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History | What is the maximum physical size limit for refracting telescopes? | Telescope | false | 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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Commodity | Who is coffee sold by? | Coffee | false | 9FOOD
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"Coffee is bought and sold by roasters, investors, and price speculators as a tradable commodity in commodity markets and exchange-traded funds.",
"Coffee futures contracts for Grade 3 washed arabicas are traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange under ticker symbol KC, with contract deliveries occurring every year in March, May, July, September, and December.",
"Coffee is an example of a product that has been susceptible to significant commodity futures price variations.",
"Higher and lower grade arabica coffees are sold through other channels.",
"Futures contracts for robusta coffee are traded on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange and, since 2007, on the New York IntercontinentalExchange.",
"Coffee has been described by many, including historian Mark Pendergrast, as the world's \"second most legally traded commodity.\"",
"However, this claim has been recently refuted by Pendergrast among others after further research."
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Release and promotion | When was Viva La Vida released on Itunes? | Viva la Vida | false | 0MUSIC
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"\"Viva la Vida\" was initially released only with iTunes Store pre-orders of \"Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends\" on 7 May 2008 – the \"new edit\" version of the song – which led to the song's temporary exclusion from the UK Singles Chart.",
"It was released as a download-only single on 25 May 2008, and a physical CD single in Europe on 29 July 2008 to coincide with the release of the single's music videos.",
"\"Viva la Vida\" was well-downloaded in the internet, becoming iTunes' best-selling song of 2008.",
"From 24 December 2008 to 5 January 2009 an official remix of the song by producer Stuart Price, named the \"Thin White Duke Mix\", was given away for free as a Christmas gift via the band's website.",
"The song was used as part of Apple Inc.'s iPod + iTunes advertisement campaign.",
"Coldplay performed the song live for the first time at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.",
"It has since gone on to make many media appearances, including being featured throughout the episode from the paranormal drama \"Medium\", as a song played on the radio in the episode \"We're Not in Kansas Anymore\" from the teen drama \"90210\", used as bumper music on Bill Bennett's \"Morning in America\" radio talk show, and on the international soundtrack to the Brazilian soap opera \"A Favorita\" which helped push \"Viva la Vida\" up the charts in Brazil, where the telenovela been shown.",
"\"Viva la Vida\" was the entrance music for Birmingham City Football Club during the 2009–2010 season, but was quickly dropped after negative response by the supporters.",
"In 2009, Solange Knowles covered the song.",
"Lady Gaga also covered the song for BBC Radio 1.",
"A live version of the song appeared on Coldplay's 2009 live album \"LeftRightLeftRightLeft\".",
"Pet Shop Boys also performed the song live on their 2009 Pandemonium Tour and the song appeared on their Christmas EP.",
"It was also used in an episode entitled \"Million Dollar Maybe\" of \"The Simpsons\".",
"The song was covered in the seventh series of \"The X Factor\" by the boyband One Direction in 2010."
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Universal's Super Star Shuttle | What runs through Mears Transportation? | Universal Orlando | false | 2TRAVEL
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"The vicinity of Universal Orlando consists of several hotels and a major airport all located within 20 minutes of the resort.",
"Universal's Super Star Shuttle service is broken into two main routes.",
"One provides transportation to all thirty Universal Partner hotels while the newest route will begin service to Orlando International Airport in late 2012.",
"Universal's Super Star Shuttle also provides transportation between Universal Orlando, SeaWorld, and Wet 'n Wild.",
"The service is free for Universal Parks & Resorts Vacations Guests and onsite hotel guests.",
"The new airport route is expected to initially only be offered for onsite hotel guests.",
"The Super Star Shuttle is run through Mears Transportation."
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Recurring cast | Who played Uncle Scott in season 1? | Falling Skies | false | 1TV
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" Dale Dye as Colonel/General Jim Porter (season 1–3)",
" Megan Danso as Deni (season 3 onwards)",
" Bruce Gray as Uncle Scott (season 1)",
" Martin Roach as Mike Thompson (season 1)",
" Lynne Deragon as Kate Gordon (season 1)",
" Melissa Kramer as Sarah (season 1)",
" Steven Weber as Dr. Michael Harris (season 1)",
" Dylan Authors as Jimmy Boland (seasons 1–2)",
" Daniyah Ysrail as Rick Thompson (seasons 1-2)",
" Ryan Robbins as Tector Murphy, one of the Berserkers (season 2 onwards)",
" Luciana Carro as Crazy Lee, one of the Berserkers (seasons 2–3)",
" Brad Kelly as Lyle, one of the Berserkers (season 2 onwards)",
" Billy Wickman as Boon, one of the Berserkers (season 2)",
" Terry O'Quinn as Arthur Manchester (season 2–3)",
" Matt Frewer as General Bressler (seasons 2–3)",
" Laci J Mailey as Jeanne Weaver (season 2 onwards)",
" Brandon Jay McLaren as Jamil Dexter (season 2)",
" Gloria Reuben as Marina Peralta (season 3 onwards)",
" Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. Roger Kadar (season 3 onwards)"
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Episodes | How many seasons did Doctor Who run for? | Doctor Who | true | 1TV
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"\"Doctor Who\" originally ran for 26 seasons on BBC One, from 23 November 1963 until 6 December 1989.",
"During the original run, each weekly episode formed part of a story (or \"serial\") — usually of four to six parts in earlier years and three to four in later years.",
"Notable exceptions were: \"The Daleks' Master Plan\", which aired in 12 episodes (plus an earlier one-episode teaser, \"Mission to the Unknown\", featuring none of the regular cast); almost an entire season of seven-episode serials (season 7); the 10-episode serial \"The War Games\"; and \"The Trial of a Time Lord\", which ran for 14 episodes (albeit divided into three production codes and four narrative segments) during season 23.",
"Occasionally serials were loosely connected by a storyline, such as season 8 being devoted to the Doctor battling a rogue Time Lord called The Master, season 16's quest for The Key to Time, season 18's journey through E-Space and the theme of entropy, and season 20's Black Guardian Trilogy.",
"The programme was intended to be educational and for family viewing on the early Saturday evening schedule.",
"Initially, it alternated stories set in the past, which were intended to teach younger audience members about history, with stories set either in the future or in outer space to teach them about science.",
"This was also reflected in the Doctor's original companions, one of whom was a science teacher and another a history teacher.",
"However, science fiction stories came to dominate the programme and the \"historicals\", which were not popular with the production team, were dropped after \"The Highlanders\" (1967).",
"While the show continued to use historical settings, they were generally used as a backdrop for science fiction tales, with one exception: \"Black Orchid\" set in 1920s England.",
"The early stories were serial-like in nature, with the narrative of one story flowing into the next, and each episode having its own title, although produced as distinct stories with their own production codes.",
"Following \"The Gunfighters\" (1966), however, each serial was given its own title, with the individual parts simply being assigned episode numbers.",
"Of the programme's many writers, Robert Holmes was the most prolific, while Douglas Adams became the most well-known outside \"Doctor Who\" itself, due to the popularity of his \"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\".",
"The serial format changed for the 2005 revival, with each series usually consisting of 13 45-minute, self-contained episodes (60 minutes with adverts, on overseas commercial channels), and an extended episode broadcast on Christmas Day.",
"Each series includes several standalone and multi-part stories, linked with a loose story arc that resolves in the series finale.",
"As in the early \"classic\" era, each episode, whether standalone or part of a larger story, has its own title.",
"Occasionally, regular-series episodes will exceed the 45-minute run time; notably, the episodes \"Journey's End\" from 2008 and \"The Eleventh Hour\" from 2010 exceeded an hour in length.800 \"Doctor Who\" instalments have been televised since 1963, ranging between 25-minute episodes (the most common format), 45-minute episodes (for \"Resurrection of the Daleks\" in the 1984 series, a single season in 1985, and the revival), two feature-length productions (1983's \"The Five Doctors\" and the 1996 television film), eight Christmas specials (most of 60 minutes' duration, one of 72 minutes), and four additional specials ranging from 60 to 75 minutes in 2009, 2010 and 2013.",
"Four mini-episodes, running about eight minutes each, were also produced for the 1993, 2005 and 2007 Children in Need charity appeals, while another mini-episode was produced in 2008 for a \"Doctor Who\"-themed edition of The Proms.",
"The 1993 2-part story, entitled \"Dimensions in Time\", was made in collaboration with the cast of the BBC soap-opera \"EastEnders\" and was filmed partly on the \"EastEnders\" set.",
"A two-part mini-episode was also produced for the 2011 edition of Comic Relief.",
"Starting with the 2009 special \"Planet of the Dead\", the series was filmed in 1080i for HDTV, and broadcast simultaneously on BBC One and BBC HD.",
"To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the show, a special 3D episode, \"The Day of the Doctor\", was broadcast in 2013.",
"In March 2013, it was announced that Tennant and Piper would be returning, and that the episode would have a limited cinematic release worldwide."
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Defense | Are defensive and offensive positions similar or different? | Water polo | true | 4SPORT
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"Defensive positions are often the same positionally, but just switched from offense to defense.",
"For example, the centre forward or hole set, who directs the attack on offense, on defense is known as \"hole D\" (also known as set guard, hole guard, hole check, pit defense or two-meter defense), and guards the opposing team's center forward (also called the hole).",
"Defense can be played man-to-man or in zones, such as a 2–4 (four defenders along the goal line).",
"It can also be played as a combination of the two in what is known as an \"M drop\" defense, in which the point defender moves away (\"sloughs off\") his man into a zone in order to better defend the center position.",
"In this defense, the two wing defenders split the area furthest from the goal, allowing them a clearer lane for the counter-attack if their team recovers the ball."
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Abstract | What year did The Lion King come out? | The Lion King | true | 6MOVIES
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"The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.",
"It is the 32nd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series.",
"The story takes place in a kingdom of lions in Africa, and was influenced by the biblical tales of Joseph and Moses and the Shakespeare play \"Hamlet\".",
"The film was produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance.",
"\"The Lion King\" was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts and Linda Woolverton.",
"The film features a large ensemble voice cast led by Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Moira Kelly.",
"It tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as king; however, after Simba's uncle Scar murders Mufasa, Simba is fooled into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile in shame and despair.",
"Upon maturation living with two wastrels, Simba is given some valuable perspective from his friend, Nala, and his shaman, Rafiki, before returning to challenge Scar to end his tyranny.",
"Development of \"The Lion King\" began in 1988 during a meeting between Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney and Peter Schneider while promoting \"Oliver & Company\" in Europe.",
"Thomas Disch wrote a film treatment, and Woolverton developed the first scripts while George Scribner was signed on as director, being later joined by Allers.",
"Production began in 1991, with most of the animators inexperienced or uninterested in animals as most of the Disney team wanted to work on \"Pocahontas\" instead.",
"Some time after the staff traveled to Hell's Gate National Park to research on the film's setting and animals, Scribner left production disagreeing with the decision to turn the film into a musical, and was replaced by Minkoff.",
"When Hahn joined the project, he was dissatisfied with the script and the story was promptly rewritten.",
"Nearly 20 minutes of animation sequences took place at Disney-MGM Studios in Florida.",
"Computer animation was also used in several scenes, most notably in the wildebeest stampede scene.",
"\"The Lion King\" was released on June 15, 1994 to a positive reaction from critics, who praised the film for its music and story.",
"Following a 3D re-release in 2011, with earnings of over US$987 million worldwide as of 2011, the film is the highest-grossing hand-drawn film in history, the highest-grossing 2D animated film in the United States and the 19th-highest-grossing feature film of all time.",
"\"The Lion King\" garnered two Academy Awards for its achievement in music and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.",
"Its songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with an original score by Hans Zimmer.",
"The film lead to many derived works, such as a Broadway adaptation, two direct-to-video follow-ups - sequel \"\" (1998) and the prequel/parallel \"The Lion King 1½\" (2004) - and spin-off series \"Timon and Pumbaa\"."
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Early walls | Which year did Qin Shi Huang unify China? | Great Wall of China | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Early walls.",
"The Chinese were already familiar with the techniques of wall-building by the time of the Spring and Autumn period between the 8th and 5th centuries BC.",
"During this time and the subsequent Warring States period, the states of Qin, Wei, Zhao, Qi, Yan and Zhongshan all constructed extensive fortifications to defend their own borders.",
"Built to withstand the attack of small arms such as swords and spears, these walls were made mostly by stamping earth and gravel between board frames.",
"Qin Shi Huang conquered all opposing states and unified China in 221 BC, establishing the Qin Dynasty.",
"Intending to impose centralized rule and prevent the resurgence of feudal lords, he ordered the destruction of the wall sections that divided his empire along the former state borders.",
"To position the empire against the Xiongnu people from the north, he ordered the building of new walls to connect the remaining fortifications along the empire's northern frontier.",
"Transporting the large quantity of materials required for construction was difficult, so builders always tried to use local resources.",
"Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains.",
"There are no surviving historical records indicating the exact length and course of the Qin Dynasty walls.",
"Most of the ancient walls have eroded away over the centuries, and very few sections remain today.",
"The human cost of the construction is unknown, but it has been estimated by some authors that hundreds of thousands,if not up to a million, workers died building the Qin wall.",
"Later, the Han, Sui, and the Northern dynasties all repaired, rebuilt, or expanded sections of the Great Wall at great cost to defend themselves against northern invaders.",
"The Tang and Song Dynasties did not build any walls in the region substantially.",
"The Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, who ruled Northern China throughout most of the 10th–13th centuries, constructed defensive walls in the 12th century, but those were located much to the north of the Great Wall as we know it, within today's Inner and Outer Mongolia."
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Puritan movement | What was the Pilgrims' stance on Christmas? | Protestant Reformation | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"The success of the Counter-Reformation on the Continent and the growth of a Puritan party dedicated to further Protestant reform polarised the Elizabethan Age, although it was not until the '40s that England underwent religious strife comparable to what its neighbours had suffered some generations before.",
"The early \"Puritan movement\" (late 16th–17th centuries) was Reformed or Calvinist and was a movement for reform in the Church of England.",
"Its origins lay in the discontent with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement.",
"The desire was for the Church of England to resemble more closely the Protestant churches of Europe, especially Geneva.",
"The Puritans objected to ornaments and ritual in the churches as idolatrous (vestments, surplices, organs, genuflection), which they castigated as \"popish pomp and rags\".",
"(See Vestments controversy.)",
"They also objected to ecclesiastical courts.",
"They refused to endorse completely all of the ritual directions and formulas of the \"Book of Common Prayer\"; the imposition of its liturgical order by legal force and inspection sharpened Puritanism into a definite opposition movement.",
"The later Puritan movement were often referred to as dissenters and nonconformists and eventually led to the formation of various reformed denominations.",
"The most famous and well-known emigration to America was the migration of the Puritan separatists from the Anglican Church of England, who fled first to Holland, and then later to America, to establish the English colony of Massachusetts in New England, which later became one of the original United States.",
"These Puritan separatists were also known as \"the Pilgrims\".",
"After establishing a colony at Plymouth (which became part of the colony of Massachusetts) in 1620, the Puritan pilgrims received a charter from the King of England that legitimised their colony, allowing them to do trade and commerce with merchants in England, in accordance with the principles of mercantilism.",
"This successful, though initially quite difficult, colony marked the beginning of the Protestant presence in America (the earlier French, Spanish and Portuguese settlements had been Roman Catholic), and became a kind of oasis of spiritual and economic freedom, to which persecuted Protestants and other minorities from the British Isles and Europe (and later, from all over the world) fled to for peace, freedom and opportunity.",
"The Pilgrims of New England disapproved of Christmas and celebration was outlawed in Boston from 1659 to 1681.",
"The ban was revoked in 1681 by Sir Edmund Andros, who also revoked a Puritan ban against festivities on Saturday night.",
"Despite the removal of the ban, it wouldn't be until the middle of the 19th century that Christmas would become a popular holiday in the Boston region.",
"The original intent of the colonists was to establish spiritual Puritanism, which had been denied to them in England and the rest of Europe, to engage in peaceful commerce with England and the native American Indians, and to Christianize the peoples of the Americas."
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Soundtrack | The Toy Story soundtrack was produced by who? | Toy Story | true | 6MOVIES
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"The soundtrack for \"Toy Story\" was produced by Walt Disney Records and was released on November 22, 1995, the week of the film's release.",
"Scored and written by Randy Newman, the soundtrack has received praise for its \"sprightly, stirring score\".",
"Despite the album's critical success, the soundtrack only peaked at number 94 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart.",
"A cassette and CD single release of \"You've Got a Friend in Me\" was released on April 12, 1996, in order to promote the soundtrack's release.",
"The soundtrack was remastered in 2006 and although it is no longer available physically, the album is available for purchase digitally in retailers such as iTunes.",
"Tracklisting",
"Charts"
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Chinese Civil War and SEATO | how long ago did the Liberation Army defeat the KMT | Cold War | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"In 1949, Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's United States-backed Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalist Government in China, and the Soviet Union promptly created an alliance with the newly formed People's Republic of China.",
"According to Norwegian historian Odd Arne Westad, the Communists won the Civil War because they made fewer military mistakes than Chiang Kai-Shek, and because in his search for a powerful centralized government, Chiang antagonized too many interest groups in China.",
"Moreover, his party was weakened in the war against Japanese.",
"Meanwhile the Communists told different groups, such as peasants, exactly what they wanted to hear, and cloaked themselves in the cover of Chinese nationalism.",
"Chiang and his KMT government retreated to the island of Taiwan.",
"Confronted with the communist revolution in China and the end of the American atomic monopoly in 1949, the Truman administration quickly moved to escalate and expand the containment policy.",
"In NSC-68, a secret 1950 document, the National Security Council proposed to reinforce pro-Western alliance systems and quadruple spending on defense.",
"United States officials moved thereafter to expand containment into Asia, Africa, and Latin America, in order to counter revolutionary nationalist movements, often led by communist parties financed by the USSR, fighting against the restoration of Europe's colonial empires in South-East Asia and elsewhere.",
"In the early 1950s (a period sometimes known as the \"Pactomania\"), the US formalized a series of alliances with Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and the Philippines (notably ANZUS in 1951 and SEATO in 1954), thereby guaranteeing the United States a number of long-term military bases."
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Germany | Whats the difference between a "Berliner" and "Kamerunner"? | Doughnut | true | 9FOOD
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"In parts of Germany, the doughnut equivalents are called \"Berliner\" (sg.",
"and pl.",
"), but not in the capital city of Berlin itself and neighboring areas, where they are called \"Pfannkuchen\" (which is often found misleading by people in the rest of Germany, who use the word Pfannkuchen to describe a pancake, which is also the literal translation of it).",
"In middle Germany, they are called \"Kreppel\" or \"Pfannkuchen\".",
"In southern Germany, they are also called \"Krapfen\" and are especially popular during Carnival season (\"Karneval\"/\"Fasching\") in southern and middle Germany and on New Year's Eve in northern Germany.",
"\"Berliner\" do not have the typical ring shape, but instead are solid and usually filled with jam, while a ring-shaped variant called \"Kameruner\" is common in Berlin and eastern Germany.",
"\"Bismarcks\" and \"Berlin doughnuts\" are also found in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and the U.S. Today, American style doughnuts are also available in Germany, but are less popular than their native counterparts."
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Dental health | How does cheese protect tooth enamel? | Cheese | false | 9FOOD
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"Some studies claim that cheddar, mozzarella, Swiss and American cheeses can help to prevent tooth decay.",
"Several mechanisms for this protection have been proposed:",
" The calcium, protein, and phosphorus in cheese may act to protect tooth enamel.",
" Cheese increases saliva flow, washing away acids and sugars."
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Institutions | Are there any countries on the planet that don't practice general medicine? | Medicine | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Contemporary medicine is in general conducted within health care systems.",
"Legal, credentialing and financing frameworks are established by individual governments, augmented on occasion by international organizations, such as churches.",
"The characteristics of any given health care system have significant impact on the way medical care is provided.",
"From ancient times, Christian emphasis on practical charity gave rise to the development of systematic nursing and hospitals and the Catholic Church today remains the largest non-government provider of medical services in the world.",
"Advanced industrial countries (with the exception of the United States) and many developing countries provide medical services through a system of universal health care that aims to guarantee care for all through a single-payer health care system, or compulsory private or co-operative health insurance.",
"This is intended to ensure that the entire population has access to medical care on the basis of need rather than ability to pay.",
"Delivery may be via private medical practices or by state-owned hospitals and clinics, or by charities, most commonly by a combination of all three.",
"Most tribal societies, and the United States, provide no guarantee of healthcare for the population as a whole.",
"In such societies, healthcare is available to those that can afford to pay for it or have self-insured it (either directly or as part of an employment contract) or who may be covered by care financed by the government or tribe directly.",
"Transparency of information is another factor defining a delivery system.",
"Access to information on conditions, treatments, quality, and pricing greatly affects the choice by patients/consumers and, therefore, the incentives of medical professionals.",
"While the US healthcare system has come under fire for lack of openness, new legislation may encourage greater openness.",
"There is a perceived tension between the need for transparency on the one hand and such issues as patient confidentiality and the possible exploitation of information for commercial gain on the other."
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1900–1960 | Why was there an absence of enthusiasm for Tammany Hall political machine? | Central Park | true | 2TRAVEL
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"Following completion, the park quickly slipped into decline.",
"One of the main reasons for this was the lack of interest of the Tammany Hall political machine, which was the largest political force in New York at the time.",
"Around the turn of the 20th century, the park faced several new challenges.",
"Cars were becoming commonplace, bringing with them their burden of pollution, and people's attitudes were beginning to change.",
"No longer were parks to be used only for walks and picnics in an idyllic environment, but now also for sports, and similar recreation.",
"Following the dissolution of the Central Park Commission in 1870 and Andrew Green's departure from the project, and the death of Vaux in 1895, the maintenance effort gradually declined, and there were few, if any, attempts to replace dead trees, bushes and plants, or worn-out lawn.",
"For several decades, authorities did little or nothing to prevent vandalism and the littering of the park.",
"All of this changed in 1934, when Republican Fiorello La Guardia was elected mayor of New York City and unified the five park-related departments then in existence.",
"Robert Moses was given the task of cleaning up the park.",
"Moses, about to become one of the mightiest men in New York City, took over what was essentially a relic, a leftover from a bygone era.",
"According to historian Robert Caro in his 1974 book \"The Power Broker\":",
"\"Lawns, unseeded, were expanses of bare earth, decorated with scraggly patches of grass and weeds, that became dust holes in dry weather and mud holes in wet….",
"The once beautiful Mall looked like a scene of a wild party the morning after.",
"Benches lay on their backs, their legs jabbing at the sky...\"",
"In a single year, Moses managed to clean up Central Park and other parks in New York City.",
"Lawns and flowers were replanted, dead trees and bushes were replaced, walls were sandblasted, and bridges repaired.",
"Another dramatic change was Moses's removal of the \"Hoover Valley\" shantytown, whose site was transformed into the Great Lawn.",
"Major redesigning and construction also was carried out: for instance, the Croton Lower Reservoir was filled in so the Great Lawn could be created.",
"The Greensward Plan's purpose of creating an idyllic landscape was combined with Moses' vision of a park to be used for recreational purposes—19 playgrounds, 12 ball fields, and handball courts were constructed.",
"Moses also managed to secure funds from the New Deal program, as well as donations from the public."
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Music video | Who did Wake Me Me Up When September Ends? | Wake Me Up When September Ends | true | 0MUSIC
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"Like the majority of the videos from the album \"American Idiot\", it was directed by Samuel Bayer.",
"The video features Green Day's support guitarist, Jason White.",
"This is the second time Jason White has appeared in a Green Day video, first appearing in \"When I Come Around\", ten years earlier but not as a band member.",
"The video focuses on a very loving couple (played by Jamie Bell and Evan Rachel Wood).",
"The boyfriend promises never to leave his girlfriend but they later argue when the boyfriend enlists in the United States Marine Corps.",
"The boyfriend interprets his actions as a way to show her that he loves her so much that he would put his life on the line to keep her safe; the girlfriend, however, is heartbroken, as he broke his vow to never leave her, and terrified at the thought that he might die in battle.",
"The video then shows the boyfriend in battle in Iraq being ambushed by insurgents.",
"This scene is intercut with scenes of the girlfriend tearfully mourning in a quiet field.",
"The video ends on this juxtaposition, emphasizing the pain and heartache of losing loved ones due to the war.",
"This video adds to the \"American Idiot\" anti-war sentiment of the Iraq War.",
"The song eventually became a tribute song to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and sound bites were added from various news coverages to the song.",
"A live version of the song, recorded on September 3, 2005, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts was released soon after and dedicated to the hurricane's victims.",
"The song was performed live with U2 guitarist The Edge in the pregame show of the Monday Night Football game between the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons; it was the first game played in the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina."
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Cast | Who portayed Wadjda in the movie Wadjda. | Wadjda | false | 6MOVIES
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" Reem Abdullah as Mother",
" Waad Mohammed as Wadjda (وجدة)",
" Abdullrahman Algohani as Abdullah",
" Sultan Al Assaf as Father",
" Ahd Kamel as Ms Hussa",
" Ibrahim Al Mozael as Toyshop Owner",
" Noof Saad as Qu'ran Teacher",
" Rafa Al Sanea as Fatima",
" Alanoud Sajini as Fatin"
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Soundtrack | What was the 9th track? | Dallas Buyers Club | false | 6MOVIES
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" \"Sweet Thang\" by Shuggie Otis – 4:09 ",
" \"Following Morning\" by The Naked And Famous – 5:03 ",
" \"Hell and Back\" by The Airborne Toxic Event – 3:52 ",
" \"Ready to Be Called On\" by My Morning Jacket – 3:46 ",
" \"Life of the Party\" by Blondfire – 3:23 ",
" \"The Walker\" (Ryeland Allison remix) by Fitz And The Tantrums – 3:28 ",
" \"Shudder to Think\" by Tegan & Sara – 3:24 ",
" \"Mad Love\" (Acoustic) by Neon Trees – 3:39 ",
" \"Main Man\" (T. Rex cover) by Portugal.",
"The Man – 6:15 ",
" \"Stayin' Alive\" (Bee Gees cover) by Capital Cities – 4:03 ",
" \"Romance Languages\" by Cold War Kids – 2:52 ",
" \"Burn It Down\" (Innerpartysystem remix) by AWOLNATION – 4:56 ",
" \"After the Scripture\" by Manchester Orchestra – 4:36 ",
" \"City of Angels\" (Acoustic) by Thirty Seconds To Mars – 4:29 ",
" \"Main Man\" by T. Rex – 4:13 ",
" \"Life Is Strange\" by T. Rex – 2:32",
" \"Ballrooms of Mars\" by T. Rex"
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Tourism | Which ocean is Easter Island surrounded by? | Chile | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Tourism in Chile has experienced sustained growth over the last few decades.",
"In 2005, tourism grew by 13.6 percent, generating more than 4.5 billion dollars of which 1.5 billion is attributed to foreign tourists.",
"According to the National Service of Tourism (Sernatur), 2 million people a year visit the country.",
"Most of these visitors come from other countries in the American continent, mainly Argentina; followed by a growing number from the United States, Europe, and Brazil with a growing number of Asians from South Korea and PR China.",
"The main attractions for tourists are places of natural beauty situated in the extreme zones of the country: San Pedro de Atacama, in the north, is very popular with foreign tourists who arrive to admire the Incaic architecture, the altiplano lakes, and the Valley of the Moon.",
"In Putre, also in the north, there is the Chungará Lake, as well as the Parinacota and the Pomerape volcanoes, with altitudes of 6,348 m and 6,282 m, respectively.",
"Throughout the central Andes there are many ski resorts of international repute, including Portillo, Valle Nevado and Termas de Chillán.",
"The main tourist sites in the south are national parks (the most popular is Conguillío National Park in the Araucanía) and the coastal area around Tirúa and Cañete with the Isla Mocha and the Nahuelbuta National Park, Chiloé Archipelago and Patagonia, which includes Laguna San Rafael National Park, with its many glaciers, and the Torres del Paine National Park.",
"The central port city of Valparaíso, which is World Heritage with its unique architecture, is also popular.",
"Finally, Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean is one of the main Chilean tourist destinations.",
"For locals, tourism is concentrated mostly in the summer (December to March), and mainly in the coastal beach towns.",
"Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta, La Serena and Coquimbo are the main summer centres in the north, and Pucón on the shores of Lake Villarrica is the main centre in the south.",
"Because of its proximity to Santiago, the coast of the Valparaíso Region, with its many beach resorts, receives the largest number of tourists.",
"Viña del Mar, Valparaíso's northern affluent neighbor, is popular because of its beaches, casino, and its annual song festival, the most important musical event in Latin America.",
"Pichilemu in the O'Higgins Region is widely known as South America's \"best surfing spot\" according to Fodor's.",
"In November 2005 the government launched a campaign under the brand \"Chile: All Ways Surprising\" intended to promote the country internationally for both business and tourism.",
"Museums in Chile such as the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts built in 1880, feature works by Chilean artists."
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Recognition | Who said, "You cannot write a song any better than that, because that's how this kind of thing happens in real life." | Love the Way You Lie | false | 0MUSIC
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"",
"\"Love the Way You Lie\" ranked in various best-of-2010 lists.",
"Claire Suddath of \"Time\" placed it at number five on her top-ten list and wrote, \"That this song didn't come across sounding clichéd or tasteless is a testament to both artists' skill.\"",
"AOL Radio considered the song the best of 2010 hip hop music, regarding Eminem as imaginative and passionate.",
"It ranked ninth on MTV News' top-twenty-five list.",
"Its editor James Montgomery attributed the song's success to its theme and relation to the artists' past abusive relationships.",
"He concluded, \"You cannot write a song any better than that, because that's how this kind of thing happens in real life.\"",
"\"The New York Post\" placed the song at second place on their \"top 210 songs from 2010\" list and regarded it as a \"comeback club anthem.\"",
"In April 2011, Gabriel Alvarez of \"Complex\" magazine ranked it at number 100 on their \"100 Best Eminem Songs\" list, calling it a love song and praising Rihanna's vocals as beautiful.",
"\"Love the Way You Lie\" and its accompanying music video were nominated for five Grammy Awards at the 2011 ceremony, including \"Record of the Year\", \"Song of the Year\" and \"Best Short Form Music Video\".",
"It won the People's Choice Awards for \"Favorite Music Video\" and \"Favorite Song\"."
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Scientific analysis and criticism | What community does not support astrology? | Astrology | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Astrology has been rejected by the scientific community as having no explanatory power for describing the universe.",
"Scientific testing of astrology has been conducted, and no evidence has been found to support any of the premises or purported effects outlined in astrological traditions.",
"There is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth that does not contradict well understood, basic aspects of biology and physics.",
"The majority of professional astrologers rely on performing astrology-based personality tests and making relevant predictions about the remunerator's future.",
"Those who continue to have faith in astrology have been characterized as doing so \"in spite of the fact that there is no verified scientific basis for their beliefs, and indeed that there is strong evidence to the contrary\".",
"It has also been shown that confirmation bias is a psychological factor that contributes to belief in astrology.",
"Confirmation bias is a form of cognitive bias.",
"From the literature, Astrology believers often tend to selectively remember those predictions which have turned out to be true, and do not remember those predictions which happen to be false.",
"Another, separate, form of confirmation bias also plays a role, where believers often fail to distinguish between messages that demonstrate special ability and those which do not.",
"Thus there are two distinct forms of confirmation bias that are under study with respect to astrological belief."
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Abstract | Was Sweden responsible for the revolt and impending war with Britian? | Louisiana Purchase | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"The Louisiana Purchase ( \"Sale of Louisiana\") was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana.",
"The U.S. paid 50 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), for a total sum of 15 million dollars (around 4 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory ($ million in dollars, less than 42 cents per acre).",
"The Louisiana territory encompassed all or part of 15 present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.",
"The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River; most of North Dakota; most of South Dakota; northeastern New Mexico; northern Texas; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.",
"France controlled this vast area from 1699 until 1762, the year it gave the territory to its ally Spain.",
"Under Napoleon Bonaparte, France took back the territory in 1800 in the hope of building an empire in North America.",
"A slave revolt in Haiti and an impending war with Britain, however, led France to abandon these plans and sell the entire territory to the United States, which had originally intended only to seek the purchase of New Orleans and its adjacent lands.",
"The purchase of the territory of Louisiana took place during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.",
"At the time, the purchase faced domestic opposition because it was thought to be unconstitutional.",
"Although he agreed that the U.S. Constitution did not contain provisions for acquiring territory, Jefferson decided to go ahead with the purchase anyway in order to remove France's presence in the region and to protect both U.S. trade access to the port of New Orleans and free passage on the Mississippi River."
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Utility | Where in Germany is a huge Mercedes-Benz factory located? | Cycling | false | 4SPORT
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"Utility cycling refers both to cycling as a mode of daily commuting transport as well as the use of a bicycle in a commercial activity, mainly to transport goods, mostly accomplished in an urban environment.",
"The postal services of many countries have long relied on bicycles.",
"The British Royal Mail first started using bicycles in 1880; now bicycle delivery fleets include 37,000 in the UK, 25,700 in Germany, 10,500 in Hungary and 7000 in Sweden.",
"The London Ambulance Service has recently introduced bicycling paramedics, who can often get to the scene of an incident in Central London more quickly than a motorized ambulance.",
"Late in the 20th century, urban police bicycles became more common, as the mobility of car-borne officers was increasingly limited by traffic congestion and pedestrianisation.",
"Bicycles enjoy substantial use as general delivery vehicles in many countries.",
"In the UK and North America, as their first jobs, generations of teenagers have worked at delivering newspapers by bicycle.",
"London has many delivery companies that use bicycles with trailers.",
"Most cities in the West, and many outside it, support a sizeable and visible industry of cycle couriers who deliver documents and small packages.",
"In India, many of Mumbai's Dabbawalas use bicycles to deliver home cooked lunches to the city’s workers.",
"In Bogotá, Colombia the city’s largest bakery recently replaced most of its delivery trucks with bicycles.",
"Even the car industry uses bicycles.",
"At the huge Mercedes-Benz factory in Sindelfingen, Germany workers use bicycles, color-coded by department, to move around the factory."
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Reception | How many cameras are used in the recording of Hell's Kitchen? | Hell's Kitchen (U.S. TV series) | true | 1TV
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"Analyst Arthur Perkins credits the show's success with four factors:",
"Numerous cameras (up to 72) allow tight editing and capturing every action",
"A \"confessional booth\" reveals insights into competitors' characters",
"Ramsay's \"\"enfant terrible\"\" personality, impeccable credentials, and overall showmanship",
"Casting relatively unknown chefs",
"Perkins compared Ramsay's unusual showmanship to that of P. T. Barnum of the famed Ringling Brothers circus:"
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Windmills | The Golden Gate Park uses what objects to pump water? | Golden Gate Park | true | 2TRAVEL
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"In 1902, the parks commission authorized construction of two windmills to pump subterranean water to supply the park.",
"The first, on the north side of the park facing the Pacific Ocean, was completed in 1903 and became known first as the North Windmill and later as the Dutch Windmill; it is now paired with the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden.",
"The second, Murphy's Windmill, on the south side of the park, began operation in 1908.",
"They operated for several decades, but fell into disrepair after the park switched to electric water pumps.",
"The Dutch Windmill was restored in 1981, with Murphy's Windmill's restoration completed in September 2011."
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Causes | What is a key reason that scholars and economists want to identify causes of the Great Depression? | Great Depression | false | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"There were multiple causes for the first downturn in 1929.",
"These include the structural weaknesses and specific events that turned it into a major depression and the manner in which the downturn spread from country to country.",
"In relation to the 1929 downturn, historians emphasize structural factors like major bank failures and the stock market crash.",
"In contrast, monetarist economists (such as Barry Eichengreen, Milton Friedman and Peter Temin) point to monetary factors such as actions by the US Federal Reserve that contracted the money supply, as well as Britain's decision to return to the gold standard at pre–World War I parities (US$4.86:£1).",
"Recessions and business cycles are thought to be a normal part of living in a world of inexact balances between supply and demand.",
"What turns a normal recession or 'ordinary' business cycle into a depression is a subject of much debate and concern.",
"Scholars have not agreed on the exact causes and their relative importance.",
"The search for causes is closely connected to the issue of avoiding future depressions.",
"A related question is whether the Great Depression was primarily a failure on the part of free markets or a failure of government efforts to regulate interest rates, curtail widespread bank failures, and control the money supply.",
"Current theories may be broadly classified into two main points of view and several heterodox points of view.",
"There are demand-driven theories, most importantly Keynesian economics, but also including those who point to the breakdown of international trade, and Institutional economists who point to underconsumption and over-investment (causing an economic bubble), malfeasance by bankers and industrialists, or incompetence by government officials.",
"The consensus among demand-driven theories is that a large-scale loss of confidence led to a sudden reduction in consumption and investment spending.",
"Once panic and deflation set in, many people believed they could avoid further losses by keeping clear of the markets.",
"Holding money became profitable as prices dropped lower and a given amount of money bought ever more goods, exacerbating the drop in demand.",
"There are the monetarists, who believe that the Great Depression started as an ordinary recession, but that significant policy mistakes by monetary authorities (especially the Federal Reserve), caused a shrinking of the money supply which greatly exacerbated the economic situation, causing a recession to descend into the Great Depression.",
"Related to this explanation are those who point to debt deflation causing those who borrow to owe ever more in real terms.",
"There are also various heterodox theories that downplay or reject the explanations of the Keynesians and monetarists.",
"For example, some new classical macroeconomists have argued that various labor market policies imposed at the start caused the length and severity of the Great Depression.",
"The Austrian school of economics focuses on the macroeconomic effects of money supply, and how central banking decisions can lead to over-investment (economic bubble)."
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Biodiversity | Why is there a high level of endemism in Borneo? | Malaysia | false | 5COUNTRY
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"Malaysia signed the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity on 12 June 1993, and became a party to the convention on 24 June 1994.",
"It has subsequently produced a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, which was received by the convention on 16 April 1998.",
"The country is megadiverse with a high number of species and high levels of endemism.",
"It is estimated to contain 20 per cent of the world's animal species.",
"High levels of endemism are found on the diverse forests of Borneo's mountains, as species are isolated from each other by lowland forest."
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Season 4 | Who does Stella get back together with? | How I Met Your Mother | false | 1TV
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"Stella says yes to Ted's proposal.",
"Robin takes a new job in Japan, but quickly resigns and returns to New York to attend Ted's wedding, after realizing how much she misses her friends.",
"Stella leaves Ted at the altar to get back together with Tony (Jason Jones), the father of her daughter.",
"Barney struggles with his feelings for Robin as his company shifts him to the management team of a new acquisition, Goliath National Bank (GNB), where Marshall has accepted a position.",
"Marshall and Lily move to their new apartment and debate over whether or not they're ready to have children.",
"Robin becomes roommates with Ted and gets a job as an anchor for a 4 AM news show after Barney sends out her video resume.",
"Ted and Robin decide to sleep together constantly so they will not fight over each other's bad co-living habits.",
"Barney attempts to make them stop fighting to prevent this, revealing to Ted his love for Robin.",
"Ted finds out Lily has sabotaged all of his relationships with anyone she does not approve of and indirectly may have inspired his breakup with Robin.",
"Robin and Ted end up talking about it, causing their friendship to begin moving toward a positive note.",
"After Barney finally sleeps with his 200th woman (and rubs it in the face of the childhood bully who taunted him into pursuing it), he begins to question the purpose of the remainder of his life, leaving him more certain of his feelings for Robin.",
"Ted, while carrying the yellow umbrella, bumps into Stella and Tony.",
"Tony later decides to visit him, sympathizing with Ted over his loss of Stella.",
"Tony offers him a job as a professor of architecture, which Ted initially turns down.",
"In the season finale Robin finds out that Barney loves her, and initially refuses to commit to anything but a sex-only relationship; they seemingly end up together anyway.",
"Ted decides that being an architect is leading nowhere, and finally decides instead to become a college professor.",
"The finale ends with Ted preparing to teach his first class and Future Ted revealing to his children that one of the women in the class is their mother."
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Synopsis | How long of a ban did Panahi have on film-making? | This Is Not a Film | false | 6MOVIES
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"Panahi is under house arrest, awaiting the result of his appeal of a six-year prison sentence and twenty-year ban on film-making, leaving the country or giving media interviews for \"propaganda against the regime\".",
"Bored and desperate that this verdict may mean his artistic death, he starts documenting his life.",
"He begins filming himself in his apartment, then calls his friend and collaborator, Mirtahmasb, who arrives at the apartment and takes over the camera.",
"Banned from film making and determined to save at least some of his artistic visions, Panahi reads some of the scenario from the movie he was planning to make.",
"Upon hearing fireworks marking the ancient Iranian festival Chaharshanbe Suri that precedes the Persian new year, Nouruz, and other suspicious noises resembling gunshots, he gets scared and quickly stops this project.",
"He turns on the TV to hear the news.",
"We see news about the tsunami in Japan and later it is announced that Iran's president has banned any fireworks and bonfires that used to mark Chaharshanbe Suri.",
"After Mr. Mirtahmasb's departure, Panahi takes his friend's camera and starts chatting with the boy who collects the litter in the apartment block since one of his relatives was not able to come that day, Panahi asks him questions about his life and plans for the future.",
"This conversation takes places in the claustrophobic scenery of a lift, as the boy goes down from floor to floor and ever so often gets out of the lift to do his job.",
"The movie ends with the boy putting the trash can out on the street, as revelers throw gasoline on a fire.",
"While Panahi watches and shoots video from the ramp leading down to his building's underground garage (as far, it seems, as he dare go), the boy jumps over the fire taking part in the celebration."
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Chart performance | "Moves Like Jagger" debuted at what position? | Moves like Jagger | true | 0MUSIC
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"On the issue dated July 9, 2011, \"Moves like Jagger\" debuted at number eight on the United States \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and topped the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, in the week ending September 10, 2011, as the greatest airplay gainer for the third consecutive week.",
"It spent 10 weeks in the top 3.",
"For Maroon 5, with prior top hits, this is the first time at the number-one position on the Hot 100 chart since their single \"Makes Me Wonder\" in 2007.",
"For Aguilera, this is her fifth number-one position, her first since \"Lady Marmalade\" in 2001.",
"Incidentally, Levine is the first artist to achieve both the number one position on the Hot 100 as a member of a band and reach the top 10 as a solo artist in the same week.",
"\"Moves like Jagger\" made Aguilera the fourth female artist, behind Madonna and Janet Jackson (1980s, 1990s, and 2000s) and Britney Spears (1990s, 2000s, and 2010s), to top the Hot 100 in three decades, as well as the eighth artist overall.",
"On the week of October 1, 2011, the song advanced to number one on the Hot 100 Airplay.",
"By March 2013, it has sold over 6 million digital copies in the United States.",
"As of January 2014, it has sold 6,347,000 copies in the US.",
"On August 1, 2011, \"Moves like Jagger\" reached number two on the Australian ARIA Charts, making it Aguilera's highest charting single since \"Candyman\" in 2007, and held the runner-up spot for ten straight weeks.",
"On the week of August 20, 2011, the song topped the Canadian Hot 100 chart, becoming the band's second number-one single and Aguilera's third number-one single, first in almost nine years (the last one was the 2002 hit \"Beautiful\").",
"\"Moves like Jagger\" made its debut on the UK Singles Chart at number three and sold 56,000 copies on the issue dated August 21, 2011, becoming Maroon 5's 4th top 10 hit and Aguilera's 15th top 10 hit in the UK.",
"Starting at the issue date September 10, it peaked at number two for seven consecutive weeks, equalling the all-time UK record held by All-4-One's \"I Swear\" for the longest stay at number two by a hit not to reach number one.",
"On October 5, 2011, the song reached number one in the mid-week chart update but failed to reach the number one spot the following Sunday due to the mid-week release of Rihanna's new single \"We Found Love\" which debuted at number one keeping \"Moves like Jagger\" away from the number one position.",
"Uniquely, in the first six of these weeks it was held off the top of the chart by six different number one singles consecutively, each of which debuted directly ahead of it; this after having already been held at number three behind two different pairs of new entries in its first two weeks on the chart.",
"As of week ending October 22, \"Moves like Jagger\" dropped two places to number 4, ending a seven-week run in the runner-up position.",
"After spending seven straight weeks at number two in the singles charts without ever managing to claim the number-one spot, it peaked at number two in the year end chart of 2011's best-selling singles as well.",
"It became the biggest-selling song not peak at number one in 2012.",
"As of June 2012, \"Moves like Jagger\" has sold 1,283,972 copies in the United Kingdom, in an uninterrupted 52 week run in the chart."
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Graphic arts | When were a large number of fake Salvador Dali paintings produced? | Salvador Dalí | false | 3ART
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"The artist worked extensively in the graphic arts, producing many etchings and lithographs.",
"While his early work in printmaking is equal in quality to his important paintings, as he grew older he would sell the rights to images but not be involved in the print production itself.",
"In addition, a large number of fakes were produced in the 1980s and 1990s, thus further confusing the Dalí print market."
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Independence and monarchy | When did Romania become a kingdom? | Romania | false | 5COUNTRY
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"During the period of the Austro-Hungarian rule in Transylvania and Ottoman suzerainty over Wallachia and Moldavia, most Romanians were considered second-class citizens or even non-citizens in a territory where they formed the majority of the population.",
"Following the Wallachian uprising of 1821, more insurrections followed in 1848 in Wallachia as well as Moldavia.",
"The flag adopted for Wallachia by the revolutionaries was a blue-yellow-red horizontal tricolour (with blue above, in line with the meaning \"Liberty, Justice, Fraternity\"), while Romanian students in Paris hailed the new government with the same flag \"as a symbol of union between Moldavians and Muntenians\".",
"The same flag, with the tricolour being mounted vertically, would later on be officially adopted as the national flag of Romania.",
"After the failed 1848 Revolution, the Great Powers did not support the Romanians' expressed desire to officially unite in a one single state, which forced them to proceed alone with their struggle against the Ottomans.",
"The electors in both Moldavia and Wallachia chose in 1859 the same leader –Alexandru Ioan Cuza– to be their Ruling Prince (\"Domnitor\" in Romanian).",
"Thus, Romania was created as a personal union, albeit without including Transylvania.",
"There, the upper class and the aristocracy chose to remain under Hungarian rule, even though the Romanians were by far the most numerous ethnic Transylvanian group and constituted the absolute majority.",
"In an 1866 \"coup d'état\", Cuza was exiled and replaced by Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who became known as Prince Carol I of Romania.",
"During the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War Romania fought on the Russian side, and as a result of it in the Treaty of San Stefano and the Treaty of Berlin, Romania was recognized as an independent state both by the Ottoman Empire and the Great Powers.",
"In return, Romania ceded the district of Bessarabia to Russia and acquired Dobruja.",
"In 1881, the principality was raised to a kingdom and Prince Carol became King Carol I of Romania.",
"The 1878–1914 period was one of stability and progress for Romania.",
"During the Second Balkan War, Romania joined Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Turkey against Bulgaria, and in the peace Treaty of Bucharest (1913) Romania gained Southern Dobruja."
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Chart performance | How many copies of the song sold in the United States as of May 2013? | Glad You Came | false | 0MUSIC
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"\"Glad You Came\" debuted at number one in Ireland, making it the band's first number-one single in the country.",
"The song was at number one for five weeks.",
"In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number one with first-week sales of over 117,000 copies, becoming the band's second number-one single in the UK.",
"As of May 2012, it is their biggest-selling single to date with 540,126 copies sold in the UK.",
"In Australia the song was certified Gold for shipping 35,000 copies.",
"In the United States, the song became their first to chart on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number three for four non-consecutive weeks after it was covered on the television series \"Glee\", and becoming the highest American chart entry by a British boy band, surpassing Take That who peaked at number seven with \"Back for Good\" in November 1995.",
"As of May 2013, the song has sold 3,600,000 copies in the United States.",
"The song was the best-selling song by a boy band in digital history before One Direction's \"What Makes You Beautiful\" overtook its sales in July 2012."
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Swarmer/in-fighter | What was Mike Tyson notoriously known for? | Boxing | false | 4SPORT
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"In-fighters/swarmers (sometimes called \"pressure fighters\") attempt to stay close to an opponent, throwing intense flurries and combinations of hooks and uppercuts.",
"A successful in-fighter often needs a good \"chin\" because swarming usually involves being hit with many jabs before they can maneuver inside where they are more effective.",
"In-fighters operate best at close range because they are generally shorter and have less reach than their opponents and thus are more effective at a short distance where the longer arms of their opponents make punching awkward.",
"However, several fighters tall for their division have been relatively adept at in-fighting as well as out-fighting.",
"The essence of a swarmer is non-stop aggression.",
"Many short in-fighters utilize their stature to their advantage, employing a bob-and-weave defense by bending at the waist to slip underneath or to the sides of incoming punches.",
"Unlike blocking, causing an opponent to miss a punch disrupts his balance, permits forward movement past the opponent's extended arm and keeps the hands free to counter.",
"A distinct advantage that in-fighters have is when throwing uppercuts where they can channel their entire bodyweight behind the punch; Mike Tyson was famous for throwing devastating uppercuts.",
"Marvin Hagler was known for his hard \"chin\", punching power, body attack and the stalking of his opponents.",
"Some in-fighters, like Mike Tyson, have been known for being notoriously hard to hit.",
"The key to a swarmer is aggression, endurance, chin, and bobbing-and-weaving.",
"Notable in-fighters include Julio César Chávez, Miguel Cotto, Joe Frazier, Danny García, Mike Tyson, Manny Pacquiao, Saúl Álvarez, Rocky Marciano, Jack Dempsey, Wayne McCullough, Harry Greb, David Tua and Ricky Hatton."
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Grand Duchy of Moscow | What allowed for less population loss in Russia during plagues compared to other nations? | Russia | false | 5COUNTRY
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"The most powerful successor state to Kievan Rus' was the Grand Duchy of Moscow (\"Moscovy\" in the Western chronicles), initially a part of Vladimir-Suzdal.",
"While still under the domain of the Mongol-Tatars and with their connivance, Moscow began to assert its influence in the Central Rus' in the early 14th century, gradually becoming the main leading force in the process of the Rus' lands' reunification and expansion of Russia.",
"Those were hard times, with frequent Mongol-Tatar raids and agriculture suffering from the beginning of the Little Ice Age.",
"As in the rest of Europe, plagues hit Russia somewhere once every five or six years from 1350 to 1490.",
"However, because of the lower population density and better hygiene (widespread practicing of banya, the wet steam bath), the population loss caused by plagues was not so severe as in the Western Europe, and the pre-Plague populations were reached in Russia as early as 1500.",
"Led by Prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow and helped by the Russian Orthodox Church, the united army of Russian principalities inflicted a milestone defeat on the Mongol-Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.",
"Moscow gradually absorbed the surrounding principalities, including the formerly strong rivals, such as Tver and Novgorod.",
"Ivan III (\"the Great\") finally threw off the control of the Golden Horde, consolidated the whole of Central and Northern Rus' under Moscow's dominion, and was the first to take the title \"Grand Duke of all the Russias\".",
"After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Moscow claimed succession to the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire.",
"Ivan III married Sophia Palaiologina, the niece of the last Byzantine emperor Constantine XI, and made the Byzantine double-headed eagle his own, and eventually Russian, coat-of-arms."
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Critical reception | Did Ken Tucker have a positve impression of the series? | The New Normal (TV series) | true | 1TV
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"\"The New Normal\" received a 60 out of 100 aggregate score, based on 32 critics' responses, indicating \"mixed or average\" reception at Metacritic.",
"Robert Bianco of \"USA Today\" called it a \"surprisingly touching comedy,\" adding \"For the most part, \"Normal\" plays like a lovely, small movie, mixing humorous moments with sweet, gentle grace notes.",
"At its best, it plays like a Woody Allen film, something you may notice most when secondary characters stop and explain themselves to the camera.\"",
"Linda Stasi of the \"New York Post\" thought the series was \"pretty darned good,\" adding \"\"The New Normal\" finds its game when it's funny without trying so hard and sweet when it should be.",
"At times \"Normal\" is so touching you might pull out a tissue, or maybe a diaper.\"",
"Ken Tucker of \"Entertainment Weekly\" gave the series a B grade, saying it contains \"a mixture of sarcasm and sentimentality that isn't remotely realistic, but can be funny.\"",
"David Hinckley of the \"New York Daily News\" called the series \"a bumpy ride,\" adding \"\"The New Normal\" wants what \"Modern Family\" is having.",
"But if we're going to catapult from \"South Park\" to a Hallmark movie, we need a smoother ride.",
"\"On August 24, 2012, representatives from KSL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah, announced the station, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, would not carry \"The New Normal\", citing content they believed to be inappropriate for broadcast during the family hour.",
"KUCW, the state's CW affiliate, picked up the series and aired it on Saturday nights.",
"The show has been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes and using a person born intersex as an object of derision."
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Major achievements | Who won World War II due, in part, to the contributions of breaking the Enigma code? | Computer science | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Despite its short history as a formal academic discipline, computer science has made a number of fundamental contributions to science and society - in fact, along with electronics, it is a founding science of the current epoch of human history called the Information Age and a driver of the Information Revolution, seen as the third major leap in human technological progress after the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850 CE) and the Agricultural Revolution (8000-5000 BCE).",
"These contributions include:",
" The start of the \"digital revolution\", which includes the current Information Age and the Internet.",
" A formal definition of computation and computability, and proof that there are computationally unsolvable and intractable problems.",
" The concept of a programming language, a tool for the precise expression of methodological information at various levels of abstraction.",
" In cryptography, breaking the Enigma code was an important factor contributing to the Allied victory in World War II.",
" Scientific computing enabled practical evaluation of processes and situations of great complexity, as well as experimentation entirely by software.",
"It also enabled advanced study of the mind, and mapping of the human genome became possible with the Human Genome Project.",
"Distributed computing projects such as Folding@home explore protein folding.",
" Algorithmic trading has increased the efficiency and liquidity of financial markets by using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other statistical and numerical techniques on a large scale.",
"High frequency algorithmic trading can also exacerbate volatility.",
" Computer graphics and computer-generated imagery have become ubiquitous in modern entertainment, particularly in television, cinema, advertising, animation and video games.",
"Even films that feature no explicit CGI are usually \"filmed\" now on digital cameras, or edited or postprocessed using a digital video editor.",
" Simulation of various processes, including computational fluid dynamics, physical, electrical, and electronic systems and circuits, as well as societies and social situations (notably war games) along with their habitats, among many others.",
"Modern computers enable optimization of such designs as complete aircraft.",
"Notable in electrical and electronic circuit design are SPICE, as well as software for physical realization of new (or modified) designs.",
"The latter includes essential design software for integrated circuits.",
" Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important as it gets more efficient and complex.",
"There are many applications of the AI, some of which can be seen at home, such as robotic vacuum cleaners.",
"It is also present in video games and on the modern battlefield in drones, anti-missile systems, and squad support robots."
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Science and technology | who provides world class education in science, medicine, and engineering | Mexico | false | 5COUNTRY
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"The National Autonomous University of Mexico was officially established in 1910, and the university become one of the most important institutes of higher learning in Mexico.",
"UNAM provides world class education in science, medicine, and engineering.",
"Many scientific institutes and new institutes of higher learning, such as National Polytechnic Institute (founded in 1936), were established during the first half of the 20th century.",
"Most of the new research institutes were created within UNAM.",
"Twelve institutes were integrated into UNAM from 1929 to 1973.",
"In 1959, the Mexican Academy of Sciences was created to coordinate scientific efforts between academics.",
"In 1995 the Mexican chemist Mario J. Molina shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.",
"Molina, an alumnus of UNAM, became the first Mexican citizen to win the Nobel Prize in science.",
"In recent years, the largest scientific project being developed in Mexico was the construction of the Large Millimeter Telescope (Gran Telescopio Milimétrico, GMT), the world's largest and most sensitive single-aperture telescope in its frequency range.",
"It was designed to observe regions of space obscured by stellar dust."
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Maritime industry | How many ships currently fly the Greek flag? | Greece | false | 5COUNTRY
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"The shipping industry is a key element of Greek economic activity dating back to ancient times.",
"Today, shipping is one of the country's most important industries.",
"It accounts for 4.5% of GDP, employs about 160,000 people (4% of the workforce), and represents 1/3 of the country's trade deficit.",
"During the 1960s, the size of the Greek fleet nearly doubled, primarily through the investment undertaken by the shipping magnates, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos.",
"The basis of the modern Greek maritime industry was formed after World War II when Greek shipping businessmen were able to amass surplus ships sold to them by the U.S. government through the Ship Sales Act of the 1940s.",
"According to a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development report in 2011, the Greek merchant navy is the largest in the world at 16.2% of the world's total capacity, up from 15.96% in 2010.",
"This is a drop from the equivalent number in 2006, which was 18.2%.",
"The total tonnage of the country's merchant fleet is 202 million dwt, ranked 1st in the world.",
"In terms of total number of ships, the Greek Merchant Navy stands at 4th worldwide, with 3,150 ships (741 of which are registered in Greece whereas the rest 2,409 in other ports).",
"In terms of ship categories, Greece ranks first in both tankers and dry bulk carriers, fourth in the number of containers, and fifth in other ships.",
"However, today's fleet roster is smaller than an all-time high of 5,000 ships in the late 1970s.",
"Additionally, the total number of ships flying a Greek flag (includes non-Greek fleets) is 1,517, or 5.3% of the world's dwt (ranked 5th)."
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Chart performance | What was the first week sales of The Motto? | The Motto | false | 0MUSIC
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"The song debuted at #18 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart with first-week sales of 124,000.",
"In its 22nd week, it ascended to #14.",
"On the week of February 18, 2012, \"The Motto\" reached No.",
"1 on the U.S. Rap Chart making it his 12th No.",
"1 on the chart and extending his lead as the artist with the most No.",
"1 hits since the chart began.",
"The song has sold 3,113,000 copies in the US as of April 2013."
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Alternative candidates | What is the degree of slope of the Capital Gate Tower | Leaning Tower of Pisa | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Two German churches have challenged the tower's status as the world's most lop-sided building: the 15th-century square Leaning Tower of Suurhusen and the 14th-century bell tower in the town of Bad Frankenhausen.",
"\"Guinness World Records\" measured the Pisa and Suurhusen towers, finding the former's tilt to be 3.97 degrees.",
"In June 2010, \"Guinness World Records\" certified the Capital Gate building in Abu Dhabi, UAE as the \"World's Furthest Leaning Man-made Tower\".",
"The Capital Gate tower has an 18-degree slope, almost five times more than the Pisa Tower; however the Capital Gate tower has been deliberately engineered to slant.",
"The Leaning Tower of Wanaka in New Zealand, also deliberately built, leans at 53 degrees to the ground."
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History | In what year did de Gondi buy the seigneury of Versailles? | Palace of Versailles | true | 2TRAVEL
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"The earliest mention of the name of Versailles is in a document dated 1038, relating to the village of Versailles.",
"In 1575, the seigneury of Versailles was bought by Albert de Gondi, a naturalized Florentine, who invited Louis XIII on several hunting trips in the forests surrounding Versailles.",
"Pleased with the location, Louis ordered the construction of a hunting lodge in 1624.",
"Eight years later, Louis obtained the seigneury of Versailles from the Gondi family and began to make enlargements to the château.",
"This structure would become the core of the new palace.",
"Louis XIII's successor, Louis XIV, had it expanded into one of the largest palaces in the world.",
"Following the Treaties of Nijmegen in 1678, he began to gradually move the court to Versailles.",
"The court was officially established there on 6 May 1682.",
"After the disgrace of Nicolas Fouquet in 1661, Louis confiscated Fouquet's estate and employed the talents of Le Vau, Le Nôtre, and Le Brun, who all had worked on Fouquet's grand château Vaux-le-Vicomte, for his building campaigns at Versailles and elsewhere.",
"For Versailles, there were four distinct building campaigns."
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Season 3 (2010) | Who does Gus order to take over the lab? | Breaking Bad | false | 1TV
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"Season 3 (2010).",
"On April 2, 2009, AMC announced that \"Breaking Bad\" was renewed for a third, 13-episode season.",
"It premiered on March 21, 2010, and concluded on June 13, 2010.",
"The complete third season was released on Region 1 DVD and Region A Blu-ray on June 7, 2011.",
"Walter wishes to reunite his family, but Skyler is still suspicious of Walter's second life.",
"Walter believes he can mend the tension between them by confessing to her that he has been producing meth.",
"Skyler is appalled by the confession and demands a formal divorce.",
"Meanwhile, Gus offers to pay Walter US$3M for three months of his service.",
"He even offers to provide Walter with a state-of-the-art production facility and a brilliant lab assistant, Gale (David Costabile).",
"Jesse is continuing to produce and sell meth by himself.",
"Hank is working with the DEA to investigate Jesse and is slowly gathering evidence to make an arrest.",
"Jesse threatens to report Walter to the police if he is arrested, but Walter offers him Gale's position at the lab.",
"After obtaining the position, Jesse begins stealing meth from the lab and selling it in secret on the side.",
"Jesse gets romantically involved with a woman he meets in his rehab group and learns her kid brother, age 11, was put up by Gus and his street dealers to kill Combo.",
"Jesse decides to avenge Combo.",
"Walter aids Jesse in escaping from Gus's wrath.",
"Gus begins to lose trust in Walter and asks Gale to take over the lab.",
"He orders his henchmen to kill Walter and Jesse.",
"After he is abducted by the henchmen, Walter instructs Jesse over the phone to kill Gale in order to force Gus not to kill Walter (and, by extension, Jesse) lest he eliminate his only remaining trained chemist."
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Product placement | When were the executives of VitaminWater approached for a placement deal? | 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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Abstract | What is the location of the Grand Terminal? | Grand Central Terminal | true | 2TRAVEL
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"Grand Central Terminal (GCT) is a commuter (and former intercity) railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.",
"Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest such facility in the world by number of platforms with 44 serving 67 tracks along them.",
"They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100.",
"The terminal covers an area of .",
"The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.",
"Until 1991 the terminal served Amtrak, which moved to nearby Pennsylvania Station upon completion of the Empire Connection.",
"Although the terminal has been properly called “Grand Central Terminal” since 1913, many people continue to refer to it wrongly as “Grand Central Station,” the name of the previous rail station on the same site, and of the U.S. Post Office station next door, which is not part of the terminal.",
"It is also sometimes used to refer to the Grand Central – 42nd Street subway station, which serves the terminal.",
"It has been described as \"the world's loveliest station\".",
"According to the travel magazine \"Travel + Leisure\" in its October 2011 survey, Grand Central Terminal is \"the world's number six most visited tourist attraction\", bringing in approximately 21,600,000 visitors annually.",
"The enduring appeal of the station is thought to be related to its monumental spaces and meticulously crafted detail."
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Credits and personnel | Charlie Bisharat played violin for what songs? | It Will Rain | false | 0MUSIC
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" Recording",
"Engineered at: Levcon Studios in Los Angeles, California; mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California.",
"Personnel",
"Songwriting – Ari Levine, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence ",
"Production – The Smeezingtons",
"Engineer – Ari Levine",
"Arrangement by (string arrangement)– Phredley Brown",
"Mixing – Manny Marroquin ",
" Mixed By (assisted by)– Chris Galland, Erik Madrid",
"Mastering – David Kutch ",
"Bass– Oscar Hidalgo",
"Conductor– Suzie Katayama",
"Viola– Andrew Duckles",
"Violin– Charlie Bisharat, Josefina Vergara"
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Shoes | Sliding shoes are worn by curlers during what activity? | Curling | true | 4SPORT
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"Curling shoes are similar to ordinary athletic shoes except that they have dissimilar soles; the \"slider shoe\" is designed for the off foot (or sliding foot) and the \"non-sliding shoe\" for the hack foot.",
"The \"slider shoe\" is designed to slide and typically has a Teflon sole.",
"It is worn by the thrower during delivery from the hack and by sweepers or the skip to glide down the ice when sweeping or otherwise traveling down the sheet quickly.",
"Stainless steel was once common for slider soles, and \"red brick\" sliders with lateral blocks of PVC on the sole are also available.",
"Most shoes have a full-sole sliding surface, but some shoes have a sliding surface covering only the outline of the shoe and other enhancements with the full-sole slider.",
"Some shoes have small disc sliders covering the front and heel portions or only the front portion of the foot, which allow more flexibility in the sliding foot for curlers playing with tuck deliveries.",
"When a player is not throwing, the player's slider shoe can be temporarily rendered non-slippery by using a slip-on gripper.",
"Ordinary athletic shoes may be converted to sliders by using a step-on or slip-on Teflon slider or by applying electrical or gaffer tape directly to the sole or over a piece of cardboard.",
"This arrangement often suits casual or beginning players.",
"The \"non-sliding shoe\", or \"hack foot shoe,\" is worn by the thrower on the hack foot during delivery and is designed to grip.",
"It may have a normal athletic shoe sole or a special layer of rubbery material applied to the sole of a thickness to match the sliding shoe.",
"The toe of the hack foot shoe may also have a rubberised coating on the top surface or a flap that hangs over the toe to reduce wear on the top of the shoe as it drags on the ice behind the thrower."
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Chop | What is the objective of the defensive chop? | Table tennis | false | 4SPORT
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"A chop is the defensive, backspin counterpart to the offensive loop drive.",
"A chop is essentially a bigger, heavier push, taken well back from the table.",
"The racket face points primarily horizontally, perhaps a little bit upward, and the direction of the stroke is straight down.",
"The object of a defensive chop is to match the topspin of the opponent's shot with backspin.",
"A good chop will float nearly horizontally back to the table, in some cases having so much backspin that the ball actually \"rises\".",
"Such a chop can be \"extremely\" difficult to return due to its enormous amount of backspin.",
"Some defensive players can also impart no-spin or sidespin variations of the chop."
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Reception and expurgation | Were objectionable opinions about Michelangelo's "The Last Judgement" ever expressed? | The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) | true | 3ART
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"\"The Last Judgment\" was an object of a heavy dispute between critics within the Catholic Counter-Reformation and those who appreciated the genius of the artist and the Mannerist style of the painting.",
"Michelangelo was accused of being insensitive to proper decorum, and of flaunting personal style over appropriate depictions of content.",
"A few years after the fresco was completed, the decrees of the Council of Trent urged a tightening-up of church control of \"unusual\" sacred images.",
"In response to certain accusers, when the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said of the painting \"it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully,\" and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather \"for the public baths and taverns,\" Michelangelo worked Cesena's face into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld (far bottom-right corner of the painting) with Donkey ears (i.e.",
"indicating foolishness), while his nudity is covered by a coiled snake.",
"It is said that when Cesena complained to the Pope, the pontiff joked that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait would have to remain.",
"The genitalia in the fresco, referred to as 'objectionable,' were painted over with drapery after Michelangelo died in 1564 by the Mannerist artist Daniele da Volterra, when the Council of Trent condemned nudity in religious art.",
"The Council's decree in part reads: "
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Modern dissenting hypotheses | When did the Pharaoh Khufu live? | Great Sphinx of Giza | false | 3ART
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"Rainer Stadelmann, former director of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, examined the distinct iconography of the \"nemes\" (headdress) and the now-detached beard of the Sphinx and concluded that the style is more indicative of the Pharaoh Khufu (2589–2566 BC), builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza and Khafra's father.",
"He supports this by suggesting that Khafra's Causeway was built to conform to a pre-existing structure, which, he concludes, given its location, could only have been the Sphinx.",
"Colin Reader, an English geologist who independently conducted a more recent survey of the enclosure, agrees that the various quarries on the site have been excavated around the Causeway.",
"Because these quarries are known to have been used by Khufu, Reader concludes that the Causeway (and the temples on either end thereof) must predate Khufu, thereby casting doubt on the conventional Egyptian chronology.",
"In 2004, Vassil Dobrev of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo announced that he had uncovered new evidence that the Great Sphinx may have been the work of the little-known Pharaoh Djedefre (2528–2520 BC), Khafra's half brother and a son of Khufu.",
"Dobrev suggests that Djedefre built the Sphinx in the image of his father Khufu, identifying him with the sun god Ra in order to restore respect for their dynasty.",
"Dobrev also notes, like Stadelmann and others, that the causeway connecting Khafre's pyramid to the temples was built around the Sphinx suggesting it was already in existence at the time."
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Abstract | How many different package styles do the noodles come in? | Udon | true | 9FOOD
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"Udon is often served hot as a noodle soup in its simplest form, as \"kake udon\", in a mildly flavoured broth called \"kakejiru,\" which is made of dashi, soy sauce (shōyu), and mirin.",
"It is usually topped with thinly chopped scallions.",
"Other common toppings include tempura, often prawn or \"kakiage\" (a type of mixed tempura fritter), or \"aburaage\", a type of deep-fried tofu pockets seasoned with sugar, mirin, and soy sauce.",
"A thin slice of kamaboko, a halfmoon-shaped fish cake, is often added.",
"Shichimi can be added to taste.",
"The flavor of broth and topping vary from region to region.",
"Usually, dark brown broth, made from dark soy sauce (\"koikuchi shōyu\"), is used in eastern Japan, and light brown broth, made from light soy sauce (\"usukuchi shōyu\"), is used in western Japan.",
"This is even noticeable in packaged instant noodles, which are often sold in two different versions for east and west."
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Instant ramen | WHat is the definition of Ramen? | Ramen | true | 9FOOD
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"Instant ramen noodles were exported from Japan by Nissin Foods starting in 1971, bearing the name \"Oodles of Noodles\".",
"One year later, it was re-branded \"Nissin Cup Noodles,\" packaged in a foam food container, and subsequently saw a growth in international sales.",
"Over time, the term \"ramen\" became used in North America to refer to other instant noodles, even those not technically ramen."
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History | Who invented ski jumping? | Ski jumping | false | 4SPORT
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"Ski jumping as a sport originated in Norway.",
"Norwegian lieutenant Olaf Rye was the first known ski jumper.",
"In 1809, he launched himself 9.5 meters in the air as a show of courage to his fellow soldiers.",
"By 1862, ski jumpers were facing much larger jumps and traveling longer.",
"The very first recorded public competition was held at Trysil, Norway, on 22 January 1862.",
"At this first competition, judges already awarded points for style (\"elegance and smoothness\"), participants had to complete three jumps without falling and rules were agreed upon in advance.",
"It is clear from the news report published in Morgenbladet that the ski jumping in Trysild was entertainment, but also a national, competitive sports event.",
"The first known female ski jumper participated at the Trysil competition in 1863.",
"Norway's Sondre Norheim jumped 30 meters without the benefit of poles.",
"In 1866, the first skiing event held in Christiania near Old Aker Church was a combined cross country, slalom and jumping competition, and attracted an audience of some 2,000 people.",
"Sondre Norheim won his first competition in Christiania in 1868.",
"The first widely known ski jumping competition was the Husebyrennene, held in Oslo in 1879, with Olaf Haugann of Norway setting the first world record for the longest ski jump at 20 meters.",
"Explorer Fridtjof Nansen was a skilled skier and was number 7 in the 1881 competition at Huseby.",
"Until 1884–1886 jumping and cross-country was a single integrated competition: In 1886 at Huseby cross-country and jumping were held on separate days, and final results were calculated from the combined achievements (similar to present nordic combined).",
"The annual event was moved to Holmenkollen from 1892, and Holmenkollen has remained the pinnacle of ski jumping venues.",
"To distinguish ski jumping competition only from Nordic combined, it is still referred to as \"spesielt hopprenn\" in Norwegian (ski jumping only).",
"According to the International Olympic Committee's site:Ski jumping has been part of the Olympic Winter Games since the first Games in Chamonix Mont-Blanc in 1924.",
"The Large Hill competition was included on the Olympic programme for the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck.",
"In 1929, Norwegian instructors arrived in Sapporo to train the Japanese in ski jumping."
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Personal life | On what day did Lights become engaged? | Lights (musician) | true | 0MUSIC
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"While at a Taking Back Sunday concert, Beau Bokan, the lead vocalist of metalcore band Blessthefall, asked a mutual friend of Lights if they would introduce the two.",
"The couple started dating soon after.",
"On August 30, 2011, Lights became engaged to Bokan.",
"As his proposal, Bokan made fortune cookies for Lights, with one containing the fortune of \"Will You Marry Me?\"",
"They were married on May 12, 2012.",
"On November 4, 2013, the couple announced that Lights was pregnant with their first child via Twitter and Facebook.",
"Lights and her sister were pregnant at the same time.",
"On February 15, 2014, Lights gave birth to their daughter, Rocket Wild Bokan."
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United Kingdom and Ireland | What name did the burger restaurant Wimpy's change to in 1989-1990? | Hamburger | true | 9FOOD
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"Hamburgers in the UK and Ireland are very similar to their US cousins, and the High Street is dominated by the same big two chains as in the U.S. — McDonald's and Burger King.",
"The menus offered to both countries are virtually identical, although portion sizes tend to be smaller in the UK.",
"In Ireland the food outlet Supermacs is widespread throughout the country serving burgers as part of its menu.",
"In Ireland, Abrakebabra (started out selling kebabs) and Eddie Rocket's are also major chains.",
"An original and indigenous rival to the big two U.S. giants was the quintessentially British fast-food chain Wimpy, originally known as Wimpy Bar (opened 1954 at the Lyon’s Corner House in Coventry Street London), which served its hamburgers on a plate with British-style chips, accompanied by cutlery and delivered to the customer's table.",
"In the late 1970s, to compete with McDonald's, Wimpy began to open American-style counter-service restaurants and the brand disappeared from many UK high streets when those restaurants were re-branded as Burger Kings between 1989–90 by the then-owner of both brands, Grand Metropolitan.",
"A management buyout in 1990 split the brands again and now Wimpy table-service restaurants can still be found in many town centers whilst new counter-service Wimpys are now often found at motorway service stations.",
"Hamburgers are also available from mobile kiosks, particularly at outdoor events such as football matches.",
"Burgers from this type of outlet are usually served without any form of salad — only fried onions and a choice of tomato ketchup, mustard or brown sauce.",
"Chip shops, particularly in the West Midlands, North-East, Scotland and Ireland, serve battered hamburgers called batter burgers.",
"This is where the burger patty, by itself, is deep-fat-fried in batter and is usually served with chips.",
"Hamburgers and veggie burgers served with chips and salad, are standard pub grub menu items.",
"Many pubs specialize in \"gourmet\" burgers.",
"These are usually high quality minced steak patties, topped with items such as blue cheese, brie, avocado et cetera.",
"Some British pubs serve burger patties made from more exotic meats including venison burgers (sometimes nicknamed Bambi Burgers), bison burgers, ostrich burgers and in some Australian themed pubs even kangaroo burgers can be purchased.",
"These burgers are served in a similar way to the traditional hamburger but are sometimes served with a different sauce including redcurrant sauce, mint sauce and plum sauce.",
"In the early 21st century \"premium\" hamburger chain and independent restaurants have arisen, selling burgers produced from meat stated to be of high quality and often organic, usually served to eat on the premises rather than to take away.",
"Chains include Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Ultimate Burger, Hamburger Union and Byron Hamburgers in London.",
"Independent restaurants such as Meatmarket and Dirty Burger developed a style of rich, juicy burger in 2012 which is known as a \"dirty burger\" or \"third-wave burger\".",
"In recent years Rustlers has sold pre-cooked hamburgers re-heat able in a microwave oven in the United Kingdom.",
"In the UK, as in North America and Japan, the term \"burger\" can refer simply to the patty, be it beef, some other kind of meat, or vegetarian."
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Ball Colors | What do you call the red balls? | Racquetball | true | 4SPORT
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"Racquetballs are manufactured in a variety of colors such as blue, green, purple, black, red, and pink, and some are for specific purposes (e.g., outdoor play and indoor play), but the differences are unlikely to make much difference for recreational play.",
"Beginners are recommended to use a blue ball by Penn, Ektelon, or Wilson.",
"The blue ball is the most commonly used and it is the most neutral ball for average speed and accuracy of contact.",
"Green balls are similar to blue balls.",
"In the USA the main choices of ball are blue and green for tournament play.",
"In some cases the International Pro Racquetball Tour (IRT) will use a purple Penn HD ball as the official ball.",
"A black ball is often used in tournaments for senior players because the ball is designed to be slower moving and allows for longer rallies.",
"The red ball is the fastest in production and they are known as Red Ektelon Fireballs.",
"This ball is heavier and allows for a quicker pace.",
"The pink ball tends to be the favorite of most recreational players and even some pro level players.",
"This pink ball allows for the highest level of visibility due to the bright pink color.",
"Also, the speed and durability of the ball is very close to that of the blue and green.",
"Finally, the pink ball was created to support breast cancer research and the manufacturers of the ball Wilson, donate $1.00 to the breast cancer awareness association every time a package is sold.",
"Balls do break occasionally, and will lose their bounce over time even without breaking.",
"To keep balls around for a long time it is best to keep them in a room temperature setting and keep them out of extreme cold or heat because this will cause the balls to become less effective and lose their bounce."
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Islamic heritage sites | What number of buildings are still in mecca that were also there in the time of Muhammad? | Saudi Arabia | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Saudi Arabia, and specifically the Hejaz, as the cradle of Islam, has many of the most significant historic Muslim sites, including the two holiest sites of Mecca and Medina.",
"One of the King's titles is Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the two mosques being Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, which contains Islam's most sacred place, the Kaaba, and Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina which contains Muhammad's tomb.",
"However, Saudi Wahhabism is hostile to any reverence given to historical or religious places of significance for fear that it may give rise to 'shirk' (that is, idolatry).",
"As a consequence, under Saudi rule, the Hejaz cities have suffered from considerable destruction of their physical heritage and, for example, it has been estimated that about 95% of Mecca's historic buildings, most over a thousand years old, have been demolished.",
"These include the mosque originally built by Muhammad's daughter Fatima, and other mosques founded by Abu Bakr (Muhammad's father-in-law and the first Caliph), Umar (the second Caliph), Ali (Muhammad's son-in-law and the fourth Caliph), and Salman al-Farsi (another of Muhammad's companions).",
"Other historic buildings that have been destroyed include the house of Khadijah, the wife of the Prophet, the house of Abu Bakr, now the site of the local Hilton hotel; the house of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of the Prophet, and the Mosque of abu-Qubais, now the location of the King's palace in Mecca.",
"Critics have described this as \"Saudi vandalism\" and claim that over the last 50 years, 300 historic sites linked to Muhammad, his family or companions have been lost.",
"It has been reported that there now are fewer than 20 structures remaining in Mecca that date back to the time of Muhammad."
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Etymology | Where doe the Italian word "coffee" come from? | Coffee | true | 9FOOD
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"The first reference to coffee in the English language is in the form \"chaoua\", dated to 1598.",
"In English and other European languages, \"coffee\" descends from the Italian word \"caffè\".",
"In turn, \"caffè\" derives from \"kahve\", the Ottoman Turkish word for coffee, which is itself derived from the , \"qahwah\".",
"Arab lexicographers maintain that \"qahwah\" originally referred to a type of wine, and gave its etymology, in turn, to the verb \"qahā\", signifying \"to have no appetite\", since this beverage was thought to dull one's hunger.",
"Other proposed etymologies include tracing coffee to the word \"quwwa,\" Arabic for power, or to the region of Kaffa in Ethiopia.",
"For the latter etymology, some hold Arabs named it after the Kaffa region, but others with \"equally little authority\" say the region was named after the drink."
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Music video | Who worked on the "Every Breath You Take" video and won the MTV cinemetography award for his work? | Every Breath You Take | true | 0MUSIC
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"The song had a music video (directed by duo Godley & Creme) that was praised for its black-and-white cinematography.",
"Both MTV (1999) and VH1 (2002) named it as one of the best music videos ever, placing it 16th and 33rd in their respective top 100 lists.",
"Daniel Pearl won the first MTV cinematography award for his work on the video."
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Religion | In what year did the Iranian revolution take place? | Iran | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Religion in Iran is dominated by the Twelver Shia branch of Islam, which is the official state religion and to which about 90% to 95% of Iranians belong.",
"About 4% to 8% of Iranians belong to the Sunni branch of Islam, mainly Kurds and Iran's Balochi Sunni.",
"The remaining 2% are non-Muslim religious minorities, including Bahá'ís, Mandeans, Hindus, Yezidis, Yarsanis, Zoroastrians, Jews, and Christians.",
"The latter three minority religions are officially recognized and protected, and have reserved seats in the Parliament (\"Majlis\") .",
"However the Bahá'í Faith, Iran's largest religious minority, is not officially recognized, and has been persecuted during its existence in Iran since the 19th century.",
"Since the 1979 revolution the persecution of Bahá'ís has increased with executions, the denial of civil rights and liberties, and the denial of access to higher education and employment.",
"The government has not released statistics regarding the irreligious."
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Box office | When did the film make $200 million? | Despicable Me | true | 6MOVIES
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"Released on July 9, 2010, in the United States, \"Despicable Me\" opened at the number one spot at the box office and pulled in $56.3 million, making it the third biggest opening grossing for an animated film in 2010 behind \"Toy Story 3\" and \"Shrek Forever After\".",
"In its second weekend, the film dipped 42% to second place behind \"Inception\" with $32.8 million earned.",
"The film then had another drop of 27% in its third weekend and finished in third place with $23.8 million.",
"On August 5, 2010, the film crossed the $200 million mark, becoming the first Universal film to reach the milestone since 2007's \"The Bourne Ultimatum\".",
"On the weekend lasting from September 3–5, 2010, it surpassed \"Shrek Forever After\" to become the second highest-grossing animated film of 2010 in the United States and Canada, behind \"Toy Story 3\".",
"It was also the highest-grossing non-DreamWorks/non-Disney·Pixar animated film of all time in these territories, since overtaken by its sequel.",
"The film has made $251,513,985 in the United States and Canada as well as an estimated $291,600,000 internationally for a worldwide total of $543,010,705, against its $69 million budget.",
"This film is also Universal's sixth highest-grossing film (unadjusted for inflation) and the tenth-highest-grossing animated feature of all-time in North America.",
"In worldwide earnings, it is the sixth biggest film of Universal Studios, the fourth highest-grossing animated film of 2010 trailing \"Toy Story 3\", \"Shrek Forever After\", and \"Tangled\", the 25th highest-grossing animated film of all time and the 9th highest-grossing film of 2010."
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Aftermath | When the did US declare war on Japan relative to Great Britain? | Attack on Pearl Harbor | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"In the wake of the attack, 15 Medals of Honor, 51 Navy Crosses, 53 Silver Stars, four Navy and Marine Corps Medals, one Distinguished Flying Cross, four Distinguished Service Crosses, one Distinguished Service Medal, and three Bronze Star Medals were awarded to the American servicemen who distinguished themselves in combat at Pearl Harbor.",
"Additionally, a special military award, the Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal, was later authorized for all military veterans of the attack.",
"The day after the attack, Roosevelt delivered his famous Infamy Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, calling for a formal declaration of war on the Empire of Japan.",
"Congress obliged his request less than an hour later.",
"On December 11 Germany and Italy, honoring their commitments under the Tripartite Pact, declared war on the United States.",
"The Tripartite Pact was an earlier agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan which had the principal objective of limiting U.S. intervention in any conflicts involving the three nations.",
"The United States Congress issued a declaration of war against Germany and Italy later that same day.",
"Britain actually declared war on Japan nine hours before the US did, partially due to Japanese attacks on Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong, and partially due to Winston Churchill's promise to declare war \"within the hour\" of a Japanese attack on the United States.",
"The attack was an initial shock to all the Allies in the Pacific Theater.",
"Further losses compounded the alarming setback.",
"Japan attacked the Philippines hours later (because of the time difference, it was December 8 in the Philippines).",
"Only three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the \"Prince of Wales\" and \"Repulse\" were sunk off the coast of Malaya, causing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later to recollect \"In all the war I never received a more direct shock.",
"As I turned and twisted in bed the full horror of the news sank in upon me.",
"There were no British or American capital ships in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific except the American survivors of Pearl Harbor who were hastening back to California.",
"Over this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme and we everywhere were weak and naked\".",
"Throughout the war, Pearl Harbor was frequently used in American propaganda.",
"One further consequence of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath (notably the Niihau Incident) was that Japanese American residents and citizens were relocated to nearby Japanese-American internment camps.",
"Within hours of the attack, hundreds of Japanese American leaders were rounded up and brought to high-security camps such as Sand Island at the mouth of Honolulu harbor and Kilauea Military Camp on the island of Hawaii.",
"Later, over 110,000 Japanese Americans, including United States citizens, were removed from their homes and transferred to internment camps in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas.",
"The attacks also had international consequences.",
"The Canadian province of British Columbia, being situated on the Pacific coast, had long had a large population of Japanese immigrants.",
"Pre-war tensions were exacerbated by the Pearl Harbor attack, leading to a reaction from the Government of Canada.",
"On February 24, 1942, Order-in-Council P.C.",
"no.",
"1486 was passed under the War Measures Act allowing for the forced removal of any and all Canadians of Japanese descent from British Columbia, as well as the prohibiting from them returning to the province.",
"The Japanese were given a choice: either be moved into internment camps or be deported back to Japan."
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Plot | What are the genders of Jesse and Celine's kids? | Before Midnight (film) | true | 6MOVIES
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"Nine years after the conclusion of \"Before Sunset\", Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy) are a couple and parents to twin girls conceived when they got together for the second time.",
"Jesse is also struggling to maintain his relationship with his teenage son, Hank (Davey-Fitzpatrick), who lives in Chicago with Jesse's ex-wife and who, after spending the summer with Jesse and Céline on the Greek Peloponnese peninsula, is being dropped off at the airport to fly home.",
"Jesse has continued to find success as a novelist, while Céline is at a career crossroads, considering a job with the French government.",
"After dropping off Hank at the airport, the couple discuss their worries about Hank having a healthy childhood and Céline deciding what to do with her career, before returning to the house of their Greek friend, Patrick (Lassally).",
"Over dinner they discuss ideas about love and life, and the other people staying with them buy Jesse and Céline a hotel room for that night so they can have some time alone.",
"While walking to the hotel, the couple reminisce about how they met and how their lives have changed since then.",
"When they arrive at the hotel, however, the two have a vicious argument, as both of them pour out their fears about a present and future together.Céline eventually storms out of the hotel room, telling Jesse she doesn't think she loves him anymore before sitting in the hotel's outdoor restaurant alone.",
"Jesse joins her and playfully tries to explain to her how things can be different from tonight.",
"Céline initially finds his attempts childish, saying that their fantasies will never match the imperfect reality their relationship constantly goes through.",
"Jesse then proclaims his love to her, saying that he loves her unconditionally and is not sure what else she could want from a relationship.",
"Céline suddenly resumes Jesse's joke and the two seem to reconcile."
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History | On what date did the final episode air? | Rules of Engagement (TV series) | true | 1TV
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"The show was heavily promoted by CBS during Super Bowl XLI and launched the following night, the first of seven episodes in its first season.",
"The pilot episode remains the highest rated episode of the show.",
"The series was renewed for a second season which began as a midseason replacement for \"The New Adventures of Old Christine\" on Monday, September 24, 2007, with production halted after nine episodes on November 6, 2007, in the wake of a writers' strike.",
"After the strike ended, CBS announced that the show would return April 14, 2008, with a further six episodes.",
"Seasons three and four were both mid-season entries launched in March 2009 and March 2010.",
"On May 18, 2010, it was announced that CBS had renewed \"Rules of Engagement\" for a 5th season.",
"It was later announced that this season would start in September, in contrast to its usual midseason start, and received an expanded 24-episode order.",
"(The fifth season was the first and only season to have a full-season order.)",
"The first 15 episodes aired on Monday nights, usually in the 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central time slot following \"How I Met Your Mother\".",
"Then on February 24, 2011, the series moved to Thursdays at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central, following \"The Big Bang Theory\", after the cancellation of \"$h*!",
"My Dad Says\".",
"On May 17, 2011, the series was renewed for a sixth season to begin airing in fall 2011.",
"One day later, CBS announced that \"Rules of Engagement\" would move to Saturday nights at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central as part of the network's new \"Comedytime Saturday\" block; the first time in six years that an original CBS program would air on that night.",
"It also marked the fourth night that the series would air on, with it previously airing on Mondays, Wednesdays (two airings), and Thursdays.",
"On October 7, 2011, however, it was announced that \"Rules of Engagement\" would move back to its 8:30PM EST Thursday timeslot following \"The Big Bang Theory\", replacing new sitcom \"How to Be a Gentleman\" which was moved to the new Saturday time slot.",
"Effective January 12, 2012, CBS removed \"Rules of Engagement\" from its Thursday lineup, replacing it with the new sitcom \"Rob\" starring Rob Schneider.",
"\"Rules\" would return to its Thursday 8:30 PM time slot on March 29, after \"Rob\" had finished airing its 8-episode order, resulting in a total of 15 episodes in season 6.",
"On May 21, 2012, CBS renewed \"Rules of Engagement\" for a seventh season of 13 episodes to air mid-season, bringing the total number of produced episodes to 100.",
"Season 7 began airing on Mondays at 8:30, starting February 4, 2013.",
"On May 10, 2013, \"Rules of Engagement\" was cancelled by CBS after seven seasons and 100 episodes.",
"The series finale episode aired on May 20, 2013."
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Bonding | What does it mean when atoms are sticking to each other? | Chemistry | true | 8SCIENCE
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"Atoms sticking together in molecules or crystals are said to be bonded with one another.",
"A chemical bond may be visualized as the multipole balance between the positive charges in the nuclei and the negative charges oscillating about them.",
"More than simple attraction and repulsion, the energies and distributions characterize the availability of an electron to bond to another atom.",
"A chemical bond can be a covalent bond, an ionic bond, a hydrogen bond or just because of Van der Waals force.",
"Each of these kinds of bonds is ascribed to some potential.",
"These potentials create the interactions which hold atoms together in molecules or crystals.",
"In many simple compounds, Valence Bond Theory, the Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion model (VSEPR), and the concept of oxidation number can be used to explain molecular structure and composition.",
"An ionic bond is formed when a metal loses one or more of its electrons, becoming a positively charged cation, and the electrons are then gained by the non-metal atom, becoming a negatively charged anion.",
"The two oppositely charged ions attract one another, and the ionic bond is the electrostatic force of attraction between them.",
"For example, sodium (Na), a metal, loses one electron to become an Na+ cation while chlorine (Cl), a non-metal, gains this electron to become Cl-.",
"The ions are held together due to electrostatic attraction, and that compound sodium chloride (NaCl), or common table salt, is formed.",
"In a covalent bond, one or more pairs of valence electrons are shared by two atoms: the resulting electrically neutral group of bonded atoms is termed a molecule.",
"Atoms will share valence electrons in such a way as to create a noble gas electron configuration (eight electrons in their outermost shell) for each atom.",
"Atoms that tend to combine in such a way that they each have eight electrons in their valence shell are said to follow the octet rule.",
"However, some elements like hydrogen and lithium need only two electrons in their outermost shell to attain this stable configuration; these atoms are said to follow the \"duet rule\", and in this way they are reaching the electron configuration of the noble gas helium, which has two electrons in its outer shell.",
"Similarly, theories from classical physics can be used to predict many ionic structures.",
"With more complicated compounds, such as metal complexes, valence bond theory is less applicable and alternative approaches, such as the molecular orbital theory, are generally used.",
"See diagram on electronic orbitals."
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Reception | Where did Wood enter American Gothic in a competition? | American Gothic | false | 3ART
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"Wood entered the painting in a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago.",
"The judges deemed it a \"comic valentine\", but a museum patron persuaded them to award the painting the bronze medal and $300 cash prize.",
"The patron also persuaded the Art Institute to buy the painting, which remains there today.",
"The image soon began to be reproduced in newspapers, first by the \"Chicago Evening Post\" and then in New York, Boston, Kansas City, and Indianapolis.",
"However, Wood received a backlash when the image finally appeared in the \"Cedar Rapids Gazette\".",
"Iowans were furious at their depiction as \"pinched, grim-faced, puritanical Bible-thumpers\".",
"Wood protested that he had not painted a caricature of Iowans but a depiction of his appreciation, stating \"I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.\"",
"Nan, apparently embarrassed at being depicted as the wife of someone twice her age, began telling people that the painting was of a man and his daughter, which Grant seems to confirm in his letter to a Mrs. Nellie Sudduth in 1941.",
"Art critics who had favorable opinions about the painting, such as Gertrude Stein and Christopher Morley, also assumed the painting was meant to be a satire of rural small-town life.",
"It was thus seen as part of the trend toward increasingly critical depictions of rural America, along the lines of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 \"Winesburg, Ohio\", Sinclair Lewis's 1920 \"Main Street\", and Carl Van Vechten's 1924 \"The Tattooed Countess\" in literature.",
"Yet another interpretation sees it as an \"old-fashioned mourning portrait... Tellingly, the curtains hanging in the windows of the house, both upstairs and down, are pulled closed in the middle of the day, a mourning custom in Victorian America.",
"The woman wears a black dress beneath her apron, and glances away as if holding back tears.",
"One imagines she is grieving for the man beside her...\" Wood had been only 10 when his father had died and later had lived for a decade \"above a garage reserved for hearses\", so death was on his mind.",
"However, with the onset of the Great Depression, the painting came to be seen as a depiction of steadfast American pioneer spirit.",
"Wood assisted this transition by renouncing his Bohemian youth in Paris and grouping himself with populist Midwestern painters, such as John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, who revolted against the dominance of East Coast art circles.",
"Wood was quoted in this period as stating, \"All the good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.\""
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Etymology | When did the term "vegetable" become synonymous with plants grown for food? | 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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Early history and cancellation | How many people watched the "Family Guy" premier? | Family Guy | true | 1TV
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"\"Family Guy\" officially premiered after Fox's broadcast of Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999, with \"Death Has a Shadow\".",
"The show debuted to 22 million viewers, and immediately generated controversy regarding its adult content.",
"The show returned on April 11, 1999, with \"I Never Met the Dead Man\".",
"\"Family Guy\" garnered decent ratings in Fox's 8:30 pm slot on Sunday, scheduled between \"The Simpsons\" and \"The X-Files\".",
"At the end of its first season, the show was No.",
"33 in the Nielsen ratings, with 12.8 million households tuning in.",
"The show launched its second season in a new time slot, Thursday at 9 pm, on September 23, 1999.",
"\"Family Guy\" was pitted against NBC's \"Frasier\", and the series' ratings declined sharply.",
"Fox removed \"Family Guy\" from the network's permanent schedule, and began airing episodes irregularly.",
"The show returned on March 7, 2000, at 8:30 pm on Tuesdays, but was constantly beaten in the ratings by the new breakout hit \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\", coming in at No.",
"114 in the Nielsen Ratings with 6.320 million households tuning in.",
"Fox announced that the show had been canceled in 2000, at the end of the second season.",
"However, following a last-minute reprieve, Fox announced on July 24, 2000, its intention to order 13 additional episodes of \"Family Guy\" to form a third season.",
"The show returned November 8, 2001, once again in a tough time slot: Thursday nights at 8:00 pm ET.",
"This slot brought it into competition with \"Survivor\" and \"Friends\".",
"(This situation was later referenced in \"\").",
"During its second- and third-season runs, Fox frequently moved the show around to different days and time slots with little or no notice and, consequently, the show's ratings suffered.",
"Upon Fox's annual unveiling of its 2002 fall line-up on May 15, 2002, \"Family Guy\" was absent.",
"Fox announced that the show had been officially canceled shortly thereafter."
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Europe and Oceania | At what number did "We Are Never Getting Back Together" arrive on the charts in Spain? | We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | false | 0MUSIC
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"\"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\" gave Swift's second top ten hit in the United Kingdom after it debuted at number five, and eventually ascended to number four.",
"As of January 2013, the single has sold 465,000 copies in the UK.",
"It charted in United Kingdom for twenty-nine weeks; ten weeks of it is within the top ten.",
"The single is certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for downloads exceeding 400,000 copies and ranked as the twenty-sixth best selling single of 2012.",
"In Ireland, the song jumped at number four on its second week after debuting at number eleven, became Swift's second top ten hit after her 2009 hit \"Love Story.\"",
"\"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\" also Swift's second top ten hit in Norway after it reached number seven in its third week.",
"It also appeared in Netherlands at number sixteen, in Spain at number nine.",
"\"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\" became Swift's sixth top ten hit in Australia after it vaulted from number thirteen to number three in its second week.",
"It stayed at the top ten for seven weeks and charted for a total of twenty-four weeks.",
"The single is certified quintuple platinum by Australian Recording Industry Association for the shipment of over 350,000 copies, her highest certified song in the region.",
"In New Zealand, it debuted at number two, the highest debut of the week, and on its second week it rose to the number-one spot, making it Swift's first single to top the chart.",
"It stayed at the top ten for nine weeks, charted for a total of nineteen weeks and placed at number nineteen in New Zealand's 2012 year-end chart."
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Swarmer/in-fighter | How can a person descripe a swarmer's essence? | Boxing | true | 4SPORT
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"In-fighters/swarmers (sometimes called \"pressure fighters\") attempt to stay close to an opponent, throwing intense flurries and combinations of hooks and uppercuts.",
"A successful in-fighter often needs a good \"chin\" because swarming usually involves being hit with many jabs before they can maneuver inside where they are more effective.",
"In-fighters operate best at close range because they are generally shorter and have less reach than their opponents and thus are more effective at a short distance where the longer arms of their opponents make punching awkward.",
"However, several fighters tall for their division have been relatively adept at in-fighting as well as out-fighting.",
"The essence of a swarmer is non-stop aggression.",
"Many short in-fighters utilize their stature to their advantage, employing a bob-and-weave defense by bending at the waist to slip underneath or to the sides of incoming punches.",
"Unlike blocking, causing an opponent to miss a punch disrupts his balance, permits forward movement past the opponent's extended arm and keeps the hands free to counter.",
"A distinct advantage that in-fighters have is when throwing uppercuts where they can channel their entire bodyweight behind the punch; Mike Tyson was famous for throwing devastating uppercuts.",
"Marvin Hagler was known for his hard \"chin\", punching power, body attack and the stalking of his opponents.",
"Some in-fighters, like Mike Tyson, have been known for being notoriously hard to hit.",
"The key to a swarmer is aggression, endurance, chin, and bobbing-and-weaving.",
"Notable in-fighters include Julio César Chávez, Miguel Cotto, Joe Frazier, Danny García, Mike Tyson, Manny Pacquiao, Saúl Álvarez, Rocky Marciano, Jack Dempsey, Wayne McCullough, Harry Greb, David Tua and Ricky Hatton."
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Plants | Slopes facing which direction receive the full amount of sunlight in the Sonoran Desert? | Grand Canyon | false | 2TRAVEL
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"Biology and ecology.",
"There are approximately 1,737 known species of vascular plants, 167 species of fungi, 64 species of moss and 195 species of lichen found in Grand Canyon National Park.",
"This variety is largely due to the 8,000 foot elevation change from the Colorado River up to the highest point on the North Rim.",
"Grand Canyon boasts a dozen endemic plants (known only within the Park's boundaries) while only ten percent of the Park's flora is exotic.",
"Sixty-three plants found here have been given special status by the U.S.",
"Fish and Wildlife Service.",
"The Mojave Desert influences the western sections of the canyon, Sonoran Desert vegetation covers the eastern sections, and ponderosa and pinyon pine forests grow on both rims.",
"Natural seeps and springs percolating out of the canyon walls are home to 11% of all the plant species found in the Grand Canyon.",
"The Canyon itself can act as a connection between the east and the west by providing corridors of appropriate habitat along its length.",
"The canyon can also be a genetic barrier to some species, like the Tassel-eared squirrel.",
"The aspect, or direction a slope faces, also plays a major role in adding diversity to the Grand Canyon.",
"North-facing slopes receive about one-third the normal amount of sunlight, so plants growing there are similar to plants found at higher elevations, or in more northern latitudes.",
"The south-facing slopes receive the full amount of sunlight and are covered in vegetation typical of the Sonoran Desert."
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Abstract | How much did Kung Fu Panda gross on its opening day? | Kung Fu Panda | false | 6MOVIES
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"Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy wuxia film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.",
"It was directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb, and stars the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Ian McShane, Randall Duk Kim, James Hong, Dan Fogler, and Michael Clarke Duncan.",
"Set in a version of ancient China populated by anthropomorphic talking animals, the plot revolves around a bumbling panda named Po who aspires to be a kung fu master.",
"When an evil kung fu warrior is foretold to escape from prison, Po is unwittingly named the chosen one destined to bring peace to the land, much to the chagrin of the resident kung fu warriors.",
"The idea for the film was conceived by Michael Lachance, a DreamWorks Animation executive.",
"The film was originally intended to be a parody, but director Stevenson decided instead to shoot an action comedy wuxia film that incorporates the hero's journey narrative archetype for the lead character.",
"The computer animation in the film was more complex than anything DreamWorks had done before.",
"As with most DreamWorks animated films, Hans Zimmer (collaborating with John Powell this time) scored \"Kung Fu Panda\".",
"He visited China to absorb the culture and get to know the China National Symphony Orchestra as part of his preparation.",
"A sequel, \"Kung Fu Panda 2\", was released on May 26, 2011, along with a television series, \"\" later that same year as a part of a franchise.",
"The third installment called \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" will debut in December 23, 2015.",
"\"Kung Fu Panda\" premiered in the United States on June 6, 2008, and has since received very favorable reviews from critics and much of the movie-going public.",
"The film currently garners an 88% \"Certified Fresh\" approval rating from review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.",
"\"Kung Fu Panda\" opened in 4,114 theaters, grossing $20.3 million on its opening day and $60.2 million on its opening weekend, resulting in the number one position at the box office.",
"The film became DreamWorks' biggest opening for a non-sequel film, the highest grossing animated film of the year worldwide, and also had the fourth-largest opening weekend for a DreamWorks animated film at the American and Canadian box office, behind \"Shrek 2\", \"Shrek the Third\", and \"Shrek Forever After\"."
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Origins | Who became their keyboardist? | Free Bird | false | 0MUSIC
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"According to guitarist Gary Rossington, for two years after Allen Collins wrote the initial chords, vocalist Ronnie Van Zant insisted that there were too many for him to create a melody in the belief that the melody needed to change alongside the chords.",
"After Collins played the unused sequence at rehearsal one day, Van Zant asked him to repeat it, then wrote out the melody and lyrics in three or four minutes.",
"The guitar solos that finish the song were added in originally to give Van Zant a chance to rest, as the band was playing several sets per night at clubs at the time.",
"Soon afterward, the band learned piano-playing roadie Billy Powell had written an intro to the song; upon hearing it, they included it as the finishing touch and had him formally join as their keyboardist.",
"The song was originally written in memory of Duane Allman.",
"Allen Collins's then-girlfriend, Kathy, whom he later married, asked him, \"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?\"",
"Collins noted the question and it eventually became the opening line of \"Free Bird\"."
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Ecological and environmental | What does Ecology study? | Biology | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Ecology studies the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their environment.",
"The habitat of an organism can be described as the local abiotic factors such as climate and ecology, in addition to the other organisms and biotic factors that share its environment.",
"One reason that biological systems can be difficult to study is that so many different interactions with other organisms and the environment are possible, even on small scales.",
"A microscopic bacterium in a local sugar gradient is responding to its environment as much as a lion searching for food in the African savanna.",
"For any species, behaviors can be co-operative, competitive, parasitic, or symbiotic.",
"Matters become more complex when two or more species interact in an ecosystem.",
"Ecological systems are studied at several different levels, from individuals and populations to ecosystems and the biosphere.",
"The term population biology is often used interchangeably with population ecology, although \"population biology\" is more frequently used when studying diseases, viruses, and microbes, while population ecology is more commonly used when studying plants and animals.",
"Ecology draws on many subdisciplines.",
"Ethology studies animal behavior (particularly that of social animals such as primates and canids), and is sometimes considered a branch of zoology.",
"Ethologists have been particularly concerned with the evolution of behavior and the understanding of behavior in terms of the theory of natural selection.",
"In one sense, the first modern ethologist was Charles Darwin, whose book, \"The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,\" influenced many ethologists to come.",
"Biogeography studies the spatial distribution of organisms on the Earth, focusing on topics like plate tectonics, climate change, dispersal and migration, and cladistics."
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In popular culture | In the ending of which computer game DLC is "Jingle Bell Rock" used? | Jingle Bell Rock | false | 0MUSIC
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" It is the opening theme from the 1987 film \"Lethal Weapon\".",
" Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem performed the song in the 1987 Christmas television special \"A Muppet Family Christmas\".",
" Helms' original recording is featured in the film \"Cookie\" (1989).",
" The song was covered in \"The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!\"",
"episode \"Koopa Klaus\" in 1989.",
" The song was featured in the 1992 film \"\".",
" \"Jingle Bell Rock\" is an animated Christmas special first seen in 1995 on ABC, which was produced by DIC Entertainment and featured Milton Berle as one of the voice actors.",
"In the Christmas special for \"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch\" in 1996, this song is performed when Sabrina and her aunts are looking for Salem, when he's kidnapped by a little boy.",
" In the 2004 Lindsay Lohan comedy \"Mean Girls\", the song is performed by Cady Heron, Regina George, Gretchen Weiners and Karen Smith in their annual Christmas talent show.",
" It was used in the 2008 Christmas episode of \"Chuck\".",
" In a season 7 episode of \"Two and a Half Men\", Alan and Evelyn sing the song, as Charlie Harper plays the piano.",
" In the fourth season Christmas episode of \"Glee\", the song is performed by Chord Overstreet in character as Sam Evans.",
" The song was featured in the closing credits of \"Getaway\" (2013).",
" The song is used in the ending of the \"\"How the Saints Save Christmas\"\" downloadable content for \"Saints Row IV\"."
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Reaction to his relationship with Sien | Where did Van Gogh get his first art supplies? | Sien (Van Gogh series) | true | 3ART
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"Due to his relationship with Sien, van Gogh experienced the loss of support and goodwill from family and friends, and he experienced an even more strained relationship with his parents.",
"His teacher and cousin-in-law, Anton Mauve, abruptly ceased his support and tutelage of van Gogh within a few short weeks of van Gogh first meeting Sien, although there were other factors involved as well, not least their mutual melancholy.",
"Hulsker called this a simple tragedy for van Gogh.",
"Likewise, a long-standing family friend, Hermanus Tersteeg, an influential art dealer who taught van Gogh and his brother Theo a great deal about art and literature, and who gave van Gogh his first set of art supplies when he decided to become an artist, although he was always somewhat equivocal in his support, abruptly withdrew at the same time.",
"Van Gogh's relationship with Mauve in truth had scarcely lasted a month.",
"Already by the end of January, van Gogh was writing his brother Theo that he did not always find it easy to get on with Mauve.",
"Shortly after this, they fell out with each other over an issue involving drawing from plaster casts, which Mauve was anxious van Gogh should undertake to perfect his technique.",
"Van Gogh, however, vehemently insisted on drawing from models, and in a fit of pique destroyed some plaster casts of hands and feet that Mauve had given him to make studies from.",
"Following that incident, Mauve said he would have nothing more to do with him for the next two months (i.e.",
"for the rest of the winter).",
"In reality, Mauve, had resolved to break with van Gogh completely.",
"Van Gogh initially blamed Tersteeg for Mauve's indifference, but a chance meeting with Mauve in May made it clear to him that Mauve had definitively broken with him.",
"He described the meeting in a letter to Theo, and in the same letter he revealed his relationship with Sien for the first time and passionately defended it:Van Gogh left Sien the autumn of 1883.",
"Van Gogh went to Drenthe to paint and Sien went back to work as a seamstress, charwoman and possibly as a prostitute.",
"Her children, Maria and Willem, lived with Sien's mother and brother Pieter.",
"In 1901 Sien married a seaman, Anton van Wijk.",
"She committed suicide in 1904 at the age of 54 in Rotterdam's harbor, 14 years after van Gogh's death."
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Day of the assassination | On the morning of Abraham Lincoln's murder, who said Lincoln looked cheerful? | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"Lincoln's day started well for the first time in a while.",
"Hugh McCulloch, the new Secretary of the Treasury, remarked that on that morning, \"I never saw Mr. Lincoln so cheerful and happy\".",
"No one could miss the difference.",
"For months, the President had looked pale and haggard.",
"Lincoln himself told people how happy he was.",
"This caused First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln some concern, as she believed that saying such things out loud was bad luck.",
"Lincoln paid her no heed.",
"At around noon, while visiting Ford's Theatre to pick up his mail (Booth had a permanent mailbox there), Booth learned from the brother of John Ford, the owner, that the President and General Grant would be attending the theatre to see \"Our American Cousin\" that night.",
"Booth determined that this was the perfect opportunity for him to do something \"decisive\".",
"He knew the theater's layout, having performed there several times, as recently as the previous month.",
"That same afternoon, Booth went to Mary Surratt's boarding house in Washington, D.C. and asked her to deliver a package to her tavern in Surrattsville, Maryland.",
"He also requested Surratt to tell her tenant who resided there to have the guns and ammunition that Booth had previously stored at the tavern ready to be picked up later that evening.",
"She complied with Booth's requests and made the trip, along with Louis J. Weichmann, her boarder and son's friend.",
"This exchange, and her compliance in it, would lead directly to Surratt's execution three months later.",
"At seven o'clock that evening, John Wilkes Booth met for a final time with all his fellow conspirators.",
"Booth assigned Lewis Powell to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward at his home, George Atzerodt to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson at his residence, the Kirkwood Hotel, and David E. Herold to guide Powell to the Seward house and then out of Washington to rendezvous with Booth in Maryland.",
"Booth planned to shoot Lincoln with his single-shot Derringer and then stab Grant with a knife at Ford's Theatre.",
"They were all to strike simultaneously shortly after ten o'clock that night.",
"Atzerodt wanted nothing to do with it, saying he had only signed up for a kidnapping, not a killing.",
"Booth told him he was in too far to back out. "
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South Africa | What texture does the koeksister have? | Doughnut | false | 9FOOD
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"Regional variations.",
"South Africa.",
"In South Africa, an Afrikaans variation known as the \"koeksister\" is popular.",
"Another variation, similar in name, is the Cape Malay \"koesister\" being soaked in a spiced syrup and coated in coconut.",
"It has a texture similar to more traditional doughnuts as opposed to the Afrikaans variety.",
"A further variation is the \"vetkoek\", which is also dough deep fried in oil.",
"It is served with mince, syrup, honey or jam."
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Main | Who does Amanda Setton play in The Mindy Project? | The Mindy Project | false | 1TV
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" Mindy Kaling as Dr. Mindy Lahiri, a romantically frustrated OB/GYN at Shulman & Associates.",
" Chris Messina as Dr. Danny Castellano, another OB/GYN at the same office; Mindy's main frenemy; both doctors ignore the obvious romantic chemistry between them and settle for lesser choices in the interim.",
" Ed Weeks as Dr. Jeremy Reed, Mindy and Danny's somewhat hapless supervisor at the office.",
" Zoe Jarman as Betsy Putch, the optimistic receptionist at the office.",
" Ike Barinholtz as Morgan Tookers (Episodes 13, 15-onwards; recurring 2–12 and 14), a registered nurse at the office.",
" Beth Grant as Beverley Janoszewski (Episodes 15-onwards; guest episode 2), former nurse turned receptionist at the office.",
" Xosha Roquemore as Tamra (season 2-onwards, recurring episodes 22-24), a sassy nurse at the office.",
" Adam Pally as Dr. Peter Prentice (season 2-onwards; guest season 2, episodes 3-4), a new gynecologist at the office.",
" Anna Camp as Gwen Grandy (Main cast episodes 1–12; guest episode 17), Mindy's long-time friend who has settled down with a family.",
"Amanda Setton as Shauna Dicanio (Episodes 1–12), was a receptionist at the office.",
"Stephen Tobolowsky as Dr. Marc Shulman (Episodes 1–8), the former senior partner of the practice."
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Visual arts | Which type of art was popular in Winchester and Canterbury? | England | false | 5COUNTRY
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"The earliest known examples are the prehistoric rock and cave art pieces, most prominent in North Yorkshire, Northumberland and Cumbria, but also feature further south, for example at Creswell Crags.",
"With the arrival of Roman culture in the 1st century, various forms of art utilising statues, busts, glasswork and mosaics were the norm.",
"There are numerous surviving artefacts, such as those at Lullingstone and Aldborough.",
"During the Early Middle Ages the style favoured sculpted crosses and ivories, manuscript painting, gold and enamel jewellery, demonstrating a love of intricate, interwoven designs such as in the Staffordshire Hoard discovered in 2009.",
"Some of these blended Gaelic and Anglian styles, such as the Lindisfarne Gospels and Vespasian Psalter.",
"Later Gothic art was popular at Winchester and Canterbury, examples survive such as Benedictional of St. Æthelwold and Luttrell Psalter.",
"The Tudor era saw prominent artists as part of their court, portrait painting which would remain an enduring part of English art, was boosted by German Hans Holbein, natives such as Nicholas Hilliard built on this.",
"Under the Stuarts, Continental artists were influential especially the Flemish, examples from the period include—Anthony van Dyck, Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller and William Dobson.",
"The 18th century was a time of significance with the founding of the Royal Academy, a classicism based on the High Renaissance prevailed—Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds became two of England's most treasured artists.",
"The Norwich School continued the landscape tradition, while the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with their vivid and detailed style revived the Early Renaissance style—Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais were leaders.",
"Prominent amongst 20th-century artists was Henry Moore, regarded as the voice of British sculpture, and of British modernism in general.",
"Contemporary painters include Lucian Freud, whose work \"Benefits Supervisor Sleeping\" in 2008 set a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist."
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Frame | Why were the beech crosspieces switched to maple in 1970? | Mona Lisa | false | 3ART
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"Because the \"Mona Lisa\"'s poplar support expands and contracts with changes in humidity, the picture has experienced some warping.",
"In response to warping and swelling experienced during its storage during World War II, and to prepare the picture for an exhibit to honor the anniversary of Leonardo's 500th birthday, the \"Mona Lisa\" was fitted in 1951 with a flexible oak frame with beech crosspieces.",
"This flexible frame, which is used in addition to the decorative frame described below, exerts pressure on the panel to keep it from warping further.",
"In 1970, the beech crosspieces were switched to maple after it was found that the beechwood had been infested with insects.",
"In 2004–2005, a conservation and study team replaced the maple crosspieces with sycamore ones, and an additional metal crosspiece was added for scientific measurement of the panel's warp.",
"The \"Mona Lisa\" has had many different decorative frames in its history, owing to changes in taste over the centuries.",
"In 1909, the Comtesse de Béhague gave the portrait its current frame, a Renaissance-era work consistent with the historical period of the \"Mona Lisa\".",
"The edges of the painting have been trimmed at least once in its history to fit the picture into various frames, but no part of the original paint layer has been trimmed."
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Abstract | Who was the Mona Lisa painted by? | Mona Lisa | false | 3ART
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"The Mona Lisa (Monna Lisa or La Gioconda in Italian; La Joconde in French) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as \"the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.",
"\"The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506, although Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517.",
"It was acquired by King Francis I of France and is now the property of the French Republic, on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797.",
"The ambiguity of the subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modeling of forms and the atmospheric illusionism were novel qualities that have contributed to the continuing fascination and study of the work."
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Launch and flight to lunar orbit | What NASA chief commented on the tv mission highlights for Apollo 11? | Apollo 11 | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"Mission highlights.",
"Launch and flight to lunar orbit.",
"In addition to throngs of people crowding highways and beaches near the launch site, millions watched the event on television, with NASA Chief of Public Information Jack King providing commentary.",
"President Richard M. Nixon viewed the proceedings from the Oval Office of the White House.",
"A Saturn V launched Apollo 11 from Launch Pad 39A, part of the Launch Complex 39 site at the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969 at 13:32:00 UTC (9:32:00 a.m. EDT local time).",
"It entered orbit twelve minutes later.",
"After one and a half orbits, the S-IVB third-stage engine pushed the spacecraft onto its trajectory toward the Moon with the Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) burn at 16:22:13 UTC.",
"About 30 minutes later the command/service module pair separated from this last remaining Saturn V stage and docked with the Lunar Module still nestled in the Lunar Module Adaptor.",
"After the Lunar Module was extracted, the combined spacecraft headed for the Moon, while the third stage booster flew on a trajectory past the Moon and into heliocentric orbit.",
"On July 19 at 17:21:50 UTC, Apollo 11 passed behind the Moon and fired its service propulsion engine to enter lunar orbit.",
"In the thirty orbits that followed, the crew saw passing views of their landing site in the southern Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis) about southwest of the crater Sabine D (0.67408N, 23.47297E).",
"The landing site was selected in part because it had been characterized as relatively flat and smooth by the automated \"Ranger 8\" and \"Surveyor 5\" landers along with the \"Lunar Orbiter\" mapping spacecraft and unlikely to present major landing or extra-vehicular activity (EVA) challenges."
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Influence | Who was the inspiration behind Francis Bacon's series of paintings that began in 1957? | Vincent van Gogh | true | 3ART
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"In his final letter to Theo, Van Gogh admitted that as he did not have any children, he viewed his paintings as his progeny.",
"Reflecting on this, the historian Simon Schama concluded that he \"did have a child of course, Expressionism, and many, many heirs.\"",
"Schama mentioned many artists who have adapted elements of Van Gogh's style, including Willem de Kooning, Howard Hodgkin and Jackson Pollock.",
"The Fauves extended both his use of color and freedom in application, as did German Expressionists of the Die Brücke group, and as other early modernists.",
"Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s is seen as in part inspired from Van Gogh's broad, gestural brush strokes.",
"In the words of art critic Sue Hubbard: \"At the beginning of the twentieth century Van Gogh gave the Expressionists a new painterly language that enabled them to go beyond surface appearance and penetrate deeper essential truths.",
"It is no coincidence that at this very moment Freud was also mining the depths of that essentially modern domain – the subconscious.",
"This beautiful and intelligent exhibition places Van Gogh where he firmly belongs; as the trailblazer of modern art.",
"\"In 1957, Francis Bacon (1909–1992) based a series of paintings on reproductions of Van Gogh's \"The Painter on the Road to Tarascon\", the original of which was destroyed during World War II.",
"Bacon was inspired by not only an image he described as \"haunting\", but also Van Gogh himself, whom Bacon regarded as an alienated outsider, a position which resonated with Bacon.",
"The Irish artist further identified with Van Gogh's theories of art and quoted lines written in a letter to Theo, \"painters do not paint things as they are...",
"They paint them as \"they themselves\" feel them to be.\"",
"An exhibition devoted to Vincent van Gogh's letters took place in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from October 2009 to January 2010 and then moved to the Royal Academy in London from late January to April.",
"The Van Gogh Museum hosted an exhibition \"Van Gogh at Work\" featuring 200 paintings and drawings, 150 of them by van Gogh and others including Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard; from May 1, 2013 until January 12, 2014. "
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Etymology | Hispania is possibly a derivation of I-Shipania, a Punic word. What does this translate as? | Spain | true | 5COUNTRY
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"The origins of the Roman name \"Hispania\", from which the modern name \"España\" was derived, are uncertain and are possibly unknown due to the inadequate evidence.",
"\"Hispania\" may derive from the poetic use of the term \"Hesperia\", reflecting the Greek perception of Italy as a \"western land\" or \"land of the setting sun\" (\"Hesperia\", \"Ἑσπερία\" in Greek) and Spain, being still further west, as \"Hesperia ultima\".",
"It may also be a derivation of the Punic \"I-Shpania\" (אי שפניא), meaning \"island of rabbits\", \"land of rabbits\" or \"edge\", a reference to Spain's location at the end of the Mediterranean; Roman coins struck in the region from the reign of Hadrian show a female figure with a coney at her feet, and Strabo called it the \"land of the rabbits\".",
"There is also the claim that \"Hispania\" derives from the Basque word \"Ezpanna\" meaning \"edge\" or \"border\", another reference to the fact that the Iberian peninsula constitutes the southwest of the European continent.",
"The Renaissance scholar Antonio de Nebrija proposed that the word \"Hispania\" evolved from the Iberian word \"Hispalis\", meaning \"city of the western world\".",
"Jesús Luis Cunchillos argues that the root of the term \"span\" is the Phoenecian word \"spy\", meaning \"to forge metals\".",
"Therefore \"i-spn-ya\" would mean \"the land where metals are forged\".",
"Two 15th century Spanish Jewish scholars, Don Isaac Abrabanel and Shelomó ibn Verga, have given a different explanation as to how Spain derived its name.",
"Don Isaac Abrabanel was one of the principal persons of Spain’s Jewish community and one of the king’s trusted courtiers who witnessed the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492.",
"Both men wrote in two different published works that the first Jews to reach Spain were brought by ship by Phiros who was confederate with the king of Babylon when he laid siege to Jerusalem.",
"This man was a Grecian by birth, but who had been given a kingdom in Spain.",
"He became related by marriage to Espan, the nephew of king Heracles, who also ruled over a kingdom in Spain.",
"Heracles later renounced his throne in preference for his native Greece, leaving his kingdom to his nephew, Espan, from whom the country of España (Spain) took its name.",
"Based upon their testimonies, this eponym would have already been in use in Spain by c. 350 BCE."
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Soundtrack | "Life is Strange" is done by who? | Dallas Buyers Club | true | 6MOVIES
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" \"Sweet Thang\" by Shuggie Otis – 4:09 ",
" \"Following Morning\" by The Naked And Famous – 5:03 ",
" \"Hell and Back\" by The Airborne Toxic Event – 3:52 ",
" \"Ready to Be Called On\" by My Morning Jacket – 3:46 ",
" \"Life of the Party\" by Blondfire – 3:23 ",
" \"The Walker\" (Ryeland Allison remix) by Fitz And The Tantrums – 3:28 ",
" \"Shudder to Think\" by Tegan & Sara – 3:24 ",
" \"Mad Love\" (Acoustic) by Neon Trees – 3:39 ",
" \"Main Man\" (T. Rex cover) by Portugal.",
"The Man – 6:15 ",
" \"Stayin' Alive\" (Bee Gees cover) by Capital Cities – 4:03 ",
" \"Romance Languages\" by Cold War Kids – 2:52 ",
" \"Burn It Down\" (Innerpartysystem remix) by AWOLNATION – 4:56 ",
" \"After the Scripture\" by Manchester Orchestra – 4:36 ",
" \"City of Angels\" (Acoustic) by Thirty Seconds To Mars – 4:29 ",
" \"Main Man\" by T. Rex – 4:13 ",
" \"Life Is Strange\" by T. Rex – 2:32",
" \"Ballrooms of Mars\" by T. Rex"
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Criticism of FBI | Who investigated whether Lee Harvey Oswald was to blame for the assassination of JFK? | Assassination of John F. Kennedy | true | 7HISTORICAL EVENTS
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"The FBI's murder investigation was reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979.",
"The congressional Committee concluded:",
" The Federal Bureau of Investigation adequately investigated Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination and properly evaluated the evidence it possessed to assess his potential to endanger the public safety in a national emergency.",
" The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a thorough and professional investigation into the responsibility of Lee Harvey Oswald for the assassination.",
" The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.",
" The Federal Bureau of Investigation was deficient in its sharing of information with other agencies and departments."
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How MRI works | How do you control the orientation of an MRI image? | Magnetic resonance imaging | true | 8SCIENCE
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"To perform a study the patient is positioned within an MRI scanner which forms a strong magnetic field around the area to be imaged.",
"Most medical applications rely on detecting a radio frequency signal emitted by excited hydrogen atoms in the body (present in any tissue containing water molecules) using energy from an oscillating magnetic field applied at the appropriate resonant frequency.",
"The orientation of the image is controlled by varying the main magnetic field using gradient coils.",
"As these coils are rapidly switched on and off they create the characteristic repetitive noises of an MRI scan.",
"The contrast between different tissues is determined by the rate at which excited atoms return to the equilibrium state.",
"Exogenous contrast agents may be given intravenously, orally or intra-articularly.MRI requires a magnetic field that is both strong and uniform.",
"The field strength of the magnet is measured in tesla – and while the majority of systems operate at 1.5T commercial systems are available between 0.2T–7T.",
"Most clinical magnets are superconducting which requires liquid helium.",
"The lower field strengths can be achieved with permanent magnets, which are often used in \"open\" MRI scanners for claustrophobic patients."
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Criticism by novelist Buchheim | What is the length of "Das Boot"? | Das Boot | true | 6MOVIES
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"Even though impressed by the technological accuracy of the film's set-design and port construction buildings, novelist Lothar-Günter Buchheim expressed great disappointment with Petersen's adaptation in a film review published in 1981, especially with Petersen's aesthetic vision for the film and the way the plot and the effects are, according to him, overdone and clichéd by the adaptation.",
"He also criticised the hysterical overacting of the cast, which he called highly unrealistic, while acknowledging the cast's acting talent in general.",
"Buchheim, after several attempts for an American adaptation had failed, had provided a script detailing his own narrative, cinematographical and photographical ideas as soon as Petersen was chosen as new director.",
"It would have amounted in full to a complete six-hour epic; however, Petersen turned him down because at the time the producers were aiming for a 90-minute feature for international release.",
"However, today's Director's Cut of \"Das Boot\" amounts to over 200 minutes, and the complete TV version of the film is 282 minutes long.",
"Buchheim, himself a U-boat correspondent, attacked specifically what he called Petersen's sacrificing of both realism and suspense in dialogue, narration, and photography for the sake of cheap dramatic thrills and action effects (for example, in reality one single exploding bolt of the boat's pressure hull would have been enough for the whole crew to worry about the U-boat being crushed by water pressure, while Petersen has several bolts loosening in various scenes).",
"Buchheim also criticized depictions of the crew's loud behaviour during patrols as unrealistic and celebrations after achieving a torpedo hit or surviving a bombing as unprofessional.",
"Furthermore, an officer—even an outsider like Lt. Werner—would have commanded special respect and that throwing an oil-drenched towel into his face would not have been tolerated.",
"Uttering concerns about the end result, Buchheim felt that unlike his clearly anti-war novel the adaptation was \"another re-glorification and re-mystification\" of the German World War II U-boat war, German heroism and nationalism.",
"He called the film a cross between a \"cheap, shallow American action flick\" and a \"contemporary German propaganda newsreel from World War II\"."
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Nitrogen narcosis | When does narcosis start to affect some divers? | Scuba diving | false | 4SPORT
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"Nitrogen narcosis or inert gas narcosis is a reversible alteration in consciousness producing a state similar to alcohol intoxication in divers who breathe high pressure gas at depth.",
"The mechanism is similar to that of nitrous oxide, or \"laughing gas,\" administered as anesthesia.",
"Being \"narced\" can impair judgment and make diving very dangerous.",
"Narcosis starts to affect some divers at 66 feet (20 m).",
"At this depth, narcosis manifests itself as a slight giddiness.",
"The effects increase drastically with the increase in depth.",
"Almost all divers are able to notice the effects by 132 feet (40 meters).",
"At these depths divers may feel euphoria, anxiety, loss of coordination and lack of concentration.",
"At extreme depths, hallucinogenic reaction and tunnel vision can occur.",
"Jacques Cousteau famously described it as the \"rapture of the deep\".",
"Nitrogen narcosis occurs quickly and the symptoms typically disappear during the ascent, so that divers often fail to realize they were ever affected.",
"It affects individual divers at varying depths and conditions, and can even vary from dive to dive under identical conditions.",
"However, diving with trimix or heliox dramatically reduces the effects of inert gas narcosis."
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Education | When are children required to go to school? | Argentina | true | 5COUNTRY
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"Argentina built a national public education system in comparison to other nations, placing the country high in the global rankings of literacy.",
"Today Argentina has a literacy rate of 97.4%, and 16.2% over age 15 have completed secondary school studies or higher.",
"School attendance is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 17.",
"The Argentine school system consists of an elementary or lower school level lasting six or seven years, and a secondary or high school level lasting between five to six years, depending on the jurisdiction.",
"There are forty-seven national public universities across the country, as well as forty-six private ones.",
"The universities of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, La Plata, Rosario, and the National Technological University are among the most important.",
"Public universities faced cutbacks in spending during the 1980s and 1990s, which led to a decline in overall quality.",
"Four out of five Argentine adults have completed grade school, over a third have completed their secondary education and one in nine Argentine adults have college degrees.",
"Likewise, Argentina has the highest rate of university students in Latin America: official sources recently reported roughly 1,500,000 college students within the Argentine University System."
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Reception | What competition was the painting American Gothic entered into? | American Gothic | true | 3ART
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"Wood entered the painting in a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago.",
"The judges deemed it a \"comic valentine\", but a museum patron persuaded them to award the painting the bronze medal and $300 cash prize.",
"The patron also persuaded the Art Institute to buy the painting, which remains there today.",
"The image soon began to be reproduced in newspapers, first by the \"Chicago Evening Post\" and then in New York, Boston, Kansas City, and Indianapolis.",
"However, Wood received a backlash when the image finally appeared in the \"Cedar Rapids Gazette\".",
"Iowans were furious at their depiction as \"pinched, grim-faced, puritanical Bible-thumpers\".",
"Wood protested that he had not painted a caricature of Iowans but a depiction of his appreciation, stating \"I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.\"",
"Nan, apparently embarrassed at being depicted as the wife of someone twice her age, began telling people that the painting was of a man and his daughter, which Grant seems to confirm in his letter to a Mrs. Nellie Sudduth in 1941.",
"Art critics who had favorable opinions about the painting, such as Gertrude Stein and Christopher Morley, also assumed the painting was meant to be a satire of rural small-town life.",
"It was thus seen as part of the trend toward increasingly critical depictions of rural America, along the lines of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 \"Winesburg, Ohio\", Sinclair Lewis's 1920 \"Main Street\", and Carl Van Vechten's 1924 \"The Tattooed Countess\" in literature.",
"Yet another interpretation sees it as an \"old-fashioned mourning portrait... Tellingly, the curtains hanging in the windows of the house, both upstairs and down, are pulled closed in the middle of the day, a mourning custom in Victorian America.",
"The woman wears a black dress beneath her apron, and glances away as if holding back tears.",
"One imagines she is grieving for the man beside her...\" Wood had been only 10 when his father had died and later had lived for a decade \"above a garage reserved for hearses\", so death was on his mind.",
"However, with the onset of the Great Depression, the painting came to be seen as a depiction of steadfast American pioneer spirit.",
"Wood assisted this transition by renouncing his Bohemian youth in Paris and grouping himself with populist Midwestern painters, such as John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, who revolted against the dominance of East Coast art circles.",
"Wood was quoted in this period as stating, \"All the good ideas I've ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.\""
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Space Shuttle program (1972–2011) | How many missions did NASA's space shuttle program have before ending? | NASA | false | 8SCIENCE
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"Space Shuttle program (1972–2011).",
"The Space Shuttle became the major focus of NASA in the late 1970s and the 1980s.",
"Planned as a frequently launchable and mostly reusable vehicle, four space shuttle orbiters were built by 1985.",
"The first to launch, \"Columbia\", did so on April 12, 1981, the 20th anniversary of the first space flight by Yuri Gagarin.",
"Its major components were a spaceplane orbiter with an external fuel tank and two solid fuel launch rockets at its side.",
"The external tank, which was bigger than the spacecraft itself, was the only component that was not reused.",
"The shuttle could orbit in altitudes of 185–643 km (115–400 miles) and carry a maximum payload (to low orbit) of 24,400 kg (54,000 lb).",
"Missions could last from 5 to 17 days and crews could be from 2 to 8 astronauts.",
"On 20 missions (1983–98) the Space Shuttle carried Spacelab, designed in cooperation with the ESA.",
"Spacelab was not designed for independent orbital flight, but remained in the Shuttle's cargo bay as the astronauts entered and left it through an airlock.",
"Another famous series of missions were the launch and later successful repair of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 and 1993, respectively.",
"In 1995 Russian-American interaction resumed with the Shuttle-Mir missions (1995–1998).",
"Once more an American vehicle docked with a Russian craft, this time a full-fledged space station.",
"This cooperation has continued with Russia and the United States as the two of the biggest partners in the largest space station built: the International Space Station (ISS).",
"The strength of their cooperation on this project was even more evident when NASA began relying on Russian launch vehicles to service the ISS during the two-year grounding of the shuttle fleet following the 2003 Space Shuttle \"Columbia\" disaster.",
"The Shuttle fleet lost two orbiters and 14 astronauts in two disasters: \"Challenger\" in 1986, and \"Columbia\" in 2003.",
"While the 1986 loss was mitigated by building the Space Shuttle \"Endeavour\" from replacement parts, NASA did not build another orbiter to replace the second loss.",
"NASA's Space Shuttle program had 135 missions when the program ended with the successful landing of the Space Shuttle \"Atlantis\" at the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, 2011.",
"The program spanned 30 years with over 300 astronauts sent into space."
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Sambo | Where is Sambo from? | Wrestling | true | 4SPORT
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"Sambo is a martial art that originated in the Soviet Union (specifically Russia) in the 20th century.",
"It is an acronym for \"self-defence without weapons\" in Russian and had its origins in the Soviet armed forces.",
"Its influences are varied, with techniques borrowed from sports ranging from the two international wrestling styles of Greco-Roman and freestyle to judo, jujitsu, European styles of folk wrestling, and even fencing.",
"The rules for sport sambo are similar to those in competitive judo, with a variety of leg locks and defense holds from the various national wrestling styles in the Soviet Union, while not allowing chokeholds."
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Pass | What is another name for a reception in volleyball? | Volleyball | true | 4SPORT
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"Also called reception, the pass is the attempt by a team to properly handle the opponent's serve, or any form of attack.",
"Proper handling includes not only preventing the ball from touching the court, but also making it reach the position where the setter is standing quickly and precisely.",
"The skill of passing involves fundamentally two specific techniques: underarm pass, or bump, where the ball touches the inside part of the joined forearms or platform, at waist line; and overhand pass, where it is handled with the fingertips, like a set, above the head.",
"Either are acceptable in professional and beach volleyball, however there are much tighter regulations on the overhand pass in beach volleyball."
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Recurring | Who is Mindy's former boyfriend? | The Mindy Project | false | 1TV
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" Tommy Dewey as Josh Daniels, a lawyer; Mindy's former boyfriend.",
" Utkarsh Ambudkar as Rishi Lahiri, Mindy's younger brother, an aspiring rapper.",
" Kelen Coleman as Alex, a friend of Mindy.",
" Mark Duplass as Brendan Deslaurier, a male midwife.",
" Jay Duplass as Duncan Deslaurier, a male midwife.",
" Bill Hader as Tom McDougall, a dentist; former boyfriend of Mindy.",
" Anders Holm as Casey Peerson, a Christian minister; Mindy's former fiancé.",
" Chloë Sevigny as Christina, Danny's ex-wife.",
" Ellie Kemper as Heather, Josh's ex-girlfriend and Mindy's neighbor.",
" Glenn Howerton as Cliff Gilbert, a handsome lawyer in the same building as Shulman & Associates'."
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Box office | On which weekends did the film stay at number one? | Gravity (film) | false | 6MOVIES
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"Preliminary reports predicted the film would open with takings of over $40 million in North America.",
"The film earned $1.4 million from its Thursday night showings, and reached $17.5 million on Friday.",
"\"Gravity\" topped the box office and broke \"Paranormal Activity 3\"s record as the highest-earning October and autumn openings ever, grossing $55.8 million.",
"80 percent of the film's opening weekend gross came from its 3D showings, which grossed $44 million.",
"$11.2 million20 percent of the receiptscame from IMAX 3D showings; the highest percentage ever for a film opening more than $50 million.",
"The film stayed at number one at the box office during its second and third weekends.",
"\"Gravity\" opened at number one in the United Kingdom, taking over the first weekend of release and remained there for the second week.",
"The film's largest markets outside North America were China ($71.2m), the United Kingdom ($47.0m) and France ($38.2m).",
"On February 17, 2014 the film grossed $700m worldwide.",
"As of March 30, 2014, \"Gravity\" has grossed $273,312,639 in North America and $442,300,000 in other countries, making a worldwide gross of $715,612,639making it the eighth-highest grossing film of 2013."
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Soundtrack | What song from the movie Das Boot was not written by the same composer who penned the title song? | Das Boot | true | 6MOVIES
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"The characteristic lead melody of the soundtrack, composed and produced by Klaus Doldinger, took on a life of its own after German rave group U96 created a remixed \"techno version\" in 1991.",
"The title theme \"Das Boot\" later became an international hit.",
"The official soundtrack features only compositions by Doldinger, except for \"J'attendrai\" sung by Rina Ketty.",
"The soundtrack (\"Filmmusik\") released following the release of \"The Director's Cut\" version omits \"J'attendrai\".",
"Songs heard in the film, but not included on the album are \"La Paloma\" sung by Rosita Serrano, the \"Erzherzog-Albrecht-Marsch\" (a popular military march), \"It's a Long Way to Tipperary\" performed by the Red Army Chorus, Heimat, Deine Sterne and the Westerwald-Marsch."
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Release-1 | Who released the Terminator soundtrack? | The Terminator | true | 6MOVIES
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"The soundtrack album was originally released through Enigma Records.",
"It was followed by a CD and cassette reissue on July 1, 1991 through DCC Compact Classics.",
"A remastered edition entitled \"The Definitive Edition\" was released on August 22, 1995 through Edel AG.",
"This edition contained a 73-minute running time and included a bonus track the \"Judgement Day Remix\" of \"Theme from The Terminator.\"",
"The liner notes of the album contained extensive annotations for each track."
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