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d5dae82e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of abnormality occurs as an accident in the egg cell or sperm, and can be exemplified through aneuploidy? | A chromosome abnormality. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Most chromosome abnormalities occur as an accident in the egg cell or sperm, and therefore the anomaly is present in every cell of the body. Some anomalies, however, can happen after conception, resulting in Mosaicism (where some cells have the anomaly and some do not)."
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d5dae8560dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Okinawa and members of Spratly and Senkaku are all examples of what? | Islands | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Spratly Islands consist of islands, reefs, banks and shoals that consist of biogenic carbonate. These accumulations of biogenic carbonate lie upon the higher crests of major submarine ridges that are uplifted fault blocks known by geologists as horsts."
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d5dae8f60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Angelus and Hsi Lai are both what? | Temples. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Angelus Temple is a Pentecostal megachurch of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, United States. The senior pastor is Matthew Barnett. The maximum capacity is 8,975 persons."
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d5dae91e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Myiagra atra, Melaenornis edolioides and Empidonax atriceps are all examples of what? | Birds | text | [] | [
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"text": "The northern black flycatcher ( Melaenornis edolioides) is a small passerine bird in the flycatcher family, Muscicapidae. This is an insectivorous species which is a resident breeder in tropical Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zaire and Tanzania . The northern black flycatcher is found i... |
d5dae9460dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A pipe organ and clarinet both use what to produce sound? | Air. | text | [] | [
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d5dae96e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Are the Shivwits Band of Paiutes or the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes more eastern in the United States? | The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes are more eastern in the United States. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Shivwits Band of Paiutes is a band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, a federally recognized tribe of Southern Paiutes in southwestern Utah . Shivwits comes from a Southern Paiute word, sipicimi."
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d5dae9e60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Trochaic verse and trochaic tetrameter are both elements of what? | Poetry | text | [] | [
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"text": "Trochaic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line of four trochaic feet. The word \"tetrameter\" simply means that the poem has four trochees. A trochee is a long syllable, or stressed syllable, followed by a short, or unstressed, one."
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d5daea540dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of plants are gum rockrose, Cistus creticus and Cistus heterophyllus? | Shrubs | text | [] | [
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"text": "Cistus creticus ( pink rock-rose, hoary rock-rose) is a species of shrubby plant in the family Cistaceae. Though it usually has pink flowers, of 4.5–5 cm diameter, this species is very variable. It is widely known as a decorative plant. It is frequently called \" Cistus incanus \". (The true Cistus ×... |
d5daea7c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Robert le Brun built a pele tower on the site of a former tower that had been part of what wall that Aballava was a Roman fort on? | Hadrian's Wall | text | [] | [
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"text": "Drumburgh Castle is a medieval pele tower in the village of Drumburgh, in Cumbria, England. A pele tower was originally built on this site, near the village of Burgh, by Robert le Brun in 1307, on the site of a former tower that had been part of Hadrian's Wall. The construction used red sandstone mas... |
d5daeaa40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What jurist and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant reformed the War Department by allowing commanders at Indian forts to choose who could start and run post traderships? | Alphonso Taft | text | [] | [
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"text": "He was also the founder of the Taft political dynasty, and father of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft . As Secretary of War, Taft reformed the War Department by allowing commanders at Indian forts to choose who could start and run post traderships."
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d5daeb1c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Driver and éX-Driver were both titles of what? | Movies | text | [] | [
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d5daeb440dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What term do the British use to refer to their Police Pursuit Vehicles which are the most common type of police cars? | Panda car | text | [] | [
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"text": "Police Pursuit Vehicles are the most common police cars. They are equipped to handle the vast majority of tasks, including pursuit and high-speed response calls. Special Service Vehicles and Special Service Package are specialized vehicles, such as sport-utility vehiclesand sports cars."
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d5daeb6c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Brodmann found no equivalent structure in humans to Area 15, which he found in what monkeys of the genus Cercopithecus? | He found Area 15 in guenon monkeys. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Area 15 was defined by Brodmann in the guenon monkey, but he found no equivalent structure in humans. However, functional imaging experiments have found structures that may be homologous . Area 15 is located in the part of the insula nearest the temporal lobe and part of the anterior temporal lobe fa... |
d5daeb940dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many major classes are there of the substances found on a packaged food label that has instructions from the U.S Food and Drug Administration. | There are seven major classes of nutrients. | text | [] | [
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d5daebbc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The seventh-highest peak of the Rocky Mountains is part of what group of four 14,000 foot peaks in the Sangre de Cristo Range? | Crestone Peak is the highest peak of the Crestones and the seventh-highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. | text | [] | [
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d5daec160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Surya Deva built temples over pieces he fixed that became famous as Panchaarama Kshetras by order of what Hindu peace-loving deity? | By order of Lord Vishnu. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Then Surya Deva by the order of Lord Vishnu, fixed the pieces and worshipped them by building temples over them. By the formation of temples, the pieces stopped their movement and became famous as Panchaarama Kshetras."
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d5daec3e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many numbers is the number that is the minimum possible integral base that will represent four bytes in five characters divisible by? | It is divisible by four different numbers. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Eighty-five is a number. It comes between eighty-four and eighty-six, and is an odd number. It is divisible by 1, 5, 17, and 85. This short article about mathematics can be made longer."
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d5daec660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What group had 30 000 who had fled into a camp were all killed and were at one point assisted by the Gauls and defeated the Romans? | The Samnites | text | [] | [
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d5daec8e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A what, an example of which took place between Romans and Aequi and Volsci tribes in 446 BC, took place near Pontlevoy on the River Cher, between Blois and Tours, not far from the large Angevin fortress of Montrichard? | A battle | text | [] | [
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"text": "The battle took place near Pontlevoy on the River Cher, between Blois and Tours, not far from the large Angevin fortress of Montrichard. Odo had ravaged most of the Touraine during Fulk's absence on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land."
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d5daecb60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | HLA class II histocompatibility antigen and Vitamin D-binding are both types of what? | Protein | text | [] | [
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"text": "Vitamin D-binding protein belongs to the albumin gene family, together with human serum albumin and alpha-fetoprotein. It is a multifunctional protein found in plasma, ascitic fluid, cerebrospinal fluid and on the surface of many cell types."
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d5daecde0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | High velocity entry into what kind of air that makes CO 2 -N 2 plasma can also be used for aerobraking to orbital velocity? | Martian air. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mars atmospheric entry is the entry into the atmosphere of Mars. High velocity entry into Martian air creates a CO 2 -N 2 plasma, as opposed to O 2 -N 2 for Earth air. Mars entry is affected by the radiative effects of hot CO 2 gas and Martian dust suspended in the air."
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d5daed2e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many structures are there within the typical human body that contain myofibirls composed of actin and myosin filaments? | Around 650. | text | [] | [
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"text": "List of skeletal muscles of the human anatomy. This is a table of skeletal muscles of the human anatomy . There are around 650 skeletal muscles within the typical human body."
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d5daed560dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Kementerian Kerja Raya is part of the government in which what person currently serves as Deputy Minister of Health? | Zahidi Zainul Abidin | text | [] | [
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"text": "The minister is supported by Deputy Minister of Health which is Zahidi Zainul Abidin. The minister administers the portfolio through the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia . The following individuals have been appointed as Minister of Communications, or any of its precedent titles:"
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d5daeda60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | RPE-retinal G protein-coupled and Intracellular are both types of what? | Receptors | text | [] | [
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"text": "Intracellular receptors are receptors located inside the cell rather than on its cell membrane. Classic hormones that use intracellular receptors include thyroid and steroid hormones. Examples are the class of nuclear receptors located in the cell nucleus and cytoplasm and the IP 3 receptor located o... |
d5daee1e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Regarding the world of the film, Alien, who was responsible for creating the effects seen on the head of the final form of a chestburster's lifecycle? | Carlo Rambaldi, given that a chestburster is the infant form of the Xenomorph, the latter of which is also known as The Alien, and the practical effects for the Alien's head were designed by Rambaldi. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Xenomorph design is credited to Swiss surrealist and artist H. R. Giger, originating in a lithograph titled Necronom IV and refined for the series's first film, Alien. The practical effects for the Alien's head were designed and constructed by Italian special effects designer Carlo Rambaldi."
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d5daee6e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The tabor pipe and the device that was originally played in the Appalachian region are both types of what? | Instruments. | text | [] | [
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"text": "zither -like string instrument, with 12 strings . Fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States. The body extends the length of the fingerboard, and its fretting is generally diatonic."
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d5daee960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Katjuri and the major Himalayan Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra are all names of what? | Rivers. | text | [] | [
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d5daeef00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What could a person allergic to shellfish expect from being slowly exposed to larger and larger amounts of shrimp? | Allergen immunotherapy use in food allergies is unclear. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Fish is one of the eight common food allergens, responsible for 90% of allergic reactions to foods: cow's milk, eggs, wheat, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and soy beans."
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d5daef180dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The pipe organ and pan flute are both what? | Musical instruments. | text | [] | [
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d5daef400dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Encke's method is similar to the general what, special versions of which are used for modeling an orbit with computers, method of variation of the elements? | Perturbation | text | [] | [
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d5daef680dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The World Centre consists of the Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh in what country, where religion is manifested primarily in Judaism? | Israel | text | [] | [
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"text": "Religion in Israel is manifested primarily in Judaism, the ethnic religion of the Jewish people. The State of Israel declares itself as a \" Jewish and democratic state \" and is the only country in the world with a Jewish-majority population (see Jewish state )."
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d5daefae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What phrase can be used as the name for a functional projection and has the same name as a legendary lost continent? | Mu. | text | [] | [
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d5daefe00dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Pacific Ring of Fire includes which mountains in South America that are the longest continental mountain range in the world and are the highest mountain range outside of Asia? | It includes the Andes Mountains. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Pacific Ring of Fire includes the Andes of South America, extends through the North American Cordillera along the Pacific Coast, the Aleutian Range, on through Kamchatka, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, to New Zealand."
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d5daeffe0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The German "88" and Japanese Type 41 were both what? | Guns. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Anti-aircraft machine guns have long been mounted on trucks, and these were quite common during World War I. A predecessor of the WWII German \"88\" anti-aircraft gun, the WWI German 77 mm anti-aircraft gun, was truck-mounted and used to great effect against British tanks."
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d5daf0300dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Moriya and the family that served at the Upper Shrine of Suwa are both families of what? | Priests. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Originally a family of priests who served at the Upper Shrine of Suwa located on the southwestern side of the lake, by the Kamakura period it thrived as a prominent warrior clan with close ties to the shogunate ."
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d5daf0580dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Georgian Panduri and Georgian Garmoni are both types of what? | Musical instruments. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Soviet postage stamp depicting traditional musical instruments of Georgia. Panduri, a Georgian traditional instrument. A rich variety of musical instruments are known from Georgia."
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d5daf0800dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which data sheet tool did SQL maintain on the SQL 92 version? | They retained the ability to have tables for database use in the SQL 92 version. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In the context of SQL, data definition or data description language ( DDL) is a syntax for creating and modifying database objects such as tables, indexes, and users. DDL statements are similar to a computer programming language for defining data structures, especially database schemas."
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d5daf0a80dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What condition is 3-trifluoromethyl-N-ethylamphetamine indicated as useful for? | 3-trifluoromethyl-N-ethylamphetamine is used to treat those with Dravet syndrome's seizures. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Fenfluramine is indicated for the treatment of seizures associated with Dravet syndrome in people age two and older. Dravet syndrome is a life-threatening, rare and chronic form of epilepsy. It is often characterized by severe and unrelenting seizures despite medical treatment."
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d5daf0c60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The United States Range is one of the most northern mountain ranges in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera and is surpassed only by what mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada? | The Challenger Mountains | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Challenger Mountains are a mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The range is the most northern range in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera. The highest mountain in the range is Commonwealth Mountain 2,225 m (7,300 ft)."
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d5daf0ee0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | In around 286 AD showed the first mention of what group of people that has the Salians as one of the main divisions of them? | Franks. | text | [] | [
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d5daf1160dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What road that is numbered and maintained by a sub-national state connects Southland town of Gore to Milford Sound in New Zealand? | State Highway 94 | text | [] | [
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d5daf1660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Would you find pandanus dubius and pandanus simplex in the same countries or different countries? | You would find them in different countries. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Pandanus dubius, commonly known as bakong or knob-fruited screwpine, is a species of Pandanus (screwpine) native to Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and the Western Pacific islands ( Melanesia and Micronesia ), and possibly also to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands."
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d5daf1b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What do 5'-nucleotidase and glycosyltransferases refer to? | Enzymes. | text | [] | [
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d5daf1de0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Girona and Cuenca are both names of what? | Cathedrals. | text | [] | [
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d5daf2060dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Durgā, or Pārvatī, wife of Śiva was part of Brahminic mythology prior to being syncretized into what, a type of which is Indo-Tibetan? | Buddhism | text | [] | [
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d5daf22e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Merchant ships of the United States could be used as what for their navies in times of war? | auxiliaries | text | [] | [
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d5daf2560dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Syntheosciurus brochus and Microsciurus alfari are both types of what? | Squirrels | text | [] | [
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d5daf27e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The type of locomotives fueled by burning combustible material to produce steam in a boiler were first developed in what country in the early 19th century? | Steam locomotives were first developed in the United Kingdom during the early 19th century. | text | [] | [
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d5daf2ce0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Are your odds better of finding a Pikaia or a Canadia? | Your odds would be equal. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Pikaia gracilens is an extinct, primitive chordate animal known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Sixteen specimens are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprised 0.03% of the community. It resembled the lancelet and perhaps swam much like an eel ."
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d5daf2f60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Parophasma galinieri and the Ailuroedus are both names of what type of bird? | A catbird. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Australasian catbirds are the genera Ailuroedus and the monotypic Scenopooetes. They belong to the bowerbird family (Ptilonorhynchidae) of the basal songbirds: New World catbirds are two monotypic genera from the mimid family (Mimidae) of the passeridan superfamily Muscicapoidea."
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d5daf3140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are the lowest-level administrative divisions in the urban areas of the nation with governorates and districts? | Blocks or hara. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Blocks (Arabic: حارة hara) are the lowest-level administrative division in urban areas. They are defined as groups of adjacent buildings surrounded by a group of streets to separate them from other blocks. Administrative divisions in rural areas are as follows."
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d5daf33c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The cratfs of what country, whose art has itself received influences at times, especially from Central Asia and Iran, and Europe, are diverse, rich in history, culture and religion? | India | text | [] | [
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"text": "Indian art has itself received influences at times, especially from Central Asia and Iran, and Europe. Rock art of India includes rock relief carvings, engravings and paintings, some (but by no means all) from the South Asian Stone Age. It is estimated there are about 1300 rock art sites with over a ... |
d5daf3640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Engaged Buddhism has been referred to as the type of Buddhism that is practiced by a community whose organization partnered with what sister organization? | French Congregation Bouddhique Zen Village des Pruniers | text | [] | [
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"text": "Since the founding of Plum Village in France, the Plum Village name has been widely associated with Nhat Hanh and his Sangha, and Engaged Buddhism has been referred to as the type of Buddhism that is practiced by the Plum Village community."
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d5daf3b40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District was the home of the "Professor of Adventure"? | Millican Dalton, the eccentric and self-styled "Professor of Adventure" had his home in The HIgh Hows Quarry on the slopes of Castle Crag. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright 's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet (300 m)."
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d5daf3e60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Bahr as-Salam in Ethiopia and the Mormora are both names of what? | Rivers. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Angereb also known as the Bahr as-Salam is a river of Ethiopia and eastern Sudan, and one of the sources of the Nile. It rises near Daqwa, north of Gondar in the Amhara Region, flowing west to join the Atbarah River. The historic district of Armachiho is located along part of its course."
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d5daf4360dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Little Catawissa Creek and Tomhicken Creek are tributaries of what creek that is smaller than the nearby Fishing Creek? | Catawissa Creek | text | [] | [
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d5daf4860dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is Dextroamphetamine (D-AMP) and what drug is it sometimes prescribed as? | Dextroamphetamine (D-AMP) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and an amphetamine enantiomer that is prescribed for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy.Dextroamphetamine is sometimes prescribed as the inactive prodrug lisdexamfetamine dimesylate, which is converted int... | text | [] | [
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"text": "Dextroamphetamine (D-AMP) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and an amphetamine enantiomer that is prescribed for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. It is also used as an athletic performance and cognitive enhancer, and recreationally as an aphro... |
d5daf4cc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The city that lies adjacent to the east side of the Federal District in the Mexico City Metropolitan area has what population? | Xico has a total population of 332,279. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Xico is a city in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It serves as the municipal seat of Valle de Chalco municipality, with which it is, for all practical purposes, coterminous. The municipality lies adjacent to the east side of the Federal District (Distrito Federal) and is part of the Mexico City metropol... |
d5daf4f40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What direction does the river flow, which forms the eastern border of the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, and Entre Ríos in Argentina? | The Uruguay River flows north to south. | text | [] | [
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"text": "It passes between the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil; forms the eastern border of the provinces of Misiones, Corrientes, and Entre Ríos in Argentina; and makes up the western borders of the departments of Artigas, Salto, Paysandú, Río Negro, Soriano, and Colonia in Uruguay."... |
d5daf54e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Whose tribe were Ala ad-Din Muhammad's top commanders from, who was only twelve years old in marriage? | Terken Khatun. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Alp Arslan, father of Malik-Shah gave his own daughter Princess Aisha Khatun to Sham al-Mulk Nasr, the son and successor of the Qara Khanid Tamghach Khan Ibrahim, Terkhan Khatun's father. Later in 1065 he married his son to Terken Khatun, who was aged twelve at the time and Malik-Shah was about the s... |
d5daf56c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Acute myeloid leukemia is a type of what thing of which an MDS is one of a group of? | Cancer | text | [] | [
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"text": "A myelodysplastic syndrome ( MDS) is one of a group of cancers in which immature blood cells in the bone marrow do not mature, so do not become healthy blood cells. Early on, no symptoms typically are seen."
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"text": "Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer affecting blood cells ... |
d5daf5940dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The North American Jewish Data Bank later became named something whose first word may be derived from a phrase in what? | Yiddish | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Berman Jewish DataBank, founded as the North American Jewish Data Bank, is the central online source for social scientific studies of North American Jewry and world Jewish populations and communities."
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"text": "Berman is a surname that may be derived from the Yiddish phrase בער מאַן ... |
d5daf5bc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Is National Highway 6 a secondary or main highway? | It is a main highway. | text | [] | [
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"text": "National Highway 6, commonly referred to as NH 6, is a primary national highway in India. The highway passes through the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Mizoram."
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"text": "Three-digit numbered highways are secondary routes or branches of a main highway. The secondary route number ... |
d5daf5e40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What are considered polities, or sovereign nations, that have retained or been granted legal recognition and some degree of autonomy by a national or federal government and can be found in India, North America and Israel? | Tribes. | text | [] | [
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"text": "In the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes of India and Native American tribes of North America, tribes are considered polities, or sovereign nations, that have retained or been granted legal recognition and some degree of autonomy by a national or federal government."
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"text": "Nine tr... |
d5daf60c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | According to the Chilean government, how many people were executed or made to disappear because of the person Baltazar Garzon accused of torture? | According to the Chilean government, 3,095 people were executed or forced to disappear because of Pinochet. | text | [] | [
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"text": "After his rise to power, Pinochet persecuted leftists, socialists, and political critics, resulting in the executions of from 1,200 to 3,200 people, the internment of as many as 80,000 people, and the torture of tens of thousands. According to the Chilean government, the number of executions and forc... |
d5daf6340dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A coomon surgical approach for abdominal surgery is an incision through what structure that runs from the xiphoid process to the pubic symphysis down the midline of the abdomen? | A median incision through the linea alba is a common surgical approach for abdominal surgery. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The linea alba stabilises the anterior abdominal wall, as it balances contractile forces from the muscles attached to it. A median incision through the linea alba is a common surgical approach for abdominal surgery. This is because it consists of mostly connective tissue, and does not contain any pri... |
d5daf6660dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Eleutheronema tetradactylum and Macrochirichthys macrochirus are both types of what? | Fish | text | [] | [
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"text": "Macrochirichthys macrochirus, the long pectoral-fin minnow or giant sword minnow, is a species of cyprinid fish found in rivers and lakes in Southeast Asia ( Vietnam and Thailand to the Greater Sundas) where it is used as a food fish. It is the only member of its genus."
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d5daf68e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | When did the British sitcom "Solo" air and how many of its writer's sitcoms had characters that were featured in it? | Solo is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1981 to 1982. Starring Felicity Kendal, Solo was written by Carla Lane, a writer well known for having previously written the sitcom Butterflies.Written especially by Carla Lane, it features characters from four of Lane's sitcoms; Solo, Butterflies, Bread and The Liver B... | text | [] | [
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"text": "Written especially by Carla Lane, it features characters from four of Lane's sitcoms; Solo, Butterflies, Bread and The Liver Birds. When her boyfriend Danny sleeps with her best friend Gloria (Susan Bishop), Gemma throws Danny out of her flat and quits her office job."
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"text": "Solo is a... |
d5daf6b60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What artist or group made a song named after a porpoise and was also certified quintuple platinum for album sales? | The Monkees did both | text | [] | [
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"text": "\" Porpoise Song (Theme from Head) \" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and performed by pop/rock quartet The Monkees on their album Head. The song was commissioned by Bob Rafelson, the director and producer of the film Head."
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"text": "The Monkees has been certified quint... |
d5daf74c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who was the authority in Egypt after the fall of the caliphate founded by a dynasty that traces their ancestry to the Prophet’s daughter Fatima? | Saladin was the only remaining authority in this area. | text | [] | [
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"text": "When the Fatimid Caliphate fell in 1171 Saladin was the only remaining authority in Egypt, he would use his increased power and independence to expand his realm and influence. The Fatimid Caliphate that had ruled in Egypt since 969 was on the verge of total disintegration in the period before Saladin... |
d5daf7740dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | BcIII is an example of what type of thing that can be divided in two functional groups that either specifically target the sodium channel or the potassium channel? | Sea anemone neurotoxin | text | [] | [
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"text": "Sea anemone neurotoxins can be divided in two functional groups that either specifically target the sodium channel or the potassium channel. A number of proteins belong to the sodium channel toxin family, including calitoxin and anthopleurin."
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d5daf79c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | After 1949, why did people come to the remote area on the eastern side of the San Rafael Swell that featured prominent hoodoos? | Publicity attracted people to this remote location. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Hoodoos are also very prominent a few hundred miles away at Goblin Valley State Park on the eastern side of the San Rafael Swell and in the Chiricahua National Monument of Southeast Arizona. Some hoodoos are found in Sombrerete, Mexico at the Sierra de Organos National Park ."
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d5daf7f60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Olfactory and mGluRs are both types of what? | Receptors | text | [] | [
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"text": "The largest class by far is class A, which accounts for nearly 85% of the GPCR genes. Of class A GPCRs, over half of these are predicted to encode olfactory receptors, while the remaining receptors are liganded by known endogenous compounds or are classified as orphan receptors."
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d5daf8140dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What Italo-Austrian person developed a osteosarcoma in 2011 after the occurrence of a tumor that affects craniofacial bones? | Riccardo Torresan | text | [] | [
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"text": "In medicine, a desmoplastic fibroma is a benign, but locally aggressive, fibrous and rare tumor of the bone, affecting children and young adults, potentially resulting in cortical bone destruction. It usually affects craniofacial bones, mandible most frequently, long bones (metaphyseal femur, tibia, ... |
d5daf8640dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Lampyris are a genus of beetles that the predominant members of the Lampyridae family, along with what group of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence? | Glowworms are also in the Lampyridae family. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Lampyris is a genus of beetles in the Lampyridae. In most of western Eurasia, they are the predominant members of this family and includes the European common glow-worm, which is the type species. They produce a continuous glow; the larvae and larviform females are among those organisms commonly call... |
d5daf8960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the Gospel of Mark and when was it seen as the earliest of the four gospels? | The Gospel according to Mark ( Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Μᾶρκον, romanized : Euangélion katà Mârkon ), also called the Gospel of Mark, or simply Mark, is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels. In the 19th century, Mark came to be seen as the earliest of the four gospels, and as a sourc... | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Gospel according to Mark ( Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Μᾶρκον, romanized : Euangélion katà Mârkon ), also called the Gospel of Mark, or simply Mark, is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels."
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"text": "In the 19th century, Mark came to be seen as the ea... |
d5daf90e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which pastoral instrument was used by the Greeks and is also made of bamboo, it's name is shared by a nymph who actually turned herself into a water reed to get away from a sort of randy god? | Fistula or Syrinx | text | [] | [
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"text": "Ancient Greeks called this instrument Syrinx, in honour of the Muse, and Pandean, or Pan-pipes and Pan-flute, after Pan. The Syrinx, a predominantly pastoral instrument for the Greeks, was adopted by the Etruscans who played it at their festivals and banquets; the Etruscans called it fistula."
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d5daf9360dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The fifth-largest continent provides the half of the earth that isn't land with most of its what? | Antarctica provides the Water Hemisphere with the majority of Earth's ice . | text | [] | [
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"text": "The land hemisphere is the hemisphere on the Earth with the highest possible area of land. It is centered on 47°13′N 1°32′W (near the city of Nantes, France ). The other half of the Earth is the water hemisphere ."
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"text": "Antarctica provides the Water Hemisphere with the majority of Ea... |
d5daf9860dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The only building in America of the Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture was named what? | Carpenter Center | text | [] | [
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"text": "Because the Carpenter Center was to be his only building in America, Le Corbusier felt it should be a synthesis of his architectural principles and therefore incorporated his Five Points into its design."
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d5daf9ae0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Portuguese filmmaker born November 19, 1960 has created how many films? | Edgar Pêra has created more than one hundred films. | text | [] | [
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"text": "(The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre) For some critics he is considered \"the most persistently individualistic Portuguese filmmaker\". Edgar Pêra has done more than one hundred films for cinema, TV, theatre dance, cine-concerts, galleries, internet and other media."
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d5daf9d60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is a gin tonic called, if a lemon is added to the lime for garnish? | Evans | text | [] | [
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"text": "In some parts of the world, it is called a gin tonic (e.g. in Germany, Italy, France, Japan ( ジン・トニック, phonetically \"jin tonikku\"), the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey). Gin and tonic is traditionally garnished with a slice or wedge of lime, often slightly squeezed into the drink before being placed in ... |
d5dafa300dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What type of ships are known for flying without proper safety measures such as nuclear engine radiation containment that was in the series created by Joss Whedon? | A Reaver ship. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A Reaver ship is seen in the pilot episode, and the episode \" Bushwacked \" shows someone who was exposed to the Reavers madness and starts to mimic them. The movie Serenity featured Reavers and reveals their origin. Joss Whedon, creator of the Firefly series and director of Serenity, has said of Re... |
d5dafa4e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Who is the Wing and Installation Commander of the US Air Force Base in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma? | The Wing and Installation Commander of Tinker Air Force Base is Colonel Paul Filcek. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Tinker Air Force Base ( IATA: TIK, ICAO: KTIK, FAA LID: TIK) is a major United States Air Force base, with tenant U.S. Navy and other Department of Defense missions, located in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, surrounded by Del City, Oklahoma City, and Midwest City . An E-3B Sentry of the 552nd Air Control... |
d5dafa760dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | At least how many families does a residential community usually have? | At least 2000 families. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Neighbourhoods encompass 2,000 to 10,000 families. Within neighbourhoods, families are grouped into smaller residential units or quarters of 100 to 600 families and supervised by a residents' committee; these are subdivided into residents' small groups of fifteen to forty families."
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d5dafa9e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many siblings did Alice, Lady of Chabanais's, mother have? | Zero, given Alice was the eldest daughter of Petronilla, Countess of Bigorre, who was an only child. | text | [] | [
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"text": "She was the eldest daughter of Petronilla, Countess of Bigorreand her third husband Guy de Monfort.[1] Alice was married twice during her lifetime and from her first marriage, she gained the title of Lady of Chabanais. [2] Contents 1Life 1.1Reign"
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d5dafabc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Which one of the two fundamental particles having integral spinclasses of particles can change the type of the particle – for example changing a strange quark into an up quark? | Bosons | text | [] | [
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"text": "boson can change the type of the particle – for example changing a strange quark into an up quark. The neutral Z boson cannot change the electric charge of any particle, nor can it change any other of the so-called \" charges \" (such as strangeness, baryon number, charm, etc.)."
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d5dafae40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | Albertosaurus was larger than most what, an example of which would be Tarbosaurus? | Tyrannosaurids | text | [] | [
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"text": "Tarbosaurus ( / ˌtɑːrbəˈsɔːrəs / TAR-bə-SAWR-əs; meaning \"alarming lizard\") is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period, considered to contain a single known species, Tarbosaurus bataar."
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d5dafb0c0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Kooy-e Nobonyad-e Vanak and the roofed octagon tomb of Sheikh Shebeli are both names of what? | A tower. | text | [] | [
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"text": "A.S.P. Towers (also known as Kooy-e Nobonyad-e Vanak, Persian: ساختمانهای آ.اس.پ) are amongst the most well-known buildings in Tehran, Iran. They're located in the neighbourhood of Amir Abad and Yusef Abad in the corner of Kordestan and Hakim Highway."
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"text": "Shebeli Tower is a histori... |
d5dafb340dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is a southern US synonym for the word ghost or poltergeist which comes from the German language? | Haint | text | [] | [
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"text": "\"Haint\" is a synonym for ghost used in regional English of the southern United States, and the \"haint tale\" is a common feature of southern oral and literary tradition. The term poltergeist is a German word, literally a \"noisy ghost\", for a spirit said to manifest itself by invisibly moving and... |
d5dafb840dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Eccentric sand dollar a member of the order Clypeasteroida is referred to as a what since it is not as flat as other sand dollars? | Biscuit-urchin or sea biscuit | text | [] | [
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"text": "Eccentric sand dollar ( Dendraster excentricus ), also known as the sea-cake, biscuit-urchin, western sand dollar, or Pacific sand dollar, is a member of the order Clypeasteroida, better known as sand dollars, a species of flattened, burrowing sea urchins found in the northeast Pacific Ocean from Ala... |
d5dafbac0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What did orders like the Order of Victory and The German Order likely emerge from in history? | From the culture of chivalric orders established in the Middle Ages | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Order of Victory was the highest military decoration in the Soviet Armed Forces for World War II service, and one of the rarest in the world due to the small number of recipients."
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"text": "The German Order was originally to be awarded in three grades, but only the neck order (the hi... |
d5dafbde0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What analogue would be used to treat the condition beriberi which can affect the cardiovascular system? | Vitamin B1 analogue | text | [] | [
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"text": "Vitamin B1 analogues are analogues of vitamin B 1, thiamine. They typically have improved bioavailability relative to thiamine itself, and are used to treat conditions caused by vitamin B 1 deficiency. These conditions include beriberi, Korsakoff's syndrome, Wernicke's encephalopathy and diabetic neu... |
d5dafc2e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What folk religion co-existing with Vaishnavism has a term Umang Lai that is used to refer to the sacred abodes of the deities? | Sanamahism. | text | [] | [
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"text": "There are more than 365 forest deities or \" Umang Lai \" in Sanamahism. They are always associated with a Sacred grove each in Kanglei World. The term Umang Lai is also used to refer to the sacred abodes of the deities. Some of the significant ones are:"
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"text": "Sanamahism is a folk re... |
d5dafcf60dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | A huge and highly distinctive wraparound rear glass was a feature of what vehicle made by the makers of the Acclaim? | Valiant | text | [] | [
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"text": "A two-door hardtop fastback, it shared a great majority of parts and bodywork with the Plymouth Valiant, except for the huge and highly distinctive wraparound rear glass. The second-generation Barracuda, though still Valiant-based, was heavily redesigned."
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d5dafd6e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How many barangays are on the island whose western half is part of Kanlurang Visayas? | There are 1,219 barangays on Negros, the island whose western half is part of Kanlurang Visayas, or Western Visayas Region in the Philippines. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Western Visayas ( Hiligaynon: Kabisay-an Nakatundan; Tagalog: Kanlurang Kabisayaan or Kanlurang Visayas) is an administrative region in the Philippines, numerically designated as Region VI. It consists of six provinces ( Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, Iloilo and Negros Occidental) and two highly ur... |
d5dafd960dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What is the part of the back which is divided into three distinct groups, that are like the groups that run between the ribs, and help form and move the chest wall? | Muscles. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The muscles of the back can be divided into three distinct groups; a superficial group, an intermediate group and a deep group. The superficial group, also known as the appendicular group, is primarily associated with movement of the appendicular skeleton."
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"text": "Intercostal muscles a... |
d5dafddc0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | The Valdivia, and Baker in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region are both names of what? | Rivers. | text | [] | [
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"text": "The Baker River is a river located in the Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region of the Chilean Patagonia. It is Chile's largest river in terms of volume of water."
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"text": "This list of rivers in Chile includes all the major rivers of Chile. Important tributaries appear in thi... |
d5dafe360dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What can be a legendary lost continent or a word meaning pure human awareness, prior to experience or knowledge? | Mu. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Mu is a legendary lost continent. The term was introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon, who used the \"Land of Mu\" as an alternative name for Atlantis. It was subsequently popularized as an alternative term for the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward, who asserted that Mu was located in the ... |
d5dafe5e0dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | What city that is a center of religiosity was originally part of Dilmun? | Muharraq | text | [] | [
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"text": "The city is located on Muharraq Island and has long been a centre of religiosity. Bahrain International Airport is also located on the island. Adjacent to Muharraq are the man-made Amwaj Islands, known for their large buildings, hotels and beaches."
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"text": "Muharraq was originally part ... |
d5dafea40dba11ecb1e81171463288e9 | How was the proclaimed High King of Ireland in 1315 and crowned in 1316, who was considered fourth behind Nigel and Alexander, killed at the Battle of Faughart? | By Anglo-Irish forces. | text | [] | [
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"text": "Robert the Bruce was the eldest; in the past there was some dispute over whether Edward was second, or third behind Nigel, but one recent account has him fourth behind Nigel and Alexander."
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"text": "Proclaimed High King of Ireland in 1315 and crowned in 1316, he was eventually defeated a... |
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