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689 | The city is represented in the National Football League by the New York Giants and the New York Jets, although both teams play their home games at MetLife Stadium in nearby East Rutherford, New Jersey, which hosted Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. | [
{
"answer": "MetLife Stadium",
"question": "The New York Giants and the New York Jets place at which stadium in NYC?"
},
{
"answer": "2014",
"question": "When was the most recent superbowl held in NYC for football?"
},
{
"answer": "New York Giants",
"question": "Along what the New Yo... |
690 | 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. | [
{
"answer": "The New York Islanders and the New York Rangers",
"question": "There are two hockey teams located in NYC. What are they?"
},
{
"answer": "Newark",
"question": "Which town do the New Jersey Devils hockey team play?"
},
{
"answer": "Newark, New Jersey",
"question": "In wha... |
691 | The city's National Basketball Association teams are the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks, while the New York Liberty is the city's Women's National Basketball Association. The first national college-level basketball championship, the National Invitation Tournament, was held in New York in 1938 and remains in the ... | [
{
"answer": "the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Knicks",
"question": "Which two national basketball teams play in NYC?"
},
{
"answer": "New York Liberty",
"question": "New York City's women's basketball team is called what?"
},
{
"answer": "1938",
"question": "The first college baske... |
692 | The annual United States Open Tennis Championships is one of the world's four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and is held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens. The New York Marathon is one of the world's largest, and the 2004–2006 events hold the top three places in the marathons with the... | [
{
"answer": "Queens",
"question": "Which borough of New York hosts the US Open Tennis championships?"
},
{
"answer": "Millrose Games",
"question": "The Wanamaker Mile is an event by which annual track and field meeting?"
},
{
"answer": "Belmont Stakes",
"question": "The oldest, longe... |
693 | Many sports are associated with New York's immigrant communities. Stickball, a street version of baseball, was popularized by youths in the 1930s, and a street in the Bronx was renamed Stickball Boulevard in the late 2000s to memorialize this. | [
{
"answer": "Stickball",
"question": "A version of baseball played in city streets was nicknamed was in the 1930s?"
},
{
"answer": "Stickball Boulevard",
"question": "What street was renamed in the late 2000s to commemorate the street version of baseball?"
},
{
"answer": "the Bronx",
... |
694 | The iconic New York City Subway system is the largest rapid transit system in the world when measured by stations in operation, with 469, and by length of routes. New York's subway is notable for nearly the entire system remaining open 24 hours a day, in contrast to the overnight shutdown common to systems in most citi... | [
{
"answer": "New York City Subway system",
"question": "Which subway system is considered the largest in the world?"
},
{
"answer": "469",
"question": "How many stations does the New York City Subway system contain?"
},
{
"answer": "Grand Central Station",
"question": "Which station... |
695 | Public transport is essential in New York City. 54.6% of New Yorkers commuted to work in 2005 using mass transit. This is in contrast to the rest of the United States, where about 90% of commuters drive automobiles to their workplace. According to the US Census Bureau, New York City residents spend an average of 38.4 m... | [
{
"answer": "38.4",
"question": "How many minutes does it take the average New Yorker to get to work?"
},
{
"answer": "54.6",
"question": "What percentage of New Yorkers use public transportation to get to work?"
},
{
"answer": "22",
"question": "What percentage of people living in M... |
696 | New York City's public bus fleet is the largest in North America, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the main intercity bus terminal of the city, serves 7,000 buses and 200,000 commuters daily, making it the busiest bus station in the world. | [
{
"answer": "Port Authority Bus Terminal",
"question": "The busiest bus station in the world in the world is called what?"
},
{
"answer": "7,000",
"question": "How many buses visit the Port Authority Bus Terminal each day?"
},
{
"answer": "200,000",
"question": "How many New Yorkers ... |
697 | New York's airspace is the busiest in the United States and one of the world's busiest air transportation corridors. The three busiest airports in the New York metropolitan area include John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport; 109 million travelers used these t... | [
{
"answer": "John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport",
"question": "The three airports that have the most people come through them in NYC are which?"
},
{
"answer": "Newark Liberty International Airport",
"question": "What is the second ... |
698 | The Staten Island Ferry is the world's busiest ferry route, carrying approximately 20 million passengers on the 5.2-mile (8.4 km) route between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan and running 24 hours a day. Other ferry systems shuttle commuters between Manhattan and other locales within the city and the metropolitan are... | [
{
"answer": "The Staten Island Ferry",
"question": "The world's most popular ferry route is which in NYC? "
},
{
"answer": "24",
"question": "How many hours a day does the The Staten Island Ferry run?"
},
{
"answer": "8.4",
"question": "In kilometers, how long is the Staten Island Fe... |
699 | The George Washington Bridge is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, connecting Manhattan to Bergen County, New Jersey. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the Americas and one of the world's longest. The Brooklyn Bridge is an icon of the city itself. The towers of the Brooklyn Bridge ... | [
{
"answer": "The George Washington Bridge",
"question": "Which bridge in NYC is the busiest in the world?"
},
{
"answer": "The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge",
"question": "The biggest suspension bridge in the US is what?"
},
{
"answer": "The Brooklyn Bridge",
"question": "The bridge made ... |
700 | Manhattan Island is linked to New York City's outer boroughs and New Jersey by several tunnels as well. The Lincoln Tunnel, which carries 120,000 vehicles a day under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan, is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world. The tunnel was built instead of a bridge to allo... | [
{
"answer": "The Lincoln Tunnel",
"question": "Which tunnel do 120,000 vehicles travel through a day in NYC?"
},
{
"answer": "1927",
"question": "The Holland Tunnel opened in what year?"
},
{
"answer": "1940",
"question": "The Queens-Midtown Tunnel was finished in what year?"
},
... |
701 | New York's high rate of public transit use, over 200,000 daily cyclists as of 2014, and many pedestrian commuters make it the most energy-efficient major city in the United States. Walk and bicycle modes of travel account for 21% of all modes for trips in the city; nationally the rate for metro regions is about 8%. In ... | [
{
"answer": "200,000",
"question": "How many daily bicycle riders are there in NYC?"
},
{
"answer": "200,000",
"question": "Each day, about how many New Yorkers bike?"
},
{
"answer": "21%",
"question": "About what percentage of New York City travel is done by bike or on foot?"
},
... |
702 | New York City is supplied with drinking water by the protected Catskill Mountains watershed. As a result of the watershed's integrity and undisturbed natural water filtration system, New York is one of only four major cities in the United States the majority of whose drinking water is pure enough not to require purific... | [
{
"answer": "Catskill Mountains watershed",
"question": "Who supplies NYC with drinkable water?"
},
{
"answer": "Catskill Mountains",
"question": "From what mountain range does New York's drinking water come from?"
},
{
"answer": "US$3.2 billion",
"question": "How much is being spent... |
703 | The Mayor and council members are elected to four-year terms. The City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 51 council members whose districts are defined by geographic population boundaries. Each term for the mayor and council members lasts four years and has a three consecutive-term limit, but can resume after ... | [
{
"answer": "51",
"question": "How many members are on the NYC city council?"
},
{
"answer": "three",
"question": "How many terms can the mayjor of NYC serve in total?"
},
{
"answer": "four-year",
"question": "What is the duration of a New York City councilperson's term?"
},
{
... |
704 | The Democratic Party holds the majority of public offices. As of November 2008, 67% of registered voters in the city are Democrats. New York City has not been carried by a Republican in a statewide or presidential election since President Calvin Coolidge won the five boroughs in 1924. In 2012, Democrat Barack Obama bec... | [
{
"answer": "Democrats",
"question": "Which political party holds the majority of most office terms in NYC?"
},
{
"answer": "67",
"question": "In 2008, what percentage of voters were democrats?"
},
{
"answer": "Barack Obama",
"question": "Which US president became the first to receiv... |
705 | Much of the scientific research in the city is done in medicine and the life sciences. New York City has the most post-graduate life sciences degrees awarded annually in the United States, with 127 Nobel laureates having roots in local institutions as of 2004; while in 2012, 43,523 licensed physicians were practicing i... | [
{
"answer": "43,523",
"question": "As of 2012, how many physicians were working in New York City?"
},
{
"answer": "Roosevelt Island",
"question": "Where is the Cornell University/Technion-Israel Institute of Technology located?"
},
{
"answer": "127",
"question": "As of 2004, how many... |
706 | Each year HHC's facilities provide about 225,000 admissions, one million emergency room visits and five million clinic visits to New Yorkers. HHC facilities treat nearly one-fifth of all general hospital discharges and more than one third of emergency room and hospital-based clinic visits in New York City. | [
{
"answer": "225,000",
"question": "How many people are admitted to HHC institutions annually?"
},
{
"answer": "one million",
"question": "How many people visit HHC emergency rooms every year?"
},
{
"answer": "five million",
"question": "How many people visit HHC clinics annually?"
... |
707 | Sociologists and criminologists have not reached consensus on the explanation for the dramatic decrease in the city's crime rate. Some attribute the phenomenon to new tactics used by the NYPD, including its use of CompStat and the broken windows theory. Others cite the end of the crack epidemic and demographic changes,... | [
{
"answer": "lead",
"question": "Being exposed to what type of pollution has been theorized to increase aggression?"
},
{
"answer": "crack",
"question": "The decrease in crime in New York is sometimes attributed to the decline of what street drug?"
}
] |
708 | New York City has been described as the cultural capital of the world by the diplomatic consulates of Iceland and Latvia and by New York's Baruch College. A book containing a series of essays titled New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 has also been published as showcased by the National Library of Austral... | [
{
"answer": "Tom Wolfe",
"question": "Who commented on New York that \"culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather\"?"
},
{
"answer": "the National Library of Australia",
"question": "In what library can the book New York, culture capital of the world, 1940–1965 be found?"
},... |
709 | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, anchoring Lincoln Square on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is home to numerous influential arts organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet, as well as the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the Juilliard School, ... | [
{
"answer": "Manhattan",
"question": "In what borough is the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts located?"
},
{
"answer": "Upper West Side",
"question": "In what part of Manhattan can you find Lincoln Square?"
},
{
"answer": "Union Square",
"question": "In what square is the theat... |
710 | New York City is home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites, many of which are internationally known. Museum Mile is the name for a section of Fifth Avenue running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in an area sometimes called Upper Carnegie Hill. The Mile, which contains ... | [
{
"answer": "Fifth Avenue",
"question": "What New York thoroughfare is Museum Mile located on?"
},
{
"answer": "Manhattan",
"question": "In what borough is Museum Mile located?"
},
{
"answer": "1959",
"question": "When was the Guggenheim built?"
},
{
"answer": "2012",
"qu... |
711 | The New York area is home to a distinctive regional speech pattern called the New York dialect, alternatively known as Brooklynese or New Yorkese. It has generally been considered one of the most recognizable accents within American English. The classic version of this dialect is centered on middle and working-class pe... | [
{
"answer": "Brooklynese",
"question": "Along with New Yorkese, what is another name for the New York dialect?"
}
] |
713 | In soccer, New York City is represented by New York City FC of Major League Soccer, who play their home games at Yankee Stadium. The New York Red Bulls play their home games at Red Bull Arena in nearby Harrison, New Jersey. Historically, the city is known for the New York Cosmos, the highly successful former profession... | [
{
"answer": "New York City FC",
"question": "What Major League Soccer franchise is based in New York?"
},
{
"answer": "Yankee Stadium",
"question": "What stadium does the New York City FC call home?"
},
{
"answer": "Harrison, New Jersey",
"question": "In what city are the New York Re... |
714 | Mass transit in New York City, most of which runs 24 hours a day, accounts for one in every three users of mass transit in the United States, and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in the New York City Metropolitan Area. | [
{
"answer": "two-thirds",
"question": "What fraction of United States rail riders call the New York City Metropolitan Area home?"
}
] |
715 | New York City's commuter rail network is the largest in North America. The rail network, connecting New York City to its suburbs, consists of the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, and New Jersey Transit. The combined systems converge at Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station and contain more than 25... | [
{
"answer": "20",
"question": "How many rail lines are there on New York City's commuter rail network?"
},
{
"answer": "250",
"question": "About how many stations does New York City's commuter rail network have?"
},
{
"answer": "JFK International Airport",
"question": "The AirTrain h... |
716 | The Staten Island Railway rapid transit system solely serves Staten Island, operating 24 hours a day. The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH train) links Midtown and Lower Manhattan to northeastern New Jersey, primarily Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark. Like the New York City Subway, the PATH operates 24 hours a day; me... | [
{
"answer": "three",
"question": "How many 24-hour rapid transit systems are located in New York?"
},
{
"answer": "PATCO Speedline",
"question": "What 24-hour rapid transit system is in Philadelphia?"
},
{
"answer": "Copenhagen Metro",
"question": "What 24-hour rapid transit system i... |
717 | Multibillion US$ heavy-rail transit projects under construction in New York City include the Second Avenue Subway, the East Side Access project, and the 7 Subway Extension. | [
{
"answer": "the Second Avenue Subway",
"question": "Along with the East Side Access project and 7 Subway Extension, what heavy-rail project is being built in New York City?"
}
] |
718 | Other features of the city's transportation infrastructure encompass more than 12,000 yellow taxicabs; various competing startup transportation network companies; and an aerial tramway that transports commuters between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan Island. | [
{
"answer": "12,000",
"question": "About how many yellow cabs operate in New York?"
},
{
"answer": "Manhattan Island",
"question": "Where does the aerial tramway that starts on Roosevelt Island terminate?"
}
] |
719 | Despite New York's heavy reliance on its vast public transit system, streets are a defining feature of the city. Manhattan's street grid plan greatly influenced the city's physical development. Several of the city's streets and avenues, like Broadway, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and Seventh Avenue are also used as met... | [
{
"answer": "the theater",
"question": "What industry is Broadway associated with?"
},
{
"answer": "finance",
"question": "What industry is Wall Street associated with?"
},
{
"answer": "advertising",
"question": "What industry is Madison Avenue associated with?"
},
{
"answer"... |
720 | New York City also has an extensive web of expressways and parkways, which link the city's boroughs to each other as well as to northern New Jersey, Westchester County, Long Island, and southwestern Connecticut through various bridges and tunnels. Because these highways serve millions of outer borough and suburban resi... | [
{
"answer": "rush hour",
"question": "At what time are drivers in New York most likely to experience traffic jams?"
},
{
"answer": "southwestern",
"question": "What geographical portion of Connecticut is linked to New York via highway?"
},
{
"answer": "northern",
"question": "What pa... |
721 | New York City is located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, and the boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island are (primarily) coterminous with islands of the same names, while Queens and Brooklyn are located at the west end of the larger Long Island, and The Bronx is located at the southern tip of New York St... | [
{
"answer": "Long Island",
"question": "What island is the borough of Brooklyn located on?"
},
{
"answer": "the west end",
"question": "Queens is located on what part of Long Island?"
},
{
"answer": "Staten Island",
"question": "The borough of Staten Island is primarily located on wh... |
722 | The Queensboro Bridge is an important piece of cantilever architecture. The Manhattan Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Triborough Bridge, and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge are all examples of Structural Expressionism. | [
{
"answer": "Structural Expressionism",
"question": "What architectural style does the Throgs Neck Bridge reflect?"
},
{
"answer": "cantilever",
"question": "The Queensboro Bridge utilized what type of construction?"
}
] |
723 | New York City has focused on reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint. Mass transit use in New York City is the highest in the United States. Also, by 2010, the city had 3,715 hybrid taxis and other clean diesel vehicles, representing around 28% of New York's taxi fleet in service, the most of any city in... | [
{
"answer": "3,715",
"question": "How many clean diesel and hybrid taxicabs did New York City have in 2010?"
},
{
"answer": "28%",
"question": "What percentage of the New York City cab fleet was clean diesel or hybrid in 2010?"
}
] |
724 | The city government was a petitioner in the landmark Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency Supreme Court case forcing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants. The city is also a leader in the construction of energy-efficient green office buildings, including the Hearst Tower among others. Mayor Bi... | [
{
"answer": "80%",
"question": "What percent reduction of greenhouse gases does Mayor de Blasio want to see by 2050?"
},
{
"answer": "Hearst Tower",
"question": "What is the name of a notable green office building in New York?"
},
{
"answer": "Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Ag... |
725 | Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) a long estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, has been designated a Superfund site for environmental clean-up and remediation of the waterway's recreational and economic resources for many communities. One of the most heavily used bodie... | [
{
"answer": "6",
"question": "How long is Newtown Creek in kilometers?"
},
{
"answer": "110,000",
"question": "How many cubic meters of oil is supposed to be in Newtown Creek?"
},
{
"answer": "the Greenpoint oil spill",
"question": "What notable accidental fossil fuel discharge occur... |
726 | New York City has been a metropolitan municipality with a mayor-council form of government since its consolidation in 1898. The government of New York is more centralized than that of most other U.S. cities. In New York City, the city government is responsible for public education, correctional institutions, public saf... | [
{
"answer": "mayor-council",
"question": "What type of government does New York City have?"
},
{
"answer": "1898",
"question": "In what year did New York City adopt the mayor-council form of government?"
}
] |
727 | Each borough is coextensive with a judicial district of the state Unified Court System, of which the Criminal Court and the Civil Court are the local courts, while the New York Supreme Court conducts major trials and appeals. Manhattan hosts the First Department of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division while Brooklyn h... | [
{
"answer": "Second",
"question": "What numbered department of the Supreme Court is located in Brooklyn?"
},
{
"answer": "Manhattan",
"question": "In what borough is the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court located?"
},
{
"answer": "executive",
"question": "What branch of governme... |
728 | Uniquely among major American cities, New York is divided between, and is host to the main branches of, two different US district courts: the District Court for the Southern District of New York, whose main courthouse is on Foley Square near City Hall in Manhattan and whose jurisdiction includes Manhattan and the Bronx... | [
{
"answer": "Manhattan",
"question": "In what borough is the main courthouse of the District Court for the Southern District of New York located?"
},
{
"answer": "the Eastern District of New York",
"question": "What federal district court has its main courthouse in Brooklyn?"
},
{
"answe... |
729 | New York is the most important source of political fundraising in the United States, as four of the top five ZIP codes in the nation for political contributions are in Manhattan. The top ZIP code, 10021 on the Upper East Side, generated the most money for the 2004 presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John Kerry... | [
{
"answer": "Manhattan",
"question": "Four-fifths of the ZIP codes that provide the highest amount of political contributions in the United States are located in what borough?"
},
{
"answer": "10021",
"question": "What ZIP code was responsible for the greatest amount of contributions in the 2004... |
730 | In 2006, the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc. was restructured and renamed New York City Global Partners. New York City has expanded its international outreach via this program to a network of cities worldwide, promoting the exchange of ideas and innovation between their citizenry and policymakers, acc... | [
{
"answer": "New York City Global Partners",
"question": "What is the new name of the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc.?"
},
{
"answer": "2006",
"question": "In what year did the Sister City Program of the City of New York, Inc. have its name changed?"
}
] |
731 | To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred ne... | [
{
"answer": "1960",
"question": "When did To Kill a Mockingbird first get circulated?"
},
{
"answer": "Pulitzer Prize",
"question": "What prize did To Kill a Mockingbird win?"
},
{
"answer": "Harper Lee",
"question": "Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?"
},
{
"answer": "Harper L... |
732 | As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Scholars have noted that Lee also addresses issues of class, courage, compassion, and gender roles in the American Deep South. The book is widely taught in schools in th... | [
{
"answer": "United States",
"question": "To Kill a Mockingbird is widely read in which countries schools?"
},
{
"answer": "Southern Gothic novel",
"question": "What genre of book is To Kill a Mockingbird?"
},
{
"answer": "racial injustice and the destruction of innocence",
"question... |
733 | Reaction to the novel varied widely upon publication. Literary analysis of it is sparse, considering the number of copies sold and its widespread use in education. Author Mary McDonough Murphy, who collected individual impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird by several authors and public figures, calls the book, "an aston... | [
{
"answer": "Mary McDonough Murphy",
"question": "Who gathered impressions of To Kill a Mockingbird from other authors and famous people?"
},
{
"answer": "2006",
"question": "In which year did British librarians rank To Kill a Mockingbird ahead of the Bible?"
},
{
"answer": "1962",
"... |
734 | To Kill a Mockingbird was Lee's only published book until Go Set a Watchman, an earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, was published on July 14, 2015. Lee continued to respond to her work's impact until her death in February 2016, although she had refused any personal publicity for herself or the novel since 1964. | [
{
"answer": "February 2016",
"question": "When did Harper Lee pass away?"
},
{
"answer": "Go Set a Watchman",
"question": "What is the only other work Harper Lee published?"
},
{
"answer": "Go Set a Watchman",
"question": "What is the name of Lee's second published work?"
},
{
... |
735 | Born in 1926, Harper Lee grew up in the Southern town of Monroeville, Alabama, where she became close friends with soon-to-be famous writer Truman Capote. She attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944–45), and then studied law at the University of Alabama (1945–49). While attending college, she wrote for campus l... | [
{
"answer": "Truman Capote",
"question": "Who did Harper Lee become childhood friends with?"
},
{
"answer": "1950",
"question": "What year did Harper Lee pack up to go live in New York City?"
},
{
"answer": "reservation clerk",
"question": "What job did Harper Lee start in New York C... |
736 | After finishing the first draft and returning it to Lippincott, the manuscript, at that point titled "Go Set a Watchman", fell into the hands of Therese von Hohoff Torrey — known professionally as Tay Hohoff — a small, wiry veteran editor in her late 50s. Hohoff was impressed. “[T]he spark of the true writer flashed in... | [
{
"answer": "Go Set a Watchman",
"question": "The first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was named what?"
},
{
"answer": "Tay Hohoff",
"question": "Who was the editor who got their hands on the first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird?"
},
{
"answer": "Therese von Hohoff Torrey",
"question... |
737 | Lee had lost her mother, who suffered from mental illness, six years before she met Hohoff at Lippincott’s offices. Her father, a lawyer on whom Atticus was modeled, would die two years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird. | [
{
"answer": "mental illness",
"question": "What ailment did Harper Lee's mother suffer from?"
},
{
"answer": "lawyer",
"question": "What profession did Harper Lee's father hold?"
},
{
"answer": "Her father",
"question": "Lee modeled the character Atticus after what laywer?"
}
] |
738 | Ultimately, Lee spent over two and a half years writing To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was published on July 11, 1960. After rejecting the "Watchman" title, it was initially re-titled Atticus, but Lee renamed it "To Kill a Mockingbird" to reflect that the story went beyond just a character portrait. The editorial team... | [
{
"answer": "July 11, 1960",
"question": "What date did To Kill a Mockingbird begin to circulate?"
},
{
"answer": "over two and a half years",
"question": "How long did Lee spend writing the book?"
},
{
"answer": "Reader's Digest Condensed Books",
"question": "What publication's part... |
739 | The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. It focuses on six-year-old Jean Louise Finch (Scout), who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scou... | [
{
"answer": "Maycomb, Alabama",
"question": "Where is the setting for To Kill a Mockingbird?"
},
{
"answer": "three",
"question": "How many years does the story of To Kill a Mockingbird take place?"
},
{
"answer": "two",
"question": "How many children does the protagonist, Atticus Fi... |
740 | Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus's actions, calling him a "nigger-lo... | [
{
"answer": "Mayella Ewell",
"question": "What was the name of the woman who was allegedly raped in the book?"
},
{
"answer": "Tom Robinson",
"question": "What is the name of Atticus' client in the rape trial?"
},
{
"answer": "Scout, Jem, and Dill",
"question": "Who stopped the mob b... |
741 | Atticus does not want Jem and Scout to be present at Tom Robinson's trial. No seat is available on the main floor, so by invitation of Rev. Sykes, Jem, Scout, and Dill watch from the colored balcony. Atticus establishes that the accusers—Mayella and her father, Bob Ewell, the town drunk—are lying. It also becomes clear... | [
{
"answer": "Jem and Scout",
"question": "What are the names of Atticus Finch's children in the book?"
},
{
"answer": "balcony",
"question": "Where do Jem, Scout, and Dill observe the trial of Tom Robinson?"
},
{
"answer": "the colored balcony",
"question": "Where do the three childr... |
742 | Despite Tom's conviction, Bob Ewell is humiliated by the events of the trial, Atticus explaining that he "destroyed [Ewell's] last shred of credibility at that trial." Ewell vows revenge, spitting in Atticus' face, trying to break into the judge's house, and menacing Tom Robinson's widow. Finally, he attacks the defens... | [
{
"answer": "Jem and Scout",
"question": "Who did Bob Ewell attack during the story?"
},
{
"answer": "Halloween pageant",
"question": "What event did Jem and Scout attend right before they were attacked at night?"
},
{
"answer": "Boo Radley",
"question": "Who saved Jem and Scout from... |
743 | Sheriff Tate arrives and discovers that Bob Ewell has died during the fight. The sheriff argues with Atticus about the prudence and ethics of charging Jem (whom Atticus believes to be responsible) or Boo (whom Tate believes to be responsible). Atticus eventually accepts the sheriff's story that Ewell simply fell on his... | [
{
"answer": "Sheriff Tate",
"question": "What was the name of the police officer who discovered Bob Ewell's body?"
},
{
"answer": "fell on his own knife",
"question": "According to Sheriff Tate's story, how did Ewell die?"
}
] |
744 | Lee has said that To Kill a Mockingbird is not an autobiography, but rather an example of how an author "should write about what he knows and write truthfully". Nevertheless, several people and events from Lee's childhood parallel those of the fictional Scout. Lee's father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was an attorney, similar t... | [
{
"answer": "autobiography",
"question": "Harper Lee has stated that To Kill a Mockingbird is not what genre of book?"
},
{
"answer": "1919",
"question": "What year did Harper Lee's father represent two black men accused of murder?"
},
{
"answer": "25",
"question": "At what age did H... |
745 | Lee modeled the character of Dill on her childhood friend, Truman Capote, known then as Truman Persons. Just as Dill lived next door to Scout during the summer, Capote lived next door to Lee with his aunts while his mother visited New York City. Like Dill, Capote had an impressive imagination and a gift for fascinating... | [
{
"answer": "next door",
"question": "Where did Truman Capote live in relation to Lee?"
},
{
"answer": "1960",
"question": "What year did Lee and Capote go to Kansas together?"
},
{
"answer": "In Cold Blood",
"question": "Murders were the base for which story that Capote wrote?"
},... |
746 | The origin of Tom Robinson is less clear, although many have speculated that his character was inspired by several models. When Lee was 10 years old, a white woman near Monroeville accused a black man named Walter Lett of raping her. The story and the trial were covered by her father's newspaper which reported that Let... | [
{
"answer": "10",
"question": "At what age was Lee when a white woman accused a black guy of rape?"
},
{
"answer": "Walter Lett",
"question": "What was the name of the black man who was accused of rape in Lee's town when she was 10?"
},
{
"answer": "Emmett Till",
"question": "What wa... |
748 | Critics also note the entertaining methods used to drive the plot. When Atticus is out of town, Jem locks a Sunday school classmate in the church basement with the furnace during a game of Shadrach. This prompts their black housekeeper Calpurnia to escort Scout and Jem to her church, which allows the children a glimpse... | [
{
"answer": "church basement",
"question": "Where does Jem trap a fellow peer of school in the story?"
},
{
"answer": "Calpurnia",
"question": "What is the name of the maid who works in the Finch's household?"
},
{
"answer": "distracted and embarrassed",
"question": "How does Scout r... |
749 | Scholars have characterized To Kill a Mockingbird as both a Southern Gothic and coming-of-age or Bildungsroman novel. The grotesque and near-supernatural qualities of Boo Radley and his house, and the element of racial injustice involving Tom Robinson contribute to the aura of the Gothic in the novel. Lee used the term... | [
{
"answer": "Southern Gothic and coming-of-age or Bildungsroman novel",
"question": "What genre of book is To Kill a Mockingbird typically called?"
},
{
"answer": "Gothic",
"question": "What term did Lee use to describe the town's courthouse?"
},
{
"answer": "Atticus",
"question": "W... |
750 | As children coming of age, Scout and Jem face hard realities and learn from them. Lee seems to examine Jem's sense of loss about how his neighbors have disappointed him more than Scout's. Jem says to their neighbor Miss Maudie the day after the trial, "It's like bein' a caterpillar wrapped in a cocoon ... I always thou... | [
{
"answer": "Miss Maudie",
"question": "What was the name of the neighbor that Jem speaks too after Tom Robinson's trial?"
},
{
"answer": "separations of race and class",
"question": "What des Jem struggle to understand?"
}
] |
751 | The second part of the novel deals with what book reviewer Harding LeMay termed "the spirit-corroding shame of the civilized white Southerner in the treatment of the Negro". In the years following its release, many reviewers considered To Kill a Mockingbird a novel primarily concerned with race relations. Claudia Durst... | [
{
"answer": "1955",
"question": "When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place?"
},
{
"answer": "race relations",
"question": "Many reviewers consider the second part of the book to be about what issue?"
}
] |
752 | Scholar Patrick Chura, who suggests Emmett Till was a model for Tom Robinson, enumerates the injustices endured by the fictional Tom that Till also faced. Chura notes the icon of the black rapist causing harm to the representation of the "mythologized vulnerable and sacred Southern womanhood". Any transgressions by bla... | [
{
"answer": "white",
"question": "The main jurors in Tom Robinson's trial were all which race?"
},
{
"answer": "shot seventeen times",
"question": "How did Tom Robinson die in the novel?"
},
{
"answer": "death",
"question": "At the time of the novel's setting, what punishment was oft... |
753 | The theme of racial injustice appears symbolically in the novel as well. For example, Atticus must shoot a rabid dog, even though it is not his job to do so. Carolyn Jones argues that the dog represents prejudice within the town of Maycomb, and Atticus, who waits on a deserted street to shoot the dog, must fight agains... | [
{
"answer": "a rabid dog",
"question": "Atticus is tasked with killing what animal in the novel?"
},
{
"answer": "fight against the town's racism",
"question": "What is Atticus shooting the rabid dog symbolic of?"
}
] |
754 | In a 1964 interview, Lee remarked that her aspiration was "to be ... the Jane Austen of South Alabama." Both Austen and Lee challenged the social status quo and valued individual worth over social standing. When Scout embarrasses her poorer classmate, Walter Cunningham, at the Finch home one day, Calpurnia, their black... | [
{
"answer": "Calpurnia",
"question": "Who does the cooking at the Finch's house?"
},
{
"answer": "Aunt Alexandra",
"question": "Who is Atticus Finch's sibling?"
},
{
"answer": "Walter Cunningham",
"question": "Who does Scout Tease and humiliate at their house?"
},
{
"answer":... |
755 | Scholars argue that Lee's approach to class and race was more complex "than ascribing racial prejudice primarily to 'poor white trash' ... Lee demonstrates how issues of gender and class intensify prejudice, silence the voices that might challenge the existing order, and greatly complicate many Americans' conception of... | [
{
"answer": "poor",
"question": "Are the Ewell's considered rich or poor?"
},
{
"answer": "gender and class",
"question": "What two factors did Lee demonstrate intensified prejudice?"
},
{
"answer": "people's motives and behavior",
"question": "The children's non-judgmental attitude ... |
756 | The novel has been noted for its poignant exploration of different forms of courage. Scout's impulsive inclination to fight students who insult Atticus reflects her attempt to stand up for him and defend him. Atticus is the moral center of the novel, however, and he teaches Jem one of the most significant lessons of co... | [
{
"answer": "morphine",
"question": "Mrs. Dubose suffers from an addiction to what?"
},
{
"answer": "Atticus",
"question": "Who is the moral center of the novel?"
},
{
"answer": "courage",
"question": "The novel explores various forms of what trait?"
}
] |
757 | Charles Shields, who has written the only book-length biography of Harper Lee to date, offers the reason for the novel's enduring popularity and impact is that "its lessons of human dignity and respect for others remain fundamental and universal". Atticus' lesson to Scout that "you never really understand a person unti... | [
{
"answer": "Charles Shields",
"question": "Who has written the only biography of Harper Lee?"
},
{
"answer": "Charles Shields",
"question": "Who wrote the only book length- biography of Harper Lee?"
},
{
"answer": "human dignity and respect for others",
"question": "According to Shi... |
759 | Absent mothers and abusive fathers are another theme in the novel. Scout and Jem's mother died before Scout could remember her, Mayella's mother is dead, and Mrs. Radley is silent about Boo's confinement to the house. Apart from Atticus, the fathers described are abusers. Bob Ewell, it is hinted, molested his daughter,... | [
{
"answer": "Bob Ewell",
"question": "In the book, which character was expected of molesting their child?"
},
{
"answer": "Atticus",
"question": "Who was the only non-abusive father mentioned?"
}
] |
761 | Songbirds and their associated symbolism appear throughout the novel. The family's last name of Finch also shares Lee's mother's maiden name. The titular mockingbird is a key motif of this theme, which first appears when Atticus, having given his children air-rifles for Christmas, allows their Uncle Jack to teach them ... | [
{
"answer": "Songbirds",
"question": "Which animal serves as a symbol throughout the book?"
},
{
"answer": "Finch",
"question": "Harper Lee's mother's maiden name was what?"
},
{
"answer": "mockingbird",
"question": "Which bird does Atticus Finch say is a \"sin to kill?\""
},
{
... |
762 | Despite her editors' warnings that the book might not sell well, it quickly became a sensation, bringing acclaim to Lee in literary circles, in her hometown of Monroeville, and throughout Alabama. The book went through numerous subsequent printings and became widely available through its inclusion in the Book of the Mo... | [
{
"answer": "Book of the Month Club",
"question": "Reader's Digest included To Kill a Mockingbird in what program of theirs?"
},
{
"answer": "Book of the Month Club",
"question": "The book's availablity increased through inclusion in what book service?"
}
] |
763 | One year after its publication To Kill a Mockingbird had been translated into ten languages. In the years since, it has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into more than 40 languages. The novel has never been out of print in hardcover or paperback, and has become part of the standard literature curric... | [
{
"answer": "ten",
"question": "After one year when To Kill a Mockingbird first came out, how many languages has it been printed in?"
},
{
"answer": "40",
"question": "Up til today, how many languages has To Kill a Mockingbird been printed in?"
},
{
"answer": "30 million",
"question"... |
764 | Many writers compare their perceptions of To Kill a Mockingbird as adults with when they first read it as children. Mary McDonagh Murphy interviewed celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Rosanne Cash, Tom Brokaw, and Harper's sister Alice Lee, who read the novel and compiled their impressions of it as children and adult... | [
{
"answer": "Scout, Atticus, and Boo",
"question": "Public figure's impressions of the novel were formed into a book called what?"
},
{
"answer": "Alice Lee",
"question": "Who was Harper Lee's sister?"
},
{
"answer": "Scout, Atticus, and Boo",
"question": "What book compiled Adults' ... |
765 | One of the most significant impacts To Kill a Mockingbird has had is Atticus Finch's model of integrity for the legal profession. As scholar Alice Petry explains, "Atticus has become something of a folk hero in legal circles and is treated almost as if he were an actual person." Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law ... | [
{
"answer": "lawyer",
"question": "Atticus Finch's integrity has become a model for which job?"
},
{
"answer": "integrity",
"question": "Atticus Finch is a model of what for legal professionals?"
}
] |
766 | In 1992, an Alabama editorial called for the death of Atticus, saying that as liberal as Atticus was, he still worked within a system of institutionalized racism and sexism and should not be revered. The editorial sparked a flurry of responses from attorneys who entered the profession because of him and esteemed him as... | [
{
"answer": "1997",
"question": "What year was a statue of Atticus build in Alabama?"
},
{
"answer": "Alabama State Bar",
"question": "Harper Lee was given a membership to what in 2008?"
},
{
"answer": "honorary special membership",
"question": "What did the Alabama State Bar bestow ... |
767 | To Kill a Mockingbird has been a source of significant controversy since its being the subject of classroom study as early as 1963. The book's racial slurs, profanity, and frank discussion of rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms across the United States. The American Library... | [
{
"answer": "1963",
"question": "To Kill a Mockingbird was first studied in American schools in what year?"
},
{
"answer": "21",
"question": "The American Library Associated ranked To Kill a Mockingbird where on its most frequently challenged books of 2000-2009?"
},
{
"answer": "1963",
... |
768 | One of the first incidents of the book being challenged was in Hanover, Virginia, in 1966: a parent protested that the use of rape as a plot device was immoral. Johnson cites examples of letters to local newspapers, which ranged from amusement to fury; those letters expressing the most outrage, however, complained abou... | [
{
"answer": "1966",
"question": "When was the first major controversy that surfaced from the book?"
},
{
"answer": "rape",
"question": "What event in the novel was heavily criticized for being a plot device?"
},
{
"answer": "Mayella Ewell's attraction to Tom Robinson",
"question": "I... |
770 | Lee's childhood friend, author Truman Capote, wrote on the dust jacket of the first edition, "Someone rare has written this very fine first novel: a writer with the liveliest sense of life, and the warmest, most authentic sense of humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable." This comment has been construed to su... | [
{
"answer": "Archulus Persons",
"question": "Who was Truman Capote's father?"
},
{
"answer": "Truman Capote",
"question": "Who was speculated to have wrote the book instead of Harper Lee?"
},
{
"answer": "Alice",
"question": "What was the name of Harper Lee's sister?"
},
{
"a... |
771 | During the years immediately following the novel's publication, Harper Lee enjoyed the attention its popularity garnered her, granting interviews, visiting schools, and attending events honoring the book. In 1961, when To Kill a Mockingbird was in its 41st week on the bestseller list, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize,... | [
{
"answer": "1961",
"question": "Which year did To Kill a Mockingbird win the Pulitzer Prize?"
},
{
"answer": "41",
"question": "How many weeks did To Kill a Mockingbird remain on the bestsellers list when it won the Pulitzer Prize?"
},
{
"answer": "1962",
"question": "Paperback of t... |
772 | In 2001, Lee was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor. In the same year, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley initiated a reading program throughout the city's libraries, and chose his favorite book, To Kill a Mockingbird, as the first title of the One City, One Book program. Lee declared that "there is no greater hono... | [
{
"answer": "2001",
"question": "Which year was Lee awarded an induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor?"
},
{
"answer": "25",
"question": "In 2004, the novel as been picked by how many communities for citywide reading programs more than any other book?"
},
{
"answer": "Chicago",
... |
773 | In 2006, Lee was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. During the ceremony, the students and audience gave Lee a standing ovation, and the entire graduating class held up copies of To Kill a Mockingbird to honor her.[note 5] Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 5, 200... | [
{
"answer": "University of Notre Dame",
"question": "Which school granted Lee an honory doctorate in 2006?"
},
{
"answer": "George W. Bush",
"question": "Which president of the US awarded Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom?"
},
{
"answer": "2007",
"question": "When did Lee receive... |
774 | The book was made into the well-received 1962 film with the same title, starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. The film's producer, Alan J. Pakula, remembered Universal Pictures executives questioning him about a potential script: "They said, 'What story do you plan to tell for the film?' I said, 'Have you read the bo... | [
{
"answer": "1962",
"question": "A movie adaptation of the book was released in what year?"
},
{
"answer": "Gregory Peck",
"question": "Who played Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie of the same title?"
},
{
"answer": "Gregory Peck",
"question": "Which actor received An Oscar for his rol... |
775 | Harper Lee was pleased with the movie, saying: "In that film the man and the part met... I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I've always refused. That film was a work of art." Peck met Lee's father, the model for Atticus, before the filming. Lee's father died before the film... | [
{
"answer": "father's pocketwatch",
"question": "What item did Lee give the actor Gregory Peck after portraying Atticus Finch?"
},
{
"answer": "grandson",
"question": "Which one of Gregory Peck's relatives was named after Harper Lee?"
},
{
"answer": "her father's pocketwatch",
"quest... |
776 | In May 2005, Lee made an uncharacteristic appearance at the Los Angeles Public Library at the request of Peck's widow Veronique, who said of Lee: "She's like a national treasure. She's someone who has made a difference...with this book. The book is still as strong as it ever was, and so is the film. All the kids in the... | [
{
"answer": "May 2005",
"question": "When did Lee randomly show up at the Los Angeles Public Library?"
},
{
"answer": "a national treasure",
"question": "What did Peck's widow call Lee?"
}
] |
777 | The book has also been adapted as a play by Christopher Sergel. It debuted in 1990 in Monroeville, a town that labels itself "The Literary Capital of Alabama". The play runs every May on the county courthouse grounds and townspeople make up the cast. White male audience members are chosen at the intermission to make up... | [
{
"answer": "Christopher Sergel",
"question": "Who turned the novel into a play?"
},
{
"answer": "1990",
"question": "When was the play for To Kill a Mockingbird first performed?"
},
{
"answer": "Monroeville",
"question": "What town labeled itself \"The Literary Capital of Alabama\"?... |
778 | Sergel's play toured in the UK starting at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2006, and again in 2011 starting at the York Theatre Royal, both productions featuring Duncan Preston as Atticus Finch. The play also opened the 2013 season at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London where it played to full houses and star... | [
{
"answer": "the UK",
"question": "What country did Sergel's play tour around in and perform in 2006?"
},
{
"answer": "Regent's Park Open Air Theatre",
"question": "The play was the opening act for the starting of the 2013 season at which location?"
},
{
"answer": "Duncan Preston",
"... |
780 | The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, ... | [
{
"answer": "rape and racial inequality",
"question": "What two serious moral issues are dealt with in the novel?"
},
{
"answer": "Atticus Finch",
"question": "Who is the protagonist of the novel?"
}
] |
781 | The strongest element of style noted by critics and reviewers is Lee's talent for narration, which in an early review in Time was called "tactile brilliance". Writing a decade later, another scholar noted, "Harper Lee has a remarkable gift of story-telling. Her art is visual, and with cinematographic fluidity and subtl... | [
{
"answer": "narration",
"question": "What is Lee's strongest style of writing?"
},
{
"answer": "flashback",
"question": "What narrative technique does Lee use to combine the adult's perspective with the child's observations??"
}
] |
782 | Harper Lee has remained famously detached from interpreting the novel since the mid-1960s. However, she gave some insight into her themes when, in a rare letter to the editor, she wrote in response to the passionate reaction her book caused: "Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird sp... | [
{
"answer": "all Southerners",
"question": "According to Lee, her book simply expressed a Christian code of honor and conduct inherit to whom?"
}
] |
783 | When the book was released, reviewers noted that it was divided into two parts, and opinion was mixed about Lee's ability to connect them. The first part of the novel concerns the children's fascination with Boo Radley and their feelings of safety and comfort in the neighborhood. Reviewers were generally charmed by Sco... | [
{
"answer": "the neighborhood",
"question": "Besides the children's fascination with Boo, the first part of the book was concerned about their feelings for what?"
},
{
"answer": "Southern romantic regionalism",
"question": "Lee's detailed explanations of the characters' behaviors caused one writ... |
784 | Tom Robinson is the chief example among several innocents destroyed carelessly or deliberately throughout the novel. However, scholar Christopher Metress connects the mockingbird to Boo Radley: "Instead of wanting to exploit Boo for her own fun (as she does in the beginning of the novel by putting on gothic plays about... | [
{
"answer": "Tom Robinson",
"question": "Who is the main example of an innocent destroyed in the novel?"
},
{
"answer": "Boo Radley",
"question": "What does Scout see symbollically as a mockingbird?"
},
{
"answer": "real nice",
"question": "According to Atticus, most people are how ... |
785 | The novel exposes the loss of innocence so frequently that reviewer R. A. Dave claims that because every character has to face, or even suffer defeat, the book takes on elements of a classical tragedy. In exploring how each character deals with his or her own personal defeat, Lee builds a framework to judge whether the... | [
{
"answer": "classical tragedy",
"question": "Reviewer R. A. Dave classified the novel how?"
}
] |
786 | Initial reactions to the novel were varied. The New Yorker declared it "skilled, unpretentious, and totally ingenious", and The Atlantic Monthly's reviewer rated it as "pleasant, undemanding reading", but found the narrative voice—"a six-year-old girl with the prose style of a well-educated adult"—to be implausible. Ti... | [
{
"answer": "The Chicago Sunday Tribune",
"question": "What newspaper wrote that the novel has strong contemporary national significance?"
}
] |
787 | Not all reviewers were enthusiastic. Some lamented the use of poor white Southerners, and one-dimensional black victims, and Granville Hicks labeled the book "melodramatic and contrived". When the book was first released, Southern writer Flannery O'Connor commented, "I think for a child's book it does all right. It's i... | [
{
"answer": "Granville Hicks",
"question": "Which reviewer called the book melodramatic and contrived?"
},
{
"answer": "Flannery O'Connor",
"question": "Which Southern writer deemed it a child's book?"
}
] |
788 | The 50th anniversary of the novel's release was met with celebrations and reflections on its impact. Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune praises Lee's "rich use of language" but writes that the central lesson is that "courage isn't always flashy, isn't always enough, but is always in style". Jane Sullivan in the Sydney Mo... | [
{
"answer": "William Faulkner",
"question": "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie vompared Lee to whom?"
},
{
"answer": "Jane Austen",
"question": "Rosemary Goring connected Lee to whom?"
}
] |
790 | Furthermore, despite the novel's thematic focus on racial injustice, its black characters are not fully examined. In its use of racial epithets, stereotyped depictions of superstitious blacks, and Calpurnia, who to some critics is an updated version of the "contented slave" motif and to others simply unexplored, the bo... | [
{
"answer": "Calpurnia",
"question": "Which character has some critics deemed a variation of a contented slave?"
},
{
"answer": "black students",
"question": "According to one consultant, which group found the book demoralizing?"
},
{
"answer": "poor rural \"white trash\"",
"question... |
791 | Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Birmingham civil rights campaign, asserts that To Kill a Mockingbird condemns racism instead of racists, and states that every child in the South has moments of racial cognitive dissonance when they are faced with the harsh reality of inequality. This feeling cau... | [
{
"answer": "the harsh reality of inequality",
"question": "According to Diane McWhorter, every child in the South had to face what?"
},
{
"answer": "an act of protest",
"question": "McWhorter wrote that the existance of the book was what?"
}
] |
792 | According to a National Geographic article, the novel is so revered in Monroeville that people quote lines from it like Scripture; yet Harper Lee herself refused to attend any performances, because "she abhors anything that trades on the book's fame". To underscore this sentiment, Lee demanded that a book of recipes na... | [
{
"answer": "like Scripture",
"question": "How do the citizens of Monroeville quote lines of the book?"
},
{
"answer": "Mockingbird groupies",
"question": "What do the Monroeville townspeople call tourists to their town?"
}
] |
793 | Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and artificial photosynthesis. | [
{
"answer": "the Sun",
"question": "Where does solar energy come from?"
},
{
"answer": "Solar energy",
"question": "What kind of energy consists of the light and heat provided by the Sun?"
},
{
"answer": "solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and artifici... |
794 | The Earth receives 174,000 terawatts (TW) of incoming solar radiation (insolation) at the upper atmosphere. Approximately 30% is reflected back to space while the rest is absorbed by clouds, oceans and land masses. The spectrum of solar light at the Earth's surface is mostly spread across the visible and near-infrared ... | [
{
"answer": "174,000",
"question": "How many terawatts of solar radiation does the Earth receive?"
},
{
"answer": "30%",
"question": "What percentage of solar radiation is reflected back by the atmosphere?"
},
{
"answer": "3.5 to 7.0",
"question": "The areas that people live in typic... |
795 | Solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth's land surface, oceans – which cover about 71% of the globe – and atmosphere. Warm air containing evaporated water from the oceans rises, causing atmospheric circulation or convection. When the air reaches a high altitude, where the temperature is low, water vapor condenses into... | [
{
"answer": "71",
"question": "The Earth's oceans cover what percentage of the globe?"
},
{
"answer": "14",
"question": "What is the average temperature of the Earth's surface in Celsius?"
},
{
"answer": "photosynthesis",
"question": "What is the process by which green plants convert... |
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