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Around how many Hotels does Guam currently have?
20 large hotels
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How many public golf courses does Guam currently have?
seven
[ "Guam\n\nLying in the western Pacific, Guam is a popular destination for Japanese tourists. Its tourist hub, Tumon, features over 20 large hotels, a Duty Free Shoppers Galleria, Pleasure Island district, indoor aquarium, Sandcastle Las Vegas–styled shows and other shopping and entertainment venues. It is a relative...
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About how many tourist visit Guam yearly?
a million
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Which major U.S store does Guam currently have that happens to be the largest in the world?
Kmart
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What is the name of the pact held between the United States, Micronesia, Marshal Islands, and Palau?
The Compacts of Free Association
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What is the benefit of the Compacts of Free Association?
no restrictions to reside in the United States (also its territories)
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What has Guam claimed about Compacts of Free Association?
the territory has had to bear the brunt of this agreement
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In what year was the local postage stamp overprinted and has since been replaced?
1899
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What type of postal service does Guam currently have today?
U.S. postage
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What is the current Zip Code range in Guam?
96910–96932
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Which three major companies do not consider Guam as domestic when shipping is involved?
FedEx, UPS, and DHL
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What determines the speed in which mail reaches Guam from the United States?
on size and time of year
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Which type of service usually takes less than a week to get postage to the island?
first-class
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What do most Guam residents use when receiving mail?
post office boxes or private mail boxes
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What is considered to be the lifeline of Guam?
The Commercial Port
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What is the name of the shipping company in Hawaii that connects Guam?
Matson, Inc
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Why is the port so important?
most products must be shipped into Guam for consumers
[ "Guam\n\nThe Commercial Port of Guam is the island's lifeline because most products must be shipped into Guam for consumers. It receives the weekly calls of the Hawaii-based shipping line Matson, Inc. whose container ships connect Guam with Honolulu, Hawaii, Los Angeles, California, Oakland, California and Seattle,...
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What is the name of the international airport in Guam?
Antonio B. Won Pat
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What major airline resides at the airport?
United Airlines
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What is Guam responsible for when goods both come in and leave?
operating its own customs and quarantine agency
[ "Guam\n\nGuam is served by the Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, which is a hub for United Airlines. The island is outside the United States customs zone so Guam is responsible for establishing and operating its own customs and quarantine agency and jurisdiction. Therefore, the U.S. Customs and Border Prote...
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Which animal was accidentally introduced into Guam?
brown tree snake
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What was accidentally introduced into Guam?
brown tree snake
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With the introduction of a non native snake in the area of Guam what impact did it have the island?
nearly eliminated the native bird population
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What has the U.S Department of Agriculture done to help watch for the snakes?
has trained detector dogs to keep the snakes out of the island's cargo flow
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What are the names of the two native birds in Guam before the brown snake intrusion?
Guam rail (or ko'ko' bird in Chamorro) and the Guam flycatcher
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How many bird species have been driven to extinction in Guam?
twelve bird species
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What other bird was very common before WWII according to the elders?
ko'ko' birds
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What insect was detected in 2007?
coconut rhinoceros beetle
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What other American territory has these beetles that have infested Guam?
American Samoa
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Where is the Coconut Beetle native to?
Southern Asia
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What plagues the Guam dry season?
Wildfires
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What are the cause of the majority of the fires in the area?
man
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What causes water quality problems in Guam?
sediment is carried by the heavy rains into the Fena Lake Reservoir and Ugum River
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What has Guam recently being trying to protect?
coral reef habitats
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What has led to the decrease of fish near Guam?
pollution, eroded silt and overfishing
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What is the name of the flying mammal in Guam that some are concerned for?
Mariana fruit bats
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What are the names of the two colleges in Guam?
The University of Guam (UOG) and Guam Community College
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Who are these two schools accredited by?
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
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What is the name of the small Christian college in Guam?
Pacific Islands University
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How many students as of 2000 were attending public schools in Guam?
32,000
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What has plagued Guam public schools?
high dropout rates and poor test scores
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What is the name of the governing body of the school in all of Guam?
The Guam Department of Education
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Who runs Guam's main health care facility?
The Government of Guam
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What is the name of the main health care facility in Guam?
Guam Memorial Hospital
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Which privately owned medical facility opened in 2016?
Guam Regional Medical City
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What is commonly contrasted with empiricism?
rationalism
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Where does rationalism say knowledge comes from?
reason independently of the senses
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What is an example knowledge being derived from intuition?
knowledge of God's existence
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What did Locke think some knowledge could come from?
intuition and reasoning alone
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Where were the main European rationalists?
Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
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What theory was Aristotle's explanation based on?
his theory of potentiality and actuality
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How did Plato's Phaedo and Apology think of the mind?
an entity that pre-existed somewhere in the heavens, before being sent down to join a body on Earth
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Who thought the senses were more important, Aristotle or Plato?
Aristotle
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Who thought the senses were less important, Aristotle or Plato?
Plato
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What does "nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu" mean?
Latin for "nothing in the intellect without first being in the senses"
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What is the Stoic view?
the mind starts blank, but acquires knowledge as the outside world is impressed upon it
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What was Aetius's career?
doxographer
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Where was Sextus from?
Chaeronea
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Who wrote 'Against the Professors'?
Sextus
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Whose ideas did Sextus build on?
Aetius
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Whose idea was 'tabula rasa'?
Aristotle
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What religion was Al Farabi?
Islamic
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What does al-'aql al-hayulani mean?
material intellect
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What does al-'aql al-fa'il mean?
active intellect
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What is crucial for understanding?
the immaterial "active intellect"
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What was 'Abubacer' normally called?
Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail
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What was 'Ebn Topnail' normally called?
Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail
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What was Ibn Tufail's religion?
Muslim
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What was Ibn Tufail's ethnicity?
Andalusian
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When did Ibn Tufail live?
12th century CE
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When was da Vinci born?
1452
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When did da Vinci die?
1519
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What did renaissance writers question?
the medieval and classical understanding of knowledge acquisition
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Who did Machiavelli disdain?
writers on politics who judged everything in comparison to mental ideals
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What did da Vinci advise when your experience contradicted authority?
abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings
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When was Vincenzo Galilei born?
ca. 1520
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When did Vincenzo Galilei die?
1591
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Who was Vincenzo Galilei's oldest son?
Galileo
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What does 'esperienza' mean?
experiment
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When was the British empiricism period?
17th century
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What type of philosopher was Francis Bacon?
empiricist
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What type of philosopher was Descartes?
rationalist
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What type of philosopher was Hobbes?
empiricist
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What type of philosopher was Spinoza?
rationalist
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When was 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding' published?
1689
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Who wrote 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding'?
John Locke
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What does 'tabula rasa' mean?
blank tablet
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What did Locke say 'tabula rasa' meant?
white paper
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What did Locke's 'tabula rasa' concept say happens to the mind?
on which the experiences derived from sense impressions as a person's life proceeds are written
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Who wrote 'Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge'?
George Berkeley
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When was 'Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge' published?
1710
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What religion was George Berkeley?
Anglican
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What nationality was George Berkeley?
Irish
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Who wrote 'Alciphron'?
George Berkeley
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What did Hume bring to empiricism?
a new level of skepticism
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What was Hume's nationality?
Scottish
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What two types of arguments did Locke say there are?
demonstrative and probable
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When was Hume born?
1711
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When did Hume die?
1776
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What types of human knowledge did Hume say there are?
relations of ideas and matters of fact
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