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question: What does the typical definition of a gene categorize genes by ? context: A broad operational definition is sometimes used to encompass the complexity of these diverse phenomena , where a gene is defined as a union of genomic sequences encoding a coherent set of potentially overlapping functional products . T...
their specific DNA loci
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question: What years were the Maccabean Revolt of Judas Maccabeus ? context: Between 301 and 219 BCE the Ptolemies ruled Judea in relative peace , and Jews often found themselves working in the Ptolemaic administration and army , which led to the rise of a Hellenized Jewish elite class ( e . g . the Tobiads ) . The war...
174 – 135 BCE
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question: How did Time Magazine recognize Spielberg ? context: In 2002 , Spielberg was one of eight flagbearers who carried the Olympic Flag into Rice - Eccles Stadium at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City . In 2006 , Premiere listed him as the most powerful and influential figure...
one of the 100 Most Important People of the Century
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question: When was K ö sem murdered ? context: During his brief majority reign , Murad IV ( 1612 – 1640 ) reasserted central authority and recaptured Iraq ( 1639 ) from the Safavids . The resulting Treaty of Zuhab of that same year decisively parted the Caucasus and adjacent regions between the two neighbouring empires...
1651
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question: What conquistador landed in Florida in 1539 context: " By May 1539 , Conquistador Hernando de Soto skirted the coast of Florida , searching for a deep harbor to land . He described seeing a thick wall of red mangroves spread mile after mile , some reaching as high as 70 feet ( 21 m ) , with intertwined and el...
Hernando de Soto
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question: What did children roll in a factory ? context: In 1910 , over 2 million children in the same age group were employed in the United States . This included children who rolled cigarettes , engaged in factory work , worked as bobbin doffers in textile mills , worked in coal mines and were employed in canneries ....
cigarettes
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question: What is thought to have eroded Greece ' s potential output ? context: IMF ' s forecast said that Greece ' s unemployment rate would hit the highest 14 . 8 percent in 2012 and decrease to 14 . 1 in 2014 . But in fact , the Greek economy suffered a prolonged high unemployemnt . The unemployment figure was betwe...
prolonged massive unemployment
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question: What console was home to the sequel for The Wind Waker ? context: In four months , Aonuma ' s team managed to present realistic horseback riding , [ l ] which Nintendo later revealed to the public with a trailer at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2004 . The game was scheduled to be released the next year , and ...
Nintendo DS
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question: Who was Archbishop of Canterbury during Paul VI papacy ? context: Paul VI was the first pope to receive an Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury , Michael Ramsey in official audience as Head of Church , after the private audience visit of Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to Pope John XXIII on 2 December 1960 . Ramsey m...
Michael Ramsey
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question: What terms did African Americans use instead ? context: By that time , the majority of black people in the United States were native - born , so the use of the term " African " became problematic . Though initially a source of pride , many blacks feared that the use of African as an identity would be a hindra...
" Negro " or " colored "
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question: Where was William Shakespeare ' s Othello set ? context: Examples of Cyprus in foreign literature , include the works of Shakespeare , with the majority of the play Othello by William Shakespeare set on the island of Cyprus . British writer Lawrence Durrell lived in Cyprus from 1952 until 1956 , during his ti...
Cyprus
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question: What is the name of the system that automatically detects copyright violations ? context: In June 2007 , YouTube began trials of a system for automatic detection of uploaded videos that infringe copyright . Google CEO Eric Schmidt regarded this system as necessary for resolving lawsuits such as the one from V...
Content ID
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question: How were window decals used in the Bronx in the 1980s ? context: In 1997 , the Bronx was designated an All America City by the National Civic League , acknowledging its comeback from the decline of the mid - century . In 2006 , The New York Times reported that " construction cranes have become the borough ' s...
pictures of potted plants and drawn curtains were placed in the windows of abandoned buildings
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question: How long are the Harbor - Fest festivities ? context: There are several major annual events such as First Night , which occurs on New Year ' s Eve , the Boston Early Music Festival , the annual Boston Arts Festival at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park , and Italian summer feasts in the North End honoring C...
week - long
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question: What are the 5 districts of Somerset context: The ceremonial county of Somerset consists of a two - tier non - metropolitan county , which is administered by Somerset County Council and five district councils , and two unitary authority areas ( whose councils combine the functions of a county and a district )...
The five districts of Somerset are West Somerset , South Somerset , Taunton Deane , Mendip , and Sedgemoor
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question: How many Puerto Rican hispanics live in greater Boston ? context: The city , especially the East Boston neighborhood , has a significant Hispanic community . Hispanics in Boston are mostly of Puerto Rican ( 30 , 506 or 4 . 9 % of total city population ) , Dominican ( 25 , 648 or 4 . 2 % of total city populati...
175 , 000 +
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question: To where was the canal designed by Washington intended to ferry water ? context: After the American Revolutionary War , Richmond emerged as an important industrial center . To facilitate the transfer of cargo from the flat - bottomed bateaux above the fall line to the ocean - faring ships below , George Washi...
Kanawha River
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question: Who discovered Triton ? context: Neptune has 14 known moons . Triton is the largest Neptunian moon , comprising more than 99 . 5 % of the mass in orbit around Neptune , [ e ] and it is the only one massive enough to be spheroidal . Triton was discovered by William Lassell just 17 days after the discovery of N...
William Lassell
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question: What genre of music does John Surman play ? context: Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Frank Bickerton both lived in the city . Artists include Beryl Cook whose paintings depict the culture of Plymouth and Robert Lenkiewicz , whose paintings investigated themes of vagrancy , sexual behaviour and sui...
Jazz
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question: In which year was electrocution introduced as Tennessee ' s method of execution ? context: Capital punishment has existed in Tennessee at various times since statehood . Before 1913 the method of execution was hanging . From 1913 to 1915 there was a hiatus on executions but they were reinstated in 1916 when e...
1916
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question: Other than ASPEC what was another proposal ? context: In 1991 , there were only two proposals available that could be completely assessed for an MPEG audio standard : Musicam ( Masking pattern adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding And Multiplexing ) and ASPEC ( Adaptive Spectral Perceptual Entropy Codin...
Musicam
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question: Which year was the Laetare Medal first given out at Notre Dame ? context: Holy Cross Father John Francis O ' Hara was elected vice - president in 1933 and president of Notre Dame in 1934 . During his tenure at Notre Dame , he brought numerous refugee intellectuals to campus ; he selected Frank H . Spearman , ...
1883
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question: Who was able to secure and stabilize the state eventually and gain the support of the people ? context: The officials in Mexico City reduced the price of corn from six cents to two cents a pound . The northern portion of the state continued to decline economically which led to another revolt led by G . Casava...
D í az
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question: Which album by Kanye West has been talked about by writers for having maximalist aesthetic ? context: West ' s fifth album , My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , has been noted by writers for its maximalist aesthetic and its incorporation of elements from West ' s previous four albums . Entertainment Weekly ' ...
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
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question: Did the French take Quebec back ? context: All of Britain ' s campaigns against New France succeeded in 1759 , part of what became known as an Annus Mirabilis . Fort Niagara and Fort Carillon on 8 July 1758 fell to sizable British forces , cutting off French frontier forts further west . On 13 September 1759 ...
they were unable to retake Quebec
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question: What are two large Roman sites that still exist today in Portugal ? context: In 27 BC , Lusitania gained the status of Roman province . Later , a northern province of Lusitania was formed , known as Gallaecia , with capital in Bracara Augusta , today ' s Braga . There are still many ruins of castros ( hill fo...
Con í mbriga and Mirobriga
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question: Who countered the Russian cavalry ' s movement ? context: Soon after , a Russian cavalry movement was countered by the Heavy Brigade , who charged and fought hand - to - hand until the Russians retreated . This caused a more widespread Russian retreat , including a number of their artillery units . When the l...
Heavy Brigade
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question: What family has the Northumberland Vault ? context: During the early 20th century it became increasingly common to bury cremated remains rather than coffins in the abbey . In 1905 the actor Sir Henry Irving was cremated and his ashes buried in Westminster Abbey , thereby becoming the first person ever to be c...
Percy Family
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question: Where was the battle at Riva Ridge ? context: Ski troops were trained for the war , and battles were waged in mountainous areas such as the battle at Riva Ridge in Italy , where the American 10th Mountain Division encountered heavy resistance in February 1945 . At the end of the war , a substantial amount of ...
Italy
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question: Along with Plymouth Council , what body supports the " Vision for Plymouth " ? context: Plymouth Council is currently undertaking a project of urban redevelopment called the " Vision for Plymouth " launched by the architect David Mackay and backed by both Plymouth City Council and the Plymouth Chamber of Comm...
the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce
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question: How many homicides were there in New York City in 2014 ? context: In 2012 , New York City had the lowest overall crime rate and the second lowest murder rate among the largest U . S . cities , having become significantly safer after a spike in crime in the 1970s through 1990s . Violent crime in New York City ...
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question: What was the new name of the Canadian Armed Forces ? context: After the 1980s , the use of the " Canadian Armed Forces " name gave way to " Canadian Forces " ; [ citation needed ] The " Canadian Armed Forces " name returned in 2013 .
Canadian Forces
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question: When did the hyperinflation of 1923 occur ? context: Europe spent these years rebuilding and coming to terms with the vast human cost of the conflict . The economy of the United States became increasingly intertwined with that of Europe . In Germany , the Weimar Republic gave way to episodes of political and ...
1923
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question: In what year did Tito model his economic development plan independently from Moscow ? context: In the immediate aftermath of World War II , there occurred several armed incidents between Yugoslavia and the Western Allies . Following the war , Yugoslavia acquired the Italian territory of Istria as well as the ...
1948
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question: What kind of upset could force agriculturalists into being foragers ? context: In the early 1980s , a small but vocal segment of anthropologists and archaeologists attempted to demonstrate that contemporary groups usually identified as hunter - gatherers do not , in most cases , have a continuous history of h...
migrations
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question: What do the birds do to successfully perform long distance migration ? context: The ability of birds to navigate during migrations cannot be fully explained by endogenous programming , even with the help of responses to environmental cues . The ability to successfully perform long - distance migrations can pr...
recognize habitats and form mental maps
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question: What is the name of the 15th century cathedral ? context: The structure of Bern ' s city centre is largely medieval and has been recognised by UNESCO as a Cultural World Heritage Site . Perhaps its most famous sight is the Zytglogge ( Bernese German for " Time Bell " ) , an elaborate medieval clock tower with...
M ü nster
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question: What is the weather like in Cork ? context: The climate of Cork , like the rest of Ireland , is mild and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes . Cork lies in plant Hardiness zone 9b . Met É ireann maintains a climatological weather station at Cork Airport , a few kilometres sout...
mild and changeable with abundant rainfall and a lack of temperature extremes
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question: What was never built context: The Somerset Coal Canal was built in the early 19th century to reduce the cost of transportation of coal and other heavy produce . The first 16 kilometres ( 10 mi ) , running from a junction with the Kennet and Avon Canal , along the Cam valley , to a terminal basin at Paulton , ...
A planned 11 . 7 km ( 7 . 3 mi ) branch to Midford was never built
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question: What year was the first Terminator movie released ? context: Schwarzenegger ' s breakthrough film was the sword - and - sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian in 1982 , which was a box - office hit . This was followed by a sequel , Conan the Destroyer , in 1984 , although it was not as successful as its predecessor...
1984
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question: What do potential adversaries threaten that the US Air Force prevents ? context: Assure / Dissuade / Deter is a mission set derived from the Air Force ' s readiness to carry out the nuclear strike operations mission as well as from specific actions taken to assure allies as a part of extended deterrence . Dis...
US national security
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question: When did the Buerau take over and begin to expant the ATC system ? context: The Aeronautics Branch was renamed the Bureau of Air Commerce in 1934 to reflect its enhanced status within the Department . As commercial flying increased , the Bureau encouraged a group of airlines to establish the first three cente...
1936
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question: At what New Haven museum is an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible housed ? context: New Haven has a variety of museums , many of them associated with Yale . The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library features an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible . There is also the Connecticut Children ' s Museum ; th...
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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question: Where was Richard III buried ? context: Henry III rebuilt the abbey in honour of a royal saint , Edward the Confessor , whose relics were placed in a shrine in the sanctuary . Henry III himself was interred nearby , as were many of the Plantagenet kings of England , their wives and other relatives . Until the...
Leicester Cathedral
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question: How many realms of existance are within the cycle of rebirths ? context: Within Buddhism , samsara is defined as the continual repetitive cycle of birth and death that arises from ordinary beings ' grasping and fixating on a self and experiences . Specifically , samsara refers to the process of cycling throug...
six
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question: When were ski - lifts built in Swiss and Austrian towns ? context: During the post - World War I period ski - lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors , but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid - 20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased great...
post - World War I
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question: The radical enlightenment was inspired by the philosophy of whom ? context: There were two distinct lines of Enlightenment thought : the radical enlightenment , inspired by the philosophy of Spinoza , advocating democracy , individual liberty , freedom of expression , and eradication of religious authority ; ...
Spinoza
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question: What ultimatum stated that Japan would face " prompt and utter destruction " if it did not surrender ? context: Towards the end of the war as the role of strategic bombing became more important , a new command for the U . S . Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific was created to oversee all U . S . strategic bom...
Potsdam Declaration
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question: How many new data centers did IBM commit to building ? context: On January 21 , 2014 IBM announced that company executives would forgo bonuses for fiscal year 2013 . The move came as the firm reported a 5 % drop in sales and 1 % decline in net profit over 2012 . It also committed to a $ 1 . 2bn plus expansion...
15
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question: Insects have specialized organs of what kind ? context: Many insects possess very sensitive and , or specialized organs of perception . Some insects such as bees can perceive ultraviolet wavelengths , or detect polarized light , while the antennae of male moths can detect the pheromones of female moths over d...
perception
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question: In the top five largest urban areas in California , where does San Diego rank ? context: The city had a population of 1 , 307 , 402 according to the 2010 census , distributed over a land area of 372 . 1 square miles ( 963 . 7 km2 ) . The urban area of San Diego extends beyond the administrative city limits an...
third - largest
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question: Who won this season of Idol ? context: 23 - year - old Candice Glover won the season with Kree Harrison taking the runner - up spot . Glover is the first female to win American Idol since Jordin Sparks . Glover released " I Am Beautiful " as a single while Harrison released " All Cried Out " immediately after...
Candice Glover
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question: Which pramanas is understanding of experts ? context: Ancient and medieval Hindu texts identify six pram ā ṇ as as correct means of accurate knowledge and truths : pratyak ṣ a ( perception ) , anum ā ṇ a ( inference ) , upam ā ṇ a ( comparison and analogy ) , arth ā patti ( postulation , derivation from circu...
ś abda
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question: Who undertook translating Plato ' s works to Latin ? context: Meanwhile , in Renaissance Italy , a new period in the history of translation had opened in Florence with the arrival , at the court of Cosimo de ' Medici , of the Byzantine scholar Georgius Gemistus Pletho shortly before the fall of Constantinople...
Marsilio Ficino
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question: When does the CAFL plan on start its first season ? context: The 2014 scheduled beginning proved to be too ambitious for the group ; its official website now cites an anticipated beginning of professional play in 2016 and shows photos from a six - team collegiate tournament staged in early November , 2015
2016
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question: What acid slows or stops cell division ? context: Cytokinins are a class of plant hormones named for their control of cell division or cytokinesis . The natural cytokinin zeatin was discovered in corn , Zea mays , and is a derivative of the purine adenine . Zeatin is produced in roots and transported to shoot...
Abscisic
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question: Who grabbed the flag before protesters could light it on fire ? context: On April 25 , 1976 , at Dodger Stadium , father - and - son protestors ran into the outfield and tried to set fire to a U . S . flag . When Cubs outfielder Rick Monday noticed the flag on the ground and the man and boy fumbling with matc...
Rick Monday
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question: What was the minimum number of waves through which modern Estonians migrated into Estonia ? context: The two different historical Estonian languages ( sometimes considered dialects ) , the North and South Estonian languages , are based on the ancestors of modern Estonians ' migration into the territory of Est...
two
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question: When was the state song composed ? context: The state song was not composed until 21 years after statehood , when a musical troupe led by Joseph E . Howard stopped in Butte in September 1910 . A former member of the troupe who lived in Butte buttonholed Howard at an after - show party , asking him to compose ...
1910
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question: When did Flinders write his book of discovery ? context: Integral to the story of the origin of the name " Antarctica " is how it was not named Terra Australis — this name was given to Australia instead , and it was because of a mistake made by people who decided that a significant landmass would not be found...
1814
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question: What type of life is more enviromentally diverse than multicellular life ? context: Less than 1 % of all species that have been described have been studied beyond simply noting their existence . The vast majority of Earth ' s species are microbial . Contemporary biodiversity physics is " firmly fixated on the...
microbial life
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question: Morphology - based and appearance - based are known as what ? context: Traditional morphology - based or appearance - based systematics have usually given the Hexapoda the rank of superclass , : 180 and identified four groups within it : insects ( Ectognatha ) , springtails ( Collembola ) , Protura , and Dipl...
systematics
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question: What nation conquered Ukraine during the First World War ? context: The German Empire conquered Ukraine during World War I and was planning on either annexing it or installing a puppet king , but was defeated by the Entente , with major involvement by the Ukrainian Bolsheviks . After conquering the rest of Uk...
The German Empire
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question: Who starred in the film Three Smart Girls ? context: Meanwhile , producer Joe Pasternak , who had been successfully producing light musicals with young sopranos for Universal ' s German subsidiary , repeated his formula in America . Teenage singer Deanna Durbin starred in Pasternak ' s first American film , T...
Deanna Durbin
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question: Which Queen album was released in 1975 ? context: In late 1975 , Queen recorded and released A Night at the Opera , taking its name from the popular Marx Brothers movie . At the time , it was the most expensive album ever produced . Like its predecessor , the album features diverse musical styles and experime...
A Night at the Opera
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question: What part of Oklahoma has low rainfall ? context: Forests cover 24 percent of Oklahoma and prairie grasslands composed of shortgrass , mixed - grass , and tallgrass prairie , harbor expansive ecosystems in the state ' s central and western portions , although cropland has largely replaced native grasses . Whe...
western
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question: What is the Everton FC ' s overdraft with Barclays Bank secured against ? context: Everton F . C . is a limited company with the board of directors holding a majority of the shares . The club ' s most recent accounts , from May 2014 , show a net total debt of £ 28 . 1 million , with a turnover of £ 120 . 5 mi...
Basic Award Fund
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question: What is regarded as the greatest literary work in Old English ? context: The first example is taken from the opening lines of the folk - epic Beowulf , a poem of some 3 , 000 lines and the single greatest work of Old English . This passage describes how Hrothgar ' s legendary ancestor Scyld was found as a bab...
Beowulf
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question: The Simpson has a character that was set to graduated from Yale University , can you guess his name ? context: New Haven is repeatedly referenced by Nick Carraway in F . Scott Fitzgerald ' s literary classic The Great Gatsby , as well as by fellow fictional Yale alumnus C . Montgomery Burns , a character from...
Montgomery Burns
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question: Who ' s equations helped to imply vanishing of the Ricci tensor ? context: In general relativity , a vanishing stress - energy tensor implies , through Einstein field equations , the vanishing of all the components of the Ricci tensor . Vacuum does not mean that the curvature of space - time is necessarily fl...
Einstein
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question: How many yards wide is a Canadian football field ? context: The Canadian football field is 150 yards ( 137 m ) long and 65 yards ( 59 m ) wide with end zones 20 yards ( 18 m ) deep , and goal lines 110 yards ( 101 m ) apart . At each goal line is a set of 40 - foot - high ( 12 m ) goalposts , which consist of...
65
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question: Besides Chelsea , City Island , and Venice Park , what other community , locality , or place name is included in the city ? context: Unincorporated communities , localities and place names located partially or completely within the city include Chelsea , City Island , Great Island and Venice Park .
Great Island
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question: Where were Ottoman madaris built ? context: " The first Ottoman Medrese was created in İ znik in 1331 and most Ottoman medreses followed the traditions of Sunni Islam . " " When an Ottoman sultan established a new medrese , he would invite scholars from the Islamic world — for example , Murad II brought schol...
near mosques
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question: What was the first model of HRF ( Height Range Finder ) used by the British ? context: The British dealt with range measurement first , when it was realised that range was the key to producing a better fuse setting . This led to the Height / Range Finder ( HRF ) , the first model being the Barr & Stroud UB2 ,...
Barr & Stroud UB2
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question: Who was the final Commander - in - chief of the Mughal army ? context: The empire went into decline thereafter . The Mughals suffered several blows due to invasions from Marathas and Afghans . During the decline of the Mughal Empire , several smaller states rose to fill the power vacuum and themselves were co...
Nizam - ul - mulk
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question: What is the average elevation of Estonia ? context: Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea immediately across the Gulf of Finland from Finland on the level northwestern part of the rising East European platform between 57 . 3 ° and 59 . 5 ° N and 21 . 5 ° and 28 . 1 ° E . Average elevation reach...
50 metres ( 164 ft )
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question: What did the Legend of Zelda require in certain instances to kill enemies ? context: The NES dropped the hardwired controllers , instead featuring two custom 7 - pin ports on the front of the console . Also in contrast to the Famicom , the controllers included with the NES were identical to each other — the s...
Famicom microphone
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question: How far apart are Conimbriga and Coimbra ? context: In 27 BC , Lusitania gained the status of Roman province . Later , a northern province of Lusitania was formed , known as Gallaecia , with capital in Bracara Augusta , today ' s Braga . There are still many ruins of castros ( hill forts ) all over modern Por...
16 km
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question: What is the official State of Israel ? context: Israel ( / ˈ ɪ zre ɪ ə l / or / ˈ ɪ zri ː ə l / ; Hebrew : י ִ ש ְ ׂ ר ָ א ֵ ל ‎ Yisr ā ' el ; Arabic : إ ِ س ْ ر َ ا ئ ِ ي ل ‎ Isr ā ʼ ī l ) , officially the State of Israel ( Hebrew : מ ְ ד ִ י נ ַ ת י ִ ש ְ ׂ ר ָ א ֵ ל ‎ Med ī nat Yisr ā ' el [ medi ˈ nat jis...
Israel
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question: What Samoan author write Flying Fox in Freedom Tree ? context: Albert Wendt is a significant Samoan writer whose novels and stories tell the Samoan experience . In 1989 , his novel Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree was made into a feature film in New Zealand , directed by Martyn Sanderson . Another novel Sons for ...
Albert Wendt
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question: What kind of error was found in Twilight Princess for Wii ? context: Following the discovery of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Wii version of Twilight Princess , an exploit known as the " Twilight Hack " was developed , allowing the execution of custom code from a Secure Digital ( SD ) card on the con...
buffer overflow vulnerability
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question: What does epigenetics study ? context: Epigenetics is the study of mitotically and / or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in the underlying DNA sequence but cause the organism ' s genes to behave ( or " express themselves " ) differently . One example of epigen...
changes in gene function
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question: Who built the Harwell CADET ? context: At the University of Manchester , a team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn designed and built a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves . Their first transistorised computer and the first in the world , was operational by 1953 , and a second ver...
electronics division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell
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question: What is the Tuvaluan traditional assembly of elders ? context: Each island has its own high - chief , or ulu - aliki , and several sub - chiefs ( alikis ) . The community council is the Falekaupule ( the traditional assembly of elders ) or te sina o fenua ( literally : " grey - hairs of the land " ) . In the ...
Falekaupule
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question: Whose winning design for public competition began the dominance of Greek style architecture ? context: Seen in its wider social context , Greek Revival architecture sounded a new note of sobriety and restraint in public buildings in Britain around 1800 as an assertion of nationalism attendant on the Act of Un...
William Wilkins
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question: What radio format is similar to urban AC but features older soul and R & B songs ? context: A more elaborate form of urban AC is the rhythmic oldies format , which focuses primarily on " old school " R & B and soul hits from the 1960s to the 1990s , including Motown and disco hits . The format includes soul o...
rhythmic oldies
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question: When did Washington University acquire the property for Tyson Research Center ? context: Tyson Research Center is a 2 , 000 - acre ( 809 ha ) field station located west of St . Louis on the Meramec River . Washington University obtained Tyson as surplus property from the federal government in 1963 . It is use...
1963
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question: Who discovered X - Rays ? context: The work of David Hilbert and Max Planck was crucial to the foundation of modern physics , which Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schr ö dinger developed further . They were preceded by such key physicists as Hermann von Helmholtz , Joseph von Fraunhofer , and Gabriel Daniel Fahr...
Wilhelm Conrad R ö ntgen
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question: What was the major Indus city in Punjab ? context: Punjab during Mahabharata times was known as Panchanada . Punjab was part of the Indus Valley Civilization , more than 4000 years ago . The main site in Punjab was the city of Harrapa . The Indus Valley Civilization spanned much of what is today Pakistan and ...
Harrapa
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question: In what form does a capacitor store energy ? context: A capacitor ( originally known as a condenser ) is a passive two - terminal electrical component used to store electrical energy temporarily in an electric field . The forms of practical capacitors vary widely , but all contain at least two electrical cond...
the form of an electrostatic field
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question: Where was the Russians building a new fort ? context: The Allies had had time to consider the problem . The French being brought around to agree that the key to the defence was the Malakoff . : 441 Emphasis of the siege at Sevastopol shifted to the British left , against the fortifications on Malakoff hill . ...
Mamelon
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question: Why did Naples remain neutral ? context: Many middle and small powers in Europe , unlike in the previous wars , tried to steer clear away from the escalating conflict , even though they had interests in the conflict or with the belligerents , like Denmark - Norway . The Dutch Republic , long - time British al...
Naples , Sicily , and Savoy , although sided with Franco - Spanish party , declined to join the coalition under the fear of British power
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question: What is a malicious technique in which an attacker tricks the user into clicking on a button or link ? context: 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...
Clickjacking
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question: When did the British Army and Royal Navy withdraw from Halifax ? context: The responsibility for military command remained with the British Crown - in - Council , with a commander - in - chief for North America stationed at Halifax until the final withdrawal of British Army and Royal Navy units from that city...
1906
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question: What has Modern medicine increased the average life expectancy by ? context: Over the course of the 20th century , the world ' s per - capita gross domestic product grew by a factor of five , much more than all earlier centuries combined ( including the 19th with its Industrial Revolution ) . Many economists ...
two decades
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question: What kind of distinction is lacking between social and cultural anthropology ? context: Sociocultural anthropology draws together the principle axes of cultural anthropology and social anthropology . Cultural anthropology is the comparative study of the manifold ways in which people make sense of the world ar...
hard - and - fast
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question: Which motorway connects Southampton to London ? context: Southampton is a major UK port which has good transport links with the rest of the country . The M27 motorway , linking places along the south coast of England , runs just to the north of the city . The M3 motorway links the city to London and also , vi...
M3
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question: How many freshman class applications did Washington University receive in 2013 ? context: In 2013 , Washington University received a record 30 , 117 applications for a freshman class of 1 , 500 with an acceptance rate of 13 . 7 % . More than 90 % of incoming freshmen whose high schools ranked were ranked in t...
30 , 117
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question: A more current , 20th century center for London ' s literary set is located where ? context: London has been the setting for many works of literature . The literary centres of London have traditionally been hilly Hampstead and ( since the early 20th century ) Bloomsbury . Writers closely associated with the c...
Bloomsbury
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question: What does rendering software display when it can ' t process a Unicode character ? context: Rendering software which cannot process a Unicode character appropriately often displays it as an open rectangle , or the Unicode " replacement character " ( U + FFFD , � ) , to indicate the position of the unrecognize...
open rectangle , or the Unicode " replacement character "