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question: Who is Irene ? context: In some ways similar to the laser turntable is the IRENE scanning machine for disc records , which images with microphotography in two dimensions , invented by a team of physicists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories . IRENE will retrieve the information from a laterally modulated monaur...
scanning machine for disc records
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question: When did India build the forth largest rail system in the world ? context: 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 school...
late 19th century
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question: The major schism was between the Sthaviras and what other group ? context: The root schism was between the Sthaviras and the Mah ā s ā ṅ ghikas . The fortunate survival of accounts from both sides of the dispute reveals disparate traditions . The Sthavira group offers two quite distinct reasons for the schism...
Mahasanghikas
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question: About what percentage of capital convictions are overturned due to state collateral review ? context: At times when a death sentence is affirmed on direct review , it is considered final . Yet , supplemental methods to attack the judgment , though less familiar than a typical appeal , do remain . These supple...
6
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question: What feature originally covered Alberta ? context: Asphalt / bitumen is similar to the organic matter in carbonaceous meteorites . However , detailed studies have shown these materials to be distinct . The vast Alberta bitumen resources are believed to have started out as living material from marine plants an...
ocean
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question: Which friend learned from Beyonce while preparing for the film , " Country Strong ? " context: Beyonc é ' s work has influenced numerous artists including Adele , Ariana Grande , Lady Gaga , Bridgit Mendler , Rihanna , Kelly Rowland , Sam Smith , Meghan Trainor , Nicole Scherzinger , Rita Ora , Zendaya , Cher...
Gwyneth Paltrow
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question: Of what language family is Estonian a part of ? context: Estonian ( eesti keel [ ˈ e ː sti ˈ ke ː l ] ( listen ) ) is the official language of Estonia , spoken natively by about 1 . 1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various migrant communities . It belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic...
Uralic
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question: renovations are causing what changes context: The main local and regional bus station of Utrecht is located adjacent to Utrecht Centraal railway station , at the East and West entrances . Due to large scale renovation and construction works at the railway station , the station ' s bus stops are changing frequ...
large scale renovation and construction works at the railway station , the station ' s bus stops are changing frequently
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question: What musical instrument has it ' s own museum in Oklahoma City ? context: The American Banjo Museum located in the Bricktown Entertainment district is dedicated to preserving and promoting the music and heritage of America ' s native musical instrument – the banjo . With a collection valued at $ 3 . 5 million...
the banjo
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question: What percent of the population in Manchuria was Han ? context: However Qing rule saw an massively increasing amount of Han Chinese both illegally and legally streaming into Manchuria and settling down to cultivate land as Manchu landlords desired Han Chinese peasants to rent on their land and grow grain , mos...
80 %
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question: What evolved as the Commonwealth nominations continued ? context: Appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the self - governing Dominions of the Empire , the Viceroy of India , and the colonial governors , as well as on nominations from within the United Kingdom ...
Empire
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question: What was another name for the Conspiration des poignards ? context: During the Consulate , Napoleon faced several royalist and Jacobin assassination plots , including the Conspiration des poignards ( Dagger plot ) in October 1800 and the Plot of the Rue Saint - Nicaise ( also known as the Infernal Machine ) t...
Dagger plot
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question: How many Inter - Cities Fairs Cup trophies has Barcelona won ? context: Domestically , Barcelona has won 23 La Liga , 27 Copa del Rey , 11 Supercopa de Espa ñ a , 3 Copa Eva Duarte and 2 Copa de la Liga trophies , as well as being the record holder for the latter four competitions . In international club foot...
three
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question: What type of society relies on domestication for producing food ? context: A hunter - gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging ( collecting wild plants and pursuing wild animals ) , in contrast to agricultural societies , which rely mainly on domesticated speci...
agricultural
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question: PCR can ' t detect the presence of any bacteria when what doesn ' t occur ? context: Thus , the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available . The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application...
significant proliferation of the infectious agent
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question: David Eisenhower married the child of what US President ? context: The Eisenhowers had two sons . Doud Dwight " Icky " Eisenhower was born September 24 , 1917 , and died of scarlet fever on January 2 , 1921 , at the age of three ; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death . Their second son , John E...
Nixon
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question: To what does Cuarenta Casas translate in English ? context: Between AD 300 and 1300 in the northern part of the state along the wide , fertile valley on the San Miguel River the Casas Grandes ( Big Houses ) culture developed into an advanced civilization . The Casas Grandes civilization is part of a major pre...
Forty Houses
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question: What is comparison and analogy in the Prabhakara school ? context: The M ī m ā ṃ s ā school has several subschools defined by epistemology . The Pr ā bh ā kara subschool of M ī m ā ṃ s ā considered five epistemically reliable means to gaining knowledge : pratyak ṣ a ( perception ) , anum ā ṇ a ( inference ) ,...
upam ā ṇ a
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question: From what countries were European settlers in Alaska ? context: Starting in the 1890s and stretching in some places to the early 1910s , gold rushes in Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory brought thousands of miners and settlers to Alaska . Alaska was officially incorporated as an organized territory in 191...
Norway and Sweden
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question: What did Henrich d ' Arrest seek to find ? context: Meanwhile , Le Verrier by letter urged Berlin Observatory astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle to search with the observatory ' s refractor . Heinrich d ' Arrest , a student at the observatory , suggested to Galle that they could compare a recently drawn chart ...
the displacement characteristic of a planet
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question: What causes additional rainfall during monsoon ? context: The climate in Southeast Asia is mainly tropical – hot and humid all year round with plentiful rainfall . Northern Vietnam and the Myanmar Himalayas are the only regions in Southeast Asia that feature a subtropical climate , which has a cold winter wit...
The tropical rain belt
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question: Lake Hood is located next to what International Airport ? context: Many communities have small air taxi services . These operations originated from the demand for customized transport to remote areas . Perhaps the most quintessentially Alaskan plane is the bush seaplane . The world ' s busiest seaplane base i...
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
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question: The Hospital Liaison Committees serve to bridge between hospitals , medical professionals and who ? context: Though Jehovah ' s Witnesses do not accept blood transfusions of whole blood , they may accept some blood plasma fractions at their own discretion . The Watch Tower Society provides pre - formatted dur...
individual Jehovah ' s Witnesses
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question: Who designed the Roland Levinsky building ? context: The Roland Levinsky building , the landmark building of the University of Plymouth , is located in the city ' s central quarter . Designed by leading architect Henning Larsen , the building was opened in 2008 and houses the University ' s Arts faculty . It ...
Henning Larsen
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question: When did the mandolin ' s poplarity rebound ? context: Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1878 , the instrument ' s popularity rebounded . The Exposition was one of many stops for a popular new performing group the Estudiantes Espa ñ oles ( Spanish Students ) . They danced and played guitars , violins and...
Beginning with the Paris Exposition of 1878
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question: What did Beyonce ' s Fashion Diva feature ? context: In 2005 , Beyonc é teamed up with House of Brands , a shoe company , to produce a range of footwear for House of Der é on . In January 2008 , Starwave Mobile launched Beyonc é Fashion Diva , a " high - style " mobile game with a social networking component ...
House of Der é on collection
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question: What is the court case that established judicial review ? context: Courts check both the executive branch and the legislative branch through judicial review . This concept is not written into the Constitution , but was envisioned by many of the Constitution ' s Framers ( for example , The Federalist Papers me...
Marbury v . Madison
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question: What is the name of gven to the population that lives outside of current Germany boundary but still within historic Germany ? context: Persons who speak German as their first language , look German and whose families have lived in Germany for generations are considered " most German " , followed by categories...
Restdeutsche
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question: What offices employ US transportation and Air force bases ? context: Oklahoma City , lying in the Great Plains region , features one of the largest livestock markets in the world . Oil , natural gas , petroleum products and related industries are the largest sector of the local economy . The city is situated ...
Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation ' s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
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question: Does a material breach necessarily suspend or terminate treaty relations ? context: A treaty breach does not automatically suspend or terminate treaty relations , however . It depends on how the other parties regard the breach and how they resolve to respond to it . Sometimes treaties will provide for the ser...
does not
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question: What season did fertility typically return ? context: Several Germanic tribes celebrated the returning of the daylight . A predominant deity was during this jubilee driven around in a noisy procession on a ship on wheels . The winter would be driven out , to make sure that fertility could return in spring . A...
spring
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question: Besides the general management of the city , Houston ' s mayor is also responsible for what ? context: The city of Houston has a strong mayoral form of municipal government . Houston is a home rule city and all municipal elections in the state of Texas are nonpartisan . The City ' s elected officials are the ...
seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced
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question: In which direction do systemic pesticide generally travel through a plant ? context: Pesticides can be classified based upon their biological mechanism function or application method . Most pesticides work by poisoning pests . A systemic pesticide moves inside a plant following absorption by the plant . With ...
movement is usually upward
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question: When were the prisoners set free ? context: On February 7 , 1987 , dozens of political prisoners were freed in the first group release since Khrushchev ' s " thaw " in the mid - 1950s . On May 6 , 1987 , Pamyat , a Russian nationalist group , held an unsanctioned demonstration in Moscow . The authorities did ...
February 7 , 1987 ,
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question: What year did the brewing company BrewDog start producing a beer called Ghost Deer ? context: The strength of beers has climbed during the later years of the 20th century . Vetter 33 , a 10 . 5 % abv ( 33 degrees Plato , hence Vetter " 33 " ) doppelbock , was listed in the 1994 Guinness Book of World Records ...
2011
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question: Which historian describes Napoleon ' s legacy in terms of years spent at war , numbers of European dead , and France ' s bankruptcy and loss of colonies ? context: Critics argue Napoleon ' s true legacy must reflect the loss of status for France and needless deaths brought by his rule : historian Victor Davis...
Victor Davis Hanson
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question: What is the name for a base with one or more contacts at the tip and one at the shell ? context: Many arrangements of electrical contacts are used . Large lamps may have a screw base ( one or more contacts at the tip , one at the shell ) or a bayonet base ( one or more contacts on the base , shell used as a c...
screw base
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question: What does Southern Russian have a linguistic continuum with ? context: In the Southern Russian dialects , instances of unstressed / e / and / a / following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to [ ɪ ] ( as occurs in the Moscow dialect ) , being instead pronounced [ a ] in ...
modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian ( Eastern Polesian )
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question: How do regulatory regions act ? context: Additionally , genes can have regulatory regions many kilobases upstream or downstream of the open reading frame . These act by binding to transcription factors which then cause the DNA to loop so that the regulatory sequence ( and bound transcription factor ) become c...
by binding to transcription factors
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question: Which centres of Switzerland mostly rejected the quota system for foreigners ? context: On 9 February 2014 , Swiss voters narrowly approved by 50 . 3 % a ballot initiative launched by the national conservative Swiss People ' s Party ( SVP / UDC ) to restrict immigration , and thus reintroducing a quota system...
metropolitan
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question: On what border of the Byzantine Empire were the last holdouts for celebrating according the Alexandrian Easter ? context: Easter was the Sunday after the 15th day of this moon , whose 14th day was allowed to precede the equinox . Where the two systems produced different dates there was generally a compromise ...
eastern border
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question: When did Alfred the Great ' s reign begin ? context: With the unification of the Anglo - Saxon kingdoms ( outside the Danelaw ) by Alfred the Great in the later 9th century , the language of government and literature became standardised around the West Saxon dialect ( Early West Saxon ) . Alfred advocated edu...
871
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question: By accepting the deal with the USSR , Hitler admitted that it prevented what ? context: The day after the Pact was signed , the French and British military negotiation delegation urgently requested a meeting with Soviet military negotiator Kliment Voroshilov . On August 25 , Voroshilov told them " [ i ] n vie...
facing a two front war
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question: What term would Brace prefer forensic anthropologists use ? context: " Race " is still sometimes used within forensic anthropology ( when analyzing skeletal remains ) , biomedical research , and race - based medicine . Brace has criticized this , the practice of forensic anthropologists for using the controve...
regional ancestry
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question: Insect means to have a notched or divided what ? context: The word " insect " comes from the Latin word insectum , meaning " with a notched or divided body " , or literally " cut into " , from the neuter singular perfect passive participle of insectare , " to cut into , to cut up " , from in - " into " and se...
body
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question: What year can BYU ' s origin be traced to with a building called Cluff Hall ? context: Brigham Young University ' s origin can be traced back to 1862 when a man named Warren Dusenberry started a Provo school in a prominent adobe building called Cluff Hall , which was located in the northeast corner of 200 Eas...
1862
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question: Comics for adults began to be called what ? context: In the 1960s , the term bandes dessin é es ( " drawn strips " ) came into wide use in French to denote the medium . Cartoonists began creating comics for mature audiences , and the term " Ninth Art " [ e ] was coined , as comics began to attract public and ...
Ninth Art
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question: The populations did not accept what ? context: The populations of those lands did not accept Turkish rule . The Turks to them were foreigners with completely different customs , way of life , and language . Intervals when there was no unrest were rare . The Hungarians had thrown off Turkish rule by 1688 . Ser...
Turkish rule
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question: What script were the Birmingham Quran fragments written in ? context: In 2015 , fragments of a very early Quran , dating back to 1370 years ago , were discovered in the library of the University of Birmingham , England . According to the tests carried out by Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit , " ...
Hijazi
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question: Who can reverse an unconstitutional court ruling ? context: Notably , a statute does not disappear automatically merely because it has been found unconstitutional ; it must be deleted by a subsequent statute . Many federal and state statutes have remained on the books for decades after they were ruled to be u...
the Supreme Court
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question: How many all - male boarding schools exist in the UK ? context: Eton is one of ten English HMC schools , commonly referred to as " public schools " , regulated by the Public Schools Act of 1868 . Following the public school tradition , Eton is a full boarding school , which means all pupils live at the school...
four
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question: What was the 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100 , 000 births ? context: 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...
1000
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question: What are commonly used ? context: Regular script typefaces are also commonly used , but not as common as Ming or sans - serif typefaces for body text . Regular script typefaces are often used to teach students Chinese characters , and often aim to match the standard forms of the region where they are meant to...
Regular script typefaces
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question: Who became commissioner of the AFL after Jerry Kurz ? context: Jerry Kurz also stepped down as commissioner of the AFL as he was promoted to be the AFL ' s first president . Former Foxwoods CEO Scott Butera was hired as his successor as commissioner .
Scott Butera
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question: Which pope was responsible for the dogmatization of the Immaculate Conception ? context: Despite Martin Luther ' s harsh polemics against his Roman Catholic opponents over issues concerning Mary and the saints , theologians appear to agree that Luther adhered to the Marian decrees of the ecumenical councils a...
Pope Pius IX
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question: Along with the University of the South Pacific , what tertiary education institution exists in the Marshall Islands ? context: The Ministry of Education ( Marshall Islands ) operates the state schools in the Marshall Islands . There are two tertiary institutions operating in the Marshall Islands , the College...
College of the Marshall Islands
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question: Whose plan called for Arabs to recognize the state of Israel in exchange for territories Israel gained ? context: On 1 January 1967 , Yugoslavia was the first communist country to open its borders to all foreign visitors and abolish visa requirements . In the same year Tito became active in promoting a peacef...
Tito
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question: Who commissioned the change of the typeface of The Times in 1931 ? context: The Times commissioned the serif typeface Times New Roman , created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype , in 1931 . It was commissioned after Stanley Morison had written an article criticizing The Times for being badly...
Stanley Morison
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question: How many housing units were in Atlantic City during the 2010 United States Census ? context: At the 2010 United States Census , there were 39 , 558 people , 15 , 504 households , and 8 , 558 families residing in the city . The population density was 3 , 680 . 8 per square mile ( 1 , 421 . 2 / km2 ) . There we...
20 , 013
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question: Aside from the accusative , where can the direct object of the verb be found ? context: The direct object of the verb appears either in the accusative ( for total objects ) or in the partitive ( for partial objects ) . The accusative coincides with the genitive in the singular and with nominative in the plura...
partitive
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question: What was home to the warlord Yan Baihu ? context: At the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era ( 220 – 280 CE ) , Zhejiang was home to the warlords Yan Baihu and Wang Lang prior to their defeat by Sun Ce and Sun Quan , who eventually established the Kingdom of Wu . Despite the removal of their court from Kuaiji...
Zhejiang
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question: What must Link collect ? context: Twilight Princess takes place several centuries after Ocarina of Time and Majora ' s Mask , and begins with a youth named Link who is working as a ranch hand in Ordon Village . One day , the village is attacked by Bulblins , who carry off the village ' s children with Link in...
Tears of Light
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question: In what city was a medical school located that was notably influenced by Islamic medicine ? context: Among the results of the Greek and Islamic influence on this period in European history was the replacement of Roman numerals with the decimal positional number system and the invention of algebra , which allo...
Salerno
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question: What method is used by composers to prescribe to the performer the pitches , tempo , meter and rhythms for a piece of music ? context: European art music is largely distinguished from many other non - European and popular musical forms by its system of staff notation , in use since about the 16th century . We...
Western staff notation
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question: In September of 1978 , what bureaucracy did Gaddafi speak out against ? context: Libya began to turn towards socialism . In March 1978 , the government issued guidelines for housing redistribution , attempting to ensure the population that every adult Libyan owned his own home and that nobody was enslaved to ...
public sector
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question: In every season but 2001 - 02 and 2011 - 12 , at least how many Premier League teams have been relegated ? context: There has been an increasing gulf between the Premier League and the Football League . Since its split with the Football League , many established clubs in the Premier League have managed to dis...
one
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question: What is the Afrikaans name for Namibia ? context: Namibia ( i / n ə ˈ m ɪ bi ə / , / n æ ˈ - / ) , officially the Republic of Namibia ( German : Republik Namibia ( help · info ) ; Afrikaans : Republiek van Namibi ë ) is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean . It shares land b...
Namibi ë
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question: 120th Street turns into Paladino Avenue and into a pedestrian bridge across what road ? context: 40 ° 48 ′ 27 ″ N 73 ° 57 ′ 18 ″ W  /  40 . 8076 ° N 73 . 9549 ° W  / 40 . 8076 ; - 73 . 9549 120th Street traverses the neighborhoods of Morningside Heights , Harlem , and Spanish Harlem . It begins on Riversid...
FDR Drive
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question: Beyonc é lost the Album of the Year award to which entertainer ? context: At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2015 , Beyonc é was nominated for six awards , ultimately winning three : Best R & B Performance and Best R & B Song for " Drunk in Love " , and Best Surround Sound Album for Beyonc é . She w...
Beck
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question: When were skyscrapers first built in Houston ? context: In the 1960s , Downtown Houston consisted of a collection of mid - rise office structures . Downtown was on the threshold of an energy industry – led boom in 1970 . A succession of skyscrapers were built throughout the 1970s — many by real estate develop...
throughout the 1970s
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question: Which cortex is commonly associated with the coordination of thoughts and behavior ? context: Adolescence is also a time for rapid cognitive development . Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual ' s thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and the egocentric thoughts de...
prefrontal cortex
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question: What property of wood varies according to species ? context: There is a strong relationship between the properties of wood and the properties of the particular tree that yielded it . The density of wood varies with species . The density of a wood correlates with its strength ( mechanical properties ) . For ex...
density
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question: When do Premier League seasons run from ? context: The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders . Seasons run from August to May . Teams play 38 matches each ( playing each team in the league twice , home and away ) , totalling 380 matches in the season . Most games are...
August to May
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question: Upon whom does the President call on for support in his appointments to the USAF ? context: The Department of the Air Force is one of three military departments within the Department of Defense , and is managed by the civilian Secretary of the Air Force , under the authority , direction , and control of the S...
Senate
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question: What invention replaced laces on clothing ? context: In agriculture , the increased usage of sheep with long - fibred wool allowed a stronger thread to be spun . In addition , the spinning wheel replaced the traditional distaff for spinning wool , tripling production . [ AI ] A less technological refinement t...
buttons
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question: Besides unclear language what might also arise that necessitates the interpretation of the language of a treaty ? context: The language of treaties , like that of any law or contract , must be interpreted when the wording does not seem clear or it is not immediately apparent how it should be applied in a perh...
a perhaps unforeseen circumstance
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question: What way would categories grade into each other , rather than being isolated from each other ? context: Over a dozen racial categories would be recognized in conformity with all the possible combinations of hair color , hair texture , eye color , and skin color . These types grade into each other like the col...
like the colors of the spectrum
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question: How much of Tennessee ' s population increase between 2010 and 2015 was due to migration ? context: According to the U . S . Census Bureau , as of 2015 , Tennessee had an estimated population of 6 , 600 , 299 , which is an increase of 50 , 947 , from the prior year and an increase of 254 , 194 , or 4 . 01 % ,...
219 , 551
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question: How do Serbian nationalists feel about the Croatians using their language ? context: Nationalists have conflicting views about the language ( s ) . The nationalists among the Croats conflictingly claim either that they speak an entirely separate language from Serbs and Bosnians or that these two peoples have ...
Croats have " taken " or " stolen " their language
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question: Who was the executive producer of American Idols tenth season ? context: Season ten of the series premiered on January 19 , 2011 . Many changes were introduced this season , from the format to the personnel of the show . Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler joined Randy Jackson as judges following the departures o...
Nigel Lythgoe
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question: What genre of music are Nirvana and Soundgarden ? context: Seattle is considered the home of grunge music , having produced artists such as Nirvana , Soundgarden , Alice in Chains , Pearl Jam , and Mudhoney , all of whom reached international audiences in the early 1990s . The city is also home to such varied...
grunge
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question: What is another name for the 10 large nuclear - powered carriers operated by the U . S . Navy ? context: Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear - powered warships that carry dozens of aircraft , including fighter jets a...
supercarriers
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question: How many Hispanics speak English too ? context: The Spanish language is the second most spoken language in the United States . There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States , as well as six million Spanish language students . Together , this makes the ...
Roughly half of all American Spanish - speakers also speak English " very well , " based on their self - assessment in the U . S . Census .
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question: What choir did Beyonc é sing in for two years ? context: Beyonc é attended St . Mary ' s Elementary School in Fredericksburg , Texas , where she enrolled in dance classes . Her singing talent was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song and she finished it , able to hit the high ...
St . John ' s United Methodist Church
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question: 2012 studies estimated what percentage of mammals could be extinct in 20 years ? context: During the last century , decreases in biodiversity have been increasingly observed . In 2007 , German Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel cited estimates that up to 30 % of all species will be extinct by 2050 . ...
25 %
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question: What is the new business called ? context: In October 2014 , Beyonc é signed a deal to launch an activewear line of clothing with British fashion retailer Topshop . The 50 - 50 venture is called Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd and is scheduled to launch its first dance , fitness and sports ranges in autumn 2015...
Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd
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question: What caused disagreement about Yale ' s new position ? context: Expansion caused controversy about Yale ' s new roles . Noah Porter , moral philosopher , was president from 1871 to 1886 . During an age of tremendous expansion in higher education , Porter resisted the rise of the new research university , clai...
Expansion
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question: The students of what New Haven university formed an ad - hoc militia to confront the Redcoats ? context: On July 5 , 1779 , 2 , 600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon , governor of New York , landed in New Haven Harbor and raided the 3 , 500 - person town . A militia of Yale students h...
Yale
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question: What is pollarding context: Traditional willow growing and weaving ( such as basket weaving ) is not as extensive as it used to be but is still carried out on the Somerset Levels and is commemorated at the Willows and Wetlands Visitor Centre . Fragments of willow basket were found near the Glastonbury Lake Vi...
The willow was harvested using a traditional method of pollarding , where a tree would be cut back to the main stem
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question: When did Washington University establish its medical school ? context: In 1867 , the university opened the first private nonsectarian law school west of the Mississippi River . By 1882 , Washington University had expanded to numerous departments , which were housed in various buildings across St . Louis . Med...
1891
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question: Who assumed the title of king from Bas ? context: The Bithynians were a Thracian people living in northwest Anatolia . After Alexander ' s conquests the region of Bithynia came under the rule of the native king Bas , who defeated Calas , a general of Alexander the Great , and maintained the independence of Bi...
Zipoetes I
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question: Who holds the record for the most goals in the Premier League ? context: The Golden Boot is awarded to the top Premier League scorer at the end of each season . Former Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer holds the record for most Premier League goals with 260 . Twenty - four players hav...
260
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question: Buddhism may have spread quickly because of what Mauryan emperor ? context: Buddhism may have spread only slowly in India until the time of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka , who was a public supporter of the religion . The support of A ś oka and his descendants led to the construction of more st ū pas ( Buddhist r...
Ashoka
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question: In what year were hops first known to be used in beer ? context: The first historical mention of the use of hops in beer was from 822 AD in monastery rules written by Adalhard the Elder , also known as Adalard of Corbie , though the date normally given for widespread cultivation of hops for use in beer is the...
822 AD
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question: How is the water removed by force from a sheet of paper ? context: Pressing the sheet removes the water by force ; once the water is forced from the sheet , a special kind of felt , which is not to be confused with the traditional one , is used to collect the water ; whereas when making paper by hand , a blot...
Pressing
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question: Along with Standard Average European , from what concept was Interlingua derived ? context: One language , Interlingua , was developed so that the languages of Western civilization would act as its dialects . Drawing from such concepts as the international scientific vocabulary and Standard Average European ,...
the international scientific vocabulary
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question: What does P ē d á lion mean in English ? context: The Greek - speaking Orthodox have collected canons and commentaries upon them in a work known as the P ē d á lion ( Greek : Π η δ ά λ ι ο ν , " Rudder " ) , so named because it is meant to " steer " the Church . The Orthodox Christian tradition in general tre...
Rudder
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question: What is the oldest written document about Freemasonary ? context: Since the middle of the 19th century , Masonic historians have sought the origins of the movement in a series of similar documents known as the Old Charges , dating from the Regius Poem in about 1425 to the beginning of the 18th century . Allud...
Regius Poem
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question: What state formed the Somali Republic with British Somaliland ? context: British Somaliland became independent on 26 June 1960 as the State of Somaliland , and the Trust Territory of Somalia ( the former Italian Somaliland ) followed suit five days later . On 1 July 1960 , the two territories united to form t...
the Trust Territory of Somalia
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question: When did Boston withdraw its bid for hosting the Olympic games ? context: Boston has teams in the four major North American professional sports leagues plus Major League Soccer , and has won 36 championships in these leagues , As of 2014 [ update ] . It is one of six cities ( along with Chicago , Detroit , Lo...
July 27 , 2015