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Video game
|
Why do people think there won't be the Dexter game released on new systems?
|
Dexter (TV series)
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"Other media.",
"Video game.",
"A video game based on \"Dexter\" developed by Icarus Studios and based on the events of season one, was released on September 13, 2009.",
"It is available for the iPhone platform in the iTunes App Store.",
"The game was released on the iPad on October 15, 2010, and on PC on February 15, 2011.",
"The cast and crew of \"Dexter\" have been very supportive, with some of the cast providing full voice work for the game, including Michael C. Hall.",
"The game has received many positive reviews, including an 8/10 from IGN.",
"No additional content for the game has been released or announced as planned.",
"Plans to release the game on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 seem to have been cancelled, as there has been no recent information regarding expansion of the game onto these platforms."
] |
[
1
] |
World War II
|
What became the basis of early American and Soviet rocket designs after WWII?
|
Space Race
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"World War II.",
"The Space Race can trace its origins to Germany, beginning in the 1930s and continuing during World War II when Nazi Germany researched and built operational ballistic missiles.",
"Starting in the early 1930s, during the last stages of the Weimar Republic, German aerospace engineers experimented with liquid-fueled rockets, with the goal that one day they would be capable of reaching high altitudes and traversing long distances.",
"The head of the German Army's Ballistics and Munitions Branch, Lieutenant Colonel Karl Emil Becker, gathered a small team of engineers that included Walter Dornberger and Leo Zanssen, to figure out how to use rockets as long-range artillery in order to get around the Treaty of Versailles' ban on research and development of long-range cannons.",
"Wernher von Braun, a young engineering prodigy, was recruited by Becker and Dornberger to join their secret army program at Kummersdorf-West in 1932.",
"Von Braun had dreams about conquering outer space with rockets, and did not initially see the military value in missile technology.",
"During the Second World War, General Dornberger was the military head of the army's rocket program, Zanssen became the commandant of the Peenemünde army rocket centre, and von Braun was the technical director of the ballistic missile program.",
"They would lead the team that built the Aggregate-4 (A-4) rocket, which became the first vehicle to reach outer space during its test flight program in 1942 and 1943.",
"By 1943, Germany began mass-producing the A-4 as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (\"Vengeance Weapon\" 2, or more commonly, V2), a ballistic missile with a range carrying a warhead at .",
"Its supersonic speed meant there was no defense against it, and radar detection provided little warning.",
"Germany used the weapon to bombard southern England and parts of Allied-liberated western Europe from 1944 until 1945.",
"After the war, the V-2 became the basis of early American and Soviet rocket designs.",
"At war's end, American, British, and Soviet scientific intelligence teams competed to capture Germany's rocket engineers along with the German rockets themselves and the designs on which they were based.",
"Each of the Allies captured a share of the available members of the German rocket team, but the United States benefited the most with Operation Paperclip, recruiting von Braun and most of his engineering team, who later helped develop the American missile and space exploration programs.",
"The United States also acquired a large number of complete V2 rockets."
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Music
|
Which time period is considered the golden age of music in France?
|
France
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"France has a long and varied musical history.",
"It experienced a golden age in the 17th century thanks to Louis XIV, who employed several musicians and composers in the royal court.",
"The most renowned composers of this period include Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Michel-Richard Delalande, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marin Marais, all of them composers at the court.",
"After the death of the \"Roi Soleil\", French musical creation lost dynamism, but in the next century the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau reached some prestige, and today he is still one of the most renowned French composers.",
"French classical music knew a revival in the 19th and 20th century, at the end of the romantic movement, at first with opera composers Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Gounod, Jacques Offenbach, Édouard Lalo, Jules Massenet and Camille Saint-Saëns.",
"This period was a golden age for operas, being popular in the country the opéra bouffon, the opera-ballet and the opéra comique genres.",
"Later came precursors of modern classical music Érik Satie, Francis Poulenc, and above all Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, who invented new musical forms.",
"More recently, at the middle of the 20th century, Maurice Ohana, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Boulez contributed to the evolutions of contemporary classical music.",
"French music then followed the rapid emergence of pop and rock music at the middle of the 20th century.",
"Although English-speaking creations achieved popularity in the country, French pop music, known as \"chanson française\", has also remained very popular.",
"Among the most important French artists of the century are Édith Piaf, Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré, Charles Aznavour and Serge Gainsbourg.",
"Although there are very few rock bands in France compared to English-speaking countries, bands such as Noir Désir, Mano Negra, Niagara, Les Rita Mitsouko and more recently Superbus, Phoenix and Gojira have reached worldwide popularity.",
"Other French artists with international careers have been popular in several countries, for example female singers Dalida, Mireille Mathieu and Mylène Farmer, electronic music pioneers Jean-Michel Jarre, Laurent Garnier and Bob Sinclar, and later Martin Solveig and David Guetta.",
"In the 1990s and 2000s (decade), electronic duos Daft Punk, Justice and Air also reached worldwide popularity and contributed to the reputation of modern electronic music in the world.",
"Among current musical events and institutions in France, many are dedicated to classical music and operas.",
"The most prestigious institutions are the state-owned Paris National Opera (with its two sites Palais Garnier and Opéra Bastille), the Opéra National de Lyon, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux.",
"As for music festivals, there are several events organized, the most popular being the Eurockéennes and Rock en Seine.",
"The Fête de la Musique, imitated by many foreign cities, was first launched by the French government in 1982.",
"Major music halls and venues in France include Le Zénith sites present in many cities and other places in Paris (Paris Olympia, Théâtre Mogador, Élysée Montmartre, etc.",
")."
] |
[] |
Dining and drinking in the Market
|
When was Three Girls Bakery founded?
|
Pike Place Market
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"While one can easily graze one's way through the Market food stalls and shops, the Pike Place Market offers numerous other eating (and drinking) options.",
"The once endemic workingmen's and sailors' taverns are gone; at roughly opposite corners of the Market, the Virginia Inn (founded as Virginia Bar, approximately 1908; operated as a cardroom during Prohibition, then Virginia Inn; passed into current management 1980 and slowly gentrified) and Place Pigalle (originally Lotus Inn, name dates from 1950s, remodeled 1982) retain their names, but both have gone upmarket.",
"The Athenian Inn in the Main Market traces its history back to a 1909 bakery and is a relatively ungentrified bar and restaurant.",
"Three Girls Bakery dates back to 1912 and may have been the first Seattle business started by women.",
"While it is not in its original Corner Market location, no longer bakes on premises, and its current owner Jack Levy is a man, it still sells a vast variety of baked goods, does a brisk business in takeaway sandwiches, and has an old-style lunch counter.",
"For a different type of dining experience, the Pink Door (founded 1981), entered by a nearly unmarked door on upper Post Alley, is a favorite first-date restaurant, with solid Italian food, a fantasia of a dining room, a bar that sometimes features live jazz, and an outdoor deck overlooking Elliott Bay.",
"Another restaurant combining Italian food and romantic ambience is the \"grottolike\" Il Bistro, located below grade in the Economy Market, off a cobblestone ramp that leads to Lower Post Alley.",
"When it was founded in 1977 it was played an important role in the rise of fine dining in Seattle.",
"Other longstanding Market restaurants and bars include Lowell's (founded 1957), an old Main Market standby self-described as \"almost classy\"; French bistro Maximilien, founded in 1975 by François Kissel, owned since 1997 by host Axel Macé and chef Eric Francy, and highly praised by Julia Child; and the Copacabana (founded 1964), Seattle's only Bolivian restaurant, upstairs in the Triangle Market with a balcony overlooking Pike Place."
] |
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Energy
|
how many rubles does the Russian government plan to allocate to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technology?
|
Russia
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"In recent years, Russia has frequently been described in the media as an energy superpower.",
"The country has the world's largest natural gas reserves, the 8th largest oil reserves, and the second largest coal reserves.",
"Russia is the world's leading natural gas exporter and second largest natural gas producer, while also the largest oil exporter and the largest oil producer.",
"On 1 January 2011, Russia said it had begun scheduled oil shipments to China, with the plan to increase the rate up to 300,000 barrels per day in 2011.",
"Russia is the 3rd largest electricity producer in the world and the 5th largest renewable energy producer, the latter because of the well-developed hydroelectricity production in the country.",
"Large cascades of hydropower plants are built in European Russia along big rivers like Volga.",
"The Asian part of Russia also features a number of major hydropower stations, however the gigantic hydroelectric potential of Siberia and the Russian Far East largely remains unexploited.",
"Russia was the first country to develop civilian nuclear power and to construct the world's first nuclear power plant.",
"Currently the country is the 4th largest nuclear energy producer, with all nuclear power in Russia being managed by Rosatom State Corporation.",
"The sector is rapidly developing, with an aim of increasing the total share of nuclear energy from current 16.9% to 23% by 2020.",
"The Russian government plans to allocate 127 billion rubles ($5.42 billion) to a federal program dedicated to the next generation of nuclear energy technology.",
"About 1 trillion rubles ($42.7 billion) is to be allocated from the federal budget to nuclear power and industry development before 2015."
] |
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5
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Season 5
|
Why did the show broadcast a live episode twice on the evening of October 14, 2010?
|
30 Rock
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"",
"\"30 Rock\" premiered its fifth season on September 23, 2010 in the Thursday 8:30 p.m. time slot.",
"An episode of 30 Rock's fifth season was filmed and broadcast live, twice, on the evening of October 14, 2010.",
"The two separate recordings resulted in a live telecast of the episode to American viewers in both the West and East Coast, to ensure both would view a live performance.",
"Filmed in front of a live audience, the episode aired at 8:30 pm EDT and PDT on NBC.",
"A ratings success, the episode was also met with positive reviews.",
"\"30 Rock\" moved to the 10/9c from January 20, 2011.",
"Season 5 focuses on Liz Lemon's continuing relationship with Carol Burnett (Matt Damon), Jack's start into fatherhood with fiancée Avery (Elizabeth Banks), struggling with the merger of NBCUniversal with Kabletown, Tracy's foray into getting an EGOT, and Kenneth's attempt to get back to NBC.",
"Aside from featuring the return of Rachel Dratch in the Live Show, other guest stars include Matt Damon, Elizabeth Banks, Susan Sarandon (as Frank's former teacher- who was in prison due to their relationship while he was a student- and present girlfriend), Paul Giamatti, Sherri Shepherd, Queen Latifah, Rob Reiner, John Amos, Jon Hamm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bill Hader, Chris Parnell, Kelsey Grammer, Buck Henry, David Gregory, John Slattery, Daniel Sunjata, Will Forte, Kelly Coffield Park, Elaine Stritch, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Alan Alda, Cheyenne Jackson, Robert De Niro, Dean Winters, Ken Howard, Vanessa Minnillo, Brian Williams, Richard Belzer, Ice-T, John Cho, Chloë Grace Moretz, Terrance Mann (as oceanographer Robert Ballard), Cristin Milioti (as Abby Flynn in \"TGS Hates Women\"), Eion Bailey, Adriane Lenox, Michael Keaton, Margaret Cho (as Avery's kidnapper, Korean dictator Kim Jong-il), and Tom Hanks."
] |
[
1
] |
2006–07: Musical beginnings
|
Who is the manager for lights
|
Lights (musician)
| true | 0MUSIC
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7
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"Music career.2006–07: Musical beginnings.",
"Lights was signed at the age of 15.",
"In high school, Lights played guitar and sang in the metal band Shovel Face.",
"Lights started her career being a writer for Sony/ATV Music Publishing.",
"Lights was among the songwriters who composed music for the television series \"Instant Star\".",
"She and Luke McMaster are credited with composing \"Perfect,\" sung in the role of Jude Harrison on the show by Alexz Johnson.",
"In late 2006, she worked with Canadian photographer Marc Lostracco to film her very first music video, \"February Air,\" for a Sony promotion.",
"However, Sony never confirmed with the deal, and it never happened.",
"In 2007, she was discovered by Jian Ghomeshi.",
"He is still her manager."
] |
[
3
] |
Types of mount
|
What type of mount is a Equatorial mount?
|
Telescope
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5
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[
"A telescope mount is a mechanical structure which supports a telescope.",
"Telescope mounts are designed to support the mass of the telescope and allow for accurate pointing of the instrument.",
"Many sorts of mounts have been developed over the years, with the majority of effort being put into systems that can track the motion of the stars as the Earth rotates.",
"The two main types of tracking mount are:",
" Altazimuth mount",
" Equatorial mount"
] |
[
0
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Tourism
|
Why did tourism fall significantly in Lebanon in 2010?
|
Lebanon
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] |
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"The tourism industry accounts for about 10% of GDP.",
"Lebanon managed to attract around 1,333,000 tourists in 2008, thus placing it as rank 79 out of 191 countries.",
"In 2009, the New York Times ranked Beirut the No.",
"1 travel destination worldwide due to its Unique Nightlife and Hospitality.",
"In January 2010, the Ministry of Tourism announced that 1,851,081 tourists had visited Lebanon in 2009, a 39% increase from 2008.",
"In 2009, Lebanon hosted the largest number of tourists to date, eclipsing the previous record set before the Lebanese Civil War.",
"Tourist arrivals reached 2 million in 2010, but fell by 37% for the first 10 months of 2012, a decline caused by the war in neighbouring Syria.",
"Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Japan are the three most popular origin countries of foreign tourists to Lebanon.",
"The recent influx of Japanese tourists is probably the reason for the recent rise in popularity of Japanese Cuisine in Lebanon."
] |
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1
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Soundtrack
|
The score of the film was released in which year.
|
Forrest Gump
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"The 32-song soundtrack from the film was released on July 6, 1994.",
"With the exception of a lengthy suite from Alan Silvestri's score, all the songs are previously released; the soundtrack includes songs from Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Aretha Franklin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Three Dog Night, The Byrds, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Mamas & the Papas, Aileen Quinn, The Doobie Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Seger, Buffalo Springfield, and Michael McDonald among others.",
"Music producer Joel Sill reflected on compiling the soundtrack: \"We wanted to have very recognizable material that would pinpoint time periods, yet we didn't want to interfere with what was happening cinematically.\"",
"The two-disc album has a variety of music from the 1950s–1980s performed by American artists.",
"According to Sills, this was due to Zemeckis' request, \"All the material in there is American.",
"Bob (Zemeckis) felt strongly about it.",
"He felt that Forrest wouldn't buy anything but American.",
"\"The soundtrack reached a peak of number 2 on the \"Billboard\" album chart.",
"The soundtrack went on to sell twelve million copies, and is one of the top selling albums in the United States.",
"The score for the film was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri and released on August 2, 1994."
] |
[] |
History
|
Where did modern fencing originate from?
|
Fencing
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"The ancestor of modern fencing originated in Spain, where several books on fencing were written.",
"\"Treatise on Arms\" was written by Diego de Valera between 1458 and 1471 and is one of the oldest surviving manuals on western fencing shortly before dueling came under official ban by the Catholic Monarchs.",
"In conquest, the Spanish forces carried fencing around the world, particularly southern Italy, one of the major areas of strife between both nations.",
"The mechanics of modern fencing originated in the 18th century in an Italian school of fencing of the Renaissance, and, under their influence, was improved by the French school of fencing.",
"The Spanish school of fencing stagnated and was replaced by the Italian and French schools.",
"Nowadays, these two schools are the most influential around the world.",
"Dueling went into sharp decline after World War I.",
"After World War II, dueling went out of use in Europe except for very rare exceptions.",
"Training for duels, once fashionable for males of aristocratic backgrounds (although fencing masters such as Hope suggest that many people considered themselves trained from taking only one or two lessons), all but disappeared, along with the classes themselves.",
"Fencing continued as a sport, with tournaments and championships.",
"However, the need to actually prepare for a duel with \"sharps\" vanished, changing both training and technique.",
"Starting with épée in 1936, side-judges were replaced by an electrical scoring apparatus, with an audible tone and a red or green light indicating when a touch landed.",
"Foil first embraced electronic scoring in 1956, sabre in 1988.",
"The scoring box reduced the bias in judging, and permitted more accurate scoring of faster actions, lighter touches, and more touches to the back and flank than before."
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4
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Personnel
|
Who did the backing vocals for "Let it be"?
|
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
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Enchanted Forest
|
When was "Beauty and the Beast" released?
|
Magic Kingdom
| false | 2TRAVEL
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[
3
] |
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"With the completion of Storybook Circus and Enchanted Forest, Magic Kingdom Park now covers 133 acres.",
"Recent conceptual artwork shows several new additions and changes that will make up the New Fantasyland.",
"Included is a new , themed to Disney's 1989 film \"The Little Mermaid\", that originally opened at Disney California Adventure.",
"There is also an area, themed to Disney's 1991 film \"Beauty and the Beast\", featuring the Beast's Castle with a new dining experience, Gaston's Tavern, and Belle's cottage.",
"Snow White's Scary Adventures was removed to build Princess Fairytale Hall, a meet-n-greet.",
"This portion of the New Fantasyland officially opened on December 6, 2012.",
"Opening on March 3rd, 2014 will be another part of the New Fantasyland featuring an attraction themed to \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\", which will feature Snow White's cottage and The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train roller coaster ride, the first roller coaster to move in a wobbling motion on track, which should open in the Spring."
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[
2
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Music video
|
Who picks up Tyler for a ride in the film?
|
Everybody Talks
| true | 0MUSIC
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[
7
] |
[
"An animated music video to accompany the release of \"Everybody Talks\" was first released onto YouTube on January 14, 2012 at a total length of three minutes and forty-two seconds.",
"The real music video for \"Everybody Talks\" was released on VEVO and YouTube on March 8, 2012.",
"It features the band at a 1950s-esque drive-in watching a movie called \"Zombie Bikers From Hell.\"",
"In the film, band members are playing music to the song inside a cabin when they're attacked by a group of zombies who are leather-clad motorcycle riders.",
"Tyler (the lead singer) is the only one to escape, while the other band members are slaughtered by the zombies, offscreen, to the horror of the audience members at the drive-in.",
"Meanwhile, in \"real life\" (the drive-in) a girl wearing red sunglasses starts seducing various male patrons.",
"Once she and the men are alone in a secluded area, she reveals herself to be a fire-breathing vampire and eats them.",
"In the film, Tyler hitches a ride from a girl in red-sunglasses.",
"As they drive off in awhite van, Tyler's fate remains unknown.",
"However, Tyler, and the girl are present at the drive-in.",
"The girl who drove up in the van at the end of the movie is the same girl who the band drove up to the cabin in."
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3
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Environment
|
What had little effort during South Korea's first 20 year of growth?
|
South Korea
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"During the first 20 years of South Korea's growth surge, little effort was made to preserve the environment.",
"Unchecked industrialization and urban development have resulted in deforestation and the ongoing destruction of wetlands such as the Songdo Tidal Flat.",
"However, there have been recent efforts to balance these problems, including a government run five-year green growth project that aims to boost energy efficiency and green technology.",
"The green-based economic strategy is a comprehensive overhaul of South Korea's economy, utilizing nearly two percent of the national GDP.",
"The greening initiative includes such efforts as a nationwide bike network, solar and wind energy, lowering oil dependent vehicles, backing daylight savings and extensive usage of environmentally friendly technologies such as LEDs in electronics and lighting.",
"The country – already the world's most wired – plans to build a nationwide next-generation network which will be 10 times faster than broadband facilities in order to reduce energy usage.",
"The renewable portfolio standard program with renewable energy certificates runs from 2012 to 2022.",
"Quota systems favor large, vertically integrated generators and multinational electric utilities, if only because certificates are generally denominated in units of one megawatt-hour.",
"They are also more difficult to design and implement than an a Feed-in tariff.",
"Lauber, V. (2004).",
"\"REFIT and RPS: Options for a harmonized Community framework,\" Energy Policy, Vol.",
"32, Issue 12, pp.1405–1414.",
"Lauber, V. (2008).",
"\"Certificate Trading – Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?",
"\"Ljubljana Conference on the Future of GHG Emissions Trading in the EU, March 2008.",
"Salzburg, Austria: University of Salzburg.",
"Retrieved 16 March 2009 at: www.uni-salzburg.at/politikwissenschaft/lauber</ref> Around 350 residential micro combined heat and power units where installed in 2012.",
"Seoul's tap water recently became safe to drink, with city officials branding it \"Arisu\" in a bid to convince the public.",
"Efforts have also been made with afforestation projects.",
"Another multi-billion dollar project was the restoration of Cheonggyecheon, a stream running through downtown Seoul that had earlier been paved over by a motorway.",
"One major challenge is air quality, with acid rain, sulfur oxides, and annual yellow dust storms being particular problems.",
"It is acknowledged that many of these difficulties are a result of South Korea's proximity to China, which is a major air polluter.",
"South Korea is a member of the Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity Treaty, Kyoto Protocol (forming the Environmental Integrity Group (EIG), regarding UNFCCC, with Mexico and Switzerland), Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (not into force), Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, and Whaling."
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0
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Background
|
Who did Some Nights want as their producer?
|
Some Nights
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"Fun signed to Fueled by Ramen in late 2010.",
"Lead vocalist Nate Ruess, who had apprehensions about joining a major label in the past, recalled the switch being \"very, very easy\" for the group, stating that both parties approached it as if they \"knew what were getting into with each other.\"",
"The transition was in the works with the label for almost nine months, when the head of the label reached out to the band.",
"Ruess was flattered that employed workers for the label would buy their own tickets to Fun.",
"shows and \"talk about us with the passion you'd generally reserve for an artist you're working with.\"",
"After lengthy discussions within the band, the band decided to give the label a try.",
"Ruess recalls that he was listening to \"so much hip-hop\" during the production that it became a big influence for him.",
"The band felt inspired and gradually began working on new songs, each carrying an obvious hip-hop influence.",
"Consciously, the band began working in the hip-hop factor and realized they wanted a hip-hop producer.",
"After scanning the liner notes of his other hip-hop records, Ruess noticed that Jeff Bhasker was one of the most common names.",
"Bhasker was preoccupied at the time working with Beyoncé but Ruess was persistent in meeting with him."
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3
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Law
|
What is the highest court for criminal and civil cases in England and Wales?
|
England
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"The English law legal system, developed over the centuries, is the basis of common law legal systems used in most Commonwealth countries and the United States (except Louisiana).",
"Despite now being part of the United Kingdom, the legal system of the Courts of England and Wales continued, under the Treaty of Union, as a separate legal system from the one used in Scotland.",
"The general essence of English law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts, applying their common sense and knowledge of legal precedent—\"stare decisis\"—to the facts before them.",
"The court system is headed by the Senior Courts of England and Wales, consisting of the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice for civil cases, and the Crown Court for criminal cases.",
"The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the highest court for criminal and civil cases in England and Wales.",
"It was created in 2009 after constitutional changes, taking over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.",
"A decision of the Supreme Court is binding on every other court in the hierarchy, which must follow its directions.",
"Crime increased between 1981 and 1995, but fell by 42% in the period 1995–2006.",
"The prison population doubled over the same period, giving it the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe at 147 per 100,000.",
"Her Majesty's Prison Service, reporting to the Ministry of Justice, manages most prisons, housing over 85,000 convicts."
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[
0
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Indoor netball
|
How is the time for a game of indoor netball divided up?
|
Netball
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"Indoor netball.",
"Indoor netball is a variation of netball, played exclusively indoors, in which the playing court is surrounded on each side and overhead by a net.",
"The net prevents the ball from leaving the court, permitting faster play by reducing playing stoppages.",
"Different forms of indoor netball exist.",
"In a seven-per-side version called \"action netball\", seven players per team play with rules similar to netball.",
"However, a game is split into 15-minute halves with a three-minute break in between.",
"This version is played in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and England.",
"A six-per-side version of the sport is also played in New Zealand.",
"Two Centres per team can play in the whole court except the shooting circles; the remaining attacking and defending players are each restricted to one half of the court, including the shooting circles.",
"The attacking and Centre players may shoot from outside the shooting circle for a two-point goal.",
"A five-per-side game is also common in indoor netball.",
"Players can move throughout the court, with the exception of the shooting circles, which are restricted to certain attacking or defending players."
] |
[
5
] |
Team play
|
Which sport contains Popular formations include the 4-2, 6-2, and 5-1 systems?
|
Volleyball
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|
[
8
] |
[
"Volleyball is essentially a game of transition from one of the above skills to the next, with choreographed team movement between plays on the ball.",
"These team movements are determined by the teams chosen serve receive system, offensive system, coverage system, and defensive system.",
"The serve receive system is the formation used by the receiving team to attempt to pass the ball to the designated setter.",
"Systems can consist of 5 receivers, 4 receivers, 3 receivers, and in some cases 2 receivers.",
"The most popular formation at higher levels is a 3 receiver formation consisting of two left sides and a libero receiving every rotation.",
"This allows middles and right sides to become more specialized at hitting and blocking.",
"Offensive systems are the formations used by the offense to attempt to ground the ball into the opposing court (or otherwise score points).",
"Formations often include designated player positions with skill specialization (see \"Player specialization\", below).",
"Popular formations include the 4-2, 6-2, and 5-1 systems (see \"Formations\", below).",
"There are also several different attacking schemes teams can use to keep the opposing defense off balance.",
"Coverage systems are the formations used by the offense to protect their court in the case of a blocked attack.",
"Executed by the 5 offensive players not directly attacking the ball, players move to assigned positions around the attacker to dig up any ball that deflects off the block back into their own court.",
"Popular formations include the 2-3 system and the 1-2-2 system.",
"In lieu of a system, some teams just use a random coverage with the players nearest the hitter.",
"Defensive systems are the formations used by the defense to protect against the ball being grounded into their court by the opposing team.",
"The system will outline which players are responsible for which areas of the court depending on where the opposing team is attacking from.",
"Popular systems include the 6-Up, 6-Back-Deep, and 6-Back-Slide defense.",
"There are also several different blocking schemes teams can employ to disrupt the opposing teams offense.",
"Some teams, when they are ready to serve, will line up their other five players in a screen to obscure the view of the receiving team.",
"This action is only illegal if the server makes use of the screen, so the call is made at the referees discretion as to the impact the screen made on the receivers ability to pass the ball.",
"The most common style of screening involves a W formation designed to take up as much horizontal space as possible."
] |
[] |
Variations
|
What is often used other then fresh curds?
|
Poutine
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
12
] |
[
"There are many variations of poutine.",
"Some restaurants offer poutine with such additions as chicken, bacon, or Montreal-style smoked meat.",
"Some such restaurants even boast a dozen or more variations of poutine.",
"For instance, more upscale poutine with three-pepper sauce, merguez sausage, foie gras or even caviar and truffle can be found.",
"Some variations eliminate the cheese, but most Québécois would call such a dish a \"frite sauce\" (\"french fries with sauce\") rather than poutine.",
"Shawinigan and some other regions have \"patate-sauce-choux\" where shredded raw cabbage replaces cheese.",
"Fast food combination meals in Canada often have the option of getting french fries \"poutinized\" by adding cheese curds (or shredded cheese in the Prairies and Western Canada) and gravy.",
"Over the years, there have been many variations to this Classic Canadian Dish.",
"Sweet potato, for example, has been invented to be a healthy alternative to french fries.",
"The idea of adding dietary fiber and vitamins in this classic dish is widely appraised by the public.",
"Outside Canada, poutine is found in northern border regions of the United States such as New England, the Pacific Northwest and the Upper Midwest.",
"These regions offer further variations of the basic dish.",
"Cheeses other than fresh curds are commonly used (most commonly mozzarella cheese), along with beef, brown or turkey gravy.",
"In the county culture especially, a mixed fry can also come with cooked ground beef on top and is referred to as a hamburger mix, though this is less popular than a regular mix."
] |
[
0
] |
Critical response
|
What rating was on rotten tomatoe?
|
Teen Wolf
| true | 1TV
|
[
1
] |
[
"Although the film was a modest hit for Atlantic Releasing Corporation, the film's critical reception was at best mixed.",
"Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 47% of 19 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.8 out of 10.",
"Vincent Canby of \"The New York Times\" gave the film a negative review calling it \"aggressively boring\".",
"He went on to say that \"the film is overacted by everybody except Mr. Fox, who is seen to far better advantage in \"Back to the Future\".\""
] |
[
0
] |
Health
|
What Nobel category have Americans received the most prizes in?
|
United States
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
12
] |
[
"The United States has life expectancy of 78.4 years at birth, up from 75.2 years in 1990, ranks it 50th among 221 nations, and 27th out of the 34 industrialized OECD countries, down from 20th in 1990.",
"Increasing obesity in the United States and health improvements elsewhere have contributed to lowering the country's rank in life expectancy from 1987, when it was 11th in the world.",
"Obesity rates in the United States are among the highest in the world.",
"Approximately one-third of the adult population is obese and an additional third is overweight; the obesity rate, the highest in the industrialized world, has more than doubled in the last quarter-century.",
"Obesity-related type 2 diabetes is considered epidemic by health care professionals.",
"The infant mortality rate of 6.06 per thousand places the United States 176th highest out of 222 countries.",
"In 2010, coronary artery disease, lung cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and traffic accidents caused the most years of life lost in the U.S. Low back pain, depression, musculoskeletal disorders, neck pain, and anxiety caused the most years lost to disability.",
"The most deleterious risk factors were poor diet, tobacco smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, physical inactivity, and alcohol use.",
"Alzheimer's disease, drug abuse, kidney disease and cancer, and falls caused the most additional years of life lost over their age-adjusted 1990 per-capita rates.",
"U.S. teenage pregnancy and abortion rates are substantially higher than in other Western nations.",
"The U.S. is a global leader in medical innovation.",
"America solely developed or contributed significantly to 9 of the top 10 most important medical innovations since 1975 as ranked by a 2001 poll of physicians, while the EU and Switzerland together contributed to five.",
"Since 1966, Americans have received more Nobel Prizes in Medicine than the rest of the world.",
"From 1989 to 2002, four times more money was invested in private biotechnology companies in America than in Europe.",
"The U.S. health-care system far outspends any other nation, measured in both per capita spending and percentage of GDP.",
"Health-care coverage in the United States is a combination of public and private efforts and is not universal.",
"In 2010, 49.9 million residents or 16.3% of the population did not carry health insurance.",
"The subject of uninsured and underinsured Americans is a major political issue.",
"In 2006, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate universal health insurance.",
"Federal legislation passed in early 2010 would ostensibly create a near-universal health insurance system around the country by 2014, though the bill and its ultimate impact are issues of controversy."
] |
[
0
] |
Literature
|
Which novel depicts Niagara Falls as a base camp?
|
Niagara Falls
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
0
] |
[
"The Niagara Falls area features as the base camp for a German aerial invasion of the United States in the H. G. Wells novel \"The War in the Air\".",
"Many poets have been inspired to write about the falls.",
"Among them is the Cuban poet Jose Maria Heredia who wrote the poem \"\"Niagara\"\".",
"There are commemorative plaques on both sides of the falls recognising the poem."
] |
[] |
History
|
What was Rocket Row?
|
National Air and Space Museum
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
5
] |
[
"The museum was originally called the National Air Museum when formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman.",
"Some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia after which the Chinese Imperial Commission donated a group of kites to the Smithsonian after Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird convinced exhibiters that shipping them home would be too costly.",
"The Stringfellow steam engine intended for aircraft was added to the collection in 1889, the first piece actively acquired by the Smithsonian now in the current NASM collection.",
"After the establishment of the museum, there was no one building that could hold all the items to be displayed, many obtained from the United States Army and United States Navy collections of domestic and captured aircraft from World War I.",
"Some pieces were on display in the Arts and Industries Building, some were stored in the Aircraft Building (also known as the \"Tin Shed\"), a large temporary metal shed in the Smithsonian Castle's south yard.",
"Larger missiles and rockets were displayed outdoors in what was known as Rocket Row.",
"The shed housed at large Martin bomber, a LePere fighter-bomber, and an Aeromarine 39B floatplane.",
"Still, much of the collection remained in storage due to a lack of display space.",
"The combination of the large numbers of aircraft donated to the Smithsonian after World War II and the need for hangar and factory space for the Korean War drove the Smithsonian to look for its own facility to store and restore aircraft.",
"The current Garber Facility was ceded to the Smithsonian by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1952 after the curator Paul E. Garber spotted the wooded area from the air.",
"Bulldozers from Fort Belvoir and prefabricated buildings from the United States Navy kept the initial costs low.",
"The space race in the 1950s and 1960s led to the renaming of the museum to the National Air and Space Museum, and finally congressional passage of appropriations for the construction of the new exhibition hall, which opened July 1, 1976 at the height of the United States Bicentennial festivities under the leadership of Director Michael Collins, who had flown to the Moon on Apollo 11.",
"The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center opened in 2003, funded by a private donation.",
"The museum received COSTAR, the corrective optics instrument installed in the Hubble Space Telescope during its first servicing mission (STS-61), when it was removed and returned to Earth after Space Shuttle mission STS-125.",
"The museum also holds the backup mirror for the Hubble which, unlike the one that was launched, was ground to the correct shape.",
"There were once plans for it to be installed to the Hubble itself, but plans to return the satellite to Earth were scrapped after the Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" disaster in 2003; the mission was re-considered as too risky.",
"The Smithsonian has also been promised the International Cometary Explorer, which is currently in a solar orbit that occasionally brings it back to Earth, should NASA attempt to recover it."
] |
[
0
] |
Flick
|
Is the flick a single stroke?
|
Table tennis
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
2
] |
[
"When a player tries to attack a ball that has not bounced beyond the edge of the table, the player does not have the room to wind up in a \"backswing\".",
"The ball \"may still be attacked\", however, and the resulting shot is called a flick because the backswing is compressed into a quick wrist action.",
"A flick is not a single stroke and can resemble either a drive or a loop in its characteristics.",
"What identifies the stroke is the backswing is compressed into a short wrist flick."
] |
[] |
Genetic hitchhiking
|
What is the rate of recombination?
|
Evolution
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
1
] |
[
"Recombination allows alleles on the same strand of DNA to become separated.",
"However, the rate of recombination is low (approximately two events per chromosome per generation).",
"As a result, genes close together on a chromosome may not always be shuffled away from each other and genes that are close together tend to be inherited together, a phenomenon known as linkage.",
"This tendency is measured by finding how often two alleles occur together on a single chromosome compared to expectations, which is called their linkage disequilibrium.",
"A set of alleles that is usually inherited in a group is called a haplotype.",
"This can be important when one allele in a particular haplotype is strongly beneficial: natural selection can drive a selective sweep that will also cause the other alleles in the haplotype to become more common in the population; this effect is called genetic hitchhiking or genetic draft.",
"Genetic draft caused by the fact that some neutral genes are genetically linked to others that are under selection can be partially captured by an appropriate effective population size."
] |
[
0
] |
Loans and Grants
|
Germany was supposed to repay how much of the Marshall plan aid?
|
Marshall Plan
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
9
] |
[
"The Marshall plan, just as GARIOA, consisted of aid both in the form of grants and in the form of loans.",
"Out of the total, 1.2 billion USD were loan-aid.",
"Ireland which received 146.2 million USD through the Marshall plan, received 128.2 million USD as loans, and the remaining 18 million USD as grants.",
"By 1969 the Irish Marshal plan debt, which was still being repaid, amounted to 31 million pounds, out of a total Irish foreign debt of 50 million pounds.",
"The UK received 385 million USD of its Marshall plan aid in the form of loans.",
"Unconnected to the Marshall plan the UK also received direct loans from the US amounting to 4.6 billion USD.",
"The proportion of Marshall plan loans versus Marshall plan grants was roughly 15% to 85% for both the UK and France.",
"Germany, which up until the 1953 Debt agreement had to work on the assumption that all the Marshall plan aid was to be repaid, spent its funds very carefully.",
"Payment for Marshall plan goods, \"counterpart funds\", were administered by the Reconstruction Credit Institute, which used the funds for loans inside Germany.",
"In the 1953 Debt agreement the amount of Marshall plan aid that Germany was to repay was reduced to less than 1 billion USD.",
"This made the proportion of loans versus grants to Germany similar to that of France and the UK.",
"The final German loan repayment was made in 1971.",
"Since Germany chose to repay the aid debt out of the German Federal budget, leaving the German ERP fund intact, the fund was able to continue its reconstruction work.",
"By 1996 it had accumulated a value of 23 billion Deutsche Mark."
] |
[
5
] |
Subject matter
|
Who is Van Gogh's brother?
|
The Starry Night
| false | 3ART
|
[
4
] |
[
"The center part shows the village of Saint-Rémy under a swirling sky, in a view from the asylum towards north.",
"The Alpilles far to the right fit to this view, but there is little rapport of the actual scene with the intermediary hills which seem to be derived from a different part of the surroundings, south of the asylum.",
"The cypress tree to the left was added into the composition.",
"Of note is the fact Van Gogh had already, during his time in Arles, repositioned Ursa Major from the north to the south in his painting \"Starry Night Over the Rhone\".",
"In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote of it: "
] |
[
3
] |
1960s
|
How much money for an autographed Campbell soup?
|
Andy Warhol
| true | 3ART
|
[
15
] |
[
"He began exhibiting his work during the 1950s.",
"He held exhibitions at the Hugo Gallery, and the Bodley Gallery in New York City and in California his first West Coast gallery exhibition was on July 9, 1962, in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles.",
"The exhibition marked his West Coast debut of pop art.",
"Andy Warhol's first New York solo pop art exhibition was hosted at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery November 6–24, 1962.",
"The exhibit included the works \"Marilyn Diptych\", \"100 Soup Cans\", \"100 Coke Bottles,\" and \"100 Dollar Bills\".",
"At the Stable Gallery exhibit, the artist met for the first time poet John Giorno who would star in Warhol's first film, \"Sleep\", in 1963.",
"It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American objects such as dollar bills, mushroom clouds, electric chairs, Campbell's Soup Cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali, and Elizabeth Taylor, as well as newspaper headlines or photographs of police dogs attacking civil rights protesters.",
"During these years, he founded his studio, \"The Factory\" and gathered about him a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities.",
"His work became popular and controversial.",
"Warhol had this to say about Coca Cola:New York's Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on pop art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for \"capitulating\" to consumerism.",
"Critics were scandalized by Warhol's open embrace of market culture.",
"This symposium set the tone for Warhol's reception.",
"Throughout the decade it became increasingly clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Warhol was at the center of that shift.",
"A pivotal event was the 1964 exhibit \"The American Supermarket\", a show held in Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery.",
"The show was presented as a typical U.S. small supermarket environment, except that everything in it—from the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc.—was created by six prominent pop artists of the time, among them the controversial (and like-minded) Billy Apple, Mary Inman, and Robert Watts.",
"Warhol's painting of a can of Campbell's soup cost $1,500 while each autographed can sold for $6.",
"The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both pop art and the perennial question of what art is.",
"As an advertisement illustrator in the 1950s, Warhol used assistants to increase his productivity.",
"Collaboration would remain a defining (and controversial) aspect of his working methods throughout his career; this was particularly true in the 1960s.",
"One of the most important collaborators during this period was Gerard Malanga.",
"Malanga assisted the artist with the production of silkscreens, films, sculpture, and other works at \"The Factory,\" Warhol's aluminum foil-and-silver-paint-lined studio on 47th Street (later moved to Broadway).",
"Other members of Warhol's Factory crowd included Freddie Herko, Ondine, Ronald Tavel, Mary Woronov, Billy Name, and Brigid Berlin (from whom he apparently got the idea to tape-record his phone conversations).",
"During the 1960s, Warhol also groomed a retinue of bohemian and counterculture eccentrics upon whom he bestowed the designation \"Superstars\", including Nico, Joe Dallesandro, Edie Sedgwick, Viva, Ultra Violet, Holly Woodlawn, Jackie Curtis, and Candy Darling.",
"These people all participated in the Factory films, and some—like Berlin—remained friends with Warhol until his death.",
"Important figures in the New York underground art/cinema world, such as writer John Giorno and film-maker Jack Smith, also appear in Warhol films of the 1960s, revealing Warhol's connections to a diverse range of artistic scenes during this time."
] |
[
5
] |
Health issues
|
Who said the area was environmentally safe when it wasn't?
|
September 11 attacks
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
13
] |
[
"Health issues.",
"Hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris containing more than 2,500 contaminants, including known carcinogens, were spread across Lower Manhattan due to the collapse of the Twin Towers.",
"Exposure to the toxins in the debris is alleged to have contributed to fatal or debilitating illnesses among people who were at ground zero.",
"The Bush administration ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue reassuring statements regarding air quality in the aftermath of the attacks, citing national security, but the EPA did not determine that air quality had returned to pre-September 11 levels until June 2002.",
"Health effects extended to residents, students, and office workers of Lower Manhattan and nearby Chinatown.",
"Several deaths have been linked to the toxic dust, and the victims' names were included in the World Trade Center memorial.",
"Approximately 18,000 people have been estimated to have developed illnesses as a result of the toxic dust.",
"There is also scientific speculation that exposure to various toxic products in the air may have negative effects on fetal development.",
"A notable children's environmental health center is currently analyzing the children whose mothers were pregnant during the WTC collapse, and were living or working nearby.",
"A study of rescue workers released in April 2010 found that all those studied had impaired lung functions, and that 30–40% were reporting little or no improvement in persistent symptoms that started within the first year of the attack.",
"Years after the attacks, legal disputes over the costs of illnesses related to the attacks were still in the court system.",
"On October 17, 2006, a federal judge rejected New York City's refusal to pay for health costs for rescue workers, allowing for the possibility of numerous suits against the city.",
"Government officials have been faulted for urging the public to return to lower Manhattan in the weeks shortly after the attacks.",
"Christine Todd Whitman, administrator of the EPA in the aftermath of the attacks, was heavily criticized by a U.S. District Judge for incorrectly saying that the area was environmentally safe.",
"Mayor Giuliani was criticized for urging financial industry personnel to return quickly to the greater Wall Street area.",
"The United States Congress passed the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act on December 22, 2010, and President Barack Obama signed the act into law on January 2, 2011.",
"It allocated $4.2 billion to create the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides testing and treatment for people suffering from long-term health problems related to the 9/11 attacks.",
"The WTC Health Program replaced preexisting 9/11-related health programs such as the Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the WTC Environmental Health Center program."
] |
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2,
3
] |
Reception
|
How long does the triple guitar solo that closes out "Free Bird" last?
|
Free Bird
| false | 0MUSIC
|
[
4
] |
[
"",
"\"Free Bird\" is included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and at number 193 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.",
"In 2009 it was named the 26th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.",
"The song—half ballad, half up-tempo guitar solo—quickly became a staple for Lynyrd Skynyrd at their live performances.",
"Many recognize its 5:12 triple guitar solo section that closes it out.",
"It often turned into an extended jam session at concerts.",
"The band would consistently play it as the last song of every show, as it was their biggest crowd pleaser.",
"Overall the song proved to be a huge hit for Lynyrd Skynyrd and it remains a fan favorite to this day.",
"It is also a classic rock radio staple.",
"Following the plane crash in 1977 in which several band members were killed, all of the songs played by surviving members were performed as instrumentals beginning with the Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam V in 1979.",
"When \"Free Bird\" came up, a solitary microphone with a single spotlight would be at center stage while the band played the instrumental version.",
"This tradition lasted until 1989, when an almost-rioting audience coerced Rossington to urge Johnny Van Zant to sing the song for the first time – something he had vowed never to do on stage during the Tribute Tour.",
"The current version has a shortened solo similar to the original studio version."
] |
[
5
] |
Abstract
|
What is human swimming?
|
Human swimming
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
0
] |
[
"Human swimming is the self propulsion of a person through water or other liquid, for survival, recreation, sport, exercise or other reason.",
"Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs, the body, or both.",
"Humans are able to hold their breath underwater and undertake rudimentary locomotive swimming within weeks of birth, as an evolutionary response.",
"Swimming is consistently found to be among the top recreational activities undertaken by the public, and in some countries, swimming lessons are a compulsory part of the educational curriculum.",
"As a formalized sport, swimming features in a range of local, national and international competitions, including featuring in every modern summer Olympics."
] |
[
0
] |
Chart performance
|
In what 1996 motion picture's soundtrack did the song "Jingle Bell Rock" appear?
|
Jingle Bell Rock
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
2
] |
[
"Helms's original version charted at No.",
"13 on \"Billboard\"'s Most Played C&W by Jockeys chart, a predecessor to the Hot Country Songs chart.",
"After it was featured on the soundtrack to the 1996 film \"Jingle All the Way\", the original version returned to the country charts in late 1996-early 1997, reaching a peak of No.",
"It also crossed to the pop charts, reaching #11 in the Cashbox Top 60, week ending January 11, 1958."
] |
[
0
] |
Production
|
What year did Frederic Tudor build his first ice cream factory?
|
Ice cream
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
18
] |
[
"Before the development of modern refrigeration, ice cream was a luxury reserved for special occasions.",
"Making it was quite laborious; ice was cut from lakes and ponds during the winter and stored in holes in the ground, or in wood-frame or brick ice houses, insulated by straw.",
"Many farmers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer.",
"Frederic Tudor of Boston turned ice harvesting and shipping into a big business, cutting ice in New England and shipping it around the world.",
"Ice cream was made by hand in a large bowl placed inside a tub filled with ice and salt.",
"This was called the pot-freezer method.",
"French confectioners refined the pot-freezer method, making ice cream in a sorbetière (a covered pail with a handle attached to the lid).",
"In the pot-freezer method, the temperature of the ingredients is reduced by the mixture of crushed ice and salt.",
"The salt water is cooled by the ice, and the action of the salt on the ice causes it to (partially) melt, absorbing latent heat and bringing the mixture below the freezing point of pure water.",
"The immersed container can also make better thermal contact with the salty water and ice mixture than it could with ice alone.",
"The hand-cranked churn, which also uses ice and salt for cooling, replaced the pot-freezer method.",
"The exact origin of the hand-cranked freezer is unknown, but the first U.S. patent for one was #3254 issued to Nancy Johnson on September 9, 1843.",
"The hand-cranked churn produced smoother ice cream than the pot freezer and did it quicker.",
"Many inventors patented improvements on Johnson's design.",
"In Europe and early America, ice cream was made and sold by small businesses, mostly confectioners and caterers.",
"Jacob Fussell of Baltimore, Maryland was the first to manufacture ice cream on a large scale.",
"Fussell bought fresh dairy products from farmers in York County, Pennsylvania, and sold them in Baltimore.",
"An unstable demand for his dairy products often left him with a surplus of cream, which he made into ice cream.",
"He built his first ice cream factory in Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, in 1851.",
"Two years later, he moved his factory to Baltimore.",
"Later, he opened factories in several other cities and taught the business to others, who operated their own plants.",
"Mass production reduced the cost of ice cream and added to its popularity.",
"The development of industrial refrigeration by German engineer Carl von Linde during the 1870s eliminated the need to cut and store natural ice, and, when the continuous-process freezer was perfected in 1926, commercial mass production of ice cream and the birth of the modern ice cream industry was underway.",
"The most common method for producing ice cream at home is to use an ice cream maker, in modern times, in general, an electrical device that churns the ice cream mixture while cooled inside a household freezer, or using a solution of pre-frozen salt and water, which gradually melts while the ice cream freezes.",
"Some more expensive models have an inbuilt freezing element.",
"A newer method of making home-made ice cream is to add liquid nitrogen to the mixture while stirring it using a spoon or spatula for a few seconds; a similar technique, advocated by Heston Blumenthal as ideal for home cooks, is to add dry ice to the mixture while stirring for a few minutes.",
"Some ice cream recipes call for making a custard, folding in whipped cream, and immediately freezing the mixture."
] |
[
0
] |
Equipment
|
What is the function of clipless pedals for cyclists?
|
Cycling
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
16
] |
[
"In many countries, the most commonly used vehicle for road transport is a utility bicycle.",
"These have frames with relaxed geometry, protecting the rider from shocks of the road and easing steering at low speeds.",
"Utility bicycles tend to be equipped with accessories such as mudguards, panier racks and lights which extends their usefulness on a daily basis.",
"As the bicycle is so effective as a means of transportation various companies have developed methods of carrying anything from the weekly shop to children on bicycles.",
"Certain countries around the world rely heavily on bicycles and their culture has developed around the bicycle as a primary form of transport.",
"In Europe Belgium and Holland are two of the biggest advocates and users of bicycles as a method of day to day transportation.",
"Road bikes tend to have a more upright shape and a shorter wheelbase, which make the bike more mobile but harder to ride slowly.",
"The design, coupled with low or dropped handlebars, requires the rider to bend forward more, utilizing stronger muscles (particularly the gluteus maximus) and reducing air resistance at high speed.",
"The price of a new bicycle can range from US$50 to more than US$20,000 (the highest priced bike in the world is the custom Madone by Damien Hirst, sold at $500,000 USD), depending on quality, type and weight (the most exotic road bicycles can weigh as little as 3.2 kg (7 lb)).",
"However, UCI regulations stipulates a legal race bike cannot weigh less than 6.8 kg (14.99 lbs).",
"Being measured for a bike and taking it for a test ride are recommended before buying.",
"The drivetrain components of the bike should also be considered.",
"A middle grade dérailleur is sufficient for a beginner, although many utility bikes come equipped with hub gears.",
"If the rider plans a significant amount of hillclimbing, a triple-crank (three chainrings) front gear system may be preferred.",
"Otherwise, the relatively lighter and less expensive two chainrings may be better.",
"Much simpler fixed wheel bikes are also available.",
"Many road bikes along with mountain bikes include clipless pedals to which special shoes attach, via a cleat, permitting the rider to pull on the pedals as well as push.",
"Other possible accessories for the bicycle include front and rear lights, bells or horns, child carrying seats, cycling computers with GPS, locks, bar tape, fenders (mud-guards), baggage racks, baggage carriers and pannier bags, water bottles and bottle cages.",
"For basic maintenance and repairs, cyclists can choose to carry a pump (or a CO2 cartridge), a puncture repair kit, a spare inner tube, and tire levers.",
"Cycling can be more efficient and comfortable with special shoes, gloves, and shorts.",
"In wet weather, riding can be more tolerable with waterproof clothes, such as cape, jacket, trousers (pants) and overshoes.",
"Items legally required in some jurisdictions, or voluntarily adopted for safety reasons, include bicycle helmets, generator or battery operated lights, reflectors, and audible signalling devices such as a bell or horn.",
"Extras include studded tires and a bicycle computer.",
"Bikes can also be heavily customized, with different seat designs and handle bars, for example."
] |
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0
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Alternative candidates
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What is the slopes degree for the capital gate tower?
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Leaning Tower of Pisa
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"Two German churches have challenged the tower's status as the world's most lop-sided building: the 15th-century square Leaning Tower of Suurhusen and the 14th-century bell tower in the town of Bad Frankenhausen.",
"\"Guinness World Records\" measured the Pisa and Suurhusen towers, finding the former's tilt to be 3.97 degrees.",
"In June 2010, \"Guinness World Records\" certified the Capital Gate building in Abu Dhabi, UAE as the \"World's Furthest Leaning Man-made Tower\".",
"The Capital Gate tower has an 18-degree slope, almost five times more than the Pisa Tower; however the Capital Gate tower has been deliberately engineered to slant.",
"The Leaning Tower of Wanaka in New Zealand, also deliberately built, leans at 53 degrees to the ground."
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0
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Release
|
Where is El Capital Theater in California?
|
Toy Story 3
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"",
"\"Toy Story 3\" had its world-wide premiere on June 12, 2010, opening at Taormina Film Fest in Italy.",
"In the United States, it premiered on June 13, 2010 at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California.",
"El Capitan also hosted on June 17, 2010 a \"Toy Story\" marathon, showing for the first time all three \"Toy Story\" films together.",
"The film went into its wide release on June 18, 2010, along with a release to IMAX 3D theaters.",
"The film was theatrically accompanied with the Pixar short film \"Day & Night\", which focuses on what happens when an animated personification of Day meets his opposite, Night, and the resulting growth for both."
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4
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In culture
|
Which professional Seattle sports team features the Space Need in their logo?
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Space Needle
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"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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[] |
Evolution of life
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How long have amphibians existed?
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Evolution
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" of life.",
"Prokaryotes inhabited the Earth from approximately 3–4 billion years ago.",
"*</ref> No obvious changes in morphology or cellular organisation occurred in these organisms over the next few billion years.",
"The eukaryotic cells emerged between 1.6 – 2.7 billion years ago.",
"The next major change in cell structure came when bacteria were engulfed by eukaryotic cells, in a cooperative association called endosymbiosis.",
"The engulfed bacteria and the host cell then underwent co-evolution, with the bacteria evolving into either mitochondria or hydrogenosomes.",
"Another engulfment of cyanobacterial-like organisms led to the formation of chloroplasts in algae and plants.",
"*</ref>The history of life was that of the unicellular eukaryotes, prokaryotes and archaea until about 610 million years ago when multicellular organisms began to appear in the oceans in the Ediacaran period.",
"The evolution of multicellularity occurred in multiple independent events, in organisms as diverse as sponges, brown algae, cyanobacteria, slime moulds and myxobacteria.",
"Soon after the emergence of these first multicellular organisms, a remarkable amount of biological diversity appeared over approximately 10 million years, in an event called the Cambrian explosion.",
"Here, the majority of types of modern animals appeared in the fossil record, as well as unique lineages that subsequently became extinct.",
"Various triggers for the Cambrian explosion have been proposed, including the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere from photosynthesis.",
"*</ref>About 500 million years ago, plants and fungi colonised the land and were soon followed by arthropods and other animals.",
"Insects were particularly successful and even today make up the majority of animal species.",
"Amphibians first appeared around 364 million years ago, followed by early amniotes and birds around 155 million years ago (both from \"reptile\"-like lineages), mammals around 129 million years ago, homininae around 10 million years ago and modern humans around 250,000 years ago.",
"However, despite the evolution of these large animals, smaller organisms similar to the types that evolved early in this process continue to be highly successful and dominate the Earth, with the majority of both biomass and species being prokaryotes."
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5
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Merchandise
|
In total, how many episodes did the first season of Glee have?
|
Glee (TV series)
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|
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] |
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"Three soundtrack albums were released to accompany \"Glee\" first season: ', ' and '.",
"Two extended plays (EP) accompanied the episodes \"The Power of Madonna\" and \"Journey to Regionals\": ' and ' respectively.",
"\"Glee: The Music, The Complete Season One\", a compilation album featuring all 100 studio recordings from the first season, was released exclusively to the iTunes Store.",
"Five soundtrack albums were released to accompany \"Glee\" second season: ', featuring Christmas-themed songs, and ', were both released in November 2010; ', ', and ' were 2011 releases, in March, April, and May, respectively.",
"An EP entitled \"\" was released to accompany the Halloween episode, \"The Rocky Horror Glee Show\".",
"Two EPs were released exclusively at the Target discount chain: \"Glee: The Music, Love Songs\" in the last week of 2010, and \"Glee: The Music, Dance Party\" in early September 2011.",
"\"Glee\" has been released on several DVD and Blu-ray box-sets.",
"\"Glee – Pilot Episode: Director's Cut\" features the pilot episode and a preview of the second episode, \"Showmance\".",
"\"Glee – Volume 1: Road to Sectionals\" contains the first thirteen episodes of season one, and \"Glee – Volume 2: Road to Regionals\" contains the final nine episodes of the first season.",
"\"Glee – The Complete First Season\" was released on September 13, 2010.",
"Three boxed sets were released for the second season: \"Glee Season 2: Volume 1\" containing the first ten episodes on January 25, 2011, and both \"Glee Season 2: Volume 2\" with the final twelve episode and \"Glee: The Complete Second Season\" with all twenty-two on September 13, 2011.",
"All three were released on DVD; only the complete season is available on Blu-ray.",
"Little, Brown Books is in the process of publishing five \"Glee\"–related young adult novels, which are being developed in collaboration with the show's producers and writers.",
"The first three novels have been written by Sophia Lowell; the first, \"Glee: The Beginning\", was released in August 2010 and serves as a prequel to the events of the television series.",
"Subsequent novels include \"Glee: Foreign Exchange\", released in February 2011, and \"Glee: Summer Break\", released in July 2011.",
"Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have plans for a line of \"Glee\"–related merchandise including games, electrical products, greeting cards, apparel and stationery.",
"Macy's carry a line of \"Glee\"–related clothing, and Claire's stock accessories."
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5
] |
Abstract
|
What family is cereal part of?
|
Cereal
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"A cereal is a grass, a member of the monocot family Poaceae, cultivated for the edible components of its grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis), composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.",
"Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more food energy worldwide than any other type of crop; they are therefore staple crops.",
"In their natural form (as in \"whole grain\"), they are a rich source of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, oils, and protein.",
"However, when refined by the removal of the bran and germ, the remaining endosperm is mostly carbohydrate and lacks the majority of the other nutrients.",
"In some developing nations, grain in the form of rice, wheat, millet, or maize constitutes a majority of daily sustenance.",
"In developed nations, cereal consumption is moderate and varied but still substantial.",
"The word \"cereal\" derives from \"Ceres\", the name of the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture."
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[
0
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Health issues
|
What was Mayor Giuliani criticized for?
|
September 11 attacks
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"Health issues.",
"Hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris containing more than 2,500 contaminants, including known carcinogens, were spread across Lower Manhattan due to the collapse of the Twin Towers.",
"Exposure to the toxins in the debris is alleged to have contributed to fatal or debilitating illnesses among people who were at ground zero.",
"The Bush administration ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue reassuring statements regarding air quality in the aftermath of the attacks, citing national security, but the EPA did not determine that air quality had returned to pre-September 11 levels until June 2002.",
"Health effects extended to residents, students, and office workers of Lower Manhattan and nearby Chinatown.",
"Several deaths have been linked to the toxic dust, and the victims' names were included in the World Trade Center memorial.",
"Approximately 18,000 people have been estimated to have developed illnesses as a result of the toxic dust.",
"There is also scientific speculation that exposure to various toxic products in the air may have negative effects on fetal development.",
"A notable children's environmental health center is currently analyzing the children whose mothers were pregnant during the WTC collapse, and were living or working nearby.",
"A study of rescue workers released in April 2010 found that all those studied had impaired lung functions, and that 30–40% were reporting little or no improvement in persistent symptoms that started within the first year of the attack.",
"Years after the attacks, legal disputes over the costs of illnesses related to the attacks were still in the court system.",
"On October 17, 2006, a federal judge rejected New York City's refusal to pay for health costs for rescue workers, allowing for the possibility of numerous suits against the city.",
"Government officials have been faulted for urging the public to return to lower Manhattan in the weeks shortly after the attacks.",
"Christine Todd Whitman, administrator of the EPA in the aftermath of the attacks, was heavily criticized by a U.S. District Judge for incorrectly saying that the area was environmentally safe.",
"Mayor Giuliani was criticized for urging financial industry personnel to return quickly to the greater Wall Street area.",
"The United States Congress passed the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act on December 22, 2010, and President Barack Obama signed the act into law on January 2, 2011.",
"It allocated $4.2 billion to create the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides testing and treatment for people suffering from long-term health problems related to the 9/11 attacks.",
"The WTC Health Program replaced preexisting 9/11-related health programs such as the Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program and the WTC Environmental Health Center program."
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[
0
] |
Harold moves south
|
Where did Harold briefly stop before moving on Hastings?
|
Battle of Hastings
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"After defeating his brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada in the north, Harold left much of his forces in the north, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest of his army south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion.",
"It is unclear when Harold learned of William's landing, but it was probably while he was travelling south.",
"Harold stopped in London, and was there for about a week before Hastings, so it is likely that he spent about a week on his march south, averaging about per day, for the approximately .",
"Harold camped at Caldbec Hill on the night of 13 October, near what was described as a \"hoar-apple tree\".",
"This location was about from William's castle at Hastings.",
"Some of the early contemporary French accounts mention an emissary or emissaries sent by Harold to William, which is likely.",
"Nothing came of these efforts.",
"Although Harold attempted to surprise the Normans, William's scouts reported the English arrival to the duke.",
"The exact events preceding the battle are obscure, with contradictory accounts in the sources, but all agree that William led his army from his castle and advanced towards the enemy.",
"Harold had taken a defensive position at the top of Senlac Hill (present-day Battle, East Sussex), about from William's castle at Hastings."
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4
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Filming
|
In modern family, what neighborhood is the Dunphys' house in?
|
Modern Family
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[
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."
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[
0
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Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
|
Where was the Ptolemaic Kingdom located based on modern geography?
|
Egypt
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"The Ptolemaic Kingdom was a powerful Hellenistic state, extending from southern Syria in the east, to Cyrene to the west, and south to the frontier with Nubia.",
"Alexandria became the capital city and a center of Greek culture and trade.",
"To gain recognition by the native Egyptian populace, they named themselves as the successors to the Pharaohs.",
"The later Ptolemies took on Egyptian traditions, had themselves portrayed on public monuments in Egyptian style and dress, and participated in Egyptian religious life.",
"The last ruler from the Ptolemaic line was Cleopatra VII, who committed suicide following the burial of her lover Mark Antony who had died in her arms (from a self-inflicted stab wound), after Octavian had captured Alexandria and her mercenary forces had fled.",
"The Ptolemies faced rebellions of native Egyptians often caused by an unwanted regime and were involved in foreign and civil wars that led to the decline of the kingdom and its annexation by Rome.",
"Nevertheless Hellenistic culture continued to thrive in Egypt well after the Muslim conquest.",
"Christianity was brought to Egypt by Saint Mark the Evangelist in the 1st century.",
"Diocletian's reign marked the transition from the Roman to the Byzantine era in Egypt, when a great number of Egyptian Christians were persecuted.",
"The New Testament had by then been translated into Egyptian.",
"After the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, a distinct Egyptian Coptic Church was firmly established."
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4
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Architecture
|
Who designed the museum?
|
National Air and Space Museum
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[
1
] |
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"Because of the museum's close proximity to the United States Capitol, the Smithsonian wanted a building that would be architecturally impressive but would not stand out too boldly against the Capitol building.",
"St. Louis-based architect Gyo Obata of HOK designed the museum as four simple marble-encased cubes containing the smaller and more theatrical exhibits, connected by three spacious steel-and-glass atria which house the larger exhibits such as missiles, airplanes and spacecraft.",
"The mass of the museum is similar to the National Gallery of Art across the National Mall, and uses the same pink Tennessee marble as the National Gallery.",
"Built by Gilbane Building Company, the museum was completed in 1976.",
"The west glass wall of the building is used for the installation of airplanes, functioning as a giant door.",
"Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum also designed the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia."
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3
] |
Foreign relations and military
|
What are the unified Canadian Forces?
|
Canada
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1
] |
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"Canada currently employs a professional, volunteer military force of 68,250 active personnel and approximately 47,081 reserve personnel.",
"The unified Canadian Forces (CF) comprise the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force.",
"In 2011, Canada's military expenditure totalled approximately C$24.5 billion.",
"Canada and the United States share the world's longest undefended border, co-operate on military campaigns and exercises, and are each other's largest trading partner.",
"Canada nevertheless has an independent foreign policy, most notably maintaining full relations with Cuba and declining to officially participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.",
"Canada also maintains historic ties to the United Kingdom and France and to other former British and French colonies through Canada's membership in the Commonwealth of Nations and the Francophonie.",
"Canada is noted for having a positive relationship with the Netherlands, owing, in part, to its contribution to the Dutch liberation during World War II.",
"Canada's strong attachment to the British Empire and Commonwealth led to major participation in British military efforts in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.",
"Since then, Canada has been an advocate for multilateralism, making efforts to resolve global issues in collaboration with other nations.",
"Canada was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and of NATO in 1949.",
"During the Cold War, Canada was a major contributor to UN forces in the Korean War and founded the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in co-operation with the United States to defend against potential aerial attacks from the Soviet Union.",
"During the Suez Crisis of 1956, future Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson eased tensions by proposing the inception of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force, for which he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize.",
"As this was the first UN peacekeeping mission, Pearson is often credited as the inventor of the concept.",
"Canada has since served in 50 peacekeeping missions, including every UN peacekeeping effort until 1989, and has since maintained forces in international missions in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere; Canada has sometimes faced controversy over its involvement in foreign countries, notably in the 1993 Somalia Affair.",
"Canada joined the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1990 and hosted the OAS General Assembly in Windsor, Ontario, in June 2000 and the third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April 2001.",
"Canada seeks to expand its ties to Pacific Rim economies through membership in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC).",
"In 2001, Canada deployed troops to Afghanistan as part of the US stabilization force and the UN-authorized, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.",
"In all, Canada lost 158 soldiers, one diplomat, two aid workers, and one journalist during the ten year mission, which cost approximately C$11.3 billion.",
"In February 2007, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Russia announced their joint commitment to a $1.5-billion project to help develop vaccines for developing nations, and called on other countries to join them.",
"In August 2007, Canada's territorial claims in the Arctic were challenged after a Russian underwater expedition to the North Pole; Canada has considered that area to be sovereign territory since 1925.",
"Between March and October 2011, Canadian forces participated in a UN-mandated NATO intervention into the 2011 Libyan civil war."
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[
0
] |
Battle
|
What were the stages of the Battle of Red Cliffs?
|
Battle of Red Cliffs
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[
0
] |
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"The Battle of Red Cliffs unfolded in three stages: an initial skirmish at Red Cliffs followed by a retreat to the Wulin (烏林) battlefields on the northwestern bank of the Yangtze, a decisive naval engagement, and Cao Cao's disastrous retreat along Huarong Road.",
"The combined Sun-Liu force sailed upstream from either Xiakou or Fankou to Red Cliffs, where they encountered Cao Cao's vanguard force.",
"Plagued by disease and low morale due to the series of forced marches they had undertaken on the prolonged southern campaign , Cao Cao's men could not gain an advantage in the small skirmish which ensued, so Cao Cao retreated to Wulin (north of the Yangtze River) and the allies pulled back to the south .",
"Cao Cao had chained his ships from stem to stern, possibly aiming to reduce seasickness in his navy, which comprised mostly northerners who were not used to living on ships.",
"Observing this, divisional commander Huang Gai sent Cao Cao a letter feigning surrender and prepared a squadron of capital ships described as \"mengchong doujian\" (蒙衝鬥艦).",
"The ships had been converted into fire ships by filling them with bundles of kindling, dry reeds, and fatty oil.",
"As Huang Gai's \"defecting\" squadron approached the midpoint of the river, the sailors applied fire to the ships before taking to small boats.",
"The unmanned fire ships, carried by the southeastern wind, sped towards Cao Cao's fleet and set it ablaze.",
"Within a short time smoke and flames stretched across the sky, and a large number of men and horses either burned to death or drowned .",
"Following the initial shock, Zhou Yu and the allies led a lightly armed force to capitalise on the assault.",
"The northern army was thrown into confusion and was utterly defeated.",
"Seeing the situation was hopeless, Cao Cao then issued a general order of retreat and destroyed a number of his remaining ships before withdrawing .",
"Cao Cao's army attempted a retreat along Huarong Road, including a long stretch passing through marshlands north of Dongting Lake.",
"Heavy rains had reduced the track to a thick mire, making the road so treacherous that many of the sick soldiers had to carry bundles of grass on their backs and use them to fill the road, to allow the horsemen to cross.",
"Many of these soldiers drowned in the mud or were trampled to death in the effort.",
"To the misery of Cao Cao's army, the allies, led by Zhou Yu and Liu Bei, gave chase over land and water until they reached Nan Commandery (南郡; present-day Jiangling County, Jingzhou, Hubei); combined with famine and disease, this decimated Cao Cao's remaining forces.",
"Cao Cao then retreated north to his home base of Ye (in present-day Handan, Hebei), leaving Cao Ren and Xu Huang to guard Jiangling, Yue Jin stationed in Xiangyang, and Man Chong in Dangyang .",
"The allied counterattack might have vanquished Cao Cao and his forces entirely.",
"However, the crossing of the Yangtze River dissolved into chaos as the allied armies converged on the riverbank and fought over the limited number of ferries.",
"To restore order, a detachment led by Sun Quan's general Gan Ning established a bridgehead in Yiling to the north, and only a staunch rearguard action by Cao Ren prevented further catastrophe (; )."
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[
0
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Religion
|
The majority of Catholic population are in which state?
|
United States
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"The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion and forbids Congress from passing laws respecting its establishment.",
"Christianity is by far the most common religion practiced in the U.S., but other religions are followed, too.",
"In a 2013 survey, 56% of Americans said that religion played a \"very important role in their lives\", a far higher figure than that of any other wealthy nation.",
"In a 2009 Gallup poll 42% of Americans said that they attended church weekly or almost weekly; the figures ranged from a low of 23% in Vermont to a high of 63% in Mississippi.",
"According to a 2012 survey, 73% of adults identified themselves as Christian, down from 86.4% in 1990.",
"Protestant denominations accounted for 48%, while Roman Catholicism, at 22%, was the largest individual denomination.",
"The total reporting non-Christian religions in 2012 was 6%, up from 4% in 2007.",
"Other religions include Judaism (1.7%), Buddhism (0.7%), Islam (0.6%), Hinduism (0.4%), and Unitarian Universalism (0.3%).",
"The survey also reported that 19.6% of Americans described themselves as agnostic, atheist or simply having no religion, up from 8.2% in 1990.",
"There are also Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, Taoist, Druid, Native American, Wiccan, humanist and deist communities.",
"Protestantism is the largest group of religions in the United States, with Baptists being the largest Protestant sect, and the Southern Baptist Convention being the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. Roman Catholicism in the U.S. has its origin in the Spanish and French colonization of the Americas, and later grew due to Irish, Italian, Polish, German and Hispanic immigration.",
"Rhode Island is the only state where the majority of the population is Catholic.",
"Lutheranism in the U.S. has its origin in immigration from Northern Europe.",
"North and South Dakota are the only states in which a plurality of the population is Lutheran.",
"Utah is the only state where Mormonism is the religion of the majority of the population.",
"Mormonism is also relatively common in parts of Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.",
"The Bible Belt is an informal term for a region in the Southern United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is generally higher than the nation's average.",
"By contrast, religion plays the least important role in New England and in the Western United States.",
"As with other Western countries, the U.S. is becoming less religious.",
"Irreligion is growing rapidly among Americans under 30.",
"Polls show that overall American confidence in organized religion is declining, and that younger Americans in particular are becoming increasingly irreligious."
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[] |
Synopsis
|
What happens at the end of the David Guetta music video "Turn Me On"?
|
Turn Me On (David Guetta song)
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"Set in a steampunk world, Guetta plays a mad scientist creating his very own Nicki Minaj from mechanical parts.",
"The clip opens on Guetta, perhaps trying out some early cosmetic-surgery tactics, putting the final touches on his Minaj doll plans.",
"Then it focuses on the mechanisms behind the Nicki being: latex lips, brass wiring, tubing and various other gizmos.",
"As the song hits the chorus for the first time, fans get a view of his creation.",
"Her plastic skin is shiny and completely bare as she slowly transforms into the very human-looking Nicki.",
"Seemingly pleased with his creation, Guetta unleashes it onto the world.",
"The entrance to the second verse shows Minaj, dressed in a long black dress, black top hat and shocking pink hip-length hair, leaving Guetta's studio through two black gates and is now free to roam the streets, filled with other doll-like creatures who can't help but stare at Guetta's incredibly lifelike creation.",
"With Minaj continuing her journey through town, the other jealous doll creatures make their way to Guetta's lab, where he begins to work on them too, giving them more lifelike appearances.",
"The female creatures then discover that he is a doll himself, however, his interior resembles chainmail.",
"The female dolls then start to feel him.",
"Meanwhile, Nicki is surrounded by the male dolls as she belts out the song.",
"As the video finishes, Minaj is spotted riding her horse around town, as the female dolls make their escape from Guetta's place of business."
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[
0
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Cable
|
The show NCIS ranked where on the Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending March 1, 2009?
|
NCIS (TV series)
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" The show ranked number eighteen (4.793 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending January 25, 2009.",
" The show ranked number ten (4.535 million viewers), twelve (4.264 million viewers), thirteen (4.221 million viewers), fifteen (4,161 million viewers), seventeen (4.132 million viewers), and twenty (4.081 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending March 1, 2009.",
" The show ranked sixteen (4.091 million viewers), seventeen (4.084 million viewers), eighteen (4.072 million viewers), and twenty (4.006 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending March 29, 2009.",
" The show ranked number five (4.492 million viewers), six (4.467 million viewers), eight (4.394 million viewers), nine (4.214 million viewers), fifteen (3.962 million viewers), and seventeen (3.8.58 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top twenty most-watched cable shows for the week ending May 3, 2009.",
" The show ranked number three (4.82 million viewers), six (4.38 million viewers), ten (3.82 million viewers), eleven (3.88 million viewers), and fourteen (3.87 million viewers) in the list of Nielsen ratings top fifteen most-watched cable shows for the week ending November 1, 2009.",
"2/25/13 to 3/03/13 [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-05/u-s-cable-television-ratings-for-the-week-ended-march-3.html]"
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[
4
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Reception
|
What is the highest amount of cameras used Hell's Kitchen?
|
Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series)
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[
1
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[
"Analyst Arthur Perkins credits the show's success with four factors:",
"Numerous cameras (up to 72) allow tight editing and capturing every action",
"A \"confessional booth\" reveals insights into competitors' characters",
"Ramsay's \"\"enfant terrible\"\" personality, impeccable credentials, and overall showmanship",
"Casting relatively unknown chefs",
"Perkins compared Ramsay's unusual showmanship to that of P. T. Barnum of the famed Ringling Brothers circus:"
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
Who originally performed 'All I want for Christmas is You?'
|
All I Want for Christmas Is You
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[
0
] |
[
"\"All I Want for Christmas Is You\" is a song originally performed by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey.",
"It was released by Columbia Records in 1994 as the lead single from her fourth studio album, \"Merry Christmas\".",
"Carey co-wrote and co-produced the song with Walter Afanasieff.",
"An uptempo love song, the instrumentation includes bell chimes and heavy back-up vocals, as well as use of synthesizers.",
"The song's lyrics declare that the protagonist does not care about Christmas presents or lights; all she wants for Christmas is to be united with her lover for the holidays.",
"Two music videos were commissioned for the song, both being filmed during the month of December 1993.",
"The song's primary music video features grainy home footage of Carey, her dogs and family during the holiday season, as well as Carey dressed in a Santa suit frolicking on a snowy mountainside.",
"Then husband Tommy Mottola makes a cameo appearance as Santa Claus, bringing Carey a gift and leaving on a red sleigh.",
"The second video was filmed in black and white format, and features Carey dressed in 1960s style, while paying homage to The Ronettes, alongside back up singers and male dancers.",
"Carey performed \"All I Want for Christmas is You\" during a slew of live television appearances and tours throughout her career.",
"She first sang it live during the Japanese leg of her Daydream World Tour (1996), Butterfly World Tour (1998) and (2003–04), as well as the Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade in 2004 and 2010.",
"Both live appearances were aired on ABC.",
"So So Def released a remix version in 2000, and a dance mix in 2009.",
"In 2010, Carey re-recorded the song for her second holiday album, \"Merry Christmas II You\", titled \"All I Want for Christmas Is You (Extra Festive)\".",
"In 2011, Carey re-recorded the song as duet with Justin Bieber, titled \"All I Want for Christmas for You (SuperFestive!)\".",
"The song has also been covered by many artists over the years, including Demi Lovato, Shania Twain, Michael Bublé, The Cheetah Girls, Cee Lo Green with Big Time Rush, Lady Antebellum, Nota, Miley Cyrus, The Electrical Fire, Atomic Tom, John Mayer and \"Glee\"'s Amber Riley.",
"Critically, \"All I Want for Christmas Is You\" has been lauded, with \"The New Yorker\" calling it \"one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon\".",
"The song was commercially successful, reaching the No.",
"2 position on the singles charts of Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom, and the top 10 in several other countries.",
"It became the nineteenth-best-selling digital single of the 20th century, the highest-charting entry by a female or holiday song on the list.",
"\"The Daily Telegraph\" hailed \"All I Want for Christmas Is You\" as the most popular and most played Christmas song of the decade in the United Kingdom.",
"\"Rolling Stone\" ranked it fourth on its Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs list, calling it a \"holiday standard.\"",
"With global sales of over 14 million copies, the song remains Carey's biggest international hit and one of the best-selling singles of all time."
] |
[
3
] |
Types of matches
|
What is the purpose of a "declaration match" in the game of Cricket?
|
Cricket
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
7
] |
[
"Cricket is a multi-faceted sport with multiple formats based around playing standard and level of formality and the desired time that the match should last.",
"A pertinent division in terms of professional cricket is between matches limited by time in which the teams have two innings apiece, and those limited by number of overs, in which they have a single innings each.",
"The former, known as first-class cricket, has a duration of three to five days (there have been examples of \"timeless\" matches too); the latter, known as limited overs cricket because each team bowls a limit of typically 50 or 20 overs, has a planned duration of one day only (a match can be extended if necessary due to bad weather, etc.",
"Typically, two-innings matches have at least six hours of playing time each day.",
"Limited overs matches often last six hours or more.",
"There are usually formal intervals on each day for lunch and tea with brief informal breaks for drinks.",
"There is also a short interval between innings.",
"Amateur cricketers rarely play matches that last longer than a single day; these may loosely be divided into declaration matches, in which a specified maximum time or number of overs is assigned to the game in total and the teams swap roles only when the batting team is either completely dismissed or declares; and limited overs matches, in which a specified maximum number of overs is assigned for each team's innings individually.",
"These will vary in length between 30 and 60 overs per side at the weekend and the ever popular 20 over format during the evenings.",
"Other forms of cricket, such as indoor cricket and garden cricket remain popular.",
"Historically, a form of cricket known as single wicket had been extremely successful and many of these contests in the 18th and 19th centuries qualify as major cricket matches.",
"In this form, although each team may have from one to six players, there is only one batsman at a time and he must face every delivery bowled while his innings lasts.",
"Single wicket has rarely been played since limited overs cricket began."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What does Jackie juggle daily?
|
Nurse Jackie
| true | 1TV
|
[
3
] |
[
"Nurse Jackie is an American medical dark satirical comedy-drama series.",
"It premiered on Showtime, Movie Central, and The Movie Network, on June 8, 2009.",
"The show stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency department nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City.",
"For Jackie, \"every day is a high wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions.\"",
"-->"
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
Who stared in Life is Beautiful?
|
Life Is Beautiful
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
0
] |
[
"Life Is Beautiful () is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni.",
"Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who must employ his fertile imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp.",
"Part of the film came from Benigni's own family history; before Roberto's birth, his father had survived three years of internment at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.",
"The film was a critical and financial success, winning Benigni the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 71st Academy Awards as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film."
] |
[
3
] |
Hollywood Boulevard
|
Where is Disney Hollywood Studio entrance? What parades go down Hollywood Boulevard?
|
Disney's Hollywood Studios
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
0,
1
] |
[
"Hollywood Boulevard serves as the park's main entrance and is lined with themed streetscape facades and venues selling Disney merchandise and park services.",
"Parades such as the Pixar Block Party Bash travel down Hollywood Boulevard on their route through the park, and live street entertainment can be found here throughout the day.",
"Michael Eisner, who had a major part in the park's creation ever since the earliest development, demanded the opening land operate on the same principle as Main Street, U.S.A. but in a style more fitting to the Studios.",
"At the far end of Hollywood Boulevard stands the Sorcerer's Hat, the park's landmark icon.",
"Behind the structure, resides a replica landmark building of the The Chinese Theater which houses the The Great Movie Ride, a dark ride paying homage to several classic films, including \"Singing in the Rain\", \"The Wizard of Oz\" and \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\".",
"Within proximity to Hollywood Boulevard, near the entrance of Animation Courtyard, resides The Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, a themed replica of the original Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood, California."
] |
[
4,
0
] |
Alleged copyright infringement
|
Who sued Fox in 2006?
|
Prison Break
| true | 1TV
|
[
0
] |
[
"On October 24, 2006, the Associated Press reported that Donald and Robert Hughes filed a lawsuit against Fox Broadcasting Company and the show's executive producer and creator, Paul Scheuring, for copyright infringement, seeking unspecified damages and other costs.",
"They claimed that in 2001, they had sent Fox their manuscript which was based on their own experiences of a prison break at a juvenile facility.",
"In the 1960s, Donald Hughes planned and successfully executed a prison escape for his brother, Robert Hughes, who was wrongfully incarcerated."
] |
[
3
] |
Commercial performance
|
This song topped the Hot Dance Club songs chart in what year?
|
Wide Awake (Katy Perry song)
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|
[
8
] |
[
"Upon the release of \"Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection\", \"Wide Awake\" made its first appearance on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 19 based on digital sales alone.",
"After Perry's performance on the 2012 Billboard Music Awards, it debuted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 at number 35 as the second highest debut of the week, behind Philip Philips' \"Home\".",
"The same week, the song debuted on multiple \"Billboard\" component charts - at number 29 on the Pop Songs and 35 on the Adult Pop Songs charts.",
"For the chart issue dated June 4, 2012, \"Wide Awake\" debuted at number 50 on the Dance/Club Play Songs chart as well as moving 5 spots on the Pop songs chart to number 20.",
"The song reached the summit on the week of August 4, 2012.",
"On June 13, 2012, the single moved ten positions to nine on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and has sold 402,000 downloads.",
"The following week, the single reached number 4, and on the chart dated August 11, 2012, it peaked at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, making the song Perry's eighth consecutive single to reach the top 3 of the chart since \"California Gurls\", as well as her first song to peak in the runner-up position.",
"It was kept off the top spot by Carly Rae Jepsen's \"Call Me Maybe\".",
"On the week August 4, 2012, the song topped the Hot Dance Club Songs chart, making her tenth consecutive number-one on the chart since 2009's \"Waking Up in Vegas\", extending her own record.",
"On the \"Pop Songs\" chart, it is her ninth number-one single tied with Rihanna as artists with most number one on chart.",
"The song has sold over 3,074,841 downloads in the US as of 2013.",
"In Australia, the song debuted at number 26 on the Australian Singles Chart, and peaked at number 4, position it stayed in for three weeks.",
"In New Zealand, the song debuted at number 32, and peaked at number 1 on July 1, 2012, making it Perry's seventh single from the album \"Teenage Dream\" to peak inside the top ten, and her sixth song from the \"Teenage Dream\" era to take out the number one spot.",
"The song was then certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ).",
"The song is the eighth song from \"Teenage Dream\" to enter the top ten, and the ninth consecutive top ten single since \"Waking Up in Vegas\" and its eleventh top ten overall.",
"The song makes Perry the female artist with the most number ones on New Zealand (eight), passing the previous record of Mariah Carey with seven number 1 singles.",
"In Canada, the song peaked at number 1, becoming her eighth single to do so.",
"The song became the 21st best selling single in New Zealand of 2012.",
"In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number 69 on the UK Singles Chart, due to strong downloads in April 2012.",
"The song then re-entered at number 74 in May 2012.",
"It has currently peaked at number 9, selling 24,545 copies in that country.",
"In Ireland, the song launched at number 30 and is currently peaking at number 6."
] |
[
0
] |
Medicine in space
|
What is an example of a medical study being conducted in space by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute?
|
NASA
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|
[
3
] |
[
"Scientific research.",
"Medicine in space.",
"A variety of large-scale medical studies are being conducted in space by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).",
"Prominent among these is the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity Study, in which astronauts (including former ISS Commanders Leroy Chiao and Gennady Padalka) perform ultrasound scans under the guidance of remote experts to diagnose and potentially treat hundreds of medical conditions in space.",
"Usually there is no physician on board the International Space Station, and diagnosis of medical conditions is challenging.",
"Astronauts are susceptible to a variety of health risks including decompression sickness, barotrauma, immunodeficiencies, loss of bone and muscle, orthostatic intolerance due to volume loss, sleep disturbances, and radiation injury.",
"Ultrasound offers a unique opportunity to monitor these conditions in space.",
"This study's techniques are now being applied to cover professional and Olympic sports injuries as well as ultrasound performed by non-expert operators in populations such as medical and high school students.",
"It is anticipated that remote guided ultrasound will have application on Earth in emergency and rural care situations, where access to a trained physician is often rare."
] |
[
0
] |
Thailand
|
Is there more than one ype of Thai sausage?
|
Sausage
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
0
] |
[
"There are many varieties of sausages known to Thai cuisine, some of which are specialities of a specific region of Thailand.",
"From northern Thailand comes \"sai ua\", a grilled minced pork sausage flavored with curry paste and fresh herbs.",
"Another grilled sausage is called \"sai krok Isan\", a fermented sausage with a distinctive slightly sour taste from northeastern Thailand (the region also known as Isan).",
"Both sausages are commonly eaten with sticky rice, fresh vegetables, and a fresh \"nam phrik\" (Thai chilli paste) or some raw bird's eye chilies.",
"They might also be served together with a refreshing Thai salad such as \"som tum\" (green papaya salad).",
"Also very popular in Thailand is \"naem\", a raw fermented pork sausage similar to the Vietnamese \"nem chua\" and Laotian \"som moo\".",
"This variety of sausage is often encountered as \"yam naem\" and \"naem khluk\", both of which are Thai salads.",
"Adopted from Vietnam comes \"mu yo\".",
"It is somewhat similar in taste and texture to liverwurst and, served with a \"nam chim\" (Thai dipping sauce), a popular snack in Thailand.",
"It too can be used as an ingredient for Thai salads and as a meat ingredient in, for instance, Thai soups.",
"\"Kun chiang\" is a dry and sweet Chinese sausage which has also been incorporated into the Thai culinary culture.",
"Known as \"lap cheong\" by Cantonese, in Thailand it is most often used, again, as an ingredient for a Thai salad, \"yam kun chiang\", one that is normally only eaten together with \"khao tom kui\", a plain rice congee.",
"A host of modern, factory-made, sausages have become popular as snacks in recent years.",
"These most often resemble hot-dogs and frankfurters and are commonly sold grilled or deep-fried at street stalls, and served with a sweet, sticky and slightly spicy soy-based sauce."
] |
[] |
Team
|
How many skiers participate in the Nordic combined event?
|
Nordic combined
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|
[
0
] |
[
"The team event consists of four skiers starting from the ski jump with one jump each, then moving onward to cross-country skiing in a 4 x 5 km relay.",
"The Gundersen point total for this as of 2008 has been 1 point equals 1.33 seconds or 45 points per minute.",
"It is a pursuit start similar to the individual events.",
"When the event debuted in the 1980s, the event was a 3 x 10 km team event, but that changed following Japan's successes at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1993 in Falun and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where the country won by almost four minutes and almost five minutes respectively.",
"The event became a 4 x 5 km team at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay, Ontario where it remained; however, in the 2012-13 season, a 2 x 7.5 km team event has been introduced, in which 2-man teams complete one jump each and then a series of 1.5 km legs of cross-country skiing are run: thus far, it has led to some close finishes."
] |
[
5
] |
Critical reception
|
Kemp gave the film a rating of what?
|
Before Midnight (film)
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|
[
8
] |
[
"Like its two predecessors, \"Before Midnight\" received widespread critical acclaim.",
"Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 98% based on reviews from 172 critics, with an average rating of 8.7/10.",
"The site's consensus is: \"Building on the first two installments in Richard Linklater's well-crafted Before trilogy, \"Before Midnight\" offers intelligent, powerfully acted perspectives on love, marriage, and long-term commitment.\"",
"Metacritic gives the film a score of 94 based on reviews from 41 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim\".",
"It was listed as the third best film of the year after \"12 Years a Slave\" and \"Gravity\".",
"It was the second best reviewed film of 2013 according to Rotten Tomatoes, after Alfonso Cuarón's \"Gravity\".",
"According to Total Film's Philip Kemp, \"As with its two predecessors—and with the films of French New Wave director Éric Rohmer, presiding deity of this kind of cinema—\"Midnight\"'s essentially a film about people talking.",
"But when the talk's this good, this absorbing and revealing and witty and true, who's going to complain?\"",
"Kemp gave the film five out of five stars and called it a \"more-than-worthy, expectations-exceeding chapter in one of modern cinema's finest love stories.",
"As honest, convincing, funny, intimate and natural as its predecessors.",
"\"Perry Seibert of AllMovie also praised the film, writing: \"The screenwriting trio fill the movie with long, discursive conversations (there are only two scenes in the first 20 minutes) that feel utterly improvised when they are performed, but are far too deftly structured to be anything other than the work of consummate artists.\"",
"Eric Kohn, from \"Indiewire\", gave the film rave reviews, adding it to his list of Top 10 Films of 2013.",
"He wrote that \"With \"Before Midnight\", Richard Linklater has completed one of the finest movie trilogies of all time.\""
] |
[
0
] |
Season 5
|
Why was a live episode of the show broadcast twice on the evening of October 14, 2010?
|
30 Rock
| true | 1TV
|
[
3
] |
[
"",
"\"30 Rock\" premiered its fifth season on September 23, 2010 in the Thursday 8:30 p.m. time slot.",
"An episode of 30 Rock's fifth season was filmed and broadcast live, twice, on the evening of October 14, 2010.",
"The two separate recordings resulted in a live telecast of the episode to American viewers in both the West and East Coast, to ensure both would view a live performance.",
"Filmed in front of a live audience, the episode aired at 8:30 pm EDT and PDT on NBC.",
"A ratings success, the episode was also met with positive reviews.",
"\"30 Rock\" moved to the 10/9c from January 20, 2011.",
"Season 5 focuses on Liz Lemon's continuing relationship with Carol Burnett (Matt Damon), Jack's start into fatherhood with fiancée Avery (Elizabeth Banks), struggling with the merger of NBCUniversal with Kabletown, Tracy's foray into getting an EGOT, and Kenneth's attempt to get back to NBC.",
"Aside from featuring the return of Rachel Dratch in the Live Show, other guest stars include Matt Damon, Elizabeth Banks, Susan Sarandon (as Frank's former teacher- who was in prison due to their relationship while he was a student- and present girlfriend), Paul Giamatti, Sherri Shepherd, Queen Latifah, Rob Reiner, John Amos, Jon Hamm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bill Hader, Chris Parnell, Kelsey Grammer, Buck Henry, David Gregory, John Slattery, Daniel Sunjata, Will Forte, Kelly Coffield Park, Elaine Stritch, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Alan Alda, Cheyenne Jackson, Robert De Niro, Dean Winters, Ken Howard, Vanessa Minnillo, Brian Williams, Richard Belzer, Ice-T, John Cho, Chloë Grace Moretz, Terrance Mann (as oceanographer Robert Ballard), Cristin Milioti (as Abby Flynn in \"TGS Hates Women\"), Eion Bailey, Adriane Lenox, Michael Keaton, Margaret Cho (as Avery's kidnapper, Korean dictator Kim Jong-il), and Tom Hanks."
] |
[
1
] |
Music
|
What is the name of the movie that inspired Llweyn Davis' music?
|
Inside Llewyn Davis
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
6
] |
[
"Dave Van Ronk's music served as a starting point for the Coens as they wrote the script, and many of the songs first designated for the film were those he had recorded.",
"Van Ronk co-author Elijah Wald said that the character of Llewyn Davis \"is not at all Dave, but the music is.” (The cover of Davis's solo album, \"Inside Llewyn Davis\", resembles that of \"Inside Dave Van Ronk\".",
"Both feature the artist in a doorway, wearing a tweed jacket and smoking a cigarette.)",
"Other songs emerged in conversations between the Coens and T-Bone Burnett, who produced the music in association with Marcus Mumford.",
"Burnett previously worked with the Coens on the music and soundtrack for \"The Big Lebowski\" and \"O Brother, Where Art Thou?",
"\", the latter of which sold about 8 million copies in the United States.",
"The Coens viewed the music in the \"Llewyn Davis\" as a direct descendant of the music in \"O Brother.",
"\"The humorous novelty song \"Please Mr. Kennedy\", a plea from a reluctant astronaut, appears to be a fourth generation derivative of the 1960 song \"Mr. Custer\", also known as \"Please Mr. Custer\", about the Battle of the Little Bighorn, sung by Larry Verne and written by Al DeLory, Fred Darian, and Joseph Van Winkle.",
"A Tamla-Motown single followed in 1961: \"Please Mr. Kennedy (I Don't Want to Go)\", a plea from a reluctant Vietnam War draftee, sung by Mickey Woods and credited to Berry Gordy, Loucye Wakefield and Ronald Wakefield.",
"In 1962 using a similar theme, The Goldcoast Singers recorded \"Please Mr. Kennedy\" on its \"Here They Are \"album, with writing credits to Ed Rush and George Cromarty.",
"The Llewyn Davis version credits Rush, Cromarty, Burnett, Timberlake, and the Coens.",
"Isaac, Timberlake, Mulligan, Driver and others performed the music live.",
"The exception was \"The Auld Triangle\", which was lip-synced, with Timberlake singing bass.",
"(Timberlake's vocal range was on display in the film.",
"Critic Janet Maslin, listening to a soundtrack recording, confused Timberlake's voice with Mulligan's, which she thought resembled that of Mary Travers.)"
] |
[
0
] |
Institutions
|
What has caused the healthcare system in the US to be criticized?
|
Medicine
| true | 8SCIENCE
|
[
11
] |
[
"Contemporary medicine is in general conducted within health care systems.",
"Legal, credentialing and financing frameworks are established by individual governments, augmented on occasion by international organizations, such as churches.",
"The characteristics of any given health care system have significant impact on the way medical care is provided.",
"From ancient times, Christian emphasis on practical charity gave rise to the development of systematic nursing and hospitals and the Catholic Church today remains the largest non-government provider of medical services in the world.",
"Advanced industrial countries (with the exception of the United States) and many developing countries provide medical services through a system of universal health care that aims to guarantee care for all through a single-payer health care system, or compulsory private or co-operative health insurance.",
"This is intended to ensure that the entire population has access to medical care on the basis of need rather than ability to pay.",
"Delivery may be via private medical practices or by state-owned hospitals and clinics, or by charities, most commonly by a combination of all three.",
"Most tribal societies, and the United States, provide no guarantee of healthcare for the population as a whole.",
"In such societies, healthcare is available to those that can afford to pay for it or have self-insured it (either directly or as part of an employment contract) or who may be covered by care financed by the government or tribe directly.",
"Transparency of information is another factor defining a delivery system.",
"Access to information on conditions, treatments, quality, and pricing greatly affects the choice by patients/consumers and, therefore, the incentives of medical professionals.",
"While the US healthcare system has come under fire for lack of openness, new legislation may encourage greater openness.",
"There is a perceived tension between the need for transparency on the one hand and such issues as patient confidentiality and the possible exploitation of information for commercial gain on the other."
] |
[
0
] |
Remixes and freestyles
|
What is the number of times motto has been remixed?
|
The Motto
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
0,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10
] |
[
"Tom Reid Mix Freestyle",
"Big Bizzy Barney Beats",
" Drake, featuring Lil Wayne & Tyga (Official remix)",
" YG, Nipsey Hussle and Snoop Dogg",
" Nelly (Released through the Mixtape O.E.MO)",
" Jeremih",
" Mario",
" Young Jeezy and Freddie Gibbs",
" Wale and Meek Mill",
" Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, Berner",
" Nekfeu, Alpha Wann, Sneazzy West (1995) (France)"
] |
[
0
] |
Season 5
|
Who is paid a visit by Leslie and Andy?
|
Parks and Recreation
| false | 1TV
|
[
1
] |
[
"Ben flourishes in his new job on a congressional campaign in Washington DC, as does April who he brought along as an intern.",
"Leslie and Andy visit Ben and April, and Leslie begins to feel self conscious about her small town job.",
"Leslie begins working as a City Councillor, but finds opposition in her fellow councilmen, particularly Councilman Jamm, who becomes her arch enemy.",
"Andy begins training to become a cop with help from Chris.",
"Tom tries to find a new business idea.",
"Ron meets Diane, a woman who needs help fixing a pothole, and begins dating her despite being intimidated by her two young daughters.",
"Jennifer offers Ben a job on another campaign in Florida, much to Leslie's displeasure, but Ben turns it down and returns to Pawnee, surprising Leslie by proposing to her.",
"She happily says yes.",
"Ben's divorced parents come to their engagement party and argue the whole time.",
"April proposes turning Lot 48 into a dog park, which bothers Leslie, but they compromise.",
"Tom starts a business renting high end clothing to teenagers.",
"Ben wants to bring in an architect from Eagleton to help with the park, now called the Pawnee Commons, which is hard for Leslie to accept.",
"Ann decides she's ready to be a single mom and begins searching for sperm donors.",
"Leslie and Ben plan a fundraising event for the Pawnee Commons, and decide to have an impromptu wedding that night.",
"When Jamm ruins the ceremony, Ron punches him, and the wedding recommences in City Hall.",
"Andy finds out he failed the cop test.",
"Ann, seeing Chris console Andy in a fatherly way, decides she would like to have her baby with him.",
"Leslie continues pushing forward with much resistance from Jamm.",
"Ben gets a job with Sweetums, heading their charity foundation, and hires Andy as an assistant.",
"Jerry retires from the Parks Department but comes back to work a few hours per week.",
"A mystery person rips off Tom's business idea and offers to buy his business off of him.",
"Angry locals, led by Jamm, call for Leslie to be recalled from office.",
"Andy goes on a hunt to find out who is pregnant, and it is revealed to be Diane."
] |
[
3
] |
Location
|
What was the location of the last supper?
|
Last Supper
| true | 3ART
|
[
0
] |
[
"According to later tradition, the Last Supper took place in what is called today The Room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, just outside of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, and is traditionally known as \"The Upper Room\".",
"This is based on the account in the Synoptic Gospels that states that Jesus had instructed a pair of unnamed disciples to go to \"the city\" to meet \"a man carrying a jar of water\", who would lead them to a house, where they would find \"a large upper room furnished and ready\".",
"In this upper room they \"prepare the Passover\".",
"No more specific indication of the location is given in the New Testament, and the \"city\" referred to may be a suburb of Jerusalem, such as Bethany, rather than Jerusalem itself.",
"The traditional location is in an area that, according to archaeology, had a large Essene community, a point made by scholars who suspect a link between Jesus and the group (Kilgallen 265).",
"Saint Mark's Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem is another possible site for the room in which the Last Supper was held, and contains a Christian stone inscription testifying to early reverence for that spot.",
"Certainly the room they have is older than that of the current coenaculum (crusader - 12th century) and as the room is now underground the relative altitude is correct (the streets of 1st century Jerusalem were at least twelve feet (3.6 metres) lower than those of today, so any true building of that time would have even its upper storey currently under the earth).",
"They also have a revered Icon of the Virgin Mary, reputedly painted from life by St Luke.",
"Bargil Pixner claims the original site is located beneath the current structure of the Cenacle on Mount Zion."
] |
[
0
] |
Administrative divisions
|
How many tribal districts are there?
|
Pakistan
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
4
] |
[
"Pakistan is a federation of four provinces: Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, as well as the Islamabad Capital Territory and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in the northwest, which include the Frontier Regions.",
"The government of Pakistan exercises \"de facto\" jurisdiction over the western parts of the disputed Kashmir region, organised into the separate political entities Azad Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan (formerly Northern Areas).",
"The \"Gilgit–Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order\" of 2009 assigned a province-like status to the latter, giving it self-government.",
"Local government follows a three-tier system of districts, tehsils and union councils, with an elected body at each tier.",
"There are about 130 districts altogether, of which Azad Kashmir has ten and Gilgit–Baltistan seven.",
"The Tribal Areas comprise seven tribal agencies and six small frontier regions detached from neighbouring districts.",
"Law enforcement in Pakistan is carried out by federal and provincial police agencies.",
"The four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory each have a civilian police force with jurisdiction limited to the relevant province or territory.",
"At the federal level, there are a number of civilian agencies with nationwide jurisdictions; including the Federal Investigation Agency, the National Highways and Motorway Police, and several paramilitary forces such as the Pakistan Rangers and the Frontier Corps.",
"The court system of Pakistan is organised as a hierarchy, with the Supreme Court at the apex, below which are High Courts, Federal Shariat Courts (one in each province and one in the federal capital), District Courts (one in each district), Judicial Magistrate Courts (in every town and city), Executive Magistrate Courts and Civil Courts.",
"Pakistan's penal code has limited jurisdiction in the Tribal Areas, where law is largely derived from tribal customs."
] |
[
5
] |
Avatar: World of Pandora
|
When did construction begin on the "Avatar"-based section of the park at Disney's Animal Kingdom?
|
Disney's Animal Kingdom
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|
[
1,
4
] |
[
"In September 2011, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts announced plans to partner with filmmaker James Cameron, his Lightstorm Entertainment production company, and Fox Filmed Entertainment to develop attractions based on Cameron's \"Avatar\" film franchise exclusively for Disney theme parks.",
"The first installation is planned for Disney's Animal Kingdom in the form of an \"Avatar\"-based section of the park.",
"While no specifics were announced, the new area was described as being several acres in size and costing an estimated $400 million to build, a scale similar to Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park in California.",
"Components from the upcoming second and third films in the \"Avatar\" series will be featured, along with new designs not seen in any of the films.",
"Construction began on January 10, 2014."
] |
[
2
] |
Science and technology
|
Under which ministry 's power is the funding and management of this research system mainly conducted ?
|
Portugal
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
1
] |
[
"Scientific and technological research activities in Portugal are mainly conducted within a network of R&D units belonging to public universities and state-managed autonomous research institutions like the INETI – Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação and the INRB – Instituto Nacional dos Recursos Biológicos.",
"The funding and management of this research system is mainly conducted under the authority of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES) itself and the MCTES's Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).",
"The largest R&D units of the public universities by volume of research grants and peer-reviewed publications, include biosciences research institutions like the Instituto de Medicina Molecular, the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, the IPATIMUP, the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular and the Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute.",
"Among the largest non-state-run research institutions in Portugal are the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and the Champalimaud Foundation, a neuroscience and oncology research centre, which in addition awards every year one of the highest monetary prizes of any science prize in the world.",
"A number of both national and multinational high-tech and industrial companies, are also responsible for research and development projects.",
"One of the oldest learned societies of Portugal is the Sciences Academy of Lisbon, founded in 1779.",
"Iberian bilateral state-supported research efforts include the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Ibercivis distributed computing platform, which are joint research programmes of both Portugal and Spain.",
"Portugal is a member of several pan-European scientific organizations.",
"These include the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), ITER, and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).",
"Portugal has the largest aquarium in Europe, the Lisbon Oceanarium, and the Portuguese have several other notable organizations focused on science-related exhibits and divulgation, like the state agency \"Ciência Viva\", a programme of the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology to the promotion of a scientific and technological culture among the Portuguese population, the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, the National Museum of Natural History at the University of Lisbon, and the Visionarium.",
"With the emergence and growth of several science parks throughout the world that helped create many thousands of scientific, technological and knowledge-based businesses, Portugal started to develop several science parks across the country.",
"These include the Taguspark (in Oeiras), the Coimbra iParque (in Coimbra), the biocant (in Cantanhede), the Madeira Tecnopolo (in Funchal), Sines Tecnopolo (in Sines), Tecmaia (in Maia) and Parkurbis (in Covilhã).",
"Companies locate in the Portuguese science parks to take advantage of a variety of services ranging from financial and legal advice through to marketing and technological support.",
"Egas Moniz, a Portuguese physician who developed the cerebral angiography and leucotomy, received in 1949 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – he is the first Portuguese recipient of a Nobel Prize and the only in the sciences.",
"The European Innovation Scoreboard 2011, placed Portugal-based innovation in the 15th position, with an impressive increase in innovation expenditure and output."
] |
[] |
Hydrocarbons
|
What does Algeria's economy rely on?
|
Algeria
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0
] |
[
"Algeria, whose economy is reliant on petroleum, has been an OPEC member since 1969.",
"Its crude oil production stands at around 1.1 million barrels/day, but it is also a major gas producer and exporter, with important links to Europe.",
"Hydrocarbons have long been the backbone of the economy, accounting for roughly 60% of budget revenues, 30% of GDP, and over 95% of export earnings.",
"Algeria has the 10th-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and is the sixth-largest gas exporter.",
"The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that in 2005, Algeria had of proven natural-gas reserves.",
"It also ranks 16th in oil reserves.",
"Non-hydrocarbon growth for 2011 was projected at 5%.",
"To cope with social demands, the authorities raised expenditure, especially on basic food support, employment creation, support for SMEs, and higher salaries.",
"High hydrocarbon prices have improved the current account and the already large international reserves position.",
"Income from oil and gas rose in 2011 as a result of continuing high oil prices, though the trend in production volume is downwards.",
"Production from the oil and gas sector in terms of volume, continues to decline, dropping from 43.2 million tonnes to 32 million tonnes between 2007 and 2011.",
"Nevertheless, the sector accounted for 98% of the total volume of exports in 2011, against 48% in 1962, and 70% of budgetary receipts, or USD 71.4 billion.",
"The Algerian national oil company is Sonatrach, which plays a key role in all aspects of the oil and natural gas sectors in Algeria.",
"All foreign operators must work in partnership with Sonatrach, which usually has majority ownership in production-sharing agreements."
] |
[
0
] |
Promotion
|
Glee performed on which other show during December of 2010?
|
Glee (TV series)
| true | 1TV
|
[
20
] |
[
"Prior to the second episode's premiere, \"Glee\"'s cast went on tour at several Hot Topic stores across the nation.",
"The cast sang the U.S. national anthem at the third game of the 2009 World Series.",
"Macy's invited them to perform at the 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but host broadcaster NBC declined because \"Glee\" aired on a rival network.",
"Murphy commented on the cast's exclusion: \"I completely understand NBC's position, and look forward to seeing a Jay Leno float.",
"\"The show's success sent the cast on a concert tour, Glee Live!",
"In Concert!",
"after the first season's wrapup.",
"They visited Phoenix, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.",
"The cast also recorded a cover of Wham!",
"'s \"Last Christmas\", which was released as a single in late 2009 but didn't appear in the show until \"A Very Glee Christmas\" on December 10, 2010.",
"Morrison, Lynch, Michele, Monteith, and Colfer reprised their roles as Will, Sue, Rachel, Finn, and Kurt respectively for a cameo appearance in an episode of \"The Cleveland Show\" that aired January 16, 2011.",
"Michele, Monteith, and Riley appeared as campers in the twenty-second season premiere of \"The Simpsons\".",
"Lynch, Colfer, Monteith, and Riley appeared at the 2010 MTV VMAs on September 12, 2010.",
"When Agron, Michele, and Monteith posed for a set of risqué photos for the November 2010 edition of \"GQ\" magazine, Parents Television Council (PTC) criticized the show; PTC president Tim Winter commented that \"Glee\" has many young fans, and that \"by authorizing this kind of near-pornographic display, the creators of the program have established their intentions on the show’s direction.",
"And it isn't good for families.",
"\"The promotional posters for the first season have the show's stars using their right hands to make an \"L\" to fill in the \"L\" of the word \"Glee\".",
"The second season's promotional posters have the stars throwing slushies at the camera in pairs.",
"The third season's promotional posters have the stars getting dodgeballs thrown at them by Sue Sylvester.",
"While the cast concert tour, Glee Live!",
"In Concert!, began on May 15, 2010, and presented concerts in four cities in the US that month, the second edition, with an almost-entirely new set list, toured for four weeks in the US and Canada from May 21 through June 18, 2011, and followed with twelve days in England and Ireland, from June 22 through July 3, 2011.",
"The cast also performed on the seventh season of \"The X Factor\" on December 5, 2010."
] |
[] |
The great insights of computer science
|
Who noted three "Great Insights of Computer Science"?
|
Computer science
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|
[
0
] |
[
"The philosopher of computing Bill Rapaport noted three \"Great Insights of Computer Science\" ",
" Leibniz's, Boole's, Alan Turing's, Shannon's, & Morse's insight: There are only 2 objects that a computer has to deal with in order to represent \"anything\"",
"All the information about any computable problem can be represented using only 0 & 1 (or any other bistable pair that can flip-flop between two easily distinguishable states,such as \"on\"/\"off\", \"magnetized/de-magnetized\", \"high-voltage/low-voltage\", etc.",
").",
" Alan Turing's insight: There are only 5 actions that a computer has to perform in order to do \"anything\"",
" Every algorithm can be expressed in a language for a computer consisting of only 5 basic instructions:",
": * move left one location",
": * move right one location",
": * read symbol at current location",
": * print 0 at current location",
": * print 1 at current location",
" Boehm and Jacopini's insight: There are only 3 ways of combining these actions (into more complex ones) that are needed in order for a computer to do \"anything\"",
"Only 3 rules are needed to combine any set of basic instructions into more complex ones:",
" sequence:",
": first do this; then do that",
" selection :",
": IF such-&-such is the case, ",
": THEN do this ",
": ELSE do that",
" repetition:",
": WHILE such & such is the case DO this",
"Note that the 3 rules of Boehm's and Jacopini's insight can be further simplified with the use of goto (which means it's more elementary than structured programming.)"
] |
[
3
] |
Rivers, lakes and reservoirs
|
What system did the radioactivity contaminate?
|
Chernobyl disaster
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
3
] |
[
"Residual radioactivity in the environment.",
"Rivers, lakes and reservoirs.",
"The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located next to the Pripyat River, which feeds into the Dnieper reservoir system, one of the largest surface water systems in Europe, which at the time supplied water to Kiev's 2.4 million residents, and was still in spring flood when the accident occurred.",
"The radioactive contamination of aquatic systems therefore became a major problem in the immediate aftermath of the accident.",
"In the most affected areas of Ukraine, levels of radioactivity (particularly from radionuclides 131I, 137Cs and 90Sr) in drinking water caused concern during the weeks and months after the accident, though officially it was stated that all contaminants had settled to the bottom \"in an insoluble phase\" and would not dissolve for 800–1,000 years.",
"Guidelines for levels of radioiodine in drinking water were temporarily raised to 3,700 Bq/L, allowing most water to be reported as safe, and a year after the accident it was announced that even the water of the Chernobyl plant's cooling pond was within acceptable norms.",
"Despite this, two months after the disaster the Kiev water supply was abruptly switched from the Dnieper to the Desna River.",
"Meanwhile, massive silt traps were constructed, along with an enormous 30m-deep underground barrier to prevent groundwater from the destroyed reactor entering the Pripyat River.",
"Bio-accumulation of radioactivity in fish resulted in concentrations (both in western Europe and in the former Soviet Union) that in many cases were significantly above guideline maximum levels for consumption.",
"Guideline maximum levels for radiocaesium in fish vary from country to country but are approximately 1,000 Bq/kg in the European Union.",
"In the Kiev Reservoir in Ukraine, concentrations in fish were several thousand Bq/kg during the years after the accident.",
"In small \"closed\" lakes in Belarus and the Bryansk region of Russia, concentrations in a number of fish species varied from 100 to 60,000 Bq/kg during the period 1990–92.",
"The contamination of fish caused short-term concern in parts of the UK and Germany and in the long term (years rather than months) in the affected areas of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia as well as in parts of Scandinavia."
] |
[
0
] |
Vault
|
What is another name for the vaulting platform?
|
Gymnastics
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
6
] |
[
"Artistic events for women.",
"In the vaulting events gymnasts sprint down a runway, jump onto or perform a roundoff entry onto a springboard (run/ take-off segment), land momentarily, inverted on the hands on the vaulting horse, or vaulting table (pre flight segment), then sprint off of this platform to a two footed landing (post flight segment).",
"Every gymnast starts at a different point on the vault runway depending on their height and strength.",
"The post flight segment may include one or more multiple saltos or somersaults, and/or twisting movements.",
"Round-off entry vaults are the most common vaults in elite level gymnastics.",
"In vaults with roundoff entries, gymnasts \"round-off\" so hands are on the runway while the feet land on the springboard (beatboard).",
"From the roundoff position the gymnast travels backwards as in a backhandspring so that the hands land on the vaulting platform (horse).",
"She then blocks off the vaulting platform into various twisting and/or somersaulting combinations.",
"The post flight segment brings the gymnast to her feet.",
"In 2001, the traditional vaulting horse was replaced with a new apparatus, sometimes known as a tongue or vaulting table.",
"The new apparatus is more stable, wider, and longer than the older vaulting horse—approximately 1m in length and 1m in width—giving gymnasts a larger blocking surface, and is therefore considered safer than the vaulting horse used in the past.",
"With the addition of this new, safer vaulting table, gymnasts are attempting more difficult and dangerous vaults."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What word was removed from NCIS's original title?
|
NCIS (TV series)
| true | 1TV
|
[
5
] |
[
"NCIS (TV series)NCIS is an American police procedural drama television series, revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.",
"The concept and characters were initially introduced in two episodes of the CBS series \"JAG\" (season eight episodes \"Ice Queen\" and \"Meltdown\").",
"The show, a spin-off from \"JAG\", premiered on September 23, 2003, on CBS.",
"To date it has aired for ten full seasons and has gone into broadcast syndication on USA Network.",
"Donald P. Bellisario is co-creator, along with Don McGill, as well as executive producer.",
"\"NCIS\" was originally referred to as Navy NCIS during season one; \"Navy\" was later dropped from the title.",
"In season seven, \"NCIS\" led to a spin-off series, \"\", starring Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J.",
"In 2011, \"NCIS\" was voted America’s favorite television show.",
"The series finished its tenth season as the most-watched television series in the U.S. during the 2012–13 TV season.",
"On March 13, 2014, CBS renewed the series for a twelfth season."
] |
[
0
] |
Production
|
Who did Jeunet originally write the role of Amelie for?
|
Amélie
| false | 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
] |
Malay theory
|
What is an Indonesian fermented savory sauce?
|
Ketchup
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
2
] |
[
"Ketchup may have entered the English language from the Malay word \"kicap\" (pron.",
"\"kichap\", also spelled \"kecap\", \"ketjap\"), originally meaning \"fish sauce\", which itself may be a loan from Chinese terms above.",
"In Indonesian cuisine, which is similar to Malay, the term \"kecap\" or \"ketjap\" refers to fermented savory sauces.",
"Two main types are well known in their cuisine: \"kecap asin\" which translates to 'salty kecap' in Indonesian (a salty soy sauce) and \"kecap manis\" or literally 'sweet kecap' in Indonesian.",
"Kecap manis is a sweet soy sauce that is a mixture of soy sauce with brown sugar, molasses, garlic, ginger, anise, coriander and a bay leaf reduced over medium heat until rather syrupy.",
"A third type, \"kecap ikan\", meaning \"fish kecap\" is fish sauce similar to the Thai \"Nam Pla\" or the Philippine \"Patis.\"",
"It is not, however, soy-based."
] |
[
0
] |
Painting
|
In what was was the High Renaissance perceived?
|
High Renaissance
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
0
] |
[
"The High Renaissance was traditionally viewed as a great explosion of creative genius, following a model of art history first proposed by the Florentine Giorgio Vasari.",
"Even relatively minor painters of the period, such as Fra Bartolomeo and Mariotto Albertinelli, produced works that are still lauded for the harmony of their design and their technique.",
"The elongated proportions and exaggerated poses in the late works of Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto and Correggio prefigure so-called Mannerism, as the style of the later Renaissance is referred to in art history.",
"The serene mood and luminous colours of paintings by Giorgione and early Titian exemplify High Renaissance style as practiced in Venice.",
"Other recognizable pieces of this period include Leonardo da Vinci's \"Mona Lisa\" and Raphael's \"The School of Athens\".",
"Raphael's fresco, set beneath an arch, is a virtuoso work of perspective, composition and \"disegno\"."
] |
[
0
] |
Non-dairy yogurt substitutes
|
Can Lactobacillus strains produce lactic acid?
|
Yogurt
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
1
] |
[
"Various manufacturers have endeavoured to produce plant-based substitutes for yogurt, using soy milk, nut milks such as almond milk, and coconut milk, for consumers who are unable to tolerate dairy products in any form.",
"Although \"Lactobacillus\" strains exist that can produce lactic acid from plant-derived feed stock (\"e.g.\"",
"sauerkraut), since plants do not produce lactose, it is not possible to produce genuine yogurt from plant sources with the same bacteria cultures used to convert milk into yogurt."
] |
[] |
France
|
How much did the munitions cost in "livres tournaises"?
|
American Revolution
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
2
] |
[
"Other participants.",
"In early 1776, France set up a major program of aid to the Americans, and the Spanish secretly added funds.",
"Each country spent one million \"livres tournaises\" to buy munitions.",
"A dummy corporation run by Pierre Beaumarchais concealed their activities.",
"American rebels obtained some munitions through the Dutch Republic as well as French and Spanish ports in the West Indies."
] |
[
5
] |
Music Concourse Area
|
When did the Music Concourse begin to undergo a series of improvements?
|
Golden Gate Park
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
5
] |
[
"Major features.",
"Music Concourse Area.",
"The Music Concourse is a sunken, oval-shaped open-air plaza originally excavated for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894.",
"Its focal point is the Spreckels Temple of Music, also called the \"Bandshell,\" where numerous music performances have been staged.",
"It includes a number of statues of various historic figures, four fountains, and a regular grid array of heavily pollarded trees.",
"Since 2003, the Music Concourse has undergone a series of improvements to include an underground 800-car parking garage and pedestrianization of the plaza itself.",
"It is surrounded by various cultural attractions, including:"
] |
[
2
] |
History
|
Why did they create Peak Tram?
|
Victoria Peak
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
8
] |
[
"As early as 19th century, the Peak attracted prominent European residents because of its panoramic view over the city and its temperate climate compared to the sub-tropical climate in the rest of Hong Kong.",
"The sixth Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Richard MacDonnell had a summer residence built on the Peak circa 1868.",
"Those that built houses named them whimsically, such as The Eyrie, and the Austin Arms.",
"See First houses on the Peak.",
"These original residents reached their homes by sedan chairs, which were carried up and down the steep slope of Victoria Peak.",
"This limited development of the Peak until the opening of the Peak Tram funicular in 1888.",
"The boost to accessibility caused by the opening of the Peak Tram created demand for residences on the Peak.",
"Between 1904 and 1930, the Peak Reservation Ordinance designated the Peak as an exclusive residential area reserved for non-Chinese.",
"They also reserved the Peak Tram for the use of such passengers during peak periods.",
"The Peak remains an upmarket residential area, although residency today is based on wealth."
] |
[
1
] |
Abstract
|
What is American Roots rock band's 6th album?
|
Drive By (song)
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
0
] |
[
"Drive By (song)\"Drive By\" is a song by American roots rock band, Train, from their sixth studio album, \"California 37\".",
"It was released in the United States as the album's lead single on January 10, 2012.",
"The song was written by lead singer Patrick Monahan and Norwegian songwriting duo Espen Lind, Amund Bjørklund, the same team responsible for Train's 2009 hit single \"Hey, Soul Sister\".",
"\"Drive By\" peaked at number 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, becoming the band's third top 10 hit in the US.",
"It was awarded a double platinum certification by the RIAA on July 23, 2012, for more than 2 million sales in the US.",
"Internationally, the song became a top ten hit in 13 countries.",
"Train performed the song on television series \"90210\" in the episode \"Blood Is Thicker Than Mud\", which aired on March 13, 2012.",
"Train also performed a parody entitled \"Five By\" with Elmo and Count von Count for an episode of \"Sesame Street\"."
] |
[
0
] |
Top ten lists
|
What are the names of the 4 critics that ranked the film "The Act of Killing" number 1 in 2013?
|
The Act of Killing
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
2,
3,
4,
5
] |
[
"",
"\"The Act of Killing\" has been named as one of the best films of 2013 by various critics:",
" 1st – \"Sight & Sound\"",
" 1st – The Guardian",
" 1st – LA Weekly",
" 1st – Nick Schager, \"The A.V.",
"Club\"",
" 2nd – Mark Kermode, \"The Observer\"",
" 3rd – David Edelstein, \"New York\"",
" 3rd – David Sexton, \"London Evening Standard\"",
" 4th – Eric Kohn, \"Indiewire\"",
" 4th – People Magazine",
" 7th – Bill Goodykoontz, \"Arizona Republic\"",
" 7th – A.",
"A. Dowd, \"The A.V.",
"Club\"",
" 7th – David Chen – slashfilm.com \"[http://www.slashfilm.com/the-filmcasts-top-10-films-of-2013/]\"",
" 8th – Sam Adams, \"The A.V.",
"Club\"",
" 8th – Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, \"The A.V.",
"Club\"",
" 8th – Richard Corliss, \"Time\"",
" 10th – \"Time Out London\"",
" 10th – Devindra Hardawar – slashfilm.com \"[http://www.slashfilm.com/the-filmcasts-top-10-films-of-2013/]\""
] |
[
0
] |
Prehistory of Anatolia and Eastern Thrace
|
Where did Indo-European languages originate?
|
Turkey
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
4
] |
[
"Prehistory of Anatolia and Eastern Thrace.",
"The Anatolian peninsula, comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest permanently settled regions in the world.",
"Various Ancient Anatolian populations have lived in Anatolia, beginning with the Neolithic period until conquest of Alexander the Great.",
"Many of these peoples spoke the Anatolian languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family.",
"In fact, given the antiquity of the Indo-European Hittite and Luwian languages, some scholars have proposed Anatolia as the hypothetical center from which the Indo-European languages radiated.",
"European part of Turkey, called Eastern Thrace, has also been inhabited since forty thousand years ago, and is known to have been in the Neolithic era by about 6000 B.C.",
"with its inhabitants starting the practice of agriculture.Göbekli Tepe is the site of the oldest known man-made religious structure, a temple dating to 10,000 BC, while Çatalhöyük is a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE.",
"It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date and in July 2012 was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.",
"The settlement of Troy started in the Neolithic Age and continued into the Iron Age.",
"The earliest recorded inhabitants of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians, non-Indo-European peoples who inhabited central and eastern Anatolia, respectively, as early as ca.",
"2300 BC.",
"Indo-European Hittites came to Anatolia and gradually absorbed the Hattians and Hurrians ca.",
"2000–1700 BC.",
"The first major empire in the area was founded by the Hittites, from the eighteenth through the 13th century BC.",
"The Assyrians conquered and settled parts of southeastern Turkey as early as 1950 BC until the year 612 BC.",
"Following the collapse of the Hittite empire c. 1180 BC, the Phrygians, an Indo-European people, achieved ascendancy in Anatolia until their kingdom was destroyed by the Cimmerians in the 7th century BC.",
"The most powerful of Phrygia's successor states were Lydia, Caria and Lycia."
] |
[
4
] |
Soviet Union centre – the new General Secretary
|
How old was Mikhail Gorbachev when he ecame a member of the Politburo?
|
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
2
] |
[
"Soviet Union centre – the new General Secretary.",
"Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo on 11 March 1985, only three hours after Konstantin Chernenko's death.",
"At age 54, he was the youngest member of the Politburo.",
"Gorbachev's primary goal as General Secretary was to revive the Soviet economy after the stagnant Brezhnev years.",
"In an effort to revive the stagnant Soviet economy, in 1985 new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev began a process of increasing political liberalization (glasnost/perestroika) in the communist one-party state.",
"In 1985, he announced that the Soviet economy was stalled and that reorganization was needed.",
"Gorbachev soon realized that fixing the Soviet economy would be nearly impossible without reforming the political and social structure of the Communist nation.",
"The reforms began in personnel changes.",
"On 23 April 1985 Gorbachev brought his two proteges Yegor Ligachev, and Nikolai Ryzhkov into the Politburo as full members, and sensibly took the opportunity to keep the 'power' ministries happy by promoting KGB Head Viktor Chebrikov from candidate to full member of the Politburo, and appointing Minister of Defence Marshal Sergei Sokolov a Politburo candidate member.",
"Nikonov was brought into the CPSU Central Committee Secretariat.",
"However, this liberalization led to the emergence from 1986 onwards of nationalist movements and ethnic disputes within the diverse republics of the Soviet Union.",
"It also led to the revolutions of 1989, which saw the mainly peaceful (Romania excepted) toppling of the Soviet imposed Communist regimes of the Warsaw Pact, which in turn increased pressure on Gorbachev to introduce greater democracy and autonomy for the Soviet Union's constituent republics.",
"Under Gorbachev's leadership, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1989 introduced limited competitive elections to a new central legislature, the Congress of People's Deputies, although a ban on other political parties was not lifted until 1990.",
"A 17 March 1991 referendum showed 76.4% of Soviet citizens voting to retain the Union.",
"However, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Georgia, and Armenia did not participate.",
"In May 1985 in Leningrad Gorbachev made a speech advocating widespread reforms.",
"One of the first reforms Gorbachev introduced was the anti-alcohol campaign, begun in May 1985, which was designed to fight widespread alcoholism in the Soviet Union.",
"Prices of vodka, wine, and beer were raised, and their sales were restricted.",
"It was a serious blow to the state budget, a loss of approximately 100 billion rubles according to Alexander Yakovlev, after alcohol production migrated to the black market economy.",
"The purpose of these reforms, however, was to prop up the existing centrally planned economy, unlike later reforms, which tended toward market socialism.",
"On 1 July 1985 Gorbachev promoted Eduard Shevardnadze First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party to full member of the Politburo, and the following day appointed Shevardnadze as Minister of Foreign Affairs replacing Andrei Gromyko.",
"Gromyko, disparaged as \"Mr Nyet\" in the West, had served for 28 years as Minister of Foreign Affairs and was considered an 'old thinker' who was kicked upstairs to the mainly ceremonial position of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, which was officially Soviet Head of State.",
"Also on July 1, 1985 Gorbachev took the opportunity to dispose of his main rival by removing Grigory Romanov from the Politburo, and brought Boris Yeltsin and Lev Zaikov into the CPSU Central Committee Secretariat.",
"In the fall Gorbachev continued his program to bring forward younger and more energetic men into the government.",
"On September 27, 1985 Nikolai Ryzhkov replaced 79 year old Nikolai Tikhonov as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, effectively the Soviet Prime Minister, and on 14 October 1985 Nikolai Talyzin replaced Nikolai Baibakov as Chairman of the State Planning Committee (GOSPLAN).",
"At the next Central Committee meeting on 15 October 1985 Tikhonov retired from the Politburo and Nikolai Talyzin became a candidate member.",
"Finally on 23 December 1985 Gorbachev appointed Boris Yeltsin First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party replacing Viktor Grishin."
] |
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2,
5
] |
Project Gemini
|
How long where Buzz Aldrin's EVA sessions in November 1966?
|
Space Race
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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[
9
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[
"Focused by the commitment to a moon landing, in January 1962 the US introduced Project Gemini, a two-crew-member spacecraft that would support Apollo by developing the key spaceflight technologies of space rendezvous and docking of two craft, flight durations of sufficient length to simulate going to the Moon and back, Extra-vehicular Activity for extended periods, and accomplishing useful work rather than just \"walking in space.\"",
"Although Gemini took a year longer than planned to accomplish its first flight, Gemini took advantage of the USSR's two-year hiatus after Voskhod, which enabled the US to catch up and surpass the previous Soviet lead in piloted spaceflight.",
"Gemini achieved several significant firsts during the course of ten piloted missions:",
" On Gemini 3 (March 1965), astronauts Virgil \"Gus\" Grissom and John W. Young became the first to demonstrate their ability to change their craft's orbit.",
" On Gemini 5 (August 1965), astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Charles \"Pete\" Conrad set a record of almost eight days in space, long enough for a piloted lunar mission.",
" On Gemini 6A (December 1965), Command Pilot Wally Schirra achieved the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7, accurately matching his orbit to that of the other craft, station-keeping for three consecutive orbits at distances as close as .",
" Gemini 7 also set a human spaceflight endurance record of fourteen days for Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, which stood until both nations started launching space laboratories in the early 1970s.",
" On Gemini 8 (March 1966), Command Pilot Neil Armstrong achieved the first docking between two spacecraft, his Gemini craft and an Agena target vehicle.",
" Gemini 11 (September 1966), commanded by Conrad, achieved the first direct-ascent rendezvous with its Agena target on the first orbit, and used the Agena's rocket to achieve an apogee of .",
" On Gemini 12 (November 1966), Edwin E. \"Buzz\" Aldrin spent over five hours working comfortably during three (EVA) sessions, finally proving that humans could perform productive tasks outside their spacecraft.",
"(This proved to be the most difficult goal to achieve.",
")",
"Most of the novice pilots on the early missions would command the later missions.",
"In this way, Project Gemini built up spaceflight experience for the pool of astronauts who would be chosen to fly the Apollo lunar missions."
] |
[
4,
5
] |
Abstract
|
What is a marksman?
|
Shooting
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|
[
2
] |
[
"Shooting is the act or process of firing firearms or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows.",
"Even the firing of artillery, rockets, and missiles can be called shooting.",
"A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman.",
"Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field in hunting, in shooting sports, or in combat."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What location is also known as "The Crossroads of the World"?
|
Times Square
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
1
] |
[
"Times Square is a major commercial intersection and a neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway (now converted into a pedestrian plaza) and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.",
"Times Square – iconified as \"The Crossroads of the World\", \"The Center of the Universe\", and the \"The Great White Way\" – is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.",
"According to \"Travel + Leisure\" magazine's October 2011 survey, Times Square is the world's most visited tourist attraction, hosting over 39 million visitors annually.",
"Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of whom are either tourists or people working in the area.",
"Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after \"The New York Times\" moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building – now called One Times Square – site of the annual ball drop on New Year's Eve, a tradition which began on December 31, 1907 and continues today, attracting thousands to the Square every New Year's.",
"The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's \"Fighting 69th\" Infantry Regiment; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan, and the TKTS discount theater tickets booth.",
"The stepped red roof of the TKTS booth also provides seating for various events.",
"The Duffy Statue and the square were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001."
] |
[
0
] |
Genesis
|
Who did Van Gogh communicate with in 1888 where he expressed his intention to paint the night sky?
|
The Starry Night
| true | 3ART
|
[
0
] |
[
"In a letter written to Émile Bernard in April 1888, Van Gogh expressed his desire to paint the night sky, and questioned whether he could achieve his intention by painting from nature as the Impressionists did:In September 1888, before his December breakdown that resulted in his hospitalisation in Arles, he painted \"Starry Night Over the Rhone\".",
"Working by night under a gas lamp, Van Gogh painted this work directly from nature.",
"\"It does me good to do what's difficult, \"Van Gogh wrote, \"That doesn’t stop me having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word—for religion—so I go outside at night to paint the stars.",
"\"In May 1889, Van Gogh decided to enter the asylum at Saint-Rémy, where he stayed for the next year.",
"His time there was very productive, although interrupted by incapacitating nervous attacks.",
"Inspired by the landscape surrounding the asylum, he painted \"Starry Night\" in June 1889.",
"Unlike the earlier \"Starry Night Over the Rhone\", the new night scene was painted in daylight, from memory.",
"In mid-September 1889, following a heavy crisis which lasted from mid-July to the last days of August, he thought to include \"Starry Night\" in the next batch of works to be sent to his brother, Theo, in Paris.",
"In order to reduce the shipping costs, he withheld three of the studies, including \"Starry Night\".",
"These three went to Paris with the shipment that followed.",
"When Theo did not immediately report its arrival, Vincent inquired again and finally received Theo's commentary on his recent work."
] |
[
4,
3
] |
Abstract
|
Who won Song of the Year for Every Breath You Take?
|
Every Breath You Take
| false | 0MUSIC
|
[
5
] |
[
"\"Every Breath You Take\" is a song by The Police on the band's 1983 album \"Synchronicity\", written by Sting.",
"The single entered the charts at position 36 on 4 June 1983.",
"The single was one of the biggest hits of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks and the UK Singles Chart for four weeks.",
"It also topped the \"Billboard\" Top Tracks chart for nine weeks.",
"At the 26th Annual Grammy Awards the song was nominated for three Grammy Awards including Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.",
"Sting won Song of the Year while The Police won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals; however, it did not win Record of the Year.",
"The song ranked No.",
"84 on the \"Rolling Stone\" list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time the highest position of any new wave rock song.",
"It also ranked No.",
"25 on \"Billboard\"'s Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.",
"The song is considered to be The Police's signature song, and in 2010 was estimated to generate between a quarter and a third of Sting's music publishing income.",
"In the USA, Every Breath You Take was the best-selling single of 1983 and fifth best-selling single of the decade."
] |
[
3
] |
Development
|
Who replaced Robert Downey Jr. for the male lead role in the film Gravity?
|
Gravity (film)
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
13,
14
] |
[
"Alfonso Cuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás.",
"Cuarón told \"Wired\" magazine, \"I watched the Gregory Peck movie \"Marooned\" over and over as a kid.\"",
"That film is about the first crew of an experimental space station returning to Earth in an Apollo capsule that suffers a thruster malfunction.",
"Cuarón attempted to develop his project at Universal Pictures, where it stayed in development for several years.",
"After the rights to the project were sold, the project began development at Warner Bros, who acquired the project.",
"In February 2010, it attracted the attention of Angelina Jolie, who had rejected a sequel to \"Wanted\".",
"Later in the month, she rejected \"Wanted 2\", partially because the studio did not want to pay the fee she had received for her latest two movies and because she wanted to direct her Bosnian war film \"In the Land of Blood and Honey\".",
"In March, Robert Downey, Jr. entered talks to be cast in the male lead role.",
"In mid-2010, Marion Cotillard tested for the female lead role.",
"By August 2010, Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively were in the running for the role.",
"In September, Cuarón received approval from Warner Bros. to offer the role without a screen test to Natalie Portman, who was being praised for her performance in the recently released \"Black Swan\".",
"Portman rejected the project because of scheduling conflicts and Warner Bros. then approached Sandra Bullock for the role.",
"In November 2010, Downey left the project to star in \"How to Talk to Girls\"a project in development with Shawn Levy attached to direct.",
"The following December, with Bullock signed for the co-lead role, George Clooney replaced Downey.",
"The problem of shooting long scenes in a zero-g environment was a challenge.",
"Eventually, the team decided to use computer-generated imagery for the spacewalk scenes and automotive robots to move Bullock's character for interior space station scenes.",
"This meant that shots and blocking had to be planned well in advance for the robots to be programmed.",
"It also made the production period much longer than expected.",
"When the script was finished, Cuarón assumed it would take about a year to complete the film, but it took four and a half years."
] |
[
3
] |
Release
|
Which year did The Usual Suspects release?
|
The Usual Suspects
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
0
] |
[
"Gramercy Pictures ran a pre-release promotion and advertising campaign before \"The Usual Suspects\" opened in the summer of 1995.",
"Word of mouth marketing was used to advertise the film, and buses and billboards were plastered with the simple question, \"Who is Keyser Söze?",
"\"The film was shown out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and was well received by audiences and critics.",
"The film was then given an exclusive run in Los Angeles, where it took a combined $83,513, and New York City, where it made $132,294 on three screens in its opening weekend.",
"The film was then released in 42 theaters where it earned $645,363 on its opening weekend.",
"It averaged a strong $4,181 per screen at 517 theaters and the following week added 300 play dates.",
"It eventually made $23.3 million in North America."
] |
[] |
Team play
|
Which sport includes Popular formations include the 4-2, 6-2, and 5-1 systems?
|
Volleyball
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
8
] |
[
"Volleyball is essentially a game of transition from one of the above skills to the next, with choreographed team movement between plays on the ball.",
"These team movements are determined by the teams chosen serve receive system, offensive system, coverage system, and defensive system.",
"The serve receive system is the formation used by the receiving team to attempt to pass the ball to the designated setter.",
"Systems can consist of 5 receivers, 4 receivers, 3 receivers, and in some cases 2 receivers.",
"The most popular formation at higher levels is a 3 receiver formation consisting of two left sides and a libero receiving every rotation.",
"This allows middles and right sides to become more specialized at hitting and blocking.",
"Offensive systems are the formations used by the offense to attempt to ground the ball into the opposing court (or otherwise score points).",
"Formations often include designated player positions with skill specialization (see \"Player specialization\", below).",
"Popular formations include the 4-2, 6-2, and 5-1 systems (see \"Formations\", below).",
"There are also several different attacking schemes teams can use to keep the opposing defense off balance.",
"Coverage systems are the formations used by the offense to protect their court in the case of a blocked attack.",
"Executed by the 5 offensive players not directly attacking the ball, players move to assigned positions around the attacker to dig up any ball that deflects off the block back into their own court.",
"Popular formations include the 2-3 system and the 1-2-2 system.",
"In lieu of a system, some teams just use a random coverage with the players nearest the hitter.",
"Defensive systems are the formations used by the defense to protect against the ball being grounded into their court by the opposing team.",
"The system will outline which players are responsible for which areas of the court depending on where the opposing team is attacking from.",
"Popular systems include the 6-Up, 6-Back-Deep, and 6-Back-Slide defense.",
"There are also several different blocking schemes teams can employ to disrupt the opposing teams offense.",
"Some teams, when they are ready to serve, will line up their other five players in a screen to obscure the view of the receiving team.",
"This action is only illegal if the server makes use of the screen, so the call is made at the referees discretion as to the impact the screen made on the receivers ability to pass the ball.",
"The most common style of screening involves a W formation designed to take up as much horizontal space as possible."
] |
[] |
Skills
|
What alternative to digging does a beach volleyball player have?
|
Beach volleyball
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
17,
18
] |
[
"As in indoor volleyball, there are several basic skills competitive players need to master: serving, passing, setting, attacking, blocking, and digging.",
"Serving is the act of putting the ball into play by striking it with the hand or arm from behind the rear court boundary.",
"The skill is similar on the beach and indoors, with the exception that on the beach the wind often has a significant effect on the trajectory of the ball.",
"The pass is the first of a team's 3 allowed contacts, and is also very similar on the beach and indoors.",
"However, the standards for hand setting (handling the ball overhand using finger action with the hands separated) are stricter on the beach.",
"In practice, this means that players are effectively forbidden from setting the ball on serve receive; similarly, players seldom use a hand setting motion as the first (except on a hard driven attack) or last of the three allowed team contacts.",
"Digging is a similar skill to passing, but the term is not used to describe receiving the serve or a free ball, but rather refers to an attempt to prevent an opponent's attack hit from touching the court.",
"The set is the second team contact, and its purpose is to position the ball for an attack on the third hit.",
"A hand setting motion is often used, but bump setting, an underhand motion in which the ball bounces off the forearms, is also common.",
"When using the hand motion contact for the setting the ball has to come out \"clean\".",
"This means that the ball cannot spin at all in the air once it leaves the setters hands.",
"If a referee determines that it was not a \"clean\" contact then they will call a double contact and the point will be given to the other team.",
"After completing the contact, the setter typically turns his attention to the defense and communicates to his partner whether a blocker is up and which area of the court is open.",
"The second contact can also be used to attack the ball.",
"Attacking includes skills such as spiking—hitting the ball hard with one open hand on a downward trajectory from above the top of the net; rolling—a similar motion to spiking, but softer and with an arcing trajectory; and dinking—directing the ball very softly low over the net.",
"Attack hits are also frequently made with a poking motion with the knuckles or stiff straight fingers.",
"Blocking is an attempt to direct an attack hit by the opponents back into their court by reaching above the top of the net.",
"Players often decide against blocking (if the pass and set are not in a good position to produce a spike attack) and instead opt to Peel off the net and dig.",
"This peeling action is a skill almost exclusive to beach volleyball."
] |
[
0
] |
History
|
How does "Salad Bar" work?
|
Salad
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
5
] |
[
"The Romans and ancient Greeks ate mixed greens with dressing.",
"In his 1699 book, \"Acetaria: A Discourse on Sallets\", John Evelyn attempted with little success to encourage his fellow Britons to eat fresh salad greens.",
"Mary, Queen of Scots, ate boiled celery root over greens covered with creamy mustard dressing, truffles, chervil, and slices of hard-boiled eggs.",
"The United States popularized mixed greens salads in the late 19th century; other regions of the world adopted them throughout the second half of the 20th century.",
"From Europe and the Americas to China, Japan, and Australia, salads are sold in supermarkets, at restaurants and at fast food chains.",
"In the US market, restaurants will often have a \"Salad Bar\" laid out with salad-making ingredients, which the customers will use to put together their salad."
] |
[
5
] |
Roads and transportation
|
How many visitors are their to the Inca Trail?
|
Machu Picchu
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
1
] |
[
"As part of their road system, the Incas built a road to the Machu Picchu region.",
"Today, thousands of tourists walk the Inca Trail to visit Machu Picchu each year.",
"They congregate at Cusco before starting on the two-, four- or five-day journey on foot from Kilometer 82 or Kilometer 104 (two-day trip) near the town of Ollantaytambo in the Urubamba valley, walking up through the Andes mountain range to the isolated city.",
"The people of Machu Picchu were connected to long-distance trade, as shown by non-local artifacts found at the site.",
"As an example, Bingham found unmodified obsidian nodules at the entrance gateway.",
"In the 1970s, Burger and Asaro determined that these obsidian samples were from the \"Titicaca\" or Chivay obsidian source, and that the samples from Machu Picchu showed long-distance transport of this obsidian type in pre-Hispanic Peru."
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5
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