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Marshall McLuhan was named as the 'patron saint' of which magazine that had his quote on its masthead for the first ten years of its publication?
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[
"Wired",
"Wired (disambiguation)",
"Wired (album)"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "261645",
"score": 1.0355326,
"text": "David Cronenberg's 1983 film Videodrome is a \"media oracle\" based on McLuhan. In 1991, McLuhan was named as the \"patron saint\" of \"Wired Magazine\" and a quote of his appeared on the masthead for the first ten years of its publication. He is mentioned by name in a Peter Gabriel-penned lyric in the song \"Broadway Melody of 1974\". This song appears on the concept album \"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway\", from progressive rock band Genesis. The lyric is: \"Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin' head buried in the sand.\" McLuhan is also jokingly referred to during an episode of \"The Sopranos\"",
"title": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "261646",
"score": 1.0114152,
"text": "entitled \"House Arrest\". Despite his death in 1980, someone claiming to be McLuhan was posting on a \"Wired\" mailing list in 1996. The information this individual provided convinced one writer for \"Wired\" that \"if the poster was not McLuhan himself, it was a bot programmed with an eerie command of McLuhan's life and inimitable perspective.\" A new centre known as the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, formed soon after his death in 1980, was the successor to McLuhan's Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Since 1994, it has been part of the University of Toronto",
"title": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "261573",
"score": 1.0003748,
"text": "Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (; July 21, 1911December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. McLuhan is known for coining the expression \"the medium is the message\" and the term global",
"title": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "261649",
"score": 0.9906683,
"text": "and introduces feminist approaches to technology to McLuhan's formulations of technology and culture. In Toronto, Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School is named after him. This is a partial list of works cited in this article. See Bibliography of Marshall McLuhan for a more comprehensive list of works by and about McLuhan. Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (; July 21, 1911December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He",
"title": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "261578",
"score": 0.9844563,
"text": "studies formed an important precursor to his later ideas on technological forms. He received the required bachelor's degree from Cambridge in 1936 and entered their graduate program. Later, he returned from England to take a job as a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that he held for the 1936–37 academic year, being unable to find a suitable job in Canada. While studying the trivium at Cambridge, he took the first steps toward his eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1937, founded on his reading of G. K. Chesterton. In 1935, he wrote to his mother: \"[H]ad I not",
"title": "Marshall McLuhan"
}
] |
Which type of pasta has a name meaning 'little tongues'?
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[
"Linguini",
"Linguine"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6922538",
"score": 0.94005585,
"text": "more varieties that are filled with other ingredients like ravioli and tortellini. The word pasta is also used to refer to dishes in which pasta products are a primary ingredient. It is usually served with sauce. There are hundreds of different shapes of pasta with at least locally recognized names. Examples include spaghetti (thin rods), rigatoni (tubes or cylinders), fusilli (swirls), and lasagne (sheets). Dumplings, like gnocchi (made with potatoes or pumpkin) and noodles like spätzle, are sometimes considered pasta. They are both traditional in parts of Italy. Pasta is categorized in two basic styles: dried and fresh. Dried pasta",
"title": "Italian cuisine"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "320749",
"score": 0.9384694,
"text": "different names depending upon the town and region. Common forms of pasta include long and short shapes, tubes, flat shapes or sheets, miniature shapes for soup, those meant to be filled or stuffed, and specialty or decorative shapes. As a category in Italian cuisine, both fresh and dried pastas are classically used in one of three kinds of prepared dishes: as \"pasta asciutta\" (or \"pastasciutta\"), cooked pasta is plated and served with a complementary side sauce or condiment; a second classification of pasta dishes is \"pasta in brodo\", in which the pasta is part of a soup-type dish. A third",
"title": "Pasta"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "320754",
"score": 0.92868054,
"text": "(plural \"lagana\"), which in Latin refers to a thin sheet of dough, and gives rise to Italian \"lasagna\". In North Africa, a food similar to pasta, known as couscous, has been eaten for centuries. However, it lacks the distinguishing malleable nature of pasta, couscous being more akin to droplets of dough. At first, dry pasta was a luxury item in Italy because of high labor costs; durum wheat semolina had to be kneaded for a long time. There is a legend of Marco Polo importing pasta from China which originated with the \"Macaroni Journal\", published by an association of food",
"title": "Pasta"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "320747",
"score": 0.92111176,
"text": "Pasta Pasta () is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily. Also commonly used to refer to the variety of dishes made with it, \"pasta\" is typically made from an unleavened dough of a durum wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Some pastas can be made using rice flour in place of wheat flour to yield a different taste and texture, or for those who wish to avoid products containing gluten. Pastas may be divided into two",
"title": "Pasta"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4115447",
"score": 0.8957268,
"text": "Linguine Linguine (; ) is a type of pasta similar to fettuccine and trenette but elliptical in section rather than flat. It is about in width, which is wider than spaghetti but not as wide as fettuccine. The name \"linguine\" means \"little tongues\" in Italian, where it is a plural of the feminine \"linguina\". Linguine are also called \"trenette\" or \"bavette\". A thinner version of linguine is called linguettine. Linguine originated in Genoa and the Liguria region of Italy. \"Linguine alle vongole\" (linguine with clams) and \"trenette al pesto\" are popular uses of this pasta. While spaghetti traditionally accompanies meat",
"title": "Linguine"
}
] |
Heritage Day is celebrated in South Africa during which month of the year?
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[
"September – 24th"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6032373",
"score": 1.172406,
"text": "Heritage Day (South Africa) Heritage Day is a South African public holiday celebrated on 24 September. On this day, South Africans are encouraged to celebrate their culture and the diversity of their beliefs and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people. In KwaZulu-Natal, 24 September was known as Shaka Day, in commemoration of the Zulu King, Shaka, on the presumed date of his death in 1828. Shaka was the Zulu King who played an important role in uniting disparate Zulu clans into a cohesive nation. Each year people gather at King Shaka's grave",
"title": "Heritage Day (South Africa)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6032374",
"score": 1.1438967,
"text": "to honour him on this day. The Public Holidays Bill presented to the new democratic Parliament of South Africa in 1995 did not have 24 September included on the list of proposed public holidays. As a result of this exclusion, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), a South African political party with a large Zulu membership, objected to the bill. Parliament and the IFP reached a compromise and the day was given its present title and seen as a public holiday. South Africans celebrate Heritage Day by remembering the cultural heritage of the many cultures that make up the population of",
"title": "Heritage Day (South Africa)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6032376",
"score": 1.0807462,
"text": "it to be a unifying force in a divided country (by donning an apron and tucking into a boerewors sausage). At the end of 2007 National Braai Day changed its name to Braai4Heritage and the initiative received the endorsement of South Africa's National Heritage Council (NHC). Organiser Jan Scannell (known as \"\"<includeonly></includeonly>Jan Braai\"\") announced that the aim is not to have a mass braai, but with little ones, friends and family. Some have commented that this is a ploy to make people forget the history and the original meaning of why the day was created. Heritage Day (South Africa) Heritage",
"title": "Heritage Day (South Africa)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6032375",
"score": 1.0666966,
"text": "South Africa. Various events are staged throughout the country to commemorate this. Former Western Cape Provincial Premier Ebrahim Rasool addressed the public at a Heritage Day celebration at the Gugulethu Heritage trail in 2007 in Gugulethu. In Hout Bay, there is an army procession and a recreation of the battle fought there. In 2005, a media campaign sought to \"re-brand\" the holiday as National Braai Day, in recognition of the South African culinary tradition of holding informal backyard barbecues, or braais. On 5 September 2007, Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his appointment as patron of South Africa's Braai (Barbecue) Day, affirming",
"title": "Heritage Day (South Africa)"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20709472",
"score": 1.0133551,
"text": "African World Heritage Day African World Heritage Day is a day declared by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to celebrate the cultural and natural heritage of Africa. The day is celebrated on the 5th of May each year. UNESCO declared the day in 2018. Proclaimed by the 38th session of the General Conference of UNESCO (November 2015), African World Heritage Day (5 May) is an opportunity for people around the world, and particularly Africans, to celebrate the continent's unique cultural and natural heritage. While Africa is underrepresented on the World Heritage List (African properties account for some",
"title": "African World Heritage Day"
}
] |
In which city was the Independent Labour Party founded in 1893?
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"Bradford",
"Bowling, Yorkshire",
"New Victoria Theatre (Bradford)",
"Bradistan",
"Bradford, England",
"Bradford, Yorkshire",
"Girlington",
"Bradford Beck",
"Central Bradford",
"Worstedopolis",
"Bradford City Centre",
"County Borough of Bradford",
"Bradford, West Yorkshire",
"Bradford city centre",
"Pakiford"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1803131",
"score": 1.1125017,
"text": "1891, and in \"Workman's Times\", edited by Joseph Burgess. The latter collected some 3,500 names of those in favour of creating a party of labour independent from the existing political organisations. In the 1892 General Election, held in July, three working men were elected without support from the Liberals, Keir Hardie in South West Ham, John Burns in Battersea, and Havelock Wilson in Middlesbrough, the last of whom actually faced Liberal opposition. Hardie owed nothing to the Liberal Party for his election, and his critical and confrontational style in Parliament caused him to emerge as a national voice of the",
"title": "Independent Labour Party"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11842422",
"score": 1.0969748,
"text": "reform at a municipal level. In the 1895 General Election the Independent Labour Party put up 28 candidates but won only 44,325 votes. Keir Hardie, the leader of the party believed that to obtain success in parliamentary elections, it would be necessary to join with other left-wing groups. In 1899, a Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Thomas R. Steels, proposed in his union branch that the Trades Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates. The motion was passed at",
"title": "History of the Labour Party (UK)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1803173",
"score": 1.0964267,
"text": "it renamed itself Independent Labour Publications and became a pressure group inside Labour. Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893, when the Liberals appeared reluctant to endorse working-class candidates, representing the interests of the majority. A sitting independent MP and prominent union organiser, Keir Hardie, became its first chairman. The party was positioned to the left of Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour Representation Committee, founded in 1900 and soon renamed the Labour Party, to which it was affiliated from 1906 to 1932. In 1947, the organisation's three parliamentary representatives defected",
"title": "Independent Labour Party"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1803125",
"score": 1.0926951,
"text": "Independent Labour Party The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893, when the Liberals appeared reluctant to endorse working-class candidates, representing the interests of the majority. A sitting independent MP and prominent union organiser, Keir Hardie, became its first chairman. The party was positioned to the left of Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour Representation Committee, founded in 1900 and soon renamed the Labour Party, to which it was affiliated from 1906 to 1932. In 1947, the organisation's three parliamentary representatives defected to the Labour Party, and the organisation rejoined Labour as Independent Labour Publications",
"title": "Independent Labour Party"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1803132",
"score": 1.0871141,
"text": "labour movement. At a TUC meeting in September 1892, a call was issued for a meeting of advocates of an independent labour organisation. An arrangements committee was established and a conference called for the following January. This conference was chaired by William Henry Drew and was held in Bradford 14–16 January 1893. It proved to be the foundation conference of the Independent Labour Party and MP Keir Hardie was elected as its first chairman. About 130 delegates were in attendance at the conference, including in addition to Hardie such socialist and labour worthies as Alderman Ben Tillett, author George Bernard",
"title": "Independent Labour Party"
}
] |
What type of cloud is normally associated with thunderstorms?
|
[
"Cu-nimb",
"Cumulonimbus cloud",
"Cumulo-nimbus",
"Cumulo nimbus",
"Thundercloud",
"Anvil clouds",
"Thunderhead (cloud)",
"Anvil Dome",
"Cumulonimbus capillatus",
"Culmuno-numbus",
"Cu nimb",
"Anvil dome",
"Cumulonimbus",
"Cumulonimbus clouds",
"CuNim"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10147523",
"score": 1.068258,
"text": "more of a factor with thunderstorms with heavy precipitation (HP), such as air-mass thunderstorms. When thunderstorms merge, which is most likely when numerous thunderstorms exist in proximity to each other, the motion of the stronger thunderstorm normally dictates future motion of the merged cell. The stronger the mean wind, the less likely other processes will be involved in storm motion. On weather radar, storms are tracked by using a prominent feature and tracking it from scan to scan. Convective rain, or showery precipitation, occurs from cumulonimbus clouds. It falls as showers with rapidly changing intensity. Convective precipitation falls over a",
"title": "Air-mass thunderstorm"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10147525",
"score": 1.0657085,
"text": "of precipitation within thunderstorms have been found. Thunderstorms which show radar returns above in height are associated with storms which have more than ten lightning flashes per minute. There is also a correlation between the total lightning rate and the size of the thunderstorm, its updraft velocity, and amount of graupel over land. The same relationships fail over tropical oceans, however. Lightning from low precipitation (LP) thunderstorms is one of the leading causes of wildfires. In areas where these thunderstorms form in isolation and horizontal visibility is good, pilots can evade these storms rather easily. In more moist atmospheres which",
"title": "Air-mass thunderstorm"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10147517",
"score": 1.0636837,
"text": "the form of insolation, or solar radiation. Air-mass thunderstorms do not move quickly, last no longer than an hour, and have the threats of lightning, as well as showery light, moderate, or heavy rainfall. Heavy rainfall can interfere with microwave transmissions within the atmosphere. Lightning characteristics are related to characteristics of the parent thunderstorm, and could induce wildfires near thunderstorms with minimal rainfall. On unusual occasions there could be a weak downburst and small hail. They are common in temperate zones during a summer afternoon. Like all thunderstorms, the mean-layered wind field the storms form within determine motion. When the",
"title": "Air-mass thunderstorm"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "795766",
"score": 1.0606458,
"text": "Thunderstorm A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder. Thunderstorms occur in a type of cloud known as a cumulonimbus. They are usually accompanied by strong winds, heavy rain, and sometimes snow, sleet, hail, or, in contrast, no precipitation at all. Thunderstorms may line up in a series or become a rainband, known as a squall line. Strong or severe thunderstorms include some of the most dangerous weather phenomena, including large hail, strong winds, and tornadoes.",
"title": "Thunderstorm"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "795772",
"score": 1.0524238,
"text": "the lifted index can be used to assist in determining potential upward vertical development of clouds. Generally, thunderstorms require three conditions to form: All thunderstorms, regardless of type, go through three stages: the developing stage, the mature stage, and the dissipation stage. The average thunderstorm has a diameter. Depending on the conditions present in the atmosphere, each of these three stages take an average of 30 minutes. The first stage of a thunderstorm is the cumulus stage or developing stage. During this stage, masses of moisture are lifted upwards into the atmosphere. The trigger for this lift can be solar",
"title": "Thunderstorm"
}
] |
What famous picture was stolen from its frame in the Louvre in 1911, was recovered in Florence and returned in 1913?
|
[
"Lonely madonna",
"Monalisa",
"Monna Lisa",
"Mona lisa",
"Lisa Giacondo",
"Mona Lisa",
"La Gionconda",
"La Joconde",
"The Mona Lisa",
"Mona lisa theft",
"La Mona Lisa",
"La joconde"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "793093",
"score": 1.1250055,
"text": "he stresses that the images never existed. Kemp is also adamant that Cotte’s images in no way establish the existence of a separate underlying portrait. On 21 August 1911, the painting was stolen from the Louvre. The theft was not discovered until the next day, when painter Louis Béroud walked into the museum and went to the Salon Carré where the \"Mona Lisa\" had been on display for five years, only to find four iron pegs on the wall. Béroud contacted the head of the guards, who thought the painting was being photographed for promotional purposes. A few hours later,",
"title": "Mona Lisa"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "793096",
"score": 1.1027646,
"text": "two years, Peruggia grew impatient and was caught when he attempted to sell it to directors of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It was exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery for over two weeks and returned to the Louvre on 4 January 1914. Peruggia served six months in prison for the crime and was hailed for his patriotism in Italy. Before its theft, the \"Mona Lisa\" was not widely known outside the art world. It was not until the 1860s that some critics, a thin slice of the French intelligentsia, began to hail it as a masterwork of Renaissance painting. In",
"title": "Mona Lisa"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3642268",
"score": 1.102682,
"text": "with banner headlines rejoicing its return and then returned to the Louvre in 1913. While the painting was famous before the theft, the notoriety it received from the newspaper headlines and the large scale police investigation helped the artwork become one of the best known in the world. Peruggia was released from jail after a short time and served in the Italian army during World War I. He later married, had one daughter, Celestina, returned to France, and continued to work as a painter decorator using his birth name Pietro Peruggia. He died on October 8, 1925 (his 44th birthday)",
"title": "Vincenzo Peruggia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13665702",
"score": 1.0772309,
"text": "Pablo Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning, but both were later exonerated. The real thief was Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia an Italian wishing to return it to Italy. He was caught with the painting two years later when he attempted to sell it to the directors of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. One of Lépine's last successes was the capture and destruction of the notorious Bonnot Gang (La Bande à Bonnot), an anarchist criminal group that operated in France and Belgium during the Belle Époque, from 1911 to 1912.In 1910 Lépine had instigated La Brigade Criminelle a dedicated",
"title": "Louis Lépine"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "720680",
"score": 1.071984,
"text": "returned one of the stolen statues to the French newspaper the \"Paris-Journal\". Apollinaire implicated his friend Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning in the theft of the \"Mona Lisa\", but he was also exonerated. The theft of the \"Mona Lisa\" was perpetrated by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence. Apollinaire wrote the preface for the first Cubist exposition outside of Paris; \"VIII Salon des Indépendants\", Brussels, 1911. In an open-handed preface to the catalogue of the Brussels Indépendants show,",
"title": "Guillaume Apollinaire"
}
] |
Which licence, costing 37p, was abolished in 1987?
|
[
"Dog licence",
"Dog license"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7523734",
"score": 1.0470587,
"text": "is £145.50 for colour TV and £49 for monochrome TV, per household. The radio-only licence was abolished on 1 February 1971, when it was £1.25 (actually £1-5s-0d in pre-decimal UK currency) or the equivalent of £ in prices. On 1 April 1991, the BBC took over the administration of television licensing in the UK, assuming the responsibility of licence fee collection and enforcement. Since this date, the BBC has been the statutory authority for issuing television licences (before April 1991, the statutory authority was the UK Home Office), although the UK Government retains certain powers and responsibilities with regards to",
"title": "Television licensing in the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7523723",
"score": 1.0422456,
"text": "period are refunded. The BBC may also revoke a licence under certain circumstances. The level of the fee is decided following periodic negotiations between the UK Government and the BBC Trust. From 1988 to 2010, the licence fee was increased annually each April Before 1988, increases in the licence fee happened at irregular intervals, sometimes a few years passing between changes. Between April 2010 and April 2017 the licence fee remained constant at £145.50 per year. In 2018 a tv license costs £150.50 for a colour and £50.50 for a black and white TV Licence. The BBC allows the following",
"title": "Television licensing in the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7523784",
"score": 1.0163282,
"text": "by the amount owed. In England and Wales, 39 people were given an average of 20 days in 2014 (compared to 32 in 2013 and 51 in 2012). There were no custodial sentences imposed during the five-year period 2009-10 to 2013-14 in Scotland or in Jersey. The British Parliament proposed decriminalising licence evasion, but the proposition was turned down by a House of Lords vote by 178 to 175 in February 2015. Behavioural research conducted for the BBC found that if TV licence evasion was decriminalized and the £1,000 maximum fine was replaced by a civil penalty of over £300,",
"title": "Television licensing in the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2467884",
"score": 1.015716,
"text": "He returned to the House of Commons in 2001 after successfully contesting the East Yorkshire seat. As a backbencher, in the 1980s, he succeeded in amending licensing law in England and Wales by doubling 'drinking up time' on licensed premises from ten to twenty minutes, a concession that was welcomed by the industry and drinkers alike. However the 2003 Licensing Act ended standard permitted hours and provides for an unspecified drinking up time determined by the licensee’s discretion. He is in favour of bringing back capital punishment and spoke out against the Apartheid government of South Africa during the 1980s.",
"title": "Greg Knight"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17309076",
"score": 1.014068,
"text": "Department, as the licensing authority, had ignored warnings about Barlow Clowes from both the company's competitors and from reputable sources in the City. It was alleged that the Department knew as early as 1984 that Barlow Clowes was trading without a licence, that it gave the company a licence in 1985, and renewed it in both 1986 and 1987. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Lord Young sought to defuse the matter in June 1988 by appointing Sir Godfray Le Quesne QC to hold an independent inquiry to determine the facts of what happened within the Department. The",
"title": "Barlow Clowes"
}
] |
In which Canadian state is Montreal
|
[
"Province of Québec",
"Quebec (province)",
"Political culture of Quebec",
"Québec, Canada",
"Province de Québec",
"Capture of Quebec",
"Quèbec",
"Québec",
"CA-QC",
"Quebec province",
"Province of Quebec",
"Québec Province",
"Quebéc",
"Quebec (Province)",
"Quebec",
"Foreign relations of Quebec",
"British Conquest of New France",
"Province de Quebec",
"Capture of quebec",
"Québec (Province)",
"Quebec, Canada"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3980620",
"score": 1.0544208,
"text": "d'en Haut was part of the District of Montreal. In its civil law, customs, and the cultural aspects of the majority of its population, the successor to the French colony of Canada is the Province of Quebec. The term \"Canada\" may also refer to today's Canadian federation created in 1867, or the historical Province of Canada, a British colony comprising southern Ontario and southern Quebec (referred to respectively as Upper Canada and Lower Canada when they were themselves separate British colonies prior to 1841). For Francophone Quebecers, preserving their distinctiveness from English Canada has been historically important, particularly since the",
"title": "Canada (New France)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12822495",
"score": 0.9933752,
"text": "Canadian sovereignty The sovereignty of Canada is a major cultural matter in Canada. Several issues currently define Canadian sovereignty: the Canadian monarchy, telecommunication, the autonomy of provinces, and Canada's Arctic border. Canada is a Commonwealth realm, meaning that Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state. However, while several powers are the sovereign's alone, most of the royal constitutional and ceremonial duties in Canada are carried out by the Queen's representative, the Governor General; as such, the Governor General is sometimes referred to as the \"de facto\" head of state. In each of Canada's provinces the monarch is represented by",
"title": "Canadian sovereignty"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9141108",
"score": 0.9931307,
"text": "most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with over 59% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris. It is situated south-west of Quebec City. Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, gaming, film, and world affairs. Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America, serves as the location of the headquarters",
"title": "Montreal"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9141112",
"score": 0.98760957,
"text": "to the Government of Canada, the Government of Quebec, the Commission de toponymie du Québec, and the Geographical Names Board of Canada, the names of Canadian cities and towns have only one official form. Thus, Montréal is officially spelled with an accented é in both Canadian English and French. However, the accent in both \"Montreal\" and \"Quebec\" are often omitted in common English usage. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD 1000, they had started to cultivate maize. Within a few hundred years, they",
"title": "Montreal"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6827381",
"score": 0.9856367,
"text": "Canada (AG) v Montreal (City of) Canada (AG) v Montreal (City of), [1978] 2 S.C.R. 770 (also known as Dupond) is a constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court upheld a municipal law that regulated the traffic by repressing disorderly conduct during public parades under the provincial constitutional authority to create laws of a \"local nature\" in section 92(16) of the Constitution Act, 1867. The law was challenged as ultra vires the constitution as the law was claimed to be of a criminal law nature, a power exclusive to the federal government under section 91(27) of the",
"title": "Canada (AG) v Montreal (City of)"
}
] |
Anna Kournikova, Michelangelo, ILOVEYOU, and Melissa were examples of what?
|
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"Phone Virus",
"Computer Virus",
"Surfsidekick",
"Stealth-adapted virus",
"File virus",
"Stealth virus (computers)",
"Computer Virus Wikipedia",
"Mail virus",
"Virus program",
"Virus (computers)",
"Pc virus",
"Virus signature",
"Boot sector virus",
"Boot virus",
"Software virus",
"@mm",
"Viral programming",
"Comuter virus",
"File infector",
"Virus (computing)",
"Computer viruses",
"Virus (computer)",
"Summary of Computer Viruses",
"Internet virus",
"Threat of internet viruses",
"Online virus",
"Computer viri",
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"Computer virology",
"Computer virus",
"E-mail virus",
"Hello (computer virus)",
"DOS Boot Record infector virus",
"Email virus",
"Vital Information Resource Under Siege",
"Computer virus threat",
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10135",
"score": 0.97821975,
"text": "final in mixed doubles, partnering with Jonas Björkman, but they lost to Leander Paes and Lisa Raymond. Kournikova again qualified for year-end WTA Tour Championships, but lost to Mary Pierce in the first round, and ended the season as World No. 12. While Kournikova had a successful singles season, she was even more successful in doubles. After their victory at the Australian Open, she and Martina Hingis won tournaments in Indian Wells, Rome, Eastbourne and the WTA Tour Championshiops, and reached the final of The French Open where they lost to Serena and Venus Williams. Partnering with Elena Likhovtseva, Kournikova",
"title": "Anna Kournikova"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10120",
"score": 0.9746268,
"text": "Anna Kournikova Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981) is a Russian former professional tennis player. Her appearance and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google Search. Despite never winning a singles title, she reached No. 8 in the world in 2000. She achieved greater success playing doubles, where she was at times the world No. 1 player. With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in",
"title": "Anna Kournikova"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10137",
"score": 0.9647346,
"text": "Diego, Luxembourg, Leipzig and Tour Championships), seven quarterfinals (Gold Coast, Tokyo, Amelia Island, Hamburg, Eastbourne, Zürich and Philadelphia) and one final. On 20 November 2000 she broke into top 10 for the first time, reaching No. 8. She was also ranked No. 4 in doubles at the end of the season. Kournikova was once again, more successful in doubles. She reached the final of the US Open in mixed doubles, partnering with Max Mirnyi, but they lost to Jared Palmer and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario. She also won six doubles titles – Gold Coast (with Julie Halard), Hamburg (with Natasha Zvereva),",
"title": "Anna Kournikova"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17197130",
"score": 0.96077394,
"text": "Abstract are Hip-Hop artists that are bringing queer identity to the forefront of popular music. iLoveMakonnen is an Atlanta, Georgia-based rapper who came out as gay in s series of tweets in early 2017. He continues to work with mainstream artists such as Rae Sremmurd and Santigold. Tyler, the Creator is a contradictory representation of both homophobia and queerness in Hip-Hop. There has been controversy surrounding his sexuality because he has been largely accused of aggressive homophobia in his previous lyrics. In one particular lyric to a song released in 2009, he raps, \"come take a stab at it faggot,",
"title": "Hip-hop feminism"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10124",
"score": 0.94718766,
"text": "I went to a professional academy. I would go to school, and then my parents would take me to the club, and I'd spend the rest of the day there just having fun with the kids.\" In 1986, Kournikova became a member of the Spartak Tennis Club, coached by Larissa Preobrazhenskaya. In 1989, at the age of eight, Kournikova began appearing in junior tournaments, and by the following year, was attracting attention from tennis scouts across the world. She signed a management deal at age ten and went to Bradenton, Florida, to train at Nick Bollettieri's celebrated tennis academy. Following",
"title": "Anna Kournikova"
}
] |
Which street in Wigan is the home of Wallace and Gromit?
|
[
"West Wallaby Street"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "455608",
"score": 1.2190344,
"text": "by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an \"A–Z Wigan\" being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in \"The Curse of the Were-Rabbit\". In \"The Wrong Trousers\", Gromit picks up a letter at the Wallace and Gromit residence addressed to \"62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan\". The address includes a postcode of WG7 7FU, though this does not match any street in Wigan, whose postcodes begin with the letters WN. This address can be seen in the \"Cracking Contraptions\" episode \"Shopper 13\". Wallace's accent (voiced by Peter Sallis) comes from the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire. Near the beginning of \"A Matter",
"title": "Wallace and Gromit"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "455609",
"score": 1.1554236,
"text": "of Loaf and Death\", Wigan is referenced on the newspaper Wallace is reading, and near the end, while looking for somewhere appropriate to dispose of a bomb, Gromit sees the Yorkshire border from their home (a joke referencing the rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire). In the \"Cracking Contraptions\" episode \"The Soccamatic\", Wallace says to Gromit, \"How do you like my Preston North End soccamatic, Gromit?\". Whether this is the team they support, or where they live, is unknown. The episode references famous English footballers of the 1950s and 60s, including Nobby Stiles (who played for Preston later in his career),",
"title": "Wallace and Gromit"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9242640",
"score": 1.0324268,
"text": "on Wallgate. The competition has been held since 1992, and in 2006 a vegetarian option was added. Wiganers are sometimes referred to as \"pie-eaters\". The name is said to date from the 1926 General Strike, when Wigan miners were starved back to work before their counterparts in surrounding towns and so were forced to metaphorically eat \"humble pie\". In addition Wigan is well known as the home of Uncle Joes Mint Balls. In the television series \"Wallace and Gromit\", the title characters live at the fictional 62 West Wallaby Street in Wigan. Wigan lies on the meeting point of two",
"title": "Wigan"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "455610",
"score": 1.0134106,
"text": "Geoff Hurst, and Stanley Matthews. Both Ramsbottom and Tottington are small towns near Bury in Greater Manchester, and are the names of love interests of Wallace. The nostalgic quality of Wallace and Gromit's world has been compared to 1950s Beanotown. The \"Wallace and Gromit\" films are shot using the stop motion animation technique. After detailed storyboarding, set and plasticine model construction, the films are shot one frame at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. In common with other animation techniques, the stop motion animation in Wallace and",
"title": "Wallace and Gromit"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16545121",
"score": 0.95488465,
"text": "Wallace & Gromit's Thrill-O-Matic Wallace & Gromit's Thrill-O-Matic is an indoor family ride at the Pleasure Beach Blackpool, a theme park in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It opened in 2013, replacing The Gold Mine ride, which closed in 2011. It is based on the Wallace and Gromit films and was opened in April 2013 by Nick Park, Amanda Thompson, Nick Thomas and Merlin Crossingham. The ride, which cost £5.25 million to make, was created by Blackpool Pleasure Beach design in association with the creators of Wallace and Gromit, Aardman Animations. The cars on the ride are designed on one of Wallace's",
"title": "Wallace & Gromit's Thrill-O-Matic"
}
] |
Who designed the National Theatre building on the South Bank in London ?
|
[
"Sir Denys Lasdun",
"Denys Lasdun",
"Denys Louis Lasdun",
"Sir Denys Louis Lasdun",
"DENYS LASDUN"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17042548",
"score": 1.0991403,
"text": "National Theatre, London. The National Theatre building on London’s Thames Southbank, designed by architect Sir Denys Lasdun, was then under construction as the new home for the National (which had been founded at the Old Vic in 1964). The Cottesloe was the third and smallest theatre, holding up to 400 people. It was located in an abandoned space under the rear of the Olivier Theatre stage. In 1973 this was a huge empty shell served by a partially complete foyer designed for only 200. While the National’s Olivier and Lyttleton Theatres are fixed-format, the Cottesloe can be recast into many",
"title": "Iain Mackintosh"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2493655",
"score": 1.0990745,
"text": "II*. The most famous and disputed of the architect's work is his Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank. Prince Charles compared it to a nuclear power station but it was popular with other traditionalists, with John Betjeman writing Lasdun a letter in praise of its design. Lasdun (or his firm Lasdun, Softley and Partners) designed the neighbouring IBM headquarters (finished 1985) as a continuity with the theatre. His European Investment Bank in Luxembourg was similar. The last work produced by the firm in London was an office block called Milton Gate near the Barbican Estate, which in its use",
"title": "Denys Lasdun"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "755345",
"score": 1.0540259,
"text": "design.\" The first of these was the Royal Festival Hall. The Festival hastened the reclamation of four and a half acres of land from the river, which \"transformed the familiar patchwork of rubble and half-derelict buildings which had for so long monopolised the propect from the North Bank\". The Festival site was, over the following thirty years, developed into the South Bank Centre, an arts complex comprising the Royal Festival Hall, the National Film Theatre, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room and the National Theatre. A 1951 office building at 219 Oxford Street, London, designed by Ronald Ward and",
"title": "Festival of Britain"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1444359",
"score": 1.037504,
"text": "Paul's to the south of it. It is a lovely work and so good from so many angles...it has that inevitable and finished look that great work does.\" Despite the controversy, the theatre has been a Grade II* listed building since 1994. Although the theatre is often cited as an archetype of Brutalist architecture in England, since Lasdun's death the building has been re-evaluated as having closer links to the work of Le Corbusier, rather than contemporary monumental 1960s buildings such as those of Paul Rudolph. The carefully refined balance between horizontal and vertical elements in Lasdun's building has been",
"title": "Royal National Theatre"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11812056",
"score": 1.005726,
"text": "Festival Hall for the purpose, and a \"National Theatre Act\", offering financial support, was passed by Parliament in 1949. In July 1962, a board was set up to supervise construction of a National Theatre on the South Bank site and a separate board was constituted to run a National Theatre Company and lease the Old Vic theatre. The Company was to remain at the Old Vic until 1976, when the new South Bank building was opened. The theatrical landscape has since been reconfigured, moving from a single national theatre at the end of the 20th century to four as a",
"title": "Theatre of the United Kingdom"
}
] |
In the 1964 film Mary Poppins, what was the occupation of George Banks, Mary’s employer?
|
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"Banking industry",
"Banking establishment",
"International banking",
"Banking Business",
"Banks and banking",
"Money-lenders",
"Money center banks",
"Credit institution",
"Banks and Banking",
"Money center bank",
"Banking system",
"Bankers",
"Banking",
"Banker",
"Banking and credit",
"Credit institutions",
"Foreign bank",
"🏦",
"Banking business",
"Money Center Banks",
"Bank",
"⛻",
"Credit Institutions",
"Monetary intermediation"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6931413",
"score": 1.1489769,
"text": "Jane and Michael Banks. The release date is 21 December 2018 in the US and the UK. Mary Poppins is a magical nanny who sweeps into the Banks home on Cherry Tree Lane and takes charge of the Banks children. She never acknowledges her strange and magical powers, and feigns insult when one of the children refers to her previous adventures. She first arrives to them when she is blown to Cherry Tree Lane by the East Wind. At the end of the first book she opens up her umbrella to the West Wind and lets it lift her up",
"title": "Mary Poppins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6931426",
"score": 1.1339672,
"text": "a neighbour of the Banks family who fires his cannon to mark the time; this version of the Admiral is far less salty and more of a proper, \"Shipshape and Bristol fashion\" kind of sailor, insistent on order and punctuality. In the original film he is portrayed by Reginald Owen; in the 2018 sequel, he is portrayed by David Warner\". In the books, the Banks have three domestic workers in addition to Mary Poppins: Ellen, Mrs. Brill, and Robertson Ay. Ellen is the maid and although she loves the children, she hates having to look after them when there is",
"title": "Mary Poppins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6933368",
"score": 1.1335146,
"text": "London. Number 17 is where the Banks family lives: George and Winifred Banks, their two naughty children Jane and Michael, their cook, Mrs. Brill and their odd-job man, Robertson Ay. Things are not going well for Jane and Michael. They are out of control and, as the show starts, their latest nanny, Katie Nanna, storms out. After that, Mrs. Brill and Robertson Ay complain about living in a \"madhouse.\" The children decide to write the advertisement for a new nanny (\"The Perfect Nanny\"), but George, having a very different idea of what constitutes the perfect nanny, tears up the piece",
"title": "Mary Poppins (musical)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6933356",
"score": 1.1243949,
"text": "Bert in the West End production, reprised his role on Broadway. Daniel H. Jenkins played George Banks, Rebecca Luker was Winifred, and Matthew Gumley and Henry Hodges played Michael. Starting on 9 October 2008, the role of Mary was played by Scarlett Strallen (reprising her role from the West End production) and Bert was played by Adam Fiorentino. Laura Michelle Kelly, who originated the role of Mary in London, took over the role on Broadway on October 12, 2009. Christian Borle joined the cast the same day as Bert. Nicolas Dromard played Bert from July 16 to August 22, 2010.",
"title": "Mary Poppins (musical)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6931414",
"score": 1.1201097,
"text": "into the air and away from the children. In the 1964 Disney film of the same name, she is portrayed by Julie Andrews; in the 2018 sequel \"Mary Poppins Returns\", she is portrayed by Emily Blunt. In the books there are five Banks children: Jane (the eldest), Michael, fraternal twins John and Barbara, and Annabel. Jane and Michael are the eldest and go on most of the magical adventures with Mary Poppins; they are the most prominent and vocal of the Banks children. John and Barbara are toddler twins who only start going on adventures in the second book. Annabel",
"title": "Mary Poppins"
}
] |
The Bay of Fundy, which has the highest tides in the world, is mainly in which country?
|
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"Canada",
"Canadá",
"The Dominion of Canada",
"Commonwealth of Canada",
"Dominion of canada",
"ISO 3166-1:CA",
"Etymology of Canada",
"CANADA",
"Canadiophile",
"Canada's",
"ᑲᓇᑕ",
"Canada/References",
"America's top hat",
"Canada.",
"Cnada",
"Čanada",
"Canadian Federation",
"Kenadian",
"Canadialand",
"Xanada",
"Dominion of Canada",
"Canadaa"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10334549",
"score": 1.1040549,
"text": "deceptive quiet. Sheltered from the open sea, they ebb and flood to a recorded range unequal in the rest of the world.” Like pretty much every place along the ocean around the world, Burntcoat Head experiences two high tides and two low tides each day. The Bay of Fundy fills and empties with approximately 160 billion tones of water twice a day. On average it takes 6 hours and 13 minutes between high and low tide. As soon as the tide has reached it lowest or highest point it will change directions and either begin to come to shore or",
"title": "Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5939719",
"score": 1.0971763,
"text": "the a mythical transformer, Glooscap, who created Nova Scotia and controlled the great tides with his magical powers. The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world. Visitors can walk on the ocean floor at low tide, or go rafting on the tidal bore. The high tides have shaped the landscape into one of singular beauty; pristine beaches, dramatic rock outcrops, sea cliffs, waterfalls, and rugged forests. The Joggins area is ecologically diverse and rich in wildlife. Eagles, osprey, and moose are common sights. In the fall the area is popular with birdwatchers; the rich marshes, originally diked",
"title": "Joggins"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10334548",
"score": 1.089922,
"text": "at Burntcoat Head average , with the highest being set during the 1869 Saxby Gale at . The Guinness Book of World Records (1975) declared that Burntcoat had the highest tides in the world: “The Natural World, Greatest Tides: The greatest tides in the world occur in the Bay of Fundy... Burntcoat Head in the Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, has the greatest mean spring range with 14.5 metres (47.5 feet) and an extreme range of 16.3 metres (53.5 feet).” The \"National Geographic\" magazine (August 1957) also made a similar assertion: “The famous tides of the Bay of Fundy move with",
"title": "Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17237766",
"score": 1.0804589,
"text": "Bay (near the southern tip of Nova Scotia) a better candidate. He notices that Samuel de Champlain named this bay \"\"Baye courante (’Stream Bay’), i.e. the same name as the Norse one\"\". Larsson further observes, The Bay of Fundy is claimed to have the highest tides in the world. Julius E. Olson (1911) pointed out that Fridtjof Nansen, taking a very sceptical stance, was dismissive of the idea of Vinland being located at Nova Scotia, partly because he held that the birdlife there would not match the extreme abundance which the saga describes on \"Straumsey\". Olson points, however, to the",
"title": "Straumfjörð"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "765688",
"score": 1.0651662,
"text": "in the Bay of Fundy system occurred at the head of the Minas Basin on the night of October 4–5, 1869 during a tropical cyclone named the \"Saxby Gale\". The water level of resulted from the combination of high winds, abnormally low atmospheric pressure, and a spring tide. The tides in the Bay of Fundy are semidiurnal, which means that they have two highs and two lows each day. The height that the water rises and falls to each day during these tides are approximately equal. There are approximately six hours and thirteen minutes between each high and low tide.",
"title": "Bay of Fundy"
}
] |
Who came to the British throne in January 1936?
|
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"Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor",
"Edward VIII (Windsor)",
"Edward VIII",
"Edward VIII of Canada",
"Edward viii of the united kingdom",
"Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor",
"Edward of Cornwall and York",
"King Edward VIII",
"Edward the Eighth",
"Edward VIII of Great Britain",
"Edward the 8th",
"Edward, 1st Duke of Windsor",
"Edward, Duke of Windsor",
"Prince Edward of Cornwall and York",
"Edward VIII of India",
"Edward VIII of England",
"Edward VIII of Scotland",
"Edward viii",
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"Prince Edward, 1st Duke of Windsor",
"Edward 8",
"Edward VIII of the United Kingdom",
"Edward VIII of the UK",
"Edward 8th",
"David Windsor",
"Edward VIII Windsor"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3544775",
"score": 1.1316044,
"text": "made provision for a change in the line of succession had a child been born to William IV after his death, but this event did not come about. In 1936 Edward VIII abdicated 11 months after he succeeded to the throne immediately on his father's death. Edward was proclaimed King in January 1936, and opened (for the only time) Parliament in November 1936. Edward VIII had desired to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorcee, but the Church of England, of which the British Sovereign is Supreme Governor, would not authorize the marriage of divorcees. Consequently, Parliament passed His Majesty's Declaration of",
"title": "Succession to the British throne"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3343083",
"score": 1.1311241,
"text": "became the Conservatives' main opposition, and Britain's largest party of the left. King Edward VIII succeeded his father George V in January 1936, but was quickly met with difficulties due to his love affair with Wallis Simpson, an American who had already been married twice. In December, he decided to abdicate in order to be able to marry Simpson, and his brother George VI was crowned king. In order to avoid another European conflict, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain attempted to appease German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who was expanding his country's territory across Central Europe. Despite proclaiming that he has achieved",
"title": "History of the British Isles"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3627677",
"score": 1.1105056,
"text": "Succession to the Throne Act 1937 to ratify changes to the rules of succession in Canada and ensure consistency with the changes in the rules then in place in the United Kingdom. South Africa passed His Majesty King Edward the Eighth's Abdication Act, 1937, which declared the abdication to have taken effect on 10 December 1936. Australia and New Zealand did not adopt the Statute of Westminster 1931 until the 1940s and did not pass their own legislation. In the Irish Free State, which had been independent from the United Kingdom as a dominion since December 1922, and in which",
"title": "His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3368948",
"score": 1.1077038,
"text": "While Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936 before his coronation, it was initially envisaged that his successor George VI would ultimately visit India and have his own Durbar. The Indian National Congress passed a motion weeks after his accession calling for a boycott of any such visit, and in February 1937 Communist MP Willie Gallacher decried expenditure on such festivities in a country of such poverty. The King's Speech of October 1937 included \"I am looking forward with interest and pleasure to the time when it will be possible for Me to visit My Indian Empire\"; however, the onset of",
"title": "Delhi Durbar"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4571849",
"score": 1.104563,
"text": "all of these were delegated to the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and in 1927 the King's title within Great Britain and Northern Ireland was changed by proclamation under the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act passed by the Westminster Parliament to \"George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India\". In January 1936, George V died and was succeeded by his eldest son, who became Edward VIII. The new King's reign lasted only eleven months, and he abdicated in December of that",
"title": "Head of state of Ireland (1936 to 1949)"
}
] |
In what year was Charles 1 executed?
|
[
"one thousand, six hundred and forty-nine",
"1649"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5640247",
"score": 1.1538936,
"text": "basis that his refusal led to his death, high church supporters of episcopacy viewed his death as a martyrdom. After the 1660 Restoration of his son Charles II to the throne, observance of 30 January, the date of Charles I's execution, was added to the Church of England's liturgical calendar, with a special service in the Book of Common Prayer and special sermons preached. The Anniversary Days Observance Act 1859 removed the service, along with those of Gunpowder Plot and the Restoration, as being of political rather than religious character. The liberal influence which led to the 1859 change also",
"title": "Society of King Charles the Martyr"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11503351",
"score": 1.1510279,
"text": "King Charles the Martyr King Charles the Martyr, or Charles, King and Martyr, is a title of Charles I, who was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. The title was used by high church Anglicans who regarded Charles's execution as a martyrdom. His feast day in the Anglican calendar of saints is 30 January, the anniversary of his execution in 1649. The cult of Charles the Martyr was popular with Tories. The observance was one of several \"state services\" removed in 1859 from the Book of Common Prayer of the Church",
"title": "King Charles the Martyr"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "96400",
"score": 1.1397128,
"text": "the second quarter. Charles had nine children, two of whom eventually succeeded as king, and two of whom died at or shortly after birth. Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was the monarch over the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.",
"title": "Charles I of England"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11503355",
"score": 1.1395023,
"text": "kill prisoners of war. He was sentenced to death. When Charles was beheaded on 30 January 1649, Philip Henry records that a moan was heard from the assembled crowd, some of whom then dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, thus starting the cult of the Martyr King. However, no other eyewitness source, including Samuel Pepys, records this. Note also that Henry's account was written during the Restoration (i.e. some 12 years after the event), Henry was 19 when the King was executed, and he and his family were Royalist propaganda writers. There is some historical debate over the identity of",
"title": "King Charles the Martyr"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "14685838",
"score": 1.1257488,
"text": "Interregnum did not have Royal Assent, so they were deemed to be null and void following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. King Charles I of England was beheaded on 30 January 1649. Shortly after his death the Rump Parliament passed a series of acts which established the Commonwealth (see High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I) The execution of Charles I was delayed until later in the day on 30 January than had originally been planned, so that the House of Commons could pass an emergency act, the \"Act prohibiting the proclaiming any person to",
"title": "Treasons Act 1649"
}
] |
Which city hosted the 1964 Summer Olympic Games?
|
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"東京都",
"Economy of Tokyo",
"Demographics of Tokyo",
"東京",
"Tõkyõ",
"Oyata",
"UN/LOCODE:JPTYO",
"Toukyo",
"Tōkyō, Japan",
"Tōkyo",
"JP-13",
"Tōkyō Met.",
"Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture",
"To-kyo",
"Tokio Metropolis",
"Tôkiô",
"Oyata, Tokyo",
"Tohkyoh",
"Economy of tokyo",
"Toukyou-to",
"Tókio",
"Tokyo",
"Toky",
"To Kyo",
"Tōkyō Prefecture",
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"Tôkyô, Japan",
"Dōngjīng (Japan)",
"Outlying islands of Tokyo",
"Toukyou",
"Toyko, Japan",
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"Tokyo Met.",
"Tôkyô",
"Tokeo",
"Tokei",
"Tokyo-To",
"Tokyo Plain",
"Kudanzaka",
"Toukiou",
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"To kyo",
"Tookioo",
"Metropolitan Tokyo",
"Tokyo, Japan",
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"Toquio",
"Toyko",
"Tookyoo",
"To-Kyo",
"Tokyoh",
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"Tokyo Administrative District",
"Tõkiõ",
"Tokyo in pop culture",
"Tokyo,Japan",
"Tokyo City and Prefecture",
"Tōkyō",
"Tokyoto"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "865004",
"score": 0.9901581,
"text": "bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Rio de Janeiro. Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics games. Tokyo will be the first Asian city to host the games twice. North Korea withdrew its athletes from the 1964 Summer Olympics just before the Games were due to start, as the IOC were refusing to accept any athletes who had participated in the Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) held in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1963. China and Indonesia also chose not to attend the Tokyo Games due to GANEFO issues. 1964 Summer Olympics",
"title": "1964 Summer Olympics"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "368646",
"score": 0.9832543,
"text": "the 2020 Summer Olympics, when it will become the first city outside the Western world to have hosted the Summer Olympics more than once, having already hosted the Games in 1964. The other countries that have hosted the Summer Olympics are Belgium, Brazil, China, Canada, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Soviet Union, and Sweden; each of these countries has hosted the Summer Games on just one occasion. Asia has hosted the Summer Olympics three times, in Tokyo, Japan (1964), Seoul, South Korea (1988), and Beijing, China (2008); Asia will host the Games for a fourth time in 2020",
"title": "Summer Olympic Games"
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "864991",
"score": 0.9745821,
"text": "a traditional cinder track for the track events. A smooth, synthetic, all-weather track was used for the first time at the 1968 Olympics and at every Olympiad thereafter. Tokyo won the rights to the Games on 26 May 1959, at the 55th IOC Session in Munich, West Germany, over bids from Detroit, Brussels and Vienna. Toronto was an early bidder again in 1964 after the failed attempt for 1960 and failed to make the final round. The 1964 Summer Olympics featured 19 different sports encompassing 25 disciplines, and medals were awarded in 163 events. In the list below, the number",
"title": "1964 Summer Olympics"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "864988",
"score": 0.96949035,
"text": "1964 Summer Olympics The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the , was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 10 to 24 October 1964. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's invasion of China, before ultimately being cancelled because of World War II. The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia, and the first time South Africa was barred from taking part due to its apartheid system in sports. (South Africa was, however, allowed to compete at the 1964",
"title": "1964 Summer Olympics"
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15038628",
"score": 0.95491385,
"text": "Venues of the 1964 Summer Olympics For the 1964 Summer Olympics, a total of thirty-three sports venues were used. Six of the venues were built before the International Olympic Committee awarded the 1964 Games to Tokyo in 1959. This included two venues that hosted the 1958 Asian Games. There were thirteen new, eight temporary, and five reconstructed and/or renovated venues that were used during the event. During the Olympics, wind and weather had issues with two athletic events. After the Olympics, one venue (Osaka Stadium) hosted both a FIFA World Cup and a World Athletics Championship event while another (Tokyo",
"title": "Venues of the 1964 Summer Olympics"
}
] |
The RSMDT, started in 1927 and now known as the White Helmets, perform in what?
|
[
"Displays of motorcycling skills, acrobatics and stunt riding"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "11545625",
"score": 1.3522012,
"text": "Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team The Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team (RSMDT), also known as the White Helmets, was a group of serving soldiers from the Royal Corps of Signals of the British Army, who gave public displays of motorcycling skills, acrobatics and stunt riding. The team was based at the home of the Royal Signals at Blandford Camp in Dorset. The team was disbanded at the end of 2017. The team's origins lie in precision motorcycling and horseriding demonstrations given by instructors and students from the British Army Signal Training Centre in Yorkshire, beginning in 1927. Riders were normally",
"title": "Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11545626",
"score": 0.99567354,
"text": "employed as despatch riders. They have had many names in the past including 'The Red Devils', before the Parachute Regiment team of the same name existed, Mad Signals (on account of the poor brakes on the motorcycles) and only adopted the name 'White Helmets' in 1963. The team consisted of 24 soldiers and one officer, all volunteers from within the Royal Signals. Potential new members began with a two week selection course in October and the whole team spent the winter learning routines and stunts, culminating in an opening display in April where white motorcycle helmets are ceremonially presented to",
"title": "Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team"
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19123237",
"score": 0.98767066,
"text": "over 3,000 volunteers operating from 111 local civil defence centres across 8 provincial directorates (Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Damascus Countryside, and Daraa). In October 2014, these self-organised teams came together and voted to form one national organisation: Syria Civil Defence. As of January 2017, the SCD claims to have rescued over 80,000 people since they began to keep count in 2014. The White Helmets themselves have become targets of Syrian and Russian airstrikes. According to \"The Economist\", approximately one in six SCD have been killed or badly wounded, \"many by 'double tap' Russian and Syrian airstrikes on the",
"title": "White Helmets (Syrian Civil War)"
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19123234",
"score": 0.98691714,
"text": "claim impartiality in the Syrian conflict. The organisation has been the target of a disinformation campaign by supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia-sponsored media organisations such as RT, with false claims of close ties with terrorist activities and other conspiracy theories. The rescue teams that later became Syria Civil Defence emerged during the late 2012 escalation of the Syrian Civil War, as areas no longer under government control came under sustained attack by government forces. In response, in the absence of formal governmental structures, small groups of civilian volunteers from affected communities, particularly in Aleppo and Idlib, assembled",
"title": "White Helmets (Syrian Civil War)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19123233",
"score": 0.9673487,
"text": "White Helmets (Syrian Civil War) The White Helmets ( \"al-Ḫawdh al-bayḍāʾ\" / \"al-Qubaʿāt al-Bayḍāʾ\"), officially known as Syria Civil Defence (SCD; \"ad-Difāʿ al-Madanī as-Sūrī\"), is a volunteer organisation that operates in parts of rebel-controlled Syria and in Turkey. Formed in 2014 during the Syrian Civil War, the majority of their activity in Syria consists of medical evacuation, urban search and rescue in response to bombing, evacuation of civilians from danger areas, and essential service delivery. As of April 2018, the organisation claimed to have saved over 114,000 lives, with 204 White Helmet volunteers losing their lives in the process. They",
"title": "White Helmets (Syrian Civil War)"
}
] |
The iron pillar of Delhi, India, a 7 meter (22 feet) high pillar that is 98% pure wrought iron, has withstood corrosion in the open air for how long?
|
[
"Over 1,600 years"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19901969",
"score": 1.2539105,
"text": "metal, which results in an excellent corrosion resistance layer. In 1,600 years, the film has grown just one-twentieth of a millimetre thick. In 1969, in his first book, \"Chariots of the Gods?\", Erich von Däniken cited the absence of corrosion on the Delhi pillar and the unknown nature of its creation as evidence of extraterrestrial visitation. When informed by an interviewer, in 1974, that the column was not in fact rust-free, and that its method of construction was well-understood, von Däniken responded that he no longer considered the pillar or its creation to be a mystery. Balasubramaniam states that the",
"title": "Iron pillar of Delhi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19901949",
"score": 1.25365,
"text": "Indian iron smiths in the extraction and processing of iron\". The corrosion resistance results from an even layer of crystalline iron hydrogen phosphate hydrate forming on the high-phosphorus-content iron, which serves to protect it from the effects of the Delhi climate. The pillar weighs over and is thought to have originally been erected in what is now Udayagiri by one of the Gupta monarchs in approximately 402 CE, though the precise date and location are a matter of dispute. The height of the pillar, from the top of its capital to the bottom of its base, is , of which",
"title": "Iron pillar of Delhi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19901970",
"score": 1.230737,
"text": "pillar is \"a living testimony to the skill of metallurgists of ancient India\". An interview with Balasubramaniam and his work can be seen in the 2005 article by the writer and editor Matthew Veazey. Further research published in 2009 showed that corrosion has developed evenly over the surface of the pillar. It was claimed in the 1920s that iron manufactured in Mirjati near Jamshedpur is similar to the iron of the Delhi pillar. Further work on Adivasi (tribal) iron by the National Metallurgical Laboratory in the 1960s did not verify this claim. A significant indentation on the middle section of",
"title": "Iron pillar of Delhi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19901948",
"score": 1.2089639,
"text": "Iron pillar of Delhi The iron pillar of Delhi is a kirti stambha (column of fame or victory column), originally erected and dedicated as dhvaja (banner) to Hindu deity lord Vishnu in 3rd to 4th century CE by king Chandragupta II, currently standing in the Qutb complex at Mehrauli in Delhi, India. It is famous for the rust-resistant composition of the metals used in its construction. The pillar has attracted the attention of archaeologists and materials scientists because of its high resistance to corrosion and has been called a \"testimony to the high level of skill achieved by the ancient",
"title": "Iron pillar of Delhi"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9343733",
"score": 1.1725998,
"text": "wrought iron (98% Fe), is almost seven meters high and weighs more than six tonnes. The pillar was erected by Chandragupta II Vikramaditya and has withstood 1,600 years of exposure to heavy rains with relatively little corrosion. Historians debate whether bloomery-based ironworking ever spread to China from the Middle East. One theory suggests that metallurgy was introduced through Central Asia. In 2008, two iron fragments were excavated at the Mogou site, in Gansu. They have been dated to the 14th century BC, belonging to the period of Siwa culture. One of the fragments was made of bloomery iron rather than",
"title": "Ferrous metallurgy"
}
] |
In which London street was Ronny Scott's Jazz Club
|
[
"Frith Street"
] |
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7713921",
"score": 1.2333016,
"text": "London House (Chicago) The London House was a jazz club and restaurant in Chicago located at the corner of Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue, in the London Guaranty and Accident Company Building, 360 N. Michigan Ave. It was one of the foremost jazz clubs in the country, once home to such luminaries as Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderley, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Nancy Wilson, Barbara Carroll, Bobby Short and many others. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary in November 1966, Frank Sinatra, Jr. headlined the club in his Chicago debut.",
"title": "London House (Chicago)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7227924",
"score": 1.2078694,
"text": "Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club is a prominent jazz club which has operated in London since 1959. The club opened on 30 October 1959 in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho district. It was set up and managed by musicians Ronnie Scott and Pete King. In 1965 it moved to a larger venue nearby at 47 Frith Street. The original venue continued in operation as the \"Old Place\" until the lease ran out in 1967, and was used for performances by the up-and-coming generation of musicians. Zoot Sims was the club's first transatlantic visitor",
"title": "Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "508984",
"score": 1.1636609,
"text": "restaurants had become established on Gerrard Street by the end of the 19th century, including the Hotel des Etrangers and the Mont Blanc. Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opened at 39 Gerrard Street in 1959 and remained there until its move to No 47 Frith Street in 1965. Scott kept 39 Gerrard Street open for up and coming British Jazz musicians (referred to as 'the Old Place') until the lease ran out in 1967. The 43 Club was based on Gerrard Street. It was one of the most notorious clubs in Soho, run as a cover for organised crime and illegal",
"title": "Soho"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18166570",
"score": 1.1557096,
"text": "been assaulted by a man at the club as had been reported. Club Eleven were resident for six months in 1950 until they were closed by a police raid. It then became the calypso Sunset Club. Club Eleven had been founded at 44 Great Windmill Street in 1948 as a co-operative to promote bebop jazz. It was named after the eleven founders who included Ronnie Scott, Hank Shaw, Leon Calvert, Johnny Rogers, Bernie Fenton, Tommy Pollard, Lennie Bush, Joe Muddel, Tony Crombie, Laurie Morgan and manager Harry Morris. Ronnie Scott and Johnny Dankworth were group leaders. Tony Hall writing in",
"title": "50 Carnaby Street"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19007110",
"score": 1.1553719,
"text": "1983. Bourbon Street continued to feature music until 1986. The building has since been demolished. Newly released Bourbon Street (Toronto) Bourbon Street was a jazz club located at 180 Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario. Operating between 1971 and 1986, it was one of Toronto's preeminent jazz clubs and featured many internationally renowned musicians. Bourbon Street was opened in 1971 by Doug Cole, also the owner of George's Spaghetti House. The club featured a largely American musical lineup that was backed by a local house band. In the fall of 1975 both Jim Hall and Paul Desmond recorded live albums",
"title": "Bourbon Street (Toronto)"
}
] |
In which river was Jesus baptized by John the Baptist?
|
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"Jordan (country)",
"Al-Urdunn",
"أردنّ",
"JOrdan",
"Urdun",
"Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan",
"Urdunn",
"The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan",
"Administrative divisions of Jordan",
"HKJ",
"State of Jordan",
"Jordan",
"Jordanian Kingdom",
"Languages of Jordan",
"Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan",
"Jordanie",
"Al-Mamlakah al",
"JORDAN",
"Al-'Urdun",
"Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan",
"ISO 3166-1:JO",
"الأردن",
"Kingdom of the Jordan",
"Ottoman Jordon",
"Al-Urdun",
"H.K of Jordan",
"Etymology of Jordan",
"المملكة الأردنّيّة الهاشميّة",
"Kingdom of Jordan"
] |
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3816558",
"score": 1.0143425,
"text": "to commemorating his Baptism. Today in Eastern Orthodox churches, the emphasis at this feast is on the shining forth and revelation of Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Second Person of the Trinity at the time of his baptism. It is also celebrated because, according to tradition, the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by St. John the Baptist marked one of only two occasions when all three Persons of the Trinity manifested themselves simultaneously to humanity: God the Father by speaking through the clouds, God the Son being baptized in the river, and God the Holy Spirit in",
"title": "Epiphany (holiday)"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "589379",
"score": 1.0110427,
"text": "Jordan (–; Mark; Luke ; John). These acts of Baptism are also reported as having taken place at Bethabara (). Jesus came to be baptised by him there (; ; , ). The Jordan is also where John the Baptist bore record of Jesus as the Son of God and Lamb of God (). The prophecy of Isaiah regarding the Messiah which names the Jordan () is also reported in . The New Testament speaks several times about Jesus crossing the Jordan during his ministry (; ), and of believers crossing the Jordan to come hear him preach and to",
"title": "Jordan River"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5442993",
"score": 1.0105522,
"text": "mind and comes to accept someone else's plan. Plus, the story came from the community that included the family of Jesus, who would have guaranteed the authenticity of the narrative. The Gospel of John () refers to Enon near Salim as one place where John the Baptist baptized people, \"because there was much water there\". Separately, states that John the Baptist was baptizing in \"Bethany beyond the Jordan\". This is not the village Bethany just east of Jerusalem, but is generally considered to be the town Bethany, also called Bethabara in Perea on the Eastern bank of the Jordan near",
"title": "Baptism of Jesus"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5442995",
"score": 0.9949069,
"text": "of the River in Jordan has been deemed the earliest place of worship. This site was found following UNESCO-sponsored excavations. Al-Maghtas was visited by Pope John Paul II in March 2000, and he said: \"In my mind I see Jesus coming to the waters of the river Jordan not far from here to be baptized by John the Baptist\". The Muslim conquest put an end to the Byzantine buildings on the east bank of the Jordan River, the later reverence took place just across the river in the West Bank at Qasr el Yahud. The baptism of Jesus is generally",
"title": "Baptism of Jesus"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5213887",
"score": 0.99060595,
"text": "Jesus and the ministry of John the Baptist, is about 30 miles using modern Highway 71. Howard Clarke notes that according to tradition Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River five miles south of the Allenby Bridge, today the site of a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to John the Baptist. The area is currently in a military zone and is closed to visitors. This verse differs considerably from the description of the same event in . In Luke's account, Jesus is one of the crowd that has come to see John and it does not specify who baptized Jesus. Nor",
"title": "Matthew 3:13"
}
] |
Ireland's first ever all weather horse race meeting took place on 26 August 2007 on which racecourse?
|
[
"Dundalk",
"Dundalk, Ireland",
"Dealga"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "20273994",
"score": 1.2179023,
"text": "crowds in excess of 100,000 annually attending both the Punchestown Festival in April, and the Galway Races in July. The majority of racecourses are turf, with Dundalk being the only floodlit all-weather polytrack. Laytown holds the distinction of being the only beach racecourse in the country adhering to the rules of the Turf Club, with one race meeting held each year on a natural sand track; however unaffiliated beach races are frequently held on beaches in some parts of the country. Horse Racing Ireland recognises the following racecourses: Ulster Munster Leinster Connacht Races have previously been held under the Rules",
"title": "Horse racing in Ireland"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17245812",
"score": 1.208417,
"text": "throughout October and climax on Good Friday at Lingfield Park Racecourse. The All-Weather Championships are sponsored by bookmakers, Coral, Ladbrokes, Unibet and 32Red. The racecourses involved in the All-Weather Championships are Chelmsford City, Kempton Park, Lingfield Park, Southwell and Wolverhampton in Great Britain as well as Dundalk in Ireland and Cagnes-sur-Mer and Deauville in France. The All-Weather Championships are contested over seven categories: Finals Day is the richest All-Weather Raceday in Europe with over £1million in prize money on offer. To qualify to run on Finals Day, horses must run either a minimum of three times on the All-Weather surfaces",
"title": "Arena Racing Company"
},
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"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12940679",
"score": 1.1609312,
"text": "Irish Sprint Cup (formerly the Irish National Cup) arrived at the track in 2004. Dundalk Stadium Dundalk Stadium is a horse and greyhound racing venue in Ireland. It is located to the north of Dundalk in County Louth. The total build cost €35million with a modern grandstand, elevated viewing areas, restaurant and bars. The Dundalk all-weather horse track to go alongside the new greyhound track that had opened earlier, officially opened on 26 August 2007 costing a further €24million. The course is a floodlit 1¼ mile left-handed oval, and races are run on an all-weather Polytrack surface. A turf racecourse",
"title": "Dundalk Stadium"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "12940676",
"score": 1.1114475,
"text": "The present all-weather track, reserved for flat races, was opened in August 2007. The highest class horse races to be run at the venue are the Diamond Stakes, which was promoted from Listed to Group 3 status in 2009, and the Mercury Stakes which was upgraded to Group 3 status in 2018. In 1999 the Dundalk Race Company PLC and Dundealgan Greyhound Racing Company Limited merged to form Dundalk Racing (1999) Ltd. This would allow a new horse racing circuit to be built over the existing turf course and a greyhound track inside the main course. The previous Dundalk Ramparts",
"title": "Dundalk Stadium"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20273988",
"score": 1.1108046,
"text": "the English Jockey Club. A similar body for National Hunt races, the Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee, was formed under the Turf Club to ensure fair running of National Hunt meetings. The first recorded race meet at Laytown took place in 1868, at a time when beach races were a relatively common occurrence. The first racing festival at the Ballybrit racecourse took place in the following year, with a reported 40,000 spectators in attendance. In the mid-19th century, the racehorse industry saw a decline linked to the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. Economic strife led to less investment in horse",
"title": "Horse racing in Ireland"
}
] |
"""Createur d'automobiles"", is a slogan used by which car manufacturer?"
|
[
"RENAULT",
"Renault S.A.",
"Renault SA",
"Renault",
"Renault Motors",
"Renault W'Air",
"Régie Nationale des Usines Renault",
"Groupe Renault",
"Serge Yoccoz",
"Renault W'air"
] |
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{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5855379",
"score": 1.0054119,
"text": "Automobile Club de l'Ouest The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (English: Automobile Club of the West), sometimes abbreviated to ACO, is the largest automotive group in France. It was founded in 1906 by car building and racing enthusiasts, and is most famous for being the organising entity behind the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race. The ACO also lobbies on behalf of French drivers on such issues as road building and maintenance, the availability of driving schools and road safety classes, and the incorporation of technical innovations into new vehicles. It also runs a roadside assistance service for its members. The",
"title": "Automobile Club de l'Ouest"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15604283",
"score": 0.9935905,
"text": "original CIJ model cars. Still these CIJ models were reintroduced as a brand under the Norev umbrella around 2005. CIJ CIJ is the acronym for Compagnie Industrielle du Jouet (or \"Manufacturing Company of Toys\"). It was a classic French brand of diecast metal toy vehicles. It was founded by Fernand Migault in Paris in 1920. The company name originally was Migault S.A. at the time that Migault's cousin Marcel Gourdet joined the firm. On the grounds of contracts signed by André Citroën himself in 1922, the company produced exclusive model cars made of either metalware or wood in , \"la",
"title": "CIJ"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "618436",
"score": 0.98896194,
"text": "new font for the Citroën name and the new slogan \"Créative Technologie\". A TV campaign reminiscing over of Citroën was commissioned to announce the new identity to the public. The new look is currently being rolled out to dealers globally and is expected to take three to five years. Some joint venture models are manufactured in third party or joint venture factories, including the following: Citroën Citroën () is a French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group since 1976, founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën (1878–1935). In 1934, the firm established its reputation for innovative",
"title": "Citroën"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5932969",
"score": 0.9853141,
"text": "that he belongs to a conquered people.\" In 1978, replaced the tourist-oriented motto on Quebec's vehicle registration plate. According to the historian Gaston Deschênes, this event marks the start of a new period of attempts to reinterpret the meaning of the motto in the mainstream media of Canada. On February 4, 1978, Robert Goyette signed an article entitled \"Car owners argue over motto\" in \"The Montreal Star\". This article attracted the attention of a reader, Hélène Pâquet, a granddaughter of Taché who replied on February 15 in an open letter entitled \". It reads in part: The lily and the",
"title": "Je me souviens"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15864967",
"score": 0.96167505,
"text": "Nissan) the 3rd-largest automaker in Europe and the 10th-largest of the world in 2015. The France-based Renault Trucks is a major producer of commercial vehicles and is owned by Volvo AB. Both PSA and Renault produce a large number of vehicles outside France. French-designed cars have won the European Car of the Year and World Car of the Year awards numerous times. The Citroën DS took third place in Car of the Century award and has been named the most beautiful car of all time by \"Classic & Sports Car\" magazine. French automotive manufacturers were long dominant in francophone Africa,",
"title": "Automotive industry in France"
}
] |
Which English city has stations called Shrub Hill and Foregate Street?
|
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"Manufacturing in Worcester",
"Worchester",
"The weather in Worcester",
"Worcester, Great Britain",
"Worcester, United Kingdom",
"Mayor of Worcester",
"Worcester/Archive",
"Weorgoranceastre",
"Worcester, Worcestershire",
"Worcester",
"County Borough of Worcester",
"Worcester, England",
"City of Worcester",
"Worcester City Council",
"Worcester, UK"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7809206",
"score": 1.2460951,
"text": "is a small bay that was used mainly for the former Wessex Trains/Wales & West service towards Cheltenham Spa, as it is a small south facing bay platform its use is limited. Trains leaving Shrub Hill for Foregate Street join a single line that ends near Henwick signal box south of Foregate Street station. This is one of the two single lines through Foregate Street Station. Near to the station is Worcester Traction Maintenance Depot (TMD) which is currently operated by West Midlands Trains who also stable trains at various locations around Shrub Hill station. Great Western Railway also stable",
"title": "Worcester Shrub Hill railway station"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8045770",
"score": 1.2009598,
"text": "via with extensions through to and and a daily service to Southampton Central and . Many of the trains on both these routes run to/from Great Malvern, though the ones that start and finish at Shrub Hill have convenient connections from here. Worcester Foregate Street railway station Worcester Foregate Street railway station, opened by the Great Western Railway in 1860 in the centre of Worcester, England, is the smaller of the two stations serving the city, but more centrally located. The other station, Worcester Shrub Hill, is to the east. The station layout is unusual in that travelling east the",
"title": "Worcester Foregate Street railway station"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "18883876",
"score": 1.1945002,
"text": "Both stations are directly connected by train services and are about three quarters of a mile from each other. Worcester station group The Worcester station group is a station group of two railway stations in Worcester City Centre, England consisting of Foregate Street and Shrub Hill. The station group is printed on national rail tickets as WORCESTER STNS. Worcester Foregate Street is Worcester's most central and most used station, located on Foregate Street. It is served by trains towards Birmingham via Kidderminster or Bromsgrove, Hereford via Malvern, London Paddington via Oxford, Bristol Temple Meads via Gloucester. The station is managed",
"title": "Worcester station group"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8045766",
"score": 1.1878769,
"text": "from the east by trains running directly to and from Droitwich Spa, avoiding Shrub Hill. Similar examples of this type of layout can be found at in Fife and in Lancashire. This means that Great Western Railway services can only stop at Platform 1, as all of these trains stop at Shrub Hill. There is a cafe called Cafe Loco at the end of Platform 1 in the old signal box. The station itself is built on a viaduct, meaning that space for expansion is restricted, but the platforms are nevertheless of ample length to accommodate an HST. Despite its",
"title": "Worcester Foregate Street railway station"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7809208",
"score": 1.1667564,
"text": "mainly at peak times or in the early morning/late evening. Most through services between and New Street otherwise take the direct route between Foregate St to Droitwich Spa to avoid the need for a reversal. Great Western Railway operate about a dozen services a day to and from London Paddington, the majority of which are via the Cotswold Line and Oxford. Other services to and from London operate via , the Gloucester/Swindon line (Golden Valley Line) and the Great Western Main Line via and . GWR run services southwards every two hours to Bristol Temple Meads via Cheltenham and Gloucester,",
"title": "Worcester Shrub Hill railway station"
}
] |
Who played hitman Martin Q Blank in the 1997 film ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’?
|
[
"Airspace (film)",
"John qsac",
"John qsack",
"John Cusack filmography",
"John Cusack",
"John Paul Cusack",
"John Cusak"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4631866",
"score": 1.2877438,
"text": "Grosse Pointe Blank Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American crime comedy film directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd. Cusack plays a hitman who returns to his hometown to attend a high school reunion. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $31,070,412. Hitman Martin Blank finds himself depressed and disillusioned with his work. Grocer, his chief rival, is attempting to incorporate the hitman business but Martin refuses to join, putting the two at odds. Following a botched contract, Martin accepts an invitation to his high school reunion in his",
"title": "Grosse Pointe Blank"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4631879",
"score": 1.2690476,
"text": "assassin and his sister Joan as his assistant, with Dan Aykroyd in a supporting role. Grosse Pointe Blank Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American crime comedy film directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd. Cusack plays a hitman who returns to his hometown to attend a high school reunion. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $31,070,412. Hitman Martin Blank finds himself depressed and disillusioned with his work. Grocer, his chief rival, is attempting to incorporate the hitman business but Martin refuses to join, putting the two at odds.",
"title": "Grosse Pointe Blank"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4631874",
"score": 1.0310705,
"text": "a 1997 interview, actor John Cusack, who shares the film's screenwriting credit along with Jankiewicz, Steve Pink, and D.V. DeVincentis, said he would have liked to film on location in Grosse Pointe, but they were unable to move production to Michigan due to budget constraints. The scene where Martin is attacked by LaPoubelle while exploring the halls of his old high school was filmed at Reseda High School in the San Fernando Valley. Armitage later recalled: Armitage says he shot several endings: \"Grosse Pointe Blank\" received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating",
"title": "Grosse Pointe Blank"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4631868",
"score": 0.9509769,
"text": "hitman who attempts to kill Martin in the convenience store built over his childhood home. He is also followed by two NSA agents who were tipped off to Martin's contract by Grocer. Despite these dangers, Martin remains distracted by his desire to win over Debi and fails to open the dossier on his target. At the reunion, Martin and Debi mingle with their former classmates, and begin to fall in love all over again. Later, while exploring the halls alone, Martin is ambushed by LaPoubelle, whom he kills in self-defense. Debi stumbles upon the scene and flees the reunion in",
"title": "Grosse Pointe Blank"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3150856",
"score": 0.9460285,
"text": "Kenny Blank Kenneth Michael Benbow \"Kenny\" Blank (born September 15, 1977) is an American actor and musician. Later, he changed his name to Kenn Michael. Blank is best known for his role as Michael Peterson in the television series \"The Parent 'Hood\" from 1995 to 1997 for which he also composed some music, as well as his appearance in Eddie Murphy's 1992 film, \"Boomerang\". Blank was born in New York City. As a child, Blank reviewed the book \"Jumanji\" on \"Reading Rainbow\" in the episode about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He also narrated Bill Martin, Jr.'s \"Knots on a",
"title": "Kenny Blank"
}
] |
In sailing, if tacking is the maneuver by which the vessel turns its bow (front side) so that the direction from which the wind blows changes sides, what is the term for doing so by turning the stern (rear)?
|
[
"Jibes",
"Gibing",
"Wearing (sailing)",
"Jibing",
"Jibed",
"Accidental jibe",
"Jibe",
"Wearing ship",
"Gybing",
"Wear (sailing)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4098909",
"score": 1.3854519,
"text": "can sometimes become counter-productive as some speed and time is always lost in each tack. Tacking (sailing) Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel, whose desired course is into the wind, turns its bow toward the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction. The opposite maneuver to tacking is called jibing, or \"wearing\" on square-rigged ships, that is, turning the stern through the wind. No sailing vessel can move directly upwind, though that may be the desired direction,",
"title": "Tacking (sailing)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "4098897",
"score": 1.3820637,
"text": "Tacking (sailing) Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel, whose desired course is into the wind, turns its bow toward the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction. The opposite maneuver to tacking is called jibing, or \"wearing\" on square-rigged ships, that is, turning the stern through the wind. No sailing vessel can move directly upwind, though that may be the desired direction, making this an essential maneuver of a sailing ship. A series of tacking moves, in",
"title": "Tacking (sailing)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1850400",
"score": 1.3118446,
"text": "Tack (sailing) In sailing, tack is a corner of a sail on the lower leading edge. Separately, tack describes which side of a sailing vessel the wind is coming from while under way—port or starboard. Tacking is the maneuver of turning between starboard and port tack by bringing the bow (the forward part of the boat) through the wind. Jibing is the maneuver of turning from one tack to another by bringing the stern (rear of the boat) through the wind. As a part of a sail, the tack is the lower corner of the sail's leading edge. On a",
"title": "Tack (sailing)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4098902",
"score": 1.3063829,
"text": "a ship moves on a zig-zag course to make progress directly into the wind (upwind). No sailing vessel can move directly upwind (though that may be the desired direction). Beating allows the vessel to advance indirectly upwind. A ship that is beating will sail as close to the wind as possible; this position is known as close hauled. In general, the closest angle to the wind that a ship can sail is around 35 to 45 degrees. Some modern yachts can sail very near to the wind, while older ships, especially square-rigged ships, are much worse at it. Thus when",
"title": "Tacking (sailing)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1850402",
"score": 1.3021133,
"text": "\"starboard tack\". Tack (sailing) In sailing, tack is a corner of a sail on the lower leading edge. Separately, tack describes which side of a sailing vessel the wind is coming from while under way—port or starboard. Tacking is the maneuver of turning between starboard and port tack by bringing the bow (the forward part of the boat) through the wind. Jibing is the maneuver of turning from one tack to another by bringing the stern (rear of the boat) through the wind. As a part of a sail, the tack is the lower corner of the sail's leading edge.",
"title": "Tack (sailing)"
}
] |
Which Russian-American is credited with inventing the helicopter?
|
[
"Igor Ivanovich Sigorsky",
"Igor Sigorsky",
"Igor Ivan Sigorsky",
"Tania Sikorsky von York",
"Igor Ivan Sikorsky",
"I. Sikorsky",
"Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky",
"Igor Sikorski",
"Igor I. Sikorsky",
"Igor Sikorsky"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1623010",
"score": 1.0787761,
"text": "United States in 1919, Sikorsky founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in 1923, and developed the first of Pan American Airways' ocean-conquering flying boats in the 1930s. In 1939, Sikorsky designed and flew the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable American helicopter, which pioneered the rotor configuration used by most helicopters today. Sikorsky modified the design into the Sikorsky R-4, which became the world's first mass-produced helicopter in 1942. Igor Sikorsky was born in Kiev, Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine), the youngest of five children. His father, Ivan Alexeevich Sikorsky, was a professor of psychology of Kiev St. Vladimir University, a psychiatrist",
"title": "Igor Sikorsky"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2242526",
"score": 1.0765285,
"text": "near Yelnya. In 1943 he was called back to continue research and development in improving the stability and control of combat aircraft. He completed his dissertations (\"Candidate\", 1943, Ph.D., 1945) and in 1947 headed the Helicopter Lab at TsAGI, which was later turned into the Moscow Helicopter Plant. Mil's creations won many domestic and international awards and set 69 world records. Most notably, the Mil Mi-4 won a Gold Medal in the Brussels International Exhibition in 1958. In 1971, after his death, his Mil Mi-12 won the Sikorsky Prize as the most powerful helicopter in the world. Unlike his Soviet",
"title": "Mikhail Mil"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19030639",
"score": 1.0650065,
"text": "an M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, and was immediately employed by Igor Sikorsky, President of Sikorsky Aircraft. He became an American citizen several years later. Nikolsky spent 13 years at the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation (now United Technologies Corporation), serving successively and successfully as stress engineer, Chief of Structures, and Assistant Chief of Design. More importantly, he became a part of a small nucleus of engineers who worked with Igor Sikorsky to develop the world's first practical helicopter, the VS-300. The interest which developed during this phase of his career colored his remaining professional life. When the",
"title": "Alexander A. Nikolsky"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19030642",
"score": 1.0610147,
"text": "analysis and design of rotary-wing aircraft: \"Notes on Helicopter Design Theory\" (1945) and \"Helicopter Analysis\" (1951). In 1981, the American Helicopter Society (now AHS International) created the annual Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship, \"Given to an individual who has a highly distinguished career in vertical flight aircraft research and development and is skilled at communicating their technical knowledge and experience.\" Alexander A. Nikolsky Alexander Alexandrovitch Nikolsky (, 1903-1963) was a Russian-born American aeronautical engineer who worked in the domain of rotary-wing aircraft. Professor Alexander Alexandrovitch Nikolsky (nicknamed \"Nick\"), was born in 1903 in the Russian Empire. He began his career",
"title": "Alexander A. Nikolsky"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "15518893",
"score": 1.0497923,
"text": "entities are part of the company: Comparable major helicopter manufacturers: Russian Helicopters Russian Helicopters ( \"Vertolety Rossii\") is a helicopter design and manufacturing company headquartered in Moscow, Russia. The company designs and manufactures civilian and military helicopters. The company's principal shareholder is Oboronprom. It is the world's 24th-largest defence contractor measured by 2012 defence revenues, and the second-largest based in Russia (after Almaz-Antey). The company attempted to stage an IPO on the London Stock Exchange in May 2011, but failed to fill the order book at the expected valuation of $2 billion. In 2011 Russian Helicopters and the Italian company",
"title": "Russian Helicopters"
}
] |
in which city do the football team Atalanta of the Italian league play their home games?
|
[
"Bergamo",
"Bergamascan",
"Città alta",
"Comune di Bergamo",
"UN/LOCODE:ITBGO",
"Bergame",
"Città bassa",
"Bergamo, Italy",
"Bèrghem de sura",
"Bergamum",
"Bèrghem de sóta",
"Bèrghem",
"Citta alta"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1676357",
"score": 1.0807998,
"text": "Atalanta B.C. Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy. The club currently plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B in 2010–11. They are nicknamed the \"Nerazzurri\" and the \"Orobici\". Atalanta play in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The club stadium is the 21,300 seat Atleti Azzurri d'Italia. In Italy, Atalanta is sometimes called \"Regina delle provinciali\" (queen of the provincial clubs) to mark the fact that the club is by far the most consistent among Italian",
"title": "Atalanta B.C."
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15951613",
"score": 1.0494134,
"text": "Lega Serie A on 27 July. 2011–12 Atalanta B.C. season Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation. Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy. They are nicknamed the \"Nerazzurri\" and the \"orobici\". Atalanta play in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The club stadium is the 26,638 seater Atleti Azzurri d'Italia. In Italy, Atalanta is sometimes called \"\"Regina delle provinciali\"\" (\"queen of the provincial clubs\") to mark the fact that the club is historically one of the best among non-metropolitan ones. The fixtures for the 2011–12 Serie",
"title": "2011–12 Atalanta B.C. season"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1676358",
"score": 1.0012052,
"text": "clubs not based in a metropolitan area, having played 58 times in Serie A, 28 times in Serie B and only once in Serie C. The club won the Coppa Italia in 1963 and reached the Cup Winners' Cup semi-final in 1988, when it was still competing in Serie B. This is still the best ever performance by a non-first division club in a major UEFA competition (together with Cardiff City). Atalanta also participated in four seasons of UEFA Europa League (previously known as UEFA Cup), reaching the quarter-finals in the 1990–91 season. The club was founded in 1907. A",
"title": "Atalanta B.C."
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15951612",
"score": 0.9990998,
"text": "2011–12 Atalanta B.C. season Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly known as just Atalanta, Atalanta Bergamo or the abbreviation. Atalanta BC, is an Italian football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy. They are nicknamed the \"Nerazzurri\" and the \"orobici\". Atalanta play in blue-and-black vertically striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. The club stadium is the 26,638 seater Atleti Azzurri d'Italia. In Italy, Atalanta is sometimes called \"\"Regina delle provinciali\"\" (\"queen of the provincial clubs\") to mark the fact that the club is historically one of the best among non-metropolitan ones. The fixtures for the 2011–12 Serie A season were announced by the",
"title": "2011–12 Atalanta B.C. season"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1676359",
"score": 0.9968014,
"text": "football club had existed in Bergamo since 1903. Founded by Swiss immigrants, it was known as \"Foot Ball Club Bergamo\". The rival Atalanta club grew out of a division between different sporting societies in the town. The name is taken from the female athlete of Greek mythology. The FIGC was unimpressed with the new club and did not officially recognize them until 1914. The current club is the result of a merger between Atalanta and a third team called Bergamasca. The first, black and white coloured and the second wearing a blue and white shirt, merged in 1924 as \"Atalanta",
"title": "Atalanta B.C."
}
] |
The seeds of the nux vomica tree contain which poison?
|
[
"Stricnine",
"Stricknine",
"Strynchnos",
"Strichnine",
"Strychnine alkaloids",
"Strictnine",
"Strychnidin-10-one",
"Strychnine",
"C21H22N2O2",
"Strychnine sulfate"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3704354",
"score": 1.1944609,
"text": "Strychnos nux-vomica Strychnos nux-vomica, the strychnine tree, also known as nux vomica, poison nut, semen strychnos, and quaker buttons, is a deciduous tree native to India and to southeast Asia. It is a medium-sized tree in the family Loganiaceae that grows in open habitats. Its leaves are ovate and in size. It is a major source of the highly poisonous, intensely bitter alkaloids strychnine and brucine derived from the seeds inside the tree's round, green to orange fruit. The seeds contain approximately 1.5% strychnine, and the dried blossoms contain 1.0%. However, the tree's bark also contains brucine and other poisonous",
"title": "Strychnos nux-vomica"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3704355",
"score": 1.0709772,
"text": "compounds. \"Strychnos\" is promoted within alternative medicine as a treatment for many conditions, but the claims are not supported by medical evidence. The use of strychnine is highly regulated in many countries, and it is mostly used in baits to kill feral mammals, including wild dogs, foxes, and rodents. Most accidental poisoning is caused by breathing in the powder or by absorption through the skin. \"Strychnos nux-vomica\" is a medium-sized tree with a short, thick trunk. The wood is dense, hard white, and close-grained. The branches are irregular and are covered with a smooth ashen bark. The young shoots are",
"title": "Strychnos nux-vomica"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3704357",
"score": 1.0609056,
"text": "a jelly-like pulp containing five seeds covered with a soft, woolly substance. The seeds have the shape of a flattened disk completely covered with hairs radiating from the center of the sides. This gives the seeds a very characteristic sheen. The seeds are very hard, with a dark gray horny endosperm where the small embryo is housed that gives off no odor but possesses a very bitter taste. \"Strychnos\" is promoted within herbal medicine as being a treatment for a wide range of maladies, including cancer and heart disease. There is, however, no evidence it is useful for treating any",
"title": "Strychnos nux-vomica"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3704356",
"score": 1.0322814,
"text": "a deep green colour with a shiny coat. The leaves have an opposite decussate arrangement, are short stalked and oval shaped, also have a shiny coat, and are smooth on both sides. The leaves are about long and wide. The flowers are small with a pale green colour and a funnel shape. They bloom in the cold season and have a foul smell. The fruit are about the size of a large apple with a smooth and hard shell that when ripened is a mild shade of orange in colour. The flesh of the fruit is soft and white with",
"title": "Strychnos nux-vomica"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1481607",
"score": 1.0078821,
"text": "various species and is distributed throughout the warm regions of Asia (58 species), America (64 species), and Africa (75 species). The seeds and bark of many plants in this genus contain strychnine. The toxic and medicinal effects of \"Strychnos nux-vomica\" have been well known from the times of ancient India, although the chemical compound itself was not identified and characterized until the 19th century. The inhabitants of these countries had historical knowledge of the species \"Strychnos nux-vomica\" and Saint-Ignatius' bean (\"Strychnos ignatii\"). \"Strychnos nux-vomica\" is a tree native to the tropical forests on the Malabar Coast in Southern India, Sri",
"title": "Strychnine"
}
] |
Which sport did Mark Twain describe as 'a good walk ruined'?
|
[
"Scramble (golf)",
"GOLF",
"Golf Conditioning",
"Men's Golf",
"🏌",
"Golf Tournament",
"Golf",
"Duffed",
"Scotch foursomes",
"Texas scramble",
"Golfing",
"Golf tournament",
"Golf (Sport)",
"Golf technology",
"Golfer",
"Golf conditioning",
"The Development of Golf Technology",
"Duffs"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11787071",
"score": 0.92976403,
"text": "recent of all sports in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. There is none which has developed more rapidly in the last few years.\" It considers that \"England may be looked upon as the Home of Cycling\" and quotes Thomas Huxley's words to the Royal Society: \"Since the time of Achilles, no improvement had added anything to the speed or strength attainable by the unassisted powers of man\", commenting that a bicyclist had recently raced 146 miles in only ten hours. \"Skating\" (1892) deals first with 'Origins and Development', 'Figure skating', and 'Recreation and Racing', noting that Holland was",
"title": "Badminton Library"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "126851",
"score": 0.8837489,
"text": "usually, but wrongly, attributed to Ernest Hemingway. The phrase is; There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. The implication of the phrase was that the word \"sport\" defined an activity in which one might be killed. The other activities being termed \"games\". The phrase may have been invented by either writer Barnaby Conrad or automotive author Ken Purdy. The Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford University, England was founded by David Kirke, Chris Baker, Ed Hulton and Alan Weston. They first came to wide public attention by inventing modern day bungee jumping,",
"title": "Extreme sport"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "543590",
"score": 0.87429345,
"text": "the 1912 Summer Olympics. One variation on traditional cross country is mountain running, which incorporates significant uphill and/or downhill sections as an additional challenge to the course. Fell running and Orienteering are other competitive sports similar to cross country, although they feature an element of navigation which is absent from the set courses of cross country. Racewalking is a form of competitive walking that usually takes place on open-air roads, although running tracks are also occasionally used. Racewalking is the only sport in athletics in which judges monitor athletes on their technique. Racewalkers must always have a foot in contact",
"title": "Sport of athletics"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "12375973",
"score": 0.8695869,
"text": "athletics and gave rise to the modern Olympic Movement. Walkers organised the first English amateur walking championship in 1866, which was won by John Chambers, and judged by the \"fair heel and toe\" rule. This vague code was the basis for the rules codified at the first championships meeting in 1880 of the Amateur Athletics Association in England, the birth of modern track and field. With football, cricket and other sports codified in the 19th century, the transition from professional pedestrianism to amateur codified racewalking was part of a process of regularisation occurring in most modern sports at this time.",
"title": "Pedestrianism"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "11787070",
"score": 0.867188,
"text": "and football in a single volume, Mike Huggins says in \"The Victorians and Sport\" (2004) that it suggests \"...that football's leading place was not yet assured amongst the more literate reading public.\" The original volume on \"Cricket\" (1888) has sixteen chapters on topics such as 'Batting', 'Bowling', 'Fielding', and 'Umpires'. It defines the Marylebone Cricket Club as \"The Parliament of Cricket\" and describes the sport as \"Our National Game\". Allan Gibson Steel wrote the chapter on bowling. \"Cycling\" (1887), by Viscount Bury, notes that riding the tricycle and bicycle, whether by women or by men, \"is by far the most",
"title": "Badminton Library"
}
] |
The botanist who discovered the plant in 1769 named it bougainvillea for what reason?
|
[
"He was sailing on a ship commanded by Admiral Louis de Bougainville"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3130382",
"score": 1.0827179,
"text": "Bougainvillea Bougainvillea ( or ) is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, and trees with flower-like spring leaves near its flowers. Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. Bougainvillea are also known as buganvilla (Spain), bugambilia (Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Philippines), bouganvilla (India), pokok bunga kertas (Indonesia, Malaysia), bougenville (Pakistan), Napoleón (Honduras), jahanamiya (Arab World), veranera (Colombia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama), trinitaria (Colombia, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic & Venezuela), Santa Rita (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay), papelillo (Northern Peru), primavera (Brazil), Drillingsblume (\"triplet flower\", Germany), vukamvilia (Greece) or Saron / Saron Par",
"title": "Bougainvillea"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3130387",
"score": 1.0746866,
"text": "thought to be a distinct species, it was named \"B. buttiana\" in her honour. However, it was later discovered to be a natural hybrid of a variety of \"B. glabra\" and possibly \"B. peruviana\" - a \"local pink bougainvillea\" from Peru. Natural hybrids were soon found to be common occurrences all over the world. For instance, around the 1930s, when the three species were grown together, many hybrid crosses were produced almost spontaneously in East Africa, India, the Canary Islands, Australia, North America, and the Philippines. Bougainvillea are popular ornamental plants in most areas with warm climates, such as Florida",
"title": "Bougainvillea"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3130384",
"score": 1.0695813,
"text": "magenta, purple, red, orange, white, or yellow. \"Bougainvillea glabra\" is sometimes referred to as \"paper flower\" because the bracts are thin and papery. The fruit is a narrow five-lobed achene. Bougainvillea are relatively pest-free plants, but they may be susceptible to worms, snails and aphids. The larvae of some Lepidoptera species also use them as food plants, for example the giant leopard moth (\"Hypercompe scribonia\"). The first European to describe these plants was Philibert Commerçon, a botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation of the Earth, and first published for him",
"title": "Bougainvillea"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3130389",
"score": 1.0398495,
"text": "arching thorny branches bear heart-shaped leaves and masses of papery bracts in white, pink, orange, purple, and burgundy. Many cultivars, including double-flowered and variegated, are available. Many of today's bougainvillea are the result of interbreeding among only three out of the eighteen South American species recognised by botanists. Currently, there are over 300 varieties of bougainvillea around the world. Because many of the hybrids have been crossed over several generations, it is difficult to identify their respective origins. Natural mutations seem to occur spontaneously throughout the world; wherever large numbers of plants are being produced, bud-sports will occur. This had",
"title": "Bougainvillea"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3130385",
"score": 1.0269761,
"text": "by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789. It is possible that the first European to observe these plants was Jeanne Baré, Commerçon's lover and assistant who was an expert in botany. Because she was not allowed on ship as a woman, she disguised herself as a man in order to make the journey (and thus became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe). Twenty years after Commerçon's discovery, it was first published as 'Buginvillæa' in Genera Plantarum by A. L. de Jussieu in 1789. The genus was subsequently spelled in several ways until it was finally corrected to \"\"Bougainvillea\"\" in",
"title": "Bougainvillea"
}
] |
What is the name of the theme music used in The Lone Ranger T.V. series
|
[
"The William Tell Overture",
"William Tell Overture",
"Wilhelm Tell Overture",
"William Tell overture",
"William tell overture"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "13906996",
"score": 1.0943363,
"text": "which visually set the show apart from many other cartoon TV series of the time. The distinct atmospheric music was composed by Vic Schoen, who also provided the powerful arrangement of Gioachino Rossini's \"William Tell Overture\" for the show's memorable opening sequence. Along with the Halas and Batchelor animators, the background department, led by Tom Bailey, Ted Petengel and designer Chris Miles, were responsible for setting the graphic style. The drawings were produced by chinagraph pencil on cell. Colored papers were cut or torn under or against the lines of the background, producing a dramatic and rich textural effect. The",
"title": "The Lone Ranger (animated TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13915582",
"score": 1.0653712,
"text": "Ranger with the name of his horse as well as the funds required to finance his wandering life-style and the raw material for his signature bullets. At the end of most episodes, after the Lone Ranger and Tonto leave, someone asks the sheriff or other person of authority who the masked man was. The person then responds that it was the Lone Ranger, who is then heard yelling \"Hi-Yo Silver, away!\" as he and Tonto ride away on their horses. George W. Trendle retained the title of producer, although he recognized that his experience in radio was not adequate for",
"title": "The Lone Ranger (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2345057",
"score": 1.0607495,
"text": "in the Warner Bros. film of \"The Lone Ranger\". The theme song was only heard briefly at the show's opening (after a teaser clip), and in an instrumental version. For the closing credits, a full-length (30 second) version was used. The prolific Buttolph's other most remembered musical contribution was the arrangement of Alfred Newman's stirring theme from 1940's \"The Mark of Zorro\" starring Tyrone Power. The closing theme song was entirely instrumental during season one. A vocal version with lyrics debuted partway through season two, being used intermittently in place of the instrumental version. The vocal theme finally saw regular",
"title": "Maverick (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13915581",
"score": 1.0524192,
"text": "series, but story narration was dropped after 16 episodes. \"The Lone Ranger\" was the highest-rated television program on ABC in the early 1950s and its first true \"hit\". The series finished #7 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1950-1951 season, #18 for 1951-1952 and #29 for 1952-1953. The fictional story line maintains that a patrol of six Texas Rangers is massacred, with only one member surviving. The \"lone\" survivor thereafter disguises himself with a black mask and travels with Tonto throughout Texas and the American West to assist those challenged by the lawless elements. A silver mine supplies The Lone",
"title": "The Lone Ranger (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13915584",
"score": 1.0440512,
"text": "Silver gallop to a distinctive rock and Silver rears up on his hind legs. The rock seen next to Silver is known as Lone Ranger Rock and remains in place today on the site of the former movie ranch. When it came time to produce another batch of 52 episodes, there was a wage dispute with Clayton Moore (until his death, the actor insisted that the problem was creative differences), and John Hart was hired to play the role of the Lone Ranger. Once again, the 52 new episodes were aired in sequence followed by 52 weeks rerunning them. Despite",
"title": "The Lone Ranger (TV series)"
}
] |
What probability riddle originally published in American Statistician in 1975 gained popular attention after it was featured in Parade in 1990?
|
[
"Let's Make a Deal problem",
"Empirical solution of the Monty Hall problem",
"Monty hall problem",
"Monte Hall paradox",
"Game show problem",
"Let's make a deal problem",
"Lets make a deal problem",
"Marilyn's goat problem",
"Goat problem",
"Three door problem",
"Monty Hall Paradox",
"Variable change",
"Monty hall paradox",
"Monte Hall Problem",
"The Monty Hall problem",
"Marilyns goat problem",
"Monty Hall Problem",
"Marilyn and the goats",
"Monty Hall dilemma",
"Marilyn and the Goats",
"Monty Hall paradox",
"Let's Make a Deal Problem",
"Monty Hall problem",
"The monty hall problem",
"Three-door game show problem"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8315236",
"score": 0.9330957,
"text": "\"American Statistician\" in 1975 describing a problem loosely based on the game show \"Let's Make a Deal\", , dubbing it the \"Monty Hall problem\" in a subsequent letter . The problem is mathematically equivalent to the Three Prisoners Problem described in Martin Gardner's \"Mathematical Games\" column in \"Scientific American\" in 1959 (Gardner 1959a) and the Three Shells Problem described in Gardner's book \"Aha Gotcha\" . The same problem was restated in a 1990 letter by Craig Whitaker to Marilyn vos Savant's \"Ask Marilyn\" column in \"Parade\": Under the standard assumptions, the probability of winning the car after switching is .",
"title": "Monty Hall problem"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16122363",
"score": 0.91063666,
"text": "where there is an archive of \"Forsooths\" and previous \"News\". Out of collaborations in \"Chance News\" with Charles M. Grinstead and William P. Peterson, a book \"Probability Tales\" (2011) was published by American Mathematical Society in the Student Mathematical Library. The book covers four topics: streaks in sports as streaks of successful Bernoulli trials (like hitting streaks), constructing stock market models, estimating expected value of a lottery ticket, and reliability of fingerprint identification. Snell retired in 1995 and was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996. The Snell envelope, used in stochastics and mathematical finance, is",
"title": "J. Laurie Snell"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "8315232",
"score": 0.9012953,
"text": "Monty Hall problem The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, loosely based on the American television game show \"Let's Make a Deal\" and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed (and solved) in a letter by Steve Selvin to the \"American Statistician\" in 1975 , . It became famous as a question from a reader's letter quoted in Marilyn vos Savant's \"Ask Marilyn\" column in \"Parade\" magazine in 1990 : Vos Savant's response was that the contestant should switch to the other door . Under the standard",
"title": "Monty Hall problem"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14178649",
"score": 0.8842949,
"text": "of TIME in January 1939. Riddle retired in 1945. Riddle was a devout atheist and held the conviction that religion poses a serious threat to scientific advancements. He garnered national attention for a speech debunking superstition in 1936. His speech was delivered to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was published in the journal Science and covered by the New York Times. In 1958, Riddle was named the Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association. He was president of the American Rationalist Federation in 1959 and 1960. In 1937, Riddle married Leona Lewis, a music",
"title": "Oscar Riddle"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "8315299",
"score": 0.8754957,
"text": "of \"The Journal of Economic Perspectives\" (Nalebuff 1987). Nalebuff, as later writers in mathematical economics, sees the problem as a simple and amusing exercise in game theory. Phillip Martin's article in a 1989 issue of \"Bridge Today\" magazine titled \"The Monty Hall Trap\" (Martin 1989) presented Selvin's problem as an example of what Martin calls the probability trap of treating non-random information as if it were random, and relates this to concepts in the game of bridge. A restated version of Selvin's problem appeared in Marilyn vos Savant's \"Ask Marilyn\" question-and-answer column of \"Parade\" in September 1990. Though vos Savant",
"title": "Monty Hall problem"
}
] |
Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014?
|
[
"Brazil",
"Etymology of Brazil",
"Federal Republic of Brazil",
"Brasil",
"Barzil",
"Federative Republic of Brazil",
"Brazil (country)",
"Brassil",
"Republic of Brazil",
"Brésil",
"Brzil",
"Brazilian Federative Republic",
"Republica Federativa do Brasil",
"Bresil",
"Brazilian Republic",
"ISO 3166-1:BR",
"República Federativa do Brasil",
"Brazilo"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "17009706",
"score": 1.0623735,
"text": "of the Workers' Party (PT), Brazil's first female president, was challenged by 11 other candidates. Minas Gerais Senator Aécio Neves from the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and Marina Silva from the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) were her main rivals. Since none of the candidates obtained over 50% of the valid votes in the 5 October election, a second-round election was held on 26 October between Rousseff and Neves, who had finished first and second respectively in the 5 October vote. In Brazil's closest presidential election results since 1989, Rousseff narrowly defeated Neves in the second round, taking 51.6% of",
"title": "2014 Brazilian general election"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5338548",
"score": 1.046441,
"text": "Dilma Rousseff, also from the Worker's Party, was the first woman elected President of Brazil, with her term beginning in the January 1, 2011. In her victory speech, Rousseff, who had also been a key member of Lula's administration, made clear that her mission during her term would be to continue her predecessor's policies to mitigate poverty and ensure continued economic growth. Challenges faced by Rousseff in her first term included managing infrastructure projects to increase economic activity, with special attention to the twelve cities that would host the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, especially Rio de Janeiro,",
"title": "History of Brazil since 1985"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1739000",
"score": 1.0338995,
"text": "the centre-right opposition bloc as it shrank from 133 to 111 deputies. The left-wing opposition, formed by PSOL, retained control of three seats. The party was also expected to elect its presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff in the first round. However, she was not able to receive the necessary amount of valid votes (over 50%) and a second round in which she scored 56% of the votes took place on 31 October 2010. On 1 January 2011, she was inaugurated and thus became the first female head of government ever in the history of Brazil and the first \"de facto\" female",
"title": "Workers' Party (Brazil)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "9151592",
"score": 1.0235157,
"text": "candidacy. Rousseff won the Presidency by an approximate margin of 56% to 44%, and took office on 1 January 2011, as the first woman president of the country. She became the third female head of government ever in the history of Brazil, and the first \"de jure\" female head of state since the death of Maria I, Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves in 1816. During her presidential campaign, Rousseff underwent a makeover, replacing glasses with contact lenses, undergoing plastic surgery and adopting a different hairstyle. On 26 October 2014, Rousseff was re-elected president of",
"title": "Dilma Rousseff"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "9151613",
"score": 1.0183685,
"text": "propaganda for sexual options\". In 2014, during the presidential elections, President Dilma Rousseff supported the criminalization of homophobia. Since 25 May 2012, Rousseff's government faced a number of strikes by public employees, especially university professors. Rousseff was inflexible, and the strike left millions of students without classes for months. According to O Globo, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper, she believes private sector jobs should be prioritized by her government's policies. Rousseff was ranked fourth in \"Forbes\"' 2014 list of the most powerful women in the world, and the second most powerful in 2013. In 2015 she was the 7th, and",
"title": "Dilma Rousseff"
}
] |
"""A little dab'll do ya, Use more, only if you dare, But watch out, The gals will all pursue ya,-- They'll love to put their fingers through your hair"" was a jingle for what product that was first marketed in the 1920s?"
|
[
"Brylcreem jingle",
"Brill cream",
"Brillcream",
"Brylcream",
"Brilcream",
"Brylcreem"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2359123",
"score": 0.9902765,
"text": "pursue ya, They'll love to run their fingers through your hair! The jingle was created by Hanley M. Norins of the Young & Rubicam advertising agency. The Brylcreem television advertisement included a cartoon animation of a man with initially shaggy hair who happily has a little dab applied, and, miraculously, the hair combs and smooths itself. When the dry look became popular, partly inspired by the unoiled moptops of The Beatles, the last line was changed from \"They'll love to run their fingers through your hair\", to \"They'll love the natural look it gives your hair.\" Subsequent television advertisements used",
"title": "Brylcreem"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "14451179",
"score": 0.9724244,
"text": "Glenn Miller Society) described the song as a \"topical period piece\" that would not be appreciated by \"today's younger generation\" but would be understood by those \"brought up at the time of sweet rationing\". The lyrics mention the gum brands Chiclets, Spearmint, Doublemint, and Juicy Fruit. Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum? \"Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?\" is a big band song written by Murray Kane in 1944. The music and lyrics were registered in the United States Copyright Catalog on February 6, 1945. On December 8, 1944, the song was recorded by Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians. This",
"title": "Have Ya Got Any Gum, Chum?"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3917281",
"score": 0.9631057,
"text": "radio was created in 1954 and has been one of the longest-running and best-remembered musical jingles in history: \"\"Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go troubles down the drain.\"\" The memorable bass voice in the commercial was that of Tom Fouts, more widely known as Captain Stubby of \"Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers\". Many memorable Roto-Rooter TV commercials were introduced over the years that featured the iconic Roto-Rooter advertising jingle, helping to make it a familiar piece of Americana. In December 2017, Roto-Rooter released a TV commercial that introduced a new slogan, \"We Do Both,\" to explain to the",
"title": "Roto-Rooter"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10917528",
"score": 0.95376897,
"text": "starting in 1997. The tagline throughout this time was \"No brush, no lather, no rub in.\" One of the most nostalgic figures in Barbasol's history was Singin' Sam the Barbasol Man, whose real name was Harry Frankel. Frankel got his start as a vaudevillian, and eventually became the spokesperson for a lawnmower company and began broadcasting out of Cincinnati. The Barbasol Company soon heard him and, in 1931, signed him on as Singin' Sam the Barbasol Man, where he made famous the Barbasol jingle, \"Barbasol, Barbasol ... No brush, no lather, no rub-in ... Wet your razor, then begin.\" Barbasol's",
"title": "Barbasol"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19393815",
"score": 0.94122946,
"text": "Beasley taught music and mathematics in a school in Lamont, Mississippi. During time off from teaching, \"she sold records in a phonograph shop and sang the latest songs in a five-and-ten.\" Beasley \"pioneered the idea of singing commercials, and handled many for Procter & Gamble.\" Sources differ on when Beasley began appearing on radio. One says that she began singing with Francis Craig's orchestra on WSM in Nashville in 1925. Another says that her debut in radio came in 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee, when she sang her own composition. The New Orleans Times-Picyaune on Oct 7, 1928, p 29 quotes",
"title": "Irene Beasley"
}
] |
Which member of Monty Python, who have announced they are planning a new stage show, was born in America ?
|
[
"Terry gilliam",
"Terry Gilliam",
"Gilliam, Terry Vance",
"Terrence Vance Gilliam",
"TERRY GILLIAM",
"Terrence Vance %22Terry%22 Gilliam",
"Terry Vance Gilliam",
"Gilliamesque"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "13506385",
"score": 0.98131967,
"text": "plus two episodes for German TV. The show often targets the idiosyncrasies of British life, especially that of professionals, and is at times politically charged. The members of Monty Python were highly educated. Terry Jones and Michael Palin are Oxford University graduates; Eric Idle, John Cleese and Graham Chapman attended Cambridge University; and American-born member Terry Gilliam graduated from Occidental College. Their comedy is often pointedly intellectual, with numerous erudite references to philosophers and literary figures. The series followed and elaborated upon the style used by Spike Milligan in his ground breaking series \"Q5\", rather than the traditional sketch show",
"title": "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "903013",
"score": 0.96390444,
"text": "era, and at its peak it was watched by 15 million people. British satire has also washed over into Quiz shows – popular examples include the news quiz \"Have I Got News for You\", \"Mock the Week\", \"8 out of 10 cats\" and music-based \"Never Mind The Buzzcocks\". One of the most influential groups in comedy is Monty Python. Their \"Flying Circus\" sketch show aired on the BBC between 1969-1974. The group itself consisted of six members, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. All were UK-born except Gilliam, who was US-born. Chapman, Cleese,",
"title": "British comedy"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10943867",
"score": 0.9426295,
"text": "Eliot left his family home in St. Louis, Missouri, to go to Harvard, in New England. From there he moved to Europe and stayed in Germany and France. When World War I began, he moved to Oxford, United Kingdom. He gained British citizenship and joined the Church of England. Terry Gilliam is an American-born British director and member of the comedy troupe Monty Python. Katrina Leskanich is an American musician, author and former lead singer of British pop rock band Katrina and the Waves. Boris Johnson was the New York-born British foreign secretary, as well as a journalist and former",
"title": "Americans in the United Kingdom"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "237699",
"score": 0.94032586,
"text": "Monty Python's Life of Brian Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was also directed by Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah. Following the withdrawal of funding by EMI Films just days before production was scheduled",
"title": "Monty Python's Life of Brian"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "624986",
"score": 0.92481494,
"text": "part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter, film director and historian, best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in history, Jones and writing partner Michael Palin (whom he met at Oxford) wrote and performed for several high-profile British comedy programmes, including \"Do Not Adjust Your Set\" and \"The Frost Report\", before creating \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" with Cambridge graduates Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, and",
"title": "Terry Jones"
}
] |
What have Americans Bobby Riggs, Bob Falkenberg and Ted Schroeder all done?
|
[
"Won Wimbledon men's singles"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1300115",
"score": 0.9393953,
"text": "symbol of America as a land of opportunity. In contrast, Americans perceived Schmeling and his ties to Hitler as an obvious threat to those opportunities and ideals. When the German walked to the ring at Yankee Stadium on 22 June 1938, he did so under a hail of garbage thrown from the stands. Louis came out blazing in the first round and Schmeling tried to counter-punch as he had in the first bout, but to no avail. Driven into the ropes and battered with a fusillade of short, crisp blows from every angle, Schmeling turned his back to his opponent",
"title": "Max Schmeling"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2699651",
"score": 0.9266922,
"text": "and averaged only 6,200. Towards the end of the 1967 season, the Whips resorted to organizing British Isles sporting contests such as cricket, hurling, and rugby before games in hopes of luring expatriates. In 1968, in order to stay viable, they negotiated a reduction in the lease payment and reduced admission prices by one-third; among other discounts. The USA merged with the National Professional Soccer League to form the new North American Soccer League. Despite problems on and off the field, the team found itself in a battle for a playoff spot and towards the end of the season crowds",
"title": "Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3329983",
"score": 0.90822726,
"text": "4-1 to Czechoslovakia in the second round. Hank Steinbrecher, general secretary of the U.S. Soccer Federation, conducted the job interviews for the U.S. national team head coach position. American coaches had not proved their worth on the international stage, as the United States had lost all three games in the 1990 World Cup finals under Bob Gansler. When the USSF's search began in 1991, the emphasis was not so much on experience, but on finding a coach who could squeeze the last drop of potential out of a lightly regarded team, and Milutinović's name came up again and again. He",
"title": "Bora Milutinović"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3677749",
"score": 0.9004934,
"text": "in talent in the 1980s and 1990s, with future NHL stars including Tony Amonte, Chris Chelios, Derian Hatcher, Brett Hull, Pat LaFontaine, John LeClair, Brian Leetch, Mike Modano, Mike Richter, Jeremy Roenick, Kevin Stevens, Keith Tkachuk, and Doug Weight. Although the U.S. finished no higher than fourth in any World or Olympic event from 1981 through 1994 (unlike other nations, the U.S. was limited to amateurs at these tournaments), the Americans reached the finals of the 1991 Canada Cup and won the 1996 World Cup with a squad of NHL players. Six years later, after the International Olympic Committee and",
"title": "United States men's national ice hockey team"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20968461",
"score": 0.8891725,
"text": "Berg and other American League players, as the National League didn’t allow their players to participate. Ruth, “still the most popular and famous athlete of his day” was the face of American baseball at the time. 500 000 Japanese filled the streets of Tokyo to welcome Ruth and 14 other all-star baseball players for the barnstorming tour. The Americans played 18 games against the All-Nippon team, that featured many of Japan’s top players, in front of tens of thousands of fans. The games were played in Meiji-Jingu Stadium in Tokyo, Koshien Stadium in Kobe, Yagiyama Baseball Field in Sendai and",
"title": "1934 Japan Tour"
}
] |
The Midlands Grand National is run on which racecourse?
|
[
"Wuttuceshǣddre",
"Uttoxeter",
"Uttoxeter, Staffordshire",
"Uttoxeter, England"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "16854138",
"score": 1.2257383,
"text": "Midlands Grand National The Midlands Grand National is a Listed National Hunt race in Great Britain. It is a handicap steeplechase and is run at Uttoxeter Racecourse in March, over a distance of about 4 miles and 1½ furlongs . During the race there are 24 fences to be jumped. The first race was run on 3 May 1969. The race was initially run over 4m2f and was increased up to 4m4f in 1977. During this period it would have been, assuming accurate measurements, by 24 yards or approximately the length of a cricket pitch, the longest race in the",
"title": "Midlands Grand National"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "16854140",
"score": 1.1412126,
"text": "BBC took over coverage between 1998 and 2005 before the race returned to Channel 4, who continued to show it until their coverage of British racing ended in 2016. It is now broadcast on ITV Racing. Most successful horse: Leading jockey (2 wins): Leading trainer (4 wins): The 1983 running was cancelled due to a waterlogged track.<br> The 2001 running was cancelled due to a foot-and-mouth crisis.<br> Midlands Grand National The Midlands Grand National is a Listed National Hunt race in Great Britain. It is a handicap steeplechase and is run at Uttoxeter Racecourse in March, over a distance of",
"title": "Midlands Grand National"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "810873",
"score": 1.0784596,
"text": "Grand National The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England. First run in 1839, it is a handicap steeplechase over with horses jumping 30 fences over two laps. It is the most valuable jump race in Europe, with a prize fund of £1 million in 2017. An event that is prominent in British culture, the race is popular amongst many people who do not normally watch or bet on horse racing at other times of the year. The course over which the race is run features much larger fences than those",
"title": "Grand National"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "13059667",
"score": 1.0677676,
"text": "now sponsored by Betfred. The 1994 running took place at Kempton Park. Grand National Trial The Grand National Trial is a Grade 3 National Hunt steeplechase in Great Britain which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Haydock Park over a distance of about 3 miles and 4½ furlongs , and during its running there are twenty-two fences to be jumped. It is a handicap race, and it is scheduled to take place each year in February. The event was established in 1947 and took place every year until 1984. From 1985 to 1990",
"title": "Grand National Trial"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17838716",
"score": 1.036138,
"text": "app that could be downloaded for backers to track their runner during the race. 2014 Grand National The 2014 Grand National (officially known as the 2014 Crabbie's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 167th annual running of the Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England. The showpiece steeplechase, which concluded a three-day meeting (one of only four held at Aintree throughout the year), took place on 5 April 2014. The maximum permitted field of 40 runners competed for a share of a record £1 million prize fund, which makes the National the most valuable jump race",
"title": "2014 Grand National"
}
] |
Which former England international footballer lasted 36 days in charge of Manchester City in 1996?
|
[
"Steve Coppell (footballer)",
"Steve Coppel",
"Steve Coppell"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6836031",
"score": 1.0389552,
"text": "John Beck is arrested by police in an investigation concerning Customs and Excise. 27 August 1996 – Alan Ball resigns as manager of Manchester City. 28 August 1996 – With his one-year ban from football now over, George Graham is reportedly due to be offered the Manchester City manager's job, 18 months after he was sacked by Arsenal for accepting illegal payments. 29 August 1996 – Dave Bassett, the Crystal Palace manager, is the latest name to be linked with the Manchester City job. 31 August 1996 – The first month of the league season ends with Sheffield Wednesday as",
"title": "1996–97 in English football"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7155398",
"score": 1.0311859,
"text": "with a goal from Keith Scott. 27 November 1993 – QPR manager Gerry Francis rules himself out of the running to become the next England manager. Manchester City striker Niall Quinn suffers a knee injury against Sheffield Wednesday. 29 November 1993 – Peter Swales resigns as Manchester City chairman after 20 years. Francis Lee, who had been campaigning for control of the club's board since early in the year, succeeds him. 30 November 1993 – November draws to a close with Manchester United now leading by 14 points ahead of their nearest rivals Leeds United and Arsenal, while newly promoted",
"title": "1993–94 in English football"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6836034",
"score": 0.9943613,
"text": "1996 – Dave Bassett rejects an offer to manage Manchester City. 20 September 1996 – In a reversal of roles, Bruce Rioch becomes Stewart Houston's assistant at Loftus Road. 21 September 1996 – Czech midfielder Patrik Berger scores twice as Liverpool demolish Chelsea 5–1 in the league at Anfield; he also scored twice in the previous weekend's 3–0 win at Leicester City. 28 September 1996 – 29 September – Norwegian striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scores both of Manchester United's goals as they beat Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 in the league at Old Trafford. 30 September 1996 – 6 October 1996 –",
"title": "1996–97 in English football"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6836035",
"score": 0.98205495,
"text": "Steve Coppell is appointed manager of Manchester City following the resignation of Alan Ball. 12 October 1996 – David Beckham scores the only goal of the match as Manchester United defeat Liverpool 1–0 in the Premier League at Old Trafford. 14 October 1996 – Sheffield Wednesday sign Italian midfielder Benito Carbone from Inter Milan for a club record £3 million. 15 October 1996 – Southampton sign Dutch defender Ulrich van Gobbel from Galatasaray for £1.3 million. 17 October 1996 – West Ham United goalscoring legend Tony Cottee, who has lost his place in the first team this season, signs for",
"title": "1996–97 in English football"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7155536",
"score": 0.9814366,
"text": "and Crystal Palace, with Stoke City, Charlton Athletic and Leicester City completing the top six. 2 May 1996: Chelsea boss Glenn Hoddle agreed to a four-year contract as England manager after the European Football Championships. Former Manchester City chairman Peter Swales died of a heart attack at 63. Newcastle United were held to a 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest. 5 May 1996: Manchester United clinched the Premier League title with a 3-0 away win against Middlesbrough on the season's final day, also clinching a place in the European Cup. UEFA Cup places went to Newcastle United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Aston",
"title": "1995–96 in English football"
}
] |
What was the name of the Cyclops blinded by Odysseus?
|
[
"Polyphemos",
"Polyphemus",
"Polyphemo",
"Polyphemon"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6716414",
"score": 1.0751321,
"text": "that his name was 'Noman' or 'Nobody' (Greek \"outis\" or \"mētis\"), so when the Cyclops yells out who was responsible for blinding him, it sounds like he is saying \"No man blinded me\". In addition to this pun, there is a less easily translated joke based on the fact that the form of \"no man\" (\"mētis\") is identical to the word for cleverness or art. The Satyrs have some fun with him over it. Odysseus makes the mistake, however, of blurting out his true name as a result of his big ego. Although he successfully makes his escape, the rest",
"title": "Cyclops (play)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6059914",
"score": 1.0472716,
"text": "eat them, but Odysseus gets him drunk on wine, causing him to pass out. Then, he sharpens a tree branch into a stake and blinds the Cyclops, allowing them to escape by hiding under sheep skins when he removes the heavy stone door. Polyphemus screams for help, but Odysseus had tricked him into stating that his name was \"Nobody\", so the Cyclops is shouting that nobody has tricked him, arousing no suspicion. Odysseus and his men escape, but Odysseus taunts the Cyclops who asks his father Poseidon to avenge him. This makes Odysseus' journey home harder. Odysseus travels to an",
"title": "The Odyssey (miniseries)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "301639",
"score": 1.0360382,
"text": "Troy, after a raid on Ismarus in the land of the Cicones, he and his twelve ships are driven off course by storms. They visit the lethargic Lotus-Eaters and are captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus while visiting his island. After Polyphemus eats several of his men, Polyphemus and Odysseus have a discussion and Odysseus tells Polyphemus his name is \"Nobody\". Odysseus takes a barrel of wine, and the Cyclops drinks it, falling asleep. Odysseus and his men take a wooden stake, ignite it with the remaining wine, and blind him. While they escape, Polyphemus cries in pain, and the other",
"title": "Odysseus"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "6519602",
"score": 1.0239719,
"text": "seize it. When such a child attains the marriageable age, a new name, generally that of one of the Patriarchs, is given to it. When captured by Polyphemus, Homer's Odysseus is careful not to reveal his name; when asked for it, Odysseus tells the giant that he is \"Οὖτις\", which means \"nobody\". But later, having escaped after blinding Polyphemus and thinking himself beyond Polyphemus' power, Odysseus boastfully reveals his real name, an act of hubris that was to cause enormous problems later. Knowing his name, Polyphemus was able to call upon Odysseus the revenge of his father, the god Poseidon.",
"title": "True name"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2576843",
"score": 1.0184214,
"text": "the entrance, Odysseus supplies Polyphemus with a special wine until he falls asleep, and blinds him by drilling the Cyclops's own wooden walking stick into his eye. Polyphemus opens the cave boulder and the Greeks escape to their ship; Polyphemus calls to the other Cyclopes for help and Odysseus, from the distance of his ship, begins to taunt and to jeer at him. Homer (Pope's translation) says: Odysseus boasts that it was \"Odysseus...Son of Laertes\" who had burnt out Polyphemus's eye. Polyphemus invokes the vengeance of his father Poseidon, and: Cyclopean Isles The Cyclopean Isles (Italian:\"Isole Ciclopi\"), noted for their",
"title": "Cyclopean Isles"
}
] |
Published in 1939, what was the title of James Joyce's final novel?
|
[
"'FINNEGAN'S WAKE'",
"Finnegans wake",
"Finnegans Wake (novel)",
"Anna Livia Plurabelle",
"James Joyce/Finnegans Wake",
"Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker",
"Finnegans Wake"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "208101",
"score": 1.0351266,
"text": "James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for \"Ulysses\" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's \"Odyssey\" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection \"Dubliners\" (1914), and the novels \"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\" (1916) and \"Finnegans Wake\" (1939).",
"title": "James Joyce"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "208140",
"score": 0.9987227,
"text": "on \"Dubliners\" in 1906, Joyce considered adding another story featuring a Jewish advertising canvasser called Leopold Bloom under the title \"Ulysses\". Although he did not pursue the idea further at the time, he eventually commenced work on a novel using both the title and basic premise in 1914. The writing was completed in October 1921. Three more months were devoted to working on the proofs of the book before Joyce halted work shortly before his self-imposed deadline, his 40th birthday (2 February 1922). Thanks to Ezra Pound, serial publication of the novel in the magazine \"The Little Review\" began in",
"title": "James Joyce"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "208135",
"score": 0.9909424,
"text": "a more prominent \"honour grave,\" with a seated portrait statue by American artist Milton Hebald nearby. Nora, whom he had married in 1931, survived him by 10 years. She is buried by his side, as is their son Giorgio, who died in 1976. \"Dubliners\" is a collection of fifteen short stories by Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a national identity and purpose was",
"title": "James Joyce"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "208158",
"score": 0.98956555,
"text": "grandson and executor of his literary estate. On 1 January 2012, those restrictions were lessened by the expiry of copyright protection of much of the published work of James Joyce. In April 2013 the Central Bank of Ireland issued a silver €10 commemorative coin in honour of Joyce that misquoted a famous line from \"Ulysses\". Finnegan Stephen Dedalus Posthumous non-fiction publications Joyce Papers, National Library of Ireland Electronic editions Resources James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is",
"title": "James Joyce"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2297305",
"score": 0.97175384,
"text": "is one of the most significant novelists of the first half of the 20th century, and a major pioneer in the use of the \"stream of consciousness\" technique in his famous novel \"Ulysses\" (1922). \"Ulysses\" has been described as \"a demonstration and summation of the entire Modernist movement\". Joyce also wrote \"Finnegans Wake\" (1939), \"Dubliners\" (1914), and the semi-autobiographical \"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\" (1914–15). \"Ulysses\", often considered to be the greatest novel of the 20th century, is the story of a day in the life of a city, Dublin. Told in a dazzling array of",
"title": "Irish literature"
}
] |
In mythology who was the Greek equivalent of Mercury?
|
[
"Hermoea",
"Kyllenios",
"Enagonios",
"Atlantiades",
"Hermes (Greek religion and mythology)",
"Hermes (mythology)",
"Hermes Cylleneius",
"Hermes",
"Hermese",
"Hermes Criophorus",
"Hermês",
"Hermes Logios",
"Hermes and Apollo",
"Cyllenius",
"Hermes Psychopompus",
"Cult of Hermes",
"Argeiphontes",
"Psychopompus",
"Cylleneius"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "482593",
"score": 1.0026844,
"text": "connection is the Proto-Indo-European root merĝ- for \"boundary, border\" (cf. Old English \"mearc\", Old Norse \"mark\" and Latin \"margō\") and Greek οὖρος (by analogy of Arctūrus/Ἀρκτοῦρος), as the \"keeper of boundaries,\" referring to his role as bridge between the upper and lower worlds. In his earliest forms, he appears to have been related to the Etruscan deity Turms; both gods share characteristics with the Greek god Hermes. He is often depicted holding the caduceus in his left hand. Similar to his Greek equivalent Hermes, he was awarded the caduceus by Apollo who handed him a magic wand, which later turned",
"title": "Mercury (mythology)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "482597",
"score": 0.96797645,
"text": "the Roman syncretism, Mercury was equated with the Celtic god Lugus, and in this aspect was commonly accompanied by the Celtic goddess Rosmerta. Although Lugus may originally have been a deity of light or the sun (though this is disputed), similar to the Roman Apollo, his importance as a god of trade made him more comparable to Mercury, and Apollo was instead equated with the Celtic deity Belenus. Romans associated Mercury with the Germanic god Wotan, by \"interpretatio Romana\"; 1st-century Roman writer Tacitus identifies him as the chief god of the Germanic peoples. Mercury is known to the Romans as",
"title": "Mercury (mythology)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "482592",
"score": 0.9634108,
"text": "Mercury (mythology) Mercury (; Latin: \"Mercurius\" ) is a major god in Roman religion and mythology, being one of the Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves; he also serves as the guide of souls to the underworld. He was considered the son of Maia, who was a daughter of the Titan Atlas, and Jupiter in Roman mythology. His name is possibly related to the Latin word \"merx\" (\"merchandise\"; cf. \"merchant\", \"commerce\", etc.), \"mercari\" (\"to trade\"), and \"merces\" (\"wages\"); another possible",
"title": "Mercury (mythology)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "482595",
"score": 0.9461026,
"text": "a tortoise, referring to Mercury's legendary invention of the lyre from a tortoise shell. Like Hermes, he was also a god of messages, eloquence and of trade, particularly of the grain trade. Mercury was also considered a god of abundance and commercial success, particularly in Gaul, where he was said to have been particularly revered. He was also, like Hermes, the Romans' psychopomp, leading newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Additionally, Ovid wrote that Mercury carried Morpheus' dreams from the valley of Somnus to sleeping humans. Archeological evidence from Pompeii suggests that Mercury was among the most popular of Roman",
"title": "Mercury (mythology)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "482594",
"score": 0.91606593,
"text": "into the caduceus. Mercury did not appear among the numinous \"di indigetes\" of early Roman religion. Rather, he subsumed the earlier Dei Lucrii as Roman religion was syncretized with Greek religion during the time of the Roman Republic, starting around the 4th century BC. From the beginning, Mercury had essentially the same aspects as Hermes, wearing winged shoes (talaria) and a winged hat (petasos), and carrying the caduceus, a herald's staff with two entwined snakes that was Apollo's gift to Hermes. He was often accompanied by a cockerel, herald of the new day, a ram or goat, symbolizing fertility, and",
"title": "Mercury (mythology)"
}
] |
"Which poem begins with the words ""Good people all, of every sort, give ear unto my song""?"
|
[
"'ELEGYON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG'"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16685002",
"score": 1.0150735,
"text": "Museum\"\" for Jessie, saying \"\"My wife has a very particular friend, a young lady who sings well, to whom she wishes to present the Scots Musical Museum, If you have a spare copy, will you be so obliging as to send it by the very first fly, as I am anxious to have it soon.\"\" Johnson sent three, her copy being inscribed by the poet with a heartfelt expression of his appreciation for her kindness to him: - A thin quarto volume by Dr. Wolcott was given by Burns to Jessie, entitled \"Pindarinia\", by Peter Pindar, 1794,\" in- scribed \"\"Un",
"title": "Jessie Lewars"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18733363",
"score": 0.98902893,
"text": "for the most part, with music rarely used, the attitudes towards music began to shift towards a more relaxed view in the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, many of the poems of John Greenleaf Whittier were set to music and well received. The hymn \"How Can I Keep from Singing?,\" first published in 1868 by Robert Lowry, was adopted by twentieth century Quakers. The lyrics to the first verse are as follows: \"My life flows on in endless song;\" \"Above earth's lamentation,\" \"I hear the sweet, tho' far-off hymn\" \"That hails a new creation;\" \"Thro' all the tumult and the strife\"",
"title": "Quaker music"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7292444",
"score": 0.98000216,
"text": "in early 19th century America as \"Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms\", a popular song whose lyrics were written by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. The tune is occasionally wrongly credited to Sir William Davenant, whose library may have been a source of the music for later publishers. (The tune is also a newer setting of \"My Lodging Is In The Cold, Cold Ground\".) Horatio Alger, Jr., an 1852 graduate of Harvard's Divinity School, composed his \"Harvard Odes\" I-IV, and Paul Laurence Dunbar originally wrote the lyrics of the \"Tuskegee Song\", to the tune. The music makes an",
"title": "Fair Harvard"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18514150",
"score": 0.95653105,
"text": "In Answer to Various Bards In Answer to Various Bards (a.k.a. \"An Answer to Various Bards\") is a poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton \"Banjo\" Paterson. It was first published in \"The Bulletin\" magazine on 1 October 1892 in reply to fellow poet Henry Lawson's poem, \"In Answer to \"Banjo\", and Otherwise.\" In \"Up The Country,\" Lawson had criticised \"The City Bushman\" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticise bush life. Paterson, in turn, accused Lawson of representing bush life as nothing but doom and gloom, famously ending with the line \"\"For the bush will never suit",
"title": "In Answer to Various Bards"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2202138",
"score": 0.95208037,
"text": "The poem was set to music in 1905 by Johnson's brother John. In 1919, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) dubbed it \"The Negro National Anthem\" for its power in voicing a cry for liberation and affirmation for African-American people. In 1939, Augusta Savage received a commission from the New York World's Fair and created a 16-foot (5 m) plaster sculpture called \"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing\" which was destroyed by bulldozers at the close of the fair. In Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiography, \"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\", the song is sung by the",
"title": "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
}
] |
Kept in many schools, in which landlocked Asian country did the Gerbil originate?
|
[
"Mongolia Proper",
"Hmongolia",
"Mongolian Republic",
"Mongolia (country)",
"Mongol Uls",
"Mongolia",
"Mongol Nation",
"Sport in Mongolia",
"Mongol country",
"Бүгд Найрамдах Монгол Улс",
"Mongol proper",
"Menggu",
"Mongolia national amateur boxing athletes",
"Republic Mongolia",
"Mongolia (state)",
"Republic of Mongolia",
"Mongol uls",
"MONGOLIA",
"Mongolia project",
"Sport of Mongolia",
"Mongorians",
"Монгол улс",
"ISO 3166-1:MN",
"Даяар Монгол",
"Mongolia proper",
"Mohron ync",
"Dayar Mongol",
"Монгол Улс",
"Mongol Proper",
"Health in Mongolia",
"Boxing in Mongolia",
"Dayaar Mongol",
"Minegolia",
"Outer Mongolia (modern)",
"Languages of Mongolia",
"Mongol Ulus",
"Моңғолия",
"Даяр Монгол"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "1617634",
"score": 1.1502928,
"text": "and hardy animal that has become a popular small house pet. It was first brought from China to Paris in the 19th century. It was brought to the United States much later, in 1954, by Dr. Victor Schwentker for use in research. Notably, it is illegal to keep gerbils as pets in California and New Zealand. The gerbil got its name as a diminutive form of \"jerboa\", an unrelated group of rodents occupying a similar ecological niche. Gerbils are typically between long, including the tail, which makes up about 1/2 of their total length. One species, the great gerbil, \"Rhombomys",
"title": "Gerbil"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "3861430",
"score": 1.1335647,
"text": "Mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus, the Mongolian gerbil or Mongolian jird, is a small rodent belonging to the subfamily Gerbillinae. It is the most widely known species of the gerbil subfamily, and is the most commonly kept as a small house pet or experimental animal. Under those conditions, it is known as the domesticated gerbil. Like the Syrian or golden hamster, it was first brought to the United States in 1954 by Dr. Victor Schwentker for use in scientific research. Forty-four pairs were caught in Mongolia and brought to England. They were described as having \"squirrel colors... with long furry tails.\"",
"title": "Mongolian gerbil"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "5789261",
"score": 1.1246088,
"text": "Mongolian jirds (gerbils). Pale gerbil The pale gerbil \"(Gerbillus perpallidus)\" is endemic to Egypt and is distributed mainly in the northwestern part of the country. It is also known as the pallid gerbil. The pale gerbil has pale orange fur, with white underparts, white forelimbs and white feet. The ears are unpigmented and the soles of the feet are haired, which is a characteristic of sand-dwelling gerbils. It averages 22 to 27 cm in length, and weights 26-49 g. The pale or pallid gerbil, usually shortened to pallid by enthusiasts, is recommended as a good second species for those with",
"title": "Pale gerbil"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10541483",
"score": 1.123636,
"text": "tail fur is longer. Eyes are large and prominent. Bounding gait is distinguished when running. Both the sexes of this species lives apart. The relation between male and female gerbils is not known yet. Omnivorous. Known to eat grains, seeds, plants, roots, insects, reptiles and even small birds and mammals it can catch up. Indian gerbil The Indian gerbil (\"Tatera indica\") also known as \"antelope rat\", is a species of gerbil in the family Muridae. It is found in southern Asia from Syria to Bangladesh. It is the only species in the genus Tatera. Members of the genus \"Gerbilliscus\" have",
"title": "Indian gerbil"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "10542749",
"score": 1.1214114,
"text": "North African gerbil The North African gerbil (\"Dipodillus campestris\") is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in North Africa where its natural habitats are arable land and rocky areas of the Maghreb, and hot Saharan deserts. The North African gerbil has long soft fur and a relatively long tail. The dorsal fur is cinnamon to orange-brown. Each hair has a grey base, a sandy or golden-brown terminal section and often a black tip. The cheeks and throat are white and there is sometimes a dark stripe on the nose. The underparts are white, with a",
"title": "North African gerbil"
}
] |
The boundary between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire runs through which racecourse?
|
[
"NEWMARKET",
"Newmarket",
"Newmarket (disambiguation)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5284955",
"score": 1.1903018,
"text": "county of Cambridgeshire. Historically, there are various names that have been given to courses or parts of courses at Newmarket, and some are still in use today to describe particular race distances. Whyte's History of the British Turf (1840), for instance, lists the Beacon Course, Round Course, Audley End Course, Clermont Course, Ancaster Mile, Rowley Mile, Abingdon Mile, Banbury Mile, Ditch Mile and Yearling Course. The King's Plate (or Queen's Plate) was a major race run between 1634 and 1765. (Location of Carpark) Newmarket Racecourse Newmarket Racecourse, is a British Thoroughbred horse racing venue in the town of Newmarket, Suffolk,",
"title": "Newmarket Racecourse"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1384615",
"score": 1.163483,
"text": "the Rowley Mile Racecourse and is a predominately flat area. \"Warren Hill\" overlooks the town and consists of 3 all weather canters and a multitude of grass canters. \"Bury Side\" is the name given to the area located near the Bury Road and the railway line. These areas and the surrounding heath is chalk downland and has special birds and animals only suited to this terrain. It is also a very historical area with the remains of 6th century living. This hill is part of the chalk formation the Newmarket Ridge. The town has 50 miles of turf gallops and",
"title": "Newmarket, Suffolk"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "384409",
"score": 1.1370391,
"text": "tier of English football. The town of Newmarket is the headquarters of British horseracing – home to the largest cluster of training yards in the country and many key horse racing organisations including the National Stud, and Newmarket Racecourse. Tattersalls bloodstock auctioneers and the National Horseracing Museum are also in the town. Point to point racing takes place at Higham and Ampton. Speedway racing has been staged in Suffolk since at least the 1950s, following the construction of the Foxhall Stadium, just outside Ipswich, home of the Ipswich Witches. The Witches are currently members of the Premier League, the UK's",
"title": "Suffolk"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "5118646",
"score": 1.1336935,
"text": "the bottom of the ditch to the top of the earth wall. Since the 19th century a railway line and roads have been cut through the dyke, including the combined A14 and A11 roads, and a branch line of the Ipswich to Ely rail line. From Reach, the dyke crosses farmland, before running along the edge of the July Course at Newmarket Racecourse and then through the woods of a private estate near the village of Woodditton. The Rowley Mile course is unusual in that it can have races which start in one county, Cambridgeshire, and finish in another, Suffolk.",
"title": "Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1384613",
"score": 1.1263746,
"text": "for England had suggested in the 1960s that the border around Newmarket also be altered, in West Suffolk's favour. Newmarket Urban District Council supported the move to Cambridgeshire, but ultimately the government decided to withdraw this proposal and keep the existing boundary, despite intense lobbying from the UDC. Racing at Newmarket has been dated as far back as 1174, making it the earliest known racing venue of post-classical times. King James I (reigned 1603–1625) greatly increased the popularity of horse racing there, and King Charles I followed this by inaugurating the first cup race in 1634. The Jockey Club's clubhouse",
"title": "Newmarket, Suffolk"
}
] |
Which TV comedy series started screening first?
|
[
"Samuel Brainsample",
"Bunn, Whacket, Buzzard, Stubble, and Boot",
"Hell's Grannies",
"Raymond Luxury-Yacht",
"Monty Python's Flying Circus (computer game)",
"Monty Python's Flying Circus (stage version)",
"“It’s” man",
"Owl Stretching Time",
"Throatwobbler Mangrove",
"MPFC",
"Luigi Vercotti",
"Monty Python’s Flying Circus",
"Montey python",
"It's man",
"Monty Pythons Flying Circus",
"A Horse, a Spoon, and a Basin",
"Gwen Dibley",
"Throatwobbler mangrove",
"Raymond Luxury Yacht",
"%22It’s%22 man",
"Monty Python's Flying Circus",
"Pythonite",
"%22It's%22 man",
"Hell's grannies",
"Its man",
"The Toad Elevating Moment",
"Gwen Dibley's Flying Circus",
"Colin Plint"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "16681822",
"score": 0.96715456,
"text": "The First Family (TV series) The First Family is an American sitcom that debuted in first-run syndication in the United States on September 22, 2012. Created by Byron Allen and produced by Allen's production company Entertainment Studios, the series (along with \"Mr. Box Office\", which debuted the same weekend and is also produced by Entertainment Studios) is the first situation comedy to air in first-run syndication since the 2000 cancellation of \"Malibu, CA\". The series centers on William Johnson (Christopher B. Duncan), a Democrat who attempts to balance his family life with his wife Katherine (Kellita Smith) and their two",
"title": "The First Family (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "18624135",
"score": 0.9498653,
"text": "Comedy Central later announced it would be given an eight episode first season on television, making it the first series to be adapted from its digital department to its cable network. In advance of the show's premiere, the first episode was available for streaming on Amazon on January 12, 2015. Comedians featured on the first cable season of the show include Marc Maron, Keegan-Michael Key, Paul Scheer, and Iliza Shlesinger. For the 4th season, Ari Shaffir was replaced by Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. There are numerous bonus online segments unaired for television that have either Season intros with:",
"title": "This Is Not Happening (TV series)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19263780",
"score": 0.9362053,
"text": "Freeform airs its original drama series on Monday and/or Tuesday nights, and since 2011 (beginning under the former ABC Family brand), has aired its comedy series on Wednesdays. The channel airs first-run episodes of its original series mainly between January and August, with films generally airing in their place during prime time on the aforementioned nights from September to December (the only exception since 2010, have been annual Halloween episodes of \"Pretty Little Liars\" that air as part of the 13 Nights of Halloween in October as well as the debut of the first third of season one of \"Ravenswood\"",
"title": "Freeform (TV channel)"
},
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19704500",
"score": 0.9317158,
"text": "it aired Monday through Friday at 10:00PM (IST). Starting from Monday 31 October 2016 air time changed to a 10:30PM (IST) time slot. A new comedy show named Sirippuda replaced this show at 10:00PM (IST) and lasted three episodes. It was aired every Saturday at 2:00PM (IST). Nadanthathu Enna? Kutramum Pinnaniyum Nadanthathu Enna? () is a 2016 Indian Tamil language anthology and crime television series. The first season aired 2009 and The 2nd season premiered on 29 August 2016 aired Monday to Friday at 10:00PM (IST) on Vijay TV. Starting from 31 October 2016, the show shifted to aired at",
"title": "Nadanthathu Enna? Kutramum Pinnaniyum"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "20944592",
"score": 0.9258354,
"text": "an episode of the show. In 2018, the Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern appeared a sketch on the show about women's suffrage. A third season ran in 2018 for six half-hour episodes. Funny Girls (TV series) Funny Girls is a sitcom sketch comedy television series starring Rose Matafeo and Laura Daniel. It premiered on 23 October 2015 on TV3 in New Zealand. It is in its third season as of 2018. The series follows Laura and Rose as they produce sketches for a fictional comedy series, fielding ideas from their male bosses and their producer Pauline. The show",
"title": "Funny Girls (TV series)"
}
] |
What is the title of Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize winning novel which was made into a 2001 film of the same name starring Michael Caine and Helen Mirren?
|
[
"Last Orders"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2258857",
"score": 0.85386896,
"text": "Graham Swift Graham Colin Swift FRSL (born 4 May 1949) is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York. Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including \"Waterland\" (1992), \"Shuttlecock\" (1993) and \"Last Orders\" (1996). His novel \"Last Orders\" was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's \"As I Lay Dying\". The prize-winning \"Waterland\" is set in The Fens. A novel",
"title": "Graham Swift"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "7911883",
"score": 0.81975925,
"text": "and travelled to London. At Smithfield Meat Market she met Jack who offered her a job and board and lodgings in his house. She went on to marry Jack's adopted son Vince. Last Orders Last Orders is a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by British writer Graham Swift. In 2001 it was adapted for the film \"Last Orders\" by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi. The story makes much use of flashbacks to tell the convoluted story of the relationships between a group of war veterans who live in the same corner of London, the backbone of the story being the",
"title": "Last Orders"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "10123211",
"score": 0.81572807,
"text": "Last Orders (film) Last Orders is a 2001 British/German drama film written and directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay is based on the 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel \"Last Orders\" by Graham Swift. The title refers to a pub landlord's last call and the final wishes of a dying man, in this instance Jack Dodds (Michael Caine), an east London butcher who greatly influenced four men over the course of his flawed but decent life. The quartet gathers to scatter Jack's ashes in Margate, where he had hoped to retire to a small seaside cottage with his wife Amy (Helen Mirren),",
"title": "Last Orders (film)"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "19146650",
"score": 0.8041322,
"text": "The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) The Light of Day is a 2003 novel by English author Graham Swift, published seven years after his previous novel, the Booker Prize winner \"Last Orders\". The book is set in 1997 in Wimbledon, the narrator George preparing to visit the grave of Bob Nash in Putney Vale Cemetery on the two year anniversary of his death, and then to visit Sarah who was convicted of his murder and with whom George has fallen in love. George recounts his involvement in the crime, employed by Sarah as a private investigator to ensure that",
"title": "The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "19420785",
"score": 0.79305136,
"text": "Evelyn Waugh and Edwin Muir found the novel successful. I Live Under a Black Sun I Live Under a Black Sun is a novelized biography of Jonathan Swift by poet Edith Sitwell. Her debut novel, the novel is a modernist work, published in 1937, straddling her productive period of poetry in the 1920s and the 1940s. The novel, though primarily biographical fiction, it includes thematic treatments on mourning and melancholia, and political allegory. The novel was the first one published after changing from her publisher Duckworth and published with Victor Gollancz. At the time of its publication, the novel did",
"title": "I Live Under a Black Sun"
}
] |
What country had the Roman name Lusitania?
|
[
"Portogało",
"Republic of Portugal",
"PORTUGAL",
"Portekiz",
"Portugallu",
"O Papagaio",
"ISO 3166-1:PT",
"Portunga",
"Phu-to-ga",
"Potigal",
"Portûnga",
"Portugul",
"An Phortaingéil",
"Portugāle",
"Portugale",
"Portingale",
"Potiti",
"Portugali",
"Portugall",
"Portekîz",
"Bo Dao Nha",
"Portuguese Republic",
"Portogallo",
"Portugaul",
"Portogalo",
"Portyngal",
"Yn Phortiugal",
"Portugalio",
"Portugál",
"Portugual",
"Portuga",
"Portgual",
"Portugalsko",
"Portugaleje",
"Phû-tô-gâ",
"Portugalujo",
"Portugalija",
"Pertual",
"Pòtigal",
"Portugal",
"Bồ Đào Nha",
"Portugalska",
"República Portuguesa",
"Portiwgal",
"Portugalėjė",
"Portúgal",
"Portegal",
"An Phortaingeil",
"Republica Portuguesa"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "246110",
"score": 1.0329994,
"text": "\"a country of waters\", a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region. Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder (\"Natural History\", 3.5) and Varro (116 – 27 BC, cited by Pliny), speculated that the name \"Lusitania\" had Roman origins, as when Pliny says \"lusum enim Liberi Patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse Lusitaniae et Pana praefectum eius universae\" [Lusitania takes its name from the \"Lusus\" associated with Bacchus and the \"Lyssa\" of his Bacchantes, and Pan is its governor]. \"Lusus\" is usually translated as \"game\" or \"play\", while \"lyssa\" is a borrowing",
"title": "Lusitania"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "246121",
"score": 1.0301906,
"text": "of the strait. Lusitania Lusitania (; ; ) or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and part of western Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a part of the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people (an Indo-European people). Its capital was \"Emerita Augusta\" (currently Mérida, Spain), and it was initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire. Romans first came to the territory around the mid-2nd century",
"title": "Lusitania"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "246108",
"score": 1.0251311,
"text": "Lusitania Lusitania (; ; ) or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and part of western Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a part of the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people (an Indo-European people). Its capital was \"Emerita Augusta\" (currently Mérida, Spain), and it was initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire. Romans first came to the territory around the mid-2nd century BC. A war",
"title": "Lusitania"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "246111",
"score": 1.0236409,
"text": "from the Greek λυσσα, \"frenzy\" or \"rage\", and sometimes Rage personified; for later poets, Lusus and Lyssa become flesh-and-blood companions (even children) of Bacchus. Luís de Camões' epic \"Os Lusíadas\" (1572), which portrays Lusus as the founder of Lusitania, extends these ideas, which have no connection with modern etymology. In his work, \"Geography\", the classical geographer Strabo (died ca. 24 AD) suggests a change had occurred in the use of the name \"Lusitanian\". He mentions a group who had once been called \"Lusitanians\" living north of the Douro river but were called in his day \"Callacans\". The Lusitani, who were",
"title": "Lusitania"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3472737",
"score": 1.0232856,
"text": "(and derived words) – primarily figurative, poetic, or historical – is parallel to the use of \"Gallia\" in France, \"Britannia\" in England, \"Caledonia\" in Scotland, \"Hibernia\" in Ireland, \"Batavia\" in the Netherlands, \"Helvetia\" in Switzerland, and \"Germania\" and \"Alemannia\" in Germany (called \"Deutschland\" in its own inhabitants' language). Belgium derived its present name from the Roman Belgica. This attachment to ancient Roman placenames was long used to maintain a \"Roman connection\" as a means of protecting respectability and legitimacy in political systems dominated by the Roman Catholic church and the (primarily Frankish and later German) Holy Roman Empire, which used",
"title": "Lusitanic"
}
] |
The mother of which Monkee invented typewriter correction fluid?
|
[
"Mike Nesmith",
"Michael Nesmith"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "548444",
"score": 1.1698682,
"text": "1960s, correction fluid made its appearance, under brand names such as Liquid Paper, Wite-Out and Tipp-Ex; it was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham. Correction fluid was a kind of opaque, white, fast-drying paint that produced a fresh white surface onto which, when dry, a correction could be retyped. However, when held to the light, the covered-up characters were visible, as was the patch of dry correction fluid (which was never perfectly flat, and frequently not a perfect match for the color, texture, and luster of the surrounding paper). The standard trick for solving this problem was photocopying the corrected page,",
"title": "Typewriter"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1922483",
"score": 1.130974,
"text": "Liquid Paper Liquid Paper is an American brand of the Newell Brands company marketed international that sells correction fluid, correction pens, and correction tape. Mainly used to correct typewriting in the past, correction products now mostly cover handwriting mistakes. In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham, the mother of The Monkees' Michael Nesmith, invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen. Working as a typist, she used to make many mistakes and always strived for a way to correct them. Starting on a basis of tempera paint she mixed with a common kitchen blender, she called the outcome fluid \"Mistake Out\" and",
"title": "Liquid Paper"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "282018",
"score": 1.0860755,
"text": "aunts, and grandmother. Bette took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphical design and developed very good secretarial skills, including shorthand and, auspiciously, touch typing. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as Liquid Paper. Over the next 25 years she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she finally sold to Gillette in 1979 for US$48 million. She died a few months later, aged 56. Nesmith was enrolled in the Dallas public school system in 1949, aged 6. Describing himself as an indifferent student, he nevertheless participated",
"title": "Michael Nesmith"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "2970388",
"score": 0.9571474,
"text": "Bette Nesmith Graham Bette Nesmith Graham (March 23, 1924 – May 12, 1980) was an American typist, commercial artist, and the inventor of Liquid Paper. She was the mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. Graham was born Bette Clair McMurray, in Dallas, Texas, to Jesse McMurray, an automotive supply company manager, and Christine Duval. She was raised in San Antonio and graduated from Alamo Heights High School. She married Warren Audrey Nesmith (1919–1984) before he left to fight in World War II. While he was overseas she had a child (Robert Michael Nesmith, born December 30,",
"title": "Bette Nesmith Graham"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "15858287",
"score": 0.9317114,
"text": "of Metal. Inspired by a ROCK magazine article about the Monkees band member Michael Nesmith's mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented Liquid Paper, ROCK editors Vare and Greg Ptacek co-wrote the \"pop history\" \"Mothers of Invention: Forgotten Women and their Unforgettable Ideas\" in 1988, followed in 1993 by \"Women Inventors and Their Discoveries\", aimed at a middle-school readership. Vare later wrote a book for grade-school readers, \"Adventurous Spirit: A Story about Ellen Swallow Richards\", about America's first female professional chemist. In 2001, Vare and Ptacek reunited for the sequel \"Patently Female\". Vare has written or edited biographies of pop culture",
"title": "Ethlie Ann Vare"
}
] |
Which pole vaulter won 6 consecutive IAAF World Championships, an Olympic gold, broke the world record 35 times (17 outdoor and 18 indoor records), was the first to clear both 6.0 metres and 6.10 metres (20 ft)?
|
[
"Sergey Nazarovich Bubka",
"Sergej Bubka",
"Sergey Bubka",
"Serhiy Nazarovych Bubka",
"Serhiy Bubka",
"Serhij Bubka",
"Sergei Bubka",
"Sergiy Bubka"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "6527804",
"score": 1.1783887,
"text": "www.lojovaultassault.com. He also launched www.lojoteamva.com. Lawrence is best known for winning the Olympic silver medal in 2000, he also won a gold medal at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships (First American to bring back a medal in the pole vault in a major competition since 1987). He is the current American Indoor Record Holder at 5.96m (19' - 6.5\") set March 3, 2001. His personal best jump is 5.98m (19' - 7.5\"), which he achieved in 1996. LoJo is one of the USA's most decorated pole vaulters. His",
"title": "Lawrence Johnson (athlete)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7208831",
"score": 1.1425551,
"text": "his later vault of 4.60 m on June 29, 1940 was the first ratified jump over 15 feet. During his career, Warmerdam vaulted 15 feet 43 times in competition, while no other vaulter cleared the mark a single time. Warmerdam surpassed the pole vault record seven times in a four-year span, and three of those marks were ratified as world records. His highest outdoor vault was 15' 7-3/4\" (4.77 m), achieved at the Modesto Relays in 1942, a record which stood until 1957 when Bob Gutowski broke the mark using a metal pole. Warmerdam won the James E. Sullivan Award",
"title": "Cornelius Warmerdam"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17957291",
"score": 1.1417131,
"text": "his indoor season on March 15, jumping 14 ft in (4.31 m) at Madison Square Garden for a new indoor world record. At the 1933 outdoor IC4A meet Brown pulled a tendon high jumping, but still shared first place with four others in the pole vault, including Olympic champion Bill Miller and outdoor world record holder Bill Graber. Brown won his first national outdoor title that summer, tying with Matt Gordy at 14 ft (4.26 m). He broke his own indoor world record on February 17, 1934, with a jump of 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m), again at Madison",
"title": "Keith Brown (pole vaulter)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "2661998",
"score": 1.1389525,
"text": "followed that with 20 national Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, including 17 in the pole vault and three in the decathlon. The first man to clear 15 feet was Dutch Warmerdam, who set the world record of in 1942, long before Richards came into his prime. While Richards was the dominant vaulter of his time, he never achieved the world record. Richards later became involved in promoting physical fitness and continued to vault in his later years. He was the first athlete to appear on the front of Wheaties cereal boxes in 1958 (though not the first depicted on all",
"title": "Bob Richards"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17957292",
"score": 1.1370056,
"text": "Square Garden. That summer he repeated as both IC4A champion and national outdoor champion. Brown became captain of the Yale track team in 1935, and won both the pole vault and the high jump at that winter's indoor IC4A meet. In his final collegiate competition on June 1, 1935, at the outdoor IC4A Championships – the same meet where his uncle had broken the world record exactly twenty-three years earlier – Brown cleared a bar set at 14 ft in (4.39 m), breaking Graber's world record of 14 ft in (4.37 m). (Earlier that spring Graber had jumped 14 ft",
"title": "Keith Brown (pole vaulter)"
}
] |
New France was the name given to French colonized lands in which continent from the 16th-18th centuries?
|
[
"003 (UN M.49 code)",
"North Americans",
"N. America",
"N america",
"Demographics of north america",
"North American",
"Demographics of North America",
"List of States and Provinces in North America",
"Northamerica",
"North America (continent)",
"Greater North America",
"Regions of North America",
"Northamerican",
"North America (region)",
"North-American",
"North american",
"North American continent",
"Culture of North America",
"North America",
"North-America",
"North American Continent",
"North america",
"Northamericans",
"Name of North America",
"North Americas",
"North America (Americas)"
] |
[
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1395163",
"score": 0.9938361,
"text": "a permanent benefit to the French. New France New France () was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris (1763). At its peak in 1712 (before the Treaty of Utrecht), the territory of \"New France\", also sometimes known as the \"French North American Empire\" or \"Royal New France\", consisted of five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, the most developed",
"title": "New France"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1395071",
"score": 0.9911324,
"text": "New France New France () was the area colonized by France in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris (1763). At its peak in 1712 (before the Treaty of Utrecht), the territory of \"New France\", also sometimes known as the \"French North American Empire\" or \"Royal New France\", consisted of five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, the most developed colony and divided into the districts",
"title": "New France"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "3980622",
"score": 0.9706342,
"text": "New Brunswick are, however, more likely to be descended from the settlers of the French colony of Acadia, and therefore still call themselves Acadians. Canada (New France) Canada was a French colony within New France first claimed in the name of the King of France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier. The word \"Canada\" at this point referred to the territory along the Saint Lawrence River, then known as the Canada river, from Grosse Island in the east to a point between Quebec and Three Rivers, although this territory had greatly expanded by 1600. French explorations continued",
"title": "Canada (New France)"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "17673169",
"score": 0.9679579,
"text": "There are three main types of French-American; French Canadian, Cajun, or Louisiana Creole . During the period of French colonization in the Americas (1534-1763), France divided up all of its land into five territories; Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Louisiana. The Treaty of Utrecht seized France's control over Acadia, Newfoundland and Hudson Bay. After this treaty the colony of Cape Breton Island was established as the successor to Acadia. By 1679, La Louisiane française or French Louisiana was an administrative district of New France. Under French control from 1682–1762 and 1802–04, the area was named after Louis XIV, by",
"title": "History of the Franco-Americans"
},
{
"hasanswer": true,
"id": "1395072",
"score": 0.9650375,
"text": "Québec, Trois-Rivières and Montréal (before 1717, extending south through the Illinois Country); Hudson's Bay; Acadie, in the northeast; Plaisance, on the island of Newfoundland, and Louisiane. (after 1717, extending north through the Illinois Country); Thus, it extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, including all the Great Lakes of North America. In the sixteenth century, the lands were used primarily to draw from the wealth of natural resources such as furs through trade with the various indigenous peoples. In the seventeenth century, successful settlements began in Acadia, and in Quebec by",
"title": "New France"
}
] |
Which Shakespeare play takes place in the city of Messina, Sicily?
|
[
"Governor Leonato",
"Borachio",
"Much Ado About Nothing (title)",
"Much Ado about Nothing",
"MAAN",
"Much Ado About Nothing",
"Bendick and Beatrice",
"Benedick",
"Much ado about nothing",
"Much adoe about nothing",
"Much Adoe About Nothing",
"Conrade"
] |
[
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"hasanswer": false,
"id": "704853",
"score": 1.0444405,
"text": "Messina Messina (, ; ; ; ) is the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of more than 238,000 inhabitants in the city proper and about 650,000 in the Metropolitan City. It is located near the northeast corner of Sicily, at the Strait of Messina, opposite Villa San Giovanni on the mainland, and has close ties with Reggio Calabria. According to Eurostat the FUA of the metropolitan area of Messina has, in 2014, 277,584 inhabitants. The city's",
"title": "Messina"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7086741",
"score": 1.0104755,
"text": "sposa di Messina\" by the Italian composer Nicola Vaccai (premiered in 1839). Robert Schumann wrote an overture to \"Die Braut von Messina\", his Opus 100. (English translation) The Bride of Messina The Bride of Messina () is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller; it premiered on 19 March 1803 in Weimar. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller, due to his use of elements from Greek tragedies (which were considered obsolete at the time it was written). In the play, Schiller attempts to combine antique and modern theatre. It is set in Sicily, at a time when Paganism",
"title": "The Bride of Messina"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4529041",
"score": 1.0049853,
"text": "the province include the Alcantara and the Pollina, which forms the border with the province of Palermo to the west. The main comunes by population are: Province of Messina Messina (Italian: Provincia di Messina; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Missina) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital was the city of Messina. It was replaced by the Metropolitan City of Messina. It had an area of , which amounts to 12.6 percent of total area of the island, and a total population of more 650,000. There are 108 \"comuni\" (singular: \"comune\") in the province ,",
"title": "Province of Messina"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "7086740",
"score": 1.0026671,
"text": "The Bride of Messina The Bride of Messina () is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller; it premiered on 19 March 1803 in Weimar. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller, due to his use of elements from Greek tragedies (which were considered obsolete at the time it was written). In the play, Schiller attempts to combine antique and modern theatre. It is set in Sicily, at a time when Paganism and Christianity meet, thus again outlining this theme. The work was notably adapted in two operas, \"Nevěsta messinská\", by composer Zdeněk Fibich (premiered in 1884), and \"La",
"title": "The Bride of Messina"
},
{
"hasanswer": false,
"id": "4529039",
"score": 0.99752784,
"text": "Province of Messina Messina (Italian: Provincia di Messina; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Missina) was a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily in Italy. Its capital was the city of Messina. It was replaced by the Metropolitan City of Messina. It had an area of , which amounts to 12.6 percent of total area of the island, and a total population of more 650,000. There are 108 \"comuni\" (singular: \"comune\") in the province , see Comuni of the Province of Messina. The province included the Aeolian Islands, all part of the comune of Lipari (with the exception of Salina). The",
"title": "Province of Messina"
}
] |
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