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Rules and regulations | When does a shot earn three points? | Basketball | true | 4SPORT
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"Measurements and time limits discussed in this section often vary among tournaments and organizations; international and NBA rules are used in this section.",
"The object of the game is to outscore one's opponents by throwing the ball through the opponents' basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own.",
"An attempt to score in this way is called a shot.",
"A successful shot is worth two points, or three points if it is taken from beyond the three-point arc which is from the basket in international games and in NBA games.",
"A one-point shot can be earned when shooting from the foul line after a foul is made."
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Historiography and memory | In what year was "Social History" created? | Cold War | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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" Hopkins, Michael F. \"Continuing Debate and New Approaches in Cold War History,\" \"Historical Journal,\" Dec 2007, Vol.",
"50 Issue 4, pp 913–934,",
" Isaac, Joel, and Duncan Bell, eds.",
"\"Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War\" (2012) excerpt and text search",
" Johnston, Gordon.",
"\"Revisiting the cultural Cold War,\" \"Social History,\" Aug 2010, Vol.",
"35 Issue 3, pp 290–307",
" Nuti, Leopoldo, et al., eds.",
"\"Europe and the End of the Cold War: A Reappraisal\" (2012) excerpt and text search",
" Wiener, Jon.",
"\"How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America\" (2012) excerpt and text search"
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Product placement | What company had a five-season contract with Gossip Girl? | Gossip Girl | true | 1TV
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"\"Gossip Girl\" is known for its product placement.",
"The show had a contract with Verizon Wireless for its first five seasons; all the characters were seen with phones chosen by the brand until the deal ended by the sixth season.",
"During their contract, Verizon Wireless offered exclusive \"Gossip Girl\" content and created a website where ringtones of the songs featured on the show could be downloaded.",
"In the summer of 2008, executives of VitaminWater approached The CW for a placement deal.",
"During the second season, the drinks were mentioned several times in dialogues.",
"The partnership helped pay the costs of shooting on location in the Hamptons.",
"An HP TouchPad was prominently displayed in an episode of the sixth season.",
"According to OneNewsNow.com, other sponsors have included Procter & Gamble, L'Oreal, Target and Johnson & Johnson, which allowed the series to earn $28.2 million in ad dollars in 2007."
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Holidays | When did Kogalniceanu proclaim Romania's independence from the Ottoman Empire? | Romania | false | 5COUNTRY
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"Since 2013, there are 14 non-working holidays.",
"In Romanian language, the consecrate Christian holidays have untranslatable correspondents, such as \"Rusalii\" (Pentecost), \"Dragobete\" (Valentine's Day) and \"Florii\" (Palm Sunday).",
"Nowadays, the National Day of Romania, a legal non-working holiday, is December the 1st, celebrated by military marches and manifestations across the country.",
"It commemorates the 1918 assembly of the delegates of all ethnic Romanians held in Alba Iulia, when the Union of Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania was declared upon.",
"During the communist regime, the national day was August the 23rd, marking the 1944 royal coup d'état by King Michael I when he decided about the dismissal and arrest of general Ion Antonescu, Romanian Prime Minister and Leader of the State.",
"On the same day he ordered the immediate cessation of Romania's collaboration with the Axis Powers, the beginning of negotiations for an armistice with the Allies and a military cooperation with the Soviet Union.",
"A certain segment of Romanians, who support the reinstatement of the monarchy, prefers the date of May 10 to be the National Day, as it used to be between 1866–1947.",
"On May 9, 1877, prime minister Kogălniceanu proclaimed the Principality of Romania's independence from the Ottoman Empire, a status recognized by the European powers in the Treaty of Berlin in 1878."
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Etymology | In the English language, when was the word "vegetable" first used? | Vegetable | true | 9FOOD
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"The word \"vegetable\" was first recorded in English in the early 15th century from Old French, and was in origin applied to any plant.",
"This is still the sense of the adjective \"vegetable\" in biological context.",
"The word is taken from Medieval Latin \"vegetabilis\" \"growing, flourishing\" (i.e.",
"of a plant), a semantic change from a Late Latin meaning \"to be enlivening, quickening\", a derivation of the verb \"vegetare\" \"enliven\", which is derived from \"vegetus\" \"to be alive, active\" (related to \"vigor\"), in reference to the process of a plant growing.",
"In 1767, the meaning of the term \"vegetable\" was specified to mean \"plant cultivated for food, edible herb or root.\"",
"The year 1955 noted the first use of the shortened, slang term \"veggie\".",
"As an adjective, the word \"vegetable\" is used in scientific and technical contexts with a different and much broader meaning, namely of \"related to plants\" in general, edible or not — as in \"vegetable matter\", \"vegetable kingdom\", \"vegetable origin\", etc.",
"The meaning of \"vegetable\" as \"plant grown for food\" was not established until the 18th century."
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History | How did egg tarts evolve? | Egg tart | false | 9FOOD
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"Custard tarts were introduced in Hong Kong in the 1940s by cha chaan tengs.",
"Which was derived from the original \"pastel de nata\" ( Portuguese egg tarts ).",
"Egg tarts evolved from the very similar Portuguese egg tart pastries, known as pastel de nata, traveling to Hong Kong via the Portuguese colony of Macau.",
"Hong Kong egg tarts are an adaptation of English custard tarts.",
"Canton (modern Guangdong) had more frequent contact with the West, in particular Britain, than the rest of China.",
"Also, as a former British colony, Hong Kong adopted some British cuisine."
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Racial characteristics | Have authors made comments about the Sphinx's characteristics? | Great Sphinx of Giza | true | 3ART
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"Over the years several authors have commented on what they perceive as \"Negroid\" characteristics in the face of the Sphinx.",
"This issue has become part of the Ancient Egyptian race controversy, with respect to the ancient population as a whole.",
"The face of the Sphinx has been damaged over the millennia."
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Ice cream cone | How were waffle cones created? | Ice cream | false | 9FOOD
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" cone.",
"\"Mrs Marshall's Cookery Book,\" published in 1888, endorsed serving ice cream in cones, but the idea definitely predated that.",
"Agnes Marshall was a celebrated cookery writer of her day and helped to popularise ice cream.",
"She patented and manufactured an ice cream maker and was the first person to suggest using liquefied gases to freeze ice cream after seeing a demonstration at the Royal Institution.",
"Reliable evidence proves that ice cream cones were served in the 19th century, and their popularity increased greatly during the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.",
"According to legend, at the World's Fair an ice cream seller had run out of the cardboard dishes used to put ice cream scoops in, so they could not sell any more produce.",
"Next door to the ice cream booth was a Syrian waffle booth, unsuccessful due to intense heat; the waffle maker offered to make cones by rolling up his waffles and the new product sold well, and was widely copied by other vendors."
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Films | What season sees the most snowboarding fils released? | Snowboarding | true | 4SPORT
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"Snowboarding films have become a main part of progression in the sport.",
"Each season, many films are released, usually in Autumn.",
"These are made by many snowboard specific video production companies as well as manufacturing companies that use these films as a form of advertisement.",
"Snowboarding videos usually contain video footage of professional riders sponsored by companies.",
"An example of commercial use of snowboarding films would be \"The White Album\", a film by snowboarding legend and filmmaker Dave Seoane about Shaun White, that includes cameos by Tony Hawk and was sponsored by PlayStation, Mountain Dew and Burton Snowboards.",
"Snowboarding films are also used as documentation of snowboarding and showcasing of current trends and styles of the sport.",
"However, sometimes the snowboarding industry is not supportive of all snowboarding-themed films.",
"In 2013, \"The Crash Reel\", a feature-length documentary by filmmaker Lucy Walker about former Shaun White rival Kevin Pearce, premiered on the film festival circuit to critical acclaim and was subsequently broadcast on HBO.",
"Using Pearce's career-ending traumatic brain injury and subsequent recovery as a backdrop, the film examines the physical dangers inherent to pro snowboarders and other extreme sports professional athletes under pressure by sponsors and the media to perform increasingly spectacular feats.",
"Although there are significant references to various brands in the film, Walker is \"adamant\" that the snowboarding industry did not sponsor the film in any way and in fact has been unsupportive, despite the film's mainstream media success."
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Abstract | Which administration was in control during Watergate? | Watergate scandal | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.",
"The term \"Watergate\" has come to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration.",
"Those activities included \"dirty tricks\" such as bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom Nixon or his officials were suspicious.",
"Nixon and his close aides ordered harassment of activist groups and political figures, using the FBI, CIA, and the Internal Revenue Service.",
"The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration, articles of impeachment, and the resignation of Republican Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974—the only resignation of a U.S. president to date.",
"The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration of 43 people, dozens of whom were Nixon's top administration officials.",
"The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.",
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, the official organization of Nixon's campaign.",
"In July 1973, as evidence mounted against the president's staff, including testimony provided by former staff members in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape-recording system in his offices and he had recorded many conversations.",
"After a protracted series of bitter court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes to government investigators; he ultimately complied.",
"Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing he had attempted to cover up the questionable goings-on that had taken place after the break-in.",
"Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and equally certain conviction by the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.",
"His successor, Gerald Ford, then issued a pardon to him on September 8, 1974.",
"The name \"Watergate\" and the suffix \"-gate\" have since become synonymous with political scandals in the United States and in other English- and non-English-speaking nations as well."
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Mexico | What comes on a Hawaiian burger? | Hamburger | true | 9FOOD
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"In Mexico, burgers (called \"hamburguesas\") are served with ham and slices of American cheese (locally called \"queso americano\") fried on top of the meat patty.",
"The toppings include avocado, jalapeño slices, shredded lettuce, onion and tomato.",
"The bun has mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard.",
"In certain parts are served with bacon, which can be fried or grilled along with the meat patty.",
"A slice of pineapple is also a usual option, and the variation is known as a \"Hawaiian hamburger\".",
"Some restaurants' burgers also have barbecue sauce, and others also replace the ground patty with sirloin, Al pastor meat, barbacoa or a fried chicken breast.",
"Many burger chains from the United States can be found all over Mexico, including Carl's Jr., Sonic, as well as global chains such as McDonald's and Burger King."
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U.S. Nielsen ratings | When was the series premiere of the show "The Vampire Diaries"? | The Vampire Diaries | false | 1TV
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"The series premiere on September 10, 2009 gave The CW its biggest series premiere scoring 4.91 million viewers.",
"Adding in DVR numbers, the ratings for the premiere swelled to an official 5.7 million viewers.",
"The following is a table for the seasonal rankings, based on average total estimated viewers per episode of \"The Vampire Diaries\".",
"\"Rank\" refers to how \"The Vampire Diaries\" rated compared to the other television series which aired during prime time hours."
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Impressionism | In what year was the first Impressionist art exhibition held? | Claude Monet | false | 3ART
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"The first Impressionist exhibition was held in 1874 at 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris, from 15 April to 15 May.",
"The primary purpose of the participants was not so much to promote a new style, but to free themselves from the constraints of the Salon de Paris.",
"The exhibition, open to anyone prepared to pay 60 francs, gave artists the opportunity to show their work without the interference of a jury.",
"Renoir chaired the hanging committee and did most of the work himself, as others members failed to present themselves.",
"In addition to \"\" (pictured above) Monet presented four oil paintings and seven pastels.",
"Among the paintings he displayed was \"The Luncheon\" (1868), which features Camille Doncieux and Jean Monet, and which had been rejected by the Paris Salon of 1870.",
"Also in this exhibition was a painting titled \"Boulevard des Capucines\", a painting of the boulevard done from the photographer Nadar's apartment at no.",
"35.",
"Monet painted the subject twice and it is uncertain which of the two pictures, that now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, or that in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City was the painting that appeared in the groundbreaking 1874 exhibition, though more recently the Moscow picture has been favoured.",
"Altogether, 165 works were exhibited in the exhibition, including 4 oils, 2 pastels and 3 watercolors by Morisot; 6 oils and 1 pastel by Renoir; 10 works by Degas; 5 by Pissarro; 3 by Cézanne; and 3 by Guillaumin.",
"Several works were on loan, including Cézanne's \"Modern Olympia\", Morisot's \"Hide and Seek\" (owned by Manet) and 2 landscapes by Sisley that had been purchased by Durand-Ruel.",
"The total attendance is estimated at 3500 and some works did sell, though some exhibitors had placed their prices too high.",
"Pissarro was asking 1000 francs for \"The Orchard\" and Monet the same for \"Impression: Sunrise\", neither of which sold.",
"Renoir failed to obtain the 500 francs he was asking for \"La Loge\", but later sold it for 450 francs to Père Martin, dealer and supporter of the group."
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Electron microscopy | Who started the development of the transmission electron microscope, the first electron microscope, in 1931? | Microscope | true | 8SCIENCE
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"In the early 1900s a significant alternative to light microscopy was developed, using electrons rather than light to generate the image.",
"Ernst Ruska started development of the first electron microscope in 1931 which was the transmission electron microscope (TEM).",
"The transmission electron microscope works on the same principle as an optical microscope but uses electrons in the place of light and electromagnets in the place of glass lenses.",
"Use of electrons instead of light allows a much higher resolution.",
"Development of the transmission electron microscope was quickly followed in 1935 by the development of the scanning electron microscope by Max Knoll.",
"Electron microscopes quickly became popular following the Second World War.",
"Ernst Ruska, working at Siemens developed the first commercial transmission electron microscope and major scientific conferences on electron microscopy started being held in the 1950s.",
"In 1965 the first commercial scanning electron microscope was developed by Professor Sir Charles Oatley and his postgraduate student Gary Stewart and marketed by the Cambridge Instrument Company as the \"Stereoscan\"."
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Abstract | What areas of interdisciplinary areas of research does physics intersect with? | Physics | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Physics (from , from \"phúsis\" \"nature\") is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force.",
"More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.",
"Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines, perhaps the oldest through its inclusion of astronomy.",
"Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right.",
"Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined.",
"New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms of other sciences while opening new avenues of research in areas such as mathematics and philosophy.",
"Physics also makes significant contributions through advances in new technologies that arise from theoretical breakthroughs.",
"For example, advances in the understanding of electromagnetism or nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products which have dramatically transformed modern-day society, such as television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons; advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization; and advances in mechanics inspired the development of calculus."
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East Europe breaks away | In 1989, the Communist governments from what countries became the first to negotiate the organizing of competitive elections? | Cold War | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"By 1989, the Soviet alliance system was on the brink of collapse, and, deprived of Soviet military support, the Communist leaders of the Warsaw Pact states were losing power.",
"Grassroots organizations, such as Poland's Solidarity movement, rapidly gained ground with strong popular bases.",
"In 1989, the Communist governments in Poland and Hungary became the first to negotiate the organizing of competitive elections.",
"In Czechoslovakia and East Germany, mass protests unseated entrenched Communist leaders.",
"The Communist regimes in Bulgaria and Romania also crumbled, in the latter case as the result of a violent uprising.",
"Attitudes had changed enough that US Secretary of State James Baker suggested that the American government would not be opposed to Soviet intervention in Romania, on behalf of the opposition, to prevent bloodshed.",
"The tidal wave of change culminated with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, which symbolized the collapse of European Communist governments and graphically ended the Iron Curtain divide of Europe.",
"The 1989 revolutionary wave swept across Central and Eastern Europe peacefully overthrew all the Soviet-style communist states: East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, Romania was the only Eastern-bloc country to topple its communist regime violently and execute its head of state."
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Critical response | What are some qualities that led to Sound City receiving a positive critical reaction? | Sound City (film) | true | 6MOVIES
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"Critical response.",
"\"Sound City\" received overwhelmingly positive reviews.",
"Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 100% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 41 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.7/10.",
"The site's consensus states: \"Smart, affectionate, and unabashedly sincere, \"Sound City\" pairs a great soundtrack with a well-argued ode to one of rock 'n' roll's most fondly remembered bygone eras.\"",
"It was one of the highest rated limited release and documentary movies of the year on the website.",
"On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 76 based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\".",
"Kenneth Turan from \"Los Angeles Times\" gave the film a positive review, saying \"High-spirited, emotional and funny, \"Sound City\" is, of all things, a mash note to a machine.",
"Not just any machine, however, but one that helped change the face of rock 'n' roll.\"",
"In a review for \"The Daily Telegraph\", Sebastian Doggart awarded the documentary five out of five stars and proclaimed it as \"an exhilarating exploration of the creative process.\"",
"Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" admits \"In his directing debut, Dave Grohl shows the instincts of a real filmmaker.",
"\"Sound City\" hits you like a shot in the heart.\"",
"Bill Goodykoontz of \"The Arizona Republic\" remarks \"\"Sound City\" is a music geek's dream, a rollicking look at a dumpy California studio where a lot of musicians found magic.",
"It's also a bit of a mess, like all good rock and roll ought to be.",
"\", while Elizabeth Weitzman of \"New York Daily News\" praised that \"Grohl's aim is to explore the aura of a place, but what he winds up proving is that people make the magic.",
"\"Nevertheless in his review for About.com, Tim Grierson wrote that it \"is just a fun collection of unlikely musical pairings that zips by in little less than an hour\", and Phil Gallo from \"Billboard\" stated \"Grohl's inexperience as a filmmaker only shows when the film makes a sharp turn out of history and into the more recent past: There's a sense that instead of celebrating great rock 'n' roll moments, a product is about to be pitched at the viewer.",
"\"The film received a Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film nomination in the 18th edition and the Cinema Eye Honor 2014 Audience Choice Prize."
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Sequels | When was the first episode of Teen Wolf aired? | Teen Wolf | false | 1TV
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"The film was followed by a cartoon spin-off in 1986, and a sequel in 1987 titled \"Teen Wolf Too\", with Jason Bateman starring as Todd Howard, Scott's cousin.",
"A second sequel starring Alyssa Milano was planned, but never filmed.",
"Another female version of \"Teen Wolf\" was in the works that later developed into 1989's \"Teen Witch\".",
"A Canadian television series similar in theme ran from 1999 to 2002 entitled \"Big Wolf on Campus\".",
"In June 2009, MTV announced that they would be adapting \"Teen Wolf\" into a television series \"with a greater emphasis on romance, horror and werewolf mythology\".",
"Australian director Russell Mulcahy directed the pilot film of the television series.",
"The first episode for the new MTV series aired on June 5, 2011."
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Biblical narrative | Why did Bathsheba's child with David die shortly after birth? | Bathsheba | false | 3ART
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"The meaning of the Hebrew form of the name \"Bathsheba\" is \"daughter of the oath\", \"bat\" meaning daughter.",
"The second part of the name appears in as \"shua\" (signifying \"wealth\") (compare ).",
"Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam (, who is called Ammiel in ).",
"Her father is identified by some scholars with Eliam mentioned in as the son of Ahithophel, who is described as the Gilonite.",
"(See King David's Warriors.",
")Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.",
"(United Kingdom of Israel and Judah).",
"The story of David's seduction of Bathsheba, told in , is omitted in Chronicles.",
"The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.",
"He immediately desired her and later made her pregnant.",
"In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army (with whom he was on campaign) in the hope that Uriah would re-consummate his marriage and think that the child was his.",
"Uriah was unwilling to violate the ancient kingdom rule applying to warriors in active service.",
"Rather than go home to his own bed, he preferred to remain with the palace troops.",
"After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy (where he was more likely to die).",
"David had Uriah himself carry the message that ordered his death.",
"After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.",
"David's action was displeasing to the Lord, who accordingly sent Nathan the prophet to reprove the king.",
"After relating the parable of the rich man who took away the one little ewe lamb of his poor neighbor (II Samuel 12:1-6), and exciting the king's anger against the unrighteous act, the prophet applied the case directly to David's action with regard to Bathsheba.",
"The king at once confessed his sin and expressed sincere repentance.",
"Bathsheba's child by David was struck with a severe illness and died a few days after birth, which the king accepted as his punishment.",
"Nathan also noted that David's house would be cursed with turmoil because of this murder.",
"This came to pass years later when one of David's much-loved sons, Absalom, led an insurrection that plunged the kingdom into civil war.",
"Moreover, to manifest his claim to be the new king, Absalom had sexual intercourse in public with ten of his father's concubines, which could be considered a direct, tenfold divine retribution for David's taking the woman of another man.",
"(II Samuel 16:20–23) In David's old age, Bathsheba secured the succession to the throne of her son Solomon, instead of David's eldest surviving son Adonijah.",
"Some commentators have written that Bathsheba may have written at least part of Proverbs 31 as suggested by the postulated connections between King Lemuel aka King Solomon.",
"The story of David's adultery sets up the context for the penitential Psalm 51 (50), also known as \"Miserere\" (\"Have mercy on me, O God\")."
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Greco-Roman | What is one way to win a Greco-Roman wrestling match? | Wrestling | true | 4SPORT
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"Greco-Roman is an international discipline and an Olympic sport.",
"In Greco-Roman style, it is forbidden to hold the opponent below the belt, to make trips, and to actively use the legs in the execution of any action.",
"Recent rule changes in Greco-Roman increase opportunities for and place greater emphasis on explosive, 'high amplitude' throws.",
"Pinning one's opponent to the mat is one way of winning.",
"One of the most well known Greco-Roman wrestlers is Alexander Karelin from Russia."
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Chart performance | What 1996 film was the song featured in? | Jingle Bell Rock | false | 0MUSIC
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"Helms's original version charted at No.",
"13 on \"Billboard\"'s Most Played C&W by Jockeys chart, a predecessor to the Hot Country Songs chart.",
"After it was featured on the soundtrack to the 1996 film \"Jingle All the Way\", the original version returned to the country charts in late 1996-early 1997, reaching a peak of No.",
"It also crossed to the pop charts, reaching #11 in the Cashbox Top 60, week ending January 11, 1958."
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South Korea | Korea's services account recorded a surplus of how much in the first nine months of this year? | Gangnam Style | false | 0MUSIC
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"In 2012, the South Korean government announced that \"Gangnam Style\" had brought in $13.4 million to the country’s audio sector, and it subsequently launched a campaign to further expand the K-Pop music industry overseas.",
"According to the Bank of Korea, the country's services account recorded a surplus of USD 2.3 billion in the first nine months of this year, compared to a deficit of USD 4.5 billion last year.",
"This was mainly due to the growing influence and popularity of K-pop songs such as \"Gangnam Style\".",
"However, the American journalist John Seabrook noted that by \"satirizing standard K-pop tropes in Gangnam Style\", Psy may have subverted the music genre's chances of making it big in the West."
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Destruction | Who did the controversial mural "Man at the Crossroads"? | Man at the Crossroads | false | 3ART
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"On 24 April 1933 the \"New York World-Telegram\" newspaper published an article attacking the mural as anti-capitalist propaganda.",
"A few days later Rivera added the portrait of Lenin to the work.",
"This precipitated a major controversy by May.",
"The bad publicity greatly upset Rockefeller.",
"Rivera was asked to remove the picture of Lenin, but refused, instead offering to add Abraham Lincoln to the work as way of a compromise.",
"Rockefeller then left the decision about the future of the mural to Todd-Robertson-Todd.",
"Rivera was fully paid the promised amount for his work, but the mural was covered in drapery and left incomplete.",
"Despite protests from art lovers and attempts to get it to moved to the Museum of Modern Art, it remained covered until the early weeks of 1934, when it was destroyed by workmen.",
"The destruction caused widespread controversy.",
"Ralph Stackpole and Bernard Zakheim (who headed a group of artists commissioned by the WPA to paint murals at the Coit Tower in San Francisco) protested, and also included references to the incident in the form of headlines in newspapers held by figures in their paintings.",
"The Rockefeller Center commissioned a mural by Jose Maria Sert entitled \"American Progress\" to replace Rivera's work.",
"It used Abraham Lincoln as its focal point."
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Food and nutrition | How many flavors does Agriculture Canada have on their flavour wheel? | Maple syrup | true | 9FOOD
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"The basic ingredient in maple syrup is the sap from the xylem of sugar maple or various other species of maple trees.",
"It consists primarily of sucrose and water, with small amounts of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose from the invert sugar created in the boiling process.",
"Organic acids, the most notable one being malic acid, make the syrup slightly acidic.",
"Maple syrup has a relatively low mineral content, consisting largely of potassium and calcium, but also contains nutritionally significant amounts of zinc and manganese.",
"Maple syrup also contains trace amounts of amino acids, which may contribute to the \"buddy\" flavour of syrup produced late in the season, as the amino acid content of sap increases at this time.",
"Additionally, maple syrup contains a wide variety of volatile organic compounds, including vanillin, hydroxybutanone, and propionaldehyde.",
"It is not yet known exactly what compounds are responsible for maple syrup's distinctive flavour, however its primary flavour contributing compounds are maple furanone, strawberry furanone, and maltol.",
"Maple syrup is similar to sugar with respect to calorie content, but is a source of manganese, with 13 grams containing about 0.44 milligrams, or 22 percent of the US Food and Drug Administration Daily Value (DV%) of 2 milligrams.",
"It is also a source of zinc with 13 grams containing 0.55 milligrams or 3.7 percent of the DV% of 15 milligrams.",
"Compared to honey, maple syrup has 15 times more calcium and 1/10 as much sodium.",
"Scientists have found that maple syrup's natural phenols – potentially beneficial antioxidant compounds – inhibit two carbohydrate-hydrolyzing enzymes that are relevant to type 2 diabetes.",
"In the study, 34 new compounds were discovered in pure maple syrup, five of which have never before been seen in nature.",
"Among the five new compounds is quebecol, a phenolic compound created when the maple sap is boiled to create syrup.",
"British culinary expert Delia Smith described maple syrup as \"a unique ingredient, smooth- and silky-textured, with a sweet, distinctive flavour – hints of caramel with overtones of toffee will not do – and a rare colour, amber set alight.",
"Maple flavour is, well, maple flavour, uniquely different from any other.\"",
"Agriculture Canada has developed a \"flavour wheel\" that details 91 unique flavours that can be present in maple syrup.",
"These flavours are divided into 13 families: vanilla, empyreumatic (burnt), milky, fruity, floral, spicy, foreign deterioration or environment, maple, confectionery, plants forest-humus-cereals, herbaceous, or ligneous.",
"These flavours are evaluated using a procedure similar to wine tasting.",
"Other culinary experts praise its unique flavour.",
"Maple syrup and its various artificial imitations are widely used as toppings for pancakes, waffles, and French toast in North America.",
"They can also be used to flavour a variety of foods, including fritters, ice cream, hot cereal, fresh fruit, and sausages.",
"It is also used as sweetener for granola, applesauce, baked beans, candied sweet potatoes, winter squash, cakes, pies, breads, tea, coffee, and hot toddies.",
"Maple syrup can also be used as a replacement for honey in wine (mead)."
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Prizes | Who sponsors the prizes for Amazing Race Season 21? | The Amazing Race 21 | true | 1TV
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"The prize for each leg is awarded to the first place team for that leg.",
"Trips are sponsored by Travelocity.",
" Leg 1 – The \"Double Your Money\" prize – if the team that wins the first leg of the race also wins the final leg, the prize for winning the race will be doubled from its standard amount to .",
" Leg 2 – The \"Express Pass\" – an item that can be used on the race to skip any one task of the team's choosing.",
" Leg 3 – A trip for two to Fiji",
" Leg 4 – A trip for two to Antigua",
" Leg 5 – A trip for two to Malaysia",
" Leg 6 – A trip for two to Australia",
" Leg 7 – A trip for two to Maui, Hawaii",
" Leg 8 – A trip for two to Costa Rica",
" Leg 9 – each",
" Leg 10 – A trip for two to the Riviera Maya",
" Leg 11 – A 2013 Ford Escape for each racer",
" Leg 12 – "
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Season 2: 2008–2009 | What character was Desmond Harrington on Gossip Girl? | Gossip Girl | true | 1TV
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"The second season mainly explores the senior year of the characters with the premiere at the Hamptons and primarily focused on the relationship between Blair and Chuck, who were labeled \"the heart of \"GG\"\" by \"People\" magazine.",
"At first, both characters negate their feelings for one another, and go through random schemes and manipulations.",
"The first half of the season deals with Serena's growing prominence as a socialite which draws the attention of Blair as their friendship is tested when the character of Poppy Lifton (Tamara Feldman) arrives, a socialite who inadvertently drives a wedge between Serena and Blair after inspiring Serena to take her place in the spotlight during the early episodes of the season.",
"Nate faces the aftermath of his father's criminal past and pursues a relationship with Vanessa, who becomes further entangled into the world of the Upper East Side.",
"Jenny reignites her rebellious nature by pursuing a career as a fashion designer, thereby challenging Rufus' skills as a parent while Dan's friendship with Nate and relationship with Serena slowly transforms him from a social outcast to an insider.",
"The show finished its first half during the first week of December, with the shocking death of Bart Bass.",
"The second half of the season reveals the impact of Bart's death, causing a significant change of character direction for Chuck that subsequently leads to the growth of Rufus and Lily's relationship, the revelation of the two having a son together, and contributing to the decline of Dan and Serena's relationship.",
"John Shea reprised his role as Harold Waldorf during a Thanksgiving episode and becomes entangled in Blair's striving ambition of attending Yale.",
"Desmond Harrington entered the series as Chuck's manipulative uncle, Jack Bass.",
"Feldman returned to the season with Armie Hammer as Serena's new love interest, Gabriel Edwards.",
"Michelle Trachtenberg returned to the role of Georgina Sparks and filmed her scenes during February, also adjoining her character's return to the second season mystery.",
"A backdoor pilot for a spin-off premiered in May, but was not picked up by The CW to the limited number of spots available on their fall line-up.",
"As the storylines progressed, the role of \"Gossip Girl\" is slightly decreased.",
"She continues to run her blog, but she keeps the ultimate information for herself, sending it in the final episode as the last blast, where Serena decides to find out who \"Gossip Girl\" really is, but ultimately fails.",
"The season finale ended with a well-received kiss between Blair and Chuck."
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Abstract | What caused the tower to tilt? | Leaning Tower of Pisa | true | 2TRAVEL
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"The Leaning Tower of Pisa () or simply the Tower of Pisa (\"Torre di Pisa\") is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, known worldwide for its unintended tilt to one side.",
"It is situated behind the Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square (\"Piazza del Duomo\") after the Cathedral and the Baptistry.",
"The tower's tilt began during construction, caused by an inadequate foundation on ground too soft on one side to properly support the structure's weight.",
"The tilt increased in the decades before the structure was completed, and gradually increased until the structure was stabilized (and the tilt partially corrected) by efforts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.",
"The height of the tower is from the ground on the low side and on the high side.",
"The width of the walls at the base is .",
"Its weight is estimated at .",
"The tower has 296 or 294 steps; the seventh floor has two fewer steps on the north-facing staircase.",
"Prior to restoration work performed between 1990 and 2001, the tower leaned at an angle of 5.5 degrees, but the tower now leans at about 3.99 degrees.",
"This means that the top of the tower is displaced horizontally from where it would be if the structure were perfectly vertical."
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The snorkel | What shape is a swimmer's snorkel usually in? | Snorkeling | false | 4SPORT
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"A swimmer's snorkel is a tube typically about long and with an inside diameter of between , usually L- or J-shaped and fitted with a mouthpiece at the lower end, and constructed of rubber or plastic.",
"It is used for breathing air from above the water surface when the wearer's mouth and nose are submerged.",
"The snorkel usually has a piece of rubber that attaches the snorkel to the outside of the strap of the diving mask.",
"An older technique is pushing the snorkel between the mask-strap and the head, but this practice increases the chances the mask will leak.",
"The optimum design length of the snorkel tube is at most 40 centimeters (about 16 inches).",
"A longer tube would not allow breathing when snorkelling deeper, since it would place the lungs in deeper water where the surrounding water pressure is higher.",
"The lungs would then be unable to inflate when the snorkeler inhales, because the muscles that expand the lungs are not strong enough to operate against the higher pressure.",
"Snorkels also constitute respiratory dead space.",
"When the user takes in a fresh breath, some of the previously exhaled air which remains in the snorkel is recycled into the lungs, reducing breathing efficiency and causing a build up of carbon dioxide in the blood, which can result in hypercapnia.",
"The greater the volume of the tube, and the smaller the tidal volume of breathing, the more this problem is exacerbated.",
"A smaller diameter tube reduces the dead volume, but also increases resistance to airflow and so increases the work of breathing.",
"Occasional exhalation through the nose while snorkeling will reduce the build up of carbon dioxide, and help in keeping the mask clear of water."
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Middle Ages | In 1812, which country was Bessarabia occupied by? | Romania | true | 5COUNTRY
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"\"Gesta Hungarorum\" mentioned the existence of three voivodeships in Transylvania in the 9th century: the Voivodeship of Gelou, the Voivodeship of Glad and the Voivodeship of Menumorut.",
"The anonymous author describes the first as Vlach.",
"Another voivodeship, ruled by Gyula, was mentioned in the 11th century.",
"A Russian chronicle writes of a plundering raid in 1059 against Transylvania by Cumans and Vlachs.",
"An Old Bulgarian inscription from 1176 attests the existence of a župan Dimitri who ruled over Dobruja in 943.",
"In the Middle Ages, Romanians lived in three distinct principalities: Wallachia ( – \"The Romanian Land\"), Moldavia () and Transylvania ().",
"By the 11th century, Transylvania had become a largely autonomous part of the Kingdom of Hungary.",
"It was independent as the Principality of Transylvania from the 16th century until 1711.",
"In Wallachia and Moldavia, many small local states with varying degrees of independence developed.",
"Only in the 14th century did the larger principalities of Wallachia (1310) and Moldavia (around 1352) emerge to fight the threat of the Ottoman Empire.",
"Both territories inhabited by Romanians achieved their independence from the Hungarian Crown after military conflicts (Battle of Posada, 1330) or social conflicts (Moldavian boyars' revolt against Hungary, 1364) — these historic events being initiated by Basarab I of Wallachia (1310–1352) and Bogdan I of Moldavia (1359–1365).",
"By 1541, the entire Balkan peninsula and most of Hungary had become Ottoman provinces.",
"Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania were under Ottoman suzerainty, preserving partial or full internal autonomy until the mid-19th century (Transylvania until 1699).",
"During this period, in the Romanian lands the feudal system slowly disappeared.",
"A few rulers of territories in what is now Romania distinguished themselves: these rulers include Stephen the Great, Vasile Lupu, and Dimitrie Cantemir in Moldavia; Matei Basarab, Vlad the Impaler, and Constantin Brâncoveanu in Wallachia; and John Hunyadi (\"Ioannes Corvinus\") and Gabriel Bethlen in Transylvania.",
"In 1600, the principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania were simultaneously headed by the Wallachian prince Michael the Brave (\"Mihai Viteazul\"), but the chance for a lasting unification was lost after Mihai was assassinated only one year later.",
"After his death, as vassal tributary states, Moldavia and Wallachia had complete internal autonomy and external independence, which they finally lost in the 18th century.",
"In 1699, Transylvania became a territory of the Habsburgs' Austrian empire following the Austrian victory over the Turks in the Great Turkish War.",
"The Habsburgs in turn expanded their empire in 1718 to include an important part of Wallachia called Oltenia (which was returned only in 1739), and in 1775 to include the northwestern part of Moldavia, later called Bukovina.",
"The eastern half of the Moldavian principality (called Bessarabia) was occupied in 1812 by Russia."
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Influence of El Greco | Wh was one of Picasso's friends who acquired one of El Greco's masterpieces?? | Les Demoiselles d'Avignon | false | 3ART
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"In 1907, when Picasso began to work on \"Les Demoiselles\", one of the old master painters he greatly admired was El Greco (1541–1614).",
"At the time El Greco was largely obscure and under-appreciated.",
"Picasso's friend Ignacio Zuloaga (1870–1945) acquired El Greco's masterpiece, the \"Opening of the Fifth Seal\", in 1897 for 1000 pesetas.",
"While Picasso was working on , he visited his friend Ignacio Zuloaga in his studio in Paris and studied El Greco's \"Opening of the Fifth Seal.\"",
"The relation between and the \"Opening of the Fifth Seal\" was pinpointed in the early 1980s, when the stylistic similarities and the relationship between the motifs and visually identifying qualities of both works were analysed.",
"El Greco's painting which Picasso studied over and over in Zuloaga's house inspired not only the size, format, and composition of \"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon\" but it inspired its apocalyptic power.",
"Later, speaking of the work to Dor de la Souchère in Antibes, Picasso said: \"In any case, only the execution counts.",
"From this point of view, it is correct to say that Cubism has a Spanish origin and that I invented Cubism.",
"We must look for the Spanish influence in Cézanne.",
"Things themselves necessitate it, the influence of El Greco, a Venetian painter, on him.",
"But his structure is Cubist.",
"\"The relationship of the painting to other group portraits in the Western tradition, such as \"Diana and Callisto\" by Titian (1488–1576), and the same subject by Rubens (1577–1640), in the Prado, has also been discussed."
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Episode misreporting by Fox | To date, what has yet to be revealed in American Dad. | American Dad! | false | 1TV
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"It is evident that Fox either miscounts \"American Dad!\"",
"episodes or at least intentionally discounts one episode of the series.",
"This was established in Fox advertisements for the episode \"Lost in Space.\"",
"The episode was promoted by Fox as \"American Dad!",
"\"s 150th episode.",
"Subsequently, numerous mainstream media reports also labeled the episode as the 150th.",
"In actuality, however, it was the show's 151st episode while the episode \"The Full Cognitive Redaction of Avery Bullock by the Coward Stan Smith\" was the 150th episode of the series.",
"In addition, Fox has misreported the \"Lost in Space\" episode as the revealing of Roger's birth planet.",
"In actuality, the setting of this episode is a spaceship owned by members of Roger's alien race.",
"To date, Roger's birth planet has yet to be revealed."
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Curries of Punjab | The spice level should be what? | Curry | true | 9FOOD
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"Punjab is a rich agricultural land, where fresh vegetables and fruits have always been accessible.",
"A typical Punjabi meal consists of some form of bread or rice with a \"salan\" (curry).",
"Most preparations start with the frying of a masala which is a concoction of ginger, garlic, onions and tomatoes with some dried spices.",
"This is followed by the addition of other ingredients.",
"Spice level varies greatly depending on the sub-region as well as the household itself.",
"A popular cooking fat is pure desi ghee, and some dishes are often enriched with liberal amounts of butter and cream.",
"There are certain dishes that are exclusive to Punjab, such as maash di dal and saron da saag (sarson ka saag)."
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Work | What meaning did the painting Man at the Crossroads have to Rivera? | Man at the Crossroads | true | 3ART
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"Rivera's composition depicted many aspects of contemporary social and scientific culture.",
"In the center, a workman was depicted controlling machinery.",
"Before him, a giant fist emerged holding an orb depicting the recombination of atoms and dividing cells in acts of chemical and biological generation.",
"From the central figure four propeller-like shapes stretched to the corner of the composition, depicting arcs of light created by giant lenses anchoring the left and right edges of the space.",
"Rivera described these as \"elongated ellipses\".",
"Within these, cosmological and biological forces such as exploding suns and cell-forms were depicted.",
"These represented the discoveries made possible by the telescope and the microscope.",
"Between and beyond the arcs were scenes of modern social life.",
"Wealthy society women are seen playing cards and smoking at the left.",
"Opposite, on the right, Lenin is seen holding hands with a multi-racial group of workers.",
"Soldiers and war machinery occupied the top left above the society women, and a Russian May Day rally with red flags was seen at the right, above Lenin.",
"For Rivera, this represented contrasting social visions: the \"debauched rich\" watched by the unemployed while war rages; and a socialist utopia ushered in by Lenin.",
"Beyond the giant lenses to left and right were depicted figures contemplating the central scene, behind which were gigantic classical statues.",
"The one on the left depicted an angry Jupiter, whose raised hand holding a thunderbolt has been stuck off by a lightening strike.",
"The one on the right was a headless seated Caesar.",
"For Rivera these represented the replacement of superstition by scientific mastery of nature, and the overthrow of authoritarian rule by liberated workers.",
"The bottom part of the painting was to depict the controlled growth of natural resources, in the form of a variety of plants emerging from their roots, visible in a cut-away view under the soil.",
"However, this section was never completed.",
"It exists only in the later recreation of the composition in Mexico."
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Advancing the ball | Where can the attacker go with the ball that would result in it being turned over to the defense in water polo? | Water polo | true | 4SPORT
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"When the offense takes possession of the ball, the strategy is to advance the ball down the field of play and to score a goal.",
"Players can move the ball by throwing it to a teammate or swimming with the ball in front of them (\"dribbling\").",
"If an attacker uses his/her arm to push away a defending player and free up space for a pass or shot, the referee will rule a turnover and the defence will take possession of the ball.",
"If an attacker advances inside the 2-meter line without the ball or before the ball is inside the 2-meter area, (s)he is ruled offside and the ball is turned over to the defence.",
"This is often overlooked if the attacker is well to the side of the pool or when the ball is at the other side of the pool."
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Resorts | What is the Express Pass? | Universal Orlando | false | 2TRAVEL
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"The resort features three official on-site hotels: Loews Royal Pacific Hotel, the Hard Rock Hotel, and Loews Portofino Bay Hotel & Spa.",
"All three hotels are located in close proximity to the Universal Orlando theme parks.",
"The hotels offer guests free water taxi or shuttle bus service to the Universal Orlando theme parks.",
"Another benefit is that the guest room key works as an \"Express Pass\", allowing the guest to bypass the Stand-by line at participating attractions.",
"Theme park guests who are not staying at the Universal official hotels are able to purchase \"Express Passes\" at an additional cost."
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In culture | How many pieces are in the Lego set of the Space Needle? | Space Needle | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Being a major symbol of the Pacific Northwest, the Space Needle has made numerous appearances in films, TV shows and other works of fiction.",
"A few examples of films include \"It Happened at the World's Fair\" (1962), where it was used as a filming location, and \"Sleepless in Seattle\" (1993).",
"In the 1974 film \"The Parallax View\", the inside and outside platforms of the observation deck are the setting for a political assassination, and there's a brief chase on the roof above it.",
"In the 1999 film \"\", it served as a base of operations for the villain Doctor Evil with the word Starbucks written across its saucer after his henchman Number 2 shifted the organization's resources toward the coffee company.",
"It is also featured prominently in \"Chronicle\" (2012), and is a key element in the film's climax.",
"In TV shows, one of the most prominent showings is in the series \"Frasier\" where an outline of it appears in the opening credits and the base of it is visible from the high-rise condo although the view is really a composite image as there are no high rise condos in the right area of that height.",
"It also appears in nearly every episode of the Seattle-set series \"Grey's Anatomy\", often in helicopter fly-by shots.",
"The Space Needle also makes appearances in Nickelodeon TV show \"iCarly\" where it can be seen with other surrounding buildings in the Seattle area.",
"Other TV appearances include The History Channel's \"Life After People\" where it collapses after 200 years because of corrosion.",
"It was also destroyed in the TV miniseries \"10.5\" when a 7.9 earthquake hits Seattle.",
"The movie mistakenly portrays the Needle as crumbling concrete, though the structure is actually made of iron and it would have survived a 7.9 earthquake in real life.",
"The needle is also featured in some episodes of \"Bill Nye the Science Guy\", such as the episode \"Storms\" where Bill Nye uses the lightning rod on top of it as an example of conducting lightning strikes.",
"It also appears many times as a refuge for the hero of \"Dark Angel\".",
"In video games, it has been used to represent Seattle in \"Pilotwings 64\" and \"Rock Band\" and it appears in the Seattle Circuit reverse of \"Gran Turismo 4\".",
"The Space Needle and the area around it also appear in the last campaign mission of \"World in Conflict\" as the site of the Soviet invasion force's last stand.",
"The Space Needle is in the map \"Seattle\" of Godzilla: Saves the Earth, for the original Xbox.",
"The Space Needle has been used for some other purposes as well, including a large 57 piece Lego construction set of it that has been released as part of Lego Architecture's structures.",
"The Needle is also featured on the logo of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC.",
"The Space Needle is featured in \".\""
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Sino-Soviet split, space race, ICBMs | When was the first Soviet satellite launched? | Cold War | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"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.\""
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Abstract | When was the film shown at South by Southwest? | The Cabin in the Woods | true | 6MOVIES
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"The Cabin in the Woods is a 2012 American satirical horror film directed by Drew Goddard in his directorial debut, produced by Joss Whedon, and written by Whedon and Goddard.",
"The film stars Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, and Jesse Williams.",
"Goddard and Whedon, having worked together previously on \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" and \"Angel\", wrote the screenplay in three days, describing it as an attempt to \"revitalize\" the slasher film genre and as a critical satire on torture porn.",
"\"The A.V.",
"Club\", elaborating on this description, wrote, \"Where \"Scream\" put a postmodern twist on slasher films, \"The Cabin In The Woods\" takes on the whole genre and twists even harder...",
"The script brings to the fore Whedon’s love of subverting clichés while embracing them and teasing out their deeper meaning.",
"\"Filming took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, from March to May 2009 on an estimated budget of $30 million.",
"Scheduled to be released on February 5, 2010, the release was delayed until January 14, 2011 so that the film could be converted into 3D.",
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's financial troubles then delayed the release indefinitely.",
"The distribution rights were bought by Lionsgate in April 2011, who cancelled the planned 3D conversion.",
"The film then premiered on March 9, 2012 at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas and was released in the United States on April 13, 2012.",
"The film was both a critical and financial success receiving positive reviews, featuring on Metacritic's best films of 2012 list and grossing over $65 million worldwide."
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Etymology | Give the greek name for lasagne. | Lasagne | false | 9FOOD
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"In the Ancient Rome, there was a dish similar to the lasagne called \"lasana\" or \"lasanum\" (Latin word for \"container\", \"pot\") described in the book \"L'arte culinaria\" by Marcus Gavius Apicius, but the word could have a more ancient origin.",
"The first theory is that \"lasagne\" comes from Greek λάγανον (\"laganon\"), a flat sheet of pasta dough cut into strips.",
"The word λαγάνα (\"lagana\") is still used in Greek to mean a flat thin type of unleavened bread.",
"Another theory is that the word lasagne comes from the Greek λάσανα (\"lasana\") or λάσανον (\"lasanon\") meaning \"trivet or stand for a pot\", \"chamber pot\".",
"The Romans borrowed the word as \"lasanum\", meaning \"cooking pot\" in Latin.",
"The Italians used the word to refer to the dish in which lasagne is made.",
"Later the name of the food took on the name of the serving dish.",
"A third theory proposed that the dish is a development of the 14th century English recipe \"Loseyn\" as described in \"The Forme of Cury\", a cook book in use during the reign of Richard II.",
"This has similarities to modern lasagne in both its recipe, which features a layering of ingredients between pasta sheets, and its name.",
"An important difference is the lack of tomatoes, which did not arrive in Europe until after Columbus reached America in 1492.",
"The earliest discussion of the tomato in European literature appeared in a herbal written in 1544 by Pietro Andrea Mattioli while the earliest discovered cookbook with tomato recipes was published in Naples in 1692, though the author had apparently obtained these recipes from Spanish sources.",
"As with most other types of pasta, the word is a plural form, \"lasagne\" meaning more than one sheet of \"lasagna\"."
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First Balkan War | Who were the allies Bulgaria and Montenegro during the First Balkan War? | Balkan Wars | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"The three Slavic allies (Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro) had laid out extensive plans to coordinate their war efforts, in continuation of their secret prewar settlements and under close Russian supervision (Greece was not included).",
"Serbia and Montenegro would attack in the theater of Sandjak, Bulgarian and Serbia in Macedonia and Thrace.",
"The Ottoman Empire's situation was difficult.",
"Its population of about 26 million people provided a massive pool of manpower, but 3/4 of the population and nearly all of the Muslim component lived in the Asian part of the Empire.",
"Reinforcements had to come from Asia mainly by sea, which depended on the result of battles between the Turkish and Greek navies in the Aegean.",
"With the outbreak of the war, the Ottoman Empire activated three Army HQs: the Thracian HQ in Constantinople, the Western HQ in Salonika, and the Vardar HQ in Skopje, against the Bulgarians, the Greeks and the Serbians respectively.",
"Most of their available forces were allocated to these fronts.",
"Smaller independent units were allocated elsewhere, mostly around heavily fortified cities.",
"Montenegro was the first that declared war on 8 October (25 September O.S.",
"Its main thrust was towards Shkodra, with secondary operations in the Novi Pazar area.",
"The rest of the Allies, after giving a common ultimatum, declared war a week later.",
"Bulgaria attacked towards Eastern Thrace, being stopped only at the outskirts of Constantinople at the Çatalca line and the isthmus of the Gallipoli peninsula, while secondary forces captured Western Thrace and Eastern Macedonia.",
"Serbia attacked south towards Skopje and Monastir and then turned west to present-day Albania, reaching the Adriatic, while a second Army captured Kosovo and linked with the Montenegrin forces.",
"Greece's main forces attacked from Thessaly into Macedonia through the Sarantaporo strait and after capturing Thessaloniki on 12 November (on 26 October 1912, O.S.)",
"expanded its occupied area and linked up with the Serbian army to the northwest, while its main forces turned east towards Kavala, reaching the Bulgarians.",
"Another Greek army attacked into Epirus towards Ioannina.",
"In the naval front the Ottoman fleet twice exited the Dardanelles and was twice defeated by the Greek Navy, in the battles of Elli and Lemnos.",
"Greek dominance on the Aegean Sea made it impossible for the Ottomans to transfer the planned troops from the Middle East to the Thracian (against the Bulgarian) and to the Macedonian (against the Greeks and Serbians) fronts.",
"According to the E.J.",
"Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps (see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.",
"After the defeating of the Ottoman fleet the Greek Navy was also free to liberate the islands of the Aegean.",
"General Nikola Ivanov identified the activity of the Greek Navy as the chief factor in the general success of the allies.",
"In January, after a successful coup by young army officers, the Ottoman Empire decided to continue the war.",
"After a failed Ottoman counter-attack in the Western-Thracian front, Bulgarian forces with the help of the Serbian Army managed to conquer Adrianople while Greek forces managed to take Ioannina after defeating the Ottomans in the battle of Bizani.",
"In the joint Serbian-Montenegrin theater of operation the Montenegrin army besieged and captured the Shkodra, ending the Ottoman presence in Europe west of the Çatalca line after nearly 500 years.",
"The war ended with the Treaty of London on 30(17) May 1913."
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Legal jurisdiction | How did the defendant plead in his case relating to wildlife crime? | Yellowstone National Park | false | 2TRAVEL
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"The entire park is within the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, making it the only federal court district that includes portions of more than one state (Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming).",
"Law professor Brian C. Kalt has argued that it may be impossible to impanel a jury in compliance with the Vicinage Clause of the Sixth Amendment for a crime committed solely in the unpopulated Idaho portion of the park (and that it would be difficult to do so for a crime committed solely in the lightly populated Montana portion).",
"One defendant accused of a wildlife-related crime in the Montana portion of the park attempted to raise this argument.",
"He eventually pleaded guilty."
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Role of women | Were patriot women allowed to legally divorce their husbands? | American Revolution | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"Women contributed to the American Revolution in many ways, and were involved on both sides.",
"While formal Revolutionary politics did not include women, ordinary domestic behaviors became charged with political significance as Patriot women confronted a war that permeated all aspects of political, civil, and domestic life.",
"They participated by boycotting British goods, spying on the British, following armies as they marched, washing, cooking, and tending for soldiers, delivering secret messages, and in a few cases like Deborah Samson, fighting disguised as men.",
"Also, Mercy Otis Warren held meetings in her house and cleverly attacked Loyalists with her creative plays and histories.",
"Above all, they continued the agricultural work at home to feed their families and the armies.",
"They maintained their families during their husbands' absences and sometimes after their deaths.",
"American women were integral to the success of the boycott of British goods, as the boycotted items were largely household items such as tea and cloth.",
"Women had to return to knitting goods, and to spinning and weaving their own cloth — skills that had fallen into disuse.",
"In 1769, the women of Boston produced 40,000 skeins of yarn, and 180 women in Middletown, Massachusetts wove of cloth.",
"A crisis of political loyalties could disrupt the fabric of colonial America women's social worlds: whether a man did or did not renounce his allegiance to the King could dissolve ties of class, family, and friendship, isolating women from former connections.",
"A woman's loyalty to her husband, once a private commitment, could become a political act, especially for women in America committed to men who remained loyal to the King.",
"Legal divorce, usually rare, was granted to Patriot women whose husbands supported the King."
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Legacy | When was the Still Life with GEraniums exhibited? | Henri Matisse | false | 3ART
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"The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was \"Still Life with Geraniums\" (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne.",
"His \"The Plum Blossoms\" (1948) was purchased on 8 September 2005, for the Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Josée Drouin.",
"Estimated price was US$25 million.",
"Previously, it had not been seen by the public since 1970.",
"In 2002, a Matisse sculpture, \"Reclining Nude I (Dawn),\" sold for US$9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.",
"Matisse's daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works.",
"She died in 1982 while compiling a catalogue of her father's work.",
"Matisse's son, Pierre Matisse, (1900–1989) opened a modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s.",
"The Pierre Matisse Gallery which was active from 1931 until 1989 represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time.",
"He exhibited Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wifredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, sculptors Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason and Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.",
"Henri Matisse's grandson, Paul Matisse, is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts.",
"Matisse's great-granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist.",
"Les Heritiers Matisse functions as his official Estate.",
"The US copyright representative for Les Heritiers Matisse is the Artists Rights Society."
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Crime | In U.S. dollars, how much did Nigeria's leaders steal from the Nigerian treasury between the years 1960 and 1999? | Nigeria | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Nigeria is home to a substantial network of organised crime, active especially in drug trafficking.",
"Nigerian criminal groups are heavily involved in drug trafficking, shipping heroin from Asian countries to Europe and America; and cocaine from South America to Europe and South Africa.",
"The various Nigerian Confraternities or \"campus cults\" are active in both organised crime and in political violence as well as providing a network of corruption within Nigeria.",
"As confraternities have extensive connections with political and military figures, they offer excellent alumni networking opportunities.",
"The Supreme Vikings Confraternity, for example, boasts that twelve members of the Rivers State House of Assembly are cult members.",
"On lower levels of society, there are the \"area boys\", organised gangs mostly active in Lagos who specialise in mugging and small-scale drug dealing.",
"According to official statistics, gang violence in Lagos resulted in 273 civilians and 84 policemen killed in the period of August 2000 to May 2001.",
"Internationally, Nigeria is infamous for a form of bank fraud dubbed \"419\", a type of advance fee fraud (named after Section 419 of the Nigerian Penal Code) along with the \"Nigerian scam\", a form of confidence trick practised by individuals and criminal syndicates.",
"These scams involve a complicit Nigerian bank (the laws being set up loosely to allow it) and a scammer who claims to have money he needs to obtain from that bank.",
"The victim is talked into exchanging bank account information on the premise that the money will be transferred to him, and then he'll get to keep a cut.",
"In reality, money is taken out instead, and/or large fees (which seem small in comparison with the imaginary wealth he awaits) are deducted.",
"In 2003, the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (or EFCC) was created, ostensibly to combat this and other forms of organised financial crime.",
"There is also some piracy in Nigeria, with attacks mainly directed at smaller ships shuttling employees and materials belonging to the oil companies with any involvement in oil exploration in the Niger Delta.",
"From 1 January 2007 to 29 October 2007, twenty-six pirate attacks were recorded.",
"Nigeria is also pervaded by political corruption.",
"It is ranked 143 out of 182 countries in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.",
"More than $400 billion was stolen from the treasury by Nigeria's leaders between 1960 and 1999."
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Internationalization of the renminbi | What year did Russia begin using Chinese renminbi in it's trade? | China | false | 5COUNTRY
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"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."
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Demographics | Women in Hong Kong have a life expectancy of how many years? | Hong Kong | true | 5COUNTRY
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"The territory's population in 2011 is 7.07 million, with an average annual growth rate of 0.6% over the previous five years.",
"Residents from mainland China do not have the right of abode in Hong Kong, nor are they allowed to enter the territory freely.",
"However, the influx of immigrants from mainland China, approximating 45,000 per year, is a significant contributor to its population growth – a daily quota of 150 Mainland Chinese with family ties in Hong Kong are granted a \"one way permit\".",
"Life expectancy in Hong Kong is 79.16 years for males and 84.79 years for females as of 2009, making it one of the highest life expectancies in the world.",
"About 93.6% of the people of Hong Kong are of Chinese descent, the majority of whom are Taishanese, Chiu Chow, other Cantonese people, and Hakka.",
"Hong Kong's Han majority originate mainly from the Guangzhou and Taishan regions in Guangdong province.",
"The remaining 6.4% of the population is composed of non-ethnic Chinese.",
"There is a South Asian population of Indians, Pakistanis and Nepalese; some Vietnamese refugees have become permanent residents of Hong Kong.",
"There are also Britons, Americans, Canadians, Japanese, and Koreans working in the city's commercial and financial sector.",
"In 2008, there were an estimate of 252,500 foreign domestic helpers from Indonesia and the Philippines working in Hong Kong.",
"Hong Kong's \"de facto\" official language is Cantonese, a Chinese language originating from Guangdong province to the north of Hong Kong.",
"English is also an official language, and according to a 1996 by-census is spoken by 3.1 percent of the population as an everyday language and by 34.9 percent of the population as a second language.",
"Signs displaying both Chinese and English are common throughout the territory.",
"Since the 1997 handover, an increase in immigrants from mainland China and greater integration with the mainland economy have brought an increasing number of Mandarin speakers to Hong Kong.",
"A majority of residents of Hong Kong would claim no religious affiliation, professing a form of agnosticism or atheism.",
"According to the U.S Department of State only 43 percent of the population practices some form of religion.",
"Some figures put it higher, according to a Gallup poll, 64% of Hong Kong residents do not believe in any religion, and possibly 80% of Hong Kong claim no religion.",
"In Hong Kong teaching evolution won out in curriculum dispute about whether to teach other explanations, and that creationism and intelligent design will form no part of the senior secondary biology curriculum.",
"Hong Kong enjoys a high degree of religious freedom, guaranteed by the Basic Law.",
"Hong Kong's main religions are Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism; a local religious scholar in contact with major denominations estimates there are approximately 1.5 million Buddhists and Taoists.",
"A Christian community of around 833,000 forms about 11.7% of the total population; Protestants forms a larger number than Roman Catholics at a rate of 4:3, although smaller Christian communities exist, including the Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses.",
"The Anglican and Roman Catholic churches each freely appoint their own bishops, unlike in mainland China.",
"There are also Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Bahá'í communities.",
"The practice of Falun Gong is tolerated.",
"Statistically Hong Kong's income gap is the greatest in Asia Pacific.",
"According to a report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme in 2008, Hong Kong's Gini coefficient, at 0.53, was the highest in Asia and \"relatively high by international standards\".",
"However, the government has stressed that income disparity does not equate to worsening of the poverty situation, and that the Gini coefficient is not strictly comparable between regions.",
"The government has named economic restructuring, changes in household sizes, and the increase of high-income jobs as factors that have skewed the Gini coefficient."
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Abstract | Who sang Every Breathe You Take and how did it do? | Every Breath You Take | true | 0MUSIC
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"\"Every Breath You Take\" is a song by The Police on the band's 1983 album \"Synchronicity\", written by Sting.",
"The single entered the charts at position 36 on 4 June 1983.",
"The single was one of the biggest hits of 1983, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for eight weeks and the UK Singles Chart for four weeks.",
"It also topped the \"Billboard\" Top Tracks chart for nine weeks.",
"At the 26th Annual Grammy Awards the song was nominated for three Grammy Awards including Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.",
"Sting won Song of the Year while The Police won Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals; however, it did not win Record of the Year.",
"The song ranked No.",
"84 on the \"Rolling Stone\" list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time the highest position of any new wave rock song.",
"It also ranked No.",
"25 on \"Billboard\"'s Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs.",
"The song is considered to be The Police's signature song, and in 2010 was estimated to generate between a quarter and a third of Sting's music publishing income.",
"In the USA, Every Breath You Take was the best-selling single of 1983 and fifth best-selling single of the decade."
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Harold moves south | Where did Harald Hardrada camp on the night of 13 October? | Battle of Hastings | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"After defeating his brother Tostig and Harald Hardrada in the north, Harold left much of his forces in the north, including Morcar and Edwin, and marched the rest of his army south to deal with the threatened Norman invasion.",
"It is unclear when Harold learned of William's landing, but it was probably while he was travelling south.",
"Harold stopped in London, and was there for about a week before Hastings, so it is likely that he spent about a week on his march south, averaging about per day, for the approximately .",
"Harold camped at Caldbec Hill on the night of 13 October, near what was described as a \"hoar-apple tree\".",
"This location was about from William's castle at Hastings.",
"Some of the early contemporary French accounts mention an emissary or emissaries sent by Harold to William, which is likely.",
"Nothing came of these efforts.",
"Although Harold attempted to surprise the Normans, William's scouts reported the English arrival to the duke.",
"The exact events preceding the battle are obscure, with contradictory accounts in the sources, but all agree that William led his army from his castle and advanced towards the enemy.",
"Harold had taken a defensive position at the top of Senlac Hill (present-day Battle, East Sussex), about from William's castle at Hastings."
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Background | Where was the song Payphone recorded? | Payphone (song) | false | 0MUSIC
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"The song was written by Maroon 5's lead singer Adam Levine, along with Ammar Malik, Robopop, Benny Blanco, Shellback, and Wiz Khalifa, while production was helmed by Blanco and Shellback.",
"Levine, Blanco, Shellback, and Malik also wrote the band's previous single \"Moves Like Jagger\".",
"The writing process started when Blanco, Robopop, and Malik convened together in the studio; Malik and Robopop constructed a piano line and demo track that Blanco compiled into a proper melody.",
"Then, it was given to Levine who wrote the lyrics.",
"Meanwhile, Blanco recalled rapper Wiz Khalifa with an idea to throw a wrench into the Maroon 5 works by adding hip-hop flavor to the its sound, \"I love when things don't make sense, like, 'Holy fuck!'",
"You don't hear him on the song at all.",
"I like when bands dip into a whole different genre.\"",
"Wiz Khalifa wrote and rapped his verse on \"Payphone\".",
"In an interview with \"Rolling Stone\", Blanco told that five minutes before Khalifa arrived at the studio, he prepared \"the sound beds for the finger snap-driven portion of the jam\".",
"However, producer Max Martin, who was the executive producer of \"Overexposed\", adjusted the chorus, because he felt it should be a \"little different\".",
"\"Payphone\" was recorded at Conway Studios in Los Angeles by Noah \"Mailbox\" Pasovoy and Shellback, while Eric Eylands served as the assistant engineer.",
"John Hanes mixed the song at Mixstar Studios in Virginia Beach and Phil Seaford was the mixing assistant.",
"The programming, additional bass, keys, acoustic guitars and the background vocals were provided by Shellback and Blanco.",
"Jeremy \"Jbogs\" Levin and David \"D Silb\" Silberstein served as production coordinators.",
"Khalifa appears as courtesy of Rostrum Records.",
"\"Payphone\" was released as a lead single from \"Overexposed\".",
"On April 17, 2012, it was digitally released in most territories.",
"A&M/Octone Records serviced the song to contemporary hit radio in the United States on April 24.",
"A CD single containing the album version of the song together with a Thomas Penton/Barry Huffine remix was released on June 8 in Germany."
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Mendeleev's table | How did Mendeleec's periodic table predict the properties of elements that hadn't been found yet? | Periodic table | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev and German chemist Julius Lothar Meyer independently published their periodic tables in 1869 and 1870, respectively.",
"Mendeleev's table was his first published version; that of Meyer was an expanded version of his (Meyer's) table of 1864.",
"They both constructed their tables by listing the elements in rows or columns in order of atomic weight and starting a new row or column when the characteristics of the elements began to repeat.",
"The recognition and acceptance afforded to Mendeleev's table came from two decisions he made.",
"The first was to leave gaps in the table when it seemed that the corresponding element had not yet been discovered.",
"Mendeleev was not the first chemist to do so, but he was the first to be recognized as using the trends in his periodic table to predict the properties of those missing elements, such as gallium and germanium.",
"The second decision was to occasionally ignore the order suggested by the atomic weights and switch adjacent elements, such as tellurium and iodine, to better classify them into chemical families.",
"With the development of theories of atomic structure, it became apparent that Mendeleev had unintentionally listed the elements in order of increasing atomic number or nuclear charge.",
"The significance of atomic numbers to the organization of the periodic table was not appreciated until the existence and properties of protons and neutrons became understood.",
"Mendeleev's periodic tables used atomic weight instead of atomic number to organize the elements, information determinable to fair precision in his time.",
"Atomic weight worked well enough in most cases to (as noted) give a presentation that was able to predict the properties of missing elements more accurately than any other method then known.",
"Substitution of atomic numbers, once understood, gave a definitive, integer-based sequence for the elements, still used today even as new synthetic elements are being produced and studied."
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Box office | What year was the opening of "The Cabin in the Woods" in America? | The Cabin in the Woods | true | 6MOVIES
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"\"The Cabin in the Woods\" earned $42,073,277 in North America, along with $23,829,690 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $65,902,967.",
"It is currently the 90th highest grossing film of 2012 internationally, 79th domestically.",
"The film opened in North America on April 13, 2012, opening with $5.5 million and went on to gross $14.7 million in its opening weekend in the United States at 2,811 theaters, taking the number three spot.",
"\"The Cabin in the Woods\" closed in theaters on July 12, 2012 with $42.0 million.",
"In total earnings, its highest-grossing countries after North America were the United Kingdom ($8.5 million), France ($2.4 million) and Russia ($2.3 million)."
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Criticism of modern medicine | What is modern medicine's main problem? | Medicine | false | 8SCIENCE
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"According to Paul Farmer, the main problem for modern medicine is lack of access in poor regions.",
"There is an \"outcome gap\" between the rich and poor that is most noticeable with expensive-to-treat diseases like AIDS and tuberculosis.",
"The majority of medical resources and therapies are concentrated in the rich, low-incidence regions such as the West.",
"On the other hand, countries in the developing world have high rates of HIV but lack the necessary resources to treat them.",
"Medical errors and overmedication and other forms of iatrogenesis (harms caused by medical treatment) are also the focus of complaints and negative coverage.",
"Practitioners of human factors engineering believe that there is much that medicine may usefully gain by emulating concepts in aviation safety, where it is recognized that it is dangerous to place too much responsibility on one \"superhuman\" individual and expect him or her not to make errors.",
"Reporting systems and checking mechanisms are becoming more common in identifying sources of error and improving practice.",
"Clinical versus statistical, algorithmic diagnostic methods were famously examined in psychiatric practice in a 1954 book by Paul E. Meehl, which found statistical methods superior.",
"A 2000 meta-analysis comparing these methods in both psychology and medicine found that statistical or \"mechanical\" diagnostic methods were, in general, although not always, superior.",
"Disparities in quality of care given among local demographics are often an additional cause of controversy.",
"For example, elderly mentally ill patients received poorer care during hospitalization in a 2008 study.",
"Rural poor African-American men were used in an infamous study of syphilis that denied them basic medical care."
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Plot | In Teen Wolf, who is the girl of Scott Howard's dreams? | Teen Wolf | false | 1TV
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"Seventeen-year-old high school student Scott Howard is sick of being average and wishing he were special.",
"His father runs a local hardware store.",
"Scott plays basketball for his high school's team, the Beavers, with a not-so-good win-loss record.",
"The girl of his dreams, Pamela Wells, is dating Mick McAllister, a jerk from an opposing high school team, the Dragons.",
"After another of the team's losses, Scott begins to notice strange changes to his body.",
"While at a party, Scott keeps undergoing changes and eventually he returns home, locks himself in the bathroom, and undergoes a complete change and becomes a werewolf, while his father demands that he open the door.",
"He tries to refuse, only to finally give in and find his father has also transformed.",
"Harold never told his son about the condition because \"sometimes it skips a generation\" and he was hoping it would not happen to Scott.",
"Scott accidentally reveals his transformation to the public at one of his basketball games.",
"After momentarily stunning the crowd with The Wolf, Scott goes on to amaze them with his basketball skills.",
"Scott subsequently learns to use his family \"curse\" to gain popularity at school, becoming the team's star basketball player, and learns to transform at will between his normal self and The Wolf.",
"His team goes from last to first, and Scott begins spending most of his time at school as The Wolf.",
"He also wins the interest of Pamela while ignoring the affections of his best friend, Boof, who has loved him since childhood.",
"One night at a school dance, however, he gets into a confrontation with Mick causing Scott to become The Wolf and claw Mick.",
"Though Mick isn't seriously injured, the crowd starts looking at Scott as a monster rather than the cool basketball star he had become.",
"The conclusion of the film finds Scott playing in the championship basketball game as himself against Mick's team.",
"During the game Mick constantly fouls Scott leading Scott to remind him if he keeps fouling he will be benched.",
"Mick fouls him one last time leading Scott to shoot two free throws.",
"He makes both baskets putting the Beavers ahead and wins the game.",
"While Scott is being carried by the crowd, Pamela walks over to him, but he snubs her and runs over to Boof where they kiss.",
"Mick goes to get Pamela, who now has lost interest in the former basketball hero.",
"The last scene shows Scott, Boof, and Mr. Howard embracing as the whole school celebrates."
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Media | When started German cinema? | Germany | true | 5COUNTRY
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"German cinema dates back to the earliest years of the medium, it has made major technical and artistic contributions to film, as with the work of Max Skladanowsky, who showed the first film sequences ever to an audience, in 1895.",
"Early German cinema was particularly influential with German expressionists such as Robert Wiene and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.",
"Director Fritz Lang's \"Metropolis\" (1927) is referred to as the first modern science-fiction film.",
"In 1930 Josef von Sternberg directed \"The Blue Angel\", the first major German sound film.",
"During the 1970s and 1980s, New German Cinema directors such as Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder put West German cinema on the international stage.",
"The annual European Film Awards ceremony is held every other year in Berlin, home of the European Film Academy (EFA); the Berlin Film Festival, held annually since 1951, is one of the world's foremost film festivals.",
"In the 21st century, several German movies have had international success, such as \"Nowhere in Africa\" (2001), \"Das Experiment\" (2001), \"Good Bye, Lenin!\"",
"(2003), \"Gegen die Wand (Head-On)\" (2004), \"Der Untergang (Downfall)\" (2004), \"\" (2006), \"The Baader Meinhof Complex\" (2008), \"The Wave\" (2008), \"The White Ribbon\" (2009), \"Pandorum\" (2009), \"Soul Kitchen\" (2009), Animals United\" (2010), \"Combat Girls\" (2011) and \"Cloud Atlas\" (2012).",
"The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film went to the German production \"Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)\" in 1979, to \"Nowhere in Africa\" in 2002, and to \"Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)\" in 2007.",
"Germany's television market is the largest in Europe, with some 34 million TV households.",
"Around 90% of German households have cable or satellite TV, with a variety of free-to-view public and commercial channels.",
"The most watched television broadcast of all-time in Germany was the Germany vs Spain semi-fnal game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.",
"Nine out of ten of the top ten most watched television broadcasts of all-time in Germany feature the German national football team.",
"The German video gaming market is one of the largest in the world.",
"The Gamescom in Cologne is Europe's leading gaming convention.",
"Popular game series from Germany include Turrican, the Anno series, The Settlers series, the Gothic series, SpellForce, the X series, the FIFA Manager series, Far Cry and Crysis.",
"The most relevant game developers and publishers are Ascaron, Bigpoint, Blue Byte, Crytek, Deck13, Deep Silver, EA Phenomic, Gameforge, Nintendo Europe, Piranha Bytes, Radon, Related, Spellbound and Wooga."
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Miscellaneous | What song was ranked 8th on CNN's list in 2012? | Gangnam Style | true | 0MUSIC
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"The music video came in first with 21% rating in the 2012 Billboard.com's readers poll, beating \"Where Have You Been\" by Rihanna (19%) and \"Beauty and a Beat\" by Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj (11%).",
"The song was the most popular song played on New Year's Eve and the most sung song on the day, leaving \"Auld Lang Syne\" in second place for the first time since 2005, on karaoke company Lucky Voice's online service in the United Kingdom.",
"CNN readers picked \"Gangnam Style\" as the eighth best song of 2012.",
"\"The Week\" (US edition) ranked the song's global popularity at No.",
"6 with the strapline \"'Gangnam Style' takes over the world\" on the 13 biggest pop culture moments of the year list.",
"The phenomenon of the song and the video was also picked as one of the 2012's most viral moments in music by Wendy Geller of Yahoo!",
"Music, and No.",
"2 on the 2012 top 20 music moments list after Whitney Houston's passing by \"Billboard\", being written \"If there's one meme, song and face that has been truly inescapable in the second half of 2012, it's South Korean rapper Psy and his outrageous 'Gangnam Style'.\""
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Box office | What was the domestic box office total for The Lion King? | The Lion King | true | 6MOVIES
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"\"The Lion King\" earned $422,783,777 in North America and an $564,700,000 in other territories for a worldwide total of $987,483,777.",
"It is the ninteenth highest-grossing film, the third-highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide and the second highest-grossing film of Walt Disney Animation Studios (behind \"Frozen)\".",
"It is also the highest-grossing motion picture of 1994 worldwide.",
"After its initial run, having earned $768.6 million, it ranked as the second-highest grossing film of all time worldwide, behind \"Jurassic Park\" .",
"It held the record for the highest-grossing animated feature film (in North America, outside North America, and worldwide) until it was surpassed by the computer animated \"Finding Nemo\" (2003), \"Shrek 2\" (2004), \"\" (2009), \"Toy Story 3\" (2010), and \"Frozen\" (2013).",
"During its 3D re-release, \"The Lion King\" surpassed all the afomentioned films but \"Toy Story 3\" to rank as the second-highest-grossing animated film worldwide, and the highest-grossing hand-drawn animation.",
"It is also the biggest animated movie of the last 50 years in terms of estimated attendance."
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Ethno-linguistic groups | Where do most minorities in Nigeria reside? | Nigeria | false | 5COUNTRY
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"Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups, with varying languages and customs, creating a country of rich ethnic diversity.",
"The largest ethnic groups are the Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani, accounting for more than 70% of the population, while the Edo, Ijaw, Kanuri, Ibibio, Ebira, Nupe, Gwari, Itsekiri, Jukun, Urhobo, Igala, Idoma and Tiv comprise between 25 and 30%; other minorities make up the remaining 5%.",
"The middle belt of Nigeria is known for its diversity of ethnic groups, including the Pyem, Goemai, and Kofyar.",
"The official population count of each of Nigeria's ethnicities has always remained controversial and disputed as members of different ethnic groups believe the census is rigged to give a particular group (usually believed to be northern groups) numerical superiority.",
"There are small minorities of British, American, East Indian, Chinese (est.",
"50,000), white Zimbabwean, Japanese, Greek, Syrian and Lebanese immigrants in Nigeria.",
"Immigrants also include those from other West African or East African nations.",
"These minorities mostly reside in major cities such as Lagos and Abuja, or in the Niger Delta as employees for the major oil companies.",
"A number of Cubans settled in Nigeria as political refugees following the Cuban Revolution.",
"In the middle of the 19th century, a number of ex-slaves of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian descent and emigrants from Sierra Leone established communities in Lagos and other regions of Nigeria.",
"Many ex-slaves came to Nigeria following the emancipation of slaves in the Americas.",
"Many of the immigrants, sometimes called Saros (immigrants from Sierra Leone) and Amaro (ex-slaves from Brazil) later became prominent merchants and missionaries in these cities."
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Critical reception | Who called that concept very flattering | Moves like Jagger | true | 0MUSIC
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"Bill Lamb from About.com gave the song a positive review, giving the single four-and-a-half out of five stars.",
"Lamb wrote that, \"The funky, whistle driven melody here is loose, light, and irresistibly funky.",
"The punchy guest vocal from fellow judge Christina Aguilera is simply icing on the cake.",
"There is a real vocal chemistry between Aguilera and Levine.\"",
"Lamb called the song an \"outstanding summer song\", writing that \"It is light, danceable, and would sound great in the car with the top down.\"",
"Robbie Daw from Idolator wrote that \"It takes a full two minutes and 15 seconds for Christina's soulful pipes to begin trilling on \"Moves like Jagger.\"",
"But once she does, she immediately steals the show.\"",
"Daw concluded by writing that \"this is the best thing from either of these two in years.",
"\"While naming the song \"a contender for 2011's song of the summer\", James Dinh from MTV Newsroom wrote that \"Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera have turned their friendly rivalry on NBC's \"The Voice\" into some studio chemistry.\"",
"Scott Schelter from Pop Crush awarded \"Moves like Jagger\" four-and-a-half out of five stars.",
"Schelter called the song \"danceable and fun\" and wrote that \"the song would've been great even without Aguilera, but her fiery cameo makes it that much better.\"",
"Robert Copsey wrote for Digital Spy: \" \"Take me by the tongue and I'll know you/ Kiss me till you're drunk and I'll show you,\" Ad insists over a funky, finger-clicking bassline and an irresistible whistle hook that immediately burrows deep into the recesses of your brain.",
"\"If I share my secret/ You're gonna have to keep it,\" Xtina says on her short, sweet and perfectly-formed cameo.",
"We've already got your number, love, but our surprise is still 100% genuine.",
"\"Jagger himself acknowledged the song in an interview, calling the concept \"very flattering.\""
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Notation | What is the most common modified base in RNA? | Nucleic acid sequence | false | 8SCIENCE
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"While A, T, C, and G represent a particular nucleotide at a position, there are also letters that represent ambiguity which are used when more than one kind of nucleotide could occur at that position.",
"The rules of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) are as follows:",
"A = adenine",
"C = cytosine",
"G = guanine",
"T = thymine",
"R = G A (purine)",
"Y = T C (pyrimidine)",
"K = G T (keto)",
"M = A C (amino)",
"S = G C (strong bonds)",
"W = A T (weak bonds)",
"B = G T C (all but A)",
"D = G A T (all but C)",
"H = A C T (all but G)",
"V = G C A (all but T)",
"N = A G C T (any)",
"These symbols are also valid for RNA, except with U (uracil) replacing T (thymine).",
"Apart from adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T) and uracil (U), DNA and RNA also contain bases that have been modified after the nucleic acid chain has been formed.",
"In DNA, the most common modified base is 5-methylcytidine (m5C).",
"In RNA, there are many modified bases, including pseudouridine (Ψ), dihydrouridine (D), inosine (I), ribothymidine (rT) and 7-methylguanosine (m7G).",
"Hypoxanthine and xanthine are two of the many bases created through mutagen presence, both of them through deamination (replacement of the amine-group with a carbonyl-group).",
"Hypoxanthine is produced from adenine, xanthine from guanine.",
"Similarly, deamination of cytosine results in uracil."
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Photographs | The department of photography was established in which year? | Metropolitan Museum of Art | true | 2TRAVEL
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"The Met's collection of photographs, numbering more than 25,000 in total, is centered on five major collections plus additional acquisitions by the museum.",
"Alfred Stieglitz, a famous photographer himself, donated the first major collection of photographs to the museum, which included a comprehensive survey of Photo-Secessionist works, a rich set of master prints by Edward Steichen, and an outstanding collection of Stieglitz's photographs from his own studio.",
"The Met supplemented Stieglitz's gift with the 8,500-piece Gilman Paper Company Collection, the Rubel Collection, and the Ford Motor Company Collection, which respectively provided the collection with early French and American photography, early British photography, and post-WWI American and European photography.",
"The museum also acquired Walker Evans's personal collection of photographs, a particular coup considering the high demand for his works.",
"The department of photography was founded in 1992.",
"Though the department gained a permanent gallery in 1997, not all of the department's holdings are on display at any given time, due to the sensitive materials represented in the photography collection.",
"However, the Photographs department has produced some of the best-received temporary exhibits in the Met's recent past, including a Diane Arbus retrospective and an extensive show devoted to spirit photography.",
"In 2007, the museum designated a gallery exclusively for the exhibition of photographs made after 1960."
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Stonehenge 3 IV (2280 BC to 1930 BC) | How was Stonehenge arranged at the center of the inner ring? | Stonehenge | false | 2TRAVEL
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" 3 IV (2280 BC to 1930 BC).",
"This phase saw further rearrangement of the bluestones.",
"They were arranged in a circle between the two rings of sarsens and in an oval at the centre of the inner ring.",
"Some archaeologists argue that some of these bluestones were from a second group brought from Wales.",
"All the stones formed well-spaced uprights without any of the linking lintels inferred in Stonehenge 3 III.",
"The Altar Stone may have been moved within the oval at this time and re-erected vertically.",
"Although this would seem the most impressive phase of work, Stonehenge 3 IV was rather shabbily built compared to its immediate predecessors, as the newly re-installed bluestones were not well-founded and began to fall over.",
"However, only minor changes were made after this phase."
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From Cantonese | Who were the initial creators of Pho? | Pho | true | 9FOOD
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"Hue and Eugèn Gouin (1957) both define ' by itself as an abbreviation of '.",
"Elucidating on the 1931 dictionary, Gouin and Lê Ngọc Trụ (1970) both give ' as a corruption of ' (), which was commonly sold by Chinese immigrants in Hanoi.",
"Some scholars argue that pho (the dish) evolved from ', a Vietnamese dish common in Hanoi at the turn of the century.",
"Originally eaten by commoners near the Red River, it consisted of stir fried strips of water buffalo meat served in broth atop rice vermicelli.",
"Around 1908–1909, the shipping industry brought an influx of laborers.",
"Vietnamese and Chinese cooks set up ' to serve them ' but later switched to inexpensive scraps of beef set aside by butchers who sold to the French.",
"Chinese vendors advertised this ' by crying out, \"Beef and noodles!\"",
"().",
"Eventually the street cry became \"Meat and noodles!\"",
"(), with the last syllable elongated.",
"The French author Jean Marquet spells it \"!\"",
"in his 1919 novel \"Du village-à-la cité\".",
"This is likely what the Vietnamese poet Tản Đà calls \"\" in \"\" (\"Gambling\"), written around 1915–1917."
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Medicine and materials | Which popular stimulants come from plants? | Botany | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Phytochemistry is a branch of plant biochemistry primarily concerned with the chemical substances produced by plants during secondary metabolism.",
"Some of these compounds are toxins such as the alkaloid coniine from hemlock.",
"Others, such as the essential oils peppermint oil and lemon oil are useful for their aroma, as flavourings and spices (e.g., capsaicin), and in medicine as pharmaceuticals as in opium from opium poppies.",
"Many medicinal and recreational drugs, such as tetrahydrocannabinol (active ingredient in cannabis), caffeine, morphine and nicotine come directly from plants.",
"Others are simple derivatives of botanical natural products.",
"For example, the pain killer aspirin is the acetyl ester of salicylic acid, originally isolated from the bark of willow trees, and a wide range of opiate painkillers like heroin are obtained by chemical modification of morphine obtained from the opium poppy.",
"Popular stimulants come from plants, such as caffeine from coffee, tea and chocolate, and nicotine from tobacco.",
"Most alcoholic beverages come from fermentation of carbohydrate-rich plant products such as barley (beer), rice (sake) and grapes (wine).",
"Plants can synthesise useful coloured dyes and pigments such as the anthocyanins responsible for the red colour of red wine, yellow weld and blue woad used together to produce Lincoln green, indoxyl, source of the blue dye indigo traditionally used to dye denim and the artist's pigments gamboge and rose madder.",
"Sugar, starch, cotton, linen, hemp, some types of rope, wood and particle boards, papyrus and paper, vegetable oils, wax, and natural rubber are examples of commercially important materials made from plant tissues or their secondary products.",
"Charcoal, a pure form of carbon made by pyrolysis of wood, has a long history as a metal-smelting fuel, as a filter material and adsorbent and as an artist's material and is one of the three ingredients of gunpowder.",
"Cellulose, the world's most abundant organic polymer, can be converted into energy, fuels, materials and chemical feedstock.",
"Products made from cellulose include rayon and cellophane, wallpaper paste, biobutanol and gun cotton.",
"Sugarcane, rapeseed and soy are some of the plants with a highly fermentable sugar or oil content that are used as sources of biofuels, important alternatives to fossil fuels, such as biodiesel."
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Costume design | Who created a 3d model of Tom Hardy's face? | The Dark Knight Rises | false | 6MOVIES
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"Costume design.",
"Costume designer Lindy Hemming explained that Bane uses a mask to inhale an analgesic gas, which, in director Christopher Nolan's words, \"keeps his pain just below the threshold so he can function.\"",
"In designing Bane's costume, Hemming needed it to look \"like an amalgam of all sorts of bits and pieces he cobbled together, as he passed through some very remote places.",
"We made parts of his vest, for example, from fragments of an old military tent.",
"His clothes are militaristic, but are not in any way a uniform.\"",
"Hemming also designed Bane's mask to look \"animalistic\".",
"Costume effects supervisor Graham Churchyard created a three-dimensional model of actor Tom Hardy's face and skull to design the mask, allowing the mask to perfectly conform to the contours of Hardy's face.",
"Hemming personally designed Bane's coat, which she admitted took two years to complete.",
"Taking inspiration from a Swedish army jacket and a frock coat from the French Revolution, it was designed to make Bane look like equal parts dictatorial and revolutionary.",
"The design was difficult as Hemming struggled to find a tailor in Los Angeles who could work with shearling.",
"The Batsuit consisted of 110 separate pieces, each of which had to be replicated dozens of times over the course of the production.",
"The base layer was made of a polyester mesh that is utilized by the military and high-tech sports manufacturers because of its breathability and moisture-wicking properties.",
"Molded pieces of flexible urethane were then attached to the mesh, to form the overall body armor plating.",
"Carbon fiber panels were placed inside the sections on the legs, chest and abdomen.",
"The cowl was sculpted from a cast of Bale's face and head to become a perfect fit for Christian Bale.",
"The suit remained unchanged for the film since \"The Dark Knight\".",
"In creating Selina Kyle's catsuit, two layers of material were used, with the outer layer being polyurethane coated spandex, embossed with a hexagonal pattern.",
"The catsuit also consisted of elbow-length gloves, a utility belt, and thigh-high boots with spike heels."
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Abstract | What is the name of the age in which Vermeer is typically grouped? | Johannes Vermeer | false | 3ART
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"Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (; 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.",
"Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime.",
"He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.",
"Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for lapis lazuli and Indian yellow.",
"He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.",
"Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes.",
"\"Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women.",
"\"Recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death; he was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (\"Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists\"), and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries.",
"In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing sixty-six pictures to him, although only thirty-four paintings are universally attributed to him today.",
"Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age."
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Theory of critical opalescence | What scientific principle explains why the sky is blue? | Albert Einstein | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Einstein returned to the problem of thermodynamic fluctuations, giving a treatment of the density variations in a fluid at its critical point.",
"Ordinarily the density fluctuations are controlled by the second derivative of the free energy with respect to the density.",
"At the critical point, this derivative is zero, leading to large fluctuations.",
"The effect of density fluctuations is that light of all wavelengths is scattered, making the fluid look milky white.",
"Einstein relates this to Rayleigh scattering, which is what happens when the fluctuation size is much smaller than the wavelength, and which explains why the sky is blue.",
"Einstein quantitatively derived critical opalescence from a treatment of density fluctuations, and demonstrated how both the effect and Rayleigh scattering originate from the atomistic constitution of matter."
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Media | In which year did the Mongolian press begin? | Mongolia | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Mongolian press began in 1920 with close ties to the Soviet Union under the Mongolian Communist Party, with the establishment of the \"Unen\" (\"Truth\") newspaper similar to the Soviet \"Pravda\".",
"Until reforms in the 1990s, the government had strict control of the media and oversaw all publishing, in which no independent media was allowed.",
"The dissolution of the Soviet Union had a significant impact on Mongolia, where the one-party state grew into a multi-party democracy, and with that, media freedoms came to the forefront.",
"A new law on press freedom, drafted with help from international NGOs on August 28, 1998 and enacted on January 1, 1999, paved the way for media reforms.",
"The Mongolian media currently consists of around 300 print and broadcasting outlets.",
"Since 2006, the media environment has been improving with the government debating a new Freedom of Information Act, and the removal of any affiliation of media outlets with the government.",
"Market reforms have led to an increasing number of people working in the media year on year, along with students at journalism schools.",
"In its 2013 World Press Freedom Index report, Reporters Without Borders classified the media environment as 98th out of 179, with 1st being most free."
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Bush declares "End of major combat operations" (May 2003) | Post-invasion Iraq was marked by what? | 2003 invasion of Iraq | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"Bush declares \"End of major combat operations\" (May 2003).",
"On 1 May 2003, Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS \"Abraham Lincoln\", in a Lockheed S-3 Viking, where he gave a speech announcing the end of major combat operations in the Iraq war.",
"Bush's landing was criticized by opponents as an unnecessarily theatrical and expensive stunt.",
"Clearly visible in the background was a banner stating \"Mission Accomplished.\"",
"The banner, made by White House staff and supplied by request of the United States Navy, was criticized as premature.",
"The White House subsequently released a statement that the sign and Bush's visit referred to the initial invasion of Iraq and disputing the charge of theatrics.",
"The speech itself noted: \"We have difficult work to do in Iraq.",
"We are bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous.\"",
"Post-invasion Iraq was marked by a long and violent conflict between U.S.-led forces and Iraqi insurgents."
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Special point terms | How many times must the serve be broken to win a set? | Tennis | true | 4SPORT
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"Game pointA \"game point\" occurs in tennis whenever the player who is in the lead in the game needs only one more point to win the game.",
"The terminology is extended to sets (set point), matches (match point), and even championships (championship point).",
"For example, if the player who is serving has a score of 40-love, the player has a triple game point (triple set point, etc.)",
"as the player has three consecutive chances to win the game.",
"Game points, set points, and match points are not part of official scoring and are not announced by the chair umpire in tournament play.",
"Break pointA \"break point\" occurs if the receiver, not the server, has a chance to win the game with the next point.",
"Break points are of particular importance because serving is generally considered advantageous, with the server being expected to win games in which they are serving.",
"A receiver who has one (score of 30–40), two (score of 15–40) or three (score of love-40) consecutive chances to win the game has \"break point\", \"double break point\" or \"triple break point\", respectively.",
"If the receiver does, in fact, win their break point, the game is awarded to the receiver, and the receiver is said to have \"converted\" their break point.",
"If the receiver fails to win their break point it is called a \"failure to convert.\"",
"Winning break points, and thus the game, is also referred to as \"breaking serve\", as the receiver has disrupted, or \"broken\" the natural advantage of the server.",
"If in the following game the previous server also wins a break point it is referred to as \"breaking back\".",
"At least one break of serve is required to win a set."
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Abstract | Who stared in the 1985 comedy "Teen Wolf"? | Teen Wolf | false | 1TV
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"Teen Wolf is a 1985 American fantasy comedy film released by Atlantic Releasing Corporation starring Michael J.",
"Fox as Scott Howard, a high school student who discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree when he finds himself transforming into a werewolf.",
"The film was directed by Rod Daniel based on a script co-written by Joseph Loeb III, Matthew Weisman, and Tim Hayes."
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Abstract | What is the former name of Thailand | Thailand | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Thailand ( or ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Thailand (, ; ), formerly known as Siam (; ), is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia.",
"It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma.",
"Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast, and Indonesia and India in the Andaman Sea to the southwest.",
"The country is a constitutional monarchy, headed by King Rama IX, the ninth king of the House of Chakri, who, having reigned since 1946, is the world's longest-serving current head of state and the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history.",
"The king of Thailand is titled Head of State, Head of the Armed Forces, Adherent of Buddhism, and Upholder of religions.",
"Thailand is the world's 51st-largest country in terms of total area, with an area of approximately , and is the 20th-most-populous country, with around 64 million people.",
"The capital and largest city is Bangkok, which is Thailand's political, commercial, industrial and cultural hub.",
"About 75–85% of the population is ethnically Tai, which includes the four major regional groups, consisting of Central Thai (Khon Pak Klang): 30%; Northeastern Thai (Khon Isan): 22%, Northern Thai (Khon Lanna): 9%; and Southern Thai (Khon Tai): 7%.",
"Thai Chinese, those of significant Chinese heritage, are 14% of the population and up to 40% possess part-Chinese ancestry.",
"Thai Malays represent 3% of the population and the rest belong to minority groups, including Mons, Khmers and various \"hill tribes\".",
"The country's official language is Thai and the primary religion is Buddhism, which is practised by around 95% of the population.",
"Thailand experienced rapid economic growth between 1985 and 1996, and is presently a newly industrialized country and a major exporter.",
"Tourism also contributes significantly to the Thai economy.",
"The country was ranked second in the 2014 United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), which measures quality of life according to areas such as life expectancy and income.",
"There are approximately 2.2 million legal and illegal migrants in Thailand, and the country attracts a significant number of expatriates from developed countries."
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Genesis | When did Van Gogh go to the asylum at Saint-Remy? | The Starry Night | false | 3ART
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"In a letter written to Émile Bernard in April 1888, Van Gogh expressed his desire to paint the night sky, and questioned whether he could achieve his intention by painting from nature as the Impressionists did:In September 1888, before his December breakdown that resulted in his hospitalisation in Arles, he painted \"Starry Night Over the Rhone\".",
"Working by night under a gas lamp, Van Gogh painted this work directly from nature.",
"\"It does me good to do what's difficult, \"Van Gogh wrote, \"That doesn’t stop me having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word—for religion—so I go outside at night to paint the stars.",
"\"In May 1889, Van Gogh decided to enter the asylum at Saint-Rémy, where he stayed for the next year.",
"His time there was very productive, although interrupted by incapacitating nervous attacks.",
"Inspired by the landscape surrounding the asylum, he painted \"Starry Night\" in June 1889.",
"Unlike the earlier \"Starry Night Over the Rhone\", the new night scene was painted in daylight, from memory.",
"In mid-September 1889, following a heavy crisis which lasted from mid-July to the last days of August, he thought to include \"Starry Night\" in the next batch of works to be sent to his brother, Theo, in Paris.",
"In order to reduce the shipping costs, he withheld three of the studies, including \"Starry Night\".",
"These three went to Paris with the shipment that followed.",
"When Theo did not immediately report its arrival, Vincent inquired again and finally received Theo's commentary on his recent work."
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Vietnamese women | WAFC is the abbreviation for what? | Vietnam War | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"Unlike the American women who went to Vietnam, North Vietnamese women were enlisted and fought in the combat zone as well as provided manual labor to keep the Ho Chi Minh trail open, cook for the troops, and some served as \"comfort women\" for male communist fighters.",
"They also worked in the rice fields in North Vietnam and Viet Cong-held farming areas in South Vietnam's Mekong Delta region to provide food for their families and the war effort.",
"Women were enlisted in both the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong guerrilla insurgent force in South Vietnam.",
"Some women also served for the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong intelligence services.",
"In South Vietnam, many women voluntarily serve in the ARVN's Women's Armed Force Corps (WAFC) and various other Women's corps in the military.",
"Some, like in the WAFC, fought in combat with other soldiers.",
"Others have served as nurses and doctors in the battlefield and in military hospitals, or served in South Vietnam or America's intelligence agencies.",
"During Diệm's presidency, Madame Nhu was the commander of the WAFC."
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Preparation and serving | What is "Bulgogi" made of? | Bulgogi | false | 9FOOD
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"",
"\"Bulgogi\" is made from thin slices of sirloin or other prime cuts of beef.",
"Before cooking, the meat is marinated to enhance its flavour and tenderness with a mixture of soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, garlic, pepper and other ingredients such as scallions, ginger, onions or mushrooms, especially white button mushrooms or \"matsutake\".",
"Sometimes, cellophane noodles are added to the dish, which varies by the region and specific recipe.",
"\"Bulgogi\" is traditionally grilled, but pan-cooking has become popular as well.",
"Whole cloves of garlic, sliced onions and chopped green peppers are often grilled or fried with the meat.",
"This dish is sometimes served with a side of lettuce or other leafy vegetable, which is used to wrap a slice of cooked meat, often along with a dab of \"ssamjang\", or other side dishes, and then eaten together."
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Function and construction | When was the Amesbury Archer buried? | Stonehenge | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Stonehenge was produced by a culture that left no written records.",
"Many aspects of Stonehenge remain subject to debate.",
"This multiplicity of theories, some of them very colourful, are often called the \"mystery of Stonehenge\".",
"A number of myths surround the stones.",
"There is little or no direct evidence for the construction techniques used by the Stonehenge builders.",
"Over the years, various authors have suggested that supernatural or anachronistic methods were used, usually asserting that the stones were impossible to move otherwise.",
"However, conventional techniques, using Neolithic technology as basic as shear legs, have been demonstrably effective at moving and placing stones of a similar size.",
"Proposed functions for the site include usage as an astronomical observatory or as a religious site.",
"More recently two major new theories have been proposed.",
"Professor Geoffrey Wainwright OBE, FSA, president of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and Professor Timothy Darvill, OBE of Bournemouth University have suggested that Stonehenge was a place of healing – the primeval equivalent of Lourdes.",
"They argue that this accounts for the high number of burials in the area and for the evidence of trauma deformity in some of the graves.",
"However they do concede that the site was probably multifunctional and used for ancestor worship as well.",
"Isotope analysis indicates that some of the buried individuals were from other regions.",
"A teenage boy buried approximately 1550 BC was raised near the Mediterranean Sea; a metal worker from 2300 BC dubbed the \"Amesbury Archer\" grew up near the alpine foothills of Germany; and the \"Boscombe Bowmen\" probably arrived from Wales or Brittany, France.",
"On the other hand, Professor Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University has suggested that Stonehenge was part of a ritual landscape and was joined to Durrington Walls by their corresponding avenues and the River Avon.",
"He suggests that the area around Durrington Walls Henge was a place of the living, whilst Stonehenge was a domain of the dead.",
"A journey along the Avon to reach Stonehenge was part of a ritual passage from life to death, to celebrate past ancestors and the recently deceased.",
"Both explanations were first mooted in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth (below), who extolled the curative properties of the stones and was also the first to advance the idea that Stonehenge was constructed as a funerary monument.",
"Whatever religious, mystical or spiritual elements were central to Stonehenge, its design includes a celestial observatory function, which might have allowed prediction of eclipse, solstice, equinox and other celestial events important to a contemporary religion.",
"Another theory, brought forth in 2012, suggests that the monument was intended to unify the different peoples of the British island.",
"This theory suggests that the massive amount of labour involved in the construction of Stonehenge necessitated inter-regional cooperation, especially as many of the stones were moved over very long distances, for example from quarries in Wales."
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Track listing | How long is the MADEin82 remix of "Sexy and I Know It"? | Sexy and I Know It | false | 0MUSIC
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";CD single",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (album version) – 3:19",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (Mord Fustang) – 5:21",
";Digital download",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (Audiobot Remix) – 5:55",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (Mord Fustang) – 5:19",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (Tomba and Borgore Remix) – 3:41",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (LA Riots Remix) – 5:40",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (DallasK Remix) – 5:42",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (Fuego's Moombahton Remix) – 3:51",
"\"Sexy and I Know It\" (MADEin82 Remix) – 6:01"
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Sunflowers, friendship and gratitude | Who was Van Gogh writing when he wrote: "It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it."? | Sunflowers (Van Gogh series) | false | 3ART
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"Van Gogh began painting in late summer 1888 and continued into the following year.",
"One went to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom.",
"The paintings show sunflowers in all stages of life, from full bloom to withering.",
"The paintings were considered innovative for their use of the yellow spectrum, partly because newly invented pigments made new colours possible.",
"In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote: \"It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it.",
"Besides, you know, Gauguin likes them extraordinarily.",
"He said to me among other things - 'That...it's...the flower.'",
"You know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own.\""
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Sound effects and music | What individual was responsible for creating the sound effects for the movie The Matrix? | The Matrix | true | 6MOVIES
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"Dane A. Davis was responsible for creating the sound effects for the film.",
"The fight scenes sound effects, such as the whipping sounds of punches, came from using junk to create noises and capturing them, then editing the sounds.",
"The sound of the pod containing a human baby closing required almost fifty sounds put together.",
"The film's score was composed by Don Davis.",
"He noted that mirrors appear frequently in the film: reflections of the blue and red pills are seen in Morpheus's glasses; Neo's capture by Agents is viewed through the rear-view mirror of Trinity's Triumph Speed Triple motorcycle; Neo observes a broken mirror mending itself; reflections warp as a spoon is bent; the reflection of a helicopter is visible as it approaches a skyscraper.",
"Davis focused on this theme of reflections when creating his score, alternating between sections of the orchestra and attempting to incorporate contrapuntal ideas.",
"Davis' score combines orchestral, choral and synthesizer elements; the balance between these elements varies depending on whether humans or machines are the dominant subject of a given scene.",
"In addition to Davis' score, \"The Matrix\" soundtrack also features music from acts such as Rammstein, Rob Dougan, Rage Against the Machine, Propellerheads, Ministry, Deftones, Monster Magnet, The Prodigy, Rob Zombie, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Marilyn Manson."
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Growth and acquisitions | When was the original park sold? | Six Flags | false | 2TRAVEL
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"The original park, in Arlington (between Dallas and Fort Worth) was sold in 1966 to a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was actively pursuing non-railroad investments in an effort to diversify its sources of income.",
"(In 1968, the Pennsylvania Railroad merged with the New York Central Railroad to form Penn Central Corp.) With the new owners came a more abundant supply of capital for geographic expansion and park additions.",
"Six Flags opened Six Flags Over Georgia in 1967 and Six Flags Over Mid-America in 1971, which would, along with Six Flags Over Texas, be the only three parks that would be constructed by the company.",
"The company continued to grow by acquiring independent parks.",
"Six Flags purchased AstroWorld in Houston, Texas in 1975, Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey in 1977 and Magic Mountain in Valencia, California in 1979.",
"These purchases were followed by Penn Central selling assets to Bally Manufacturing in 1982.",
"In 1984, the Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois was acquired from the Marriott hotel chain.",
"Also in 1984, as a result of its acquisition of Great America, Six Flags acquired the rights to Time Warner/Warner Bros.' \"Looney Tunes\" animated characters for use in Six Flags properties.",
"Bally surrendered control of the chain to Wesray Capital Corporation in a 1987 leveraged buyout.",
"Time Warner quickly began to gain more leverage in the company, gaining a 19.5% stake in Six Flags in 1990 and then 50% in 1991, with the remaining shares of the company being split by Blackstone Group and Wertheim Schroder & Company.",
"Time Warner purchased the remaining stake in Six Flags in 1993, changing the company's name from \"Six Flags Corp\".",
"to \"Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc\".",
"In 1996, Six Flags began to manage Fiesta Texas theme park in San Antonio, Texas and purchased the park from USAA in 1998."
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Abstract | What kind of points are awarded for technique? | Ski jumping | false | 4SPORT
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"Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump, and attempt to fly as far as possible.",
"Judges award points for technique (often referred to as style points).",
"The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long ().",
"Ski jumping is predominantly a winter sport, performed on snow, and is part of the Winter Olympic Games, but can also be performed in summer on artificial surfaces – porcelain or frost rail track on the inrun, plastic on the landing hill.",
"Ski jumping belongs to the Nordic type of competitive skiing."
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Foundation | Who is the Warhol digital images manager? | Andy Warhol | true | 3ART
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"Warhol's will dictated that his entire estate — with the exception of a few modest legacies to family members — would go to create a foundation dedicated to the \"advancement of the visual arts\".",
"Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby's nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million.",
"In 1987, in accordance with Warhol's will, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts began.",
"The foundation serves as the estate of Andy Warhol, but also has a mission \"to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process\" and is \"focused primarily on supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature.",
"\"The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for all Warhol works with the exception of Warhol film stills.",
"The U.S. copyright representative for Warhol film stills is the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.",
"Additionally, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has agreements in place for its image archive.",
"All digital images of Warhol are exclusively managed by Corbis, while all transparency images of Warhol are managed by Art Resource.",
"The Andy Warhol Foundation released its \"20th Anniversary Annual Report\" as a three-volume set in 2007: Vol.",
"I, 1987–2007; Vol.",
"II, Grants & Exhibitions; and Vol.",
"III, Legacy Program.",
"The Foundation remains one of the largest grant-giving organizations for the visual arts in the U.S."
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Young Turk revolution | What year was the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina Annexed by Austria Hungary | Balkan Wars | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"It is no surprise that the \"Young Turk\" revolution occurred in the troubled European provinces of the Empire.",
"There the threat to its integrity was the most pronounced, and the need for reforms was most evident.",
"When the revolt broke out, it was supported by intellectuals, the army, and almost all the ethnic minorities of the Empire, and forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to re-adopt the long defunct Ottoman constitution of 1876, ushering in the Second Constitutional Era.",
"Hopes were raised among the Balkan ethnicities of reforms and autonomy, and elections were held to form a representative, multi-ethnic, Ottoman parliament.",
"However, following the Sultan's attempted counter-coup, the liberal element of the Young Turks was sidelined and the nationalist element became dominant.",
"At the same time, in October 1908, Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity of the Ottoman political upheaval to annex the \"de jure\" Ottoman province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878 (see \"Bosnian Crisis\"), and Bulgaria declared itself a fully independent kingdom.",
"The Greeks of the autonomous Cretan State proclaimed unification with Greece, though the opposition of the Great Powers prevented the latter action from taking practical effect."
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Official disapproval and attempts to ban football | When did Scotland pass the Football Act? | Football | false | 4SPORT
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"Numerous attempts have been made to ban football games, particularly the most rowdy and disruptive forms.",
"This was especially the case in England and in other parts of Europe, during the Middle Ages and early modern period.",
"Between 1324 and 1667, football was banned in England alone by more than 30 royal and local laws.",
"The need to repeatedly proclaim such laws demonstrated the difficulty in enforcing bans on popular games.",
"King Edward II was so troubled by the unruliness of football in London that on April 13, 1314 he issued a proclamation banning it: \"Forasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls from which many evils may arise which God forbid; we command and forbid, on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in the future.",
"\"The reasons for the ban by Edward III, on June 12, 1349, were explicit: football and other recreations distracted the populace from practicing archery, which was necessary for war.",
"In 1424, the Parliament of Scotland passed a Football Act that stated \"it is statut and the king forbiddis that na man play at the fut ball under the payne of iiij d\" – in other words, playing football was made illegal, and punishable by a fine of four pence.",
"By 1608, the local authorities in Manchester were complaining that: \"With the ffotebale...hath beene greate disorder in our towne of Manchester we are told, and glasse windowes broken yearlye and spoyled by a companie of lewd and disordered persons ...\" That same year, the word\"football\" was used disapprovingly by William Shakespeare.",
"Shakespeare's play \"King Lear\" contains the line: \"Nor tripped neither, you base football player\" (Act I, Scene 4).",
"Shakespeare also mentions the game in \"A Comedy of Errors\" (Act II, Scene 1):\"Spurn\" literally means \"to kick away\", thus implying that the game involved kicking a ball between players.",
"King James I of England's \"Book of Sports\" (1618) however, instructs Christians to play at football every Sunday afternoon after worship.",
"The book's aim appears to be an attempt to offset the strictness of the Puritans regarding the keeping of the Sabbath."
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Production | How much did CBS Films pay for the domestic distribution rights of Inside Llewyn Davis? | Inside Llewyn Davis | false | 6MOVIES
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"Set in 1961, \"Inside Llewyn Davis\" was inspired by the cultural disconnection within a New York–based music scene where the songs seemed to come from all parts of the United States except New York, but whose performers included Brooklyn-born Dave Van Ronk and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.",
"Well before writing the script, the Coens began with a single premise: suppose Van Ronk got beat up outside of Gerde's Folk City in the Village.",
"The filmmakers employed that idea in the opening scenes, then periodically returned to the project over the next couple of years to expand the story around a fictional character.",
"One source for the film was Van Ronk's posthumously published (2005) memoir, \"The Mayor of MacDougal Street.\"",
"According to the book's co-author, Elijah Wald, the Coens mined the work \"for local color and a few scenes.\"",
"The character is a composite of Van Ronk, Elliot, and other performers from the New York boroughs who performed in the Village at that time.",
"Joel Coen remarked that \"the film doesn't really have a plot.",
"That concerned us at one point; that's why we threw the cat in.",
"\"Shooting was complicated by an early New York spring, which interfered with the bleak winter atmosphere that prevails throughout the film, and by the difficulty of filming several cats, who, unlike dogs, ignore the desires of filmmakers.",
"On the advice of an animal trainer, the Coens put out a casting call for an orange tabby cat, which is sufficiently common that several cats would be available to play one part.",
"Individual cats were then selected for each scene based on what they were predisposed to do on their own.",
"Producer Scott Rudin, who worked with the Coens on \"True Grit\" and \"No Country for Old Men\", collaborated on the project.",
"StudioCanal helped finance it without an American distributor in place.",
"\"After shooting in New York City and elsewhere last year...the brothers finished the movie at their own pace\", wrote Michael Cieply in a January 2013 \"The New York Times\" interview with Joel Coen ahead of a private, pre-Grammys screening in Los Angeles.",
"\"They could have rushed it into the Oscar season but didn’t.\"",
"On February 19, CBS Films announced it had picked up the U.S. domestic distribution rights for about $4 million.",
"StudioCanal has rights to international distribution and foreign sales."
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Game variations | What is the number of players that can play racquetball at once? | Racquetball | true | 4SPORT
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"Racquetball games can be played with two, three or four players, with doubles or singles matches being most common.",
"Two player games are called singles or \"one-up\" (one vs. one for the entire game), while four player games are doubles with two pairs playing against each other (two vs. two for the entire game).",
"Tournament competitions have divisions for singles or doubles or both.",
"Three-player games are most commonly called \"Cut-throat\" and sometimes \"Ironman\" (two-on-one for the entire game) where each player takes turns serving to the other two, who play as a team against the serving player.",
"Another three-player game is \"California\", \"In-and-Out\", or \"King of the Court\" where play is 1 vs. 1 with the third player remaining in the back court out of play while the other two play a rally; the rally winner then serves to the player who was sitting out, and the rally loser stays out of play.",
"Another three-player variation is \"Sevens\" in which one player plays against two players as a team, with the game being played to seven points; if the two player team gets to seven first, the game is over, but if the solo player gets to seven first then the game continues to 14; if the solo player again reaches 14 first, then the game continues to 21, where the game ends regardless of whether the solo player or the two player team reach 21 first."
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Public policy | How was Finland ranked in the World Economic Forum 2008 Index? | Finland | false | 5COUNTRY
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"Finnish politicians have often emulated other Nordics and the Nordic model.",
"Nordics have been free-trading and relatively welcoming to skilled migrants for over a century, though in Finland immigration is relatively new.",
"The level of protection in commodity trade has been low, except for agricultural products.",
"Finland has top levels of economic freedom in many areas.",
"Finland is ranked 16th in the 2008 global Index of Economic Freedom and 9th in Europe.",
"While the manufacturing sector is thriving, the OECD points out that the service sector would benefit substantially from policy improvements.",
"The 2007 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Finland 17th most competitive.",
"The World Economic Forum 2008 index ranked Finland the 6th most competitive.",
"In both indicators, Finland's performance was next to Germany, and significantly higher than most European countries.",
"In the Business competitiveness index 2007–2008 Finland ranked third in the world.",
"Economists attribute much growth to reforms in the product markets.",
"According to the OECD, only four EU-15 countries have less regulated product markets (UK, Ireland, Denmark and Sweden) and only one has less regulated financial markets (Denmark).",
"Nordic countries were pioneers in liberalizing energy, postal, and other markets in Europe.",
"The legal system is clear and business bureaucracy less than most countries.",
"Property rights are well protected and contractual agreements are strictly honoured.",
"Finland is rated the least corrupted country in the world in the Corruption Perceptions Index and 13th in the Ease of Doing Business Index.",
"This indicates exceptional ease in cross-border trading (5th), contract enforcement (7th), business closure (5th), tax payment (83rd) and low worker hardship (127th).",
"Finnish law forces all workers to obey the national contracts that are drafted every few years for each profession and seniority level.",
"The agreement becomes universally enforceable provided that more than 50% of the employees support it, in practice by being a member of a relevant trade union.",
"The unionization rate is high (70%), especially in the middle class (AKAVA—80%).",
"A lack of a national agreement in an industry is considered an exception."
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Lyric video | Who was it that commented on the video, that was an employee of AOL Music? | Wide Awake (Katy Perry song) | true | 0MUSIC
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"A lyric video of the track was released on May 20, 2012, when Perry was set to premiere the song at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards.",
"The video implemented the use of the Facebook timeline and displayed a range of posts about the release of the album \"Teenage Dream\", the seven singles from \"California Gurls\" to \"Part of Me\", and the various achievements for the singles and the album.",
"The lyric video received positive reviews from critics with many praising Perry's different approach to lyric videos on YouTube.",
"Contessa Gayles from AOL Music commented that the video \"is practically a music video in itself\".",
"Jenna Rubenstein from MTV Buzzworthty stated, \"it's a clever and emotional way to recall her past successes and offer fans some closure on this chapter of the Katy Perry journey.\""
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Tributes | Who was the first star to be remembered in a tribute song in Dancing with the Stars' season 9? | Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series) | false | 1TV
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"In seasons nine and ten, three tribute performances have been done in honour of some people.",
"The first was a tribute to recently deceased actor Patrick Swayze, on Sep 23, 2009.",
"\"She's Like the Wind\" from the \"Dirty Dancing\" soundtrack (originally written by Swayze for his film \"Grandview USA\"), \"Unchained Melody\" from his film \"Ghost\", and \"(I've had) the Time of my Life\" from \"Dirty Dancing\" were performed by select professional dancers of the Show.",
"On October 20, 2009, a tribute was done for singer and dancer, Michael Jackson.",
"\"I Want You Back\", \"Man in the Mirror\" and \"Thriller\" were performed—the first two by select professional dancers of the show, and all coming together for \"Thriller\".",
"In season ten, Professional Haitian dancers performed as a tribute to victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on March 30, 2010.",
"One of the male dancers had lost his son in the rubble.",
"They were dancing to \"Dance Like This\" by Wyclef Jean.",
"In season seventeen, in week eight, all dance numbers were done to guest judge Cher's hit songs.",
"She also performed live \"Believe\" and her newest single \"I Hope You Find It\" from her recent album \"Closer to the Truth\", after an eleven-year hiatus."
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Medicine in space | What is one of the medical studies being conducted in space by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute? | NASA | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Scientific research.",
"Medicine in space.",
"A variety of large-scale medical studies are being conducted in space by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI).",
"Prominent among these is the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity Study, in which astronauts (including former ISS Commanders Leroy Chiao and Gennady Padalka) perform ultrasound scans under the guidance of remote experts to diagnose and potentially treat hundreds of medical conditions in space.",
"Usually there is no physician on board the International Space Station, and diagnosis of medical conditions is challenging.",
"Astronauts are susceptible to a variety of health risks including decompression sickness, barotrauma, immunodeficiencies, loss of bone and muscle, orthostatic intolerance due to volume loss, sleep disturbances, and radiation injury.",
"Ultrasound offers a unique opportunity to monitor these conditions in space.",
"This study's techniques are now being applied to cover professional and Olympic sports injuries as well as ultrasound performed by non-expert operators in populations such as medical and high school students.",
"It is anticipated that remote guided ultrasound will have application on Earth in emergency and rural care situations, where access to a trained physician is often rare."
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History | What year brought the first recorded use of a telescope? | Telescope | true | 8SCIENCE
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"The earliest recorded working telescopes were the refracting telescopes that appeared in the Netherlands in 1608.",
"Their development is credited to three individuals: Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, who were spectacle makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar.",
"Galileo heard about the Dutch telescope in June 1609, built his own within a month, and greatly improved upon the design in the following year.",
"The idea that the objective, or light-gathering element, could be a mirror instead of a lens was being investigated soon after the invention of the refracting telescope.",
"The potential advantages of using parabolic mirrors—reduction of spherical aberration and no chromatic aberration—led to many proposed designs and several attempts to build reflecting telescopes.",
"In 1668, Isaac Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope, of a design which now bears his name, the Newtonian reflector.",
"The invention of the achromatic lens in 1733 partially corrected color aberrations present in the simple lens and enabled the construction of shorter, more functional refracting telescopes.",
"Reflecting telescopes, though not limited by the color problems seen in refractors, were hampered by the use of fast tarnishing speculum metal mirrors employed during the 18th and early 19th century—a problem alleviated by the introduction of silver coated glass mirrors in 1857, and aluminized mirrors in 1932.",
"The maximum physical size limit for refracting telescopes is about 1 meter (40 inches), dictating that the vast majority of large optical researching telescopes built since the turn of the 20th century have been reflectors.",
"The largest reflecting telescopes currently have objectives larger than 10 m (33 feet).",
"The 20th century also saw the development of telescopes that worked in a wide range of wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays.",
"The first purpose built radio telescope went into operation in 1937.",
"Since then, a tremendous variety of complex astronomical instruments have been developed."
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Future World | What is Future World's iconic landmark? | Epcot | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Future World consists of a variety of pavilions that explore innovative aspects and applications including technology and science.",
"Future World also serves as the park's main entrance and features the park's iconic landmark, Spaceship Earth, a large geodesic sphere structure which houses a themed attraction inside.",
"Originally, each pavilion of Future World featured a unique circular logo which was featured on park signage and the attractions themselves.",
"The logos, including that of Epcot itself, have been phased out over recent years, but some remnants still remain scattered throughout the park, the pavilions are now instead identified by name and recognized by the main attraction(s) housed inside.",
"The various pavilions located in Future World include the following:",
"Spaceship Earth",
"Innoventions East",
"Innoventions West",
"Universe of Energy",
"Test Track",
"The Seas with Nemo and Friends",
"The Land",
"Imagination!",
"Wonders of Life/Festival Center (Seasonal Operation)"
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Fins and placement | What happens when you place the fins closer to the centre of the wakeboard? | Wakeboarding | true | 4SPORT
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"The closer the fins are placed towards the centre of the wakeboard, the quicker and better the wakeboard releases from the wake.",
"The farther out towards the tip and tail they are placed, the longer the wakeboard will stay hooked into the wake and it won’t release as well.",
"Long based finsTheir effect is almost the same as a short fin with a long base because they have a similar amount of surface area.",
"Long-based fins release better, give the wakeboard a loose, snowboard-like feel when riding flat through the water, and they hold up better on rails and ramps.",
"Moulded finsThese are just big channels in the board that act like fins and hold up on rails and ramps.",
"Moulded fins are slippery, but most boards have a removable centre fin.",
"Multi-finned set-upsThese capture the maximum edge hold and aggressiveness into the wake and through the wake.",
"Canted side finsThese are fins that lean out on an angle.",
"These fins are not as active when the wakeboard is riding flat through the water, but the more the rider leans on edge, the more the wakeboard hooks up.",
"The inside fin digs while the outside lifts, creating leverage to help the wakeboard edge hard.",
"Great for 50-50 grinds, nose presses and tail presses.",
"Cupped side finsThey have the same effect as canted fins but add more of a push-pull effect.",
"The cupped fin allows for the use of a smaller fin but still gets the hold of a bigger fin due to the increased surface area of the cupped side of the fin.",
"These fins are very deceiving – they look small and loose but really aren’t.",
"No FinsSome riders prefer to ride finless, as some boards are specifically designed for cable parks or other uses, some uses of which can benefit from a finless design."
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Home media | Which television show was first to be released on Blu-ray by Fox? | Prison Break | false | 1TV
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"The DVD and Blu-ray Disc sets of each season were released after their television broadcast in various regions.",
"At the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that the complete first season of \"Prison Break\" was to be released on Blu-ray in early 2007.",
"The release date was later announced to be November 13, 2007 and \"Prison Break\" became the first television show to be released on Blu-ray Disc by Fox.",
"The Blu-ray box set contains six discs and includes all the DVD box set's special features.",
"A DVD set containing the first three seasons was released on May 19, 2008 in Region 2.",
"The television movie, \"\", was included in the Season 4 set in Regions 2 and 4, but was released separately in Region 1.",
"\"The Final Break\" was later released separately in Regions 2 and 4.",
"In France, Germany and the United Kingdom, a Blu-ray package of all four seasons including \"The Final Break\" has been released.",
"Over a year after its initial release, Season 4 was later re-issued in Region 4 without \"The Final Break\" included."
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Reheating | What material is used for the last rinse of the duck? | Peking duck | true | 9FOOD
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"Whole Peking Ducks can be ordered as takeaways.",
"The ducks can be reheated at home with an oven, grill or boiling oil.",
"When an oven is used, the duck is heated at a temperature of 150 °C (300 °F) for 20 minutes, and then at 160 °C (325 °F) for another 10 minutes.",
"The grilling method involves filling the duck with boiling water before placing it on a griddle, 70 cm (28 in) above the cooking fire.",
"The boiling water is replaced every 3–4 minutes until the duck's skin is piping hot.",
"To reheat the Peking Duck with oil, the duck is sliced into thin pieces and placed in a strainer held over a wok of boiling oil.",
"The duck is then rinsed several times with the oil."
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The Speech | Who did Marshall address? | Marshall Plan | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"After the adjournment of the Moscow conference following six weeks of failed discussions with the Soviets regarding a potential German reconstruction, the United States concluded that a solution could not wait any longer.",
"To clarify the US's position, a major address by Secretary of State George Marshall was planned.",
"Marshall gave the address to the graduating class of Harvard University on June 5, 1947.",
"Standing on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, he offered American aid to promote European recovery and reconstruction.",
"The speech described the dysfunction of the European economy and presented a rationale for US aid.",
"The modern system of the division of labor upon which the exchange of products is based is in danger of breaking down.",
".",
".",
".",
"Aside from the demoralizing effect on the world at large and the possibilities of disturbances arising as a result of the desperation of the people concerned, the consequences to the economy of the United States should be apparent to all.",
"It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health to the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.",
"Our policy is not directed against any country, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.",
"Any government that is willing to assist in recovery will find full co-operation on the part of the USA.",
"Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.",
"Marshall was convinced that economic stability would provide political stability in Europe.",
"He offered aid, but the European countries had to organize the program themselves.",
"The speech, written by Charles Bohlen, contained virtually no details and no numbers.",
"More a proposal than a plan, it was presented vaguely and made little impact in America.",
"Eight weeks after the Harvard speech, the State Department wrote in a confidential memorandum that \"The Marshall Plan has been compared to a flying saucer — nobody knows what it looks like, how big it is, in what direction it is moving, or whether it really exists.\"",
"The most important element of the speech was the call for the Europeans to meet and create their own plan for rebuilding Europe, and that the United States would then fund this plan.",
"The administration felt that the plan would likely be unpopular among many Americans, and the speech was mainly directed at a European audience.",
"In an attempt to keep the speech out of American papers journalists were not contacted, and on the same day Truman called a press conference to take away headlines.",
"In contrast, Dean Acheson, an Under Secretary of State, was dispatched to contact the European media, especially the British media, and the speech was read in its entirety on the BBC."
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Cast | Who played Lieutenant Matt Kowalski? | Gravity (film) | true | 6MOVIES
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" 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."
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In popular culture | How long did it take the Sistine chapel to fall? | Sistine Chapel ceiling | false | 3ART
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"In many works, the painting of God and Adam are parodied.",
"See The Creation of Adam for more.",
"In the film \"2012\", the entire College of Cardinals are seen praying silently under the ceiling.",
"The ceiling then starts to crack, commencing at the point where God's and Adam's fingers nearly touch, dividing the two.",
"In \"\", the Sistine chapel is seen falling after 500 years.",
"In Pastafarianism, a parody of the painting is shown as the Flying Spaghetti Monster reaching a noodly appendage out to Adam.",
"Playwright Neil Simon's quote about the Sistine floor-\"If no one took any risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.",
"\"",
"The 1965 film \"The Agony and the Ecstasy\" features the story of Michelangelo and his travails in painting the Sistine Chapel.",
"He is portrayed in the film by Charlton Heston.",
"In the 2009 film \"Angels & Demons\" and also in the 2000 book on which the film is based, the chapel is featured throughout the story."
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Places of interest | Number of historic sites at Antebellum Plantation and Farmyard museum? | Stone Mountain | true | 2TRAVEL
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"Confederate Hall, operated directly by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association or SMMA, is a museum that educates students and park guests on the geology and ecology of Stone Mountain as well as historical aspects of the area.",
"A small theater shows a historical documentary about the Civil War in Georgia called \"The Battle for Georgia\".",
"The education department is host to thousands of students each school year teaching the subjects of geology, ecology, and history.",
"Classes are designed to meet the Georgia Performance Standards and the North American Association for Environmental Education guidelines.",
"The Antebellum Plantation and Farmyard is an open air museum composed of 19 historic buildings, built between 1790 and 1875, which have been re-erected to the site to represent a pre-Civil War Georgia plantation.",
"The historic houses have been furnished with an extensive collection of period furniture and decorations.",
"The farm features live animals that guests can pet.",
"A 732-bell carillon that originated at the 1964 New York World's Fair, provides a daily concert.",
"A covered bridge, dating from 1892, which originally spanned the Oconee River in Athens, Georgia.",
"A grist mill, dating from 1869 and moved to the park in 1965."
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Wine | For what reason is pure yeast cultures added to the must? | Yeast | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Yeast is used in winemaking, where it converts the sugars present in grape juice (must) into ethanol.",
"Yeast is normally already present on grape skins.",
"Fermentation can be done with this endogenous \"wild yeast,\" but this procedure gives unpredictable results, which depend upon the exact types of yeast species present.",
"For this reason, a pure yeast culture is usually added to the must; this yeast quickly dominates the fermentation.",
"The wild yeasts are repressed, which ensures a reliable and predictable fermentation.",
"Most added wine yeasts are strains of \"S. cerevisiae\", though not all strains of the species are suitable.",
"Different \"S. cerevisiae\" yeast strains have differing physiological and fermentative properties, therefore the actual strain of yeast selected can have a direct impact on the finished wine.",
"Significant research has been undertaken into the development of novel wine yeast strains that produce atypical flavour profiles or increased complexity in wines.",
"The growth of some yeasts, such as \"Zygosaccharomyces\" and \"Brettanomyces\", in wine can result in wine faults and subsequent spoilage.",
"\"Brettanomyces\" produces an array of metabolites when growing in wine, some of which are volatile phenolic compounds.",
"Together, these compounds are often referred to as \"\"Brettanomyces\" character\", and are often described as \"antiseptic\" or \"barnyard\" type aromas.",
"\"Brettanomyces\" is a significant contributor to wine faults within the wine industry.",
"Researchers from University of British Columbia, Canada, have found a new strain of yeast that has reduced amines.",
"The amines in red wine and Chardonnay produce off-flavors and cause headaches and hypertension in some people.",
"About 30% of people are sensitive to biogenic amines, such as histamines."
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"The song received generally favorable reviews.",
"David Greenwald of MTV wrote, \"The fresh track's wispy acoustic guitars and patient melody remind us of Irish crooner Damien Rice's 'Delicate,' though when Mraz soars into the chorus, it's with his own signature full-blast hook.\"",
"Loh Chuan Junn of MSN Music wrote that \"The string-drenched, acoustic-guitar-based sound makes for easy listening, and gets into the listener's head after just the first listen.",
"With such an honest revelation of emotions in his lyrics, it's hard to imagine the tune does not stir hearts.\"",
"According to Katherine St Asaph of PopDust, the song was probably the closest to his and Colbie Caillat collaboration “Lucky.” She added that it was \"a gentle acoustic ballad with a hint of speak-singing a ways in but otherwise straightforward and straight-faced soft-rocks its way through sentiments like “when I look into your eyes, it’s like watching the night sky or a beautiful sunrise–there’s just so much they hold”–still earnest, but joke-free.\"",
"Amy Dawson of Metro UK called it \"a delicate, countrified guitar ballad that drives into a power-chorus singalong conclusion.\"",
"Colin McGuire of PopMatters was mixed in his review, writing that \"'I Won’t Give Up', for instance, is acoustic guitar-laden folky pop that falls at least a little bit flat with its predictably bland approach.",
"While the song’s hook proves itself memorable enough, the track never graduates into anything other than the ballad-like tediousness the singer has a tendency to revert into.\""
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