",
"The English word \"sphinx\" comes from the ancient Greek Σφίγξ (transliterated: ), apparently from the verb σφίγγω (transliterated: / ), after the Greek sphinx who strangled anyone who failed to answer her riddle.",
"The name may alternatively be a corruption of the ancient Egyptian \"Ssp-anx\" (in MdC), a name given to royal statues of Dynasty IV (2575–2467 BC) and later in the New Kingdom (c. 1570–1070 BC) to the Great Sphinx more specifically, although phonetically the two names are far from identical.",
"Medieval Arab writers, including al-Maqrīzī, call the Sphinx \"balhib\" and \"bilhaw\", which suggest a Coptic influence.",
"The modern Egyptian Arabic name is أبو الهول (, )."
] |
[
5
] |
Abstract
|
What is fencing?
|
Fencing
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
0
] |
[
"Fencing is the activity of fighting with swords.",
"The most common version of fencing today, also called olympic fencing or competitive fencing, is divided into three weapon categories: foil, sabre and épée.",
"Classical fencing uses the same three weapons, but approaches fencing as a martial art.",
"Competitive fencing is one of five sports which has been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games, the other four being Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, and Gymnastics."
] |
[
0
] |
Apology and condolences by the Prime Minister and Emperor of Japan
|
What was the date of the 50th anniversary of the Surrender of Japan?
|
Nanking Massacre
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
0
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
0
] |
Heeling
|
How can you counteract heeling?
|
Sailing
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
6
] |
[
"When a ship or boat leans over to one side, from the action of waves or from the centrifugal force of a turn or under wind pressure or from amount of exposed topsides, it is said to 'heel'.",
"A sailing boat that is over-canvassed and therefore heeling, may sail less efficiently depending on fundamental or opportunistic factors such as temporary nature of the feature (e.g.",
"wind gust), use (e.g.",
"racing), crew ability, point of sail, hull size & design.",
"When a vessel is subject to a heeling force (such as wind pressure), vessel buoyancy & beam of the hull will counter-act the heeling force.",
"A weighted keel provides additional means to right the boat.",
"In some high-performance racing yachts, water ballast or the angle of a canting keel can be changed to provide additional righting force to counteract heeling.",
"The crew may move their personal weight to the high (upwind) side of the boat, this is called \"hiking\", which also changes the centre of gravity & produces a righting lever to reduce the degree of heeling.",
"Incidental benefits include faster vessel speed caused by more efficient action of the hull & sails.",
"Other options to reduce heeling include reducing exposed sail area & efficiency of the sail setting & a variant of hiking called \"trapezing\".",
"This can only be done if the vessel is designed for this, as in dinghy sailing.",
"A sailor can (usually involuntarily) try turning upwind in gusts (it is known as \"rounding up\").",
"This can lead to difficulties in controlling the vessel if over-canvassed.",
"Wind can be spilled from the sails by 'sheeting out', or loosening them.",
"The number of sails, their size and shape can be altered.",
"Raising the dinghy centreboard can reduce heeling by allowing more leeway.",
"The increasingly asymmetric underwater shape of the hull matching the increasing angle of heel may generate an increasing directional turning force into the wind.",
"The sails' centre of effort will also increase this turning effect or force on the vessel's motion due to increasing lever effect with increased heeling which shows itself as increased human effort required to steer a straight course.",
"Increased heeling reduces exposed sail area relative to the wind direction, so leading to an equilibrium state.",
"As more heeling force causes more heel, weather helm may be experienced.",
"This condition has a braking effect on the vessel but has the safety effect in that an excessively hard pressed boat will try and turn into the wind therefore reducing the forces on the sail.",
"Small amounts (≤5 degrees) of weather helm are generally considered desirable because of the consequent aerofoil lift effect from the rudder.",
"This aerofoil lift produces helpful motion to windward & the corollary of the reason why lee helm is dangerous.",
"Lee helm, the opposite of weather helm, is generally considered to be dangerous because the vessel turns away from the wind when the helm is released, thus increasing forces on the sail at a time when the helmsperson is not in control."
] |
[
5
] |
The four building campaigns (1664–1710)
|
When was the first building campaign?
|
Palace of Versailles
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
0,
1
] |
[
"The four building campaigns (1664–1710).",
"The first building campaign (1664–1668) commenced with the \"Plaisirs de l'Île enchantée\" (Pleasures of the Enchanted Island) of 1664, a fête that was held between 7 and 13 May 1664.",
"The campaign involved alterations in the château and gardens to accommodate the 600 guests invited to the party.",
"(Nolhac, 1899, 1901; Marie, 1968; Verlet, 1985).",
"The second building campaign (1669–1672) was inaugurated with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of Devolution.",
"During this campaign, the château began to assume some of the appearance that it has today.",
"The most important modification of the château was Le Vau's envelope of Louis XIII's hunting lodge.",
"(Nolhac, 1901; Marie, 1972; Verlet, 1985).",
"Significant to the design and construction of the \"grands appartements\" is that the rooms of both apartments are of the same configuration and dimensions – a hitherto unprecedented feature in French palace design.",
"Both the \"grand appartement du roi\" and the \"grand appartement de la reine\" formed a suite of seven enfilade rooms.",
"The decoration of the rooms, which was conducted under Le Brun's direction, depicted the \"heroic actions of the king\" and were represented in allegorical form by the actions of historical figures from the antique past (Alexander the Great, Augustus, Cyrus, etc.).",
"(Berger, 1986; Félibien, 1674; Verlet, 1985).",
"With the signing of the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678, which ended the Dutch War, the third building campaign at Versailles began (1678–1684).",
"Under the direction of the architect, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the Palace of Versailles acquired much of the look that it has today.",
"In addition to the Hall of Mirrors, Hardouin-Mansart designed the north and south wings and the \"Orangerie\".",
"Le Brun was occupied not only with the interior decoration of the new additions of the palace, but also collaborated with Le Nôtre's in landscaping the palace gardens (Berger, 1985; Thompson, 2006; Verlet, 1985).",
"Soon after the defeat of the War of the League of Augsburg (1688–1697), Louis XIV undertook his last building campaign at Versailles.",
"The fourth building campaign (1699–1710) concentrated almost exclusively on construction of the royal chapel designed by Hardouin-Mansart and finished by Robert de Cotte.",
"There were also some modifications in the \"appartement du roi\", namely the construction of the \"Salon de l'Œil de Bœuf\" and the King's Bedchamber.",
"With the completion of the chapel in 1710, virtually all construction at Versailles ceased; building would not be resumed at Versailles until some twenty one years later during the reign of Louis XV (Nolhac, 1911; Marie, 1976, 1984; Verlet, 1985)."
] |
[
2
] |
Greco-Roman
|
Where is Alexander Karelin from?
|
Wrestling
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
4
] |
[
"Greco-Roman is an international discipline and an Olympic sport.",
"In Greco-Roman style, it is forbidden to hold the opponent below the belt, to make trips, and to actively use the legs in the execution of any action.",
"Recent rule changes in Greco-Roman increase opportunities for and place greater emphasis on explosive, 'high amplitude' throws.",
"Pinning one's opponent to the mat is one way of winning.",
"One of the most well known Greco-Roman wrestlers is Alexander Karelin from Russia."
] |
[
4
] |
Personnel
|
Who did lead vocals and piano?
|
How to Save a Life
| false | 0MUSIC
|
[
0
] |
[
"Isaac Slade - lead vocals, piano",
"Joe King - guitars, bass, backing vocals",
"Dave Welsh - guitars",
"Ben Wysocki - drums, percussion"
] |
[
3
] |
Iberian Peninsula line
|
How does the US define marzipan?
|
Marzipan
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
7
] |
[
"Another possible geographic origin is in Spain, then known as Al-Andalus.",
"In Toledo (850-900, though more probably 1150 during the reign of Alfonso VII) this specialty was known as \"Postre Regio\" instead of \"Mazapán\") and there are also mentions in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights of an almond paste eaten during Ramadan and as an aphrodisiac.",
"Mazapán is Toledo's most famous dessert, often created for Christmas, and has PGI status.",
"Almonds have to be at least 50% of the total weight, following the directives of \"Mazapán de Toledo\" regulator counseil.",
"Another idea to support this line is the important tradition of another Spanish almond-based Christmas confectionery, the turron.",
"Under EU law, marzipan must have a minimum almond oil content of 14% and a maximum moisture content of 8.5%.",
"Optional additional ingredients are rosewater, honey, pistachios, preservatives, and sometimes hazelnut.",
"In the U.S., marzipan is not officially defined, but it is generally made with a higher ratio of sugar to almonds than almond paste.",
"One brand, for instance, has 28% almonds in its marzipan, and 45% almonds in its almond paste.",
"However, in Sweden and Finland almond paste refers to a marzipan that contains 50% ground almonds, a much higher quality than regular marzipan.",
"In Germany, Lübecker Marzipan is known for its quality.",
"It contains 66% almonds.",
"The original manually produced Mozartkugeln are made from green pistachio marzipan."
] |
[
5
] |
Allegations of partisanship
|
When was the nationwide release date pushed back to?
|
Zero Dark Thirty
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
8
] |
[
"Allegations of partisanship.",
"Partisan political controversy arose related to the film before shooting began.",
"Opponents of the Obama Administration charged that \"Zero Dark Thirty\" was scheduled for an October release just before the November presidential election to support his re-election, as Bin Laden's killing is regarded as a success for President Obama.",
"Sony denied that politics was a factor in release scheduling and said the date was the best available spot for an action-thriller in a crowded lineup.",
"The film's screenwriter added, \"the president is not depicted in the movie.",
"He's just not in the movie.",
"\"The distributor Columbia Pictures, sensitive to political perceptions, considered rescheduling the film release for as late as early 2013.",
"It set a limited-release date for December 19, 2012, well after the election and rendering moot any alleged political conflict.",
"The nationwide release date was pushed back to January 11, 2013, moving it out of the crowded Christmas period and closer to the Academy Awards.",
"After the film's limited release, given the controversy related to the film's depiction of torture and its role in gaining critical information, \"The New York Times\" columnist Frank Bruni concluded that the film is \"a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be\".",
"Two months later, the paper's columnist Roger Cohen wrote that the film was \"a courageous work that is disturbing in the way that art should be\".",
"Cohen disagreed with Steve Coll's critique of the screenwriter's stated effort not to \"play fast and loose with history\", writing that \"Boal has honored those words\".",
"Cohen ended with a note about a Timothy Garton Ash analysis of George Orwell mixing fact and \"invented\" stories in \"Down and Out in Paris and London\" – as further support for Boal's method."
] |
[
2
] |
Cast
|
Did Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick play Hank in the movie Before Midnight?
|
Before Midnight (film)
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
2
] |
[
" Ethan Hawke as Jesse",
" Julie Delpy as Céline",
" Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick as Hank",
" Jennifer Prior as Ella",
" Charlotte Prior as Nina",
" Xenia Kalogeropoulou as Natalia",
" Walter Lassally as Patrick",
" Ariane Labed as Anna",
" Yiannis Papadopoulos as Achilleas",
" Athina Rachel Tsangari as Ariadni",
" Panos Koronis as Stefanos"
] |
[] |
Conservation
|
How many tests were used to verify de Vinci's work "Lady with an Ermine"?
|
Lady with an Ermine
| false | 3ART
|
[
0
] |
[
"The \"Lady with an Ermine\" has been subjected to two detailed laboratory examinations.",
"The first was in the Warsaw Laboratories, the findings being published by K. Kwiatkowski in 1955.",
"The painting underwent examination and restoration again in 1992, at the Washington National Gallery Laboratories under the supervision of David Bull.",
"The painting is in oil on a thin walnut wood panel, about thick, prepared with a layer of white gesso and a layer of brownish underpaint.",
"The panel is in good condition apart from a break to the upper left side of the painting.",
"Its size has never been altered, as indicated by a narrow unpainted strip on all four sides of the painting.",
"The background was thinly overpainted with unmodulated black, probably between 1830 and 1870, when the damaged corner was restored.",
"Eugène Delacroix was suggested to have painted the background.",
"Its previous colour was a bluish grey.",
"The signature \"LEONARD D'AWINCI\" (which is Polish phonetical transcription of the name \"da Vinci\") in the upper left corner is not original.X-ray and microscopic analysis have revealed the charcoal-pounced outline of the pricked preparatory drawing on the prepared undersurface, a technique Leonardo learned in the studio of Verrocchio.",
"Apart from the black of the background and some abrasion caused by cleaning, the painted surface reveals the painting is almost entirely by the artist's hand.",
"There has been some slight retouching of her features in red, and the edge of the veil in ochre.",
"Some scholars believe there also was some later retouching of the hands.",
"Leonardo's fingerprints have been found in the surface of the paint, indicating he used his fingers to blend his delicate brushstrokes."
] |
[
5
] |
Rhineland
|
What tower is near the Sky Ride?
|
Hersheypark
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
2
] |
[
"Rhineland is named after its Bavarian architecture and is the first park section located within the park’s gates.",
"Like Tudor Square, Rhineland is not home to any attractions but does include a wide variety of gift shops as well as a Nathan’s, Famous Famiglia Pizzeria, and the Central PA's Kosher Mart.",
"The Kosher Mart building was, until 1992, the Rhineland entrance of the Sky Ride - a ski lift transport ride which took you to Minetown, near the Kissing Tower and Twin Turnpike (which is now the location of Great Bear)."
] |
[
0
] |
Conquest (1519)
|
What disease was brought by the Spanish conquerors that ultimately killed millions of Aztecs in the 1520s?
|
Mexico
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
5
] |
[
"Conquest (1519).",
"The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire began in February 1519 when Hernán Cortés arrived at the port in Veracruz with ca.",
"500 conquistadores, and later moved on to the Aztec capital.",
"On his search for gold and other riches, Cortés decided to invade and conquer the Aztec empire.",
"The ruler of the Aztec empire upon the arrival of the Spaniards was Moctezuma II, who was later killed; his successor and brother Cuitláhuac took control of the Aztec empire, but was among the first to fall from the smallpox epidemic a short time later.",
"Unintentionally introduced by Spanish conquerors, smallpox ravaged Mesoamerica in the 1520s, killing more than 3 million Aztecs.",
"Other sources, however, mentioned that the death toll of the Aztecs might have reached up to 15 million (out of a population of less than 30 million).",
"Severely weakened, the Aztec empire was easily defeated by Cortés and his forces on his second return.",
"Smallpox was a devastating and selective disease—it generally killed Aztecs but not Spaniards, who as Europeans had already been exposed to it for centuries and were therefore much more immune to it.",
"The deaths caused by smallpox are believed to have triggered a rapid growth of Christianity in Mexico and the Americas.",
"At first, the Aztecs believed the epidemic was a punishment from an angry god, but they later accepted their fate and no longer resisted the Spanish rule.",
"Many of the surviving Aztecs blamed the cause of smallpox to the superiority of the Christian god, which resulted in the acceptance of Catholicism and yielding to the Spanish rule throughout Mexico.",
"The territory became part of the Spanish Empire under the name of New Spain.",
"Mexico City was systematically rebuilt by Cortés following the Fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521.",
"Much of the identity, traditions and architecture of Mexico were created during the colonial period."
] |
[
0
] |
Riding
|
How is the rider launched airborne?
|
Wakeboarding
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
6
] |
[
"Using edging techniques, the rider can move outside of the wake or cut rapidly in toward the wake.",
"Jumps are performed by riding towards and up the wake and launching into the air.",
"This can also be done by riding up a kicker (a jump).",
"There is also the slider (a rail bar) in which a rider approaches and rides along keeping his balance.",
"Once a rider improves in the sport, he or she can progress to tricks high in the air.",
"As the rider edges towards the wake against the pull of the rope, the rider builds pressure against the water on the bottom of the board and gains speed and momentum toward the wake.",
"When the rider rides up the wake, the energy of the wake launches him airborne.",
"While in the air, the rider attempts to do tricks.",
"Tricks vary from beginner to advanced."
] |
[
5
] |
Historical accuracy
|
Where was the "U-96" based in real life in late 1941?
|
Das Boot
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
9
] |
[
"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."
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] |
Tourism
|
The Peak Lookout Restaurant was rebuilt in what year?
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Victoria Peak
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
11
] |
[
"With some seven million visitors every year, the Peak is a major tourist attraction of Hong Kong.",
"It offers spectacular views of the city and its harbours.",
"The viewing deck also has coin operated telescopes that the visitors can use to enjoy the cityscape.",
"The number of visitors led to the construction of two major leisure and shopping centres, the Peak Tower and the Peak Galleria, situated adjacent to each other.",
"The Peak Tower incorporates the upper station of the Peak Tram, the funicular railway that brings passengers up from the St. John's Cathedral in Hong Kong's Central district, whilst the Peak Galleria incorporates the bus station used by the Hong Kong public buses and green minibuses on the Peak.",
"The Peak is also accessible by taxi and private car via the circuitous Peak Road, or by walking up the steep Old Peak Road from near the Zoological Botanical Gardens.",
"Victoria Peak Garden is located on the site of Mountain Lodge, the Governor's old summer residence, and is the closest publicly accessible point to the summit.",
"It can be reached from Victoria Gap by walking up Mount Austin Road, a climb of about .",
"Another popular walk is the level loop along Lugard Road, giving good views of Hong Kong's Central district and Kowloon, and then returning via Harlech Road, encircling the summit at the level of the Peak Tower.",
"There are several restaurants on Victoria Peak, most of which are located in the two shopping centres.",
"However, the Peak Lookout Restaurant, is housed in an older and more traditional building which was originally a spacious house for engineers working on the Peak Tramway.",
"It was rebuilt in 1901 as a stop area for sedan chairs, but was re-opened as a restaurant in 1947.",
"In addition to being a major tourist attraction for Hong Kong, The Peak is also the summit of Hong Kong's property market.",
"At the peak of The Peak, properties are more precious than anywhere else in the world.",
"Most of the super rich in Hong Kong - including Cheung Kong (Holdings) chairman Li Ka-shing and the Kwok brothers of Sun Hung Kai Properties - live in detached houses in Island South or The Peak.",
"A house at Barker Road (where Hong Kong's most expensive residential buildings are located) sold for HK$1.8 billion last year.",
"At $68,228 per square foot, it is the most expensive location in the world.",
"The buyer is reported to be a Hong Kong billionaire, Lee Shau-kee.",
"On January 12.",
"2014, a Barker Road property sold at over HK$100k (US$13k) per square foot for HK$690 million."
] |
[
0
] |
Wushu as an Olympic event
|
What event was Wushu rejected for?
|
Wushu (sport)
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
0,
1
] |
[
"The IWUF placed a bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have wushu included in future Olympic Games, but did not meet with success.",
"However, the IOC allowed China to organize an international wushu event during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but this event is not one of the 28 official Olympic sports, nor is it a demonstration event.",
"Instead, it was called the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Wushu Tournament.",
"Wushu was one of 8 sports that was considered for inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics.",
"On May 29, 2013, Wushu's bid was rejected."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What prompted France and the UK to declare war on Germany in 1939
|
Invasion of Poland
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
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8,
7
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[
"The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War or the Fourth Partition of Poland (Polish: \"Kampania wrześniowa\" or \"Wojna obronna 1939 roku\" or \"IV rozbiór Polski\") in Poland and the Poland Campaign (German: \"Polenfeldzug\") or Fall Weiß (Case White) in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II in Europe.",
"The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, while the Soviet invasion commenced on 17 September 1939 following the Molotov-Tōgō agreement which terminated the Russian and Japanese hostilities (Nomonhan incident) in the east on 16 September 1939.",
"The campaign ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland.",
"The morning after the Gleiwitz incident, German forces invaded Poland from the north, south, and west.",
"As the Germans advanced, Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish–German border to more established lines of defence to the east.",
"After the mid-September Polish defeat in the Battle of the Bzura, the Germans gained an undisputed advantage.",
"Polish forces then withdrew to the southeast where they prepared for a long defence of the Romanian Bridgehead and awaited expected support and relief from France and the United Kingdom.",
"The two countries had pacts with Poland and had declared war on Germany on 3 September, though in the end their aid to Poland in the September campaign was very limited.",
"The Soviet Red Army's invasion of Eastern Poland on 17 September, in accordance with a secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, rendered the Polish plan of defence obsolete.",
"Facing a second front, the Polish government concluded the defence of the Romanian Bridgehead was no longer feasible and ordered an emergency evacuation of all troops to neutral Romania.",
"On 6 October, following the Polish defeat at the Battle of Kock, German and Soviet forces gained full control over Poland.",
"The success of the invasion marked the end of the Second Polish Republic, though Poland never formally surrendered.",
"On 8 October, after an initial period of military administration, Germany directly annexed western Poland and the former Free City of Danzig and placed the remaining block of territory under the administration of the newly established General Government.",
"The Soviet Union incorporated its newly acquired areas into its constituent Belarusian and Ukrainian republics, and immediately started a campaign of sovietization.",
"In the aftermath of the invasion, a collective of underground resistance organizations formed the Polish Underground State within the territory of the former Polish state.",
"Many of the military exiles that managed to escape Poland subsequently joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West, an armed force loyal to the Polish government in exile."
] |
[
0
] |
Literature and theatre
|
When did the performance of Commedia dell'arte start?
|
Italy
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|
[
7
] |
[
"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\"."
] |
[
2
] |
States and processes
|
What do people regard the working body as in thermodynamics?
|
Thermodynamics
| true | 8SCIENCE
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[
14
] |
[
"There are three fundamental kinds of entity in thermodynamics, states of a system, processes of a system, and thermodynamic operations.",
"This allows three fundamental approaches to thermodynamic reasoning, that in terms of states of thermodynamic equilibrium of a system, and that in terms of time-invariant processes of a system, and that in terms of cyclic processes of a system.",
"The approach through states of thermodynamic equilibrium of a system requires a full account of the state of the system as well as a notion of process from one state to another of a system, but may require only an idealized or partial account of the state of the surroundings of the system or of other systems.",
"The method of description in terms of states of thermodynamic equilibrium has limitations.",
"For example, processes in a region of turbulent flow, or in a burning gas mixture, or in a Knudsen gas may be beyond \"the province of thermodynamics\".",
"This problem can sometimes be circumvented through the method of description in terms of cyclic or of time-invariant flow processes.",
"This is part of the reason why the founders of thermodynamics often preferred the cyclic process description.",
"Approaches through processes of time-invariant flow of a system are used for some studies.",
"Some processes, for example Joule-Thomson expansion, are studied through steady-flow experiments, but can be accounted for by distinguishing the steady bulk flow kinetic energy from the internal energy, and thus can be regarded as within the scope of classical thermodynamics defined in terms of equilibrium states or of cyclic processes.",
"Other flow processes, for example thermoelectric effects, are essentially defined by the presence of differential flows or diffusion so that they cannot be adequately accounted for in terms of equilibrium states or classical cyclic processes.",
"The notion of a cyclic process does not require a full account of the state of the system, but does require a full account of how the process occasions transfers of matter and energy between the principal system (which is often called the \"working body\") and its surroundings, which must include at least two heat reservoirs at different known and fixed temperatures, one hotter than the principal system and the other colder than it, as well as a reservoir that can receive energy from the system as work and can do work on the system.",
"The reservoirs can alternatively be regarded as auxiliary idealized component systems, alongside the principal system.",
"Thus an account in terms of cyclic processes requires at least four contributory component systems.",
"The independent variables of this account are the amounts of energy that enter and leave the idealized auxiliary systems.",
"In this kind of account, the working body is often regarded as a \"black box\", and its own state is not specified.",
"In this approach, the notion of a properly numerical scale of empirical temperature is a presupposition of thermodynamics, not a notion constructed by or derived from it."
] |
[
0
] |
Filming
|
In the television series 'Modern Family', what neighborhood is the Dunphys' house located in?
|
Modern Family
| false | 1TV
|
[
2
] |
[
"Principal photography takes place in Los Angeles.",
"Many of the exteriors used are on the city's Westside.",
"The Dunphys' house is in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood.",
", Palisades Charter High School is used for the exteriors of Luke and Manny's school.",
"Lloyd and Levitan, whose credits both include \"Frasier\", \"Wings\", and \"Just Shoot Me\", are executive producers of the series, serving as showrunner and head writer under their Lloyd-Levitan Productions label in affiliation with Twentieth Century Fox Television.",
"The other producers on the writing team are Paul Corrigan, Sameer Gardezi, Joe Lawson, Dan O'Shannon, Brad Walsh, Caroline Williams, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker, and Jeff Morton.",
"The first team of directors included Jason Winer, Michael Spiller, Randall Einhorn, and Chris Koch.",
"Winer has directed nineteen episodes of the series, making him the most prolific director of the series."
] |
[
0
] |
In popular culture
|
In what was does Pastafarianism parody the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
|
Sistine Chapel ceiling
| true | 3ART
|
[
5
] |
[
"In many works, the painting of God and Adam are parodied.",
"See The Creation of Adam for more.",
"In the film \"2012\", the entire College of Cardinals are seen praying silently under the ceiling.",
"The ceiling then starts to crack, commencing at the point where God's and Adam's fingers nearly touch, dividing the two.",
"In \"\", the Sistine chapel is seen falling after 500 years.",
"In Pastafarianism, a parody of the painting is shown as the Flying Spaghetti Monster reaching a noodly appendage out to Adam.",
"Playwright Neil Simon's quote about the Sistine floor-\"If no one took any risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.",
"\"",
"The 1965 film \"The Agony and the Ecstasy\" features the story of Michelangelo and his travails in painting the Sistine Chapel.",
"He is portrayed in the film by Charlton Heston.",
"In the 2009 film \"Angels & Demons\" and also in the 2000 book on which the film is based, the chapel is featured throughout the story."
] |
[
0
] |
Author controversy
|
Winston Groom was to receive what percentage of the film's net profit?
|
Forrest Gump
| false | 6MOVIES
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[
0
] |
[
"Winston Groom was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel \"Forrest Gump\" and was contracted for a 3 percent share of the film's net profits.",
"However, Paramount and the film's producers did not pay him, using Hollywood accounting to posit that the blockbuster film lost money.",
"Tom Hanks, by contrast, contracted for the film's gross receipts instead of a salary, and he and director Zemeckis each received $40 million.",
"Additionally, Groom was not mentioned once in any of the film's six Oscar-winner speeches.",
"The dispute was later resolved."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What year did the film American Hustle premier?
|
American Hustle
| false | 6MOVIES
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[
0
] |
[
"American Hustle is a 2013 American crime comedy-drama film directed by David O. Russell, from a screenplay written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, loosely based on the FBI ABSCAM operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s.",
"It stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as two con artists who are forced by an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to set up an elaborate sting operation on corrupt politicians, including the mayor of Camden, New Jersey, (Jeremy Renner).",
"Jennifer Lawrence plays the unpredictable wife of Bale's character.",
"Principal photography on \"American Hustle\" began on March 8, 2013 in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York City.",
"The film had its nationwide release in the United States on December 20, 2013, and has since grossed more than a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide.",
"As well as being a box office success, the film received widespread critical acclaim.",
"It received ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing (Original Screenplay), but did not win in any category.",
"It became the second film since 1981, and the 15th overall, to be nominated in the four acting categories, the first being \"Silver Linings Playbook\", also directed by Russell and also starring Cooper and Lawrence.",
"\"American Hustle\" won three Golden Globe Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and three BAFTA Awards, among other achievements."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What did Kung Fu Panda earn on its opening day?
|
Kung Fu Panda
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
13
] |
[
"Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy wuxia film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.",
"It was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb, and stars the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Ian McShane, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, Dan Fogler, and Michael Clarke Duncan.",
"Set in a version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic talking animals, the plot revolves around a bumbling panda named Po who aspires to be a kung fu master.",
"When an evil kung fu warrior is foretold to escape from prison, Po is unwittingly named the chosen one destined to bring peace to the land, much to the chagrin of the resident kung fu warriors.",
"The idea for the film was conceived by Michael Lachance, a DreamWorks Animation executive.",
"The film was originally intended to be a parody, but director Stevenson decided instead to shoot an action comedy wuxia film that incorporates the hero's journey narrative archetype for the lead character.",
"The computer animation in the film was more complex than anything DreamWorks had done before.",
"As with most DreamWorks animated films, Hans Zimmer (collaborating with John Powell this time) scored \"Kung Fu Panda\".",
"He visited China to absorb the culture and get to know the China National Symphony Orchestra as part of his preparation.",
"A sequel, \"Kung Fu Panda 2\", was released on May 26, 2011, along with a television series, \"\" later that same year as a part of a franchise.",
"The third installment called \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" will debut in December 23, 2015.",
"\"Kung Fu Panda\" premiered in the United States on June 6, 2008, and has since received very favorable reviews from critics and much of the movie-going public.",
"The film currently garners an 88% \"Certified Fresh\" approval rating from review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.",
"\"Kung Fu Panda\" opened in 4,114 theaters, grossing $20.3 million on its opening day and $60.2 million on its opening weekend, resulting in the number one position at the box office.",
"The film became DreamWorks' biggest opening for a non-sequel film, the highest grossing animated film of the year worldwide, and also had the fourth-largest opening weekend for a DreamWorks animated film at the American and Canadian box office, behind \"Shrek 2\", \"Shrek the Third\", and \"Shrek Forever After\"."
] |
[
0
] |
Nutrition
|
Which vitamins commonly appear in vegetables?
|
Vegetable
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
1
] |
[
"Vegetables are eaten in a variety of ways, as part of main meals and as snacks.",
"The nutritional content of vegetables varies considerably, though generally they contain little protein or fat, and varying proportions of vitamins such as Vitamin A, Vitamin K and Vitamin B6, provitamins, dietary minerals and carbohydrates.",
"Vegetables contain a great variety of other phytochemicals, some of which have been claimed to have antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and anticarcinogenic properties.",
"Some vegetables also contain fiber, important for gastrointestinal function.",
"Vegetables contain important nutrients necessary for healthy hair and skin as well.",
"A person who refrains from dairy and meat products, and eats only plants (including vegetables) is known as a vegan.",
"However, vegetables often also contain toxins and antinutrients such as α-solanine, α-chaconine, enzyme inhibitors (of cholinesterase, protease, amylase, etc.",
"), cyanide and cyanide precursors, oxalic acid, and more.",
"Depending on the concentration, such compounds may reduce the edibility, nutritional value, and health benefits of dietary vegetables.",
"Cooking and/or other processing may be necessary to eliminate or reduce them.",
"Diets containing recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables may help lower the risk of heart diseases and type 2 diabetes.",
"These diets may also protect against some cancers and decrease bone loss.",
"The potassium provided by both fruits and vegetables may help prevent the formation of kidney stones."
] |
[] |
Release of the tapes
|
Who was Nixon's longtime personal secretary?
|
Watergate scandal
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
14
] |
[
"The tapes revealed several crucial conversations that took place between the President and his counsel, John Dean, on March 21, 1973.",
"In this conversation, Dean summarized many aspects of the Watergate case, and focused on the subsequent coverup, describing it as a \"cancer on the presidency.\"",
"The burglary team was being paid hush money for their silence and Dean stated: \"That's the most troublesome post-thing, because Bob is involved in that; John [Ehrlichman is involved in that; I am involved in that; Mitchell is involved in that.",
"And that's an obstruction of justice.\"",
"Dean continues and states that Howard Hunt is blackmailing the White House, demanding money immediately, and President Nixon replies that the blackmail money should be paid: \"…just looking at the immediate problem, don't you have to have – handle Hunt's financial situation damn soon?",
"[…] you've got to keep the cap on the bottle that much, in order to have any options.",
"\"At the time of the initial congressional impeachment, it was not known if Nixon had known and approved of the payments to the Watergate defendants earlier than this conversation.",
"Nixon's conversation with Haldeman on August 1, 1972, is one of several that establishes this.",
"Nixon states: \"Well…they have to be paid.",
"That's all there is to that.",
"They have to be paid.\"",
"During the congressional debate on impeachment, some believed that impeachment required a criminally indictable offense.",
"President Nixon's agreement to make the blackmail payments was regarded as an affirmative act to obstruct justice.",
"On December 7, 1973, it was found that an 18½ minute portion of one recorded tape had been erased.",
"Nixon's longtime personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, said she had accidentally erased the tape by pushing the wrong pedal on her tape player when answering the phone.",
"The press ran photos showing that it was unlikely for Woods to answer the phone and keep her foot on the pedal.",
"Later forensic analysis determined that the tape had been erased in several segments – at least five, and perhaps as many as nine."
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[
3
] |
Special-purpose cakes
|
What is "confarreatio"?
|
Cake
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
3
] |
[
"Cakes may be classified according to the occasion for which they are intended.",
"For example, wedding cakes, birthday cakes, cakes for first communion, Christmas cakes, Halloween cakes and Passover plava (a type of sponge cake sometimes made with matzo meal) are all identified primarily according to the celebration they are intended to accompany.",
"The cutting of a wedding cake constitutes a social ceremony in some cultures.",
"The Ancient Roman marriage ritual of \"confarreatio\" originated in the sharing of a cake.",
"Particular types of cake may be associated with particular festivals, such as stollen or chocolate log (at Christmas), babka and simnel cake (at Easter), or mooncake.",
"There has been a long tradition of decorating an iced cake at Christmas time; other cakes associated with Christmas include chocolate log and mince pies."
] |
[
0
] |
Coating
|
What does the region under the coat adjacent to the scratch behave as?
|
Electrochemistry
| true | 8SCIENCE
|
[
3
] |
[
"Metals can be coated with paint or other less conductive metals (\"passivation\").",
"This prevents the metal surface from being exposed to electrolytes.",
"Scratches exposing the metal substrate will result in corrosion.",
"The region under the coating adjacent to the scratch acts as the anode of the reaction.",
"See Anodizing"
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
How many bikes are there throughout the world?
|
Cycling
| true | 4SPORT
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[
3
] |
[
"Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport.",
"Persons engaged in cycling are referred to as \"cyclists\", \"bikers\", or less commonly, as \"bicyclists\".",
"Apart from two-wheeled bicycles, \"cycling\" also includes the riding of unicycles, tricycles, quadracycles, and similar human-powered vehicles (HPVs).",
"Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century and now number about one billion worldwide.",
"They are the principal means of transportation in many parts of the world.",
"Cycling is widely regarded as a very effective and efficient mode of transportation optimal for short to moderate distances.",
"Bicycles provide numerous benefits by comparison with motor vehicles, including the sustained physical exercise necessarily involved in cycling, that cycling involves a reduced consumption of fossil fuels, less air or noise pollution, much reduced traffic congestion, easier parking, greater maneuverability, and access to both roads and paths.",
"The advantages also include reduced financial cost to the user as well as to society at large (negligible damage to roads, less road area required).",
"Among the disadvantages of cycling are the inherent instability of the bicycle, the immensely reduced protection in crashes (especially in collisions with motor vehicles), longer travel time (except in densely populated areas), vulnerability to weather conditions, difficulty in transporting passengers, competition (and interference) with socially beneficial forms of mass public transit, a persistent tendency for cyclists to intrude into pedestrian areas, and the particular levels of skill and fitness required by cycling."
] |
[
5
] |
Live performances
|
Which American Idol season was "Part of Me" by Perry performed?
|
Part of Me (Katy Perry song)
| true | 0MUSIC
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[
10
] |
[
"",
"\"Part of Me\" was given its first live performance on February 12, 2012, at the 54th Grammy Awards.",
"An abbreviated version of \"E.T.\"",
"(2011) ended partway through the chorus, with electronic sound effects and a darkened stage.",
"Wearing a metallic bodysuit with the appearance of golden armor, a blue-haired Perry descended from the roof of the venue in a transparent cube.",
"The object shattered, fireworks went off around the stage, and Perry began \"Part of Me\" as the dancers present during \"E.T.\"",
"reappeared, lifted her up, and performed a routine behind her.",
"On March 19, 2012, Perry performed \"Part of Me\" as part of a Live Lounge special for BBC Radio 1, along with \"The One That Got Away\" (2011), \"Firework\" (2011), \"Thinking of You\" (2009) and a censored version of \"Niggas in Paris\" (2011).",
"The performances were closely similar, through their depiction of Perry as a superhero and their theme of self-empowerment.",
"Katie Brine of MTV commented that \"Even when Katy is getting serious, there's always fun to be had.",
"\"On April 26, 2012, Perry performed the track for season 11 of \"American Idol\".",
"This was similar to her previous performances and the video, but was pre-taped due to illness.",
"After a short, introductory military-style video, Perry made a simulated airdrop onto a military base peopled by female background dancers, all clad in military clothing.",
"It was met with mixed reviews from critics and fans, who criticized Perry's decisions to pre-tape her performance and to lipsync.",
"However, the complexity and originality of the performance were praised.",
"Brian Mansfield, of \"USA Today\", called it a \"pretty impressive production\", but criticized Perry's vocal abilities.",
"Perry included the song in the set list of her June 9, 2012 performance at Capital FM's Summertime Ball festival, during which she wore a fifties-style black and white polka dot dress and a black fringe haircut.",
"DJ Earworm had also made a mashup called \"Fly\" for the Summertime Ball and included \"Part of Me\" and Perry's previous single, \"The One That Got Away\" in the mashup.",
"On June 26, 2012 Perry performed \"Part of Me\" in her set list at the premiere for her July 2012, 3D autobiographical documentary-concert film \"\" on Hollywood Boulevard as part of Pepsi's \"Summer Beats\" concert series.",
"During the performance, Perry emerged from a large box of popcorn, wearing a shirt that resembled a film reel with the stage decorated with life-sized lollipops and neon lights.",
"This was Perry's final performance prior to her taking a musical hiatus after two years of continuous promotion for \"Teenage Dream\"."
] |
[] |
Resignation
|
How many Senators were willing to vote for acquittal?
|
Watergate scandal
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
4
] |
[
"The release of the \"smoking gun\" tape destroyed Nixon politically.",
"The 10 congressmen who voted against all three articles of impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee announced they would all support impeachment when the vote was taken in the full House.",
"On the night of August 7, 1974, Senators Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott and Congressman John Jacob Rhodes met with Nixon in the Oval Office and told him that his support in Congress had all but disappeared.",
"Rhodes told Nixon that he would face certain impeachment when the articles came up for vote in the full House.",
"Goldwater and Scott told the president that there were not only enough votes in the Senate to convict him, but that no more than 15 Senators were willing to vote for acquittal.",
"Realizing that he had no chance of staying in office, Nixon decided to resign.",
"In a nationally televised address from the Oval Office on the evening of August 8, 1974, the president said, in part:The morning that his resignation was to take effect, the President, with Mrs. Nixon and their family, said farewell to the White House staff in the East Room.",
"A helicopter carried them from the White House to Andrews Air Force base in Maryland.",
"Nixon later wrote that he thought, \"As the helicopter moved on to Andrews, I found myself thinking not of the past, but of the future.",
"What could I do now?…\" At Andrews, he and his family boarded Air Force One to El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in California, and then were transported to his home in San Clemente."
] |
[
5
] |
History
|
When was the Metropolitan Racquets Association founded?
|
Squash (sport)
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
20
] |
[
"Squash's use of stringed racquets is shared with tennis, which dates from the late sixteenth century, though is more directly descended from the game of racquets from England.",
"In \"racquets\", instead of hitting over a net as in tennis, players hit a squeezable ball against walls.",
"Squash was invented in Harrow School out of the older game racquets around 1830 before the game spread to other schools, eventually becoming an international sport.",
"The first courts built at this school were rather dangerous because they were near water pipes, buttresses, chimneys, and ledges.",
"The school soon built four outside courts.",
"Natural rubber was the material of choice for the ball.",
"Students modified their racquets to have a smaller reach to play in these cramped conditions.",
"The racquets have changed in much the same way as those used in tennis.",
"Squash racquets used to be made out of laminated timber.",
"In the 1980s, construction shifted to lighter, carbon-based materials (such as graphite) with small additions of such components as Kevlar, boron and titanium.",
"Natural \"gut\" strings were replaced with synthetic strings.",
"In the 19th century the game increased in popularity with various schools, clubs and even private citizens building squash courts, but with no set dimensions.",
"The first squash court in North America appeared at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire in 1884.",
"In 1904 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the earliest national association of squash in the world was formed as the United States Squash Racquets Association, (USSRA), now known as U.S.",
"Squash.",
"In April 1907 the Tennis, Racquets & Fives Association set up a sub committee to set standards for squash.",
"Then the sport soon formed, combining the three sports together called “Squash”.",
"In 1912 the Titanic had a squash court in first class.",
"It was not until 1923 that the Royal Automobile Club hosted a meeting to further discuss the rules and regulations and another five years elapsed before the Squash Racquets Association was formed to set standards for squash in Great Britain.",
"The sport spread to America and Canada, and eventually around the globe.",
"It was founded in 1924 in New York as Metropolitan Racquets Association, or MSRA."
] |
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Background
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What is the year in which Van Gogh wrote details about the Portrait of Dr. Gachet to his brother?
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Portrait of Dr. Gachet
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12
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[
"In 1890, Van Gogh's brother Theo was searching for a home for the artist upon his release from an asylum at Saint-Rémy.",
"Upon the recommendation of Camille Pissarro, a former patient of the doctor who told Theo of Gachet's interests in working with artists, Theo sent Vincent to Gachet's second home in Auvers.",
"Vincent van Gogh's first impression of Gachet was unfavorable.",
"Writing to Theo he remarked:\"I think that we must not count on Dr. Gachet at all.",
"First of all, he is sicker than I am, I think, or shall we say just as much, so that's that.",
"Now when one blind man leads another blind man, don't they both fall into the ditch?",
"\"However, in a letter dated two days later to their sister Wilhelmina, he relayed, \"I have found a true friend in Dr. Gachet, something like another brother, so much do we resemble each other physically and also mentally.\"",
"Van Gogh's thoughts returned several times to the painting by Eugène Delacroix of Torquato Tasso in the madhouse.",
"After a visit with Paul Gauguin to Montpellier to see Alfred Bruyas's collection in the Musée Fabre, Van Gogh wrote to Theo, asking if he could find a copy of the lithograph after the painting.",
"Three and a half months earlier, he had been thinking of the painting as an example of the sort of portraits he wanted to paint: \"But it would be more in harmony with what Eugène Delacroix attempted and brought off in his \"Tasso in Prison\", and many other pictures, representing a real man.",
"Ah!",
"portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.",
"\"Van Gogh wrote to his brother in 1890 about the painting:"
] |
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0
] |
Alpine Snowboarding
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Why is carving a snowboard like riding a roller coaster?
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Snowboarding
| false | 4SPORT
|
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9
] |
[
"Sometimes called freecarving, this takes place on hard packed snow or groomed runs and focuses on carving linked turns, much like surfing or longboarding.",
"Little or no jumping takes place in this discipline.",
"Alpine Snowboarding consists of a small portion of the general snowboard population, that has a well connected social community and its own specific board manufacturers.",
"Alpine Snowboard equipment is a ski-like hardshell boot and plate binding system with a true directional snowboard that is stiffer and narrower to manage linking turns with greater forces and speed.",
"Shaped skis can thank these \"freecarve\" snowboards for the cutting-edge technology leading to their creation.",
"Highlights of alpine snowboarding includes a unique sensation felt through each carved turn.",
"A skilled alpine snowboarder can link numerous turns into a run placing their body very close to the ground each turn, similar to a motogp turn or waterski carve.",
"Depending on factors including stiffness, turning radius and personality this can be done slowly or fast.",
"Carvers make perfect half-circles out of each turn, changing edges when the snowboard is perpendicular to the fall line and starting every turn on the downhill edge.",
"Carving on a snowboard is like riding a roller coaster, because the board will lock into a turn radius and provide what feels like multiple Gs of acceleration."
] |
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1
] |
Ecology
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What are the two streams in the Mount Rushmore Memorial?
|
Mount Rushmore
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
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6
] |
[
"The flora and fauna of Mount Rushmore are similar to those of the rest of the Black Hills region of South Dakota.",
"Birds including the turkey vulture, bald eagle, hawk, and meadowlark fly around Mount Rushmore, occasionally making nesting spots in the ledges of the mountain.",
"Smaller birds, including songbirds, nuthatches, and woodpeckers, inhabit the surrounding pine forests.",
"Terrestrial mammals include the mouse, least chipmunk, red squirrel, skunk, porcupine, raccoon, beaver, badger, coyote, bighorn sheep, bobcat, elk, mule deer, yellow-bellied marmot, and American bison.",
"The striped chorus frog, western chorus frog, and northern leopard frog also inhabit the area.",
"In addition, several species of snakes inhabit the region.",
"Grizzly Bear Brook and Starling Basin Brook, the two streams in the memorial, support fish such as the longnose dace and the brook trout.",
"Mountain goats are not indigenous to the area but can also be found here.",
"They are descended from goats which were a gift from Canada to Custer State Park in 1924 but later escaped.",
"At lower elevations, coniferous trees, mainly the Ponderosa pine, surround most of the monument, providing shade from the sun.",
"Other trees include the bur oak, the Black Hills spruce, and the cottonwood.",
"Nine species of shrubs grow near Mount Rushmore.",
"There is also a wide variety of wildflowers, including especially the snapdragon, sunflower, and violet.",
"Towards higher elevations, plant life becomes sparser.",
"However, only approximately five percent of the plant species found in the Black Hills are indigenous to the region.",
"The area receives about of precipitation on average per year, enough to support abundant animal and plant life.",
"Trees and other plants help to control surface runoff.",
"Dikes, seeps, and springs help to dam up water that is flowing downhill, providing watering spots for animals.",
"In addition, stones like sandstone and limestone help to hold groundwater, creating aquifers.",
"Through the study of tree rings, it has been determined that forest fires have occurred in the Ponderosa forests surrounding Mount Rushmore around every 27 years based on evidence of fire scars found within tree core samples.",
"Large conflagrations are not common.",
"Most events have been ground fires that serve to clear forest debris.",
"The area is a climax community.",
"Recent pine beetle infestations have threatened the forest."
] |
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0
] |
For children
|
How many weeks does the Fun Net program run?
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Netball
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
4
] |
[
"Netball has been adapted in several ways to meet children's needs.",
"The rules for children are similar to those for adults, but various aspects of the game (such as the length of each quarter, goal height, and ball size) are modified.",
"Fun Net is a version of netball developed by Netball Australia for five- to seven-year-olds.",
"It aims to improve basic netball skills using games and activities.",
"The Fun Net program runs for 8–16 weeks.",
"There are no winners or losers.",
"The goal posts are high, and a smaller ball is used.",
"Netball Australia also runs a modified game called Netta aimed at 8- to 11-year-olds.",
"The goal height and ball size are the same as for adults, but players rotate positions during the game, permitting each player to play each position.",
"Netta was created to develop passing and catching skills.",
"Its rules permit six seconds between catching and passing the ball, instead of the three seconds permitted in the adult game.",
"Most players under 11 play this version at netball clubs.",
"A version called High Five Netball is promoted by the All England Netball Association.",
"It is aimed at 9- to 11-year-old girls and includes only five positions.",
"The players swap positions during the game.",
"When a player is not on the court, she is expected to help the game in some other way, such as being the timekeeper or scorekeeper.",
"High Five Netball has four six-minute quarters."
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