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Beyoncé | The Bey Hive is the name given to Beyoncé's fan base. Fans were previously titled "The Beyontourage", (a portmanteau of Beyoncé and entourage). The name Bey Hive derives from the word beehive, purposely misspelled to resemble her first name, and was penned by fans after petitions on the online social networking service... | What did the fans used to be called? | 56bfcaf0a10cfb14005512e8 | Beyontourage | 87 | null | -1 | false |
Tuvalu | Community Training Centres (CTCs) have been established within the primary schools on each atoll. The CTCs provide vocational training to students who do not progress beyond Class 8 because they failed the entry qualifications for secondary education. The CTCs offer training in basic carpentry, gardening and farming, s... | For what have CTC students failed to qualify ? | 57310107a5e9cc1400cdbb89 | secondary education | 231 | null | -1 | false |
University | The funding and organization of universities varies widely between different countries around the world. In some countries universities are predominantly funded by the state, while in others funding may come from donors or from fees which students attending the university must pay. In some countries the vast majority o... | How does the financial backing of students around the world differ? | 5a77beefb73996001af5a549 | null | -1 | varies widely | 45 | true |
Nintendo_Entertainment_System | The game pad controllers were more-or-less copied directly from the Game & Watch machines, although the Famicom design team originally wanted to use arcade-style joysticks, even taking apart ones from American game consoles to see how they worked. However, it was eventually decided that children might step on joysticks... | What was installed on the front of the console so the joystick could be used? | 571111f8a58dae1900cd6bc5 | 15-pin expansion port | 549 | null | -1 | false |
Association_football | These ongoing efforts contributed to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863, which first met on the morning of 26 October 1863 at the Freemasons' Tavern in Great Queen Street, London. The only school to be represented on this occasion was Charterhouse. The Freemason's Tavern was the setting for five... | Who played by their own rules till the 1890's? | 5a79cfce17ab25001a8a00b6 | null | -1 | The Sheffield FA | 1,203 | true |
British_Empire | In 1919, the frustrations caused by delays to Irish home rule led members of Sinn Féin, a pro-independence party that had won a majority of the Irish seats at Westminster in the 1918 British general election, to establish an Irish assembly in Dublin, at which Irish independence was declared. The Irish Republican Army s... | What political party established Ireland's assembly? | 572680c4f1498d1400e8e1f1 | Sinn Féin | 77 | null | -1 | false |
Han_dynasty | Women were expected to obey the will of their father, then their husband, and then their adult son in old age. However, it is known from contemporary sources that there were many deviations to this rule, especially in regard to mothers over their sons, and empresses who ordered around and openly humiliated their father... | Which parental figures often avoided the common familial rules? | 572f6c2304bcaa1900d7691b | mothers | 228 | null | -1 | false |
Cubism | The fact that the 1912 exhibition had been curated to show the successive stages through which Cubism had transited, and that Du "Cubisme" had been published for the occasion, indicates the artists' intention of making their work comprehensible to a wide audience (art critics, art collectors, art dealers and the genera... | What did the 1912 exhiibtion of Cubism show? | 5726de2d5951b619008f80a9 | indicates the artists' intention of making their work comprehensible to a wide audience | 176 | null | -1 | false |
Compact_disc | Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and storing photos on a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high-quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and CD-i Bridge specifica... | Why can't Photo CDs work on any computer? | 5a5689d46349e2001acdce1d | null | -1 | special Kodak machine | 541 | true |
East_India_Company | Every continued in pursuit and managed to overhaul Ganj-i-Sawai, which resisted strongly before eventually striking. Ganj-i-Sawai carried enormous wealth and, according to contemporary East India Company sources, was carrying a relative of the Grand Mughal, though there is no evidence to suggest that it was his daughte... | What was reportedly the high value of of loot that the Ganj-i-Sawai had? | 57265ab2f1498d1400e8dcf6 | £600,000 | 409 | null | -1 | false |
John,_King_of_England | Henry II wanted to secure the southern borders of Aquitaine and decided to betroth his youngest son to Alais, the daughter and heiress of Humbert III of Savoy. As part of this agreement John was promised the future inheritance of Savoy, Piedmont, Maurienne, and the other possessions of Count Humbert. For his part in th... | Who was Alais? | 570c5feab3d812140066d1aa | the daughter and heiress of Humbert III of Savoy | 110 | null | -1 | false |
Software_testing | One advantage of the black box technique is that no programming knowledge is required. Whatever biases the programmers may have had, the tester likely has a different set and may emphasize different areas of functionality. On the other hand, black-box testing has been said to be "like a walk in a dark labyrinth without... | What is one huge advantage to using the black-box method? | 572921606aef051400154a72 | no programming knowledge is required | 49 | null | -1 | false |
Tuberculosis | If a tuberculosis infection does become active, it most commonly involves the lungs (in about 90% of cases). Symptoms may include chest pain and a prolonged cough producing sputum. About 25% of people may not have any symptoms (i.e. they remain "asymptomatic"). Occasionally, people may cough up blood in small amounts, ... | What are lower lobes in the lungs often more affected by? | 5a86f02b1d3cee001a6a1048 | null | -1 | tuberculosis | 609 | true |
Red | Red was also a badge of rank. During the Song dynasty (906–1279), officials of the top three ranks wore purple clothes; those of the fourth and fifth wore bright red; those of the sixth and seventh wore green; and the eighth and ninth wore blue. Red was the color worn by the royal guards of honor, and the color of the ... | What ranks in the Song dynasty wore blue? | 5731322905b4da19006bce91 | eighth and ninth | 218 | null | -1 | false |
Presbyterianism | Korean Presbyterian denominations are active in evangelism and many of its missionaries are being sent overseas, being the second biggest missionary sender in the world after the United States. GSM, the missionary body of the "Hapdong" General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches of Korea, is the single largest Presbyteri... | Korean Presbyterian denominations are the biggest missionary sender in the world after which country? | 5acfdda177cf76001a68634d | null | -1 | United States | 179 | true |
Dell | The release of Apple's iPad tablet computer had a negative impact on Dell and other major PC vendors, as consumers switched away from desktop and laptop PCs. Dell's own mobility division has not managed success with developing smartphones or tablets, whether running Windows or Google Android. The Dell Streak was a fail... | The release of what electronic had a positive impact on Dell? | 5ad36009604f3c001a3fdf23 | null | -1 | iPad | 23 | true |
Hunting | Furthermore, evidence exists that hunting may have been one of the multiple environmental factors leading to extinctions of the holocene megafauna and their replacement by smaller herbivores. North American megafauna extinction was coincidental with the Younger Dryas impact event, possibly making hunting a less critica... | What event was caused by smaller herbivores in the area? | 5ace4f4a32bba1001ae4a255 | null | -1 | Younger Dryas | 254 | true |
Political_corruption | Like other governmental economic activities, also privatization, such as in the sale of government-owned property, is particularly at the risk of cronyism. Privatizations in Russia, Latin America, and East Germany were accompanied by large-scale corruption during the sale of the state owned companies. Those with politi... | Where is corruption even more prevalent? | 56eab0dc5a205f1900d6d419 | non-privatized sectors | 685 | null | -1 | false |
University | The original Latin word "universitas" refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc." At the time of the emergence of urban town life and medieval guilds, specialised "associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights usually ... | Which individuals usually approved charters for generals? | 5a7757c22d6d7f001a4a9fdc | null | -1 | princes, prelates | 353 | true |
Middle_Ages | The High Middle Ages was the formative period in the history of the modern Western state. Kings in France, England, and Spain consolidated their power, and set up lasting governing institutions. New kingdoms such as Hungary and Poland, after their conversion to Christianity, became Central European powers. The Magyars ... | Who was king when the Magyars settled in Hungary? | 56fb7c988ddada1400cd6462 | Árpád | 358 | null | -1 | false |
Pub | Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of old slogans or phrases, such as "The Bag o'Nails" (Bacchanals), "The Goat and Compasses" (God Encompasseth Us), "The Cat and the Fiddle" (Chaton Fidèle: Faithful Kitten) and "The Bull and Bush", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Hen... | Who won a victory at Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour? | 56dfe8c67aa994140058e25f | Henry VIII | 317 | null | -1 | false |
Computer_security | Clickjacking, also known as "UI redress attack or User Interface redress attack", is a malicious technique in which an attacker tricks a user into clicking on a button or link on another webpage while the user intended to click on the top level page. This is done using multiple transparent or opaque layers. The attacke... | Where would a password typed on a seemingly authetic webpage be directed? | 5709a8dd200fba140036822e | into an invisible frame controlled by the attacker | 748 | null | -1 | false |
Georgian_architecture | Until the Church Building Act of 1818, the period saw relatively few churches built in Britain, which was already well-supplied, although in the later years of the period the demand for Non-conformist and Roman Catholic places of worship greatly increased. Anglican churches that were built were designed internally to a... | What were common in new churches? | 57301d42947a6a140053d12b | Galleries | 486 | null | -1 | false |
New_York_City | New York City has more than 2,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 500 art galleries of all sizes. The city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts. Wealthy business magnates in the 19th century built a network of major cultural institutions, such as t... | Approximately how many galleries of art are in New York City? | 56d10a4717492d1400aab7d4 | 500 | 80 | null | -1 | false |
Greeks | Greek surnames were widely in use by the 9th century supplanting the ancient tradition of using the father’s name, however Greek surnames are most commonly patronymics. Commonly, Greek male surnames end in -s, which is the common ending for Greek masculine proper nouns in the nominative case. Exceptionally, some end in... | What names are used that are typically from a father and have usually added a suffix or prefix ? | 5730a045069b5314008321cf | Greek surnames are most commonly patronymics | 123 | null | -1 | false |
Antarctica | The climate of Antarctica does not allow extensive vegetation to form. A combination of freezing temperatures, poor soil quality, lack of moisture, and lack of sunlight inhibit plant growth. As a result, the diversity of plant life is very low and limited in distribution. The flora of the continent largely consists of ... | What allows extensive vegitation to occur? | 5ad26784d7d075001a429224 | null | -1 | The climate of Antarctica | 0 | true |
Charleston,_South_Carolina | Founded in 1670 as Charles Town in honor of King Charles II of England, Charleston adopted its present name in 1783. It moved to its present location on Oyster Point in 1680 from a location on the west bank of the Ashley River known as Albemarle Point. By 1690, Charles Town was the fifth-largest city in North America, ... | What was Charleston's unoriginal name? | 5ad4174b604f3c001a40038a | null | -1 | Charles Town | 19 | true |
Portugal | Pelayos' plan was to use the Cantabrian mountains as a place of refuge and protection from the invading Moors. He then aimed to regroup the Iberian Peninsula's Christian armies and use the Cantabrian mountains as a springboard from which to regain their lands from the Moors. In the process, after defeating the Moors in... | In which year was Pelayos proclaimed king? | 5733429d4776f419006607cb | 722 AD | 348 | null | -1 | false |
Humanism | After 1517, when the new invention of printing made these texts widely available, the Dutch humanist Erasmus, who had studied Greek at the Venetian printing house of Aldus Manutius, began a philological analysis of the Gospels in the spirit of Valla, comparing the Greek originals with their Latin translations with a vi... | What text still remained without the type of thorough review that others texts had received by the 18th century? | 57327f3657eb1f1400fd2d3b | the Bible | 919 | null | -1 | false |
Guinea-Bissau | The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Guinea Bissau was 1000. This compares with 804.3 in 2008 and 966 in 1990. The under 5 mortality rate, per 1,000 births, was 195 and the neonatal mortality as a percentage of under 5's mortality was 24. The number of midwives per 1,000 live births was 3; one out of... | According to UNICEF, what percentage of women in Guinea-Bissau had undergone female genital mutilation? | 56f8edb59e9bad19000a0712 | 50% | 410 | null | -1 | false |
Age_of_Enlightenment | Masonic lodges created a private model for public affairs. They "reconstituted the polity and established a constitutional form of self-government, complete with constitutions and laws, elections and representatives." In other words, the micro-society set up within the lodges constituted a normative model for society a... | The Freemason embodiment of what country's values was seen as threatening by Continental authorities? | 57109aada58dae1900cd6ac1 | British | 446 | null | -1 | false |
Biodiversity | Jared Diamond describes an "Evil Quartet" of habitat destruction, overkill, introduced species, and secondary extinctions. Edward O. Wilson prefers the acronym HIPPO, standing for Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, human over-Population, and Over-harvesting. The most authoritative classification in use t... | What funding organization uses the IUCN's Classification of Direct Threats? | 570bd0d9ec8fbc190045bb1c | the World Wildlife Fund | 476 | null | -1 | false |
Greece | The Byzantine recovery of lost provinces began toward the end of the 8th century and most of the Greek peninsula came under imperial control again, in stages, during the 9th century. This process was facilitated by a large influx of Greeks from Sicily and Asia Minor to the Greek peninsula, while at the same time many S... | The Byzantine began taking back territories during the last of what century? | 57262cc0ec44d21400f3db9b | 8th | 69 | null | -1 | false |
Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation | In November 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are adopting an open access (OA) policy for publications and data, "to enable the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded by the foundation, including any underlying data sets". This move has been widely app... | When is the publication and data policy effective for new agreements? | 5a0cac31f5590b0018dab4ee | null | -1 | As of January 1, 2015 | 498 | true |
Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact | Hitler's fierce anti-Soviet rhetoric was one of the reasons why the UK and France decided that Soviet participation in the 1938 Munich Conference regarding Czechoslovakia would be both dangerous and useless. The Munich Agreement that followed marked a partial German annexation of Czechoslovakia in late 1938 followed by... | What countries prevented the Germans from joining the Munich Conference? | 5ad27bb7d7d075001a429667 | null | -1 | UK and France | 68 | true |
Boston | Boston is surrounded by the "Greater Boston" region and is contiguously bordered by the cities and towns of Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Newton, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, Milton, and Quincy. The Charles River separates Boston from Watertown and the majority of Cambridge, and the ... | What is the name of the region that surrounds Boston? | 56e13485cd28a01900c676a1 | Greater Boston | 29 | null | -1 | false |
New_Haven,_Connecticut | After the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, the Connecticut colonial government ordered the construction of Black Rock Fort (to be built on top of an older 17th-century fort) to protect the port of New Haven. In 1779, during the Battle of New Haven, British soldiers captured Black Rock Fort and burned the b... | What two fortifications distinguished the second Fort Hale built in New Haven during the Civil War? | 5727ca06ff5b5019007d9557 | bomb-resistant bunkers and a moat | 751 | null | -1 | false |
States_of_Germany | Paragraph 6 of Article 29 stated that if a petition was successful a referendum should be held within three years. Since the deadline passed on 5 May 1958 without anything happening the Hesse state government filed a constitutional complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court in October 1958. The complaint was dismi... | Who did the court tell they had a requirement to bind territorial revisions? | 5a516183ce860b001aa3fd7b | null | -1 | Hesse state | 186 | true |
Paris | The budget of the city for 2013 was €7.6 billion, of which 5.4 billion went for city administration, while €2.2 billion went for investment. The largest part of the budget (38 percent) went for public housing and urbanism projects; 15 percent for roads and transport; 8 percent for schools (which are mostly financed by ... | What percent of the budget goes towards public housing and urbanism projects? | 5728cc7b3acd2414000dfec7 | 38 | 173 | null | -1 | false |
North_Carolina | The western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, Great Balsam Mountains, and Black Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mo... | How high is Mt. Mitchell? | 5727634f5951b619008f8937 | 6,684 feet | 336 | null | -1 | false |
Santa_Monica,_California | Santa Monica is one of the most environmentally activist municipalities in the nation. The city first proposed its Sustainable City Plan in 1992 and in 1994, was one of the first cities in the nation to formally adopt a comprehensive sustainability plan, setting waste reduction and water conservation policies for both ... | In what city is the organic landwill that Redeem obtains its non-fracked methane biogas? | 5a2d5a8af28ef0001a5264ca | null | -1 | Santa Monica | 0 | true |
Montevideo | The University of the Republic is the country's largest and most important university, with a student body of 81,774, according to the census of 2007. It was founded on 18 July 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current Rector is Dr. Rodrigo Arocena. The university hou... | In 2007 the University of the Republic had a student body of how many people? | 5725e1ec89a1e219009ac029 | 81,774 | 110 | null | -1 | false |
Tennessee | In 2002, businessman Phil Bredesen was elected as the 48th governor. Also in 2002, Tennessee amended the state constitution to allow for the establishment of a lottery. Tennessee's Bob Corker was the only freshman Republican elected to the United States Senate in the 2006 midterm elections. The state constitution was a... | Who was elected governor of Tennessee in 2002? | 572c8173dfb02c14005c6b7f | Phil Bredesen | 21 | null | -1 | false |
Appalachian_Mountains | Before the French and Indian War, the Appalachian Mountains laid on the indeterminate boundary between Britain's colonies along the Atlantic and French areas centered in the Mississippi basin. After the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement for Great Britain's thirteen original colonies ... | What did the law likely lead to? | 5729a1aaaf94a219006aa5a6 | the American Revolutionary War | 732 | null | -1 | false |
New_York_City | The New York Islanders and the New York Rangers represent the city in the National Hockey League. Also within the metropolitan area are the New Jersey Devils, who play in nearby Newark, New Jersey. | Along with the New York Rangers, what NHL franchise is based in New York? | 56d10ec217492d1400aab856 | New York Islanders | 4 | null | -1 | false |
Napoleon | After Austerlitz, Napoleon established the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. A collection of German states intended to serve as a buffer zone between France and Central Europe, the creation of the Confederation spelled the end of the Holy Roman Empire and significantly alarmed the Prussians. The brazen reorganization... | Which Prussian ruler chose to go to war with France for control of Central Europe? | 57269a18dd62a815002e8ac9 | Frederick William III | 571 | null | -1 | false |
History_of_India | By the early 18th century, the Maratha Kingdom had transformed itself into the Maratha Empire under the rule of the Peshwas (prime ministers). In 1737, the Marathas defeated a Mughal army in their capital, Delhi itself in Battle of Delhi (1737). The Marathas continued their military campaigns against Mughals, Nizam, Na... | What were Peshwas? | 5728b0cbff5b5019007da490 | prime ministers | 125 | null | -1 | false |
Chihuahua_(state) | The state has one city with a population exceeding one million: Ciudad Juárez. Ciudad Juárez is ranked eighth most populous city in the country and Chihuahua City was ranked 16th most populous in Mexico. Chihuahua (along with Baja California) is the only state in Mexico to have two cities ranked in the top 20 most popu... | What percentage of people in Chihuahua live in cities? | 57071d329e06ca38007e9451 | 76.5% | 1,096 | null | -1 | false |
Valencia | In 1238, King James I of Aragon, with an army composed of Aragonese, Catalans, Navarrese and crusaders from the Order of Calatrava, laid siege to Valencia and on 28 September obtained a surrender. Fifty thousand Moors were forced to leave. Poets such as Ibn al-Abbar and Ibn Amira mourned this exile from their beloved V... | What group did the crusaders who attacked Valencia belong to? | 570d4e88fed7b91900d45e5b | Order of Calatrava | 112 | null | -1 | false |
History_of_India | After 1857, the colonial government strengthened and expanded its infrastructure via the court system, legal procedures, and statutes. The Indian Penal Code came into being. In education, Thomas Babington Macaulay had made schooling a priority for the Raj in his famous minute of February 1835 and succeeded in implement... | In what feature of management did the British invest heavily? | 5728bfa72ca10214002da6e6 | infrastructure | 732 | null | -1 | false |
A_cappella | Barbershop music is one of several uniquely American art forms. The earliest reports of this style of a cappella music involved African Americans. The earliest documented quartets all began in barbershops. In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and ... | What did the a cappella organization founded in 1938 change its name to in 2004? | 5727b6c44b864d1900163b1b | Barbershop Harmony Society | 470 | null | -1 | false |
Umayyad_Caliphate | The Umayyads have met with a largely negative reception from later Islamic historians, who have accused them of promoting a kingship (mulk, a term with connotations of tyranny) instead of a true caliphate (khilafa). In this respect it is notable that the Umayyad caliphs referred to themselves not as khalifat rasul Alla... | What is a term for kingship that has connotations of freedom? | 5acfbce377cf76001a685b85 | null | -1 | mulk | 134 | true |
Dialect | Similar examples abound. Macedonian, although mutually intelligible with Bulgarian, certain dialects of Serbian and to a lesser extent the rest of the South Slavic dialect continuum, is considered by Bulgarian linguists to be a Bulgarian dialect, in contrast with the contemporary international view and the view in the ... | Along with Serbian, with what language is Macedonian mutually intelligible? | 56e8346300c9c71400d7762d | Bulgarian | 73 | null | -1 | false |
London | The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's late 14th-century Canterbury Tales set out for Canterbury from London – specifically, from the Tabard inn, Southwark. William Shakespeare spent a large part of his life living and working in London; his contemporary Ben Jonson was also based there, and some of his work—most notably hi... | What author of Robinson Crusoe also wrote a fictionalized account of the Great Plague of 1665? | 5728c8e3ff5b5019007da6a2 | Daniel Defoe | 401 | null | -1 | false |
Database | Many other databases have application software that accesses the database on behalf of end-users, without exposing the DBMS interface directly. Application programmers may use a wire protocol directly, or more likely through an application programming interface. Database designers and database administrators interact w... | How are no databases accessed? | 5a8c3197fd22b3001a8d862b | null | -1 | application software | 26 | true |
Mosaic | Only scant remains prove that mosaics were still used in the Early Middle Ages. The Abbey of Saint-Martial in Limoges, originally an important place of pilgrimage, was totally demolished during the French Revolution except its crypt which was rediscovered in the 1960s. A mosaic panel was unearthed which was dated to th... | What common element do mosaic panels from the 11th century have? | 57317859a5e9cc1400cdbf9f | simple colors | 756 | null | -1 | false |
Somerset | Somerton took over from Ilchester as the county town in the late thirteenth century, but it declined in importance and the status of county town transferred to Taunton about 1366. The county has two cities, Bath and Wells, and 30 towns (including the county town of Taunton, which has no town council but instead is the ... | What is the average altitude of Taunton? | 5acf5f2877cf76001a684ca5 | null | -1 | 121 m | 997 | true |
Institute_of_technology | Most of Thailand's institutes of technology were developed from technical colleges, in the past could not grant bachelor's degrees; today, however, they are university level institutions, some of which can grant degrees to the doctoral level. Examples are Pathumwan Institute of Technology (developed from Pathumwan Tech... | What type of degree were Thailand's technical colleges historically not allowed to confer? | 56de523ccffd8e1900b4b809 | bachelor's degrees | 112 | null | -1 | false |
High-definition_television | In the US, residents in the line of sight of television station broadcast antennas can receive free, over the air programming with a television set with an ATSC tuner (most sets sold since 2009 have this). This is achieved with a TV aerial, just as it has been since the 1940s except now the major network signals are br... | Laws about antennas keep home owners' associations and city government from banning what? | 56fac6d48f12f319006301a2 | the installation of antennas | 762 | null | -1 | false |
Liberia | The Republic of Liberia, beginning as a settlement of the American Colonization Society (ACS), declared its independence on July 26, 1847. The United States did not recognize Liberia's independence until during the American Civil War on February 5, 1862. Between January 7, 1822 and the American Civil War, more than 15,... | How many slaves were freed in the american civil war? | 5730115eb2c2fd14005687e4 | more than 15,000 | 307 | null | -1 | false |
Compact_disc | Compact Disc + Graphics is a special audio compact disc that contains graphics data in addition to the audio data on the disc. The disc can be played on a regular audio CD player, but when played on a special CD+G player, it can output a graphics signal (typically, the CD+G player is hooked up to a television set or a ... | Why are CD-G players not useful for karaoke? | 5a5686d86349e2001acdce00 | null | -1 | hooked up to a television set or a computer monitor | 285 | true |
Human_Development_Index | The 2010 Human Development Report introduced an Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). While the simple HDI remains useful, it stated that "the IHDI is the actual level of human development (accounting for inequality)," and "the HDI can be viewed as an index of 'potential' human development (or the maximum... | What does IHDI2 stand for? | 5ad0b948645df0001a2d017d | null | -1 | Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index | 48 | true |
Poultry | Guinea fowl originated in southern Africa, and the species most often kept as poultry is the helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris). It is a medium-sized grey or speckled bird with a small naked head with colourful wattles and a knob on top, and was domesticated by the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Guinea fowl... | Who first domesticated the guinea fowl ? | 5726551cf1498d1400e8dc47 | ancient Greeks and Romans. | 282 | null | -1 | false |
Swaziland | The considerable spending did not lead to more growth and did not benefit the poor. Much of the increased spending has gone to current expenditures related to wages, transfers, and subsidies. The wage bill today constitutes over 15% of GDP and 55% of total public spending; these are some of the highest levels on the Af... | Who did the spending benefit? | 5a5690656349e2001acdce3e | null | -1 | the poor | 74 | true |
Windows_8 | Reviews of the various editions of Windows 8 have been mixed. Tom Warren of The Verge said that although Windows 8's emphasis on touch computing was significant and risked alienating desktop users, a "tablet PC with Windows 8 makes an iPad feel immediately out of date" due to the capabilities of the operating system's ... | Who equated windos 8 as the first desktop operating system that understand what a computer is supposed to do? | 57304f698ab72b1400f9c42e | David Pierce | 372 | null | -1 | false |
Windows_8 | In March 2013, Microsoft also amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum; this change is expected to allow the production of certified Windows 8 tablets in smaller form factors—a market which is currently dominated by Android-based tablets. Despite the reaction o... | What changes did Microsoft make to its certification requirements in March 2013? | 573053ea8ab72b1400f9c46e | amended its certification requirements to allow tablets to use the 1024×768 resolution as a minimum | 30 | null | -1 | false |
Classical_music | Although Classical music in the 2000s has lost most of its tradition for musical improvisation, from the Baroque era to the Romantic era, there are examples of performers who could improvise in the style of their era. In the Baroque era, organ performers would improvise preludes, keyboard performers playing harpsichord... | Who was noted for his complex improvisations? | 56f6f3343d8e2e1400e372d9 | J.S. Bach | 502 | null | -1 | false |
Religion_in_ancient_Rome | Rome had no separate priestly caste or class. The highest authority within a community usually sponsored its cults and sacrifices, officiated as its priest and promoted its assistants and acolytes. Specialists from the religious colleges and professionals such as haruspices and oracles were available for consultation. ... | What were the earliest priesthoods? | 5731cbc10fdd8d15006c653b | flamines | 539 | null | -1 | false |
Elizabeth_II | In the 1950s, as a young woman at the start of her reign, Elizabeth was depicted as a glamorous "fairytale Queen". After the trauma of the Second World War, it was a time of hope, a period of progress and achievement heralding a "new Elizabethan age". Lord Altrincham's accusation in 1957 that her speeches sounded like ... | Who directed the television documentary Royal Family in the late 1960s? | 5ad37fec604f3c001a3fe453 | null | -1 | Lord Altrincham | 252 | true |
Beyoncé | Beyoncé has worked with Tommy Hilfiger for the fragrances True Star (singing a cover version of "Wishing on a Star") and True Star Gold; she also promoted Emporio Armani's Diamonds fragrance in 2007. Beyoncé launched her first official fragrance, Heat in 2010. The commercial, which featured the 1956 song "Fever", was s... | The world's best selling celebrity perfume line belongs to whom? | 56bed1243aeaaa14008c94b4 | Beyoncé | 0 | null | -1 | false |
Sichuan | Sichuan was China's most populous province before Chongqing became a directly-controlled municipality; it is currently the fourth most populous, after Guangdong, Shandong and Henan. As of 1832, Sichuan was the most populous of the 18 provinces in China, with an estimated population at that time of 21 million. It was th... | What is the tenth most populous sub-national entity in Henan? | 5a690bc48476ee001a58aa38 | null | -1 | Sichuan | 194 | true |
Macintosh | In recent years, Apple has seen a significant boost in sales of Macs. This has been attributed, in part, to the success of the iPod and the iPhone, a halo effect whereby satisfied iPod or iPhone owners purchase more Apple products, and Apple has since capitalized on that with the iCloud cloud service that allows users ... | What allows users to easily sync data between an iPhone and a PC? | 5ad567b85b96ef001a10adff | null | -1 | iCloud cloud service | 281 | true |
Korean_War | One facet of the changing attitude toward Korea and whether to get involved was Japan. Especially after the fall of China to the Communists, U.S. East Asian experts saw Japan as the critical counterweight to the Soviet Union and China in the region. While there was no United States policy that dealt with South Korea di... | Why was South Korea important to the US? | 57268bee5951b619008f7651 | US policy toward Japan | 669 | null | -1 | false |
Time | Temporal measurement, chronometry, takes two distinct period forms: the calendar, a mathematical tool for organizing intervals of time, and the clock, a physical mechanism that counts the passage of time. In day-to-day life, the clock is consulted for periods less than a day whereas the calendar is consulted for period... | Which tool is used in periods longer than a day? | 5727fa0aff5b5019007d99b7 | the calendar | 284 | null | -1 | false |
Annelid | Most of an annelid's body consists of segments that are practically identical, having the same sets of internal organs and external chaetae (Greek χαιτη, meaning "hair") and, in some species, appendages. However, the frontmost and rearmost sections are not regarded as true segments as they do not contain the standard s... | What does 'chaetae' no longer mean? | 5ace7b6532bba1001ae4a7c0 | null | -1 | hair | 163 | true |
Gothic_architecture | It is in the great churches and cathedrals and in a number of civic buildings that the Gothic style was expressed most powerfully, its characteristics lending themselves to appeals to the emotions, whether springing from faith or from civic pride. A great number of ecclesiastical buildings remain from this period, of w... | Where is the Gothic style expressed least strongly? | 5ad0c1a6645df0001a2d01da | null | -1 | churches and cathedrals | 19 | true |
Nutrition | The first recorded nutritional experiment with human subjects is found in the Bible's Book of Daniel. Daniel and his friends were captured by the king of Babylon during an invasion of Israel. Selected as court servants, they were to share in the king's fine foods and wine. But they objected, preferring vegetables (puls... | How long did the trial diet last? | 5726acfcf1498d1400e8e6d7 | 10 days | 491 | null | -1 | false |
Paris | There are several academic libraries and archives in Paris. The Sorbonne Library in the 5th arrondissement is the largest university library in Paris. In addition to the Sorbonne location, there are branches in Malesherbes, Clignancourt-Championnet, Michelet-Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Serpente-Maison de la Recher... | Outside of France, where are the other three branches of the Sorbonne library located? | 572900863f37b31900477f5c | Malesherbes, Clignancourt-Championnet, Michelet-Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, Serpente-Maison de la Recherche, and Institut des Etudes Ibériques | 211 | null | -1 | false |
Madrasa | The term "Islamic education" means education in the light of Islam itself, which is rooted in the teachings of the Quran - holy book of Muslims. Islamic education and Muslim education are not the same. Because Islamic education has epistemological integration which is founded on Tawhid - Oneness or monotheism. For deta... | What is the meaning of Islamic education? | 572a637c7a1753140016af04 | education in the light of Islam itself | 35 | null | -1 | false |
Lighting | Commonly called 'light bulbs', lamps are the removable and replaceable part of a light fixture, which converts electrical energy into electromagnetic radiation. While lamps have traditionally been rated and marketed primarily in terms of their power consumption, expressed in watts, proliferation of lighting technology ... | Huge much light does a 13 W compact fluorescent lamp produce equivalent to a incandescent light bulb. | 56df844f56340a1900b29cca | 60 w | 870 | null | -1 | false |
Frédéric_Chopin | Although it is not known exactly when Chopin first met Liszt after arriving in Paris, on 12 December 1831 he mentioned in a letter to his friend Woyciechowski that "I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.—also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc." Liszt was in attend... | Which friend received the letter in which Chopin referenced Liszt? | 56d3202159d6e4140014626d | Woyciechowski | 145 | null | -1 | false |
Multiracial_American | Anti-miscegenation laws were passed in most states during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, but this did not prevent white slaveholders, their sons, or other powerful white men from taking slave women as concubines and having multiracial children with them. In California and the western US, there were greater nu... | Who was permitted to have official relationships with whites? | 5ad297a8d7d075001a429b23 | null | -1 | Latino and Asian residents | 329 | true |
Annelid | As in arthropods, each muscle fiber (cell) is controlled by more than one neuron, and the speed and power of the fiber's contractions depends on the combined effects of all its neurons. Vertebrates have a different system, in which one neuron controls a group of muscle fibers. Most annelids' longitudinal nerve trunks i... | What worms are very slow to retreat from danger? | 5ace81a032bba1001ae4a8b6 | null | -1 | annelids | 283 | true |
Alaska | Alaska's internet and other data transport systems are provided largely through the two major telecommunications companies: GCI and Alaska Communications. GCI owns and operates what it calls the Alaska United Fiber Optic system and as of late 2011 Alaska Communications advertised that it has "two fiber optic paths to t... | Which two companies provide internet and data transport to Alaska? | 57293c5e6aef051400154bc0 | GCI and Alaska Communications | 124 | null | -1 | false |
Portugal | Football is the most popular sport in Portugal. There are several football competitions ranging from local amateur to world-class professional level. The legendary Eusébio is still a major symbol of Portuguese football history. FIFA World Player of the Year winners Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo who won the FIFA Ballo... | What award did both Luís Figo and Cristiano Ronaldo win? | 57342d5b4776f41900661a1a | FIFA World Player of the Year | 228 | null | -1 | false |
Alsace | The constitution of the Fifth Republic states that French alone is the official language of the Republic. However, Alsatian, along with other regional languages, are recognized by the French government in the official list of languages of France. A 1999 INSEE survey counted 548,000 adult speakers of Alsatian in France,... | How many children speak French? | 5a6fe7e38abb0b001a67603a | null | -1 | one in four | 566 | true |
Uranium | Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-white metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weakly radioactive because all its isotopes are unstable (with half-lives of the six na... | What isn't uranium's symbol on the Periodic Table of Elements? | 5ad111b4645df0001a2d0c08 | null | -1 | U | 42 | true |
History_of_India | The Indian rebellion of 1857 was a large-scale rebellion by soldiers employed by the British East India in northern and central India against the Company's rule. The rebels were disorganized, had differing goals, and were poorly equipped, led, and trained, and had no outside support or funding. They were brutally suppr... | What did the soldiers rebel against in the Indian Rebellion of 1857? | 5728bc02ff5b5019007da5a2 | Company's rule | 146 | null | -1 | false |
Eton_College | A Freedom of Information request in 2005 revealed that Eton had received £2,652 in farming subsidies in 2004 under the Common Agricultural Policy. Asked to explain under what grounds it was eligible to receive farming subsidies, Eton admitted that it was 'a bit of a mystery'. The TaxPayers' Alliance also stated that Et... | How much in farming subsidies did Eton receive in 2012? | 5ad22e4dd7d075001a428665 | null | -1 | £5,300 | 347 | true |
Czech_language | The similarities between Czech and Slovak led to the languages being considered a single language by a group of 19th-century scholars who called themselves "Czechoslavs" (Čechoslováci), believing that the peoples were connected in a way which excluded German Bohemians and (to a lesser extent) Hungarians and other Slavs... | In what year did Hungary gain independence? | 5a7a0ce317ab25001a8a0270 | null | -1 | 1968 | 1,051 | true |
Software_testing | Bottom Up Testing is an approach to integrated testing where the lowest level components (modules, procedures, and functions) are tested first, then integrated and used to facilitate the testing of higher level components. After the integration testing of lower level integrated modules, the next level of modules will b... | Bottom Up Testing helps facilitate the testing of what? | 5729525c6aef051400154cdd | the testing of higher level components | 183 | null | -1 | false |
Nintendo_Entertainment_System | To differentiate Nintendo's new home platform from the early 1980s' common perception of a troubled and shallow video game market, the company freshened its product nomenclature and positioning, and it established a strict product approval and licensing policy. The overall system was referred to as an "Entertainment Sy... | What did Nintendo use instead of the word console? | 57112804a58dae1900cd6ccf | Control Deck | 404 | null | -1 | false |
Comcast | Despite these criticisms, Comcast has appeared on multiple "top places to work" lists. In 2009, it was included on CableFAX magazine's "Top 10 Places to Work in Cable", which cited its "scale, savvy and vision". Similarly, the Philadelphia Business Journal awarded Comcast the silver medal among extra-large companies in... | What magazine was determined as one of the best places to work in 2009? | 5a7334fc53a187001ae63163 | null | -1 | CableFAX | 115 | true |
Greeks | Around 1200 BC, the Dorians, another Greek-speaking people, followed from Epirus. Traditionally, historians have believed that the Dorian invasion caused the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, but it is likely the main attack was made by seafaring raiders (sea peoples) who sailed into the eastern Mediterranean aro... | What group of people never came with others who left the geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now a mutual region between Greece and Albania ? | 5ad26f4dd7d075001a429418 | null | -1 | the Dorians | 16 | true |
Near_East | The regions in their inventory were Assyria, Chaldea, Mesopotamia, Persia, Armenia, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Ethiopia, Caucasus, Libya, Anatolia and Abyssinia. Explicitly excluded is India. No mention is made of the Balkans. | What region has no mention? | 56f8ec5d9e9bad19000a0703 | the Balkans | 220 | null | -1 | false |
Separation_of_powers_under_the_United_States_Constitution | Judicial power—the power to decide cases and controversies—is vested in the Supreme Court and inferior courts established by Congress. The judges must be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, hold office during good behavior and receive compensations that may not be diminished during the... | Which type of power is vested in Congress? | 5ad387dc604f3c001a3fe56f | null | -1 | Judicial power | 0 | true |
Dell | In addition, the company provides protection services, advisory services, multivendor hardware support, "how-to" support for software applications, collaborative support with many third-party vendors, and online parts and labor dispatching for customers who diagnose and troubleshoot their hardware. Dell also provides D... | What kind of customers does Dell provide support to for minor outages? | 5ad368ed604f3c001a3fe0ce | null | -1 | ProSupport | 324 | true |
Cork_(city) | Cork has been culturally diverse for many years, from Huguenot communities in the 17th century, through to Eastern European communities and a smaller numbers from African and Asian nations in the 20th and 21st centuries. This is reflected in the multi-cultural restaurants and shops, including specialist shops for East-... | t large community of Cork has its own quarter and a synagogue? | 5a5d4d5d5e8782001a9d5ea8 | null | -1 | the Jewish community | 716 | true |
Marvel_Comics | In 1978, Jim Shooter became Marvel's editor-in-chief. Although a controversial personality, Shooter cured many of the procedural ills at Marvel, including repeatedly missed deadlines. During Shooter's nine-year tenure as editor-in-chief, Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-Men and Frank Miller's run o... | What anniversary did Epic Comics celebrate in 1986? | 5a5fd905eae51e001ab14ca2 | null | -1 | 25th | 723 | true |
Crimean_War | The Treaty of Paris stood until 1871, when France was defeated by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. While Prussia and several other German states united to form a powerful German Empire, the Emperor of the French, Napoleon III, was deposed to permit the formation of a Third French Republic. During his re... | Napoleon III was removed to form what? | 57271f22dd62a815002e993d | a Third French Republic | 282 | null | -1 | false |
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