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What was originally slated to be built at the site of the proposed area for the secondary biotechnology district?
Route 34 extension
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What major pharmaceutical company is currently operating a drug clinic in New Haven within the new biotechnology corridor?
Pfizer
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What is the former SNET building in New Haven currently being converted for in the effort of attracting new medical or biotechnology firms?
lab space
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Where will the second planned biotechnology district located?
Frontage Road
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What was the former name of the place now serving as a biotech building on 300 George Street?
SNET telephone building
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When was the opening of first building in the second biotech district?
late 2009
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What static inverter plant lies near New Haven?
HVDC Cross Sound Cable
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How many PureCell Model 400 fuel cells can be found in New Haven?
three
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How much money is each PureCell Model 400 fuel cell projected to save the city of New Haven in energy costs over the course of a decade?
$1 million
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What company provided New Haven with the fuel cells currently in place throughout the city?
ClearEdge Power
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The Cross Sound Cable company has what sort of structure located near New Haven?
static inverter plant
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How many Model 400 fuel cell lies within New Haven?
three
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What was the former name of the company that provided the fuel cells to the city?
UTC Power
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In terms of budget, what is the estimated savings from using the fuel cell system?
$1 million in energy costs
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At what former lodging facility in New Haven were scenes from the 1950's classic, All About Eve, filmed?
Taft Hotel
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What Fred Astaire film depicts the reported history of New Haven theaters as "tryouts" for Broadway?
The Band Wagon
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What Spielberg movie provided a fictional account of the slave ship mutiny trials that took place in New Haven?
Amistad
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What movie produced in 2000 investigated conspiracy theories surrounding the notorious Skull and Bone Society in New Haven?
The Skulls
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What is currently located at the site of the old Taft Hotel in New Haven?
Taft Apartments
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What was the name of the movie that once film in the corner of College and Chapel streets?
All About Eve (1950)
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The fim Amistad uses references to New Haven in the movie, who was the director of Amistad?
Steven Spielberg
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New Haven was feature in what movie regarding secret society and conspiracy theories?
The Skulls (2000)
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What 2003 movie featuring Julia Roberts was filmed in New Haven?
Mona Lisa Smile
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What Spielberg franchise was filmed in New Haven in 2008?
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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What year were the streets of downtown New Haven redesigned to resemble for the filming of the Crystal Skull?
1957
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How many New Haven locals were cast as extras throughout filming of the Crystal Skull?
500
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In what New Haven landmark was the 2009 Robert De Niro movie, Everybody's Fine, filmed?
Union Station
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What was the name of popular movie film in New Haven featuring Julia Roberts?
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
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The recent Indiana Jones movie feature how many of the local citizen in film?
500
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Union Station was as a part of a set on a film, what was the name of the movie?
Everybody's Fine (2009)
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In what Fitzgerald classic does the fictional protagonist make repeated references to New Haven?
The Great Gatsby
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Who is the fictional Yale University alumnus, and ostensible former resident of New Haven, featured on The Simpsons?
C. Montgomery Burns
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What fictional New Haven resident is featured in the novella, The Odd Saga of the American and a Curious Iceland Flock?
Alex Welch
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At what New Haven university is The Gilmore Girls hypothetically set, at least in part?
Yale
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The city of New Haven was often referenced several time by a character in a very popular novel which name was?
The Great Gatsby
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The Simpson has a character that was set to graduated from Yale University, can you guess his name?
Montgomery Burns
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What relations does the television show Gilmore Girls have to New Haven city?
is set (but not filmed) in New Haven
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What infamous Doors frontman was once arrested in New Haven?
Jim Morrison
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At what venue was Jim Morrison arrested in New Haven?
New Haven Arena
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What Morrison song pays homage to his New Haven arrest while mentioning the town by name?
"Peace Frog"
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What 1991 film depicts the 1979 Morrison arrest in New Haven?
The Doors
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A popular 70s rock band group once played in New Haven, which result in an accident with one of it member, the man name was?
Jim Morrison
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What was the song sung that lead to the arrest of Morrison?
"Peace Frog"
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The event in 1967 later lead to inspiration of what movie in 1991?
The Doors
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The movie The Doors however did not film at New Haven, instead where did they film the reenactment?
Los Angeles
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When did Stadtrepublik become a part of Alsace?
4 January 1798
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What years did Germany hold possession over Lorrain-Alscace?
1871–1918
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Which other country had control over Alsace?
France
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How many times did Germany and France switched and had control of Alscace?
four times
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Which three territories make up the Upper Rhine?
Alsatian, Alemannian, Swabian, Swiss
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Who forced Christianity upon the Alsace people?
Clovis' Merovingian
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What occurred at the treaty of Verdun?
Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843
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In what year did Lothar past away?
855
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What was considered a common practice in during the Holy Roman Empire?
fragmentation and reincorporations among a number of feudal secular and ecclesiastical lordships
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Under who's rule did Alsace thrive under?
Hohenstaufen emperors
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Was was the name given to the Alsace provincinal court?
Landgericht
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What was the name of the route that linked Germany,Switzerland , Netherlands, and England
Paris-Vienna-Orient trade route
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Which other two cities also started to grow economically?
Colmar and Hagenau
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About when did Alsace lose its prosperity?
14th century
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Why did Alsace decline has a prospering territory?
harsh winters, bad harvests, and the Black Death
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Which group of people were wrongly blamed for all the disasters that struck the region?
blamed on Jews
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What were the jewish people accused of in Alsace?
accused of poisoning the wells with plague
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When did the Rhine Rift earthquake occur?
1356,
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What were the names of the first two rivers France aggressively went to while expanding eastward?
Rhône and Meuse
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The French proposed a marriage between which two people?
Blanche and Albert
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What was the name of the period when France was crushed military?
the Hundred Years' War
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In what year did the French reach Alsace?
1444
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In what year was Upper Alsace sold to the Archduke Sigismund?
1469
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Why did Frederick III use a tax and a marriage in Upper Alsace?
to gain back full control of Upper Alsace
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When did Mulhouse join the Swiss Confederation?
1515
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When did Strasbourg accept Protestantism?
1523
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Who was known as a reformer in Strasbourg?
Martin Bucer
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What were the names given for the two groups that heavily dominated Alsace during this time?
Catholic and Protestant
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When did the Habsburgs sell the Sundgau territory to France?
1646
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How much did France pay for Sundgau?
1.2 million Thalers
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In 1685 Edict Fontainebleau by way of the French King ordered what to be done?
the suppression of French Protestantism
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In what year did the division of Alsace take place?
1789
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Which song was played for the first time in Strasbourg that would later become the French national anthem?
La Marseillaise
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Who led the armies of the French Republic in Vendee and Westermann?
Kellermann
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Which two countries sought to crush the nascent republic?
Austria and Prussia
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What had happened to most of the people who fled Sungau during the war when they were allowed to return home?
lands and homes had been confiscated
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What was the name of the poem by Goethe?
Hermann and Dorothea
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What was the population of Alsace in 1846?
1,067,000
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What were the reasons for people to begin leaving Alsace?
hunger, housing shortages and a lack of work for young people
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Between what years did Alatians begin to sail towards the United States?
1820 to 1850
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What was the population of Alsace in 1790?
22,500
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Jews were banned from cities in Alsace, where were they forced to settle?
in villages
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in 1791 Jews were granted what by the French?
full emancipation
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Which country was Alsace merged into during 1871-1918
Germany
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Which country defeated the French in 1871?
Kingdom of Prussia
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The end of the war led to which companies unification?
Germany
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Who annexed Alsace to the new German Empire in 1871?
Otto von Bismarck
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What did Aslations do to avoid conflict amongst themselves during the first World War?
served as sailors
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Who was the mayor that proclaimed independence from the German Empire for Alsace-Lorraine?
Jacques Peirotes
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Who entered Alsace just two weeks after they declared independence?
French
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What was the name of the treaty that allowed Germany to ceded the land to France?
Treaty of Versailles
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What year was Alsace-Lorraine occupied by Germany?
1940
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Approximately how many Alsace and Lorraine men were forced into the German army during World War II?
130,000
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Which group of people were released by the Russians to Algiers?
malgré-nous
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Which conservative leader in 2007 received the best score during the second round of elections?
Nicolas Sarkozy
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