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Languages
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How many people speak Japanese as a first language in Japan?
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Japan
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"More than 99 percent of the population speaks Japanese as their first language.",
"Japanese is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary indicating the relative status of speaker and listener.",
"Japanese writing uses kanji (Chinese characters) and two sets of kana (syllabaries based on simplified Chinese characters), as well as the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals.",
"Besides Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni), also part of the Japonic language family, are spoken in the Ryukyu Islands chain.",
"Few children learn these languages, but in recent years the local governments have sought to increase awareness of the traditional languages.",
"The Okinawan Japanese dialect is also spoken in the region.",
"The Ainu language, which has no proven relationship to Japanese or any other language, is moribund, with only a few elderly native speakers remaining in Hokkaido.",
"Most public and private schools require students to take courses in both Japanese and English."
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Critical response
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What did Serge Kagnaski have against the film?
|
Amélie
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"Alan Morrison from \"Empire\" Online gave \"Amélie\" five stars and called it \"one of the year’s best, with crossover potential along the lines of \"Cyrano De Bergerac\" and \"Il Postino\".",
"Given its quirky heart, it might well surpass them all.",
"\"Paul Tatara from CNN Reviewer praised \"Amélie\"s playful nature.",
"In his review, he wrote, \"Its whimsical, free-ranging nature is often enchanting; the first hour, in particular, is brimming with amiable, sardonic laughs.",
"\"The film was attacked by critic Serge Kaganski of \"Les Inrockuptibles\" for an unrealistic and picturesque vision of a bygone French society with few ethnic minorities.",
"Jeunet dismissed the criticism by pointing out that the photo collection contains pictures of people from numerous ethnic backgrounds, and that Jamel Debbouze, who plays Lucien, is of Moroccan descent."
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History
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Where can you trace the history of pathology back to?
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Pathology
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"The history of pathology can be traced back to antiquity when people began examining bodies.",
"The examination of bodies led to the dissection of bodies in order to discover the cause of death.",
"During that time, the people already began formulating today what we know as inflammation, tumors, boils, and much more.",
"Pathology began to develop as a subject during the 19th Century through teachers and physicians that studied pathology.",
"They referred to it as “pathological anatomy” or “morbid anatomy.” However, pathology as a field of medicine was not recognized until the late 19th and early 20th centuries.",
"In the 19th century, physicians realized that disease-causing pathogens, or germs (disease-causing, or pathogenic, microbes, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, amoebae, molds, protists, and prions) existed and were capable of reproduction and multiplication, and that evil spirits or humors, or even the signs and symptoms of the condition, were not the causative agent of a disease.",
"Through the new information gathered regarding germ reproduction, physicians began to compare the characteristics of one germ’s symptoms as they developed within an affected individual to another germ’s characteristics and symptoms.",
"This realization led to the foundational understanding that diseases are able to create themselves, and that they can affect human beings in unique ways.",
"In order to determine causes of diseases, medical experts used the most common and widely accepted assumptions or symptoms of their times.",
"This is true for those in the past and today.",
"What set pathology apart from other specialties was the ability to determine a symptom with the naked eye.",
"During the 19th century, Rudolf Virchow gave the biggest contribution to the field by introducing the procedure of analyzing tissue and cells through a microscope to pathologists.",
"This greatly affected the discipline because it was another way to analyze objects, and it led to more advanced technological developments.",
"By the late 1920s to early 1930s pathology was deemed a medical specialty.",
"During the years following, the decision to split pathology into sub-specialties arose.",
"Today, anatomical, clinical, molecular, forensic, oral, dermatopathology, hematopathology, and neuropathology exist as medical specialties.",
"Today, pathologists are physicians who are diagnosing patients with diseases through examination of biopsies and resections.",
"Their work also includes working with other physicians and scientists on solutions to treat diseases such as various kinds of cancers."
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Credits and personnel
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Who mastered the song "It will Rain" by Ari Levine, Bruno Mars, and Philip Lawrence?
|
It Will Rain
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" Recording",
"Engineered at: Levcon Studios in Los Angeles, California; mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California.",
"Personnel",
"Songwriting – Ari Levine, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence ",
"Production – The Smeezingtons",
"Engineer – Ari Levine",
"Arrangement by (string arrangement)– Phredley Brown",
"Mixing – Manny Marroquin ",
" Mixed By (assisted by)– Chris Galland, Erik Madrid",
"Mastering – David Kutch ",
"Bass– Oscar Hidalgo",
"Conductor– Suzie Katayama",
"Viola– Andrew Duckles",
"Violin– Charlie Bisharat, Josefina Vergara"
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Variations
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Can you use tofu as a burger replacement?
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Hamburger
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"Burgers can also be made with patties made from ingredients other than beef.",
"For example, a \"turkey burger\" uses ground turkey meat, a \"chicken burger\" uses ground chicken meat.",
"A \"buffalo burger\" uses ground meat from a bison, and an \"ostrich burger\" is made from ground seasoned ostrich meat.",
"A deer burger uses ground venison from deer.",
"A \"veggie burger\", \"garden burger\", or \"tofu burger\" uses a meat analogue, a meat substitute such as tofu, TVP, seitan (wheat gluten), quorn, beans, grains or an assortment of vegetables, ground up and mashed into patties."
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Plot
|
What is the name of Oscar's daughter?
|
Fruitvale Station
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"The film tells the story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old from Hayward, California and his experiences on the last day of his life, before he was fatally shot by BART Police in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.",
"The story begins with Oscar and his girlfriend Sophina dropping off their daughter Tatiana at day care.",
"Oscar stops by his old job at the deli counter of a grocery store from which he had been fired two weeks prior.",
"He discards his stash of marijuana in an effort to get on a good path, and then attends his mother's birthday party.",
"She encourages him to take BART to the festivities in San Francisco, which Oscar and his friends do.",
"The train to the festivities is stalled temporarily, but Oscar and his friends turn the train into a party scene.",
"On the return train, a customer from the grocery store recognizes Oscar and calls out his name, which leads him to be identified by a former fellow inmate, leading to a scuffle.",
"The police pull Oscar and his friends off the train, and one of the officers shoots Oscar in the back while Oscar is being held down.",
"Oscar's friends are released and they convene with Oscar's mother and girlfriend at the hospital, where they are told that he has died.",
"Sophina picks up Tatiana from Sophina's sister's house where she spent the night, and the movie ends as Tatiana asks where her father is."
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Abstract
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In The Vitruvian Man, on whose work was Leonardo's notes based upon?
|
Vitruvian Man
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"The Vitruvian Man, , is a drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1490.",
"It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius.",
"The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square.",
"The drawing and text are sometimes called the \"Canon of Proportions\" or, less often, \"Proportions of Man\".",
"It is kept in the Gabinetto dei disegni e stampe of the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice, Italy, under reference 228.",
"Like most works on paper, it is displayed to the public only occasionally.",
"The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise \"De Architectura\".",
"Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders of architecture.",
"Vitruvius determined that the ideal body should be eight heads high.",
"Leonardo's drawing is traditionally named in honor of the architect."
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Abstract
|
Who wrote "All I Want For Christmas Is You" with Carey?
|
All I Want for Christmas Is You
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"\"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."
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Variations
|
What is replaced in patate-sauce-choux?
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Poutine
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"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."
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Cultural impact
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What did Zac Efron get a tattoo of?
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The Motto
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"The song uses the phrase YOLO, an acronym for \"you only live once\".",
"The phrase can be seen in youth culture, for example a high school prank in Chicago, Illinois, involved high school students chanting \"YOLO.\"",
"Some people have graffitied YOLO on walls.",
"It has become a popular Twitter hashtag.",
"Some youth have said that it is their motto, and actor Zac Efron got a tattoo with the acronym.",
"Some youth, however, have taken action against the \"YOLO\" mindset; hip hop artist Joey Bada$$ released a song entitled \"Death of YOLO\" on his album \"Summer Knights\".",
"The song uses nearly dying in a car accident, a result of the \"YOLO\" lifestyle, as a metaphor for living making poor decisions.",
"The hip-hop magazine \"Da South\" reported that the rapper Lecrae has deconstructed the motto YOLO in his answer song \"No Regrets\".",
"The Washington Post describes YOLO as \"the newest acronym you'll love to hate\".",
"The Huffington Post says: \"YOLO is dumb.\"",
"In his January 18, 2014 appearance on Saturday Night Live, Drake apologized for popularizing the acronym.",
"The phrase \"you only live once\" is commonly attributed to Mae West, but variations of the phrase have been in use for over 100 years, including as far back as (the German equivalent of) \"one lives but once in the world\" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the play Clavigo in 1774, and as the title of a waltz \"Man lebt nur einmal!\"",
"(\"You Only Live Once!\")",
"by Johann Strauss II in 1855."
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Equipment
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What do lifters normally wear?
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Olympic weightlifting
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"Olympic weightlifting uses a steel bar with rotating sleeves (also known as a barbell) which hold rubber-coated discs of different weights.",
"The weight plates, typically referred to as \"bumper plates\" because of their rubber design, weigh between 0.5kg and 25kg.",
"These plates are secured to the bar using collars on each sleeve that weigh exactly 2.5kg each.",
"Lifters typically wear a one-piece, close-fitting leotard often called a singlet.",
"The wearing of a t-shirt underneath the singlet is optional.",
"A weightlifting belt of 120mm maximum width may also be worn to provide lower back support.",
"Perhaps the piece of equipment most peculiar to Olympic weightlifting are the shoes worn by lifters.",
"Weightlifting shoes are typically designed with a raised heel of 0.5\" to 1.5\" and one or two metatarsal straps that tighten across the instep of the shoe.",
"The shoes are designed for maximum stability while remaining flexible in the toebox.",
"This allows the lifter to come up on their toes and catch the weight on the ball of their back foot during the \"jerk\" movement of their lift.",
"The raised heel helps the lifter maintain an upright torso while catching the bar and also allows for a deeper squat under the bar."
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Ahwahneechee and the Mariposa Wars
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When did eight gold miners get attacked?
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Yosemite National Park
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"Ahwahneechee and the Mariposa Wars.",
"As revealed by archeological finds, the Yosemite Valley has been inhabited for nearly 3000 years.",
"The Paiute and Sierra Miwok peoples lived in the area long before the first explorations by American settlers into the region.",
"A band of Paiute called the \"Ahwahneechee\" were living in the Yosemite Valley when the first known group of European Americans entered it.",
"The California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century dramatically increased travel by European-Americans in the area, causing competition for resources between the regional Paiute and Miwok and the miners and hangers on.",
"In 1851 as part of the Mariposa Wars intended to suppress Native American resistance, United States Army Major Jim Savage led the Mariposa Battalion into the west end of Yosemite Valley.",
"He was pursuing forces of around 200 Ahwahneechee led by Chief Tenaya.",
"Accounts from this battalion were the first well-documented reports of ethnic Europeans entering Yosemite Valley.",
"Attached to Savage's unit was Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, the company physician, who later wrote about his awestruck impressions of the valley in \"The Discovery of the Yosemite\".",
"Bunnell is credited with naming Yosemite Valley, based on his interviews with Chief Tenaya.",
"Bunnell wrote that Chief Tenaya was the founder of the Pai-Ute Colony of Ah-wah-nee.",
"The Miwok, a neighboring tribe, and most white settlers considered the Ahwahneechee to be especially violent because of their frequent territorial disputes.",
"The Miwok term for the Pai-Ute band was \"yohhe'meti,\" meaning \"they are killers\".",
"Correspondence and articles written by members of the battalion helped to popularize the natural wonders of the Yosemite Valley and the surrounding area.",
"Chief Tenaya and his Ahwahneechee were eventually captured and their village burned; they were removed to a reservation near Fresno, California.",
"The chief and some others were later allowed to return to Yosemite Valley.",
"In the spring of 1852 they attacked a group of eight gold miners, and then moved east to flee law enforcement.",
"Near Mono Lake, they took refuge with the nearby Mono tribe of Paiute.",
"They stole horses from their hosts and moved away, but the Mono Paiutes tracked down and killed many of the Ahwahneechee, including Chief Tenaya.",
"The Mono Paiute took the survivors as captives back to Mono Lake and absorbed them into the Mono Lake Paiute tribe.",
"A reconstructed \"Indian Village of Ahwahnee\" has been erected behind the Yosemite Museum, located next to the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center."
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Media usage
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What movie has the song Rolling In the Deep in the trailer?
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Rolling in the Deep
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"",
"\"Rolling in the Deep\" first gained attention when it was used in a trailer for the film \"I Am Number Four\" and in the film itself.",
"It has since been featured in several television series such as in \"90210\" third season, in \"Doctor Who\" sixth series premiere, in \"One Tree Hill\" eighth season, in \"Gossip Girl\" fourth season finale, and in \"The Secret Life of the American Teenager\" fourth season.",
"\"Rolling in the Deep\" was used as the theme song for E4's reality series \"Made in Chelsea\" and appeared in \"So You Think You Can Dance\" eighth season during contestant Mitchell Kelly's solo performance.",
"The instrumental of the song was used in Apple Inc's marketing video for the iPhone 4S.",
"It was also featured in CBC's intro to Game 1 of the hockey 2011 Stanley Cup Finals between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins.",
"while the song's instrumentals were played heavily in promos during the 2011 NBA Draft.",
"The song was played in the background during the parade of athletes at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games."
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Release
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what record selling did the matrix sell during it's release?
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The Matrix
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"",
"\"The Matrix\" was released on , 1999.",
"After its DVD release, it was the first DVD to sell more than one million copies in the US, and went on to be the first to sell more than three million copies in the US.",
"By , 2003, one month after \"The Matrix Reloaded\" DVD was released, the sales of \"The Matrix\" DVD had exceeded 30 million copies.",
"The Ultimate Matrix Collection was released on HD DVD on , 2007 and on Blu-ray on , 2008.",
"The film was also released standalone in a 10th anniversary edition Blu-ray in the Digibook format on , 2009, 10 years to the day after the film was released theatrically."
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Subject matter
|
What town under the swirling sky in the center part of the painting?
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The Starry Night
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"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: "
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Energy
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The survival of a living organsm depends non what?
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Biology
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"The survival of a living organism depends on the continuous input of energy.",
"Chemical reactions that are responsible for its structure and function are tuned to extract energy from substances that act as its food and transform them to help form new cells and sustain them.",
"In this process, molecules of chemical substances that constitute food play two roles; first, they contain energy that can be transformed for biological chemical reactions; second, they develop new molecular structures made up of biomolecules.",
"The organisms responsible for the introduction of energy into an ecosystem are known as producers or autotrophs.",
"Nearly all of these organisms originally draw energy from the sun.",
"Plants and other phototrophs use solar energy via a process known as photosynthesis to convert raw materials into organic molecules, such as ATP, whose bonds can be broken to release energy.",
"A few ecosystems, however, depend entirely on energy extracted by chemotrophs from methane, sulfides, or other non-luminal energy sources.",
"Some of the captured energy is used to produce biomass to sustain life and provide energy for growth and development.",
"The majority of the rest of this energy is lost as heat and waste molecules.",
"The most important processes for converting the energy trapped in chemical substances into energy useful to sustain life are metabolism and cellular respiration."
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Abstract
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How many grammy's was "Call me maybe" nominated for?
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Call Me Maybe
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"\"Call Me Maybe\" is a song recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen for her EP \"Curiosity\" (2012) and appearing on her international debut album, \"Kiss\".",
"The song was written by Jepsen and Tavish Crowe as a folk song, but its genre was modified to pop following the production by Josh Ramsay.",
"It was released as the lead single from the EP on September 20, 2011, through 604 Records.",
"Jepsen was signed to Schoolboy Records, releasing her single in the United States through the label, as the first single from \"Kiss\".",
"Musically, \"Call Me Maybe\" is an upbeat teen pop track that draws influences from dance-pop and disco.",
"Lyrically, the track alludes to the inconvenience that a love at first sight brings to a girl who hopes for a call back from a crush.",
"The song received generally positive reviews from contemporary critics, who praised its composition and clever lyrical content .",
"\"Call Me Maybe\" has attained commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, while peaking inside the top three in Austria, Belgium (Flanders & Wallonia), Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.",
"After reaching the top position on the Canadian Hot 100, Jepsen became only the fifth Canadian artist to do so in her home country since 2007.",
"In the United States, the track reached number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and the Pop Songs chart.",
"The song is the first number one by a Canadian female artist on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart since 2007's \"Girlfriend\" by Avril Lavigne.",
"An accompanying music video was directed by Ben Knechtel.",
"In it, Jepsen seeks the attention of an attractive boy next door who is revealed at the close of the story to be attracted to a male band member.",
"As part of promotion for the song, Jepsen performed the track on \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\", where she made her US television debut, and at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards.",
"\"Call Me Maybe\" has been covered by several artists, including Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Cosgrove, Dan Deacon, Fun, Big Time Rush, The Chipettes, R5, Lil' Wayne, Enter Shikari, Ben Howard, Cody Simpson, The Saturdays, and parodied by Cookie Monster and some of the news staff of National Public Radio.",
"It was also covered on \"The New Rachel\", the season premiere episode of the fourth season of \"Glee\".",
"\"Call Me Maybe\" was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 55th Annual ceremony, but lost to \"We Are Young\" by Fun and the live performance of \"Set Fire to the Rain\" by Adele, respectively.",
"On December 11, 2012, \"Call Me Maybe\" was named \"Song of the Year\" for 2012 by MTV.",
"In its 2012 Year-End issue, \"Billboard\" magazine ranked this song #2 in the Hot 100 Songs, Digital Songs, and Canadian Hot 100 charts, in each case behind \"Somebody That I Used to Know\", by Gotye featuring Kimbra.",
"The song was also ranked number one by the Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll, which compiles the votes of music critics from all over the United States.",
"The song was the best-selling single worldwide in 2012, selling over 10 million copies in that year alone, and the best-selling single on the iTunes Store in 2012.",
"With worldwide sales of over 13 million copies as of May 2013, \"Call Me Maybe\" was the best-selling digital single of 2012, and is also one of the best-selling digital singles and one of the best-selling singles of all time, with sales in the 10-14.99 million bracket."
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Ratings
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What was the premiere date for South Park's 14th season?
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South Park
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"When \"South Park\" debuted, it was a huge ratings success for Comedy Central and is seen as being largely responsible for the success of the channel, with Herzog crediting it for putting the network \"on the map\".",
"The show's first episode, \"Cartman Gets an Anal Probe\", earned a Nielsen rating of 1.3 (980,000 viewers), at the time considered high for a cable program.",
"The show instantly generated buzz among television viewers, and mass viewing parties began assembling on college campuses.",
"By the time the eighth episode \"Starvin' Marvin\" aired three months after the show debuted, ratings and viewership had tripled, and \"South Park\" was already the most successful show in Comedy Central's history.",
"When the tenth episode \"Damien\" aired the following February, viewership increased another 33 percent.",
"The episode earned a 6.4 rating, which at the time was over 10 times the average rating earned by a cable show aired in prime time.",
"The ratings peaked with the second episode of season two, \"Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut\", which aired on April 22, 1998.",
"The episode earned an 8.2 rating (6.2 million viewers) and, at the time, set a record as the highest-rated non-sports show in basic cable history.",
"During the spring of 1998, eight of the ten highest-rated shows on basic cable were \"South Park\" episodes.",
"The success of \"South Park\" prompted more cable companies to carry Comedy Central and led it to its becoming one of the fastest-growing cable channels.",
"The number of households that had Comedy Central jumped from 9.1 million in 1997 to 50 million in June 1998.",
"When the show debuted, the most Comedy Central had earned for a 30-second commercial was US$7,500.",
"Within a year, advertisers were paying an average of US$40,000 for 30 seconds of advertising time during airings of \"South Park\" in its second season, while some paid as much as US$80,000.",
"By the third season (1999), the series' ratings began to decrease.",
"The third season premiere episode drew 3.4 million viewers, a dramatic drop from the 5.5 million of the previous season's premiere.",
"Stone and Parker attributed this drop in the show's ratings to the media hype that surrounded the show in the previous year, adding that the third season ratings reflected the show's \"true\" fan base.",
"The show's ratings dropped further in its fourth season (2000), with episodes averaging just above 1.5 million viewers.",
"The ratings eventually increased, and seasons five through nine consistently averaged about 3 million viewers per episode.",
"Though its viewership is lower than it was at the height of its popularity in its earliest seasons, \"South Park\" remains one of the highest-rated series on Comedy Central.",
"The season 14 (2010) premiere gained 3.7 million viewers, the show's highest-rated season premiere since 1998."
] |
[
0
] |
Saccharides
|
Why is the solubility in water decreased in polysaccharides?
|
Biomolecule
| true | 8SCIENCE
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[
13
] |
[
"Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates with only one simple sugar.",
"They essentially contain an aldehyde or ketone group in their structure.",
"The presence of an aldehyde group in a monosaccharide is indicated by the prefix \"aldo-\".",
"Similarly, a ketone group is denoted by the prefix \"keto-\".",
"Examples of monosaccharides are the hexoses glucose, fructose, and galactose and pentoses, ribose, and deoxyribose Consumed fructose and glucose have different rates of gastric emptying, are differentially absorbed and have different metabolic fates, providing multiple opportunities for 2 different saccharides to differentially affect food intake.",
"Most saccharides eventually provide fuel for cellular respiration.",
"Disaccharides are formed when two monosaccharides, or two single simple sugars, form a bond with removal of water.",
"They can be hydrolyzed to yield their saccharin building blocks by boiling with dilute acid or reacting them with appropriate enzymes.",
"Examples of disaccharides include sucrose, maltose, and lactose.",
"Polysaccharides are polymerized monosaccharides, or complex carbohydrates.",
"They have multiple simple sugars.",
"Examples are starch, cellulose, and glycogen.",
"They are generally large and often have a complex branched connectivity.",
"Because of their size, polysaccharides are not water-soluble, but their many hydroxy groups become hydrated individually when exposed to water, and some polysaccharides form thick colloidal dispersions when heated in water.",
"Shorter polysaccharides, with 3 - 10 monomers, are called oligosaccharides.",
"A fluorescent indicator-displacement molecular imprinting sensor was developed for discriminating saccharides.",
"It successfully discriminated three brands of orange juice beverage.",
"The change in fluorescence intensity of the sensing films resulting is directly related to the saccharide concentration."
] |
[
1
] |
Cast
|
Which actor plays Lieutenant Matt Kowalski in the movie Gravity?
|
Gravity (film)
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
1
] |
[
" Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer and mission specialist who is on her first space mission.",
" George Clooney as Lieutenant Matt Kowalski; the commander of the team.",
"Kowalski is a veteran astronaut planning to retire after the \"Explorer\" expedition.",
"He enjoys telling stories about himself and joking with his team, and is determined to protect the lives of his fellow astronauts.",
" Ed Harris (voice) as Mission Control in Houston, Texas.",
" Orto Ignatiussen (voice) as Aningaaq, a Greenlandic Inuit fisherman who intercepts one of Stone's transmissions.",
"Aningaaq also appears in a self-titled short written and directed by \"Gravity\" co-writer Jonás Cuarón, which depicts the conversation between him and Stone from his perspective.",
" Phaldut Sharma (voice) as Shariff Dasari, the flight engineer on board the \"Explorer\".",
" Amy Warren (voice) as the captain of \"Explorer\".",
" Basher Savage (voice) as the captain of the International Space Station."
] |
[] |
Soviet historiography
|
Who led the organization of the industrial workers during the Soviet October Revolution?
|
October Revolution
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
11
] |
[
"Soviet historiography of the October Revolution is intertwined with Soviet historical development.",
"Many of the initial Soviet interpreters of the Revolution were themselves Bolshevik revolutionaries.",
"(For example, the revolutionary Leon Trotsky wrote a major narrative of the October Revolution.)",
"After the initial wave of revolutionary narratives, Soviet historians worked within “narrow guidelines” defined by the Soviet government.",
"The rigidity of interpretive possibilities reached its height under Joseph Stalin.",
"Soviet historians of the October Revolution interpreted the Revolution so as to establish the legitimacy of Marxist ideology, and also the Bolshevik regime.",
"To establish the accuracy of Marxist ideology, Soviet historians generally described the Revolution as the product of class struggle.",
"They maintained that the Revolution was the supreme event in a world history governed by historical laws.",
"The Bolshevik Party is placed at the center of the Revolution, exposing the errors of both the moderate Provisional Government and the spurious “socialist” Mensheviks in the Petrograd Soviet.",
"Guided by Vladimir Lenin's leadership and his firm grasp of scientific Marxist theory, the Party led the “logically predetermined” events of the October Revolution from beginning to end.",
"The events were, according to these historians, logically predetermined because of the socio-economic development of Russia, where the monopoly industrial capitalism alienated the masses.",
"In this view, the Bolshevik party took the leading role in organizing these alienated industrial workers, and thereby established the construction of the first socialist state.",
"Although Soviet historiography of the October Revolution stayed relatively constant until 1991, it did undergo some changes.",
"Following Stalin’s death, historians such as E. N. Burdzhalov and P. V. Volobuev published historical research that deviated significantly from the party line in refining the doctrine that the Bolshevik victory “was predetermined by the state of Russia’s socio-economic development”.",
"These historians, who comprised the “New Directions Group”, posited that the complex nature of the October Revolution “could only be explained by a multi-causal analysis, not by recourse to the mono-causality of monopoly capitalism”.",
"For them, the central actor is still the Bolshevik party, but this party triumphed “because it alone could solve the preponderance of ‘general democratic’ tasks the country faced” (such as the struggle for peace, the exploitation of landlords, and so on.",
")During the late Soviet period, the opening of select Soviet archives during glasnost sparked innovative research that broke away from some aspects of Marxism-Leninism, though the key features of the orthodox Soviet view remained intact."
] |
[
3
] |
Premise
|
What was missing in their relationship?
|
The New Normal (TV series)
| true | 1TV
|
[
1
] |
[
"Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha) are a happy gay couple living in Los Angeles, with successful careers.",
"The only thing missing in their relationship is a baby.",
"They meet Goldie Clemmons, (Georgia King), a single mother and waitress from Ohio.",
"Goldie left her adulterous husband and moved to L.A. with her 9-year-old daughter Shania (Bebe Wood) to escape their former life and start over.",
"Jane (Ellen Barkin), Goldie's conservative grandmother, follows them to the city against Goldie's wishes, thus causing havoc for her granddaughter and the couple.",
"Goldie decides to become Bryan and David's gestational surrogate, and naturally, her family gets involved."
] |
[
0
] |
Mutation
|
What are the changes in the DNA sequence of a cell's genome?
|
Evolution
| true | 8SCIENCE
|
[
0
] |
[
"Mutations are changes in the DNA sequence of a cell's genome.",
"When mutations occur, they can either have no effect, alter the product of a gene, or prevent the gene from functioning.",
"Based on studies in the fly \"Drosophila melanogaster\", it has been suggested that if a mutation changes a protein produced by a gene, this will probably be harmful, with about 70% of these mutations having damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or weakly beneficial.",
"Mutations can involve large sections of a chromosome becoming duplicated (usually by genetic recombination), which can introduce extra copies of a gene into a genome.",
"Extra copies of genes are a major source of the raw material needed for new genes to evolve.",
"This is important because most new genes evolve within gene families from pre-existing genes that share common ancestors.",
"For example, the human eye uses four genes to make structures that sense light: three for colour vision and one for night vision; all four are descended from a single ancestral gene.",
"New genes can be generated from an ancestral gene when a duplicate copy mutates and acquires a new function.",
"This process is easier once a gene has been duplicated because it increases the redundancy of the system; one gene in the pair can acquire a new function while the other copy continues to perform its original function.",
"Other types of mutations can even generate entirely new genes from previously noncoding DNA.",
"The generation of new genes can also involve small parts of several genes being duplicated, with these fragments then recombining to form new combinations with new functions.",
"When new genes are assembled from shuffling pre-existing parts, domains act as modules with simple independent functions, which can be mixed together to produce new combinations with new and complex functions.",
"For example, polyketide synthases are large enzymes that make antibiotics; they contain up to one hundred independent domains that each catalyse one step in the overall process, like a step in an assembly line."
] |
[
0
] |
Development
|
In what year did Tom Hanks attach to this project?
|
Captain Phillips (film)
| true | 6MOVIES
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[
1
] |
[
"Shortly after the publication of Richard Phillips's memoir \"A Captain's Duty\" in 2010, Sony Pictures optioned the film rights.",
"In March 2011, actor Tom Hanks attached himself to the project after reading a draft of the screenplay by Billy Ray.",
"During the following June, director Paul Greengrass was offered the helm of the then-untitled film adaptation.",
"A worldwide search subsequently began to find the film's supporting Somali cast.",
"From this search, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, and Mahat M. Ali were chosen from among more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis.",
"According to the search casting director, Debbie DeLisi, the four actors were selected because they were \"the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out.",
"\"Producers visited the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum to see the bullet-scarred, five-ton fiberglass lifeboat aboard which the pirates held Capt.",
"Phillips hostage so that they could accurately re-create the boat and interiors for the set.",
"They were also able to view an example of the Boeing Insitu ScanEagle UAV, used to monitor the crisis, as well as the Mark 11 Mod 0 (SR-25) sniper rifle (the type used by the U.S. Navy SEALs), both also on display at the museum."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
Was baseball the national sport of the United States in the late 19th century?
|
Baseball
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[
"Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players who take turns batting and fielding.",
"The offense attempts to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third and home plate.",
"A run is scored when the runner advances around the bases and returns to home plate.",
"Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways.",
"A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance on a teammate's hit or other means.",
"The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs.",
"One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game.",
"The team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins.",
"Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-18th century.",
"This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed.",
"By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States.",
"Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, East Asia and Europe.",
"In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.",
"The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series.",
"The top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central League and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the West League and East League."
] |
[] |
Sources of inspiration
|
What does the Norwegian word "skrik" mean?
|
The Scream
| false | 3ART
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[
1
] |
[
"The original German title given to the work by Munch is \"Der Schrei der Natur\" (\"The Scream of Nature\").",
"The Norwegian word \"skrik\" usually is translated as \"scream\", but is cognate with the English \"shriek\".",
"Occasionally, the painting also has been called \"The Cry\".",
"In his diary in an entry headed, \"Nice 22 January 1892\", Munch described his inspiration for the image:This memory was later rendered by Munch as a poem, which he hand-painted onto the frame of the 1895 pastel version of the work:Among theories advanced to account for the reddish sky in the background is the artist's memory of the effects of the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, which deeply tinted sunset skies red in parts of the Western hemisphere for months during 1883 and 1884, about a decade before Munch painted \"The Scream\".",
"This explanation has been disputed by scholars, who note that Munch was an expressive painter and was not primarily interested in literal renderings of what he had seen.",
"Alternatively, it has been suggested that the proximity of both a slaughterhouse and a lunatic asylum to the site depicted in the painting may have offered some inspiration.",
"The scene was identified as being the view from a road overlooking Oslo, the Oslofjord and Hovedøya, from the hill of Ekeberg.",
"At the time of painting the work, Munch's manic depressive sister Laura Catherine was a patient at the asylum at the foot of Ekeberg.",
"In 1978, the Munch scholar Robert Rosenblum suggested that the strange, sexless creature in the foreground of the painting was inspired by a Peruvian mummy, which Munch could have seen at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.",
"This mummy, which was buried in a fetal position with its hands alongside its face, also struck the imagination of Munch's friend Paul Gauguin: it stood as a model for the central figure in his painting, \"Human misery (Grape harvest at Arles)\" and for the old woman at the left in his painting, \"Where Do We Come From?",
"What Are We?",
"Where Are We Going?\".",
"More recently, an Italian anthropologist speculated that Munch might have seen a mummy in Florence's Museum of Natural History, which bears an even more striking resemblance to the painting.",
"The imagery of \"The Scream\" has been compared to that which an individual suffering from depersonalization disorder experiences, a feeling of distortion of the environment and one's self, and also facial pain."
] |
[
0
] |
History
|
How many distinct building campaigns did the Versailles have?
|
Palace of Versailles
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
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] |
[
"The earliest mention of the name of Versailles is in a document dated 1038, relating to the village of Versailles.",
"In 1575, the seigneury of Versailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited Louis XIII on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles.",
"Pleased with the location, Louis ordered the construction of a hunting lodge in 1624.",
"Eight years later, Louis obtained the seigneury of Versailles from the Gondi family and began to make enlargements to the château.",
"This structure would become the core of the new palace.",
"Louis XIII's successor, Louis XIV, had it expanded into one of the largest palaces in the world.",
"Following the Treaties of Nijmegen in 1678, he began to gradually move the court to Versailles.",
"The court was officially established there on 6 May 1682.",
"After the disgrace of Nicolas Fouquet in 1661, Louis confiscated Fouquet's estate and employed the talents of Le Vau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun, who all had worked on Fouquet's grand château Vaux-le-Vicomte, for his building campaigns at Versailles and elsewhere.",
"For Versailles, there were four distinct building campaigns."
] |
[
5
] |
Abstract
|
In what year did Grand Central Station become Grand Central Terminal?
|
Grand Central Terminal
| false | 2TRAVEL
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6
] |
[
"Grand Central Terminal (GCT) is a commuter (and former intercity) railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.",
"Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest such facility in the world by number of platforms with 44 serving 67 tracks along them.",
"They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100.",
"The terminal covers an area of .",
"The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.",
"Until 1991 the terminal served Amtrak, which moved to nearby Pennsylvania Station upon completion of the Empire Connection.",
"Although the terminal has been properly called “Grand Central Terminal” since 1913, many people continue to refer to it wrongly as “Grand Central Station,” the name of the previous rail station on the same site, and of the U.S. Post Office station next door, which is not part of the terminal.",
"It is also sometimes used to refer to the Grand Central – 42nd Street subway station, which serves the terminal.",
"It has been described as \"the world's loveliest station\".",
"According to the travel magazine \"Travel + Leisure\" in its October 2011 survey, Grand Central Terminal is \"the world's number six most visited tourist attraction\", bringing in approximately 21,600,000 visitors annually.",
"The enduring appeal of the station is thought to be related to its monumental spaces and meticulously crafted detail."
] |
[
0
] |
Harvesting, drying and milling
|
What is another name for unmilled rice ?
|
Rice
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
0
] |
[
"Unmilled rice, known as paddy (Indonesia and Malaysia: padi; Philippines, palay), is usually harvested when the grains have a moisture content of around 25%.",
"In most Asian countries, where rice is almost entirely the product of smallholder agriculture, harvesting is carried out manually, although there is a growing interest in mechanical harvesting.",
"Harvesting can be carried out by the farmers themselves, but is also frequently done by seasonal labour groups.",
"Harvesting is followed by threshing, either immediately or within a day or two.",
"Again, much threshing is still carried out by hand but there is an increasing use of mechanical threshers.",
"Subsequently, paddy needs to be dried to bring down the moisture content to no more than 20% for milling.",
"A familiar sight in several Asian countries is paddy laid out to dry along roads.",
"However, in most countries the bulk of drying of marketed paddy takes place in mills, with village-level drying being used for paddy to be consumed by farm families.",
"Mills either sun dry or use mechanical driers or both.",
"Drying has to be carried out quickly to avoid the formation of moulds.",
"Mills range from simple hullers, with a throughput of a couple of tonnes a day, that simply remove the outer husk, to enormous operations that can process 4,000 tonnes a day and produce highly polished rice.",
"A good mill can achieve a paddy-to-rice conversion rate of up to 72% but smaller, inefficient mills often struggle to achieve 60%.",
"These smaller mills often do not buy paddy and sell rice but only service farmers who want to mill their paddy for their own consumption."
] |
[
0
] |
Antecedents
|
What did the first modern Mexican mural feature?
|
Mexican muralism
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
11
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[
"Mexico has had a tradition of painting murals, starting with the Olmec civilization in the pre Hispanic period and into the colonial period, with murals mostly painted to evangelize and reinforce Christian doctrine.",
"The modern tradition has its roots in the 19th century, with this use of political and social themes.",
"The first Mexican mural painter to use philosophical themes in his work was Juan Cordero in the mid 19th century.",
"Although he did mostly work with religious themes such as the cupola of the Santa Teresa Church and other churches, he painted a secular mural at the request of Gabino Barreda at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (since disappeared).",
"The latter 19th century was dominated politically by the Porfirio Díaz regime.",
"This government was the first to push for the cultural development of the country, supporting the Academy of San Carlos and sending promising artists abroad to study.",
"However, this effort left out indigenous culture and people, with aim of making Mexico like Europe.",
"Gerardo Murillo, also known as Dr. Atl, is considered to be the first modern Mexican muralists with the idea that Mexican art should reflect Mexican life.",
"Academy training and the government had only promoted imitations of European art.",
"Atl and other early muralists pressured the Diaz government to allow them to paint on building walls to escape this formalism.",
"Atl also organized an independent exhibition of native Mexican artists promoting many indigenous and national themes along with color schemes that would later appear in mural painting.",
"The first modern Mexican mural, painted by Atl, was a series of female nudes using “Atlcolor” a substance Atl invented himself, very shortly before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution .",
"Another influence on the young artists of the late Porfirian period was the graphic work of José Guadalupe Posada, who mocked European styles and created cartoons with social and political criticism.",
"The Mexican Revolution itself was the culmination of political and social opposition to Porfirio Díaz policies.",
"One important oppositional group was a small intellectual community that included Antonio Curo, Alfonso Reyes and José Vasconcelos.",
"They promoted a populist philosophy that coincided with the social and political criticism of Atl and Posada and influenced the next generation of painters such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros.",
"These ideas gained power as a result of the Mexican Revolution, which overthrew the Díaz regime in less than a year.",
"However, there was nearly a decade of fighting among the various factions vying for power.",
"Governments changed frequently with a number of assassination, including that of Francisco I. Madero who initiated the struggle.",
"It ended in the early 1920s with one-party rule in the hands of the Álvaro Obregón faction, which became the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).",
"During the Revolution, Atl supported the Carranza faction and promoted the work of Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros, who would later be the founders of the muralism movement.",
"Through the war and until 1921, Atl continued to paint murals among other activities including teaching the Mexico’s next generation of artists and muralists."
] |
[
0
] |
Ratings
|
The pilot episode of the show "Once Upon a Time" was viewed by how many people?
|
Once Upon a Time (TV series)
| true | 1TV
|
[
1
] |
[
"The first season premiered as the top-rated drama series.",
"The pilot episode was watched by 13 million viewers and received a 4.0 rating/share among 18–49 year olds.",
"It was the season's highest-rated drama debut among the age range and ABC's biggest debut in five years.",
"With DVR viewers, the premiere climbed to 15.5 million viewers and a 5.2 rating/share in adults 18–49.",
"The show's next three episodes had consistent ratings every week with over 11 million viewers.",
"The series has become the number one non-sports program with viewers and young adults on Sunday nights."
] |
[
5
] |
Historical accuracy
|
For what reason was mayor Angelo Errichetti praised?
|
American Hustle
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
9
] |
[
"",
"\"American Hustle\" does not attempt to directly document the events of Abscam.",
"The names are changed, and the film begins with the on-screen message, \"Some of this actually happened\".",
"Major departures from reality include:",
" In the film, Irving Rosenfeld begins a life of criminality when he smashes storefront windows as a child in order to provide more work for his father's glass-installation business.",
"In real life, Melvin Weinberg began working for his father only as an adult.",
"He did smash windows at that point, and according to one article after Abscam was revealed, it was indeed done to shore up business for Weinberg's father.",
"A later report, however, states that it was done at the behest of the local union, to punish businesses who used non-union glaziers.",
" In the film, Camden mayor Carmine Polito is shown as a selfless politician who gets involved in the scam only to provide jobs to his constituents; Irving feels so bad for Carmine that he engineers a reduced sentence for him.",
"In reality, though Camden mayor Angelo Errichetti was widely praised for caring about the people of Camden, he also had a reputation for committing crimes.",
"During the Abscam operation, he offered to get the fake sheikh into illegal businesses such as money counterfeiting and drug smuggling.",
"Though Weinberg developed a fondness for Errichetti as a man who \"didn't beat around the bush\", he made no attempt to protect Errichetti from prosecution.",
" Evelyn Knight, Weinberg's mistress on whom the character of Sydney Prosser is based, was involved in Weinberg's scams, though to a lesser extent than shown in the film; and she was not involved in Abscam.",
"She was also English, not an American impersonating an Englishwoman as shown in the film.",
" Weinberg's wife Cynthia Marie Weinberg, the basis for Rosalyn Rosenfeld, is not known to have had an affair with someone from the mafia, nor did she nearly blow Weinberg's cover.",
" The character of Richie DiMaso is based to some extent on federal agent Tony Amoroso, although in real life Amoroso was just one of a number of agents involved in setting up and executing the scam.",
" In the film, the sheikh is impersonated by a Mexican-American FBI agent with very limited Arabic.",
"In real life, the sheikh was played by two different agents: first briefly by an American, Mike Denehy, who spoke no Arabic, then by a Lebanese-American."
] |
[
0
] |
History
|
Registered as a trademark in 1955, "Shabu-Shabu" was introduced in Japan during what century?
|
Shabu-shabu
| false | 9FOOD
|
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1,
4
] |
[
"",
"\"Shabu-shabu\" was introduced in Japan in the 20th century with the opening of the restaurant \"Suehiro\"[http://www.e-suehiro.com/history/] in Osaka, where the name was invented.",
"Its origins are traced back to the Chinese hot pot known as \"shuan yang rou\".",
"\"Shabu-shabu\" is most similar to the original Chinese version when compared to other Japanese dishes (\"nabemono\") such as \"sukiyaki\" .",
"Suehiro registered the name as a trademark in 1955.",
"Together with \"sukiyaki\", \"shabu-shabu\" is a common dish in tourist hot-spots, especially in Tokyo, but also in local Japanese neighborhoods (colloquially called \"Little Tokyos\") in countries such as the United States and Canada."
] |
[
0
] |
Video game
|
What game did Marlon Brando provide voice work for shortly before his death?
|
The Godfather
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
1
] |
[
"In March 2006, a video game version of \"The Godfather\" was released by Electronic Arts.",
"Before his death, Marlon Brando provided voice work for Vito; however, owing to poor sound quality from Brando's failing health, only parts of the recordings could be used.",
"A sound-alike's voice had to be used in the \"missing parts\".",
"James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Abe Vigoda lent their voices and likenesses as well, and several other \"Godfather\" cast members had their likeness in the game.",
"However, Al Pacino's likeness and voice (Michael Corleone) was not in the game as Al Pacino sold his likeness and voice exclusively for use in the \"\" video game.",
"Francis Ford Coppola said in April 2005 that he was not informed and did not approve of Paramount allowing the game's production, and openly criticized the move."
] |
[
0
] |
Stress
|
Who was the cosmonaut that wrote about a problematic period onboard the Salyut 6?
|
International Space Station
| true | 8SCIENCE
|
[
1
] |
[
"There has been considerable evidence that psychosocial stressors are among the most important impediments to optimal crew morale and performance.",
"Cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, wrote in his journal during a particularly difficult period onboard the Salyut 6 space station: “All the conditions necessary for murder are met if you shut two men in a cabin measuring 18 feet by 20 and leave them together for two months.”NASA's interest in psychological stress caused by space travel, initially studied when their manned missions began, was rekindled when astronauts joined cosmonauts on the Russian space station Mir.",
"Common sources of stress in early American missions included maintaining high performance while under public scrutiny, as well as isolation from peers and family.",
"The latter is still often a cause of stress on the ISS, such as when the mother of NASA Astronaut Daniel Tani died in a car accident, and when Michael Fincke was forced to miss the birth of his second child.",
"A study of the longest spaceflight concluded that the first three weeks represent a critical period where attention is adversely affected because of the demand to adjust to the extreme change of environment.",
"While Skylab's 3 crews remained one, two, and three months respectively, long term crews on Salyut 6, Salyut 7, and the ISS last about five to six months while MIR's expeditions often lasted longer.",
"The ISS working environment includes further stress caused by living and working in cramped conditions with people from very different cultures who speak a different language.",
"First generation space stations had crews who spoke a single language, while second and third-generation stations have crew from many cultures who speak many languages.",
"The ISS is unique because visitors are not classed automatically into 'host' or 'guest' categories as with previous stations and spacecraft, and may not suffer from feelings of isolation in the same way.",
"Crew members with a military pilot background and those with an academic science background or teachers and politicians may have problems understanding each other's jargon and worldview."
] |
[
3
] |
Clothing and fashion
|
When was Pakistan's first fashion week?
|
Pakistan
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
9
] |
[
"The shalwar kameez is the national dress of Pakistan and is worn by men and women in all four provinces Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and FATA in the country and in Azad Kashmir.",
"Each province has its own style of wearing the Shalwar Qameez.",
"Pakistanis wairclothes range from exquisite colors and designs to the type of fabric (silk, chiffon, cotton, etc.",
"Pakistani fashion has flourished well in the changing environment of fashion world.",
"Since Pakistan came into being its fashion has been historically evolved from different phases and made its unique identity apart from Indian fashion and culture.",
"At this time, Pakistani fashion is a combination of traditional and modern dresses and it has become the cultural identification of Pakistan.",
"Despite of all modern trends, the regional and traditional dresses have developed their own significance as a symbol of native tradition.",
"This regional fashion is not static but evolving into more modern and pure forms.",
"The Pakistan Fashion Design Council based in Lahore organizes \"Fashion Week\" and Fashion Pakistan based in Karachi organizes fashion shows in that city.",
"Pakistan’s first fashion week was held in November 2009."
] |
[
2
] |
The Hollow
|
What is the name of the oldest operating coaster in the park?
|
Hersheypark
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
0
] |
[
"This section was named after the oldest operating coaster in the park, Comet, and lies along Spring Creek.",
"This is one of the oldest areas part of Hersheypark; many rides have come and gone in this area.",
"The park's first water ride, the Mill Chute installed in 1929, was alongside the creek where Great Bear runs today.",
"The original location for the bumper cars, then called the Auto Skooters, is now the SooperDooperLooper Sandwich Stop.",
"There were giant slides on the hill where the Hersheypark Amphitheater is located.",
"A turnpike ride was located underneath the high bridge that crossed Spring Creek to Minetown.",
"The park's carousel, before being moved to Carrousel Circle in 1972, was located along the creek adjacent to the station of Comet.",
"Before SooperDooperLooper came to Comet Hollow in 1977, a Himalaya ride was in that location, and before that, twin Eli Bridge Ferris wheels.",
"A whip, and a station for the Electric Railroad were also located in Comet Hollow at one time.",
"One of Hersheypark's most significant floods occurred in 1972 as a result of Hurricane Agnes.",
"A number of rides were heavily damaged or destroyed as a result.",
"These rides include the turnpike ride, the Mill Chute and the giant slides.",
"They were eventually replaced (the Coal Cracker (1973) and Twin Turnpike (1975) were put on higher ground in Minetown, and the Merry Derry Dip Fun Slide was put in Midway America twenty five years later in 1997).",
"Today, Comet Hollow features three roller coasters, Comet (Hersheypark), Skyrush, and the first looping roller coaster on the East Coast, SooperDooperLooper.",
"It also houses the Wave Swinger.",
"Almost all of Great Bear's track courses through Comet Hollow.",
"Beginning with the 2012 season and renovations being done to this area, the park changed the name of the once 'Comet Hollow' to the now present name of 'The Hollow'."
] |
[
0
] |
Background and composition
|
What does he think about the people who like it
|
Moves like Jagger
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|
[
5
] |
[
"",
"\"Moves like Jagger\" was written and produced by Benjamin Levin and Shellback, while additional writing was done by Adam Levine.",
"When asked about the song, Levine said, \"It was one of those songs that was definitely a risk; it's a bold statement.",
"We've never really released a song like that.",
"But it's exciting to do something different, do something new.",
"I'm just happy everyone likes it.\"",
"\"Moves like Jagger\" is a dance-pop and electropop song, with elements of disco, pop, rock and soul.",
"It features a \"throbbing\" synth, fast-paced beat and electronic drums.",
"Robbie Daw from Idolator wrote that \"Moves like Jagger\" slightly echoes The Rolling Stones' chart-topping 1978 classic \"Miss You\", and added that \"Levine’s voice is distorted via Auto-Tune on the chorus.\"",
"The song is introduced by a whistle melody and light, funky guitar in the key of B minor.",
"Levine tries his best to impress his female interest with dance moves like The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger: \"I don't need to try to control you / Look into my eyes and I'll own you / With the moves like Jagger / I got the moves like Jagger / I got the moves like Jagger.\"",
"Aguilera appears mid-way through the song's bridge, playing her role as a tease: \"You want to know how to make me smile / Take control, own me just for the night / But if I share my secret / You gonna have to keep it / Nobody else can see this.\""
] |
[
0,
3
] |
Cast
|
Who was Toby Huss in the film Enough Said?
|
Enough Said (film)
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
5
] |
[
" Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Eva",
" James Gandolfini as Albert",
" Toni Collette as Sarah",
" Catherine Keener as Marianne",
" Ben Falcone as Will",
" Toby Huss as Peter",
" Anjelah Johnson as Cathy",
" Michaela Watkins as Hilary",
" Eve Hewson as Tess",
" Amy Landecker as Debbie",
" Christopher Nicholas Smith as Hal",
" Tracey Fairaway as Ellen",
" Phillip Brock as Jason",
" Tavi Gevinson as Chloe"
] |
[
3
] |
Abstract
|
How many stones did each team have?
|
Curling
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
3
] |
[
"Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric rings.",
"It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard.",
"Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called \"rocks\", across the ice \"curling sheet\" towards the \"house\", a circular target marked on the ice.",
"Each team has eight stones.",
"The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a \"game\"; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each \"end\", which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones.",
"A game may consist of ten or eight ends.",
"The curler can induce a curved path by causing the stone to slowly turn as it slides, and the path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms who accompany it as it slides down the sheet, using the brooms to alter the state of the ice in front of the stone.",
"A great deal of strategy and teamwork go into choosing the ideal path and placement of a stone for each situation, and the skills of the curlers determine how close to the desired result the stone will achieve.",
"This gives curling its nickname of \"chess on ice\"."
] |
[
5
] |
Sports
|
In Belgium, what other sports are popular in addition to football?
|
Belgium
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
1
] |
[
"Since the 1970s, sports clubs and federations are organised separately within each language community.",
"Association football is one of the most popular sports in both parts of Belgium, together with cycling, tennis, swimming and judo.",
"Belgians hold the most Tour de France victories of any country except France.",
"They have also the most victories on the UCI Road World Championships.",
"Philippe Gilbert is the 2012 world champion.",
"Another modern well-known Belgian cyclist is Tom Boonen.",
"With five victories in the Tour de France and numerous other cycling records, Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is regarded as one of the greatest cyclists of all time.",
"Jean-Marie Pfaff, a former Belgian goalkeeper, is considered one of the greatest in the history of football (soccer).",
"Belgium and The Netherlands previously hosted the UEFA European Football Championship in 2000.",
"Belgium hosted the 1972 European Football Championships.",
"The current Belgium football team have qualified for the 2014 world cup in Brazil and have a range of Premier League footbal players such as Romelu Lukaku, Eden Hazard and Marouane Fellaini.",
"Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin both were Player of the Year in the Women's Tennis Association as they were ranked the number one female tennis player.",
"The Spa-Francorchamps motor-racing circuit hosts the Formula One World Championship Belgian Grand Prix.",
"The Belgian driver, Jacky Ickx, won eight Grands Prix and six 24 Hours of Le Mans and finished twice as runner-up in the Formula One World Championship.",
"Belgium also has a strong reputation in motocross.",
"Sporting events annually held in Belgium include the Memorial Van Damme athletics competition, the Belgian Grand Prix Formula One, and a number of classic cycle races such as the Tour of Flanders and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.",
"The 1920 Summer Olympics were held in Antwerp."
] |
[
0
] |
France
|
Which specialty track includes anatomical pathology in France?
|
Pathology
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
3
] |
[
"In France, Pathology is separate in two distinct specialties, Anatomical pathology and Clinical pathology.",
"Residencies both lasts four years.",
"Residency in anatomical pathology is open to physicians only, while clinical pathology is open to both physicians and pharmacists.",
"Anatomical pathology in France is integrated in the internal medicine specialty track.",
"At the end of the second year of clinical pathology residency, residents can choose between general Clinical pathology and a specialization in one of the disciplines, but they can not practise Anatomical pathology.",
"And conversely, Anatomical pathology residents can not practise Clinical pathology."
] |
[] |
Later history
|
Where was the replica of the David statue placed?
|
David (Michelangelo)
| false | 3ART
|
[
1
] |
[
"In 1873 the statue of David was removed from the piazza, to protect it from damage, and displayed in the Accademia Gallery, Florence, where it attracts many visitors.",
"A replica was placed in the Piazza della Signoria in 1910.",
"In 1991, a man attacked the statue with a hammer he had concealed beneath his jacket, in the process damaging the toes of the left foot, before being restrained.",
"On 12 November 2010, a fiberglass replica of the \"David\" was installed on the roofline of Florence Cathedral, for one day only.",
"Photographs of the installation reveal the statue the way the \"Operai\" who commissioned the work originally expected it to be seen.",
"In 2010, a dispute over the ownership of David arose when, based on a legal review of historical documents, the Italian Culture Ministry claimed ownership of the statue in opposition to the city of Florence, where it has always been located.",
"Florence disputes the state claim."
] |
[
4
] |
Abstract
|
How much money did the film Terminator Salvation gross worldwide?
|
Terminator Salvation
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
8
] |
[
"Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by McG and starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington.",
"It is the fourth installment in the \"Terminator\" series.",
"In a departure from the previous installments, which were set between 1984 and 2004 and used time travel as a key plot element, \"Salvation\" is set in 2018 and focuses on the war between Skynet and humanity, with the human Resistance fighting against Skynet's killing machines.",
"Bale portrays John Connor, a Resistance fighter and the franchise's central character, while Worthington portrays cyborg Marcus Wright.",
"\"Terminator Salvation\" also features Anton Yelchin as a young Kyle Reese, a character first introduced in \"The Terminator\", and depicts the origin of the T-800 Model 101 Terminator.",
"After a troubled pre-production, with The Halcyon Company acquiring the rights for the franchise from Andrew G. Vajna and Mario Kassar and several writers working on the screenplay, filming began in May 2008 in New Mexico and ran for 77 days.",
"\"Terminator Salvation\" was released on May 21, 2009 in the United States and Canada, followed by early June releases in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.",
"Warner Bros. handled the North America release and Columbia Pictures the international one.",
"The film grossed over $371 million worldwide, but received negative reviews which criticized the story and the absence of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was replaced by a digital computer graphics version."
] |
[
5
] |
The flights
|
When was Wilbur Wright's flight around the Statue of Liberty duplicated with a replica of the Wright airplane?
|
Wright Brothers flights of 1909
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
26
] |
[
"Another acclaimed aviator, Glenn Curtiss, had agreed to participate.",
"Curtiss had recently set the world flight speed record in France, and the Wrights had just filed suit against him for patent infringement of their control systems.",
"The public's anticipation was fueled by news of the patent disputes.",
"These flights would be a showdown between the two fliers.",
"They were both scheduled to make a series of flights from Governors Island in New York harbor.",
"On September 29, Wilbur took off at 9:15 AM in windy conditions.",
"Curtiss felt his airplane could not handle the winds and he declined to fly.",
"When Curtiss admitted defeat to the wind, Wilbur is supposed to have said to him, 'It looks pretty good.",
"I think I will take a little spin in a few minutes.'",
"He flew for about two miles, which took a little longer than seven minutes.",
"Later that day Wilbur took off again, at 10:18 AM.",
"He flew over the ocean-liner RMS Lusitania and a flotilla of other watercraft on hand for the Hudson-Fulton celebration, many blowing their horns and tooting their whistles when the Flyer appeared overhead.",
"As Wilbur flew toward the Statue of Liberty, many onlookers feared he would crash into it, but he skillfully circled the statue as planned.",
"This flight caused a sensation in the press and became an iconic event, despite lasting less than five minutes.",
"Still unable to fly in the gusty weather, Curtiss had to depart for St. Louis due to a prior agreement.",
"He was supposed to have flown up the Hudson River for several miles and returned to Governors Island.",
"On Monday, October 4, Wilbur took off at 9:53 AM.",
"He flew north over the Hudson along the west shore of Manhattan, passing Grant's Tomb, then returned by the same route, finishing the 21 mile, 33-minute flight with a safe landing on Governor's Island.",
"As many as a million people witnessed the flight.",
"This was the exact flight that Curtiss had been unable to make.",
"Before the flight, Wilbur attached a red canoe to the bottom of the airplane as a safety precaution in case of an emergency landing in the water.",
"He reasoned that he could use the canoe to float himself to safety.",
"A blown engine cylinder that afternoon prevented any more flights.",
"This series of flights marked Wilbur's last flying before a public audience.",
"After Wilbur's death in 1912, Orville put the canoe in Hawthorn Hill, his estate in Oakwood, Ohio, as a memento.",
"This first airborne canoe was later moved to Carillon Historical Park in Ohio and exhibited in a room adjacent to the Wright Flyer III in Wright Hall.",
"The flight around the Statue of Liberty was duplicated on May 26, 2003 by the Dayton 'Wright B Flyer, Inc.' group, with a replica of the Wright airplane as a part of the celebrations of the anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight."
] |
[
2
] |
Home media
|
When was the Blu-ray version of Terminator Salvation released?
|
Terminator Salvation
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
0
] |
[
"The DVD and Blu-ray Disc of the film was released on December 1, 2009.",
"The former contains the theatrical cut of the film with a featurette on the Mototerminators.",
"The Blu-ray features both the theatrical cut and the R-rated Director's cut, which is three minutes longer (118 minutes), with bonus material including Maximum Movie Mode, a video commentary in which director McG talks about the film while it plays, featurettes, a video archive, and a digital comic of the first issue of the official film prequel comic.",
"Both versions include a digital copy of the theatrical cut for portable media players.",
"Target Stores will be the only retailer to carry the Director's Cut on DVD.",
"On its first week of retail, \"Terminator Salvation\" debuted at the top spot of the Blu-ray charts, and on second in the DVD charts, behind \"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian\".",
"The film made $29,811,432 in domestic DVD sales bringing its total gross to $401,439,971 "
] |
[
2
] |
Atomic number
|
How many stable isotopes of chlorine are there?
|
Proton
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
7
] |
[
" in chemistry.",
"Atomic number.",
"In chemistry, the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom is known as the atomic number, which determines the chemical element to which the atom belongs.",
"For example, the atomic number of chlorine is 17; this means that each chlorine atom has 17 protons and that all atoms with 17 protons are chlorine atoms.",
"The chemical properties of each atom are determined by the number of (negatively charged) electrons, which for neutral atoms is equal to the number of (positive) protons so that the total charge is zero.",
"For example, a neutral chlorine atom has 17 protons and 17 electrons, whereas a Cl− anion has 17 protons and 18 electrons for a total charge of −1.",
"All atoms of a given element are not necessarily identical, however, as the number of neutrons may vary to form different isotopes, and energy levels may differ forming different nuclear isomers.",
"For example, there are two stable isotopes of chlorine: with 35 − 17 = 18 neutrons and with 37 − 17 = 20 neutrons."
] |
[
5
] |
Abstract
|
What was the 15th book called?
|
Pretty Little Liars
| false | 1TV
|
[
11
] |
[
"Pretty Little Liars is a series of young-adult novels by author Sara Shepard, beginning with 2006's inaugural entry of the same name.",
"The series follows the lives of four girls – Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin, Aria Montgomery, and Emily Fields – whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison DiLaurentis, in the summer after 7th grade.",
"Later, when the girls are juniors in high school, they begin receiving various messages from someone using the alias \"A\" who threatens to expose their secrets.",
"The novels explore several different topics and themes such as bullying, murder, drug addiction, underage drinking, eating disorders, homosexuality, peer-pressure, infidelity, and mental illness.",
"Moral ambiguity and the consequences of lying (suggested by the title) are featured prominently in the series; the girls constantly create their own problems through their unwillingness or inability to tell the truth about certain events and misdeeds they have done.",
"The novels have appeared on the \"The New York Times\" Best Seller list.",
"A television series adaptation loosely based on the novels debuted on June 8, 2010 on ABC Family.",
"The twelfth book in the series, \"Burned\", was released on December 4, 2012.",
"A prequel, \"Ali's Pretty Little Lies\", was released on January 2, 2013.",
"Additionally, a thirteenth book, \"Crushed\", was released June 4, 2013.",
"The fourteenth book, \"Deadly\", was released on December 3, 2013.",
"On June 3, 2014 the 15th book Toxic is to be released.",
"Shepard revealed that she is planning on writing three more novels for the series."
] |
[
0
] |
Reception and expurgation
|
When the fresco was completed, how did the Council of Trent change its decrees?
|
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)
| true | 3ART
|
[
3
] |
[
"",
"\"The Last Judgment\" was an object of a heavy dispute between critics within the Catholic Counter-Reformation and those who appreciated the genius of the artist and the Mannerist style of the painting.",
"Michelangelo was accused of being insensitive to proper decorum, and of flaunting personal style over appropriate depictions of content.",
"A few years after the fresco was completed, the decrees of the Council of Trent urged a tightening-up of church control of \"unusual\" sacred images.",
"In response to certain accusers, when the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said of the painting \"it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully,\" and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather \"for the public baths and taverns,\" Michelangelo worked Cesena's face into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld (far bottom-right corner of the painting) with Donkey ears (i.e.",
"indicating foolishness), while his nudity is covered by a coiled snake.",
"It is said that when Cesena complained to the Pope, the pontiff joked that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain.",
"The genitalia in the fresco, referred to as 'objectionable,' were painted over with drapery after Michelangelo died in 1564 by the Mannerist artist Daniele da Volterra, when the Council of Trent condemned nudity in religious art.",
"The Council's decree in part reads: "
] |
[
2,
5
] |
Religion
|
Where did the Sephardi Jews used to have a large presence?
|
Greece
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
11
] |
[
"The Greek Constitution recognizes the Orthodox Christian faith as the \"prevailing\" faith of the country, while guaranteeing freedom of religious belief for all.",
"The Greek government does not keep statistics on religious groups and censuses do not ask for religious affiliation.",
"According to the U.S. State Department, an estimated 97% of Greek citizens identify themselves as Orthodox Christians, belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church.",
"In a Eurostat – Eurobarometer 2010 poll, 79% of Greek citizens responded that they \"believe there is a God\".",
"According to other sources, 15.8% of Greeks describe themselves as \"very religious\", which is the highest among all European countries.",
"The survey also found that just 3.5% never attend a church, compared to 4.9% in Poland and 59.1% in the Czech Republic.",
"Estimates of the recognized Greek Muslim minority, which is mostly located in Thrace, range from 98,000 to 140,000, (between 0.9% and 1.2%) while the immigrant Muslim community numbers between 200,000 and 300,000.",
"Albanian immigrants to Greece are usually associated with the Muslim religion, although most are secular in orientation.",
"Following the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, Greece and Turkey agreed to a population transfer based on cultural and religious identity.",
"About 500,000 Muslims from Greece, predominantly Turks, but also other Muslims, were exchanged with approximately 1,500,000 Greeks from Asia Minor (now Turkey).",
"Judaism has existed in Greece for more than 2,000 years.",
"Sephardi Jews used to have a large presence in the city of Thessaloniki (by 1900, some 80,000, or more than half of the population, were Jews), but nowadays the Greek-Jewish community who survived German occupation and the Holocaust, during World War II, is estimated to number around 5,500 people.",
"Greek citizens who are Roman Catholic are estimated to be at around 50,000 with the Roman Catholic immigrant community in the country approximately 200,000.",
"Old Calendarists account for 500,000 followers.",
"Protestants, including Greek Evangelical Church and Free Evangelical Churches, stand at about 30,000.",
"Assemblies of God, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and other Pentecostal churches of the Greek Synod of Apostolic Church have 12,000 members.",
"Independent Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost is the biggest Protestant denomination in Greece with 120 churches.",
"There are not official statistics about Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost, but the Orthodox Church estimates the followers as 20,000.",
"The Jehovah's Witnesses report having 28,859 active members.",
"Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism has also been reportedly practiced by thousands of Greeks."
] |
[
4
] |
Abstract
|
Where did the committee tell the Wright brothers they should demonstrate the power of flight?
|
Wright Brothers flights of 1909
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
3
] |
[
"Airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright are famed for making the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flights on 17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.",
"Lesser-known are other flights of theirs which played an important role at the dawn of aviation history.",
"In 1909 Wilbur was invited by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee to make paid exhibition flights to help mark 300 years of New York history, including Henry Hudson discovering Manhattan and Robert Fulton starting a successful commercial steamboat service on the Hudson River.",
"The committee wanted the Wrights to demonstrate flights over the water around New York City.",
"Orville was making flights for customers in Germany, so Wilbur, who had just finished training U.S. Army pilots, accepted the job."
] |
[
4
] |
Neta
|
Why is sushi fish of higher quality?
|
Sushi
| false | 9FOOD
|
[
0
] |
[
"For culinary, sanitary, and aesthetic reasons, the minimum quality and freshness of fish to be eaten raw must be superior to that of fish which is to be cooked.",
"Sushi chefs are trained to recognize important attributes, including smell, color, firmness, and freedom from parasites that may go undetected in commercial inspection.",
"Commonly used fish are tuna (\"maguro, shiro-maguro\"), Japanese amberjack, yellowtail (\"hamachi\"), snapper (\"kurodai\"), mackerel (\"saba\"), and salmon (\"sake\").",
"The most valued sushi ingredient is \"toro,\" the fatty cut of the fish.",
"This comes in a variety of \"ōtoro\" (often from the bluefin species of tuna) and \"chūtoro\", meaning \"middle toro\", implying that it is halfway into the fattiness between \"toro\" and the regular cut.",
"\"Aburi\" style refers to \"nigiri\" sushi where the fish is partially grilled (topside) and partially raw.",
"Most nigiri sushi will be completely raw.",
"Other seafoods such as squid (\"ika\"), eel (\"anago\" and \"unagi\"), pike conger (\"hamo\"), octopus (\"tako\"), shrimp (\"ebi\" and \"amaebi\"), clam (\"mirugai\", \"aoyagi\" and \"akagai\"), fish roe (\"ikura\", \"masago\", \"kazunoko\" and \"tobiko\"), sea urchin (\"uni\"), crab (\"kani\"), and various kinds of shellfish (abalone, prawn, scallop) are the most popular seafoods in sushi.",
"Oysters, however, are less common, as the taste is not thought to go well with the rice.",
"\"Kani kama\", or imitation crab stick, is commonly substituted for real crab, most notably in California rolls.",
"Pickled daikon radish (\"takuan\") in \"shinko maki\", pickled vegetables (\"tsukemono\"), fermented soybeans (\"nattō\") in \"nattō maki\", avocado, cucumber in \"kappa maki\", asparagus, yam, pickled ume (\"umeboshi\"), gourd (\"kanpyō\"), burdock (\"gobo\"), and sweet corn (possibly mixed with mayonnaise) are also used in sushi.",
"Tofu and eggs (in the form of slightly sweet, layered omelette called \"tamagoyaki\" and raw quail eggs ride as a \"gunkan-maki\" topping) are common."
] |
[
1
] |
Spin-off
|
When did "The Originals" premiere?
|
The Vampire Diaries
| false | 1TV
|
[
5
] |
[
"Former president of entertainment at The CW, Dawn Ostroff, mentioned a spin-off idea in 2010 that she said could happen in a few years.",
"A spin-off was in development for the 2011 fall line-up but, due to Kevin Williamson's commitment to \"The Secret Circle\", it was put on hold indefinitely.",
"On January 11, 2013, it was announced that a back-door pilot focused on the Originals, starring Joseph Morgan as Klaus titled \"The Originals\" would air on 25 April for a potential series pick-up for the 2013–2014 season.",
"This second spin-off attempt was carried out by Julie Plec with no involvement by Kevin Williamson.",
"On April 26, 2013, The CW announced that \"The Originals\" had been ordered to series to premiere in the 2013–14 television season.",
"\"The Originals\" premiered on October 3, 2013.",
"Daniel Gillies as Elijah, Claire Holt as Rebekah and Phoebe Tonkin as Hayley will also continue to play their characters, originally from \"The Vampire Diaries\", in the new spin-off series."
] |
[
2
] |
Religion
|
What percentage of Israel's population are Christian?
|
Israel
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
4
] |
[
"Israel and the Palestinian territories comprise the major part of the Holy Land, a region of significant importances to all Abrahamic religions – Jews, Christians, Muslims and Baha'is.",
"The religious affiliation of Israeli Jews varies widely: a social survey for those over the age of 20 indicates that 55% say they are \"traditional\", while 20% consider themselves \"secular Jews\", 17% define themselves as \"Religious Zionists\"; 8% define themselves as \"Haredi Jews\".",
"While the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim, represented only 5% of Israel's population in 1990, they are expected to represent more than one-fifth of Israel's Jewish population by 2028.",
"Making up 16% of the population, Muslims constitute Israel's largest religious minority.",
"About 2% of the population are Christian and 1.5% are Druze.",
"The Christian population primarily comprises Palestinian Christians, but also includes post-Soviet immigrants and the Foreign Laborers of multinational origins and followers of Messianic Judaism, considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity.",
"Members of many other religious groups, including Buddhists and Hindus, maintain a presence in Israel, albeit in small numbers.",
"Out of more than one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, about 300,000 are considered not Jewish by the Orthodox rabbinate.",
"The city of Jerusalem is of special importance to Jews, Muslims and Christians as it is the home of sites that are pivotal to their religious beliefs, such as the Israeli-controlled Old City that incorporates the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.",
"Other locations of religious importance in Israel are Nazareth (holy in Christianity as the site of the Annunciation of Mary), Tiberias and Safed (two of the Four Holy Cities in Judaism), the White Mosque in Ramla (holy in Islam as the shrine of the prophet Saleh), and the Church of Saint George in Lod (holy in Christianity and Islam as the tomb of Saint George or Al Khidr).",
"A number of other religious landmarks are located in the West Bank, among them Joseph's tomb in Shechem, the birthplace of Jesus and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.",
"The administrative center of the Bahá'í Faith and the Shrine of the Báb are located at the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa and the leader of the faith is buried in Acre.",
"Apart from maintenance staff, there is no Bahá'í community in Israel, although it is a destination for pilgrimages.",
"Bahá'í staff in Israel do not teach their faith to Israelis following strict policy."
] |
[
0
] |
Local rules
|
What protective gear must field hockey players wear?
|
Field hockey
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
8
] |
[
"There are sometimes minor variations in rules from competition to competition; for instance, the duration of matches is often varied for junior competitions or for carnivals.",
"Different national associations also have slightly differing rules on player equipment.",
"The new Euro Hockey League has made major alterations to the rules to aid television viewers, such as splitting the game into four quarters, and to try to improve player behaviour, such as a two-minute suspension for green cards—the latter was also used in the 2010 World Cup.",
"In the United States, the NCAA has its own rules for inter-collegiate competitions; high school associations similarly play to different rules, usually using the rules published by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).",
"This article assumes FIH rules unless otherwise stated.",
"USA Field Hockey produces an annual summary of the differences.",
"In the United States, the games at the junior high level consist of two 25-minute halves, while the high school level consists of two 30-minute halves.",
"Many private American schools play 25-minute halves, and some have adopted FIH rules rather than NFHS rules.",
"Players are required to wear mouth guards and shin guards in order to play the game.",
"Also, there is a newer rule requiring certain types of sticks be used.",
"In recent years, the NFHS rules have moved closer to FIH, but in 2011 a new rule requiring protective eyewear was introduced for the 2011 Fall season.",
"The 'cage style' goggles favored by US high school lacrosse and permitted in high school field hockey is not permitted under FIH rules."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
How many people climbed Paris' tallest structure in 2011?
|
Eiffel Tower
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
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] |
[
"The Eiffel Tower (, ) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris.",
"It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.",
"Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.",
"The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011.",
"The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010.",
"The tower is tall, about the same height as an 81- building.",
"During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930.",
"Because of the addition of the antenna atop the Eiffel Tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by .",
"Not including broadcast antennae, it is the second-tallest structure in France, after the Millau Viaduct.",
"The tower has three levels for visitors, with restaurants on the first and second.",
"The third level observatory's upper platform is above the ground, the highest accessible to the public in the European Union.",
"Tickets can be purchased to ascend by stairs or lift (elevator) to the first and second levels.",
"The climb from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level.",
"Although there are stairs to the third and highest level, these are usually closed to the public and it is generally only accessible by lift."
] |
[
5
] |
Scoring
|
When did games get the name "sets" and have their win value reduced to 25 points?
|
Volleyball
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
12
] |
[
"When the ball contacts the floor within the court boundaries or an error is made, the team that did not make the error is awarded a point, whether they served the ball or not.",
"If the ball hits the line, the ball is counted as in.",
"The team that won the point serves for the next point.",
"If the team that won the point served in the previous point, the same player serves again.",
"If the team that won the point did not serve the previous point, the players of the team rotate their position on the court in a clockwise manner.",
"The game continues, with the first team to score 25 points by a two-point margin is awarded the set.",
"Matches are best-of-five sets and the fifth set, if necessary, is usually played to 15 points.",
"(Scoring differs between leagues, tournaments, and levels; high schools sometimes play best-of-three to 25; in the NCAA matches are played best-of-five to 25 as of the 2008 season.",
")Before 1999, points could be scored only when a team had the serve (\"side-out scoring\") and all sets went up to only 15 points.",
"The FIVB changed the rules in 1999 (with the changes being compulsory in 2000) to use the current scoring system (formerly known as \"rally point system\"), primarily to make the length of the match more predictable and to make the game more spectator- and television-friendly.",
"The final year of side-out scoring at the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship was 2000.",
"Rally point scoring debuted in 2001 and games were played to 30 points through 2007.",
"For the 2008 season, games were renamed \"sets\" and reduced to 25 points to win."
] |
[
2
] |
History
|
Which is the oldest form of combat that we know of?
|
Wrestling
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
0
] |
[
"Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat.",
"Literary references to it occur as early as in the Iliad, in which Homer recounts the Trojan War of the 13th or 12th century BC.",
"The origins of wrestling go back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France.",
"Babylonian and Egyptian reliefs show wrestlers using most of the holds known in the present-day sport.",
"In ancient Greece wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature; wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, served as the focal sport of the ancient Olympic Games.",
"The ancient Romans borrowed heavily from Greek wrestling, but eliminated much of its brutality.",
"During the Middle Ages (fifth century to fifteenth century) wrestling remained popular and enjoyed the patronage of many royal families, including those of France, Japan and England.",
"Early European settlers in America brought a strong wrestling tradition with them if they came from England.",
"The settlers also found wrestling to be popular among Native Americans.",
"Amateur wrestling flourished throughout the early years of the North American colonies and served as a popular activity at country fairs, holiday celebrations, and in military exercises.",
"The first organized national wrestling tournament took place in New York City in 1888, and wrestling has been an event at every modern Olympic Games since the 1904 games in Saint Louis, Missouri (a demonstration had been performed at the first modern Olympics).",
"The International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA) originated in 1912 in Antwerp, Belgium.",
"The 1st NCAA Wrestling Championships were also held in 1912, in Ames, Iowa.",
"USA Wrestling, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, became the national governing body of amateur wrestling in 1983.",
"It conducts competitions for all age-levels."
] |
[] |
Recording
|
Who provided additional vocal production?
|
Love the Way You Lie
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|
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13
] |
[
"Mike Strange recorded and mixed Eminem's vocals at Effigy Studios in Ferndale, Michigan.",
"The sessions took two days.",
"Strange edited the vocals with D-Verb—a reverberation software—and an Extra Long Delay plug-in.",
"He preferred to make few changes; for \"Love the Way You Lie\" he almost exclusively used board compression and console equalization.",
"Strange used the Bricasti and Eventide Reverb 2016 mixing tools for \"brighter\" reverberation.",
"Detroit musician Luis Resto has contributed to the arrangement on many of Eminem's songs, but did not do so for \"Love the Way You Lie\".",
"According to Strange, \"Everything we needed was already in the track, apart from the vocals.\"",
"Two to three weeks after the sessions, Alex da Kid arrived to help mix and master the track.",
"He wanted to replace the acoustic guitar on the demo, but Eminem chose to keep it.",
"Strange said, \"It was simply a matter of trying to match and then to improve on the demo da Kid'd sent us.\"",
"Strange's brother Joe engineered the track.",
"Rihanna's recording sessions took place at Sun Studios in Dublin, Ireland.",
"Marcos Tovar mixed her vocals, which were engineered by Spike Lindsey and mastered from Detroit over the Internet.",
"The American songwriter Makeba Riddick provided additional vocal production.",
"Strange used equalization, compression and reverberation but left the vocal balance.",
"He assumed that Rihanna was satisfied with her recorded vocals and did not make major changes on her seven stereo vocal tracks."
] |
[
3
] |
Types of matches
|
Two inning matches usually take how long?
|
Cricket
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
3
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
5
] |
Other taolu routines
|
What is the Chinese term referring to the Southern Fist routine of Wushu?
|
Wushu (sport)
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
13
] |
[
"The majority of routines used in the sport are new, modernized recompilations of traditional routines.",
"However, routines taken directly from traditional styles, including the styles that are not part of standard events, may be performed in competition, especially in China.",
"These routines generally do not garner as many points as their modern counterparts, and are performed in events separate from the compulsory routine events.",
"Among these, the more commonly seen routines include:",
"Baguazhang (八卦掌) – Eight-Trigrams Palm",
"Bajiquan (八極拳) – Eight Extremes Fist/Boxing",
"Chaquan (查拳) – Cha Fist/Boxing",
"Changquan (长拳) – Long fist",
"Chuojiao (戳腳) – Poking Feet",
"Ditangquan (地躺拳) – Ground-Prone Fist/Boxing",
"Fanziquan (翻子拳) – Tumbling Fist/Boxing",
"Houquan (猴拳) – Monkey Fist/Boxing",
"Huaquan (華拳) – Hua Fist/Boxing",
"Nanquan (南拳) – Southern Fist",
"Paochui (炮捶) – Cannon Punch",
"Piguaquan (劈掛拳) – Chop-Hitch Fist/Boxing",
"Shequan (蛇拳) – Snake Fist/Boxing",
"Tantui (弹腿) – Spring Leg",
"Tanglanquan (螳螂拳) – Praying Mantis Fist/Boxing",
"Tongbeiquan (通背拳) – Through-the-Back Fist/Boxing",
"Wing Chun (Yongchunquan) – Eternal Spring",
"Xingyiquan (形意拳) – Shape-Intent Fist/Boxing",
"Yingzhuaquan (鷹爪拳) – Eagle Claw Fist/Boxing",
"Zuiquan (醉酒拳) – Drunken Fist/Boxing"
] |
[
0
] |
Natural features
|
How many black bears live in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
|
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
15
] |
[
"Elevations in the park range from at the mouth of Abrams Creek to at the summit of Clingmans Dome.",
"Within the park a total of sixteen mountains reach higher than 6,000 feet (1829 m).",
"The wide range of elevations mimics the latitudinal changes found throughout the entire eastern United States.",
"Indeed, ascending the mountains is comparable to a trip from Tennessee to Canada.",
"Plants and animals common in the country's Northeast have found suitable ecological niches in the park's higher elevations, while southern species find homes in the balmier lower reaches.",
"During the most recent ice age, the northeast-to-southwest orientation of the Appalachian mountains allowed species to migrate southward along the slopes rather than finding the mountains to be a barrier.",
"As climate warms, many northern species are now retreating upward along the slopes and withdrawing northward, while southern species are expanding.",
"The park normally has very high humidity and precipitation, averaging from 55 inches (1,400 mm) per year in the valleys to 85 inches (2,200 mm) per year on the peaks.",
"This is more annual rainfall than anywhere in the United States outside the Pacific Northwest and parts of Alaska and Hawaii.",
"It is also generally cooler than the lower elevations below, and most of the park has a humid continental climate more comparable to locations much farther north, as opposed to the humid subtropical climate in the lowlands.",
"The park is almost 95 percent forested, and almost 36 percent of it, , is estimated by the Park Service to be old growth forest with many trees that predate European settlement of the area.",
"It is one of the largest blocks of deciduous, temperate, old growth forest in North America.",
"The variety of elevations, the abundant rainfall, and the presence of old growth forests give the park an unusual richness of biota.",
"About 10,000 species of plants and animals are known to live in the park, and estimates as high as an additional 90,000 undocumented species may also be present.",
"Park officials count more than 200 species of birds, 66 species of mammals, 50 species of fish, 39 species of reptiles, and 43 species of amphibians, including many lungless salamanders.",
"The park has a noteworthy black bear population, numbering about 1,500.",
"An experimental re-introduction of elk (wapiti) into the park began in 2001.",
"Over 100 species of trees grow in the park.",
"The lower region forests are dominated by deciduous leafy trees.",
"At higher altitudes, deciduous forests give way to coniferous trees like Fraser Fir.",
"In addition, the park has over 1,400 flowering plant species and over 4,000 species of non-flowering plants."
] |
[
5
] |
Particle accelerators
|
What year was synchrotron radiation discovered?
|
Electron
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
3
] |
[
"With the development of the particle accelerator during the first half of the twentieth century, physicists began to delve deeper into the properties of subatomic particles.",
"The first successful attempt to accelerate electrons using electromagnetic induction was made in 1942 by Donald Kerst.",
"His initial betatron reached energies of 2.3 MeV, while subsequent betatrons achieved 300 MeV.",
"In 1947, synchrotron radiation was discovered with a 70 MeV electron synchrotron at General Electric.",
"This radiation was caused by the acceleration of electrons, moving near the speed of light, through a magnetic field.",
"With a beam energy of 1.5 GeV, the first high-energyparticle collider was ADONE, which began operations in 1968.",
"This device accelerated electrons and positrons in opposite directions, effectively doubling the energy of their collision when compared to striking a static target with an electron.",
"The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN, which was operational from 1989 to 2000, achieved collision energies of 209 GeV and made important measurements for the Standard Model of particle physics."
] |
[
0
] |
Abstract
|
What is a major component of Egypt's economy?
|
Egypt
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
9,
10
] |
[
"Egypt ( \"\"), is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.",
"Most of its territory of lies within the Nile Valley of North Africa and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.",
"With over 86 million inhabitants, Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East, and the 15th-most populated in the world.",
"The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about , where the only arable land is found.",
"The large regions of the Sahara Desert, which constitute most of Egypt's territory, are sparsely inhabited.",
"About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.",
"Egypt has one of the longest histories of any modern state, having been continuously inhabited since the 10th millennium BC.",
"Its monuments, such as the Giza Necropolis and its Great Sphinx, were constructed by its ancient civilization, which was one of the most powerful of its time and one of the first six civilizations to arise independently in the world.",
"Its ancient ruins, such as those of Memphis, Thebes, Karnak, and the Valley of the Kings outside Luxor, are a significant focus of archaeological study and popular interest from around the world.",
"Egypt's rich cultural legacy, as well as the attraction of its Red Sea Riviera, have made tourism a vital part of the economy, employing about 12 percent of the country's workforce.",
"The economy of Egypt is one of the most diversified in the Middle East, with sectors such as tourism, agriculture, industry and services at almost equal production levels.",
"Egypt is considered to be a regional and middle power, with significant cultural, political, and military influence in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world."
] |
[
0
] |
Riots
|
In how many cities did people riot after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated?
|
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
6
] |
[
"Colleagues of Dr. King in the civil rights movement called for a non-violent response to the assassination, to honor his most deeply held beliefs.",
"James Farmer, Jr. said:The more militant Stokely Carmichael, however, called for more forceful action, saying:\"White America killed Dr. King last night.",
"She made a whole lot easier for a whole lot of black people today.",
"There no longer needs to be intellectual discussions, black people know that they have to get guns.",
"White America will live to cry that she killed Dr. King last night.",
"It would have been better if she had killed Rap Brown and/or Stokely Carmichael, but when she killed Dr. King, she lost.",
"\"Despite the urging of many leaders, the assassination led to a nationwide wave of riots in more than 100 cities.",
"After the assassination, the city of Memphis quickly settled the strike on favorable terms to the sanitation workers."
] |
[
5
] |
Track listing
|
What is the extra track added to "How to Save a Life"?
|
How to Save a Life
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
1
] |
[
"In later editions, an extra track was added:",
"<li value=13>\"Unsaid\" – 3:05",
"Bonus CD:",
"<li value=14>\"Over My Head (Cable Car)\" (Live at the Gothic (05.20.2005))",
"\"How to Save a Life\" (Live for MTV.com & VH1.com (07.14.2005))",
"\"Look After You\" (Live at Red Rocks (08.12.2005))",
"\"Heaven Forbid\" (Live at Red Rocks (08.12.2005))",
"Bonus DVD:",
"How to Save a Life (The Story)",
"On The Road 2006 (Documentary)",
"\"Over My Head (Cable Car)\" (Music Video)",
"\"Over My Head (Cable Car)\" (Making the video)"
] |
[
0,
5
] |
Medieval period (4th century–1453)
|
What did authority collapse during the 7th century Greek peninsula?
|
Greece
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
4
] |
[
"Medieval period (4th century–1453).",
"The Roman Empire in the east, following the fall of the Empire in the west in the 5th century, is conventionally known as the Byzantine Empire (but was simply called \"Roman Empire\" in its own time) and lasted until 1453.",
"With its capital in Constantinople, its language and literary culture was Greek and its religion was predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian.",
"From the 4th century, the Empire's Balkan territories, including Greece, suffered from the dislocation of the \"Barbarian Invasions\".",
"The raids and devastation of the Goths and Huns in the 4th and 5th centuries and the Slavic invasion of Greece in the 7th century resulted in a dramatic collapse in imperial authority in the Greek peninsula.",
"Following the Slavic invasion, the imperial government retained control of only the islands and coastal areas, particularly cities such as Athens, Corinth and Thessalonica, while some mountainous areas in the interior held out on their own and continued to recognize imperial authority.",
"Outside of these areas, a limited amount of Slavic settlement is generally thought to have occurred, although on a much smaller scale than previously thought.",
"The Byzantine recovery of lost provinces began toward the end of the 8th century and most of the Greek peninsula came under imperial control again, in stages, during the 9th century.",
"This process was facilitated by a large influx of Greeks from Sicily and Asia Minor to the Greek peninsula, while at the same time many Slavs were captured and re-settled in Asia Minor and those that remained were assimilated.",
"During the 11th and 12th centuries the return of stability resulted in the Greek peninsula benefiting from strong economic growth – much stronger than that of the Anatolian territories of the Empire.",
"Following the Fourth Crusade and the fall of Constantinople to the \"Latins\" in 1204 most of Greece quickly came under Frankish rule (initiating the period known as the \"Frankokratia\") or Venetian rule in the case of some of the islands.",
"The re-establishment of the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople in 1261 was accompanied by the recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, although the Frankish Principality of Achaea in the Peloponnese remained an important regional power into the 14th century, while the islands remained largely under Genoese and Venetian control.",
"In the 14th century much of the Greek peninsula was lost by the Empire as first the Serbs and then the Ottomans seized imperial territory.",
"By the beginning of the 15th century, the Ottoman advance meant that Byzantine territory in Greece was limited mainly to the Despotate of the Morea in the Peloponnese.",
"After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, the Morea was the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to hold out against the Ottomans.",
"However, this, too, fell to the Ottomans in 1460, completing the Ottoman conquest of mainland Greece.",
"With the Turkish conquest, many Byzantine Greek scholars, who up until then were largely responsible for preserving Classical Greek knowledge, fled to the West, taking with them a large body of literature and thereby significantly contributing to the Renaissance."
] |
[
0
] |
Restoration
|
The AMC movie theater shut down in what year?
|
Union Station (Washington, D.C.)
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
6
] |
[
"As a result of the Redevelopment Act of 1981, Union Station was closed for restoration and refurbishing.",
"Mold was growing in the leaking ceiling of the Main Hall, and the carpet laid out for an Inauguration Day celebration was full of cigarette-burned holes.",
"In 1988, Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole awarded $70 million to the restoration effort.",
"\"The Pit\" was transformed into a new basement level, and the Main Hall floor was refitted with marble.",
"While installing new HVAC systems, crews discovered antique items in shafts that had not been opened since the building's creation.",
"The station reopened in its present form on September 29, 1988.",
"The former “Pit” area was replaced with an AMC movie theater (later Phoenix Theatres), closed October 12, 2009, to be replaced with additional restaurants and a large food court in the former baggage-mail level.",
"The food court still retains the original arches under which the trains were parked as well as the track numbers on those arches.",
"A variety of shops opened along the Concourse and Main Hall, and a new Amtrak terminal at the back behind the original Concourse.",
"Trains no longer enter the original Concourse but the original, decorative gates were relocated to the new passenger concourse.",
"In 1994, this new passenger concourse was renamed to honor W. Graham Claytor, Jr., who served as Amtrak's president from 1982 to 1993.",
"The decorative elements of the station were also restored.",
"The skylights were preserved but sunlight no longer illuminates the Concourse because it is blocked by the newer roof structure built directly overhead to support the aging, original structure."
] |
[
0
] |
Shooting
|
What is it called when the feet hit the floor before the ball is released?
|
Basketball
| true | 4SPORT
|
[
11
] |
[
"Shooting is the act of attempting to score points by throwing the ball through the basket, methods varying with players and situations.",
"Typically, a player faces the basket with both feet facing the basket.",
"A player will rest the ball on the fingertips of the dominant hand (the shooting arm) slightly above the head, with the other hand supporting the side of the ball.",
"The ball is usually shot by jumping (though not always) and extending the shooting arm.",
"The shooting arm, fully extended with the wrist fully bent, is held stationary for a moment following the release of the ball, known as a \"follow-through\".",
"Players often try to put a steady backspin on the ball to absorb its impact with the rim.",
"The ideal trajectory of the shot is somewhat controversial, but generally a proper arc is recommended.",
"Players may shoot directly into the basket or may use the backboard to redirect the ball into the basket.",
"The two most common shots that use the above described setup are the \"set-shot\" and the \"jump-shot\".",
"The set-shot is taken from a standing position, with neither foot leaving the floor, typically used for free throws, and in other circumstances whilst the jump-shot is taken in mid-air, the ball released near the top of the jump.",
"This provides much greater power and range, and it also allows the player to elevate over the defender.",
"Failure to release the ball before the feet return to the floor is considered a traveling violation.",
"Another common shot is called the \"lay-up\".",
"This shot requires the player to be in motion toward the basket, and to \"lay\" the ball \"up\" and into the basket, typically off the backboard (the backboard-free, underhand version is called a \"finger roll\").",
"The most crowd-pleasing and typically highest-percentage accuracy shot is the \"slam dunk\", in which the player jumps very high and throws the ball downward, through the basket whilst touching it.",
"Another shot that is becoming common is the \"circus shot\".",
"The circus shot is a low-percentage shot that is flipped, heaved, scooped, or flung toward the hoop while the shooter is off-balance, airborne, falling down, and/or facing away from the basket.",
"A back-shot is a shot taken when the player is facing away from the basket, and may be shot with the dominant hand, or both; but there is a very low chance that the shot will be successful.",
"A shot that misses both the rim and the backboard completely is referred to as an \"air-ball\".",
"A particularly bad shot, or one that only hits the backboard, is jocularly called a brick."
] |
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2,
0
] |
Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth
|
What year did the polish brethren show up?
|
Protestant Reformation
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
7
] |
[
"In the first half of the 16th century, the enormous Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a country of many creeds, but Roman Catholic Church remained the dominating religion.",
"Reformation reached Poland in the 1520s, and quickly gained popularity among mostly German-speaking inhabitants of such major cities, as Gdańsk, Toruń and Elbląg.",
"In Koenigsberg, in 1530, Polish-language edition of Luther's Small Catechism was published.",
"The Duchy of Prussia, which was a Polish fief, emerged as key center of the movement, with numerous publishing houses issuing not only Bibles, but also catechisms, in German, Polish and Lithuanian.",
"Lutheranism gained popularity in northern part of the country, while Calvinism caught the interest of szlachta, mainly in Lesser Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.",
"Several publishing houses were opened in Lesser Poland in mid-16th century, in such locations, as Słomniki and Raków.",
"At that time, Mennonites and Czech Brothers came to Poland, with the latter ones settling mostly in Greater Poland, around Leszno.",
"In 1565, Polish Brethren appeared as yet another reformation movement.",
"The 16th century Commonwealth was unique in Europe, because of widespread tolerance, confirmed by the Warsaw Confederation.",
"In 1563, the Brest Bible was published (see also Bible translations into Polish).",
"The period of tolerance ended during the reign of King Sigismund III Vasa, who was under strong influence of Piotr Skarga and other Jesuits.",
"After the Deluge, and other wars of the mid-17th century, in which all enemies of Poland were either Protestant or Orthodox Christians, the attitude of Poles changed.",
"Counter-Reformation prevailed, in 1658 Polish Brethren were forced to leave the country, and in 1666, the Sejm banned apostasy from Catholicism to any other religion, under punishment of death.",
"Finally, in 1717, the Silent Sejm banned non-Catholics from becoming deputies of the Parliament.",
"Among most important Protestants of the Commonwealth, there are such names, as Mikołaj Rej, Marcin Czechowic, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Symon Budny."
] |
[
0
] |
Modern women's ice hockey
|
How many female hockey players were there in the United States in the year 2011?
|
Ice hockey
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
3
] |
[
"Women's ice hockey.",
"Modern women's ice hockey.",
"Ice hockey is one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world, with the number of participants increasing 350 percent in the last 10 years.",
"In 2011, Canada had 85,827 women players, United States had 65,609, Finland 4,760, Sweden 3,075 and Switzerland 1,172.",
"While there are not as many organized leagues for women as there are for men, there exist leagues of all levels, including the Canadian Women's Hockey League, Western Women's Hockey League, Mid-Atlantic Women's Hockey League, and various European leagues; as well as university teams, national and Olympic teams, and recreational teams.",
"By the end of 2013, the IIHF had held fifteen IIHF World Women's Championship tournaments.",
"The USHL welcomed the first female professional hockey player in 1969–70, when the Marquette Iron Rangers signed Karen Koch.",
"Women's ice hockey was added as a medal sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.",
"The United States won the gold, Canada won the silver and Finland won the bronze medal.",
"The chief difference between women's and men's hockey is that body checking is not allowed in women's hockey.",
"After the 1990 Women's World Championship, body checking was eliminated in women's hockey.",
"In current IIHF women's competition, body checking is either a minor or major penalty, decided at the referee's discretion.",
"In addition, players in women's competition are required to wear protective full-face masks.",
"One woman, Manon Rhéaume, appeared as a goaltender for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning in pre-season games against the St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins, and in 2003 Hayley Wickenheiser played with the Kirkkonummi Salamat in the Finnish men's Suomi-sarja league.",
"Several women have competed in North American minor leagues, including goaltenders Kelly Dyer, Erin Whitten, Manon Rhéaume, and defenceman Angela Ruggiero."
] |
[
5
] |
International lacrosse
|
What are the two main countries in which lacrosse is played?
|
Lacrosse
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
0
] |
[
"Lacrosse has been played for the most part in Canada and the United States, with small but dedicated lacrosse communities in the United Kingdom and Australia.",
"Recently, however, lacrosse has begun to flourish at an international level, with teams being established particularly in Europe and east Asia.",
"With lacrosse not having been an official Olympic sport since 1908, the pinnacle of international lacrosse competition consists of the quadrennial World Championships.",
"Begun in 1968, world championships began as a four-team invitational tournament sponsored by the International Lacrosse Federation.",
"Until 1986, lacrosse world championships had been contested only by the US, Canada, England, and Australia.",
"Scotland and Wales had teams competing in the women's edition.",
"They are now held for lacrosse at senior men, senior women, under 19 men and under 19 women levels.",
"With the expansion of the game internationally, the 2006 Men's World Championship was contested by 21 countries and the Iroquois Nationals, representing the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.",
"They are the only Native American/First Nations team to compete internationally.",
"The 2009 Women's World Cup was competed for by 16 nations.",
"In 2003, the first World Indoor Lacrosse Championship was contested by six nations at four sites in Ontario.",
"Canada won the championship in a final game against the Iroquois Nationals, 21-4.",
"The 2007 WILC was held in Halifax from May 14–20, and also won by Canada.",
"Competition included the Iroquois Nationals and teams from Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States.",
"The World Lacrosse Championships have been dominated by the United States, particularly in the men's game.",
"Its only world championship game losses at either level was in the 1978 final and 2006 final, both to Canada.",
"The USA has won 9 of the 11 senior men's and all six under-19 men's tournaments to date.",
"In the women's game, Australia has provided stiffer competition, having won 6 of 14 games against the USA at senior world championships, including one draw.",
"The USA has won 6 of the 8 senior women's, and 2 of the 3 under-19 women's tournaments to date, with the other world championships won by Australia.",
"The Iroquois Nationals are a team with members representing the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.",
"The team was admitted to the International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) in 1990.",
"It is the only First Nations team sanctioned to compete in any sport internationally.",
"The Nationals placed fourth in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Lacrosse Championships.",
"In 2008, the Iroquois were admitted as the Haudenosunee Nation to the International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations (IFWLA), since merged with the FIL (see below)."
] |
[
0
] |
Arts
|
When and how did the Australian visual arts begin?
|
Australia
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0
] |
[
"Australian visual arts are thought to have begun with the cave paintings, rock engravings and body painting of its Indigenous peoples.",
"The traditions of Indigenous Australians are largely transmitted orally, through ceremony and the telling of Dreamtime stories.",
"From the time of European settlement, a theme in Australian art has been the natural landscape, seen for example in the works of Albert Namatjira, Arthur Streeton and others associated with the Heidelberg School, and Arthur Boyd.",
"The country's landscape remains a source of inspiration for Australian modernist artists; it has been depicted in acclaimed works by the likes of Sidney Nolan, Fred Williams, Sydney Long, and Clifton Pugh.",
"Australian artists influenced by modern American and European art include cubist Grace Crowley, surrealist James Gleeson, and pop artist Martin Sharp.",
"Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is the only art movement of international significance to emerge from Australia and \"the last great art movement of the 20th century\"; its exponents have included Emily Kngwarreye.",
"Art critic Robert Hughes has written several influential books about Australian history and art, and was described as the \"world's most famous art critic\" by \"The New York Times\".",
"The National Gallery of Australia and state galleries maintain Australian and overseas collections.",
"Australia has one of the world's highest attendances of art galleries and museums per head of population—far more than Britain or America.",
"Many of Australia's performing arts companies receive funding through the federal government's Australia Council.",
"There is a symphony orchestra in each state, and a national opera company, Opera Australia, well-known for its famous soprano Joan Sutherland.",
"At the beginning of the 20th century, Nellie Melba was one of the world's leading opera singers.",
"Ballet and dance are represented by The Australian Ballet and various state companies.",
"Each state has a publicly funded theatre company.",
"Australian literature has also been influenced by the landscape; the works of writers such as Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, and Dorothea Mackellar captured the experience of the Australian bush.",
"The character of the nation's colonial past, as represented in early literature, is popular with modern Australians.",
"In 1973, Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Australian to have achieved this.",
"Australian winners of the Man Booker Prize have included Peter Carey and Thomas Keneally; David Williamson, David Malouf, and J. M. Coetzee, who recently became an Australian citizen, are also renowned writers, and Les Murray is regarded as \"one of the leading poets of his generation\"."
] |
[
2,
5
] |
Roasting
|
Has most coffee been roasted at the time of sale?
|
Coffee
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
1
] |
[
"The next step in the process is the roasting of the green coffee.",
"Coffee is usually sold in a roasted state, and with rare exceptions all coffee is roasted before it is consumed.",
"It can be sold roasted by the supplier, or it can be home roasted.",
"The roasting process influences the taste of the beverage by changing the coffee seed both physically and chemically.",
"The seed decreases in weight as moisture is lost and increases in volume, causing it to become less dense.",
"The density of the seed also influences the strength of the coffee and requirements for packaging.",
"The actual roasting begins when the temperature inside the seed reaches approximately , though different varieties of seeds differ in moisture and density and therefore roast at different rates.",
"During roasting, caramelization occurs as intense heat breaks down starches, changing them to simple sugars that begin to brown, which alters the color of the seed.",
"Sucrose is rapidly lost during the roasting process and may disappear entirely in darker roasts.",
"During roasting, aromatic oils and acids weaken, changing the flavor; at , other oils start to develop.",
"One of these oils, caffeol, is created at about , which is largely responsible for coffee's aroma and flavor."
] |
[] |
Background
|
When did "Glad you Came" premiere on the radio?
|
Glad You Came
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
3
] |
[
"The song was written and produced by Steve Mac.",
"It serves as the second single from The Wanted's second album, \"Battleground\" which was released on 7 November 2011.",
"Band member Tom Parker said of the song, \"We all felt it was a new, refreshing sound and a perfect song for the summer which really gets you in the mood for a party.\"",
"The song premiered on the radio on 24 May 2011.",
"The song was also remixed by Alex Gaudino.",
"The American television series \"Glee\" covered the track in the episode \"On My Way\", which was aired during the third season.",
"It was performed at the Regionals competition between New Directions and the Dalton Academy Warblers.",
"Sebastian (Grant Gustin) leads the performance."
] |
[
2
] |
Sino-Soviet split, space race, ICBMs
|
When did the Soviets launch the first Earth satellite?
|
Cold War
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
7
] |
[
"The period after 1956 was marked by serious setbacks for the Soviet Union, most notably the breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, beginning the Sino-Soviet split.",
"Mao had defended Stalin when Khrushchev attacked him after his death in 1956, and treated the new Soviet leader as a superficial upstart, accusing him of having lost his revolutionary edge.",
"For his part, Khrushchev, disturbed by Mao's glib attitude toward nuclear war, referred to the Chinese leader as a \"lunatic on a throne\".",
"After this, Khrushchev made many desperate attempts to reconstitute the Sino-Soviet alliance, but Mao considered it useless and denied any proposal.",
"The Chinese-Soviet animosity spilled out in an intra-communist propaganda war.",
"Further on, the Soviets focused on a bitter rivalry with Mao's China for leadership of the global communist movement.",
"On the nuclear weapons front, the United States and the USSR pursued nuclear rearmament and developed long-range weapons with which they could strike the territory of the other.",
"In August 1957, the Soviets successfully launched the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and in October, launched the first Earth satellite, Sputnik.",
"The launch of Sputnik inaugurated the Space Race.",
"This culminated in the Apollo Moon landings, which astronaut Frank Borman later described as \"just a battle in the Cold War.\""
] |
[
2
] |
Architecture
|
What feat is Calvert Vaux credited for?
|
Metropolitan Museum of Art
| true | 2TRAVEL
|
[
1
] |
[
"After negotiations with the City of New York in 1871, the Met was granted the land between the East Park Drive, Fifth Avenue, and the 79th and 85th Street Transverse Roads in Central Park.",
"A red-brick and stone \"mausoleum\" was designed by American architect Calvert Vaux and his collaborator Jacob Wrey Mould.",
"Vaux's ambitious building was not well received; the building's High Victorian Gothic style being already dated prior to completion, and the president of the Met termed the project \"a mistake.\"",
"Within 20 years, a new architectural plan engulfing the Vaux building was already being executed.",
"Since that time, many additions have been made including the distinctive Beaux-Arts Fifth Avenue facade, Great Hall, and Grand Stairway.",
"These were designed by architect and Met trustee Richard Morris Hunt, but completed by his son, Richard Howland Hunt in 1902 after his father's death.",
"The wings that completed the Fifth Avenue facade in the 1910s were designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White.",
"The modernistic glass sides and rear of the museum are the work of Roche-Dinkeloo.",
"Kevin Roche has been the architect for the master plan and expansion of the museum for the past 42 years.",
"He is responsible for designing all of its new wings and renovations including but not limited to the American Wing, Greek and Roman Court, and recently opened Islamic Wing.",
"As of 2010, the Met measures almost long and with more than of floor space, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.",
"The museum building is an accretion of over 20 structures, most of which are not visible from the exterior.",
"The City of New York owns the museum building and contributes utilities, heat, and some of the cost of guardianship."
] |
[
0
] |
Official websites
|
Which websites have official 50th anniversary Dr.who information?
|
Doctor Who
| false | 1TV
|
[
0,
1
] |
[
" Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Official BBC Worldwide Site – Doctor Who Doctor Who",
" BBC: The Changing Face of Doctor Who – many press cuttings and articles from 1963 onwards",
" BBC America \"Doctor Who\" website",
" SPACE Channel \"Doctor Who\" website"
] |
[
3
] |
Other variants
|
What is similar to wheelchair fencing but for the able bodied?
|
Fencing
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
1
] |
[
"Other variants include chair fencing, \"one-hit épée\" (one of the five events which constitute modern pentathlon) and the various types of non-Olympic competitive fencing.",
"Chair fencing is similar to wheelchair fencing but for the able bodied.",
"The opponents set up opposing chairs and fence while seated; all the usual rules of fencing are applied.",
"An example of the latter is the American Fencing League (distinct from the United States Fencing Association): the format of competitions is different and the right of way rules are interpreted in a different way.",
"In a number of countries, school and university matches deviate slightly from the FIE format."
] |
[
0
] |
Universal Studios Florida
|
When did the original Universal Studios Florida open?
|
Universal Orlando
| false | 2TRAVEL
|
[
4
] |
[
"Theme parks and attractions.",
"Universal Studios Florida.",
"This combined film production studio and theme park features is composed of themed areas and attractions based on the film industry.",
"Visitors enjoy themed dining and shopping, a variety of special events throughout the year, and may even catch an actual film crew at work on the backlot.",
"The original theme park in the resort, Universal Studios Florida opened on June 7, 1990, as a theme park that lets visitors \"Ride the Movies.\"",
"The themes of Universal Studio's are targeted at making guests feel like they are in a movie set with rides, shows, and attractions inspired by popular film, television, and music productions.",
"The park consists of six themed areas – Hollywood, Production Central, New York, San Francisco, World Expo and Woody Woodpecker's Kidzone."
] |
[
2
] |
Abstract
|
When was a full season of the New Normal commissioned?
|
The New Normal (TV series)
| false | 1TV
|
[
5
] |
[
"The New Normal (TV series)The New Normal is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 10, 2012 to April 2, 2013.",
"The series was created and principally written by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler.",
"The storyline follows wealthy same-sex couple Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha), who are living in Los Angeles.",
"Deciding to have a child, they choose a surrogate mother, Goldie Clemmons (Georgia King), who moves into their home with her 9-year-old daughter Shania (Bebe Wood).",
"The series aired Tuesdays at 9:30 pm Eastern/8:30 pm Central after the new comedy series \"Go On\", as part of the 2012–13 United States network television schedule.",
"On October 2, 2012, NBC commissioned a full season of \"The New Normal\".",
"\"The New Normal\" was officially canceled on May 11, 2013."
] |
[
2
] |
Internationalization of the renminbi
|
By what year had the Chinese renminbi become the eight-most-traded currency in the world?
|
China
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
2
] |
[
"In November 2010, Russia began using the Chinese renminbi in its bilateral trade with China.",
"This was soon followed by Japan, Australia, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.",
"As a result of the rapid internationalization of the renminbi, it became the eighth-most-traded currency in the world in 2013."
] |
[
0
] |
Reception
|
How was Lord of the Rings initially received?
|
The Lord of the Rings
| false | 6MOVIES
|
[
0,
1,
2
] |
[
"While early reviews for The Lord of the Rings were mixed, reviews in various media have been, on the whole, highly positive and acknowledge Tolkien's literary achievement as a significant one.",
"On its initial review the \"Sunday Telegraph\" felt it was \"among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.\"",
"The \"Sunday Times\" seemed to echo these sentiments when in its review it was stated that \"the English-speaking world is divided into those who have read \"The Lord of the Rings\" and \"The Hobbit\" and those who are going to read them.\"",
"The \"New York Herald Tribune\" also seemed to have an idea of how popular the books would become, writing in its review that they were \"destined to outlast our time.\"",
"W. H. Auden, an admirer of Tolkien's writings, regarded \"The Lord of the Rings\" as a \"masterpiece\", further stating that in some cases it outdid the achievement of John Milton's \"Paradise Lost\".",
"\"New York Times\" reviewer Judith Shulevitz criticized the \"pedantry\" of Tolkien's literary style, saying that he \"formulated a high-minded belief in the importance of his mission as a literary preservationist, which turns out to be death to literature itself.\"",
"Critic Richard Jenkyns, writing in \"The New Republic\", criticized the work for a lack of psychological depth.",
"Both the characters and the work itself are, according to Jenkyns, \"anemic, and lacking in fibre.\"",
"Even within Tolkien's literary group, The Inklings, reviews were mixed.",
"Hugo Dyson complained loudly at its readings.",
"However, another Inkling, C. S. Lewis, had very different feelings, writing, \"here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron.",
"Here is a book which will break your heart.\"",
"Despite these reviews and its lack of paperback printing until the 1960s, \"The Lord of the Rings\" initially sold well in hardback.",
"In 1957, \"The Lord of the Rings\" was awarded the International Fantasy Award.",
"Despite its numerous detractors, the publication of the Ace Books and Ballantine paperbacks helped \"The Lord of the Rings\" become immensely popular in the United States in the 1960s.",
"The book has remained so ever since, ranking as one of the most popular works of fiction of the twentieth century, judged by both sales and reader surveys.",
"In the 2003 \"Big Read\" survey conducted in Britain by the BBC, \"The Lord of the Rings\" was found to be the \"Nation's best-loved book.\"",
"In similar 2004 polls both Germany and Australia also found \"The Lord of the Rings\" to be their favourite book.",
"In a 1999 poll of Amazon.com customers, \"The Lord of the Rings\" was judged to be their favourite \"book of the millennium.\"",
"\"The Lord of the Rings\" was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2009."
] |
[
5
] |
"The Victors"
|
Which director utilized Frank Sinatra's version of the song?
|
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
| true | 0MUSIC
|
[
0
] |
[
"Frank Sinatra's version was controversially used by director Carl Foreman in his 1963 anti-war film \"The Victors\" as the soundtrack backdrop (along with the carol \"Hark!",
"The Herald Angels Sing\") to the execution by firing squad of a G.I.",
"deserter in a bleak, snowy field on Christmas Eve - a scene inspired by the real-life execution of Pvt.",
"Eddie Slovik in 1945.",
"The \"New York Times\" film reviewer, while recognising the power of the scene, complained that \"the device itself is almost as specious and sentimental as what is trying to mock.\""
] |
[] |
Chemical structure
|
Who developed the theory of chemical bonds and molecular orbitals?
|
Chemistry
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
6,
7
] |
[
"",
"[[File:Rutherford gold foil experiment results.svg|right|upright|thumb|\"Top:\" Expected results: alpha particles passing through the plum pudding model of the atom undisturbed.<br>\"Bottom:\" Observed results: a small portion of the particles were deflected, indicating a small, concentrated charge.",
"]]At the turn of the twentieth century the theoretical underpinnings of chemistry were finally understood due to a series of remarkable discoveries that succeeded in probing and discovering the very nature of the internal structure of atoms.",
"In 1897, J. J. Thomson of Cambridge University discovered the electron and soon after the French scientist Becquerel as well as the couple Pierre and Marie Curie investigated the phenomenon of radioactivity.",
"In a series of pioneering scattering experiments Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester discovered the internal structure of the atom and the existence of the proton, classified and explained the different types of radioactivity and successfully transmuted the first element by bombarding nitrogen with alpha particles.",
"His work on atomic structure was improved on by his students, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and Henry Moseley.",
"The electronic theory of chemical bonds and molecular orbitals was developed by the American scientists Linus Pauling and Gilbert N. Lewis.",
"The year 2011 was declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Chemistry.",
"It was an initiative of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and involves chemical societies, academics, and institutions worldwide and relied on individual initiatives to organize local and regional activities."
] |
[
3
] |
Tourism
|
How much of Lebanon's GDP is earned from the tourism industry?
|
Lebanon
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0
] |
[
"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."
] |
[
5
] |
Berries
|
What differences do Pepo and Hesperidium berries have?
|
Fruit
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
3,
4
] |
[
"Berries are another type of fleshy fruit; they are simple fruit created from a single ovary.",
"The ovary may be compound, with several carpels.",
"Type include (examples follow in the table below):",
" Pepo – Berries where the skin is hardened, cucurbits",
" Hesperidium – Berries with a rind and a juicy interior, like most citrus fruit"
] |
[
0
] |
Release
|
When was the film Silver Linings Playbook first released?
|
Silver Linings Playbook
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
0
] |
[
"The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, where it won the People's Choice Award.",
"It received a limited release in the United States on November 16, 2012, opening wider later that week.",
"It also opened at the 2012 Mumbai Film Festival on October 18, 2012.",
"The Weinstein Company initially planned an unusually wide release for \"Silver Linings Playbook\", going nationwide on an estimated 2,000 screens.",
"They were encouraged by positive reviews and hoping to capitalize on Thanksgiving to do more business.",
"Instead, they took a more slow-burn approach, opening in fewer theaters, expanding gradually, in a strategy to build up word-of-mouth support.",
"Continuing the slow release the film expanded to 700 theaters on December 25."
] |
[
2
] |
Religion
|
Who was the earliest religion practiced
|
South Korea
| false | 5COUNTRY
|
[
4
] |
[
"As of 2005, just under half of the South Korean population expressed no religious preference.",
"Of the rest, most are Buddhist or Christian.",
"According to the 2007 census, 29.2% of the population at that time was Christian (18.3% identified themselves as Protestants, 10.9% as Roman Catholics), and 22.8% were Buddhist.",
"Other religions include Islam and various new religious movements such as Jeungsanism, Cheondoism and Wonbuddhism.",
"The earliest religion practiced was Korean shamanism.",
"Today, freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution, and there is no state religion.",
"Christianity is South Korea's largest religion, accounting for more than half of all South Korean religious adherents.",
"There are approximately 13.7 million Christians in South Korea today, about 63% of Christians belong to Protestant churches, while about 37% belong to the Roman Catholic Church.",
"The number of Protestant Christians have slowly decreased since 1990s, while the number of Roman Catholics has rapidly increased since 1980s.",
"Presbyterian denominations are the biggest Christian denominations in South Korea.",
"About 9 million people belongs to the 100 different Presbyterian churches, among the biggest denominations are the Presbyterian Church in Korea (HapDong), Presbyterian Church in Korea (TongHap), the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Koshin).",
"For more information see Presbyterianism in South Korea.",
"South Korea is also the second-largest missionary-sending nation, after the United States.",
"Buddhism was introduced to Korea in the year 372.",
"According to the national census as of 2005, South Korea has over Buddhists.",
"Today, about 90% of Korean Buddhists belong to Jogye Order.",
"Most of the National Treasures of South Korea are Buddhist artifacts.",
"Buddhism became the state religion in some of Korean kingdoms since the Three Kingdoms Period, when Goguryeo adopted it as the state religion in 372, followed by Baekche (528).",
"Buddhism had been the state religion of Unified Korea from North South States Period (not to be confused with the modern division of Korea) to Goryeo before suppression under the Joseon Dynasty in favor of Neo-Confucianism.",
"Fewer than 30,000 South Koreans are thought to be Muslims, but the country has some 100,000 resident foreign workers from Muslim countries, Bangladesh and Pakistan.",
"Korean shamanism, today known as Muism (religion of the mu ) or Sinism (religion of the gods) encompasses a variety of indigenous religious beliefs and practices of the Korean people and the Korean sphere.",
"In contemporary South Korea, the most used term is \"Muism\" and a shaman is known as a \"mudang\" (, ) or Tangol (당골).",
"Since the early 2000s, this religion has regained popularity among Koreans."
] |
[
3
] |
Japan
|
Why wasn't Japan strongly affected by the Great Depression?
|
Great Depression
| false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
0,
2,
4,
5,
6,
7,
9,
16
] |
[
"The Great Depression did not strongly affect Japan.",
"The Japanese economy shrank by 8% during 1929–31.",
"Japan's Finance Minister Takahashi Korekiyo was the first to implement what have come to be identified as Keynesian economic policies: first, by large fiscal stimulus involving deficit spending; and second, by devaluing the currency.",
"Takahashi used the Bank of Japan to sterilize the deficit spending and minimize resulting inflationary pressures.",
"Econometric studies have identified the fiscal stimulus as especially effective.",
"The devaluation of the currency had an immediate effect.",
"Japanese textiles began to displace British textiles in export markets.",
"The deficit spending proved to be most profound.",
"The deficit spending went into the purchase of munitions for the armed forces.",
"By 1933, Japan was already out of the depression.",
"By 1934, Takahashi realized that the economy was in danger of overheating, and to avoid inflation, moved to reduce the deficit spending that went towards armaments and munitions.",
"This resulted in a strong and swift negative reaction from nationalists, especially those in the army, culminating in his assassination in the course of the February 26 Incident.",
"This had a chilling effect on all civilian bureaucrats in the Japanese government.",
"From 1934, the military's dominance of the government continued to grow.",
"Instead of reducing deficit spending, the government introduced price controls and rationing schemes that reduced, but did not eliminate inflation, which would remain a problem until the end of World War II.",
"The deficit spending had a transformative effect on Japan.",
"Japan's industrial production doubled during the 1930s.",
"Further, in 1929 the list of the largest firms in Japan was dominated by light industries, especially textile companies (many of Japan's automakers, like Toyota, have their roots in the textile industry).",
"By 1940 light industry had been displaced by heavy industry as the largest firms inside the Japanese economy."
] |
[
1
] |
Background
|
Where did Leon Czolgosz work in a factory?
|
Assassination of William McKinley
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
9
] |
[
"In September 1901, William McKinley was at the height of his power as president.",
"Elected in 1896, during the serious economic depression resulting from the Panic of 1893, he had defeated his Democratic rival, William Jennings Bryan.",
"McKinley led the nation both to a return to prosperity and to victory in the Spanish-American War in 1898, taking possession of such Spanish colonies as Puerto Rico and the Philippines.",
"Re-elected handily in a rematch against Bryan in 1900, according to historical writer Eric Rauchway, \"it looked as if the McKinley Administration would continue peaceably unbroken for another four years, a government devoted to prosperity\".",
"McKinley's original vice president, Garret Hobart, had died in 1899, and McKinley left the choice of a running mate to the 1900 Republican National Convention.",
"In advance of the convention, New York's Republican political boss, Senator Thomas C. Platt, saw an opportunity to politically sideline his state's governor, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, by pushing for his nomination as vice president.",
"Roosevelt accepted the nomination and was elected on McKinley's ticket.",
"Leon Czolgosz was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1873, the son of Polish immigrants.",
"The Czolgosz family moved a number of times as Paul Czolgosz, Leon's father, sought work throughout the Midwest.",
"As an adult, Leon Czolgosz worked in a Cleveland factory until he lost his job in a labor dispute in 1893.",
"Thereafter, he worked irregularly and attended political and religious meetings, trying to understand the reasons for the economic turmoil of the Panic of 1893.",
"In so doing, he became interested in anarchism.",
"By 1901, this movement was feared in the United States—New York's highest court had ruled that the act of identifying oneself as an anarchist in front of an audience was a breach of the peace.",
"Anarchists had taken a toll in Europe of a half-dozen officials and members of royal houses, and had been blamed for the 1886 Haymarket bombing in Chicago.",
"Two American presidents had been assassinated in the 19th century—Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and James Garfield in 1881.",
"John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, had been embittered by the Confederate defeat in the American Civil War; Charles Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield, was an eccentric (possibly insane) man motivated by personal political and religious views who had unsuccessfully sought office in Garfield's administration.",
"Although two presidents had been struck down by assassins, McKinley did not like security personnel to come between him and the people.",
"When in his hometown, Canton, Ohio, he often walked to church or the business district without protection, and in Washington went on drives with his wife without any guard in the carriage."
] |
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Architecture
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Does each bay have a brick dome around it?
|
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
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2
] |
[
"The Iç Bedesten has a rectangular plan (43.30 m x 29.50 m).",
"Two rows of stone piers, four in each row, sustain three rows of bays, five in each row.",
"Each bay is surmounted by a brick dome with blind drum.",
"In the inner and in the outer walls have been built 44 cellars (), vaulted rooms without external openings.",
"The sunlight in Bedesten comes from rectangular windows placed right under the roof: they can be accessed through a wooden ambulatory.",
"Due to the scarce illumination, the edifice was kept open only some hours each day, and was devoted to the trade of luxury goods, above all textiles.",
"Moreover, the Bedesten's Mahzen were also used as safes.",
"The building can be accessed through four gates: ",
" “Second-hand Book Sellers’ Gate” () in the north, ",
" “Skullcap Sellers’ Gate” () in the south,",
" “Jewellers’ Gate” () in the east, and;",
" “Women’s Clothiers’ Gate” () in the west.",
"The Sandal Bedesten has also a rectangular plan (40.20 m × 42.20 m), with 12 stone piers bearing 20 bays surmounted by brick domes with blind drum.",
"In this case shops are carved only in the outer walls.",
"In both edifices, each bay is tied to the others through brick arches tied by juniper beams, and masonry is made with rubble.",
"Both buildings were closed by Iron gates.",
"Aside the Bedesten, originally the Grand Bazaar structures were built with wood, and only after the 1700 fire, they were rebuilt in stone and brickwork, and covered.",
"All the bazaar edifices, except the fur dealers market (), a later addition which is two-story, are one story.",
"The roofs are mainly covered with tiles, while the part burnt in 1954 uses now tarmac.",
"In the bazaar no artificial light was foreseen, also to prevent fires, and smoking was strictly prohibited.",
"The roads outside the inner Bedesten are roughly parallel to it.",
"Anyway, the damages caused by the many fires and quakes along the centuries, together with the repairs done without a general plan, gave to the market - especially in its western part - a picturesque appearance, with its maze of roads and lanes crossing each other at various angles."
] |
[] |
Modern Olympics marathon
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Who created the idea of a marathon race for the modern Olympic Games?
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Marathon
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[
1
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[
"When the modern Olympics began in 1896, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece.",
"The idea of a marathon race came from Michel Bréal, who wanted the event to feature in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens.",
"This idea was heavily supported by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, as well as by the Greeks.",
"The Greeks staged a selection race for the Olympic marathon on 10 March 1896 that was won by Charilaos Vasilakos in 3 hours and 18 minutes (with the future winner of the introductory Olympic Games marathon coming in fifth).",
"The winner of the first Olympic Marathon, on 10 April 1896 (a male-only race), was Spyridon \"Spyros\" Louis, a Greek water-carrier, in 2 hours 58 minutes and 50 seconds.",
"The women's marathon was introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles, USA) and was won by Joan Benoit of the United States with a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and 52 seconds.",
"Since the modern games were founded, it has become a tradition for the men's Olympic marathon to be the last event of the athletics calendar, with a finish inside the Olympic stadium, often within hours of, or even incorporated into, the closing ceremonies.",
"The marathon of the 2004 Summer Olympics revived the traditional route from Marathon to Athens, ending at Panathinaiko Stadium, the venue for the 1896 Summer Olympics.",
"The Olympic men's record is 2:06:32, set at the 2008 Summer Olympics by Samuel Kamau Wanjiru of Kenya (average speed about 20.01 km/hr).",
"The Olympic women's record is 2:23:07, set at the 2012 Summer Olympics by Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia.",
"The men's London 2012 Summer Olympic marathon winner was Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda (2:08:01).",
"Per capita, the Great Rift Valley, Kenya has produced a large number of elite marathon runners, helped by the high altitude."
] |
[
3
] |
Origins
|
Where did cheesemaking originate?
|
Cheese
| true | 9FOOD
|
[
1
] |
[
"Cheese is an ancient food whose origins predate recorded history.",
"There is no conclusive evidence indicating where cheesemaking originated, either in Europe, Central Asia or the Middle East, but the practice had spread within Europe prior to Roman times and, according to Pliny the Elder, had become a sophisticated enterprise by the time the Roman Empire came into being.",
"The earliest evidence of cheese-making in the archaeological record dates back to 5,500 BCE, in what is now Kujawy, Poland, where strainers with milk fats molecules have been found.",
"Earliest proposed dates for the origin of cheesemaking range from around 8000 BCE, when sheep were first domesticated.",
"Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient times, provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs, it is probable that the process of cheese making was discovered accidentally by storing milk in a container made from the stomach of an animal, resulting in the milk being turned to curd and whey by the rennet from the stomach.",
"There is a legend – with variations – about the discovery of cheese by an Arab trader who used this method of storing milk.",
"Cheesemaking may have begun independently of this by the pressing and salting of curdled milk to preserve it.",
"Observation that the effect of making milk in an animal stomach gave more solid and better-textured curds may have led to the deliberate addition of rennet.",
"Early archeological evidence of Egyptian cheese has been found in Egyptian tomb murals, dating to about 2000 BCE.",
"The earliest cheeses were likely to have been quite sour and salty, similar in texture to rustic cottage cheese or feta, a crumbly, flavorful Greek cheese.",
"Cheese produced in Europe, where climates are cooler than the Middle East, required less salt for preservation.",
"With less salt and acidity, the cheese became a suitable environment for useful microbes and molds, giving aged cheeses their respective flavors."
] |
[
4
] |
General release
|
What was Looper's grade from the Onion A.V. club?
|
Looper (film)
| true | 6MOVIES
|
[
3
] |
[
"Kim Newman of \"Empire\" magazine gave \"Looper\" 5 stars out of 5, writing, \"Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species—too much physics and there's a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex.",
"\"Looper\" isn't perfect, but it pulls off the full \"Wizard Of Oz\": it has a brain, courage and a heart.\"",
"Noel Murray of \"The A.V.",
"Club\" gave the film an A− grade, writing, \"\"Looper\" is a remarkable feat of imagination and execution, entertaining from start to finish, even as it asks the audience to contemplate how and why humanity keeps making the same rotten mistakes.\"",
"Kenneth Turan of the \"Los Angeles Times\" gave the film a positive review, writing, \"\"Looper\" is way inventive but it wears its creativity lightly, like it's no big deal.",
"This is a highflying, super-stylish science-fiction thriller that brings a fresh approach to mind-bending genre material.",
"We're not always sure where this time-travel film is going, but we wouldn't dream of abandoning the ride.",
"\"Claudia Puig of \"USA Today\" gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing, \"\"Looper\"s heady blend of time travel, gritty action and a jot of romance is such a thrilling and cerebral mind-bender that it will likely have moviegoers gathering outside the theater afterward to hash out details of its intricately constructed universe.",
"Not that that's a bad thing.\"",
"Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising the performances of Willis and Gordon-Levitt and concluding, \"Lacing tremendously exciting action with touching gravity, \"Looper\" hits you like a shot in the heart.\"",
"Roger Ebert of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising its screenplay and writing, \"\"Looper\", a smart and tricky sci-fi story, sidesteps the paradoxes of time travel by embracing them.",
"Most time travel movies run into trouble in the final scenes, when impossibilities pile up one upon another.",
"This film leads to a startling conclusion that wipes out the story's paradoxes so neatly it's as if it never happened.",
"\"Lisa Schwarzbaum of \"Entertainment Weekly\" gave the film a B+ grade, writing, \"The time swivels in \"Looper\" evoke some of \"Inception\"s fancy temporal tricks (some of which, of course, also involved Gordon-Levitt straddling multiple time zones at once).",
"But it's the glimpses of \"Children of Men\"-like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight\".",
"Keith Staskiewicz, also writing for \"Entertainment Weekly\" (reviewing the DVD) and also giving a \"B+\", said, \"The film's premise is markedly inventive, and Rian Johnson spends a lot of time making his universe seem lived-in and believable, but he's not just concerned with whiz-bang what-ifs.",
"The showdown of selves illuminates just how little Gordon-Levitt's character has changed over the intervening years, stuck as he is in a feedback loop of drug use and violence despite his pipe dream of moving to Europe.",
"The retro trench coats and firearms also suggest a sort of eternal recurrence, and as \"Looper\"'s plot gets more complex, its central question simplifies: If we can't fix our mistakes, can we at least make sure we don't repeat the same ones over and over again?",
"\"Richard Corliss of \"Time\" magazine gave the film a positive review, calling \"Looper\" a \"hybrid, mashing Quentin Tarantino and Philip K. Dick into a species of pulp science fiction\" and also writing, \"A fanciful film with the patina of hyper-realism, \"Looper\" is well served by actors who behave not as if they were dropped carelessly into the future but spent their whole desperate lives there.\"",
"Dana Stevens of \"Slate\" gave the film a mixed review, writing, \"\"Looper\" felt to me like a maddening near-miss: It posits an impossible but fascinating-to-imagine relationship – a face-to-face encounter between one's present and future self, in which each self must account for its betrayal of the other – and then throws away nearly all the dramatic potential that relationship offers.",
"\"Audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore gave the film a B+ grade on average."
] |
[
0
] |
Research and practice
|
What is primarily the scientific study of the morphology of the adult human body?
|
Anatomy
| false | 8SCIENCE
|
[
2
] |
[
"Human anatomy.",
"Research and practice.",
"Human anatomy, including gross human anatomy and histology, is primarily the scientific study of the morphology of the adult human body.",
"It differs from physiology in that anatomy is about the morphology of biological structures, while physiology is the way those structures actually work.",
"Generally, students of certain biological sciences, paramedics, prosthetists and orthotists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, and medical students learn gross anatomy and microscopic anatomy from anatomical models, skeletons, textbooks, diagrams, photographs, lectures and tutorials, and in addition, medical students generally also learn gross anatomy through practical experience of dissection and inspection of cadavers.",
"The study of microscopic anatomy (or histology) can be aided by practical experience examining histological preparations (or slides) under a microscope.",
"Human anatomy, physiology and biochemistry are complementary basic medical sciences, which are generally taught to medical students in their first year at medical school.",
"Human anatomy can be taught regionally or systemically; that is, respectively, studying anatomy by bodily regions such as the head and chest, or studying by specific systems, such as the nervous or respiratory systems.",
"The major anatomy textbook, Gray's Anatomy, has been reorganized from a systems format to a regional format, in line with modern teaching methods.",
"A thorough working knowledge of anatomy is required by physicians, especially surgeons and doctors working in some diagnostic specialties, such as histopathology and radiology.",
"Academic human anatomists are usually employed by universities, medical schools or teaching hospitals.",
"They are often involved in teaching anatomy, and research into certain systems, organs, tissues or cells."
] |
[
0
] |
Demographics
|
Is Venezuela an urban country?
|
Venezuela
| true | 5COUNTRY
|
[
0
] |
[
"Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north, especially in the capital Caracas, which is also the largest city.",
"About 93% of the population lives in urban areas in northern Venezuela; 73% live less than from the coastline.",
"Though almost half of Venezuela's land area lies south of the Orinoco, only 5% of Venezuelans live there.",
"The largest and most important city south of the Orinoco is Ciudad Guayana, which is the sixth most populous conurbation.",
"Other major cities include Barquisimeto, Valencia, Maracay, Maracaibo, Mérida, San Cristóbal and Barcelona-Puerto La Cruz."
] |
[] |
Painting
|
What were the pieces done by by Raphael?
|
High Renaissance
| true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
|
[
4
] |
[
"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
] |
Abstract
|
How do you play Basketball?
|
Basketball
| false | 4SPORT
|
[
1,
3,
4,
5,
7,
8,
9,
11,
12
] |
[
"Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court.",
"The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and high mounted to a backboard at each end.",
"Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.",
"A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play.",
"A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points (known commonly as a \"3 pointer\" or \"three\") if the player is behind the three-point line.",
"The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time (overtime) may be issued when the game ends with a draw.",
"The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it while walking or running or throwing it to a team mate.",
"It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling.",
"Violations are called \"fouls\".",
"A personal foul is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball.",
"A technical foul may also be issued when certain infractions occur, most commonly for unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of a player or coach.",
"A technical foul gives the opposing team a free throw, and the opposing team also retains possession of the ball.",
"As well as many techniques for shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding, basketball has specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures (player positioning).",
"Typically, the tallest members of a team will play \"center\", \"power forward\" or \"small forward\" positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed play \"point guard\" or \"shooting guard\"."
] |
[
5
] |
Abstract
|
The museum "American Gothic" is owned by whom ?
|
American Gothic
| true | 3ART
|
[
0
] |
[
"American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.",
"Wood's inspiration came from what is now known as the American Gothic House, and his decision to paint the house along with \"the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.\"",
"The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter.",
"The figures were modeled by the artist's sister and their dentist.",
"The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man's pitchfork symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman's right shoulder suggesting domesticity.",
"It is one of the most familiar images in 20th-century American art, and has been widely parodied in American popular culture."
] |
[] |
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