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total number of death row inmates in the us?
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"2,718"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.69,
"text": "on death row in the United States on January 1, 2013. Since 1977, the states of Texas (464), Virginia (108) and Oklahoma (94) have executed the most death row inmates. , California (683), Florida (390), Texas (330) and Pennsylvania (218) housed more than half of all inmates pending on death row. , the longest-serving prisoner on death row in the US who has been executed was Jack Alderman who served over 33 years. He was executed in Georgia in 2008. However, Alderman only holds the distinction of being the longest-serving \"\"executed\"\" inmate so far. A Florida inmate, Gary Alvord, arrived",
"title": "Death row"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.25,
"text": "a criminal sentence. Of those thirty-six states, Texas executed the most inmates during 2009 with 24 executions. The total number of executions in the United States in 2009 was 52. In 2009, the total number of inmates serving a death sentence in the United States was 3,173. Many executions are delayed as inmates seek appeals to overturn sentences or convictions. Advances in science and in particular, DNA testing, have yielded more accurate forensic evidence. In some cases, post-conviction testing has helped innocent people establish that they were wrongfully convicted and to gain exonerations. In the process, comparisons to state and",
"title": "Innocence Protection Act"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.2,
"text": "punishable by death penalty. But perhaps the best indicator that this law is not a deterrent to criminality is the ever-increasing number of death convicts. From 1994 to 1995 the number of persons on death row increased from 12 to 104. From 1995 to 1996 it increased to 182. In 1997 the total death convicts was at 520 and in 1998 the inmates in death row was at 781. As of November 1999 there are a total of 956 death convicts at the National Bilibid Prisons and at the Correctional Institute for Women. As of December 31, 1999, based on",
"title": "Presidency of Joseph Estrada"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.03,
"text": "people, and Gary Lee Sampson who was sentenced to death a second time in 2017 for two carjacking murders (after an original 2003 death sentence for the same crimes was vacated in 2011). As of September 28, 2018, there are 63 offenders on federal death row, most of them at Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. The only woman on federal death row as of 2018, Lisa M. Montgomery, is held at Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas. , aside from those at Terre Haute, three male death row inmates are held at ADX Florence, two are",
"title": "Capital punishment by the United States federal government"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.23,
"text": "commit suicide. In the United States, prisoners may wait many years before execution can be carried out due to the complex and time-consuming appeals procedures mandated in the jurisdiction. The time between sentencing and execution has increased relatively steadily between 1977 and 2010, including a 22% jump between 1989 and 1990 and a similar jump between 2008 and 2009. In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution. Nearly a quarter of inmates on death row in the U.S. die of natural causes while awaiting execution. There were 3,125 people",
"title": "Death row"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.98,
"text": "1976, while 1442 men have been executed. 15,391 total confirmed lawful executions have been carried out in the US since 1608, and of these, 575, or 3.6%, were women. Women account for 1/50 death sentences, 1/67 people on death row, and 1/100 people whose executions are actually carried out. The states that have executed the most women are California, Texas and Florida. For women, the racial breakdown of those sentenced to death is 21% black, 13% Latina, 2% American Indian, 61% white and 3% Asian. All 30 states with the death penalty provide lethal injection as the primary method of",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.89,
"text": "to be 113 per 100,000 for the period 1976โ1999. This is about ten times the rate of suicide in the United States as a whole and about six times the rate of suicide in the general U.S. prison population. Since the re-institution of the death penalty in 1976 to January 1, 2017, 145 prisoners have waived their appeals and asked that the execution be carried out. In the post-\"\"Furman\"\" era, four states (Connecticut, New Mexico, Oregon, and Pennsylvania) have executed only volunteers. The theory of the death row phenomenon may be traced to 1989, when the European Court of Human",
"title": "Death row phenomenon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.89,
"text": "1976. However, this is an under-representation relative to the proportion of convicted murderers; 52.5% of all homicide offenders between 1980 and 2008 were African Americans. According to a 2003 Amnesty International report, blacks and whites were the victims of murder in almost equal numbers. Approximately 13.5% of death row inmates are of Hispanic or Latino descent, while they make up 17.4% of the general population. As of October 1, 2016, the Death Penalty Information Center reports that there are only 54 women on death row. This constitutes 1.86% of the total death row population. 16 women have been executed since",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "death row has about 290 prisoners. As of March 2013 eight male death row prisoners are housed in Jester IV Unit, a psychiatric unit, instead of Polunsky. The state of Texas began housing death row inmates in the Huntsville Unit in 1928. In 1965 the male death row inmates moved to the Ellis Unit. In 1999 the male death row moved to Polunsky. In the 1923-1973 period Texas state authorities had three female death row inmates; the first, Emma \"\"Straight Eight\"\" Oliver, was held at Huntsville Unit after her 1949 sentencing, but had her sentence commuted to life imprisonment in",
"title": "Texas Department of Criminal Justice"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.81,
"text": "161 who were sentenced to death in the modern era were exonerated before their execution. As of April 1, 2018, 2,743 are still on death row. The first recorded death sentence in the British North American colonies was carried out in 1608 on Captain George Kendall, who was executed by firing squad at the Jamestown colony for spying for the Spanish government. The Bill of Rights adopted in 1789 included the Eighth Amendment which prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The Fifth Amendment was drafted with language implying a possible use of the death penalty, requiring a grand jury indictment for",
"title": "Capital punishment in the United States"
}
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big little lies season 2 how many episodes?
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"seven"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.77,
"text": "Big Little Lies (TV series) Big Little Lies is an American drama television series, based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, that premiered on February 19, 2017, on HBO. Created and written by David E. Kelley, the series' seven-episode first season was directed by Jean-Marc Vallรฉe. \"\"Big Little Lies\"\" stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley and tells the story of three emotionally troubled women in Monterey, California, who become embroiled in a murder investigation. Alexander Skarsgรฅrd, Laura Dern, Jeffrey Nordling, Adam Scott, Zoรซ Kravitz, and James Tupper feature in supporting roles. Critically acclaimed, the",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.55,
"text": "shows of 2017. A soundtrack for the series was released on Google Play and iTunes on March 31, 2017. The first season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 1, 2017. Big Little Lies (TV series) Big Little Lies is an American drama television series, based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, that premiered on February 19, 2017, on HBO. Created and written by David E. Kelley, the series' seven-episode first season was directed by Jean-Marc Vallรฉe. \"\"Big Little Lies\"\" stars Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley and tells the story of three emotionally",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.14,
"text": "to 25 episodes. On December 13, 2011, it was announced that the identity of A would be revealed in the Spring Finale. Plus, the season finale will see someone arrested for the murder of Alison, as well as the death of a beloved character โ excluding the four female leads. Filming of season two wrapped on December 16, 2011. Janel Parrish, Tammin Sursok, Bianca Lawson, and Tyler Blackburn return in the second season as Mona Vanderwaal, Jenna Marshall, Maya St. Germain, and Caleb Rivers. Also returning are Yani Gellman, Torrey DeVitto, Lindsey Shaw, Claire Holt, Keegan Allen, Brant Daugherty, Brendan",
"title": "Pretty Little Liars (season 2)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22,
"text": "were shot in Pacific Grove and Carmel Highlands as well. On October 16, 2016, HBO released the first teaser trailer for the series. On December 5, 2016, HBO released a full length trailer for the series. On February 7, 2017, the series held its official premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Internationally, the series premiered on February 20, 2017, in Australia on Showcase, and on March 13, 2017, in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky Atlantic. The show was initially conceived of and billed as a miniseries of seven episodes. In the wake of the",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.98,
"text": "show garnered an array of critical accolades, he changed his mind: \"\"It'd be great to reunite the team and to do it. Are we going to be able to do it, altogether? I wish.\"\" In July 2017, two weeks after the series was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series, HBO revealed that a second season was possible, and that Moriarty had been asked to write a story for it. In December 2017, after the Critics' Choice Television Award and Golden Globe Award nomination voting periods were over, HBO officially renewed the series for a seven-episode second",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.83,
"text": "series garnered several accolades. It received 16 Emmy Award nominations and won eight, including Outstanding Limited Series and acting awards for Kidman, Skarsgรฅrd, and Dern. The trio also won Golden Globe Awards in addition to a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film win for the series. Kidman and Skarsgรฅrd also received Screen Actors Guild Awards for their performances. Despite originally being billed as a miniseries, HBO renewed the series for a second season. Production on the second season began in March 2018 and is set to premiere in 2019. All seven episodes are being written by Kelley",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.45,
"text": "that television series would be written by David E. Kelley. On May 8, 2015, it was announced that HBO had given the production a series order and that in addition to writing, Kelley would also executive produce. On October 23, 2015, it was reported that Jean-Marc Vallรฉe was in talks to direct the first episode of the series with the potential to direct more. On December 17, 2015, it was announced that Vallรฉe would direct all seven episodes of the series. On November 28, 2016, it was announced that the series would premiere on February 19, 2017. Alongside the initial",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.23,
"text": "Emmy nominations, Reese Witherspoon said: \"\"As of right now, I think it's pretty whole. I feel really good about where it is, and if this is all it ever was, it's a beautiful thing we all accomplished together\"\", while Vallรฉe came out strongly against the idea of producing a second season: \"\"There's no reason to make a season two. That was meant to be a one-time deal, and it's finishing in a way where it's for the audience to imagine what can happen. If we do a season two, we'll break that beautiful thing and spoil it\"\". Later, when the",
"title": "Big Little Lies (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.95,
"text": "28, 2010, ABC Family ordered 12 more episodes of the show, bringing its total first-season order to 22. On January 10, 2011, ABC Family picked the show up for a second season that premiered on June 14, 2011. During the summer of 2011, \"\"Pretty Little Liars\"\" was basic cable's top scripted series in women aged 18โ34 and viewers 12โ34. The second half of season 2 aired on Mondays at 8/7c, beginning on January 2, 2012. On November 29, 2011, ABC Family renewed the show for a third season, which consisted of 24 episodes. On October 4, 2012, ABC Family announced",
"title": "Pretty Little Liars"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.64,
"text": "story. Episodes saw a slight increase in production value, with animations slightly improving in quality and episodes lengthening to around 3โ10 minutes. Season 2's finale was a 2-part special lasting about 13 minutes in length, entitled \"\"Attack of The Choomahs\"\". The special depicts the Choomahs invading Brown Town. Season 2 had 10 episodes in total. Season 3 saw a significant step up in terms of production, with the show's creators investing in better equipment to animate episodes with. Drawings greatly improved in quality and episodes became more consistent in length, all lasting about 5 minutes. Season 3 premiered on July",
"title": "The Big Lez Show"
}
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who sang waiting for a girl like you?
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[
"Foreigner"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.28,
"text": "Waiting for a Girl Like You \"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\" is a 1981 power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner. The distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-little-known Thomas Dolby, and this song also marked a major departure from their earlier singles because their previous singles were mid to upper tempo rock songs while this song was a softer love song with the energy of a power ballad. It was the second single released from the album \"\"4\"\" (1981) and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. It has become one of the band's most",
"title": "Waiting for a Girl Like You"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.8,
"text": "held off the number 1 spot by Olivia Newton-John's single \"\"Physical\"\" for nine consecutive weeks, and then by Hall & Oates' \"\"I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)\"\" for a tenth week on January 30, 1982. Because of its chart longevity, it ended up being the number 19 song on the Top 100 singles of 1982. The song was the band's biggest hit until \"\"I Want to Know What Love Is\"\" hit number 1 in 1985. The song lists at number 100 on \"\"\"\"Billboard\"\"'s Greatest Songs of All Time\"\". Waiting for a Girl Like You \"\"Waiting for a Girl",
"title": "Waiting for a Girl Like You"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.44,
"text": "whoever needs a knock on the head. In September 2014, Cobra Verde announced on cobraverde.com that it will be touring again and returning to the studio to record its next album. The OC Cobra Verde recorded a version of \"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\" for the Fox television teen drama \"\"The OC.\"\" The band also performed the song on the show, called \"\"The Journey,\"\" which aired March 16, 2006. Cobra Verde plays a Foreigner tribute band that has been hired by Seth Cohen (Adam Brody) to perform at a birthday party for his friend Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie). Ryan",
"title": "Cobra Verde (band)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.38,
"text": "successful songs worldwide, peaking at number 2 on the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 and number 1 on \"\"Billboard\"\"'s Rock Tracks chart. On the \"\"Billboard\"\" Adult Contemporary chart, the song reached number 5. The song peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. \"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\" achieved a chart distinction by spending its record-setting 10 weeks in the number 2 position of the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 chart, without ever reaching the top. It debuted on the Hot 100 chart dated October 10, 1981. It reached the number 2 position in the week of November 28, where it was",
"title": "Waiting for a Girl Like You"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.3,
"text": "Reiter was \"\"blown away\"\", and Chaney gave it an \"\"A\"\" with the comment that Rory \"\"handled it with adorable aplomb\"\". Slezak and VanDerWerff, however, thought the number was somewhat sleep-inducing. Puck's rendition of \"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\" was almost universally described as \"\"sweet\"\". Flandez went further, and wrote \"\"he oozes sweet and sexy, and you canโt help but feel good\"\", and Goldberg still further when she stated that it \"\"ends up being one of the episodeโsโand seasonโsโsweetest moments thus far\"\". West praised the \"\"lovely little guitar solo\"\" and gave the song a \"\"B\"\"; Chaney bestowed the same grade",
"title": "Pot o' Gold (Glee)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "number 2 by a song which did not go to number 1, behind Foreigner's \"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\", Missy Elliott's \"\"Work It\"\", Donna Lewis's \"\"I Love You Always Forever\"\" and Shania Twain's \"\"You're Still the One\"\". The song is based on a sample of the Fugees' 1996 hit single \"\"Ready or Not\"\", which itself was based on a slowed-down sample of the instrumental track \"\"Boadicea\"\" by Enya from her 1987 album \"\"Enya.\"\" Winans said: \"\"I first heard 'Boadicea' at the end of the movie Sleepwalkers about five or six years ago. It's something I always wanted to produce.",
"title": "I Don't Wanna Know"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.95,
"text": "ten weeks, a record that it shares with \"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\" by Foreigner from 1981. Despite the song never topping the Hot 100 chart, the song topped the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for five weeks. On the \"\"Billboard\"\" magazine issue dated February 21, 2015, \"\"Work It\"\" re-entered at #35, more than a decade after its original chart run. This re-entry occurred as a result of Elliott's performance at the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show earlier in the month; Elliott's other single, \"\"Get Ur Freak On\"\" also re-entered the \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100 the same week. CD single",
"title": "Work It (Missy Elliott song)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.95,
"text": "Protective Services, under the assumption that they will ultimately restore Beth to her after they investigate and find the evidence. Puck later returns to secretly gather up the items. He also sings \"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\" to calm a crying Beth and to comfort Shelby, who confesses she is extremely lonely. In the episode's closing moments, Puck and Shelby kiss. Congressional candidate and cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch)โwhose campaign platform includes the elimination of funding for school arts programsโeditorializes on television to rescind the budget of the school's production of \"\"West Side Story\"\". She succeeds after an",
"title": "Pot o' Gold (Glee)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.75,
"text": "includes 13 additional minutes of footage, including \"\"Rock You Like a Hurricane\"\" edited back into the film, more risque humor from Russell Brand, and a few additional verses on \"\"Waiting for a Girl/Boy Like You\"\". The cover and track listing of the soundtrack was confirmed by \"\"Entertainment Weekly\"\" on April 30, 2012. The soundtrack was released on June 5, 2012. It debuted at No. 15 on \"\"Billboard\"\" 200, and peaked at No. 5 on that chart in its third week. It also debuted at No. 1 on the Top Soundtracks chart. It sold 267,000 copies in the US in 2012,",
"title": "Rock of Ages (2012 film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.56,
"text": "has started writing a song for Sherrie (\"\"Waiting for a Girl Like You\"\"). On the night of Arsenal's final show, Dennis learns that their opening act has cancelled. Sherrie convinces him to use Drew and his band, Wolfgang Von Colt, as the replacement opener (\"\"More Than Words/Heaven\"\"). Meanwhile, Stacee's manager, Paul Gill (Paul Giamatti), schedules an interview between Stacee and Constance Sack (Malin ร
kerman), a reporter for \"\"Rolling Stone\"\". During the interview, she mentions the rumors that Stacee is difficult to work with and implies that he was actually kicked out of Arsenal, a charge Stacee denies (\"\"Wanted Dead or",
"title": "Rock of Ages (2012 film)"
}
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where do you cross the arctic circle in norway?
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[
"Saltfjellet"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "Arctic Norway Arctic Norway () comprises the northernmost parts of Norway that lie above the Arctic circle. Norway, being one of the most stretched-out countries in the world, reaches from approximately 58ยฐN to 81ยฐN, so large parts lie north of the Arctic circle at 66ยฐ33โฒ. Arctic Norway consists of four geographically separated parts: The Arctic circle crosses mainland Norway at Saltfjellet, which separates Helgeland from the northern part of Nordland county. Thus about half of the county lies north of the Arctic circle, along with the whole of Troms and Finnmark counties. The total area of mainland Norway above the",
"title": "Arctic Norway"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.02,
"text": "the coast of Greenland. It has an area of 373 km. The population is 18, which is the staff of the weather station. Arctic Norway Arctic Norway () comprises the northernmost parts of Norway that lie above the Arctic circle. Norway, being one of the most stretched-out countries in the world, reaches from approximately 58ยฐN to 81ยฐN, so large parts lie north of the Arctic circle at 66ยฐ33โฒ. Arctic Norway consists of four geographically separated parts: The Arctic circle crosses mainland Norway at Saltfjellet, which separates Helgeland from the northern part of Nordland county. Thus about half of the county",
"title": "Arctic Norway"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.7,
"text": "Circle is divided among 8 countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Denmark (Greenland) and Iceland (where it passes through the small offshore island of Grรญmsey). The climate inside the Arctic Circle is generally cold, but the coastal areas of Norway have a generally mild climate as a result of the Gulf Stream, which makes the ports of northern Norway and northwest Russia ice-free all year long. In the interior, summers can be quite warm, while winters are extremely cold. For example, summer temperatures in Norilsk, Russia will sometimes reach as high",
"title": "Arctic Circle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.67,
"text": "has to rotate Scotland by 90ยฐ. The 5000 stadia must be discounted: it crosses the Borysthenes upriver near Kiev rather than at the mouth. It does place Pytheas on the Arctic Circle, which in Norway is south of the Lofoten islands. It seems that Eratosthenes altered the base line to pass through the northern extreme of Celtica. Pytheas, as related by Hipparchus, probably cited the place in Celtica where he first made land. If he used the same practice in Norway, Thule is at least somewhere on the entire northwest coast of Norway from Mรธre og Romsdal to the Lofoten",
"title": "Pytheas"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.44,
"text": "European Union/EEA. The Arctic route involves fewer border crossings and avoids any dangerous sea crossings. Since pedestrians aren't allowed through Storskog, migrants began to cross the border riding bicycles, as public transport operators are heavily penalized for transporting passengers who lack official documentation. Between August and October 2015 the number of migrants transiting through Storskog doubled every week. The loophole was closed in January 2016, when juxtaposed controls were introduced. An estimated 5,500 to 10,800 migrants, mostly from Syria, crossed the border riding bicycles. The river of Pasvikelva is long and runs through the valley of Pasvikdalen. The river drains",
"title": "NorwayโRussia border"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.28,
"text": "Nordkalottruta Nordkalottruta or Arctic Trail (Finnish: \"\"Kalottireitti\"\", Swedish: \"\"Nordkalottleden\"\") is a marked hiking trail in the Arctic region of the Nordic countries. It has a total length of 800 km and lies along the border of Norway, Sweden and Finland. It begins at Kautokeino (located in Finnmark, Northern Norway) and of the 800 km, 380 km of the trail lies in Norway, 350 km in Sweden and 70 km in Finland. The trail crosses international borders 15 times and ends in the south in Sulitjelma (Norway) or alternately Kvikkjokk (Sweden). The trail was originally planned in 1977. It passes through",
"title": "Nordkalottruta"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.91,
"text": "side of the Tromsรธya island โ over north of the Arctic Circle at . Suburban areas include Kroken, Tromsdalen (on the mainland, east of Tromsรธya), the rest of the Tromsรธya island, and the eastern part of the large Kvalรธya, west of the Tromsรธya island. The Tromsรธ Bridge and Tromsรธysund Tunnel both cross the Tromsรธysundet strait connecting the mainland with Tromsรธya by road. On the western side of the city, the Sandnessund Bridge connects Tromsรธya island with Kvalรธya island. There are many tall mountains within the municipality including Hamperokken, Jiehkkevรกrri, Store Blรฅmann, Store Fornestinden, and Tromsdalstinden. The Lyngen Alps mountain range",
"title": "Tromsรธ"
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.8,
"text": "European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north-south road through Norway, and the west coast of Sweden. It is 3 088 km (1.919 mi) long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to the Arctic Circle and Nordkapp. The route ends in Kirkenes close to the Russian border. From south to north, E6 runs through Trelleborg, Malmรถ, Helsingborg, Halmstad, Gothenburg, Svinesund in Sweden, before crossing the border at the Svinesund Bridge into Norway. It then passes Halden, Sarpsborg, Moss to",
"title": "European route E6"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.61,
"text": "south of the Arctic Circle, is called Helgeland. Here there is a multitude of islands and skerries on the outside of the coastal range, some flat, some with impressive shapes, like Mount Torghatten, which has a hole through it, and the Seven Sisters near Sandnessjรธen. The inland is covered with dense spruce forests and mountains near the Swedish border; some of the biggest rivers in the region are the Vefsna and the Ranelva. The highest mountain in Northern Norway is found here in the Okstindan range south of Mo i Rana with Oksskolten reaching above sea level, and with the",
"title": "Northern Norway"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.59,
"text": "(\"\"night\"\"), since above the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun never shines from the north, except inside the Arctic Circle during the summer midnight sun. The direction north is often associated with colder climates because most of the world's land at high latitudes is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Denmark (Greenland) and Iceland (where it passes through the small offshore island of Grรญmsey). By convention, the top side of a map is often north. To go north using a",
"title": "North"
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] |
who is the main character in green eggs and ham?
|
[
"Sam-I-am"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.36,
"text": "Green Eggs and Ham Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published on August 12, 1960. As of 2016, the book has sold 8 million copies worldwide. The story has appeared in several adaptations starting with 1973's \"\"Dr. Seuss on the Loose\"\" starring Paul Winchell as the voice of both Sam-I-am and the first-person narrator. The story follows a strange creature who does not like green eggs and ham and his friend Sam-I-Am who wants him to eat it. The story becomes a refrain as Sam persistently follows his friend through an assortment of locations",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.98,
"text": "Green Eggs and Ham (TV series) Green Eggs and Ham is an upcoming American animated television series from Warner Bros. Animation, A Very Good Production, A Stern Talking To, Random House Children's Entertainment and Gulfstream Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Television. It is slated to air for 13 half-hour episodes on Netflix and to be based on the 1960 Dr. Seuss book of the same title. Jared Stern, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Kleeman, Mike Karz and David Dobkin are the executive producers of the show. Stern will also serve as a writer and showrunner. The series will have thirteen episodes.",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham (TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.67,
"text": "animation as a storyboard artist for \"\"Green Eggs and Ham\"\", a Netflix show produced by Warner Brother premiering in 2018. His previous credits include \"\"Adventure Time,\"\" \"\"Axe Cop,\"\" \"\"Golan The Insatiable,\"\" \"\"Major Lazer,\"\" \"\"Lucas Bros Moving Company\"\" and \"\"High School USA.\"\" The animated short, \"\"Sympathy for Slenderman\"\" for which Kim contributed character and background designs was nominated for a Webby Award in 2014. Derek Kirk Kim Derek Kirk Kim is a Korean-American writer, artist and filmmaker. He is currently directing on \"\"Amphibia\"\", an animated series airing in 2019 on the Disney Channel. He was also the lead character designer of",
"title": "Derek Kirk Kim"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.45,
"text": "Dr. Seuss on the Loose Dr. Seuss on the Loose (titled Green Eggs and Ham and Other Stories for the sing-a-long videocasette release and the deluxe edition releases) is an animated musical television special, first airing on CBS on October 15, 1973, and hosted by The Cat in the Hat who appears in bridging sequences where he introduced animated adaptations of Dr. Seuss children's stories \"\"The Sneetches\"\", \"\"The Zax\"\" and \"\"Green Eggs and Ham\"\". Allan Sherman reprised his role as the voice of The Cat in the Hat from the 1971 television special. This was the final project Sherman worked",
"title": "Dr. Seuss on the Loose"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.09,
"text": "Fox in Socks Fox in Socks is a children's book by Dr. Seuss, first published in 1965. It features two main characters, Fox (an anthropomorphic fox) who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic character) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end. The book in some ways bears a resemblance to \"\"Green Eggs and Ham\"\", another book by Dr. Seuss. Both stories contain two main characters: one who is stubborn and wants to be left alone; the other, a persistent and sometimes annoying opposite. The book begins by introducing Fox",
"title": "Fox in Socks"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.08,
"text": "Derek Kirk Kim Derek Kirk Kim is a Korean-American writer, artist and filmmaker. He is currently directing on \"\"Amphibia\"\", an animated series airing in 2019 on the Disney Channel. He was also the lead character designer of \"\"Adventure Time\"\" and a storyboard artist for \"\"Green Eggs and Ham\"\". He is also the writer of TUNE and the writer and director of the spin-off webseries, Mythomania. He won all three major comics industry awards, the Eisner (2004), the Harvey (2004), and the Ignatz Award (2003) for his debut graphic novel \"\"Same Difference and Other Stories.\"\" (The contents of which were originally",
"title": "Derek Kirk Kim"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.88,
"text": "the floor of the United States Senate during his filibuster over the funding over Obamacare. Musician will.i.am has stated that his moniker is inspired by the story. On September 29, 1991, following Dr. Seuss' death earlier that week, the Reverend Jesse Jackson recited an excerpt of \"\"Green Eggs and Ham\"\" on \"\"Saturday Night Live\"\" during a special tribute segment. In 1965, a withdrawn source claimed that the book was banned in China for its \"\"portrayal of early Marxism\"\". The ban was lifted in 1991, following Seuss' death. Green Eggs and Ham Green Eggs and Ham is a children's book by",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.86,
"text": "books on the list. The first two stories in the book (\"\"The Sneetches\"\" and \"\"The Zax\"\") were later adapted, along with \"\"Green Eggs and Ham\"\", into 1973's animated TV musical special \"\"Dr. Seuss on the Loose: The Sneetches, The Zax, Green Eggs and Ham\"\" with Hans Conried voicing the narrator and both Zaxes respectively, and Paul Winchell and Bob Holt voicing the Sneetches and Sylvester McMonkey McBean respectively. The first story in the collection tells of a group of yellow bird-like creatures called the Sneetches, some of whom have a green star on their bellies. At the beginning of the",
"title": "The Sneetches and Other Stories"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.67,
"text": "Sam-I-Am and his friend go on a cross-country trip that would test the limits of their friendship. As they learn to try new things, they find out what adventure brings. Green Eggs and Ham (TV series) Green Eggs and Ham is an upcoming American animated television series from Warner Bros. Animation, A Very Good Production, A Stern Talking To, Random House Children's Entertainment and Gulfstream Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Television. It is slated to air for 13 half-hour episodes on Netflix and to be based on the 1960 Dr. Seuss book of the same title. Jared Stern, Ellen",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham (TV series)"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.28,
"text": "was the result of a bet between Seuss and Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss's publisher, that Seuss (after completing \"\"The Cat in the Hat\"\" using 236 words) could not complete an entire book without exceeding that limit. The 50 words are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you. \"\"Green Eggs and Ham\"\" was published on August 12, 1960.",
"title": "Green Eggs and Ham"
}
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do veins carry blood to the heart or away?
|
[
"to"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.61,
"text": "Vein Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart; exceptions are the pulmonary and umbilical veins, both of which carry oxygenated blood to the heart. In contrast to veins, arteries carry blood away from the heart. Veins are less muscular than arteries and are often closer to the skin. There are valves in most veins to prevent backflow. Veins are present throughout the body as tubes that carry blood back to the heart. Veins are classified in a number of ways, including superficial vs. deep, pulmonary",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.22,
"text": "away from the heart to the tissues, except for pulmonary arteries, which carry blood to the lungs for oxygenation (usually veins carry deoxygenated blood to the heart but the pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood as well). There are two types of unique arteries. The pulmonary artery carries blood from the heart to the lungs, where it receives oxygen. It is unique because the blood in it is not \"\"oxygenated\"\", as it has not yet passed through the lungs. The other unique artery is the umbilical artery, which carries deoxygenated blood from a fetus to its mother. Arteries have a blood",
"title": "Artery"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.17,
"text": "carries oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood to the fetus, and two arteries that carry deoxygenated, nutrient-depleted blood away. Occasionally, only two vessels (one vein and one artery) are present in the umbilical cord. This is sometimes related to fetal abnormalities, but it may also occur without accompanying problems. It is unusual for a vein to carry oxygenated blood and for arteries to carry deoxygenated blood (the only other examples being the pulmonary veins and arteries, connecting the lungs to the heart). However, this naming convention reflects the fact that the umbilical vein carries blood towards the fetus's heart, while the umbilical arteries",
"title": "Umbilical cord"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "pressure. The arteries are perceived as carrying oxygenated blood to the tissues, while veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart. This is true of the systemic circulation, by far the larger of the two circuits of blood in the body, which transports oxygen from the heart to the tissues of the body. However, in pulmonary circulation, the arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs, and veins return blood from the lungs to the heart. The difference between veins and arteries is their direction of flow (out of the heart by arteries, returning to the heart for",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.11,
"text": "veins), not their oxygen content. In addition, deoxygenated blood that is carried from the tissues back to the heart for reoxygenation in the systemic circulation still carries some oxygen, though it is considerably less than that carried by the systemic arteries or pulmonary veins. Although most veins take blood back to the heart, there is an exception. Portal veins carry blood between capillary beds. For example, the hepatic portal vein takes blood from the capillary beds in the digestive tract and transports it to the capillary beds in the liver. The blood is then drained in the gastrointestinal tract and",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.25,
"text": "Pulmonary circulation The pulmonary circulation is the portion of the circulatory system which carries deoxygenated blood away from the right ventricle of the heart, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood to the left atrium and ventricle of the heart. The term pulmonary circulation is readily paired and contrasted with the systemic circulation. The vessels of the pulmonary circulation are the pulmonary arteries and the pulmonary veins. A separate system known as the bronchial circulation supplies oxygenated blood to the tissue of the larger airways of the lung. The earliest human discussions of pulmonary circulation date back to Egyptian times.",
"title": "Pulmonary circulation"
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.2,
"text": "Coronary circulation Coronary circulation is the circulation of blood in the blood vessels that supply the heart muscle (myocardium). Coronary arteries supply oxygenated blood to the heart muscle, and cardiac veins drain away the blood once it has been deoxygenated. Because the rest of the body, and most especially the brain, needs a steady supply of oxygenated blood that is free of all but the slightest interruptions, the heart works constantly and sometimes works quite hard. Therefore its circulation is of major importance not only to its own tissues but to the entire body and even the level of consciousness",
"title": "Coronary circulation"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.86,
"text": "person's skin, how much oxygen is being carried in the blood, and how big and deep the vessels are. When a vein is drained of blood and removed from an organism, it appears grey-white. The largest veins in the human body are the venae cavae. These are two large veins which enter the right atrium of the heart from above and below. The superior vena cava carries blood from the arms and head to the right atrium of the heart, while the inferior vena cava carries blood from the legs and abdomen to the heart. The inferior vena cava is",
"title": "Vein"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.73,
"text": "Bronchial veins The bronchial veins are small vessels that return blood from the larger bronchi and structures at the roots of the lungs. The right side drains into the azygos vein, while the left side drains into the left superior intercostal vein or the accessory hemiazygos vein. Bronchial veins are thereby part of the bronchial circulation, carrying waste products away from the cells that constitute the lungs. The bronchial veins are counterparts to the bronchial arteries. However, they only carry ~13% of the blood flow of the bronchial arteries. The remaining blood is returned to the heart via the pulmonary",
"title": "Bronchial veins"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.7,
"text": "named branches of the coronary circulation in a right-dominant heart: The vessels that remove the deoxygenated blood from the heart muscle are known as cardiac veins. These include the great cardiac vein, the middle cardiac vein, the small cardiac vein, the smallest cardiac veins, and the anterior cardiac veins. Cardiac veins carry blood with a poor level of oxygen, from the myocardium to the right atrium. Most of the blood of the coronary veins returns through the coronary sinus. The anatomy of the veins of the heart is very variable, but generally it is formed by the following veins: heart",
"title": "Coronary circulation"
}
] |
who played charlie bucket in the original charlie and the chocolate factory?
|
[
"Peter Gardner[4] Ostrum"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.47,
"text": "Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2005, he portrayed the main role of Charlie Bucket in Tim Burton's musical fantasy film \"\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\", adapted from the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. He was reportedly recommended by co-star Johnny Depp, with whom Highmore had worked in \"\"Finding Neverland\"\"; Depp had been impressed by the young actor's performance and thus put his name forward for the role. Highmore had not seen the original 1971 version of the film, and decided not to see it until he was done filming so his",
"title": "Freddie Highmore"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.28,
"text": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy comedy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket. The storyline follows Charlie, who wins a contest and, along with four other contest winners, is led by Wonka on a tour of his chocolate factory, the most magnificent in the world. Development for a second adaptation of \"\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\" (filmed previously as",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.06,
"text": "the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. The storyline concerns Charlie, who takes a tour he has won, led by Wonka, through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world. Development for another adaptation of \"\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\", filmed previously as \"\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\", began in 1991, 20 years after the first film version, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.98,
"text": "recently closed Broadway version (instead of the West End one) and will feature only 4 child actors who will alternate the role of Charlie. The remainder of the \"\"child\"\" characters will be played adult actors. On 13 October the primary cast was announced and includes U.S. actor Paul Slade Smith (who played Grandpa George in the original cast of Charlie on Broadway) as Willy Wonka alongside Australian actors Tony Sheldon as Grandpa Joe and Lucy Maunder as Mrs Bucket. The role of Charlie will be shared between Tommy Blair, Ryan Yates, Xion Jarvis and Oliver Alkhair.. The play opens with",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.91,
"text": "Elfman contributed to a film score using written songs and his vocals. Filming took place from June to December 2004 at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. \"\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\" was released to positive critical reception and was a box office success, grossing $475 million worldwide. Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) is a poor boy who lives near the Wonka Candy Company. The company's owner, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), has for long closed access to his factory due to problems concerning industrial espionage that led him to fire all his employees, among them Charlie's Grandpa Joe (David Kelly). One",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.81,
"text": "1971 film for the purpose of money. Depp said he was disappointed by Wilder's comment, and responded that the film was not a remake, but a new adaptation of Dahl's 1964 book. The casting calls for Charlie Bucket, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, and Mike Teavee took place in the United States and United Kingdom, while Augustus Gloop's casting took place in Germany. Burton said he sought actors \"\"who had something of the character in them\"\", and found Mike Teavee the hardest character to cast. Burton was finding trouble casting Charlie, until Depp, who had worked with Freddie Highmore on \"\"Finding",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.48,
"text": "who were searching nationwide for the actor to portray Charlie Bucket in \"\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\". The agents took Polaroid photos of Ostrum and recorded him reading from the original novel, then returned to New York. Two months later Ostrum was called to New York for a screen test where he sang \"\"My Country, 'Tis of Thee\"\", and a month after that he was contacted and given ten days to prepare to leave for filming. Ostrum left for Munich on August 10, 1970. In 2000, Ostrum recalled that shooting \"\"Willy Wonka\"\" in Munich was \"\"sort of like being",
"title": "Peter Ostrum"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.41,
"text": "producers announced that production would close on 14 January 2018 after 27 previews and 305 performances. The US tour premiered on 21 September 2018 in Buffalo, New York at Shea's Performing Arts Center. It is a replica of the Broadway production and stars Noah Weisberg as Willy Wonka, James Young as Grandpa Joe and Amanda Rose as Mrs Bucket, with the role of Charlie being alternated between Henry Boshart, Collin Jeffery and Rueby Wood. The Australian premier of the musical will be held at Sydney's Capitol Theatre on 5 January 2019. The musical will be a replica production of the",
"title": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.34,
"text": "adaptation of the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Deep Roy as the Oompa-Loompas, the film generally took a more faithful approach to the source material than the 1971 adaptation, \"\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\", although some liberties were taken, such as adding Wonka's issue with his father (played by Christopher Lee). \"\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\" was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The film made over $207 million domestically. Filming proved difficult as Burton, Depp, and Danny Elfman had",
"title": "Tim Burton"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.17,
"text": "to win. Albertson appeared as Charlie Bucket's Grandpa Joe in \"\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\" (1971), and in \"\"The Poseidon Adventure\"\" (1972), where he played Manny Rosen, husband to Belle, played by Shelley Winters. Albertson said that his one regret was that he did not reprise his role in the movie version of \"\"The Sunshine Boys\"\". When producer Ray Stark acquired the film rights from Neil Simon in 1973, Albertson was expected to play the part, but by the time MGM had bought the rights in 1974 and was preparing to begin filming in February 1975, Albertson was not",
"title": "Jack Albertson"
}
] |
what is 1 radian in terms of pi?
|
[
"1/2ฯ"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.3,
"text": "and the integral computes the area between that half of a circle and the axis. The trigonometric functions rely on angles, and mathematicians generally use radians as units of measurement. plays an important role in angles measured in radians, which are defined so that a complete circle spans an angle of 2 radians. The angle measure of 180ยฐ is equal to radians, and 1ยฐ = /180 radians. Common trigonometric functions have periods that are multiples of ; for example, sine and cosine have period 2, so for any angle and any integer , Many of the appearances of in the",
"title": "Pi"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.08,
"text": "0.1 mil equals exactly 1 cm at 100 meters), while conversions of minutes of arc to both metric and imperial values are approximate. Because of the definition of pi, in a circle with a diameter of one there are 2000ฯ milliradians (โ 6283.185 mil) per full turn. In other words, one real milliradian covers just under of the circumference of a circle, which is the definition used by telescopic rifle sight manufacturers in reticles for stadiametric rangefinding. For maps and artillery, three rounded definitions are used which are close to the real definition, but more easily can be divided into",
"title": "Milliradian"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.19,
"text": "IEEE 260.1:2004 also uses the unit name rotation and symbol \"\"r\"\". One turn is equal to 2 (โ ) radians. In 2001, Robert Palais proposed using the number of radians in a turn as the fundamental circle constant instead of , which amounts to the number of radians in half a turn, in order to make mathematics simpler and more intuitive. His proposal used a \"\"pi with three legs\"\" symbol to denote the constant (formula_1 = 2). In 2010, Michael Hartl proposed to use tau to represent Palais' circle constant: . He offered two reasons. First, is the number of",
"title": "Turn (geometry)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.03,
"text": "radians in \"\"one turn\"\", which allows fractions of a turn to be expressed more directly: for instance, a turn would be represented as rad instead of rad. Second, visually resembles , whose association with the circle constant is unavoidable. Hartl's \"\"Tau Manifesto\"\" gives many examples of formulas that are asserted to be clearer where tau is used instead of pi. The -functionality is made available in the Google calculator and in several programming languages like Python, Perl, Processing, and Nim. It has also been used in at least one mathematical research article, authored by the -promoter However, none of these",
"title": "Turn (geometry)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.5,
"text": "user might write is a power function with a floating-point exponent. Both of the below assume the standard library has been included: /* A function to return the integer part of x */ Calculate pi using the builtin arctangent function, : $ bc -lq scale=10000 4*a(1) # The atan of 1 is 45 degrees, which is pi/4 in radians. Because the syntax of bc is similar to that of C, published numerical functions written in C can often be translated into bc quite easily, which immediately provides the arbitrary precision of bc. For example, in the Journal of Statistical Software",
"title": "Bc (programming language)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19,
"text": "Radian The radian (SI symbol rad) is the SI unit for measuring angles, and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. The length of an arc of a unit circle is numerically equal to the measurement in radians of the angle that it subtends; one radian is just under 57.3 degrees (expansion at ). The unit was formerly an SI supplementary unit, but this category was abolished in 1995 and the radian is now considered an SI derived unit. Separately, the SI unit of solid angle measurement is the steradian. The radian is most",
"title": "Radian"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.95,
"text": "eight lines of reflective symmetry and rotational symmetry of order 8. A regular octagon is represented by the Schlรคfli symbol {8}. The internal angle at each vertex of a regular octagon is 135ยฐ (formula_1 radians). The central angle is 45ยฐ (formula_2 radians). The area of a regular octagon of side length \"\"a\"\" is given by In terms of the circumradius \"\"R\"\", the area is In terms of the apothem \"\"r\"\" (see also inscribed figure), the area is These last two coefficients bracket the value of pi, the area of the unit circle. The area can also be expressed as where",
"title": "Octagon"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.58,
"text": "so that its radiance is uniform with respect to angle of view, and is simply the StefanโBoltzmann integral divided by ฯ. This factor is obtained from the solid angle 2ฯ steradians of a hemisphere decreased by integration over the cosine of the zenith angle. Radiance of a \"\"surface\"\", denoted \"\"L\"\" (\"\"e\"\" for \"\"energetic\"\", to avoid confusion with photometric quantities, and \"\"ฮฉ\"\" to indicate this is a directional quantity), is defined as where In general \"\"L\"\" is a function of viewing direction, depending on \"\"ฮธ\"\" through cos \"\"ฮธ\"\" and azimuth angle through . For the special case of a Lambertian surface,",
"title": "Radiance"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.56,
"text": "second\"\" is in calculation of the power transmitted by a shaft. In the International System of Units, widely used in physics and engineering, the power \"\"p\"\" is equal to the rotational speed \"\"ฯ\"\" (in radians per second) multiplied by the torque \"\"ฯ\"\" applied to the shaft, in newton-meters. Thus, , and the unit is the watt, with no numerical coefficient needed. In other systems, an additional factor may be necessary. For example, if one multiplies angular velocity in revolutions per minute (rpm) by the torque in pound-feet, then a factor is needed to convert the result in horsepower. An angular",
"title": "Radian per second"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.48,
"text": "technologically minded groups. Several college cheers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology include \"\"3.14159\"\". Pi Day in 2015 was particularly significant because the date and time 3/14/15 9:26:53 reflected many more digits of pi. During the 2011 auction for Nortel's portfolio of valuable technology patents, Google made a series of unusually specific bids based on mathematical and scientific constants, including . In 1958 Albert Eagle proposed replacing by (tau), where , to simplify formulas. However, no other authors are known to use in this way. Some people use a different value, , arguing that , as the number of radians",
"title": "Pi"
}
] |
when does season 5 of bates motel come out?
|
[
"February 20, 2017"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.7,
"text": "Bates Motel (season 5) The fifth and final season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" premiered on February 20, 2017, and concluded on April 24, 2017. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on A&E. The series itself is described as a \"\"contemporary prequel\"\" to the 1960 film \"\"Psycho\"\", following the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. However, the final season of the series loosely adapts the plot of \"\"Psycho\"\". The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The season",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 26.11,
"text": "was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 19, 2017. In June 2016, showrunner Kerry Ehrin confirmed the return of Kenny Johnson as Caleb Calhoun for the final season, in an interview with \"\"Deadline Hollywood\"\". The following month, it was announced that Rihanna had been cast in the iconic role of Marion Crane. In September 2016, Isabelle McNally joined the cast of the series, portraying the role of Madeleine Loomis, a young woman who resembles Norma. That same month, Brooke Smith joined the cast as Sheriff Jane Greene. In January 2017, Austin Nichols was cast in the role of Sam",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.41,
"text": "for the season, as well as direct an episode, marking his directorial debut. Max Thieriot and Nestor Carbonell were also tapped to direct an episode each for season 5. Production on the season began on September 16, 2016. The series filmed its final scenes at the specially-built Bates Motel set in Aldergrove on January 25, 2017, and production began tearing the house down the following day. Carbonell filmed his final scenes as Sheriff Alex Romero on January 27, 2017. Filming officially wrapped for the series on January 31, 2017. In February 2017, the Bates Motel exterior set in Aldergrove was",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.78,
"text": "subsequently demolished. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The season has received positive reviews from television critics. It received 81 out of 100 from Metacritic, based on 8 reviews, indicating \"\"universal acclaim\"\". Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 8 out of 8 critical responses were positive, averaging a 100% rating. Overall, the fifth season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" averaged 1.29 million viewers, with a 0.5 rating in the 18โ49 demographic. In its fifth and final season, \"\"Bates Motel\"\" was nominated for one award. Bates Motel (season 5) The fifth and final season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" premiered on February 20, 2017, and concluded on April 24,",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.61,
"text": "Bates Motel (season 4) The fourth season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" premiered on March 7, 2016, and concluded on May 16, 2016. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired on Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on A&E. The series itself is described as a \"\"contemporary prequel\"\" to the 1960 film \"\"Psycho\"\", following the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The season received critical acclaim from television critics, and was nominated for two Primetime Creative Arts Emmy",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 4)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.31,
"text": "fourth season, \"\"Bates Motel\"\" was nominated for 17 awards, winning three. Bates Motel (season 4) The fourth season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" premiered on March 7, 2016, and concluded on May 16, 2016. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired on Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on A&E. The series itself is described as a \"\"contemporary prequel\"\" to the 1960 film \"\"Psycho\"\", following the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The season received critical acclaim from",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 4)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.22,
"text": "season 4 began on November 30, 2015 in Vancouver and surrounding areas, and concluded on April 6, 2016. On February 11, 2016, the first image was released featuring Farmiga and Highmore. In March 2016, it was revealed Highmore had written the eighth episode of the season. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The fourth season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" has been met with critical acclaim. The season holds a 100% positive rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 17 responses from television critics. Overall, the fourth season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" averaged 1.45 million viewers, with a 0.6 rating in the 18โ49 demographic. In its",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 4)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.67,
"text": "Loomis, a prominent role in both the source material and the film adaptation. That same month, Ryan Hurst's return as Chick Hogan was reported. In March 2017, it was revealed that series executive producer Carlton Cuse would appear as a police officer trailing Marion Crane. That same month, Natalia Cordova-Buckley joined the cast as Julia Ramos, an attorney. The series was filmed on location in Aldergrove, British Columbia. At the beginning of the first season, a replica of the original Bates Motel set from the film \"\"Psycho\"\" was built on 272nd Street. Freddie Highmore was tapped to write an episode",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 5)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.62,
"text": "Bates Motel (season 1) The first season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" premiered on March 18, 2013, and concluded on May 20, 2013. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on A&E. The series is described as a \"\"contemporary prequel\"\" to the 1960 film \"\"Psycho\"\" and follows the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The season received positive reviews from television critics. In its premiere episode, the series broke rating records",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 1)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.59,
"text": "Bates Motel (season 3) The third season of \"\"Bates Motel\"\" consisted of 10 episodes and premiered on A&E on March 9, 2015. The season aired on Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and concluded on May 11, 2015. The series itself is described as a \"\"contemporary prequel\"\" to the 1960 film \"\"Psycho\"\", following the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon. The season received positive reviews from television critics, and the premiere episode drew in a total of",
"title": "Bates Motel (season 3)"
}
] |
how many episodes are in series 7 game of thrones?
|
[
"seven"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.14,
"text": "Game of Thrones (season 7) The seventh and penultimate season of the fantasy drama television series \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" premiered on HBO on July 16, 2017, and concluded on August 27, 2017. Unlike previous seasons that consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consisted of only seven. Like the previous season, it largely consisted of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's \"\"A Song of Ice and Fire\"\" series, while also incorporating material Martin revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series. The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.06,
"text": "Bender, who worked on the show's sixth season, said that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes. Benioff and Weiss stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14 month time frame, as Weiss said \"\"It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule.\"\" HBO confirmed on July 18, 2016, that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes, and would premiere later than usual in mid-2017 because of the later filming schedule. Later it was confirmed that the season would debut on July 16. The seventh",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.92,
"text": "Game of Thrones (season 8) The eighth and final season of the fantasy drama television series \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" was announced by HBO in July 2016. Unlike the first six seasons that each had ten episodes and the seventh that had seven episodes, the eighth season will have only six episodes. Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content not found currently in George R. R. Martin's \"\"A Song of Ice and Fire\"\" series and will also adapt material Martin has revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series, \"\"The Winds of Winter\"\" and \"\"A",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 8)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.38,
"text": "content. In April 2016, the showrunners' plan was to shoot 13 more episodes after the sixth season: seven episodes in the seventh season and six episodes in the eighth. Later that month, the series was renewed for a seventh season with a seven-episode order. Eight seasons were ordered and filmed, adapting the novels at a rate of about 48 seconds per page for the first three seasons. The first two seasons adapted one novel each. For the later seasons, its creators see \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" as an adaptation of \"\"A Song of Ice and Fire\"\" as a whole rather than",
"title": "Game of Thrones"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.28,
"text": "a dozen Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. By the end of 2016, all seasons up to season 6 (which premiered on April 24, 2016) had been aired on HBO and all seasons had been released on DVD and/or Blu-ray for home viewing (see List of Game of Thrones episodes). The company confirmed on July 18, 2016 that season 7 would consist of seven episodes instead of the usual ten, and would premiere later than usual, in mid-2017, because of the later filming schedule. This was necessary in order to be shooting during the winter season in Europe. Season 7",
"title": "George R. R. Martin"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.61,
"text": "fifth season. New York Mets baseball pitcher Noah Syndergaard made a background cameo as a javelin-throwing Lannister soldier in \"\"The Spoils of War.\"\" On April 21, 2016, HBO officially ordered the seventh season of \"\"Game of Thrones\"\", just three days prior to the premiere of the show's sixth season. In a June 2016 interview with \"\"Variety\"\", co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss revealed the seventh season would likely consist of fewer episodes, stating at the time of the interview that they were \"\"down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We're heading into the final lap.\"\" Director Jack",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.59,
"text": "episodes, stating that after season six, they were \"\"down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We're heading into the final lap.\"\" Benioff and Weiss stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14-month time frame, as Weiss said, \"\"It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule.\"\" HBO confirmed in July 2016, that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes, and would premiere later than usual in mid-2017 because of the later filming schedule. Benioff and Weiss later confirmed that the eighth season will consist",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 8)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.59,
"text": "season of the series includes its longest episode, with the finale running for 81 minutes. The penultimate episode also runs for 71 minutes โ around 16 minutes longer than an average \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" episode. The first five episodes mostly run longer than average (55 minutes), at 59, 59, 63, 50, and 59 minutes respectively. The previous longest episode in the series was the sixth-season finale, \"\"The Winds of Winter\"\", which ran for 69 minutes. Ramin Djawadi returned as the composer of the show for the seventh season. On Metacritic, the season (based on the first episode) has a score",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.05,
"text": "Drama Series. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The recurring actors listed here are those who appeared in season 7. They are listed by the region in which they first appear. Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss serve as showrunners for the seventh season. The directors for the seventh season are Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 1 and 7), Mark Mylod (episodes 2 and 3), Matt Shakman (episodes 4 and 5) and Alan Taylor (episode 6). This marks Taylor's return to the series after an absence since the second season. Shakman is a first-time \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" director, with the rest each",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.81,
"text": "to premiere in April 2019. Ramin Djawadi is set to return as the composer of the show for the eighth season. On December 6, 2018, HBO released the first official teaser trailer for the eighth season. Game of Thrones (season 8) The eighth and final season of the fantasy drama television series \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" was announced by HBO in July 2016. Unlike the first six seasons that each had ten episodes and the seventh that had seven episodes, the eighth season will have only six episodes. Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content not found",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 8)"
}
] |
who is next in line to be the monarch of england?
|
[
"Charles, Prince of Wales"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.09,
"text": "crisis: morganatic marriages had not been known in Britain. On 11 December 1936, Edward abdicated and left the United Kingdom so that he could marry his mistress; he did so and lived as Duke of Windsor in exile until his death. Charles, Prince of Wales, although not a monarch of England, is next in line to the throne. He engaged in an on-and-off affair with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (then Mrs. Parker-Bowles) and later announced that he had never loved his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, whom he felt obligated to marry. This created a generally bad public image",
"title": "English and British royal mistress"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.64,
"text": "Catholics are eligible. Queen Elizabeth II is the sovereign, and her heir apparent is her eldest son, Charles, Prince of Wales. Next in line after him is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales's elder son. Third in line is Prince George, the eldest child of the Duke of Cambridge, followed by his sister, Princess Charlotte and younger brother, Prince Louis. Sixth in line is Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of the Prince of Wales. Under the Perth Agreement, which came into effect in 2015, only the first six in line of succession require the",
"title": "Succession to the British throne"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.62,
"text": "the Church of England, is required to be in communion with the Church, although all other former rules forbidding marriage to non-Protestants were abolished when equal primogeniture was adopted in 2013. In the case of the absence of children, the next most senior member of the collateral line (for example, a younger sibling of the previous monarch) becomes monarch. In complex cases, this can mean that there are closer blood relatives to the deceased monarch than the next in line according to primogeniture. This has often led, especially in Europe in the Middle Ages, to conflict between the principle of",
"title": "Monarchy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.94,
"text": "and his Catholic relations from the succession and made William's nearest Protestant relations, the family of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, next in line to the throne after his sister-in-law Anne. Soon after the passage of the Act, William III died, leaving the Crown to Anne. After Anne's accession, the problem of the succession re-emerged. The Scottish Parliament, infuriated that the English Parliament did not consult them on the choice of Sophia's family as the next heirs, passed the Act of Security 1704, threatening to end the personal union between England and Scotland. The Parliament of England retaliated with the Alien",
"title": "Monarchy of the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.94,
"text": "Alternative successions of the English and British crown British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the Crown to arise, and historical scholars have on occasion traced to present times the heirs of those alternative claims. Throughout this article, the names of \"\"would-have-been\"\" monarchs are in \"\"italics\"\". Richard II abdicated in favour of Henry Bolingbroke on 29 September 1399. However, Henry was not next in the line to the throne; the heir presumptive was Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, who descended from Edward III's second surviving son, Lionel of Antwerp, whereas Henry's father, John of Gaunt, was Edward's third",
"title": "Alternative successions of the English and British crown"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.92,
"text": "queen and the throne would have been inherited by her eldest child, and so on. Friederike is not considered a pretender to the British throne, as this alternative line of succession is completely hypothetical. Next in line would be her eldest child, Felicitas Catharini Malina Johanna von Reiche. Alternative successions of the English and British crown British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the Crown to arise, and historical scholars have on occasion traced to present times the heirs of those alternative claims. Throughout this article, the names of \"\"would-have-been\"\" monarchs are in \"\"italics\"\". Richard II abdicated in",
"title": "Alternative successions of the English and British crown"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.84,
"text": "be next in the line of succession and declared both Mary and Elizabeth illegitimate, thus excluding them from the throne. The king was also granted the power to further determine the line of succession in his will, should he have no further issue. However, when Charles and Francis made peace in January 1539, Henry became increasingly paranoid, perhaps as a result of receiving a constant list of threats to the kingdom (real or imaginary, minor or serious) supplied by Cromwell in his role as spymaster. Enriched by the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry used some of his financial reserves to",
"title": "Henry VIII of England"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.64,
"text": "this time the famous scene took place, in which Lehzen slipped a copy of the genealogy of the House of Hanover into one of the princess's lesson books. After perusing it for some time, Victoria came to see that her father had been next in line after the king, and that Queen Adelaide had no surviving children. This was the first time Victoria came to realise the destiny that had been assumed by many since her birth; that she would be the next British monarch. After a pause, Victoria is reported to have said \"\"I will be good.\"\" This story",
"title": "Louise Lehzen"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.47,
"text": "to accede to or hold the throne for some reason. The Lennox family represented an alternative line of succession to the English throne through Margaret Tudor, should Henry's heirs not have not been able to hold it for the time it did. As Roman Catholics they posed a threat to Protestant England, especially in 1558, as the 26-year-old Queen Elizabeth took the throne. Although Elizabeth was bright, witty, and well-educated for her position, as a female she had to prove herself. Many Roman Catholics would have liked to have seen the next in line, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots,",
"title": "Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.44,
"text": "and France\"\". Upon his accession as king, Henry updated the arms of the kingdom to match an update in those of royal France โ from a field of fleur-de-lys to just three. When Richard II was forced to abdicate the throne in 1399, Henry was next in line to the throne according to Edward III's entailment of 1376. That entailment clearly reflects the operation of agnatic primogeniture, also known as the Salic law. At this time, it was by no means a settled custom for the daughter of a king to supersede the brothers of that king in the line",
"title": "Henry IV of England"
}
] |
who is in charge of enforcing the pendleton act of 1883?
|
[
"United States Civil Service Commission"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "of United States President James A. Garfield by a disappointed office seeker in 1881 proved its dangers. Two years later in 1883, the system of appointments to the United States Federal Bureaucracy was revamped by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, partially based on the British meritocratic civil service that had been established years earlier. The act stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit, through competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. It also made it illegal to fire or demote government employees for political reasons. To enforce the merit system and",
"title": "Meritocracy"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.75,
"text": "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, ) is a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. The act provided selection of government employees by competitive exams, rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation. It also made it illegal to fire or demote government officials for political reasons and prohibited soliciting campaign donations on Federal government property. To enforce the merit system and the judicial system, the law also created the United States",
"title": "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.02,
"text": "in 1883. The Pendleton law was passed in part due to public outcry over the assassination of President Garfield. The Pendleton Act renewed funding for the Civil Service Commission and established a three-man commission to run Civil Service whose commissioners were chosen by President Arthur. The Civil Service Commission administered the civil service of the United States federal government. The Pendleton law required certain applicants to take the civil service exam in order to be given certain jobs; it also prevented elected officials and political appointees from firing civil servants, removing civil servants from the influences of political patronage and",
"title": "United States Civil Service Commission"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.88,
"text": "to the presidency. Once in office, President Arthur pushed through legislation for civil reform. On January 16, 1883 Congress passed the Civil Service Act, which is sometimes referred to as the Pendleton Act after Senator George H. Pendleton of Ohio, one of the primary sponsors. The Act was written by Dorman Bridgman Eaton, a staunch opponent of the patronage system who was later first chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission. However, the law would also prove to be a major political liability for Arthur. The law offended machine politicians, or politicians who belong to a small clique that",
"title": "Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "law in January 1883; it was sponsored by Democratic Senator George H. Pendleton of Ohio. It was drafted by Dorman Bridgman Eaton, a leading reformer who became the first chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Its most famous commissioner was Theodore Roosevelt (1889โ95). The new law prohibited mandatory campaign contributions, or \"\"assessments\"\", which amounted to 50โ75% of party financing in the Gilded Age. Second, the Pendleton Act required entrance exams for aspiring bureaucrats. At first it covered very few jobs but there was a ratchet provision whereby outgoing presidents could lock in their own appointees by converting their jobs",
"title": "U.S. Civil Service Reform"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.61,
"text": "of Congress; the Senate approved the bill 38โ5 and the House soon concurred by a vote of 155โ47. Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act into law on January 16, 1883. The bill created a civil service commission to oversee civil service examinations and outlawed the use of \"\"assessments,\"\" fees that political appointees were expected to pay to their respective political parties as the price for their appointments. These reforms had previously been proposed by the Jay Commission, which had investigated Arthur during his time as Collector of the Port of New York. In just two years' time, an",
"title": "Presidency of Chester A. Arthur"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.56,
"text": "to the United States Senate. During his only term, from 1881 to 1885, he served concurrently as the Chairman of the Democratic Conference. Following the 1881 assassination of James A. Garfield, he passed his most notable legislation, known as the Pendleton Act of 1883, requiring civil service exams for government positions. The Act helped put an end to the system of patronage in widespread use at the time, but it cost Pendelton politically, as many members of his own party preferred the spoils system. He was thus not renominated to the Senate. Instead, President Grover Cleveland appointed him Envoy Extraordinary",
"title": "George H. Pendleton"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.47,
"text": "and Marshall Jewell as Attorney General and Postmaster General, respectively, who supported Bristow's investigations. In 1875, Pierrepont cleaned up corruption among the United States Attorneys and Marshals in the South. The Civil Service Reform Act (called \"\"the Pendleton Act\"\") is an 1883 federal law that created the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called \"\"spoils system\"\". Drafted during the Chester A. Arthur administration, the Pendleton Act served as a response to President James Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker. The Act was passed into",
"title": "U.S. Civil Service Reform"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.3,
"text": "Cleveland. Garfield chose Arthur as his running mate in the 1880 United States presidential election due to the latter's association with the Republican Party's Stalwart faction, and Arthur struggled to overcome his reputation as a New York machine politician. He embraced the cause of civil service reform, and his advocacy and enforcement of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act became the centerpiece of his administration. Though patronage remained a powerful force in politics, the Pendleton Act laid the foundations for a professional civil service that would emerge in subsequent decades. Facing a budget surplus, Arthur signed the Tariff of 1883,",
"title": "Presidency of Chester A. Arthur"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.17,
"text": "political opinion or refusal to render party service. The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act in 1883 made it law that government positions should be awarded on merit, however the Association continued to push for compliance, improvements, efficiencies and reforms in the U.S Civil Service. Stokes became chairman of the National Association of Anti-Imperialist Clubs, a movement formed in 1898 to oppose the annexation of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines at the end of the SpanishโAmerican War. He was also an active member and supporter of the free trade league and first president of the New York Reform Club.",
"title": "Anson Phelps Stokes"
}
] |
what is the name of latest version of android?
|
[
"Oreo"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.5,
"text": "Cupcake. The most recent version of Android is Android 9 Pie, which was released in August 2018. The development of Android started in 2003 by Android, Inc., which was purchased by Google in 2005. There were at least two internal releases of the software inside Google and the OHA before the beta version was released. To avoid confusion, the code names \"\"Astro Boy\"\" and \"\"Bender\"\" were only known to be tagged internally on some early pre-1.0 milestone builds, and thus were never used as the actual code names of the 1.0 and 1.1 release of the OS, as many people",
"title": "Android version history"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.19,
"text": "number of mobile access systems in the market seeking access to Wikipedia. Directly after the posted web interview, the representatives stated that Wikimedia would be applying an all-inclusive approach to accommodate as many mobile access systems as possible in its efforts for expanding general mobile access, including BlackBerry and the Windows Phone system, making market share a secondary issue. The latest version of the Android app for Wikipedia was released on July 23, 2014, to generally positive reviews, scoring over four of a possible five in a poll of approximately 200,000 users downloading from Google. The latest version for iOS",
"title": "Wikipedia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.36,
"text": "and fellow MIT professors Eric Klopfer and Mitchel Resnick. The latest version created as the result of GoogleโMIT collaboration was released in February 2012, while the first version created solely by MIT was launched in March 2012 and upgraded to App Inventor 2 in December 2013. As of 2014, App Inventor is maintained by MIT. Basic4android is a commercial product similar to Simple. It is inspired by Microsoft Visual Basic 6 and Microsoft Visual Studio. It makes android programming much simpler for regular Visual Basic programmers who find coding in Java difficult. Basic4android is very active, Coreliu enables non-technical users",
"title": "Android software development"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.22,
"text": "different screen sizes and eight Android OS versions simultaneously in use, while the large majority of iOS users have upgraded to the latest iteration of that OS. Critics such as Apple Insider have asserted that fragmentation via hardware and software pushed Android's growth through large volumes of low end, budget-priced devices running older versions of Android. They maintain this forces Android developers to write for the \"\"lowest common denominator\"\" to reach as many users as possible, who have too little incentive to make use of the latest hardware or software features only available on a smaller percentage of devices. However,",
"title": "Android (operating system)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.09,
"text": "There have been numerous complaints about the stability of the stock release at the Thrive Forum, however. For other countries, the latest official version of Android available from Toshiba for this device is still 3.2.1. The Thrive is rarely found new from U.S. retail outlets, although refurbished and used units are popular. Toshiba's Excite series of tablets was the successor to the Thrive series, launched on March 6, 2012, with 7.7-inch, 10.1-inch and 13-inch versions. Upgrades to Android 4.0.4 were available in August 2012. The Excite has also been discontinued by Toshiba, with refurbished and used units available from a",
"title": "Toshiba Thrive"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.89,
"text": "as of December 2014, reached over 2 million monthly active users on Android. The Android version brought forth many design changes and additions that other platforms received in the v3.5 release. 2go for BlackBerry 10 was released in April 2014. The latest release was version 3.8. 2go is a full featured feature phone instant messaging application. Supported devices require Java and internet connectivity via CSD, GPRS, 3G or WiFi to operate. Originally intended as a feature phone exclusive application, versions for Android, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 powered smartphones have also been released. 2go offers one-on-one and group chat services",
"title": "2go"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.78,
"text": "with Android 4.0. The current Android version is 9.0 Pie. Android's releases are named after sweets or dessert items, except for the first and second releases: Android One is a software experience that run on the unmodified Android operating system, which closely resembled those which running on Pixel devices or previously, the Google Nexus program. Unlike most of the \"\"stock\"\" Android that running on the market, Android One UI closely resemble of the Pixel UI, due to Android One program are software experience that develop by Google and distribute to partner who signup for the program, such as Nokia and",
"title": "Mobile operating system"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.77,
"text": "Android version history The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of the Android beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released on September 23, 2008. Android is continually developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance, and it has seen a number of updates to its base operating system since the initial release. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 were not released under specific code names, although Android 1.1 was unofficially known as Petit Four. Android code names are confectionery-themed and have been in alphabetical order since 2009's Android 1.5",
"title": "Android version history"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.64,
"text": "2012 keynote presentation, Google introduced the Nexus 7, a 7-inch tablet computer developed with and manufactured by Asus. Released in July 2012, it was the first device to run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The latest Android version supported by Google for the device is Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. On July 24, 2013, at Google's \"\"Breakfast with Sundar Pichai\"\" press conference, Pichai introduced the second generation Nexus 7, again co-developed with Asus. Keeping with Google Nexus tradition, it was simultaneously released with the latest version, Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. It was made available on July 26, 2013 at select retailers and on",
"title": "Google Nexus"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.52,
"text": "run on their hardware. Also, Android's source code does not contain the often proprietary device drivers that are needed for certain hardware components. As a result, most Android devices, including Google's own, ultimately ship with a combination of free and open source and proprietary software, with the software required for accessing Google services falling into the latter category. Google announces major incremental upgrades to Android on a yearly basis. The updates can be installed on devices over-the-air. The latest major release is 9 \"\"Pie\"\". Compared to its primary rival mobile operating system, Apple's iOS, Android updates typically reach various devices",
"title": "Android (operating system)"
}
] |
why was there so much interest in cuba both before and after the civil war?
|
[
"sugar markets"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.75,
"text": "on Cuba, with which it had extensive economic ties. Historians have long debated America's intentions in becoming involved in the conflict. For a significant period during and after the war, selfless humanitarian interest in the fate of the Cuban people was accepted as the major impetus for the declaration of war. A supporting argument for this line of thinking is that yellow journalism created an inflammatory mood in the country and swayed public opinion to sympathize with Cuba. Recently this school of thinking has grown less popular. Many historians now believe that the United States was acting more out of",
"title": "United States declaration of war upon Spain"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.72,
"text": "the Tacon Teatre, one of the most luxurious in the world, the Artistic and Literary Liceo (Lyceum) and the theater Coliseo (Colosseum). The fact that slavery was legal in Cuba until 1886 led to Southern American interest, including a plan by the Knights of the Golden Circle to create a 'Golden Circle' with a 1200 mile-radius centered on Havana. After the Confederate States of America were defeated in the American Civil War in 1865, many former slaveholders continued to run plantations by moving to Havana. In 1863, the city walls were knocked down so that the metropolis could be enlarged.",
"title": "History of Havana"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.44,
"text": "With this, Cuba became the fifth country in the world to have a railroad, and the first Spanish-speaking country. Throughout the century, Havana was enriched by the construction of additional cultural facilities, such as the Tacon Teatre, one of the most luxurious in the world. The fact that slavery was legal in Cuba until 1886 led to Southern American interest, including a plan by the Knights of the Golden Circle to create a 'Golden Circle' with a 1200 mile-radius centered on Havana. After the Confederate States of America were defeated in the American Civil War in 1865, many former slaveholders",
"title": "Havana"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.19,
"text": "American Civil War and Cuba's Ten Years' War, U.S. businessmen began monopolizing the devalued sugar markets in Cuba. In 1894, 90% of Cuba's total exports went to the United States, which also provided 40% of Cuba's imports. Cuba's total exports to the U.S. were almost twelve times larger than the export to her mother country, Spain. U.S. business interests indicated that while Spain still held political authority over Cuba, economic authority in Cuba, acting-authority, was shifting to the US. The U.S. became interested in a trans-isthmus canal either in Nicaragua, or in Panama, where the Panama Canal would later be",
"title": "SpanishโAmerican War"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.08,
"text": "Cuba was to nationalize American assets on the island without compensation. Before the fall of the pro-U.S. Batista regime, U.S. interests had owned four-fifths of the stakes in the island's utilities, nearly half of its sugar, and nearly all of its mining industries. The U.S. could manipulate the Cuban economy at a whim by tinkering with the island's financial services or by tampering with government quotas and tariffs on sugarโthe country's staple export commodity. In response to these acts, the U.S. government refused to recognize Castro as the leader of Cuba, the U.S. government made the first of several attempts",
"title": "Cold War (1953โ1962)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.92,
"text": "future news reporting. The idea of American imperialism changed in the public's mind after the short and successful SpanishโAmerican War. Due to the United States' powerful influence diplomatically and militarily, Cuba's status after the war relied heavily upon American actions. Two major developments emerged from the SpanishโAmerican War: one, it greatly enforced the United States' vision of itself as a \"\"defender of democracy\"\" and as a major world power, and two, it had severe implications for CubanโAmerican relations in the future. As historian Louis Pรฉrez argued in his book \"\"Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos\"\", the",
"title": "SpanishโAmerican War"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.89,
"text": "enunciated the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that the United States would not tolerate further efforts by European governments to retake or expand their colonial holdings in the Americas or to interfere with the newly independent states in the hemisphere; at the same time, the doctrine stated that the U.S. would respect the status of the existing European colonies. Before the American Civil War (1861โ1865), Southern interests attempted to have the United States purchase Cuba and convert it into a new slave territory. The pro-slavery element proposed the Ostend Manifesto proposal of 1854. It was rejected by anti-slavery forces. After the",
"title": "SpanishโAmerican War"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.58,
"text": "Spain. The \"\"Virginius\"\" Affair started a resurgence in the US Navy following the American Civil War; its fleet had been heretofore inferior to the superior warships of Spain. After the American Civil War, the island country of Cuba under Spanish rule was one of the few Western Hemisphere countries in which slavery remained legal and was widely practiced. On October 10, 1868 a revolution broke out, known as the Ten Years' War, by Cuban landowners, led by Carlos Manuel de Cรฉspedes. The Spanish, led initially by Francisco Lersundi, used the military to suppress the rebellion. In 1870, Secretary of State",
"title": "Virginius Affair"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.47,
"text": "Spain. On April 25, the United States declared war. America claimed to have had no self-serving interest in Cuba, but some political and military leaders and imperialists did believe the war would be an opportunity for the United States to expand territories overseas and to demonstrate its increasing naval power against a weak foe. Moreover, the United States sought to expand economic ties with Cuba for its resources in sugar and tobacco, all of which influenced America's decision to intervene. It was evident that gaining territories across the globe would increase the strength and influence of the United States and",
"title": "Battle of Santiago de Cuba"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.39,
"text": "War could have been a very bad decision for the Mexican government. After the Cuban Revolution, there was an increase in \"\"leftist revolutionary propaganda\"\" in Mexico. Some believed that the Cuban Revolution could be seen as a reflection of the Mexican Revolution decades earlier and they became intrigued by the situation in Cuba. Although it would have been difficult for Mexico to outright support the revolution, because of the United States' reaction, many Mexican citizens showed their support through art, music, and other propaganda. After the Cuban Revolution, some Mexicans felt more connected with the socialist country, seeing their struggles",
"title": "CubaโMexico relations"
}
] |
when did veterans day start being called veterans day?
|
[
"June 1, 1954"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 26.03,
"text": "from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26, 1954. It had been eight and a half years since Weeks held his first Armistice Day celebration for all veterans. Congress amended the bill on June 1, 1954, replacing \"\"Armistice\"\" with \"\"Veterans,\"\" and it has been known as Veterans Day since. The National Veterans Award was also created in 1954. Congressman Rees of Kansas received the first National Veterans Award in Birmingham, Alabama, for his support offering legislation to make Veterans Day a federal holiday. Although originally scheduled for celebration on November 11 of every year, starting in 1971 in",
"title": "Veterans Day"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.84,
"text": "U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. Veterans Day is distinct from Memorial Day, a U.S. public holiday in May. Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who \"\"died\"\" while in military service. There is another military holiday, Armed Forces Day, a minor U.S. remembrance that also occurs in May, which honors those \"\"currently serving\"\" in the U.S. military. On November 11, 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issued a message to his countrymen on the first Armistice Day, in which he expressed what he felt the day meant",
"title": "Veterans Day"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.64,
"text": "to Americans: The United States Congress adopted a resolution on June 4, 1926, requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue annual proclamations calling for the observance of November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made November 11 in each year a legal holiday: \"\"a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'.\"\" In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just",
"title": "Veterans Day"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.5,
"text": "accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday of October (October 25, 1971; October 23, 1972; October 22, 1973; October 28, 1974; October 27, 1975; October 25, 1976, and October 24, 1977). In 1978, it was moved back to its original celebration on November 11. While the legal holiday remains on November 11, if that date happens to be on a Saturday or Sunday, then organizations that formally observe the holiday will normally be closed on the adjacent Friday or Monday, respectively. Because it is a federal holiday, some American workers and many",
"title": "Veterans Day"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.45,
"text": "Veterans Day Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is an official United States public holiday observed annually on November 11, honoring military veterans, that is, persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day which are celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. At the urging of major",
"title": "Veterans Day"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.39,
"text": "the inaugural Veterans' Day (now called Armed Forces Day), first held on 27 June 2006. As well as celebrating the achievements of members of the armed forces, at the first event for the celebration Brown said: Scots and people from the rest of the UK share the purposeโthat Britain has something to say to the rest of the world about the values of freedom, democracy, and the dignity of the people that you stand up for. So at a time when people can talk about football and devolution and money, it is important that we also remember the values that",
"title": "Britishness"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.06,
"text": "it is a day for honoring all veterans.\"\" Veterans Day Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is an official United States public holiday observed annually on November 11, honoring military veterans, that is, persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day which are celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany",
"title": "Veterans Day"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.86,
"text": "November fall on a weekday. This became Remembrance Sunday. After the end of World War II, most member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, like the United Kingdom and (as Canada had in 1931), adopted the name Remembrance Day. Other countries also changed the name of the holiday just prior to or after World War II, to honor veterans of that and subsequent conflicts. The United States chose All Veterans Day, later shortened to 'Veterans Day', to explicitly honor military veterans, including those participating in other conflicts. \"\"For more detail on commemorations of war in different countries, see \"\"Remembrance Day.",
"title": "Armistice Day"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.84,
"text": "be called Veterans' Day in the UK, it is not the same as the United States' Veterans Day which is more similar to Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth. On 25 June 2007, Jim Devine the Member of Parliament for Livingston, tabled a House of Commons Early Day Motion calling for the day to be a public holiday, stating \"\"that this House recognises the outstanding contribution that veterans have made to the country; and believes that Veterans' Day should be a national public holiday across the United Kingdom.\"\" The first Veterans' Day in 2006 saw a series of events across the",
"title": "Armed Forces Day (United Kingdom)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.77,
"text": "Veterans Day. The proclamation called \"\"upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that commemorate the 50 year anniversary of the Vietnam War.\"\" National Vietnam War Veterans Day National Vietnam War Veterans Day is a US holiday observed annually on March 29. It recognizes veterans who served in the US military during the Vietnam War. It should not be confused with Veterans Day. On March 28, 2017, President Donald J. Trump signed the \"\"Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017\"\". This act officially recognizes March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. The Act also",
"title": "National Vietnam War Veterans Day"
}
] |
when did big air snowboarding become an olympic sport?
|
[
"2018"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.12,
"text": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Men's big air The men's big air competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 21 and 24 February 2018 at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The event was making its Olympic debut. Due to a broken shoulder caused by a crash in training for the slopestyle, Niek van der Velden was not able to compete. The top 40 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified (for both big air and slopestyle, the rankings were combined). This meant only a maximum of 40 could qualify across both",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Men's big air"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.12,
"text": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Men's big air The men's big air competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 21 and 24 February 2018 at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The event was making its Olympic debut. Due to a broken shoulder caused by a crash in training for the slopestyle, Niek van der Velden was not able to compete. The top 40 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified (for both big air and slopestyle, the rankings were combined). This meant only a maximum of 40 could qualify across both",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Men's big air"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.67,
"text": "down a course with jumps, beams and other obstacles. On July 11, 2011, the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board approved the addition of Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle to the Winter Olympics roster of events, effective in 2014. The decision was announced via press conference from the IOC's meeting in Durban, South Africa. A fifth event, parallel slalom, was added only for 2014. Big air was added for 2018. Six athletes have won at least two medals. Shaun White of the United States is the only triple gold medalist. Philipp Schoch of Switzerland and Seth Wescott of the United States are",
"title": "Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.66,
"text": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Women's big air The women's big air competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 19 and 22 February 2018 at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The event made its Olympic debut. The top 30 athletes in the Olympic quota allocation list qualified (for both big air and slopestyle, the rankings were combined). This meant only a maximum of 30 could qualify across both events. A maximum of four athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed. All athletes qualifying must also have placed in the top 30",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Women's big air"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.39,
"text": "specific trick to win the major prize. Since 2003, big air has been featured in the X Games and the FIS Snowboard World Championships. In 2018, big air became the newest snowboarding event introduced in the Olympic Games. Big air Big air is a sports discipline where the competitor rides a vehicle, such as a skateboard, a ski (called \"\"ski big air\"\"), a snowboard, or a motocross motorcycle; down a hill or ramp and performs tricks after launching off very large jumps. In most versions, there is but one large jump, and therefore only one opportunity to perform a trick.",
"title": "Big air"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.89,
"text": "courses or multiple people on the course at the same time (SBX). Some of the larger snowboarding contests include: the european Air & Style, the japanese X-Trail Jam, Burton Global Open Series, Shakedown, FIS World Championships, the annual FIS World Cup, the Winter X Games and the Winter Dew Tour. Snowboarding has been a Winter Olympic sport since 1998 Winter Olympics. Events have changed through the years. During the 2018 Winter Olympics, the snowboarding events were big air, halfpipe, parallel giant slalom, slopestyle and snowboard cross. Snowboarder Magazine's Superpark event was created in 1996. Over 150 of the World's top",
"title": "Snowboarding"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.45,
"text": "events. A maximum of four athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC) was allowed. All athletes qualifying must also have placed in the top 30 of a FIS World Cup event (in either big air or slopestyle) or the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018) and also have a minimum of 50 FIS points to compete. If the host country, South Korea, did not qualify, their chosen athlete would displace the last qualified athlete, granted all qualification criterion was met. The final was held on 24 February 2018.",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Men's big air"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.16,
"text": "Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga, James Taylor, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, and Dead & Company. Polartec Big Air At Fenway is the first big air snowboarding and skiing competition that was held on February 11โ12, 2016. This is event was part of the U.S. Grand Prix Tour and the International Ski Federation's World Tour. Notable winter athletes that competed are Ty Walker, Sage Kotsenburg, and Joss Christensen. The big air jump was constructed to be about 140 feet tall, standing above the lights of the stadium. Frank Fallon was the first public address (PA) announcer for the Red Sox, and held",
"title": "Fenway Park"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "the league is still competing at a lower level than club teams established across the U.S. In 2015, the International Olympic Committee granted full recognition to the World Flying Disc Federation for flying disc sports including Ultimate. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the United States in the 1960s, became a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1998 and first featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014. Australian rules football in the United States was first played in the country in 1996. The United States Australian Football League",
"title": "Sports in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.97,
"text": "of a FIS World Cup event (in either big air or slopestyle) or the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2017 during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018) and also have a minimum of 50 FIS points to compete. If the host country, South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics did not qualify, their chosen athlete would displace the last qualified athlete, granted all qualification criterion was met. The top 12 athletes in the qualifiers moved on to the medal round. The final was held on 22 February 2018. Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics",
"title": "Snowboarding at the 2018 Winter Olympics โ Women's big air"
}
] |
who played in the most world series games?
|
[
"the New York Yankees"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.03,
"text": "Nen, Troy Percival, and Brad Lidge for most saves in one postseason year, with 7 (since then, Greg Holland matched this record the next year). In addition, Lester joined Babe Ruth as the only Red Sox lefthanders to win three World Series games. Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame members Carlton Fisk and Luis Tiant, both of whom played in historic Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, threw ceremonial first pitches. Boston won Game 6 in a rout, by scoring six runs on the Cardinals rookie Michael Wacha, who had previously been unbeaten in the playoffs. World Series Most",
"title": "2013 World Series"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.08,
"text": "assists (4,666). At the time of his last game, he had also appeared in the most World Series games ever (52), a record soon surpassed by five of his Yankees teammates. Rizzuto still holds numerous World Series records for shortstops, including the most career games played, singles, walks, times on base, stolen bases, at-bats, putouts, assists and double plays. Rizzuto married Cora Anne Ellenborn on June 23, 1943; the two first met the previous year when Rizzuto substituted for Joe DiMaggio as a speaker at a Newark communion breakfast. \"\"I fell in love so hard I didn't go home\"\", Rizzuto",
"title": "Phil Rizzuto"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.06,
"text": "for most innings played in a World Series game, set by Game 2 in 1916, at 14, was broken by Game 3 in 2018, at 18. Just like their first matchup in the World Series, the Red Sox would eventually go on to defeat the Dodgers in five games to win their ninth World Series championship. Until the ninth, Boston starter Ernie Shore was in control. Holding a comfortable 6-1 lead, a walk, hit batter, error and bases-loaded walk to Fred Merkle finally forced the Red Sox to call on Carl Mays from the bullpen to preserve a 6-5 win.",
"title": "1916 World Series"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.92,
"text": "in Terre Haute stretching back to 1884 that includes some of the most famous names associated with the game, including Hall-of-Famers Mordecai Brown and Max Carey, Josh Devore, Negro League Baseball All-Star Junius Bibbs, Vic Aldridge, Art Nehf (who holds the National League record for most World Series games pitched), Paul \"\"Dizzy\"\" Trout, Jim \"\"Jumbo\"\" Elliott, Harry Taylor and Bill Butland. More recent professional stars include pitcher Tommy John; (who won 288 games in his 26-year major league career) and catcher Brian Dorsett, both of whom played for the New York Yankees during their careers. Terre Haute North grad Josh",
"title": "Terre Haute, Indiana"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.78,
"text": "Mathewson and Waite Hoyt, with the second most World Series starts. Whitey Ford is in front with 22 starts. Pettitte has played in 8 different World Series (7 with the Yankees, and one with the Astros), and been on the winning end of 19 postseason series โ both of which are tops among active players. Andy Pettitte's final postseason appearance was on Saturday, October 13, 2012 which was game one of the 2012 ALCS. Pettitte received a no decision in the game which the Yankees would lose in 12 innings. On February 16, 2015, the Yankees announced that they would",
"title": "Andy Pettitte"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.58,
"text": "shared by the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Athletics, who also had five World Series titles. The Yankees also tied the American League record at that time for the most World Series appearances with eight, also shared with the Athletics. They broke both records the following year. The Giants appeared in their 11th World Series, extending the record they already held at that time, and their seventh World Series defeat also extended the record they already owned. DiMaggio would go on to be the only person to play on four World Championship teams in his first four years in",
"title": "1936 World Series"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.25,
"text": "1960 World Series The 1960 World Series was played between the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League (NL) and the New York Yankees of the American League (AL) from October 5 to 13, 1960. It is most notable for the Game 7, ninth-inning home run hit by Bill Mazeroski, the only time a winner-take-all World Series game has ended with a walk-off home run. Despite losing the series, the Yankees scored 55 runs, the most runs scored by any one team in World Series history, a unique record, and more than twice as many as the Pirates, who scored 27",
"title": "1960 World Series"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "1969 (losing to the \"\"amazing\"\" eight-year-old franchise New York Mets), 1970 (beating the Reds in their first World Series appearance of the decade), and 1971 (losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, as well their 1979 appearance, when they again lost to the Pirates), and the Los Angeles Dodgers' back-to-back World Series appearances in 1977 and 1978 (both losses to the New York Yankees), as well in 1974 losing against the cross-state rival Oakland Athletics. Game 6 of the 1975 World Series is regarded by most as one of the greatest World Series games ever played. It found the Boston Red Sox",
"title": "World Series"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.17,
"text": "The Los Angeles Dodgers, however, won three of the next four games and captured their first World Series championship since moving to the west coast in 1958. 92,706 fans witnessed Game 5 of the World Series at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the most ever to attend a World Series game, or for that matter any non-exhibition major league baseball game. The White Sox won that game 1โ0 over the Dodgers' 23-year-old pitcher Sandy Koufax, but the Dodgers clinched the series by beating the Sox 9โ3 two days later at Comiskey Park. Fox became the last player in the 20th",
"title": "1959 Chicago White Sox season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.12,
"text": "double by Garret Anderson was the difference in the Angels' Game seven win to clinch the series. Glaus was named the World Series Most Valuable Player. The two teams set a record for combined most home runs in a World Series (21), which stood until 2017. This was the fourth World Series played between two teams from California and the last World Series as of today involving two teams from the same state. The 1974 World Series saw the Oakland Athletics defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers; the series saw the Dodgers getting revenge by defeating the Athletics. In the San",
"title": "2002 World Series"
}
] |
who sings i can't stop this feeling anymore?
|
[
"American rock band REO Speedwagon"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.83,
"text": "Can't Stop the Feeling! \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling!\"\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for the soundtrack to the film \"\"Trolls\"\" (2016), for which he served as the executive music producer. It was written and produced by Timberlake, Max Martin, and Shellback. Musically, it is an uptempo disco-pop, soul-pop number with funk influences. The song was released as a single on May 6, 2016, six months before the film debuted, and serviced to contemporary hit radio on May 10, 2016. Timberlake gave his first televised performance of \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling!\"\" during the interval act of the",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.81,
"text": "audience.\"\" Credits adapted from the liner notes of the CD single of \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling\"\" (RCA Records). Can't Stop the Feeling! \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling!\"\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for the soundtrack to the film \"\"Trolls\"\" (2016), for which he served as the executive music producer. It was written and produced by Timberlake, Max Martin, and Shellback. Musically, it is an uptempo disco-pop, soul-pop number with funk influences. The song was released as a single on May 6, 2016, six months before the film debuted, and serviced to contemporary hit radio on May 10,",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.77,
"text": "version featured in the soundtrack album includes additional vocals from Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel and Gwen Stefani. In June 2016, American country music group Lady Antebellum covered the song in a live performance in Columbus, Ohio. Jon Freeman of \"\"Rolling Stone\"\" commented it \"\"evoked the loose spirit of a jam band unwinding at a summer festival.\"\" Country performer Hunter Hayes covered the song when he headlined The Paramount in Huntington, New York in June 2017. An editor from Digital Journal opined it was \"\"in a clever fashion, which was great deal of fun, both for him and the",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.62,
"text": "I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got \"\"I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got\"\" is a song by the English indie rock band Razorlight, and is the sixth track on their 2006 second album, \"\"Razorlight\"\". The song was released 19 March 2007 as the fourth single from that album in the United Kingdom, peaking at #44 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was the first single from the album to fail to enter the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Following its #44 debut, it fell to #59 in its second week and dropped out of the top",
"title": "I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.58,
"text": "75 altogether in its third week. I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got \"\"I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got\"\" is a song by the English indie rock band Razorlight, and is the sixth track on their 2006 second album, \"\"Razorlight\"\". The song was released 19 March 2007 as the fourth single from that album in the United Kingdom, peaking at #44 in the UK Singles Chart. The song was the first single from the album to fail to enter the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Following its #44 debut, it fell to #59 in its second week",
"title": "I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23,
"text": "France of CNN Entertainment, \"\"If Friday had a sound, it would be Justin Timberlake's \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling!\"\".\"\" Ed Masley wrote in AZCentral \"\"the lyrics sound like they were custom-made to be the soundtrack to your favorite summer memories.\"\" For \"\"The A.V. Club\"\", Annie Zaleski wrote \"\"a perfect summer song is one I can blast while driving in the car with the windows down. The tune doesnโt have to be meaningfulโin fact, the more lightweight, the betterโand it should offer a few minutes of unadulterated escapism. This year, I can already tell that \"\"Canโt Stop The Feeling!\"\" is my hot-weather",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23,
"text": "Can't Stop Feeling \"\"Can't Stop Feeling\"\" is a song by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. It was released as the third single from their third studio album, \"\"\"\" (2009), on 6 July 2009. The song failed to chart in the United Kingdom, this becoming the first Franz Ferdinand single not to chart the UK top 100. In France, however, the song debuted at #79 in the French top 100 Singles Charts. It spent another 1 week on the chart giving the song a total of 2 weeks. \"\"Can't Stop Feeling\"\" first surfaced as one of the songs recorded at",
"title": "Can't Stop Feeling"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.88,
"text": "run to number one for a (non-holiday) song by a male artist in 17 years, since Phil Collins' \"\"You'll Be in My Heart\"\" needed only six weeks in 1999. Among all songs, \"\"Feeling\"\" made the fastest trip to number one on AC since Adele's \"\"Hello\"\": four weeks, in November 2015. Timberlake also earned his sixth number-one on Dance Club Songs with \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling!\"\". He reached the top of the chart without the aid of officially commissioned remixes. However, versions from Barry Harris, Fenix and Erick Decks, among others, have helped bring the song to club crowds. \"\"Can't Stop",
"title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.83,
"text": "single \"\"I Can't Stop Feeling\"\" in Spanish as \"\"Yo No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti\"\". The song, written by Teemu Brunila and Kid Crazy, and adapted for Spanish by Josรฉ Valdes, was first performed on VIVA Live. On 3 December 2010, Queensberry announced it would make a label change and release an album in 2011. During spring and summer of 2011, the group performed throughout Germany on their \"\"Pink Chocolate Tour\"\". The girls guest star on the album of German rapper KittyKat, and featured on a single called No Time For Suckers In April 2012 it was announced that Selina Herrero",
"title": "Queensberry (band)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.61,
"text": "film was released in November 2016, and will return for its sequel \"\"Trolls 2\"\" in 2020. He also served as the executive music producer, performing original music for the film, The lead single, \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling!\"\", was released on May 6, 2016. Timberlake was invited by Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), to perform \"\"Can't Stop the Feeling\"\" live during the interval act at the grand finale of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 on May 14, 2016. The single debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. \"\"Billboard\"\" Hot 100, and reached the top spot in other 16 countries. It became",
"title": "Justin Timberlake"
}
] |
who is the month of may named after?
|
[
"the Greek Goddess Maia"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.23,
"text": "a poem about the Roman calendar. The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, the goddess of marriage and the wife of the supreme deity Jupiter; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word \"\"iuniores\"\", meaning \"\"younger ones\"\", as opposed to \"\"maiores\"\" (\"\"elders\"\") for which the preceding month May \"\"(Maius)\"\" may be named. Another source claims June is named after Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the roman Republic and ancestor of the Roman gens Junia . In ancient Rome, the period from mid-May through mid-June was considered inauspicious for marriage. Ovid says",
"title": "June"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.12,
"text": "Greek Goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May. Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the \"\"maiores,\"\" Latin for \"\"elders,\"\" and that the following month (June) is named for the \"\"iuniores,\"\" or \"\"young people\"\" (\"\"Fasti VI.88\"\"). Mayovka, in the context of the late Russian Empire, was a picnic in the countryside or in a park in the early days of May, hence the name. Eventually, \"\"mayovka\"\" (specifically, \"\"proletarian mayovka\"\") came to mean an",
"title": "May"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "May L. Cheney May Lucretia Shepard Cheney (May 11, 1862 โ April 22, 1942) was born during the Civil War in Garden Grove, Iowa, and was named after the month in which she was born, and her maternal grandmother who influenced her childhood. May's early school attendance was in her hometown. She attended high schools in Oakland and Chico, California before enrolling at UCB in 1879. With her widowed mother, she settled at \"\"2020 Hearst Avenue\"\" (then \"\"College Way\"\"), in a house with a watermill in the rear yard. Residing in the same house was Lemuel Warren Cheney (1858โ1921), a",
"title": "May L. Cheney"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.47,
"text": "of the University of Hong Kong were named after him. Also, the Helena May Foundation was named after his wife. Francis Henry May Sir Francis Henry May (Chinese Translated Name: ๆข
ๅซ็) (14 March 1860 โ 6 February 1922) was a British colonial administrator who was Governor of Fiji from 1911 to 1912, and Governor of Hong Kong from 1912 to 1918. May was born in Dublin, Ireland on 14 March 1860. He was the 4th son of Rt. Hon. George Augustus Chichester May, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and his wife Olivia Barrington. May was educated at Harrow School and",
"title": "Francis Henry May"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.38,
"text": "May May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the third of seven months to have a length of 31 days. May is a month of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa. Late May typically marks the of the summer vacation season in the United States and Canada and ends on Labor Day, the first Monday of September. The month of May (in Latin, \"\"Maius\"\") was named for the",
"title": "May"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.12,
"text": "believed to be named after saintly empress. By tradition this was the feast-day of Saint Helena on 21 May, but this date has been shown in a 2015 paper to have been originated by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten who mistakenly quoted the Protestant feast-day for this saint for a discovery made two decades before the start of the Reformation, so the Catholic feast-day of the True Cross on 3 May has been suggested as more likely. Legendarily, Nova anchors on the western side of the island and builds a timber chapel on the location of what will become future Jamestown.",
"title": "3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.89,
"text": "mystery. One theory is that Mephan Ferguson (owner of the local foundry) was responsible for naming the area, in honour of his aunt and daughter whom were both named May. Another theory is the area was named by Edgar. W. Hamer (Golds Estates of Australia) after he inspected land in the locality sometime in the month of May. The Peninsula Hotel is located on Railway Parade in Maylands, Perth. The hotel was built in 1906 by well known building contractor, Friederich Wilhelm Gustave Liebe. \"\"See also Maylands Airport\"\" The Maylands Aerodrome was built at Maylands to support West Australian Airways",
"title": "Maylands, Western Australia"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.86,
"text": "a co-founder of the awareness campaign Asteroid Day. Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named after him. May is also an animal rights activist, campaigning against the hunting of foxes and the culling of badgers in the UK. Brian Harold May was born on 19 July 1947 in Hampton, Middlesex, the only child of Ruth Irving (Fletcher) and Harold May, who worked as a draughtsman at the Ministry of Aviation. His mother was Scottish, while his father was English. May attended the local Hampton Grammar School, then a voluntary aided school. During this time, he formed his first band, named 1984 after",
"title": "Brian May"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.86,
"text": "politics, and President Truman decided to grant May a full pardon in 1952. Unable to revive his political career, he returned home to practice law until his death. May died in Prestonsburg, Kentucky on September 6, 1959, and is buried in Mayo Cemetery. The lodge at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, was named after May by Governor Bert T. Combs. Andrew J. May Andrew Jackson May (June 24, 1875 โ September 6, 1959) was a Kentucky attorney, an influential New Deal-era politician, and chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, infamous for his",
"title": "Andrew J. May"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.86,
"text": "being inserted around midsummer. Charlemagne (r. 768โ814) recorded agricultural Old High German names for the Julian months. These remained in use, with regional variants and innovations, until the end of the medieval period in German-speaking Europe and they persisted in popular or dialectal use into the 19th century. They probably also influenced Fabre d'Eglantine when he named the months of the French Republican Calendar. The only agreement between the Old English and the Old High German (Carolingian) month names is the naming of May as \"\"Easter month\"\". Both traditions have a \"\"holy month\"\", the name of September in the Old",
"title": "Germanic calendar"
}
] |
who has the most petroleum in the world?
|
[
"Venezuela"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.31,
"text": "in the United States, but is responsible for only 2% of electricity generation. Petroleum's worth as a portable, dense energy source powering the vast majority of vehicles and as the base of many industrial chemicals makes it one of the world's most important commodities. The top three oil producing countries are Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States. About 80% of the world's readily accessible reserves are located in the Middle East, with 62.5% coming from the Arab 5: Saudi Arabia (12.5%), UAE, Iraq, Qatar and Kuwait. However, with high oil prices (above $100/barrel), Venezuela has larger reserves than Saudi",
"title": "History of the petroleum industry"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.09,
"text": "In 2005, 40% of this energy came from petroleum, 23% from coal, and 22% from natural gas. The remainder was supplied by nuclear power and renewable energy sources. The United States is the world's largest consumer of petroleum. The United States has 27% of global coal reserves. It is the world's largest producer of natural gas and crude oil. For decades, nuclear power has played a limited role relative to many other developed countries, in part because of public perception in the wake of a 1979 accident. In 2007, several applications for new nuclear plants were filed. Issues that affect",
"title": "United States"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.83,
"text": "is particularly well-endowed with this strategic raw material: five Persian Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar, are among the top ten petroleum or gas exporters worldwide. In Africa, Algeria (10th world) and Libya are important gas exporters. In addition Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, and Sudan all have smaller but significant reserves. Where present, these have had significant effects on regional politics, often enabling rentier states, leading to economic disparities between oil-rich and oil-poor countries, and, particularly in the more sparsely populated states of the Persian Gulf and Libya, triggering extensive labor immigration. It is believed that the",
"title": "Arab world"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.75,
"text": "to a high of 53 percent for the Middle East, South and Central America (44%), Africa (41%), and North America (40%). The world at large consumes 30 billion barrels (4.8 kmยณ) of oil per year, and the top oil consumers largely consist of developed nations. In fact, 24 percent of the oil consumed in 2004 went to the United States alone, though by 2007 this had dropped to 21 percent of world oil consumed. In the US, in the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) represents companies responsible for producing, distributing,",
"title": "Petroleum"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.47,
"text": "tcm), and OPEC (48.7 tcm). However, BP credits Russia with only 31.3 tcm as of 1 January 2014, which would place it in second place, slightly behind Iran (33.1 to 33.8 tcm, depending on the source). In addition to having the world's largest proven reserves of natural gas, according to US Geological Survey estimations, Russia is also likely to have the world's largest volume of still-undiscovered natural gas: a mean probable volume of 6.7 trillion cubic meters. The USGS estimate of Russia's undiscovered oil is 22 billion barrels, second in the world only to those of Iraq. The Russian oil",
"title": "Petroleum industry in Russia"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.39,
"text": "holds about 4 billion tons of proven recoverable oil reserves and 2,000 cubic kilometers (480 cu mi) of gas. Kazakhstan is the world's 17th largest oil exporter and the world's 23rd largest natural gas exporter. Russia has the world's largest natural gas reserves, the 8th largest oil reserves, and the second largest coal reserves. Russia is also the world's leading natural gas exporter and the second largest natural gas producer, while also the largest oil exporter and the largest oil producer. By 2019, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia intend to create a common electricity market as well as a single",
"title": "Eurasian Economic Union"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.11,
"text": "and Subway are the two most recognized brands in the world. Coca-Cola is the most recognized soft drink company in the world. Chemical products are the leading manufacturing field. The United States is the largest producer of oil in the world, as well as its second-largest importer. It is the world's number one producer of electrical and nuclear energy, as well as liquid natural gas, sulfur, phosphates, and salt. The National Mining Association provides data pertaining to coal and minerals that include beryllium, copper, lead, magnesium, zinc, titanium and others. Agriculture accounts for just under 1% of GDP, yet the",
"title": "United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.08,
"text": "refining industry, the worldโs largest, is most heavily concentrated along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana. In 2012, US refiners produced 18.5 million barrels per day of refined petroleum products. Of this amount, 15 percent was exported. As of 2012 the US was the worldโs second largest net exporter of refined petroleum products. Refined petroleum products destined for retail consumption is transferred to bulk terminals by pipeline, barge, or rail. From the bulk terminal, the product is usually trucked to the retail outlets. As of February 2014, there were 153,000 service stations selling motor fuel in the US, including",
"title": "Petroleum in the United States"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.02,
"text": "the world. There are numerous deposits of oil sands in the world, but the biggest and most important are in Canada and Venezuela, with lesser deposits in Kazakhstan and Russia. The total volume of non-conventional oil in the oil sands of these countries exceeds the reserves of conventional oil in all other countries combined. Vast deposits of bitumen โ over 350 billion cubic metres (2.2 trillion barrels) of oil in place โ exist in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. If only 30% of this oil could be extracted, it could supply the entire needs of North America for",
"title": "Oil sands"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 19.98,
"text": "primarily in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt, are estimated to approximately equal the world's reserves of lighter oil. Petrรณleos de Venezuela S.A. has estimated that the producible reserves of the Orinoco Belt are up to which would make it the largest petroleum reserve in the world, slightly ahead of the similar unconventional oil source in the Athabasca oil sands, and before Saudi Arabia In 2009, the US Geological Survey increased the estimated reserves to of oil which is \"\"technically recoverable (producible using currently available technology and industry practices).\"\" No estimate of how much of the oil is economically recoverable was made.",
"title": "Orinoco Belt"
}
] |
who is the sister of for king and country?
|
[
"Rebecca St. James"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.33,
"text": "For King & Country (band) For King & Country, stylized as for KING & COUNTRY and formerly known as Joel & Luke as well as Austoville, is a Christian pop duo composed of Australian brothers Joel (born 5 June 1984) and Luke Smallbone (born 22 October 1986). The Nashville-based brothers' 2012 debut record \"\"Crave\"\" has received praise, and the brothers were declared by \"\"Billboard\"\" as one of the \"\"New Artists To Watch\"\" for 2012. \"\"American Songwriter\"\" described them as \"\"Australia's answer to Coldplay.\"\" During high school, the brothers supplied background vocals and other supporting roles for their sister, Rebecca St.",
"title": "For King & Country (band)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.8,
"text": "in 1991, after their father's job relocation. Their father was a music promoter, and Joel recalls, \"\"going to these rock concerts, sitting on my father's shoulders, plugging my ears...Honestly, in a lot of ways I feel like music chose me and as I grew older, I made a clear decision to fully lean into it.\"\" The Smallbones are the younger brothers of Christian recording artist and speaker Rebecca St. James, and the brothers-in-law of Jacob Fink, former bassist for the band Foster the People. They were raised with another sister, Libby, and three other brothers, Ben, Dan, and Josh. On",
"title": "For King & Country (band)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.2,
"text": "2007, King's sister Yolanda King died after collapsing and was unable to be revived. King delivered the eulogy at her sister's memorial on May 24, 2007. During Yolanda King's eulogy, King admitted that her death was even more difficult than her mother's and said her sister often addressed her as her \"\"one and only sister.\"\" She added, \"\"It's very difficult standing here blessed as her one and only sister. Yolanda, from your one and only, I thank you for being a sister and for being a friend.\"\" She joined her brothers in lighting candles in their sister's memory. With her",
"title": "Bernice King"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.09,
"text": "Blonde Electra Blonde Electra (formerly Blonde Electric) are a British pop duo consisting of British-German sisters Jasmina \"\"Jazzy\"\" King (born 19 February 1990) and Natalia \"\"Ruby\"\" King (born 7 May 1992). They formed the group in 2013 in Dรผsseldorf, Germany, after leaving their previous band KING. The two sisters have been making music from an early age and have worked as songwriters in Europe and the United States. They are best known for their performances in the eleventh UK series of \"\"The X Factor\"\" in the 'Group' category, mentored by Louis Walsh. The duo reached the finals and took part",
"title": "Blonde Electra"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.98,
"text": "the sister of Edward V and Richard Duke of York, were present throughout Tyrrell's trial. Contemporary documents originally retrieved by scholar Rosemary Horrox record the king and queen were lodged in the Royal Apartments at the Tower during Tyrrell's trial, which was not held at the Tower itself. Starkey assumed this as validating More's account of Tyrrell's alleged confession and argued that it finally confirmed him as the man who oversaw the murder of the Queen's brothers, presumably at the behest of Tyrrell's overlord Richard III. However, the programme ended without any proof, other explanations, or rebuttals being offered for",
"title": "James Tyrrell"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.98,
"text": "aged 88, in Plano, Texas. Maxine King Thomas died on May 13, 2009, aged 97 in Corona, California.Yvonne \"\"Vonnie\"\" King Burch died on December 13, 2009, aged 89, after suffering a fall at her home in Santa Barbara, California. Marilyn King died on August 7, 2013, aged 82, from cancer, also in California; she was the last surviving sister. The King Sisters The King Sisters were an American big band-era vocal group consisting of six sisters: Alyce, Donna, Luise, Marilyn, Maxine, and Yvonne King. Born and raised in Pleasant Grove, Utah, the King Sisters were part of the Driggs Family",
"title": "The King Sisters"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.94,
"text": "The King Sisters The King Sisters were an American big band-era vocal group consisting of six sisters: Alyce, Donna, Luise, Marilyn, Maxine, and Yvonne King. Born and raised in Pleasant Grove, Utah, the King Sisters were part of the Driggs Family of Entertainers. Their father was William King Driggs. Their first professional job was with a Salt Lake City radio station, from which they graduated to a station in Oakland, California. In the early 1930s sisters Luise, Maxine, and Alyce formed a vocal trio along the lines of their idols, the Boswell Sisters, and traveled to San Francisco to audition",
"title": "The King Sisters"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.94,
"text": "Sisters\"\" was annotated by Charles Booth, the King's Company prompter. The annotations reveal specific details of the revival production's staging (including music cues and the prompter's whistle signals for scenery changes), and mention fifteen members of the company by name, including Nell Gwyn and Margaret Hughes. The play is set in the northern Italian city-state of Parma, which is under the rule of Prince Farnese. Paulina and Angellina are the two noble sisters of the title, the nieces of Antonio. Paulina, proud and extravagant, is determined to marry the prince; Angellina is her temperamental opposite, gentle, modest, eager to become",
"title": "The Sisters (play)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.92,
"text": "dairymaid; Dick, from a failed marriage; and Dick's sister, who lives in Holland and is not really part of the story. Following some nearby violence, Honor moves to Menabilly, the home of her sister and brother-in-law, where she again meets Richard, who is posted in Plymouth as a leader of the King's army in the west of England. During the war, Richard is wounded, and Honor tends to him in his weakness. The Parliamentarians take Cornwall, and Richard flees the country. He is part of a Royalist rebellion, though, some years later. He is betrayed: it is suggested that the",
"title": "The King's General"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 19.73,
"text": "his weapons business. He also has an even darker agenda waiting to be revealed. The Princess of South Korea. Prince Jae-ha and King Jae-kang's younger sister. A royal by day and an underground rock band singer by night. She has a somewhat naughty sense of humor, which once got her arrested by Eun Shi-kyung (not knowing her true identity) when she dressed down and made fun of her royal self. However, she is paralyzed after her brother Jae-kang's death and her kidnapping. Jae-ha's and Jae-shin's oldest brother is the King of South Korea, a caring and responsible man to both",
"title": "The King 2 Hearts"
}
] |
who developed the first periodic table with 8 columns?
|
[
"Dmitri Mendeleev"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.59,
"text": "expanded, but not changed as a principle. The oldest periodic table is the short form table (columns IโVIII) by Dmitri Mendeleev, which shows secondary chemical kinships. For example, the alkali metals and the coinage metals (copper, silver, gold) are in the same column because both groups tend to have a valence of one. This format is still used by many, as shown by this contemporary Russian short form table, which includes all elements and element names until roentgenium. H. G. Deming used the so-called long periodic table (18 columns) in his textbook \"\"General Chemistry\"\", which appeared in the USA for",
"title": "Alternative periodic tables"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.2,
"text": "below, while the f-block only has 14 columns. One lanthanide and actinide each are d-block elements, belonging to group 3 with scandium and yttrium, though whether these are the first of each series (lanthanum and actinium) or the last (lutetium and lawrencium) has been disputed. The tables below show lanthanum and actinium as group 3 elements, as this is the more common form in the literature. Although precursors to this table exist, its invention is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Mendeleev invented the table to illustrate recurring (\"\"periodic\"\") trends in the properties of the elements. The",
"title": "Periodic table (detailed cells)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.91,
"text": "German chemist Julius Lothar Meyer independently published their periodic tables in 1869 and 1870, respectively. Mendeleev's table was his first published version; that of Meyer was an expanded version of his (Meyer's) table of 1864. They both constructed their tables by listing the elements in rows or columns in order of atomic weight and starting a new row or column when the characteristics of the elements began to repeat. The recognition and acceptance afforded to Mendeleev's table came from two decisions he made. The first was to leave gaps in the table when it seemed that the corresponding element had",
"title": "Periodic table"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.78,
"text": "the work of Dmitri Mendeleev had been published. In 1864, the English chemist John Newlands classified the sixty-two known elements into eight groups, based on their physical properties. Newlands noted that many pairs of similar elements existed, which differed by some multiple of eight in mass number, and was the first to assign them an atomic number. When his 'law of octaves' was printed in \"\"Chemistry News\"\", likening this periodicity of eights to the musical scale, it was ridiculed by some of his contemporaries. His lecture to the Chemistry Society on 1 March 1866 was not published, the Society defending",
"title": "History of the periodic table"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.53,
"text": "form (as shown at various other points in this article), is attributable to Horace Groves Deming. In 1923, Deming, an American chemist, published short (Mendeleev style) and medium (18-column) form periodic tables. Merck and Company prepared a handout form of Deming's 18-column medium table, in 1928, which was widely circulated in American schools. By the 1930s Deming's table was appearing in handbooks and encyclopaedias of chemistry. It was also distributed for many years by the Sargent-Welch Scientific Company. With the development of modern quantum mechanical theories of electron configurations within atoms, it became apparent that each period (row) in the",
"title": "Periodic table"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.98,
"text": "with a diagonal straight line drawn between the metals and the nonmetals. In 1906, Alexander Smith published a periodic table with a zigzag line separating the nonmetals from the rest of elements, in his highly influential textbook \"\"Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry.\"\" In 1923, Horace G. Deming, an American chemist, published short (Mendeleev style) and medium (18-column) form periodic tables. Each one had a regular stepped line separating metals from nonmetals. Merck and Company prepared a handout form of Deming's 18-column table, in 1928, which was widely circulated in American schools. By the 1930s Deming's table was appearing in handbooks",
"title": "Dividing line between metals and nonmetals"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.73,
"text": "many of his predictions within his lifetime brought fame to Mendeleev as the founder of the periodic law. This organization surpassed earlier attempts at classification by Alexandre-รmile Bรฉguyer de Chancourtois, who published the telluric helix, an early, three-dimensional version of the periodic table of the elements in 1862, John Newlands, who proposed the law of octaves (a precursor to the periodic law) in 1864, and Lothar Meyer, who developed an early version of the periodic table with 28 elements organized by valence in 1864. Mendeleev's table did not include any of the noble gases, however, which had not yet been",
"title": "History of chemistry"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.67,
"text": "state characteristic of the alkali metals), together into a group. His table placed hydrogen with the halogens. After 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev proposed his periodic table placing lithium at the top of a group with sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and thallium. Two years later, Mendeleev revised his table, placing hydrogen in group 1 above lithium, and also moving thallium to the boron group. In this 1871 version, copper, silver, and gold were placed twice, once as part of group IB, and once as part of a \"\"group VIII\"\" encompassing today's groups 8 to 11. After the introduction of the 18-column table,",
"title": "Alkali metal"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.28,
"text": "observed that carbon often has four other atoms bonded to it. Methane, for example, has one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. This concept eventually became known as valency; different elements bond with different numbers of atoms. In 1862, Alexandre-Emile Bรฉguyer de Chancourtois, a French geologist, published an early form of periodic table, which he called the telluric helix or screw. He was the first person to notice the periodicity of the elements. With the elements arranged in a spiral on a cylinder by order of increasing atomic weight, de Chancourtois showed that elements with similar properties seemed to occur",
"title": "Periodic table"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.28,
"text": "displayed are four simple rectangular areas or blocks associated with the filling of different atomic orbitals. The organization of the periodic table can be used to derive relationships between the various element properties, but also the predicted chemical properties and behaviours of undiscovered or newly synthesized elements. Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was the first to publish a recognizable periodic table in 1869, developed mainly to illustrate periodic trends of the then-known elements. He also predicted some properties of unidentified elements that were expected to fill gaps within the table. Most of his forecasts proved to be correct. Mendeleev's idea has",
"title": "Periodic table"
}
] |
who plays skyler on lab rats elite force?
|
[
"Paris Berelc"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.47,
"text": "Lab Rats: Elite Force Lab Rats: Elite Force is an American comedy television series created by Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore that aired on Disney XD from March 2 to October 22, 2016. The series is a combined spinoff of \"\"Lab Rats\"\" and \"\"Mighty Med\"\" and stars William Brent, Bradley Steven Perry, Jake Short, Paris Berelc, and Kelli Berglund. Davenport has come up with a plan to form an elite team of bionic heroes and superheroes to fight a common threat from their headquarters in Centium City. He puts his plan into action after villains have destroyed Mighty Med Hospital.",
"title": "Lab Rats: Elite Force"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 21.22,
"text": "of \"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\", \"\"The Attack\"\", which aired on October 22, 2016. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media gave the series four out of five stars. Lab Rats: Elite Force Lab Rats: Elite Force is an American comedy television series created by Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore that aired on Disney XD from March 2 to October 22, 2016. The series is a combined spinoff of \"\"Lab Rats\"\" and \"\"Mighty Med\"\" and stars William Brent, Bradley Steven Perry, Jake Short, Paris Berelc, and Kelli Berglund. Davenport has come up with a plan to form an elite team of bionic",
"title": "Lab Rats: Elite Force"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.58,
"text": "Rats\"\" were reported to be returning for the new series, alongside Bradley Steven Perry, Jake Short, and Paris Berelc from \"\"Mighty Med\"\". It was subsequently announced that \"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\" would premiere on Disney XD on March 2, 2016. Lab Rats (U.S. TV series) Lab Rats, also known as Lab Rats: Bionic Island for the fourth season, is an American comedy television series created by Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore that aired on Disney XD from February 27, 2012 to February 3, 2016. The series stars Billy Unger, Spencer Boldman, Kelli Berglund, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and Hal Sparks. A",
"title": "Lab Rats (U.S. TV series)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 20.38,
"text": "Billy Unger William Brent Unger (born October 15, 1995) is an American actor. He is known for playing Chase on the Disney XD series \"\"Lab Rats\"\" and \"\"\"\". Credited as Billy Unger before 2016, starting with \"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\" he is credited as William Brent. Unger was born in Palm Beach County, Florida. He moved to Hollywood with his family in 2006. Since moving to LA, Unger has guest starred on Disney XD's \"\"Kickin' It\"\", Disney Channel's \"\"Sonny with a Chance\"\" and \"\"A.N.T. Farm\"\", and on \"\"No Ordinary Family\"\", \"\"Ghost Whisperer\"\", \"\"Hawthorne\"\", \"\"\"\", \"\"Mental\"\", \"\"Medium\"\", \"\"Desperate Housewives\"\", \"\"Cold Case\"\",",
"title": "Billy Unger"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.19,
"text": "\"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\" is created by Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore, the duo who created \"\"Lab Rats\"\". It is produced by Britelite Productions and It's a Laugh Productions for Disney XD. On September 3, 2015, it was announced that \"\"Lab Rats\"\" and \"\"Mighty Med\"\" would have a joint spinoff series called \"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\". Only William Brent, formerly credited as Billy Unger, and Kelli Berglund from \"\"Lab Rats\"\" and Bradley Steven Perry, Jake Short, and Paris Berelc from \"\"Mighty Med\"\" were announced as returning for the new spinoff series. Production on the series began in October 2015. It",
"title": "Lab Rats: Elite Force"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 20.06,
"text": "after its second season and would be followed by a spinoff series called \"\"\"\" that will also include two characters from \"\"Lab Rats\"\". Jake Short, Bradley Steven Perry, and Paris Berelc were the only cast members that were announced as returning for the spinoff series. It was subsequently announced that \"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\" would premiere on Disney XD on March 2, 2016. Mighty Med Mighty Med is an American Disney XD original series created by Jim Bernstein and Andy Schwartz and produced by It's a Laugh Productions for Disney XD. It stars Jake Short, Bradley Steven Perry, Paris Berelc,",
"title": "Mighty Med"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.94,
"text": "was subsequently announced that \"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\" would premiere on Disney XD broadcast services on March 2, 2016, and will be available for earlier viewing on the channel's video-on-demand services on February 29, 2016. In October 2016, actress Kelli Berglund reported on Twitter that there would not be a second season of \"\"Lab Rats: Elite Force\"\". The series premiered in Canada on Disney XD on March 2, 2016, and on Disney Channel on March 6, 2016. On October 13, 2016, series co-creator Bryan Moore posted on Twitter that there would be a \"\"Lab Rats\"\" marathon followed by the finale",
"title": "Lab Rats: Elite Force"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18.81,
"text": "she finds little of interest. Elsewhere, Skyler's sister Marie (Betsy Brandt) struggles to maintain her composure while caring for her belligerent husband Hank (Dean Norris), who is still bedridden after the attempt on his life. Gus arrives at the lab but says nothing. Walt launches into a nervous, rambling monologue of excuses and justifications, trying to convince Gus he needs him and Jesse alive. He claims it is Gus who is ultimately responsible for Gale's death, not they, and insists Victor cannot produce the high-quality meth Gus needs. Gus maintains his silence, even while changing into hazmat gear and selecting",
"title": "Box Cutter (Breaking Bad)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 18,
"text": "not help his business and pay bills, which Skyler views as an attempt to blackmail her for more money. She calls Saul (Bob Odenkirk), who has his bodyguard Huell (Lavell Crawford) and con artist Kuby (Bill Burr) scare Ted into paying the IRS. He does, but slips and hits his head while trying to escape from them, knocking himself out as a result. Walter realizes that Jesse has also been cooking in the lab. Walter pleads for them to stick together to thwart Gus, but Jesse, still bitter after their fight, turns his back on Walter. Walter is suddenly paralyzed",
"title": "Crawl Space (Breaking Bad)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 17.72,
"text": "had died years before. In early drafts of the \"\"Galactica\"\" scripts the Apollo character was named Skyler. Captain Apollo Captain Apollo is a fictional character in the \"\"Battlestar Galactica\"\" franchise. He was first played by Richard Hatch, who would also later appear as the character of Tom Zarek in the reimagined \"\"Battlestar Galactica\"\" series in 2005. Apollo is a Viper spacefighter pilot of the Battlestar \"\"Galactica\"\", and the son of Commander Adama. (A diary entry from Adama in one of the novelizations based on the original television series says that he was named for one of Adama's squadron mates from",
"title": "Captain Apollo"
}
] |
when is season seven of game of thrones coming out?
|
[
"July 16, 2017"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.88,
"text": "On March 9, 2017, HBO hosted a live stream on the \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" Facebook page that revealed the premiere date for the seventh season as being July 16, 2017. It was accompanied by a teaser trailer. On March 30, 2017, the first official promo for the show was released, highlighting the thrones of Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow, and Cersei Lannister. On April 20, 2017, HBO released 15 official photos shot during the season. On May 22, 2017, HBO released several new photos from the new season. On May 23, 2017, HBO released the official posters featuring the Night King.",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.72,
"text": "The first official trailer for season 7 was released on May 24, 2017. The trailer set a world record for being the most viewed show trailer ever, being viewed 61 million times across digital platforms, in the first 24 hours. The second official trailer was released on June 21, 2017. The season premiere was screened at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on July 12, 2017. The season was released on Blu-ray and DVD in region 1 on December 12, 2017. The season premiere was pirated 90 million times in the first three days after it aired. On",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 25.17,
"text": "Game of Thrones (season 7) The seventh and penultimate season of the fantasy drama television series \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" premiered on HBO on July 16, 2017, and concluded on August 27, 2017. Unlike previous seasons that consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consisted of only seven. Like the previous season, it largely consisted of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's \"\"A Song of Ice and Fire\"\" series, while also incorporating material Martin revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series. The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.81,
"text": "highlighting its new and returning original shows for the coming year on November 28, 2016, showcasing Jon Snow, Sansa Stark and Arya Stark. On March 1, 2017, HBO and \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" teamed up with Major League Baseball (MLB) for a cross-promotional partnership. At least 19 individual teams participated in this promotion. On March 8, 2017, HBO released the first promotional poster for the season ahead of the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas, which teases the battle of \"\"ice vs. fire\"\". Showrunners Benioff and Weiss also spoke at the event, along with fellow cast members Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams.",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.59,
"text": "the Seven Kingdoms. HBO ordered the seventh season on April 21, 2016, three days before the premiere of the show's sixth season, and began filming on August 31, 2016. The season was filmed primarily in Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia and Iceland. \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" features a large ensemble cast, including Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington. The season introduces several new cast members, including Jim Broadbent and Tom Hopper. The series received 22 nominations for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, and won for Outstanding Drama Series and Dinklage won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.33,
"text": "Bender, who worked on the show's sixth season, said that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes. Benioff and Weiss stated that they were unable to produce 10 episodes in the show's usual 12 to 14 month time frame, as Weiss said \"\"It's crossing out of a television schedule into more of a mid-range movie schedule.\"\" HBO confirmed on July 18, 2016, that the seventh season would consist of seven episodes, and would premiere later than usual in mid-2017 because of the later filming schedule. Later it was confirmed that the season would debut on July 16. The seventh",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.19,
"text": "a dozen Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. By the end of 2016, all seasons up to season 6 (which premiered on April 24, 2016) had been aired on HBO and all seasons had been released on DVD and/or Blu-ray for home viewing (see List of Game of Thrones episodes). The company confirmed on July 18, 2016 that season 7 would consist of seven episodes instead of the usual ten, and would premiere later than usual, in mid-2017, because of the later filming schedule. This was necessary in order to be shooting during the winter season in Europe. Season 7",
"title": "George R. R. Martin"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.94,
"text": "fifth season. New York Mets baseball pitcher Noah Syndergaard made a background cameo as a javelin-throwing Lannister soldier in \"\"The Spoils of War.\"\" On April 21, 2016, HBO officially ordered the seventh season of \"\"Game of Thrones\"\", just three days prior to the premiere of the show's sixth season. In a June 2016 interview with \"\"Variety\"\", co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss revealed the seventh season would likely consist of fewer episodes, stating at the time of the interview that they were \"\"down to our final 13 episodes after this season. We're heading into the final lap.\"\" Director Jack",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.77,
"text": "to premiere in April 2019. Ramin Djawadi is set to return as the composer of the show for the eighth season. On December 6, 2018, HBO released the first official teaser trailer for the eighth season. Game of Thrones (season 8) The eighth and final season of the fantasy drama television series \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" was announced by HBO in July 2016. Unlike the first six seasons that each had ten episodes and the seventh that had seven episodes, the eighth season will have only six episodes. Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content not found",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 8)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.41,
"text": "Game of Thrones (season 8) The eighth and final season of the fantasy drama television series \"\"Game of Thrones\"\" was announced by HBO in July 2016. Unlike the first six seasons that each had ten episodes and the seventh that had seven episodes, the eighth season will have only six episodes. Like the previous season, it will largely consist of original content not found currently in George R. R. Martin's \"\"A Song of Ice and Fire\"\" series and will also adapt material Martin has revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series, \"\"The Winds of Winter\"\" and \"\"A",
"title": "Game of Thrones (season 8)"
}
] |
who went home on rupaul's drag race season 10 episode 4?
|
[
"Dusty Ray Bottoms"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.02,
"text": "during all of the \"\"Drag Race\"\" live reunions, starting with season 4. Parker has been brought back on the show by Rupaul several times, in homage to being the first contestant ever eliminated. She appeared during the recap episode of \"\"Rupaul's Drag Race: All Stars 2\"\" and was featured in winning queen Alaska's rap. Parker was also brought back for the first episode of season 10 of Rupaul's Drag Race to help judge the mini-challenge. In the first episode of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 3,\"\" Vanessa Hudgens lip synced against \"\"Porkchop,\"\" an actual porkchop, which Rupaul said was Parker.",
"title": "Victoria \"\"Porkchop\"\" Parker"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.39,
"text": "fourth season of \"\"Drag Race\"\" and later won the first \"\"All-Stars\"\" season. McMichaels joined the cast of the second season of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\" in 2010. She was eliminated after losing a lip sync performance battle to contestant Sahara Davenport, placing eighth out of twelve. McMichaels later went on to participate in the of \"\",\"\" where she was eliminated first by BenDeLaCreme for saying she would send home the best competitors if she stayed. This placed her 10th in the season. She returned in the sixth episode among five eliminated queens (Thorgy Thor, Milk, Chi Chi Devayne and Aja) and",
"title": "Morgan McMichaels"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.83,
"text": "original season following an injury. The prizes for the winner of this season include a one-year supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics and a cash prize of $100,000. This is the first season in which each episode was 90 minutes long. The winner of the tenth season of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\" was Aquaria, with Eureka and Kameron Michaels being the runners-up. Mayhem Miller and Eureka competed on the \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular\"\" on December 7, 2018. Monique Heart and Monรฉt X Change are competing on the fourth season season of \"\"All Stars\"\" which started on December 14, 2018. \"\"(Ages",
"title": "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.75,
"text": "of Beauty and Wellness before dropping out later that same year to participate in \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\". Mattel competed in Season 7 of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\". She was controversially eliminated in episode four, before being brought back to the show in episode eight, winning the \"\"Conjoined Twins\"\" challenge with Pearl Liaison. Mattel was once again eliminated in episode 10, ultimately placing sixth overall and becoming the first queen to last more than one episode after returning to the competition. Mattel later returned for the third season of \"\",\"\" which started airing on January 25, 2018. Mattel was up for elimination",
"title": "Trixie Mattel"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.73,
"text": "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 4) The fourth season of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\" began airing on January 30, 2012, with cast members announced November 13, 2011. The winner of season four headlined Logo's Drag Race Tour featuring Absolut Vodka, won a one-of-a-kind trip, a lifetime supply of NYX Cosmetics, and a cash prize of $100,000. Like the last season, Santino Rice and Billy B (Billy Brasfield), celebrity makeup artist and star of the HGTV mini-series \"\"Hometown Renovation\"\", shared the same seat at the judges table alternatively, Brasfield filling in for Rice when needed. Both judges appeared side-by-side in the audience during",
"title": "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 4)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.73,
"text": "Listed in chronological order: Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage: Episode 2 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 2) The second season of \"\"\"\" premiered on the Logo network on a new night; Thursday, August 25, 2016. Returning judges included RuPaul, Michelle Visage, with Carson Kressley joining the panel, while the space previously occupied by Ross Matthews was filled by Todrick Hall. Cast members were announced on June 17, 2016. This season featured ten All-Star contestants, selected from the show's second season through to",
"title": "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (season 2)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.7,
"text": "and names stated are at time of contest)\"\" Listed in chronological order: Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage. Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10) The tenth season of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\" began airing on March 22, 2018, on VH1. The premiere was broadcast one week after the finale of the third season of \"\"\"\", and episodes are to be followed by \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked\"\". Contestants were officially announced on February 22, 2018, in a",
"title": "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.69,
"text": "Race titled The Switch Drag Race and finished in 8th Place. Jasmine Masters and Trixie Mattel competed on the \"\"RuPaulโs Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular\"\". Jasmine also competed on the fourth season of \"\"All Stars\"\" on December 14, 2018. She placed 10th overall. \"\"(Ages and names stated are at time of contest)\"\" Listed in chronological order: Guests who appeared in episodes, but did not judge on the main stage: Episode 1: Episode 2: Episode 7: Episode 8: Episode 10: Episode 12: <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The trailers for this season featured clips the songs \"\"Geronimo\"\" and \"\"Modern Love\"\", both off the album \"\"Born Naked\"\".",
"title": "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 7)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.62,
"text": "last season, Santino Rice & Billy B (Billy Brasfield), celebrity makeup artist and star of the HGTV mini-series \"\"Hometown Renovation\"\", shared the same seat at the judges table alternatively, Brasfield filling in for Rice when needed. Both judges appeared side-by-side in the audience during the \"\"Reunited\"\" episode. The winner of the fourth season of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\" was Sharon Needles, with Latrice Royale winning Miss Congeniality. The theme song playing during the runway every episode was \"\"Glamazon\"\" and the song played during the credits was \"\"The Beginning\"\", both from RuPaul's album \"\"Glamazon\"\". The fifth season of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\" began",
"title": "RuPaul's Drag Race"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.59,
"text": "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10) The tenth season of \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race\"\" began airing on March 22, 2018, on VH1. The premiere was broadcast one week after the finale of the third season of \"\"\"\", and episodes are to be followed by \"\"RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked\"\". Contestants were officially announced on February 22, 2018, in a teaser trailer โRuvealโ during an episode of All Stars 3 later followed by a special \"\"\"\"Meet the Queens\"\"\"\" live-stream on Facebook, hosted by season nine winner, Sasha Velour. This season saw the return of season 9 contestant Eureka O'Hara who was removed from her",
"title": "RuPaul's Drag Race (season 10)"
}
] |
when did nigeria become a federation of 19 states?
|
[
"1976"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.34,
"text": "government). The Federal Republic of Nigeria came into existence on 1 October 1963. The monarchy was abolished and Nigeria became a republic within the Commonwealth. Following the abolition of the monarchy, former Governor-General Nnamdi Azikiwe became President of Nigeria. Elizabeth II did not visit the Federation of Nigeria between 1960 and 1963. She did visit: Federation of Nigeria The Federation of Nigeria was a predecessor to modern-day Nigeria. It existed between 1 October 1960 and 1 October 1963. When British rule ended in 1960, the Nigeria Independence Act 1960 transformed the Federation of Nigeria into an independent sovereign state. The",
"title": "Federation of Nigeria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.28,
"text": "of Bini sent warriors to Eko who were received in a welcoming manner by the residing Awori fishermen. The Bini Prince, Ado, who led the war party, was asked to become their leader. From that point on, Eko belonged to Yoruba. Lagos State was created on 27 May 1967 according to the \"\"State Creation and Transitional Provisions Decree No. 14 of 1967\"\", which restructured Nigeria into a Federation of 12 states. Before the issuance of this Decree, Lagos city, which was the country's capital had been administered directly by the Federal Government through the \"\"Federal Ministry of Lagos Affairs\"\". However,",
"title": "Lagos State"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 23.22,
"text": "Universities (ACU) and other public records of these facts). In 1996, the Federal Military Government of Nigeria created 6 additional new States to the existing 30 States of the Nigerian Federation. Ekiti State of Nigeria was one of the 6 new States and it was carved out of the Ondo State which was created earlier in 1976 out of defunct Western State of Nigeria. Due to the State creation, economic assets, institutions and establishments previously owned by the Ondo State were shared with the newly created Ekiti State. Hence, the ownership and proprietorship of the Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti came",
"title": "Ekiti State University"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.02,
"text": "Federation of Nigeria The Federation of Nigeria was a predecessor to modern-day Nigeria. It existed between 1 October 1960 and 1 October 1963. When British rule ended in 1960, the Nigeria Independence Act 1960 transformed the Federation of Nigeria into an independent sovereign state. The British monarch, Elizabeth II, remained head of state as the Queen of Nigeria as well as Queen of the United Kingdom and other independent states. Her constitutional roles in Nigeria were delegated to the Governor-General of Nigeria. Two people held the office of governor-general: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa held office as prime minister (and head of",
"title": "Federation of Nigeria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.94,
"text": "with consequences felt in Nigeria's political life ever since. Following World War II, in response to the growth of Nigerian nationalism and demands for independence, successive constitutions legislated by the British Government moved Nigeria toward self-government on a representative and increasingly federal basis. On 1 October 1954, the colony became the autonomous Federation of Nigeria. By the middle of the 20th century, the great wave for independence was sweeping across Africa. On 27 October 1958 Britain agreed that Nigeria would become an independent state on 1 October 1960. The Federation of Nigeria was granted full independence on 1 October 1960",
"title": "History of Nigeria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.62,
"text": "of Appeal. Successive Chief Justices were Sir Stafford Foster-Sutton (1952โ1953) (afterwards Chief Justice of Nigeria, 1955), Sir Charles Mathew (1953โ1956) and Sir James Beveridge Thomson (1957โ1963). Federation of Malaya The Federation of Malaya (; Jawi: ฺคุฑุณููุชูุงู ุชุงูู ู
ูุงูู) was a federation of what previously had been British Malaya comprising eleven states (nine Malay states and two of the British Straits Settlements, Penang and Malacca) that existed from 1 February 1948 until 16 September 1963. The Federation became independent on 31 August 1957, and in 1963 Malaysia was formed from the federation by incorporating the Singapore, North Borneo, and Sarawak Crown",
"title": "Federation of Malaya"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.28,
"text": "Africa. Nigeria achieved independence in 1960. The Federation of Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960, while retaining the British monarch, Elizabeth II, as nominal head of state and Queen of Nigeria. Nigeria's government was a coalition of conservative parties: the Nigerian People's Congress (NPC), a party dominated by Northerners and those of the Islamic faith, and the Igbo and Christian-dominated National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) led by Nnamdi Azikiwe. Azikiwe replaced the colonial governor-general in November 1960. The opposition comprised the comparatively liberal Action Group (AG), which was largely dominated by the",
"title": "Nigeria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22,
"text": "young Nigerians in politics. The bill was first read at Nigeria's House of Representatives and was passed with votes of (86-10) in Senate on July 26, 2017 and 261-23 in House of Representatives on July 27, 2017. The bill passed first and second reading in Nigeria's Parliament and was presented to Committee on Constitutional Review. For any constitutional amendments to become a law in Nigeria, the amendments needed to be presented to all the House of Assemblies of 36 states of federation and not less than 24 states are expected to vote Yes to the amendments. It was reported by",
"title": "Not Too Young To Run"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.98,
"text": "rule beginning in the 19th century, and took its present territorial shape with the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914. The British set up administrative and legal structures whilst practicing indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms. Nigeria became a formally independent federation in 1960. It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970. It thereafter alternated between democratically elected civilian governments and military dictatorships until it achieved a stable democracy in 1999, with the 2011 presidential election considered the first to be reasonably free and fair. Nigeria is often referred to as the \"\"Giant of",
"title": "Nigeria"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 21.89,
"text": "the British imperial administration, out of Nigeria. Enugu became a municipality in 1956 with Umaru Altine its first mayor. After four years passed, Nigeria gained its independence in 1960. On 27 May 1967 the Nigerian government divided the Western, Northern and Eastern Region into 12 states and Enugu was made the capital of the new East Central State. On 30 May 1967 Enugu was declared the capital of the short-lived Republic of Biafra, the latter created out of the eastern Nigerian states of East Central, Cross River and Rivers. Biafra was declared by Ojukwu because of Eastern Nigeria after their",
"title": "Enugu"
}
] |
when did roller derby first appear in the press?
|
[
"1922"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.62,
"text": "first practice was held in Denver, Colorado at the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls' War House on November 14, 2011, the Monday following the WFTDA National Championships. A limited number of VIP and general admission tickets were sold, however no press were admitted. The team then known as \"\"Team USA\"\"'s first international action took place December 1 through 4, 2011, at the premiere Roller Derby World Cup, held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The U.S., one of 13 nations competing, began group play at the tournament in Group C, along with teams representing New Zealand and Scotland. The U.S. won both of its",
"title": "USA Roller Derby"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.27,
"text": "was reduced to one team skating mainly for the entertainment of soldiers. After the war's end in 1945, Seltzer successfully resumed growing the sport, although a 1946 attempt to bring it to New York's Polo Grounds failed due to twelve straight days of rain. At 8:30 P.M. on November 29, 1948, Roller Derby debuted on New York television, beginning a 13-week run on the CBS-TV network, broadcasting at a time well before television was in widespread use. The first televised matches were between teams representing New York and Brooklyn, and took place at the 69th Regiment Armory four nights a",
"title": "History of roller derby"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"score": 24.05,
"text": "three decades. Among these races was an 8.5-mile roller marathon organized in 1908 by a group of Chicago rink owners, a 24-hour endurance championship held in Milwaukee in 1913, and a 24-hour banked track race held at Madison Square Garden in 1914. \"\"The New York Times\"\" noted that the crowd at Madison Square Garden enjoyed the sudden sprints and spills during the event's preliminary races. The term \"\"derby\"\", meaning a race or multi-race event, appeared in the press as early as 1922, when the \"\"Chicago Tribune\"\" announced and reported on the results of two \"\"roller derby\"\" events held that year.",
"title": "History of roller derby"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.89,
"text": "sport utilizing roller skating participants. Bicycle races and dance marathons were very popular at the time, and in previous decades there had been successful 24-hour and multi-day roller skating races, at least one of which was called a \"\"roller derby\"\" in the press. Seltzer began jotting ideas onto the tablecloth, incorporating these popular entertainment forms with a roller skating theme. The name Roller Derby was trademarked on July 14, 1935 (No. 336652), and on August 13, 1935, twenty thousand spectators filled the Chicago Coliseum to see 'Colonel' Leo Seltzer's Transcontinental Roller Derby, a mythical marathon race from one end of",
"title": "Leo Seltzer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.2,
"text": "to increase skater contact. By 1939, after experimenting with different team and scoring arrangements, Seltzer's created a touring company of four pairs of teams (always billed as the local \"\"home\"\" team versus either New York or Chicago), with two five-person teams on the track at once, scoring points when its members lapped opponents. On November 29, 1948, before television viewership was widespread, \"\"Roller Derby\"\" debuted on New York television. The broadcasts increased spectator turnout for live matches. For the 1949โ1950 season, Seltzer formed the National Roller Derby League (NRDL), comprising six teams. NRDL season playoffs sold out Madison Square Garden",
"title": "Roller derby"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 23.03,
"text": "debut at the Rose Bowl. The Braves became the first international team when a tour of Europe was launched in 1953. However, this was not the first time audiences outside the U.S. had seen the game played live. A separate organization, International Roller Speedway, known in some countries as Roller-Catch, formed in 1937 and toured Europe, where they played at the Harringay Arena in London, and the Philippines. Roller Speedway was a modified version of the sport and normally featured two teams, representing Europe (the \"\"home\"\" team) and USA. The 1950 film \"\"The Fireball\"\", starring Mickey Rooney, was based on",
"title": "History of roller derby"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.91,
"text": "Roller soccer Roller soccer, roller foot or roller football is a version of association football played on roller skates. The sport was created in the Midlands district of the United Kingdom in 1882 and the first documented match was a game between local rivals Derby and Burton on 30 January of that year. Video footage first appeared at Forest Gate Roller Rink in 1934 in London, United Kingdom, where two teams of female players were filmed for an item on Pathe News. Over a decade later \"\"Billboard\"\" reported in 1949 that it had been revived in Detroit, having disappeared for",
"title": "Roller soccer"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.84,
"text": "season due to unsatisfactory ratings. Leagues outside the U.S. began forming in 2006, and international competition soon followed. The first all-female Canadian league of 10 members, the Oil City Derby Girls, was formed in December 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta. Terminal City Rollergirls from Vancouver, British Columbia, appeared before an audience of 4500 on March 4, 2006 to participate in a game of \"\"Last Woman Standing\"\" (\"\"Blood and Thunder\"\") against the Rat City Rollergirls at the Everett Events Center in Everett, Washington. The first full, international bout in women's flat-track derby occurred in December 2006, when the Oil City Derby Girls",
"title": "History of roller derby"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"score": 22.66,
"text": "a TV series called \"\"RollerGames\"\" in 1989โ1990 (and its corresponding arcade game by Konami and its video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System; there was also a pinball machine based on the show), and a small number of untelevised exhibition matches in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, and the early and mid-2000s. In 1960, after Roller Derby had settled into its new home in the San Francisco Bay Area, former Roller Derby skater Herb Roberts founded the Los Angeles-based National Skating Derby, Inc., and its flagship Los Angeles Thunderbirds team. The first match was skated in 1961. In late 1961, the",
"title": "Roller Games"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"score": 22.53,
"text": "endurance races continued to be held on both flat and banked tracks in the century's first three decades and spectators enjoyed the spills and falls of the skaters. The term \"\"derby\"\" was used to refer to such races by 1922. The endurance races began to transform into the contemporary form of the sport in the mid-1930s, when promoter Leo Seltzer created the Transcontinental Roller Derby, a month-long simulation of a road race between two-person teams of professional skaters. The spectacle became a popular touring exhibition. In the late 1930s, sportswriter Damon Runyon persuaded Seltzer to change the Roller Derby rules",
"title": "Roller derby"
}
] |
what nba team has the highest winning percentage?
|
[
"San Antonio Spurs"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.94,
"text": "Celtics (17), Los Angeles Lakers (16), Chicago Bulls (6), and Golden State Warriors (6). The Spurs currently rank first among active franchises for the highest winning percentage in NBA history, and have a winning head-to-head regular season record against every active NBA franchise. In their 40 NBA seasons since 1976โ77, the Spurs have won 22 division titles. They have made the playoffs in 27 of the last 28 seasons (since 1989โ90) and have only missed the playoffs four times since entering the NBA; they have not missed the playoffs in the 20 seasons since Tim Duncan was drafted by the",
"title": "San Antonio Spurs"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.89,
"text": "at 0.816 (1971โ72). They also hold records for having (into the 2009โ10 season) the most wins (3,027), the highest winning percentage (61.9%), and the most NBA Finals appearances (31). The 2000โ01 team set the NBA record for best playoff record at 15โ1, which was later broken by the Golden State Warriors in 2017. The 1971โ72 team holds franchise records in wins (69), most points scored, and largest margin of victory; both of the latter came in the team's 63 point win versus Golden State (162โ99). They also used to hold the record for most wins at home in the regular",
"title": "Los Angeles Lakers"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.69,
"text": "spot, and the 8th-seeded team was a mere 6.5 games behind the 1st seed. Additionally, the quality of the teams ensured that the Golden State Warriors finished with the highest winning percentage of any non-playoff team in NBA history since the switch to the eight-team playoff format, beating out the 2000โ01 Houston Rockets. The all-time record is held by the 1971โ72 Phoenix Suns (49โ33), which was during the four-team playoff era. Notes Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in its conference, and the numbers to the",
"title": "2007โ08 NBA season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.33,
"text": "designed specifically for basketball. The year following their move to the new arena, the Suns made the NBA finals for the second time in franchise history, losing to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, 4 games to 2. As of 2014, the Suns have the highest winning percentage of any team in the NBA without an NBA championship. Since their first appearance in the NBA finals in 1976, the Suns were a perennial playoff team, missing the playoffs only seven times between 1976 and 2010. In more recent years, the team has failed to perform up to playoff level, missing the playoffs",
"title": "Sports in Phoenix"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.17,
"text": "playoff berths since making 13 straight playoff appearances from 1988 to 2001. Not only did they also clinch consecutive winning seasons for the first time in a decade, but their 36โ30 record was the highest winning percentage for the team since the 2000โ01 season. The Knicks faced the Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs and lost the first three games, breaking the NBA record for longest playoff losing streak at 13 games. The team's struggles were partially attributed to injuries as Jeremy Lin, Baron Davis and Iman Shumpert were all sidelined by knee ailments. The Knicks proceeded",
"title": "New York Knicks"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.16,
"text": "to 2001. Not only did they also clinch consecutive winning seasons for the first time in a decade, but their 36โ30 record was the highest winning percentage for the team since the 2000โ01 NBA season. The Knicks faced the Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs and lost the first three games, breaking the NBA record for longest playoff losing streak at 13 games. The team's struggles were partially attributed to injuries as Jeremy Lin, Baron Davis and Iman Shumpert were all sidelined by knee ailments. The Knicks proceeded to win a close Game 4, which snapped their",
"title": "History of the New York Knicks"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 25.06,
"text": "5 series. Their .875 winning percentage for the regular season is the highest winning percentage in the history of the NBL and the NBA (National Basketball Association). Ironically, the standout player on the team was a non-collegian, \"\"Soup\"\" Cable, a local Akronite, who averaged 10 points with the other scoring being fairly evenly distributed in the 3 to 6 point range. Glen Roberts played little basketball in the two years after college, yet was able to make a significant contribution to the Firestone teamsโ outstanding season. Roberts, knowing that basketball wasnโt going to be his lifeโs career, took advantage of",
"title": "Glenn Roberts (basketball)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.95,
"text": "winning percentage was the all-time worst mark in the NBA until the 2011โ12 Charlotte Bobcats finished with a .106 winning percentage, whilst their โ12.1 points per game point differential has been underdone only by the 2011โ12 Bobcats (โ13.9 points per game) and the 1992โ93 Dallas Mavericks (โ15.2 points per game). Only six seasons earlier, the 76ers had set the NBA record for most wins in a season and the highest winning percentage. The Sixers ownership offered the head coaching job to Marquette University head coach Al McGuire, and former University of Kentucky head coach Adolph Rupp, who was seventy years",
"title": "1972โ73 Philadelphia 76ers season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.94,
"text": "of the three series they would play. They nearly accomplished a sweep of all three rounds, only losing one game (to Milwaukee in the Eastern Conference Finals) en route to the championship. The Sixers set a record for highest winning percentage in the playoffs that was not broken until the Lakers went 15โ1 in 2001. The Lakers' mark, however, came after the expansion to the current 16-team, four-round playoff format, which was first implemented in the 1984 playoffs, while the Sixers avoided the first round by virtue of their top seeding. It was the third time in four years that",
"title": "1983 NBA Playoffs"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"score": 24.8,
"text": "merger and the only former ABA team to have won an NBA championship. The Spurs' five NBA championships are the fourth most in history behind only the Boston Celtics (17), Los Angeles Lakers (16), and Chicago Bulls (6). The Spurs currently rank first among active franchises for the highest winning percentage in NBA history. In their 38 NBA seasons since 1976โ1977, the Spurs have won 20 division titles. They have made the playoffs in 24 of the last 25 seasons (since 1989โ1990) and have missed the playoffs four times since entering the NBA; they have not missed the playoffs in",
"title": "Spurs Sports & Entertainment"
}
] |
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